PLANT TO PLATE

Manchester Street was very lucky to be part of Plant to Plate in November and Room H was VERY lucky to one of the 4 classes selected to participate.  How lovely it was to see Mrs Duker again.  We had a very busy morning working in the garden and cooking lunch.  We learned heaps about growing our own vegetables and cooking our own healthy food.  Thanks to all the wonderful volunteers who helped us.

Keep NZ Beautiful

Room H had a great Enviro Action Day - here's what we got up to!

 

Summer's Message

Summer created a poster to show her feelings about being an Enviro Kid...

Teach the Teacher

It was all Pokemon Go in Room H when Josh taught the class how to draw the Pokemon, Bulbasaur. Awesome teaching Josh

Investigating Static Electricity

Thank you to Miss Robertson for the amazing science experiments she shared. Rm I really enjoyed our investigation of static electricity. We especially enjoyed the hands on part of this investigation...

Tidy Tui visit us!

The Senior Team have a new challenge, Tidy Tui. The class with the tidiest cloak bay will be awarded him weekly in Team Assembly.

Below you can see why he had to visit...

Performing Arts Showcase

Room H are getting in a bit of extra practice for our tuned percussion item. What looks of concentration!

Teach the Teacher

Room H learnt all about St Johns from Blake last Friday. Great bandaging skills Blake! There is probably a job for you in the sick bay. 

Sherbet is the winner of the day

Quinn taught the teacher yesterday with a crowd favourite, sherbet making. It was an excellent session run by a potentially amazing teacher!

It was pre organised, he had scientific learning to share and then everyone got to share the sherbet.

Very enjoyable, thanks Quinn!

Eden Teaches the Teacher

Today we learnt about the Japanese art of paper folding, A.K.A origami. Eden taught us all how to fold a penguin. Very cute, thanks Eden.

What I Found In My Desk...

We are writing poetry about our desks at the moment. We used Bruce Lansky's poem to inspire our poems. Then we published them into Pic Collage on the iPads.

Visit our room to see all of them.

Hockey Stars

The whole of MSS is having hockey sessions this winter. Once a week we go out with our class to learn the fundamentals of hockey. Nitin is our skilled instructor and we all enjoy working with him. He reminded us that the Manawatu has many hockey stars. It could be one of us in the future!

Summer Suits up Barbie for the Olympics...

Summer went above and beyond for her Olympic home work. She didn't just design the outfit, she also made it! Wonderful effort Summer.

Mysterious Moving Water

Today we experimented with water, can it move upwards? We put a napkin in between two cups. One had coloured water. We watched and waited... And waited, and waited!

Eventually we discovered yes water can move uphill. This is called capillary action. This process can also be seen in plants where moisture travels from the roots to the rest of the plant.

Slow but cool!

Folding Paper with our Buddies

On Friday we practiced origami of a different kind. The art of folding paper planes. We used a  video clip from Kiwi Kids news that Crystal found. We helped our Rm B buddies fold a plane as well. Then we all went out and trialled them. Mrs Harris' flew very well!

Good Shot Hunter!

Hunter brought in his catapults for Teach the Teacher yesterday. It was a hit, everyone loved learning about his weapons. He had a good discussion with David about the pros and cons of a crossbow versus a catapult!

Olivia Expands Our Vocabulary

Rm I were reading a story for Winter Warmers. In the story it mentioned the word poignant. No one in Rm I knew what the definition of this word was. Mrs Palmer issued us with a challenge. Olivia was the first student to come back with the definition.

Poignant: a feeling of sadness or deep emotion. Something that affects you deeply and makes you feel sadness or regret.

Her example: Remember when we were at the vets and our dog got put down. It was a very poignant time and memory.

Enviro Action Day Term 2

Enviro Action Day for Term 2 was Friday and what a great, busy day we all had. We kicked off our day of action with an enviro assembly featuring special guest; RowenaBrown. Then onto some gardening, looking at invertebrate habitats, litter less lunches, more gardening, writing a PMI chart, finding Wally and  his friends and last but not least...a little more gardening!