Beachlands School .::. Room 4

Term Three 2010
Welcome to Room Four, one and all!
We are going to have a ball!
We'll read and write and do maths, too!
Mrs Cullen will teach us. Yes, it's true.
There are 25 learners in class today-
that's 25 reasons to shout, "HOORAY

Parent Helpers:
Do you have some time free on sunny days to supervise children painting?. Please sign in at the school office and come over to Room 4. Each child has a wooden board on which they will paint a picture of themself to go on the school fence. Let Mrs Cullen know when you are coming and she will get everything ready for you.

Room 4 are requesting Parent Helpers for a Kelly Tarltons trip on the 6th September. Hand you notice into Mrs Cullen asap.

What have we been doing?
Our first week back at school this term was exciting with a visit from artist Graham Braddock who showed us how to draw 3D.

We also enjoyed a visit from Nicky with her Ocean Alive show. She showed us lots of creatures that live in the ocean. We smelt Krill, saw ugly fish, looked at the size of different sharks and stood as many children as possible on the tail of a whale.

Earlier in term 1 Heidi from Tangaroa Blue Ocean Care Society visited us. She showed us what happens to sea animals when plastic and rubbish end up in the sea.  We are learning how we can make a difference and help the sea creatures. Litter and rubbish in the sea and beaches is called 'Marine Debris' We are part of the NZ Marine Debris Project and help save the sea animals. We have been on a Beach Clean at Sunkist Bay to look after our local beach and protect the sea life on our coastline. You may like to look at this website.
OCEAN CARE

To keep you updated with areas of interest in
our time table:
Whole School Assembly: Monday
Banking: Tuesday
ICT: Tuesday
Library: Thursday
Kowhai Assembly:Thursday
PE: Friday
PMP Wednesday
Singing: Friday
FERN Time: Friday

Events we have enjoyed in Term Three:
Artist: Graham Braddock
Oceans Alive Show

Events that we are looking forward to in Term Three
EE Review
Kelly Tarltons
Hiwi the Kiwi
School Production
Book Fair
End of Term Party

Environmental Education
This year we have 3 projects we are working on around school:
GARDEN BEHIND ROOM 4 'How can we impove the garden behind our classroom?'
FROG POND. "How can we encourage frogs to live in our frog pond?' To learn more about frogs you might like to look at these websites:

We now have a fence around our pond to keep children out... and the frogs in? Now how will we keep our tadpoles safe from the birds.

Keeping Frogs
Save the Frogs

PROJECT PICKLE. 'What can we do with too many beetroot seeds?'

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Project Pickle