Brodie's Home Learning Challenge

Brodie has been busy at home with his home learning challenge. Here is an awesome little movie he made about his cars, with help from his Mum!

Dolphins Blowing Bubbles

Finn emailed me the link to a cool youtube clip of dolphins blowing bubbles.  They are so clever - I wish I could do it!  Here is the clip:

Island Bay Marine Education Centre

Today we had an awesome trip to the Island Bay Marine Education Centre.  Someone must have done a sun dance for us, because the weather was gorgeous (maybe a little bit chilly but that's ok!).  Victor & Judy at the Centre were fantastic, showing us some awesome sea creatures - both in the rock pools outside and inside "the bait house".  Check out their website: http://www.octopus.org.nz/ They have open days on the 1st and 3rd Sunday of the month - definitely worth a visit again.  We got to touch heaps of starfish, sea cucumbers, crabs and lots more.  We also got to feed the fish and the turtles.  Here are some pictures of the day ...

There was a sneaky wee octopus there too who decided to move from one tank to another by squeezing through a hole.  The hole was tiny, about the size of your fist.  We'd seen it on you tube clips, but it was cool to see it for ourselves.  He can squeeze through the hole because octopus don't have bones.  Check out the video I took of it ...

Argh - Dress Like a Pirate Day!

Argh me hearties ... On Friday Kowhai Syndicate had "Dress Like A Pirate" Day ... and there were plenty of dastardly looking pirates out there!  Those landlubbers were all a mite scared!  We sung a song at assembly, made pirate flags, drew treasure maps and munched our lunch on the 'poop deck' (otherwise known as the verandah!  It was a great day me hearties ... check out these pics ...

Cross Country Results

Last Thursday we finally got to hold the Year 1-3 cross country, and all of Room 8 were fantastic!  Everyone tried their best, and it was awesome to see the big smiles on everyone's faces coming through the finish line.  Some of our class got places too:

Year 1 Boys: 4th - Tom, 5th - Troy

Year 1 Girls: 3rd - Marae

Here's some pics of the Room 8 superstars!

Rock Pool Trip is on!!!

Fingers crossed we are all go tomorrow (Thursday 10th June) for the trip down to the Plimmerton Beach rock pools by the Fire Station.  Do a sun dance tonight before you go to bed!!  We will go at 10.50am with Room 20 and Room 6.