The Quiet Area

Room 4 has been working on the Quiet Area.

We have made wonderful creations outside in the Quiet Area.
We have made.

• Decorated plant pots.
• Hanging decorations.
• Driftwood christmas trees.
• Pumus sculptures.
• Watering plant clouds. (Not actual clouds!)
• Room three has made tyre seats!

We have built a christmas tree out of driftwood and Mr Shand cut a wooden star out. We put bits of driftwood together. It looks amazing!

We also made a pumice sculpture with 27 pieces of pumice starting off big and then turning into smaller pieces. We tried to slide them on by twisting and turning the pumice around on the pole then Mr Shand said we could drill a hole in them. It was way easier than twisting and turning.

Other than that Room Three made a bottle top sculpture. The colours are green, blue, black, orange, white, yellow, red and see through. There are lots of different coloured bottle tops. There are exactly 41 bottle tops. CAN YOU BELIEVE IT!!!

Room 2 and Room 3 made seats out of wood, tyres and sacks for the table the school made. The table has korus on it. The colours on the table are cream, green and blue. There are four seats.

Our plant pots have been carefully painted by some people in room 4. The Elmo pot was painted by Teifi Clarke. The Cookie Monster was painted by Hannah Webb and the Cookie was painted by Tayla Kopua. There will be more coming soon painted by some crazy artists in Room 4.

There is even a rain cloud carved out of wood. It was painted by Max, Jaia, Troy, Daniel and Carter.
Hiding behind the cloud there is a plastic bucket with holes in the bottom.You pour the water in the bucket and then it comes down and waters the plant so it looks like there is water coming out of the cloud!

By Teifi, Kaya and Hannah

Bountiful Beetroot!

On Friday we were lucky enough to have Lucy's Mum come in, to turn some of our beautiful and plentiful beetroot that we had harvested last term into yummy chutney!

We needed an onion for the job and luckily there was this beauty in our garden, perfect for picking!

The beetroot was chopped and mixed with our fresh onion and spices.  

Look at that fresh colour!

The chutney is now in the fridge, mellowing.  We can't wait to try it in a couple of weeks time!  Cheese, chutney and crackers...here we come!

Harvesting!

Yay!  This term we have had the pleasure of harvesting some of the vegetables from our class gardens.  It's so cool to see kids with big smiles, heading home with big bunches of silverbeet and grazing on freshly pulled up carrots at lunchtime!

Recycling Action at the Craft Fair

Recycle Action!

What a wonderful effort at the craft fair!  Our recycling volunteers scrubbed, sorted, bagged and composted right through the afternoon to try and send as little of our craft fair waste to landfill.  All in all by the end of the afternoon they had collected 9 bags of rubbish.  Only 2 of these are going to be stickered and put at the gate on Monday.  We collected 5 bags of recyclables, and 2 bags of organic waste that went straight into our new compost bins.  We now also have a collection of 40+ plastic cups that have been washed out ready to be used for dyes etc in the classroom and loads of lovely little sticks from the candyfloss that will make great stakes or signs for the garden.  Reduce, reuse and recycle...fantastic work team!