Willard House

We love visiting our friends at Willard House! We impressed them with our fantastic reading, blew them away with our magnificent self-portraits and sang some lovely songs. We can't wait for our next visit!! 

Creating music with Jenny

Look at the fantastic way the Busy Bees used music to tell the story of the poem. “Night Countdown by Peggy Dunstan” . You gave me goosebumps!!

Assembly

Last week we had our assembly with our big buddies, Adventure 9. We shared some writing and our Mexican Hat Dance! Check us our below:

Broadcast live streaming video on Ustream

Kelly Club

On Wednesday we had some fun with Kelly Club! We played superheros vs. supervillians, made finger puppets and some scrumptious truffles. Check out our fantastic recount writing:

Here is a clip of us in action! 

Superhero Dad Writing

In our writing we have started to use Tony Ryan’s thinking keys to help us unlock our minds. Last week, we used the book “My Dad, My Hero” for inspiration and the BAR (Bigger, Add, Replace) key to help us re-design our superhero dads.

We came up with some amazing stories, which isn’t surprising since we are superhero learners! 

Vanessa was also impressed that Clara, Matty, Jacob, Eshaan and Benjamin created their own thinking key when playing our cups game during reading.

This is my Story, What is you Story?

A huge thank you to Jack’s mum Danielle for coming to teach us all about China! Danielle was born in China and came over here when she was in her early twenties. She shared lots of facts and stories from China. She even bought us some flakes and Chinese rice cakes for us to try! The Busy Bees are now fascinated by all things Chinese! When we reflected on our learning as a class this is what we came up with:

- The great wall of china is GIGANTIC!  It is about 8,000 kms long. Vanessa worked out this was the same distance as going from Palmerston North to Auckland and back 8 times!!

- Chinese dragons. They wear fire around them to protect them and they long tails for flying. We thought this was not only cool, but super cool!

- Chinese food: Rice cakes and flakes. We all loved the flakes! They tasted like lollies but they were healthy. With the rice cakes our favourite flavour was the peanut butter. We liked the red bean flavour the least.

- The primary school we looked at had 3,000 students! There were 60 children in the class (three times for kids than the Busy Bees!) and they sat in rows of desks to do their learning.