Auckland Botanic Gardens Trip

Yesterday, Room 27 along with the rest of Year One was lucky enough to visit the beautiful Auckland Botanic Gardens. We learnt so much about plants and gardening.

First, we started by exploring the gardens! We saw some pretty cool things. We especially loved the lakes. 

We saw heaps of cool plants in the children's garden. 

It was extremely hot though! We found a fountain that helped cool us down!

Caroline, from the Gardens, taught us about the life cycle of a bean and everything it needed to grow big and strong!

We also got to have a close look at some worms! We really enjoyed it!

We were lucky enough to plant our own beans that we were allowed to take home and plant!

We learnt how to plant little baby radishes when they got too big for their pots! We will use this knowledge to plant our own bean plants when they start growing!

Caroline showed us what nutrients we needed to help our plants grow. 

After we had planted, we got to do some jobs like digging and sweeping. 

We had a great trip!!

Fireworks!

Last week, we learnt about Guy Fawkes. We had great fun reading a poem about fireworks and how they bang, pop and fizzle! We then did some great art where we coloured in some paper and then covered it in black. It was scary to see our beautiful colours disappear. But afterward, it looked great! Check out our art.


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Custard the Goat

Yesterday, we were lucky enough to have another visit from a furry friend, Custard the goat. 

Custard was very playful and most of us enjoyed having a cuddle. Some of us had never seen a goat before so it was really interesting! 

Wrapping paper!

For our celebrations inquiry unit, we used our knowledge of patterns to stamp some great designs with toilet rolls onto some newsprint. We made quite a mess, but it was really fun! We also used some letters to make them extra special! 

HS did a great job with making her flowers the same colours!

SH loved using the letters to make her wrapping paper extra special.

 MA used great christmas colours!

 RH made a special one for his mum!

Celebrations

This term, we are learning about Celebrations for Inquiry! The book we read this week was called  "Birthdays". They are one of our favourite celebrations. 

Listen to us read and you can read along at home with the words below!

"I got a red box

for my birthday. 

If you wait a minute, 

I'll show you what's in it."

"A helicopter!"

"I got a green box

for my birthday.

If you wait a minute, 

I'll show you what's in it."

"Roller skates!"

Special Visitor!

On the last day of term, Mrs T kindly brought her very cute, furry friend Coco to visit us. We really loved it!