Presentation to the leadership team for a Kai Makete featuring 6 year 2-3 students and our very own Marika

Jump jam 2015

Julie's Home Grown Nursery came to Beachlands School

Julie from Home Grown Nurseries came in from her plant shop to talk about plants.

We transplanted one aloe vera plant to make 22 new ones.

We had 2 other classes with us.

Jackson.

Julie came to our school and she came to talk to us about plants. We showed her our experiments.

Second she showed us how to split plants to make new ones and she showed us how to replant plants.

First you put some powder on the plants ending and put it in the soil. That’s how! She was so nice to Casey and Caleb used to know her too.

Macy

Julie’s Home Grown Nurseries

Today Julie from Julie’s home grown nurseries came to talk to us about plants and how they grow.

Firstly she talked with us about our experiments. She showed us how to make new plants from bits of cuttings. She cut /made 22 new aloe vera plants with just one Aloe Vera plant.

She made new roots with a very special, magical rooting powder.

She told us plants can grow roots with just a cup of water.  Some people said thank you and told Julie what they had learned about plants and flowers.

Lucas.

Julie taught us about plants. She split a plant into two pieces then had a magic powder. 2 classes came in. It was interesting. She taught us interesting ways to plant plants.

Braiden.

Julie’s visit

Julie visited us in our room and other rooms came to our class to watch.

Julie planted the seeds after we watched a little video how the bees get pollen and bring nectar to their hive.

Nixon

Today Julie came in. She saved our plants.

She cut up our healing plant into 22 pieces. She has a flower garden. She pulled the plants up and we could see the roots. It took a long time.

I ate the mint plant that someone handed to me.

Julie’s visit

Julie came to tell us all about plants.

First she split the aloe era into 22 pieces.

Then she showed us the strawberry plant. It made me hungry.

She told us the aloe vera plant could heal people on their sores.

Madisyn.

On Friday the 28^th August Julie from Julie’s Home Grown Nurseries came and told room 13,12 and 11 about plants.

Then she told us about her plants.

After that we had one plant of aloe vera. Lastly she ripped the aloe vera apart and it turned out to be 22 plants.

Finally she told us that sheep poo was very good for the plants.

I love plants.

Casey

Friday 28^th August

Today Julie came to talk about plants.

Rooms 12 and 13 came to learn about plants too.

We were all sitting down on chairs and the floor.

She was splitting the plant into bits.

Mrs Bullen and Mrs Maruolis, had some jelly bean succulent plants in their hands and put them on the soil. Julie was growing strawberry plants. Julie gave us some plants.

I, Caleb, Tremaine went out of school and went to julie’s car to help her carry things.

Kurtis.

Julie came to talk to us about her Home grown Nursery and plants. She took one plant and turned it into 22 with some magic powder.

She gave us a strawberry plant and she also gave us a pink, pretty flower. It had 5 petals.

Caleb.

Today Julie came to room 11 and taught us about plants and how they grow.

The aloe vera is a healing plant on sores and grazes.

Julie has this special powder that she puts on plants. She pulls them off the ground and she puts the powder on a little bit and puts it into the soil.

After a few weeks it will have roots.

Keri

Julie come’s to Beachland school

Today Julie came to our class. Room 12 and 13 came.

Next she got the aloe vera plant and split it up into 22 bits. Then she got some kind of plant pee to feed them.

Olivia M

Robot Rampage by Hunter

Robot Rampage

One day there was a boy called Hemi. His Dad said “You have to mow the lawns or you won’t get any pocket money.”

He absolutely hated mowing the lawn so he made a robot to do it for him.

He was relaxing on his chair and he fell asleep. When he woke up he heard screaming. He ran to the gate and saw the robot was mowing people’s lawns. He was leaving gigantic craters of grass all around the place.

He was cutting people’s hair so they were bald- even girls.

So Hemi had to go on the rampage to catch the robot.

