Early Term 2 Happenings

Welcome to Term 2

What have we been up to?

Autumn Day
The weather is starting to get a little bit cooler. 
We had an Autumn Theme Day in Room 1.

We had to complete 5 activities. We could choose what we wanted to do and in any order!
* Twig Weaving
* Lacing with wool around Autumn Shapes
* Leaf painting
* Salt/Nutmeg/Glitter Tracing
* Autumn Poetry
* Autumn Acrostic Poem
* Playing and Raking the leaves outside
* Acorn and Walnut - collecting and making animals

Observing Brookes Butterfly

This is funny!
Brookes father had a wonderful surprise one day. On his hat they spotted a chrysalis growing. 
Brooke brought the hat to school and we did some wonderful observing. 
Over the day it changed a lot and then it started wiggling and wiggling, and out came a wet butterfly.
We observed it shaking its wings to dry them out. 
It was small and then it was big and beautiful when its wings were dry.
Near the end of the day we released the butterfly onto our big swan plants, in the schools garden.



Making and Creating with K.E.G.S

Mrs Heburn has been talking to us about composting and about seasonal vegetables. 
We are learning to use different cooking equipment and exploring different tastes.
Our schools garden is beginning to change and we are beginning to get ready for our schools harvest. 
We have made soup, collected and cracked walnuts, made real fruit juice and made some courgette fritters.



Richmond View Visit

We had Richmond View visit our school to see what we do to be an 'Enviro School'. We meet them in the Opawa Room and greeted them with Toia Mai and our Mihis. 
We showed them what we do at Riverlands School. Our recycling, bokashi buckets, saving electricity and paper and much more. We are working on achieving our 'Silver Award' and we are beginning to explore our school environment and see what we would like to change and how we can help to preserve our future.
Room 9 made some beautiful Putiputi to give to our visitors.
Room 4 showed them how bokashi buckets work.


Making Flowers with Clay

The Cancer Society came and gave our senior class a lesson with how to make daffodils out of clay.
First we drew a big flower shape on paper. Then we pressed a pencil down onto our paper design so it can be seen on the clay.
We cut out our flower shape with a knife.
Then we folded and pressed our daffodil petals to make them stand up and look nice.
Then we created the middle part of the daffodil.
The next day when they were dry we painted them.
We really enjoyed making these to raise money for the Cancer Society on Daffodil Day.
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