Showing how well we share the microphone

Reading with our new microphone recorder

Our group is enjoying sharing the new microphone that can record what we read. We are learning how to read our Play using expression. We can record ourselves and listen to how much expression we use. We are also learning how to use the microphone and record.
We enjoy using the new microphone.

Pirate hats

"I like making pirate hats, because it is lots of fun", said Aimee.

"They are cool because they have skeletons on them", said Liam.

"LC 15 thought making pirate hats on Pirate Day would be fun", Kaela said.

Lillie-Paige made a special pirate hat for Kiwi Bear.

Feast time

Yo ho ho and a pile of food! Yum, it is great!

Pirates at work

We were a hard working lot of pirates - making treasure maps, making pirate hats, and writing descriptive pirate poems. We had so many adjectives! There were big, brave, brilliant pirates, and huge, hairy, happy pirates... just to name a few. But this gave us an enormous appetite! So soon we were looking forward to our pirate feast. Yum!

More Pirate Fun

Here are a selection of pictures showing our pirate work, and our pirate feast. One of the pirates thought it was the best day he had ever had at school!

Pirate Day for LC15

LC15 all became pirates on Friday and dressed up in our pirate clothes. It was lots of fun! We read pirate books, made treasure maps, thought up lots of descriptive words about pirates, wrote pirate poems, and made pirate hats.

We had a magnificent Pirate Feast for our lunch. We were very full pirates!

Creating music

We have been creating music using instruments. Sometimes one of the children conducts instead of the teacher. We all get a turn to create music, but when it is not our turn we are the audience and we listen to decide what the music reminds us of.

We also have been sharing our learning with our Buddy Class. They taught us a body percussion routine in pairs, and then we taught a different routine to them. It was good fun.

Fun in the Autumn Leaves

Some of the comments that the children made:

We liked throwing the leaves up in the air, and watching them float down like snowflakes.

The leaves felt crunchy and like rubber.

It is easy to break the leaves up in pieces.

Some leaves were bright like the sun. They were yellow, a little bit orange, and some were red.

The leaves were smooth, and they had holes in them.

Elouise was looking to see what colours she had in her bunch of leaves.

The leaves were fluttering, floaty, and twirling. The leaves looked like stars on the ground.

They were reddy, orange like lava. Some leaves had cracks that looked like lava.

The leaves made you feel itchy. Some leaves feel like plastic.

You can make all the leaves into chairs or a volcano.

Some of the leaves were big and some were little.

We all enjoyed playing in the leaves! It was fun!

Real experiences help children to improve their descriptive language as well as being a lot of fun. We all enjoyed being out in the Autumn leaves. If you haven't had a chance yet, I could recommend it to you. It is another way you can help your child with their learning.

Our Personal Inquiries

Some of us have been working on our own Personal Inquiries and presented them to our class.

Liam enjoyed talking to the train drivers about steam trains because his Inquiry was to find out how steam trains work. "The steam train has a fire and you need coal and water for the steam train to work", explained Liam.



Maddy is very interested in frogs. She wondered what colour Golden Bell frogs were and if they might become extinct. Maddy told everyone in LC15 what she had found out.
"They are green and brownish, but in Winter they turn almost to black. There are not many of them so they are endangered."

We will update you on another blog about other more of our Personal Inquiries.

The Piggity Wiggity Party

We all really enjoyed performing in Diana Neild's latest book launch called Piggity Wiggity Jiggity Jig and the School Concert. LC15 were the Junior School Choir and we had to perform a song out of tune, and a rap. Three children in our class were part of the Jig family and had special costumes to wear. Our teacher was the conductor.

New plants in our garden.

We enjoyed eating a salad from our garden last term and now we have started planting new plants in our garden again. Today we planted spinach.

Super Hero Day!

Dressing up as Super Heroes was lots of fun and we raised several dollars for Plunket.

Monarch Butterfly hatches!

Welcome to Learning Centre 15.

As well as working hard on our Assembly preparation for Thursday, we also have been very interested in the Monarch Butterfly caterpillars.

We even had one turn into a chrysalis in our classroom, and then on another day, we had one turn into a butterfly. It was so exciting!

Here is a photo of the hatched butterfly.