Fun Friday - Singing, Reading, Folk Dancing, Baking, Sausages and Christmas Trees!

D1 had a super fantastic Friday this week!

First thing in the morning we got dressed up in our Christmas hats (Miss Pauley had a headband with bobbly Santas on it) and went to the hall to sing Christmas songs. Our parents were invited to watch, and we had so much fun showing off all the new songs we learnt this year. 

Next, we sat down and listened to some of our Mums read us their favourite Christmas story. Colleen, Samuel's Mum read us a story about mice at Christmas time called Jingle Bells. 

Simone, Hayley's Mum read a REALLY funny story about Santa eating beans called Farty Claus. Then we had a shared morning tea with Strawberries, and lollies and yummy cupcakes. Mia Rose ate so many strawberries her tongue turned red! 

After morning tea we went outside and the whole junior syndicate performed their folk-dances for their Mums' and Dads'. D1 danced to a song called Jibidi and did the Birdie Dance at the end.

After that we were REALLY hot and tired, so we went inside and had a lie down and drank all of our water, then our buddy class D2 came in and we made cool iced biscuits that looked like tea cups!

Mia and her biscuit

Ronan and his buddy were having fun!

 

It was sausage sizzle day too, so after the bell rang we had our sausages and lemonade. It was delicious!

In the afternoon, we made special stars to put in our class Christmas tree. Check it out:

 

Jelly!

Last week, D1's letter of the week was 'j'. To celebrate our wonderful learning, we made jelly on Wednesday. While we made it, we practiced writing about our senses.

We looked at the jelly crystals and wrote what they looked like, felt like, smelt like, tasted like and sounded like. 

Then we looked at the jelly water and wrote what they looked like, felt like, smelt like, tasted like and sounded like. 

Finally, we looked at the jelly when it was set and wrote what they looked like, felt like, smelt like, tasted like and sounded like. 

Finally we got to eat the jelly and it was DELCIOUS!

On Thursday we wrote our own stories about eating the jelly. Our stories were great! Jack and Hayley's stories were so fantastic they were put on the 'quality work wall'

Yesterday we made jelly. The crystals were crunchy.
It tasted like strawberries. - Hayley

Yesterday we made jelly. It tasted yummy. It looked like lettuce. - Jack

Leave a comment telling us what you think jelly looks like!

Tuesday the 29th - Mo-Day!

Today was Eastern Hutt School's Mo-day! Some of the senior classes were selling cool fake moustaches to raise money for the cancer foundation. 

A whole group of D1 students brought in gold coins to buy their very own 'mo'!

Here they are.

Don't they look Mo-tastic!

Even Miss Pauley tried one on!

Charlotte and Holly from E6 had pink ones!

Tim and Dikshal look groovy  

Hayley tried on a pink one!

Meg's Moe matched her top!

Harshit looked very manly!

Ryan's Moe made him look like an old man!

What a cool way to raise money!

D1 Super Swimmers!

Yesterday was D1's first lesson in the school swimming pool. We had a fantastic time and it was such a sunny day! Max's Mum and Jack took some awesome pictures of us;

Check out these great swimmers!

We had to be good listeners when we got in the pool,
Mrs Diamond made sure we knew the rules.

Jack and Sophie were thinking about safe ways
to get down the slippery stairs

Liam, Max and Charlie were having fun!

Everyone knew to raise their hands and listen to Miss Pauley.
Good job D1!

Charlie looked cool floating with 2 flutter boards!

Mia and Zoe had some help floating and blowing bubbles
from our lovely Swim NZ coach!

Abhay was an expert at floating with his
flutter board!

Oscar and Ronan were having fun!

Jack took a great photo of Sam concentrating on floating!

Well done everyone, you were all great swimmers! Leave a comment telling us your favourite part! 

Next Monday we have swimming again, I can't wait!

A big thank you to Jack's grandma, Max's Mum and Meg and Charlie's Mum for helping us get changed and in and out of the pool! Another big thank you to our Swim NZ coach, who helped us stay confident in the water. 

Kites

Last week D1's letter of the week was 'k'. To celebrate our wonderful learning, we made kites on Friday and went out to fly them! We decorated them like suns and used bright yellow card so they stood out. We had such a great time that Miss Pauley let us fly them again on Tuesday!
Here is a video of us flying our kites. Doesn't it look like fun!


On Wednesday we decided to write stories about our kites. Here is some of our wonderful writing:


My kite looks beautiful and bright. I like my kite. - Sophie.


I am flying my kite. My kite is spinning around like a chopper. - Oscar


My kite is flying. My cool kite is bright. - Hayley


My kite looks like a flying boat. I like my kite. - Charlie


My kite looks like a birdie. My kite flew up in the air and it was beautiful! I like my kite. - Mia


My kite looked like it was the sun, going everywhere. On Tuesday we flew our kites and they looked like the sun. My kite looks beautiful. My kite is cool. They flew very high. They looked like paper planes. It was  a lot of fun. - Samuel.


Aren't we all such wonderful authors! 

Haiwaiian Disco!

Last Friday night Eastern Hutt School had a very special event - a school Disco. It was extra special for D1 because it was our first EVER school disco. 

The night was cold and rainy, but that didn't stop almost all of D1 coming dressed in their BEST Hawaiian Beach themed costumes, ready to party. We lined up outside the hall just before 5 o'clock, then we went inside. The hall was BEAUTIFUL, decorated with palm trees and lights to look like a party beach. There was loud music, and people selling yummy drinks and snacks at the back!

Check out Ryan's cool hula girl costume!

Keenan was dressed as Scuba Steve!

Hayley, dressed in her togs!

Ronan

Mia-Rose in her pretty Hula skirt

Mia and Meg looking beautiful in their
Hawaiian dresses!

Oscar, in his cool pirate costume!

Abhay, in his cool Cars togs!

Max and Sam looking cool!

Zoe, Sophie, Miss Pauley and Meg were having fun!

We had fun trying to limbo! Can you do the Limbo rock?!

Mia was so good at limbo-ing she won a prize!

We all had so much fun! We danced to our favourite song - Party Rock and we even tried to do the Macarena! 

We were sad to go when the night ended... we can't wait until next year!

Energy Week

This week at Eastern Hutt, we have been learning all about energy and power. In D1 we have been learning about the energy you get from the sun, and how it can help us to save power to help our world stay healthy. 


On Tuesday we read the legend of Maui and the Sun and made a PMI chart about the good things, bad things and interesting things we knew about the sun:

On Wednesday, we filled in booklets all about the sun and how to save energy. we learned there are easy ways to save energy, like turning off a light when you leave the room, or putting on a jersey if you are cold, instead of turning on a heater!

On Thursday, Miss Pauley bought some balloons and the early birds did some experimenting with static electricity. Static electricity is a kind of energy that you get when you rub something rubber, like a balloon, against something fuzzy, like carpet. It makes the balloon into a sort of magnet, that can pick up tissue paper and even stick to the WALL!

Meg is making the balloon pick up tissues!

Samuel made his balloon stick to the wall!

Mia used the balloon to make the tissue move
like it was dancing!

Meg, Charlie and Mia mad their balloon stick to the wall too!

On Friday we had a whole school assembly. Samuel dressed up to celebrate Energy week.

At the assembly they gave out certificates for the classes who did well in the lunchbox challenge and D1 came 3rd!

Great job having plastic free lunchboxes D1!

We thought the assembly was really cool! There was a game-show about energy saving and the middle classes won, but the juniors came second!