Chapter 2. Did the robot destroy the world or was Hemi a hero?

Calendar Art: Te Ra the Sun or Portrait

Te Ra 

Portraits

Calendar notices will come home week 6 and you can choose whether you have calendars, cards, diaries, kids notepads or mouse mats made with either art work. 

Photos can also be submitted at www.abacus.co.nz by using the submit photo parents area and submitted before the 4th Sept when the form with payment will be collected at school. Landscape jpeg file 250kb or higher. 

Our Gardens Trip.

The Botanic Gardens

On Friday Room11 and Room7 went to the botanical gardens to learn about flowers.

We went on 2 buses. They were Dark red and white. Me and Hunter jumped on the bus and waited suddenly the wheels were spinning and we were moving. We sat Down and looked  over the people in front of us we saw Robby and his mum . we talked to Robby  finally me and Hunter saw the botanical gardens. 

The bus stopped.  We stepped  out of the bus And followed  Deglan’s grandma . We walked on top of stone we walked into a cover it was like a dome. We waited and waited a lady called Meredith.

She took us to a class we sat down we learnt about flowers. We learnt about sticky stigmas and anthers. We waited and waited. After we learnt we went out the back door.

I stood next to Hunter we got our flower pots and put some soil in the pot then put a seed in the soil and covered it up with soil. Then put my pot in a gray tray.

Then when everybody was finished me, Hunter, Keri and macy we had to wear a rose, a hat and gloves. Everyone else had bees and butterflies.

They came four by four putting these yellow pollen things on our heads.

Then it was lunch we munched  on our lunch. Me, Hunter and a few  boys played man Hunt and I hid near  a pond thingy.

Then me and Deglan ran back. Then we started walking around. We fed the ducks and they ate all of it. Then  we saw a eel. We tried to  smack it! It we saw a little tunnel.

After the food was all gone we walked up the hill and before went to the kids bit. We walked to the bus. We sat down. I looked out the window  on the way back.

When we got back I ran to my mums car.  We had to go get the puppies from the vets. Then I told mum about my day at the gardens.   We had  a fun Day.

By Tremaine

Botanical gardens by Kurtis

At the botanical gardens my favourite thing was the jungle.

We   did lot of interesting things there.

Like  when you look at your flower and you can

See it on a tv screen. We did pretty much every thing there. We did lifecycles and we made our own flower and we learned some stuff about flowers. I learned about flowers that they have a sticky stigma, anther and a petal. Some flowers smell really good. The tulip, pink and delicate waving in the silky wind.

The botanical gardens was lot of fun.

Home Learning

We went into the garden and pulled up a weed to draw from the roots to the flowers. 

We wrote poems:

to make a little plant

you need a little seed

put it in a pot

the water -I forgot

put it in a sunny, sunny spot

the bees will eat the honey

you can tell jokes if you are funny

... now I am a plant.by Lewis

Surveying the school flowers

What colours did we find?
How many petals did they have?

Our Sunflower Paintings

Our Gardens Trip

We learnt all about the plant life cycle, parts of a flower, how seeds are spread, potted our own marigold flowers and had an awesome day out.

Many thanks to parent help and our two Kui grandmothers.

Book Character Day,parade and Buddy Room

Thumbelina Retelling

Thumbelina Retelling

Chapter1

A little old lady wanted a little girl. She heard of someone who could give you a baby so she went to her.  She got a seed and planted it in a pot. A flower grew and grew. The flower opened. A girl hopped out and said “HI”

She was as tiny as the old lady’s thumb so she called her Thumbelina.

A toad came and said, “What beautiful singing. You will make a good bride for my son the frog.”

So the toad set off to where she lived, putting Thumbelina on a lily pad saying “I’ll just go get him.”

Thumbelina saw some fish and said “Help me”

Chapter 2

So the fish gnawed and gnawed the stalk all day. The stalk finally snapped in 2 and Thumbelina said “Thank you.”

