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Photos of planting day

Potato planting

Today we planted potatoes in buckets and also sunflowers we had planted from seeds. We planted them in recycled take away coffee cups and watched them sprout on the windowsill in our class. The sunflowers are by the swimming pool along with the buckets.
We enjoy watching their progress each day!

Explanation writing 8 November 2010

How to ride a bike.
Your feet push the pedals around. The pedals push the chain around. The chain turns the back wheel, the handlebars turn the front wheel.

By Caitlin

How a bike works.
My feet push the pedals and the chain moves the back wheel and the handle bars move the wheel.

By William

Recount writing 3/11/2010

The fire truck came to Heathcote Valley School and they had a hat and gloves and the firemen had boots and gloves. We went under a black sheet.

By Zoe

We went under a black sheet. We were pretending it was some smoke. I was a snake under it. Greer's dad was there. They had heavy jackets boots and gloves.

By Caitlin

I looked at the controls with the firemen and I liked the firemens suit.

By Finn C

I went in the fire engine and I saw a fire engine truck.

By Leon

I went under the blanket and we pretended it was smoke.

By Greer

The fire fighters said you must never light matches. We went under a black sheet.

By Ben Davis

I went under a blanket and it was black. We went in the fire truck and we sprayed water and it was super fun.

By Ben Evans

I went under the sheet and I sprayed some water and I went through the fire truck. I got a sticker.

By Slade

They told me to get down and call 111. I went under the blanket, we pretended it was smoke.

By Finn D

The firemen told us to go undera blanker and then the firemen told us to have a turn with the hose.

By William

Get down, get low and get out. Don't stand up or you could stop breathing.

By Maddie

I sprayed the hose and then he said when there is a fire to get out.

By Mckenzie

I had a turn of the hse and I went in the fire engine and I saw a jacket and gloves.

By Javan

We went under a black piece of cotton. We were pretending it was some smoke so now we know what to do when there is a real fire.

By Gus

The fire truck comes visiting

The fire truck visited us today and we learnt to get down low and get out of a smokey house. We crawled under the black sheet and pretended it was smoke. We then all had a turn holding the hose and went through the back seat of the truck. We are going to write about this experience tomorrow!

Week 1 Term 4 2010

This week we got some new maths equipment and also enjoyed the old! Our new activity has magnets inside them to stick the blocks together. We also started to learn how to jump properly in preparation for long jump. Everyone had sore muscles at the end of it.

Master Chef 2010

What a great afternoon! Every student was involved in the baking and decorating of a chocolate cake and then presenting it to the class and extended whanau. Mr Lewis and Mrs Leonard tasted every cake and loved them all.
We all learnt how important it is to measure ingredients and follow a recipe.

Master Chef 2010

I made a cake with Zoe and Caitlin.

By Javan

More writing

I am putting the salt in the bowl with my jelly bean apron on.

By Caitlin

More writing

This is my cake and Javan and Caitlin helped me make it.

By Zoe

Re-count writing of Master Chef 2010

Grandm and Gran came to Master Chef and ate a piece of cake at school.

Ben D

Taniwha narrative writing 20 September 2010

The Taniwha lived in the water.

By Zoe

Taniwha narrative writing 20 September 2010

Jack was a baby taniwha. He liked eating fish. One day there was no fish!

By Caitlin

Master chef

Master chef is coming to Heathcote Valley School on the 22nd of September.
Hold onto your aprons as the day promises to be a unique experience as four teams compete to win the title of master chef in the chocolate cake category.
Much testing and trialling will take place over the next two weeks as we prepare to go into battle to win the coveted title of "Top Master Chef Team 2010".

If you are available to help either by hosting a team and helping them bake at your home, or helping at the other end with afternoon tea please come and see me.
Students will travel in private cars to a chosen kitchen, be supervised by a parent and then bring the cake and the students back to school. Judging will take place at 2pm on the 22nd September and all whanau are welcome to attend and celebrate in the students' learning.

Karawhuia e hoa ma!
Go for it my friends!

More science- making sorbet

We were visited by Mrs Gordon and her icecream machine. We watched as plums turned from a liquid into a semi solid to become sorbet. All this action in only 20 minutes and it was delicious!

Making butter

This week we learnt how to make butter. We watched as cream turned into a solid, then separated into curds (fat solid) and whey (liquid).
Then we drained off the whey and had lovely yellow butter.

We all ate the butter spread on bread.

Science experiment

We froze coloured water, made predictions about what might happen and then we observed.

A little later in the afternoon our solid had turned into a green liquid as all three cubes melted together.

I am driving the train and I love it!

By Leon

In the weekend I went to school and I had some kicks with my Dad. It was fun and Dad did some big kicks.

By Gus

I went to the school and then I went on the train and I got a crunchy bar and we got off.

By Maddie

I watched a movie and Finn came to my house. I went to the shops and I went to the park.

By Finn

Recount writing Monday morning

In the weekend I went on  the train and it was fun and it was great!

By William

Narrative writing for the first time!

One day a dog went to the shop to buy a lolly pop but then she realised she had no money! But then a nice friend came and bought her a lolly pop.

By Ben

Recount writing Monday morning

I went to my cousins house to have a sleepover.

By Leon

Recount writing Monday morning

In the weekend I played on the computer.

By Ben

Recount writing Monday morning

I played rugby and my Dad was the coach.

By Finn

Recount writing Monday morning

On Friday I went to Nanas house and I played a shooting game and a skateboarding game.

By Javan

Story writing Thursday 5th August 2010

I am having fish and chips today and they taste nice.

By Slade

Story writing Thursday 5th August 2010

I love the stars and the sun.  I love blue.

By Greer

Story writing Thursday 5th August 2010

My Dad took me to netball and my brother Leo came too.
It was fun.

By Maddie

Story writing Thursday 5th August 2010

I went and saw Grandad's new shiny black car.

By Ben Evans

Parent Teacher Interviews

It has been great to meet with all the parents of room 4 and discuss with them the progress that the children are making. The children are all very fortunate to have such supportive parents and it was easy to see how loved the children are. Please remember you are welcome in room 4 at any time. We now have both armchairs on the mat so there is a spare seat beside our "star of the day" or you can hide down the back if you like!

Raranga Harakeke - Flax Weaving

To celebrate Maori Language week we spent the afternoon weaving and making a head band. We invited some tuakana from the senior school to help us weave a flax flower and also complete a head band made of cardboard. We looked at repeating Maori patterns and used these designs on our head bands.

The senior students were really helpful, kind and caring with us. They are great examples of Tall Learners and we hope that they come back again. A special thankyou goes to Rosie, Mrs Leonard's oldest daughter who came to teach us all how to weave.

Jelly Day

Today we had lots of fun making jelly! Next week we will make a shared book about the process of making jelly and use it as motivation for writing explanations.