Have a safe holiday!

Dear Room 6.  I hope you have a lovely week with Mrs Weston.  I wish you all a safe and happy holiday break.  See you again in term 3.
From Mrs T

School Disco

Fun disco last night!  Everyone looked great in their ABC costumes.  Apparently over 200 children attended!!  Here are some snapshots from last night . . .

Natureland Visit

Wow!  We sure had a great visit to Natureland today :)  Thank you to Pip our official photographer for the wonderful photos below.  Christine was an amazing teacher and we all came back buzzing with information about life cycles.  It was a great way to finish our Circle of Life topic for the term.
We finished with lunch at the park and a play on the Tahunanui playground . . . FUN!!!

JayJay with the Emu egg

Porcupine eating his morning tea

Meerkat looking for danger

Dazzling peacock

Kotuku eating fish

Baby mice bred for other animals to eat

Connor and Mrs T looking at a crocodile mouth

Noah and Tyler looking at a stoat

Meg, Katelyn and Kimberly looking at the stoat and a trapdoor spider

CJ the monkey eating lunch

Butterfly Slideshow

Here is an old slideshow from last term.  Mrs Trolle just wanted to see if she could attach a slideshow to our blog! Enjoy :)

Rubbish Audit

To begin our new topic we had a visit by Sarah Langi from the TDC.  She collected our rubbish from play and lunch time for one day.  She made groups out of the rubbish (plastic, paper, food scraps and other).  In the food pile there was lots of food scraps like peelings and crusts, but there were also whole pieces of food that had been thrown away!  The paper pile is not so bad because we recycle our paper by putting it in a recycling bin and it is taken away to make new paper.  Two problem areas for Birchwood School are paper towels (too many germs to recycle) and the plastic pile (wrappings from food which can't be recycled).  All of this rubbish goes to the landfill (hole in the ground) and is covered up.  Sarah left us with the challenge of thinking about how we can cut down on the plastic and paper towel rubbish at our school and to try and make our own lunch with no wrappings.

The groups Sarah organised the rubbish into.

Food scraps and whole pieces of food thrown away :(

Whole food that has been thrown away :(

Our problem pile . . . plastic.

Sarah's challenge - can we make a lunch with no wrapping?

Measuring Dinosaurs!

This morning room 6 went outside to the back court to do some measuring. We measured dinosaurs today using metre rulers and chalk.  The dinosaurs were 30m, 28m, 21m, 12m and 9m. A 30 metre Diplodcus takes up the whole court.

By Kimberly and Vannary

Roald Dahl Books on sale

Roald Dahl Books are on sale now at Whitcoulls. They cost only $4.99. There are 15 books in our class. Our Teacher Mrs Trolle has a Roald Dahl collection. We have been reading and watching Roald Dahl books and movies.


By Kimberly and Vannary