A great session withn Pip and Harold.

I am building a block and tackle pulley out of the K’Nex for our Pulleys and Levers topic that we have been learning this term. A block and tackle pulley can lift very heavy objects like car engines and pianos. The block is the frame that holds the pulley. The tackle is the rope,cord or chain. The block and tackle type pulley helps by making the work easier, making it possible to lift things that are too heavy for us to lift on our own,with ease.

We are learning about cloud formations and decided to create an observation card. We can take it outside and identify the clouds we see through the  window in the card and compare them to the pics we have around the outside of the card.

Lately there has been many cloudy days!!

 Butterfly Garden Progress. 🦋🦋🦋

We are nearly there with this area, still a few fairy paths to create and maybe a wishing well!

In summer time it will be surrounded by flowers to add more colour and happiness to this area.

So many items to create for our butterfly garden and these wooden art posts will bring so much colour into this area.Once all have been installed we will take another photo but Reina's "Welcome" post was the first to be placed in the area.

We think it looks great and hope you like it too.

We have such talented artists at TBS, they used their amazing imagination and painted wonderful art on an old post box we had. They have turned it into a beautiful fairy house for our butterfly and sensory garden area.

We do hope the bright colours we have used will attract the butterflies in springtime.

This project is coming along nicely, Michael and Reina added a base to the top of the frame that Delrio designed. Michael then measured how many slats of timber we would need in order to cover the frame over the stump.

He then cut them to size and drilled 2 holes on either side of the timber slats so we could loop cabbage leaves through and tie them to the frame.

Reina did a super job tying the knots and making sure they were very tight.

We then collected moss from the shady areas of the school and placed it all on top, so the fairy village could be created.

More pics to follow.

The children have been enjoying their time with Waihola School and the Sports Activator as well as visits to Tokoiti School.

 Reading Time with Mrs O.

Have a Happy and Safe Holiday everyone.

A special thank you to Mrs Kay for teaching our tamariki this term. They had lots of fun with you, especially the Easter Egg hunt!

We will see you all next term.

We have had a lot of fun while painting our clay creations and using Chrissie's macro lens on her phone to capture the wonderful  colours and textures when working with paint.

We have mixed colours to create amazing new vibrant colours and when dried they have formed interesting textures on the newspaper.

We have swirled paint colours together using different techniques to create amazing abstract art that Koriana-Mei found very exciting as you don't know what shape and design  you will end up with in the end.

We have such creative children at TBS!

While we are working on creating our butterfly garden for springtime, we have decided to add in a fairy house and make use of an old tree stump.

Delrio designed a stand to go over the tree stump and made sure he measured what size we needed to build for that area.

Ryker did a super job reading Delrio's plan and measurements before heading out on the school grounds to find the right sticks needed for this first stage of the build.

It's been a team effort screwing it all together and its coming along nicely.

Anzac Biscuit Baking with Mrs O.

Yummy!👍