Last posting for 2011

Go to the parish website to view our last Kea class assembly for 2011. There are two videos there at the moment showing the first and last part of our assembly. What a fabulous class of fun hardworking students Kea has been.

Kea's Fantastic 2011

Happy Harvesting

A couple of weeks ago Kea class harvested our garden. We dug up Bright Lights and cabbages. We dug them up with a fork or a trowel.

Jacob and I were buddies for digging out our cabbages. We thought that our cabbage was a big mama. It was as big as a cow’s belly. Sapphire’s Bright Lights was the biggest in the garden. Jono’s cabbage was the biggest in the garden. Ours was second biggest. Tim’s was the smallest Bright Light.

Afterwards we washed them, dried them, cut them and ate them. When we made them there were lots of ingredients that we could use. There was luncheon, apple, tomato sauce, carrots and lots more.
Sam S.
A couple of weeks ago guess what our class did? We harvested our garden! Sam was my buddy for harvesting. When we got to our garden I couldn’t believe how humungous all our cabbages and Bright Lights were.

Next Mrs Bryant handed out some forks (not table forks, gardening forks) and some trowels. Luckily, Sam and I got the fork first, so we started digging underneath the roots so we could cut it afterwards. When we finished digging it up Sam complained “This is one big momma, I can’t lift it!” So I decided to help Sam lift the cabbage. I thought it was as heavy as a boulder. Soon we went back to class to eat the cabbages and Bright Lights/ Swiss Chard/ silver beet.

Sam and I and everyone else cut off the stalk. After that we made our cabbage into a wrap We had a selection of: alfalfa, grated apple, grated cheese and tomato.

Finally I ate it and it was delicious. I thought it was a good idea to harvest our garden.
Jacob

Amazing Wednesdays

Every Wednesday Kea class has Variation Thinker’s Key. It is when we think of many different ideas about something. Variation stands for different or changed. We try to get a new high score each time. This week we thought of things that always go round. Most of them were about planets, but also second clock hands and the asteroid belt.

Last week we did how many different ways we can say a greeting. 

Our highest score is 44. We all thought it great fun and an exciting learning experience.

Hooks to Begin Our Writing

	James		How far did I go?
	Sam S		“Weeee,” Blake thought.
	Jonty		“I thought that I was going to win the race but I didn’t,” said Jono.
	Blake		“I am going to win the race,” yelled Lily.
	Seb		“That’s my favourite,” said Tim.
	Margeaux		“I really want to get further than last time,” yelled Ruby.
	Finn		Run. Run. Run.
	John		“My legs are buried in sand,” giggled Ruby.
	Megan		“How long is it until the 9 year olds race?” I asked my Dad who was helping out with the athletics.
	Tim		“Go Lily go,” yelled the whole school.
	Sapphire		Did I do well?
	Lily		Logan thought “I am going to win the race.”
	Ruby		Jump. Jump. Jump
	Jacob		Wow! Did I beat my record?
	Dylan		“We are going to have a good time at long jump.”
	Ceanna		“Great job Ruby,” I yelled.

Direct Speech in our Writing

	Megan		“First we will practise with noodles,” Mrs McQuillan called to us.
	Lily		Mrs McQuillan said, “Have a duck beak”.
	Viennah		Lily shouted, “You have big straight arms.”
	Logan R		Lily yelled, “Your helicopter arms look like sharp knives”.
	Seb		“Nice straight arms,” said Samuel.
	Logan S		I announced, “My arms are the straightest.”
	Imogen		“Helicopter arms, bend low to high, clock hands and go!” shouted Mrs McQuillan.
	Samuel		Sapphire thought, “I’m going to throw the discus as far as I can”.
	Matthew		Seb muttered, “This is too hard”.
	Zach		“Mine will go further than yours,” yelled Sapphire.
	John		Margeaux whispered, “I wonder how far my discus will go?”
	Jacob		“Hurry up,” grumbled Tim.
	Dylan		Dylan exclaimed, “My throw was near yours!”
	Lauren		“Not so good,” laughed Lauren.
	James		“This is fantastic,” yelled James.

Thinker's Key

Every Wednesday Kea class does Thinker’s Key. The one we are doing is the Disadvantages Thinker’s Key. What we do is Mrs Bryant chooses a subject then we think of some problems and solutions to the problems. I try hard at getting lots of problems and solutions. I always participate.
We all try to participate in the Thinker’s Key. It helps me a lot in reading, writing and maths. The last subject we did was about a factory close to your home. We thought up 18 problems and got lots of solutions. Mrs Bryant said “It unlocks your thinking and makes you think faster”. I think she’s right about it all.
It is very interesting. I always look forward to Wednesdays.
Imogen

Plants

New Library Carpet

Kea class thinks the new carpet in the library is:

Colourful As red as fire Fun Warm Hot Bright Furry Comfy Terrific Cosy Wonderful Lovely Amazing Delightful Fuzzy Very soft A strong colour

Margeaux Zach Dylan Lauren Ruby John Sapphire Sam S. Ceanna Finn Hannah Holly Seb Logan R. Samuel Lily Matthew

Purple Passion Day