Arigatou gozaimasu Buntoku High School.

We were delighted today to have the students from 

Buntoku High School in Japan, visit our classroom!

They wowed us with their origami skills and we were lucky enough to try and make some of this stunning paper art ourselves.

Look at what we managed to create!

Guess who came to school today......

Our Grandparents!

On Tuesday 15th March we were fortunate to have our grandparents and families join us in school. Our families are the key to shaping who we are so it was lovely to share our classroom with our grandparents.

Thank you for all you do for us!  

We are looking forward to your next visit!

Can you help me with my programming?

My turn Grandad!

Thank you all for coming!

Never fear......Captain Cashtastic is here!

Yesterday a SUPER HERO visited our school! 

Financial literacy is an important life skill and

 Captain Cashtastic reminded us all to

 'Speed to our NEEDS and Wait for our WANTS'. 

Our Senses

This term we are been studying 'Ourselves' as our topic for Science. 

During this topic we have investigated the most common eye colour in the junior classrooms, the similarities and differences between us and our friends, and more recently we investigated the role of our Senses.

Today we investigated taste and our ability to identify sweet, salty, bitter and sour flavours.

See if you can guess whether we are eating something 

sour or sweet............

I'm a POET and I KNOW IT!

The Fantail class have taken an action poem and changed the words. 

Have a look at their clever (and cute) adaptation of 'There was a little Turtle.

There was a little Turtle

Numbers are words!

Our fantails are learning to read numerals 

as written words.

Writing

We have been writing about our favourite part of last week's Beach Day Picnic.  

We look forward to you coming in to the classroom to see what we have written!

Happy Valentines Day from us to you!

Happy Valentines Day!

Sun, Sea and Sausages........It must be our Beach Picnic Day!

A stunningly sunny day set the stage for a fabulous Beach Picnic at Te Haruhi Bay, Shakespear Regional Park.  

The glorious sunshine was not the only good fortune we were granted, as the high tide 'happened' to greet us on arrival also- thank you Mr D for working your magic with that one!

Swimming, sandcastle making and cicada shell hunting kept us all busy.  We even used our knowledge of rocks to investigate the treasures we found at the bottom of the sea.  

The end of the day found many a tired fantail ready to rest with our heads filled with fabulous memories.  Thank you to everyone who helped us make this a special day!

The first letter in Programming is "B"...........

.......as in BEE BOTS!

We are teaching our Bee Bots to move forwards, backwards and turn.  Whilst this is FUN, we are also learning to write simple programs.

Look at our busy little bees hard at work........and the Bee Bots are busy too!

Welcome Fantails!

Welcome to our Fantail classroom blog.  

Fantails (Piwakawaka) are well known for their energetic flying antics and our Fantail classroom is certainly emulating this fantail characteristic, as we are energetic and excited learners!

We have found a song about Fantails on YouTube.  

We are learning the words at the moment so please feel free to learn the song to sing with us.

We will regularly update this blog so please keep checking to see all of the exciting learning we are doing!