She saw a beautiful butterfly and followed it to a pleasant wood where she made friends with the butterflies. Thumbelina was happy in the woods eating berries and playing with her friends. When the days grew colder and colder it was harder to find food. The butterflies went to hibernate for the winter.

Chapter 3

One winter’s day Thumbelina met a field mouse beside her house.

“I am so hungry. Can you help me?” said Thumbelina.

The mouse took pity on the girl and said “Would you like to stay with me and share my food?”

“Thank you.” said Thumbelina

Chapter 4

Thumbelina lived with the field mouse happily but one day the mouse said

“Sorry but you will have to go live with my friend mole because I won’t have any food left if you stay. Mole will look after you. Why don’t you marry him? He has a much bigger house.”

Thumbelina did not want to marry the mole because she would not see the outside world.

Chapter 5

“Come Thumbelina.” said Mole. “But watch out for that dead bird.”

Thumbelina looked at the bird properly and it wasn’t dead. Thumbelina looked after it all winter long and he finally was ok to fly. So he left.

Thumbelina had to marry the mole.

On the day the swallow said, “Jump on my back and I will take you to a place that will never rain. “

That place had little people too and Thumbelina got married.

The end By Macy.

Thumbelina

An old lady got given a tiny little seed. She said “Thank you.” Tiny, beautiful, delicate, fabulous Thumbelina hatched out of a flower. Thumbelina was beautiful but tiny and the woman loved Thumbelina and cared for her.

One day a toad stole Thumbelina so she could marry her son. Luckily, little as a dot, cute fish saved her from the frog.

Winter came and Thumbelina was cold but then a mouse was just about to go into her house.

Thumbelina said, “Can I stay with you?”

“Yes you can.” The mouse gave Thumbelina food for a while then mouse said, “You need to go live with the mole because my house is too small to fit you.”

Thumbelina did not want to go live underground with the mole.

The mole said, “Watch out! There is a dead bird in the tunnel.”

Thumbelina helped the sick swallow.

In the summer Thumbelina looked at the sky for the last time crying with tears. She saw a flock of birds flying above Thumbelina and then she saw a bird swoop down. It was the swallow.

The swallow took Thumbelina to a lovely, beautiful fabulous, amazing and awesome summer palace and Thumbelina met the flower people. And the flower people called Thumbelina Maia.

Maia married the prince and they all lived happily ever after.

Lucas Reid.

Thumbelina

Once upon a time there was a woman who wanted to have a little girl of her own to love and care for. As time passed and she had no children she became very sad.

Then one day she heard of a wise old woman who could help and she went.

The old woman gave the woman a sunflower seed and the woman went home and planted it. A little girl came out of it.

Thumbelina got caught by an ugly toad. The little fish saved her. Then she saw a mouse.

She said, “Do you want to marry the mole?”

Thumbelina said, “No, no, no!”

The mole said, “Look out for that dead bird.”

Thumbelina saw it wasn’t dead and the bird was alive and the bird was a swallow.

The swallow took Thumbelina to flower land where her real home was. She got married to a handsome prince and they lived happily ever after.

by Ryder.

Thumbelina

Once upon a time a woman was very sad. She longed to have a little girl. She went to a friend who gave her a flowerpot. Thumbelina jumped out of the flower.

One day Thumbelina was singing by the fence when an along came a frog and kidnapped her. He went to the river and put her on a lily pad. Thumbelina told the fish and they broke the vine.

A few days later Thumbelina met a mouse. Thumbelina said, “I am very hungry and thirsty.”

Suddenly one day, the mouse said, ”You have to go next door and live with mole.” So she went next door and mole was waiting outside his hole.

When she went in she saw a swallow. He was very cold and hungry. So the little girl looked after the bird until the summer time.

A few months later it was winter. The swallow came back and said, “Come with me to another country.”

She met a boy and they kissed and they all lived happily ever after.

By Olivia Munro.