Digging up the lettuces

This week our class dug out most of our lettuces. We left some in the garden because we had enough to eat.

Cleaning

Mrs Hill helped us to wash the lettuce before we ate them and to clean up at the end.

Eating lettuce

The best part had finally come. It was time to eat the lettuces in wraps with marmite and cheese. Yummy.

Harvesting

Yum. Lots of lovely big, green, sweet lettuces for Kea class to eat.

We dug under the lettuces to pull them up and shook the dirt back into the garden. We cut the roots off so we could eat the lettuce leaves.

We dug under the lettuces to pull them up and shook the dirt back into the garden. We cut the roots off so we could eat the lettuce leaves.

Purple Passion Day

Choosing a good Council Member for 2011

 

Kea class voted for the School Council member. The most votes were for John Noble. He will need to  listen well, speak clearly, be responsible, say the class’ ideas, be patient and have good ideas himself. We decided that he would do all of these things. Good luck John.

Tennis Thursday

Every week we do tennis. This week we played Kings and Queens with our rackets. The idea is to hit the ball over the net into the right part of the court so that the Queen can hit it back. Every week we practise Around the World to help us with our balance skills. We also played Ammo to help our throwing skills. It was fun.

Class weaving

Last week we did paper weaving. We used long strips of paper to go over and under. Maori used this technique to make clothes, bags and mats.

The colours used were green, blue and yellow.

I was surprised how well I did it. I felt proud of our paper weaving. It was so much fun to do. I think the whole class liked weaving. I was star struck. It was amazing.

At the end it looked like checker boards on the wall.  Visit our classroom to see what it’s like.

Kea Ball Skills

We are practising our ball skills and games. The skills we are concentrating on are: looking at the ball, catching the ball with our hands, not our arms and pulling the ball into our body.

Growing lettuces

It was a sunny day when we planted the lettuces. We used a trowel to dig the hole and then put compost in the hole to improve the soil. We put plastic tubes around the plants to stop the birds eating our lettuces.

We watered the plants lightly.

We had to pull the weeds out of the ground.

It was lots of fun looking after the plants.

Practising Haka

Kea looks tough today! We are in Takahe classroom practising our school haka.  It was fun practising with Mr Philips because he shows us how to do the moves. Mr Dorman taught us the words.

The whole school is doing the haka. I’m sure we are going to be great on the day.