What an exciting week!!!

John Key

On Wednesday we were very lucky to have John Key come and visit Discovery School. MR Class was super excited because he came to see our classroom and talk to us. He only got time to see MR Class and RB Class so we were very, very lucky! Here is what some of us had to say about John Key’s visit:

Today John Key came to Discovery School. We did a Powhiri for him. People were asking him questions. He cam to our classroom and he talked to some of us. His favourite band is One Direction. He is 52 years old. He had about 10 people with him and he had a body guard! By Toby

Today John Key came to our school. I was nervous! We did a Powhiri for him. He is a Prime Minister! Our School hall was very busy. By Evelyn

Wow! I saw the Prime Minister! Today the Prime Minister of New Zealand came to Discovery School. We met him in the hall. The Prime Minister came with some other people too. I felt very excited. I think Mr John Key was nervous to see us and talk to us. We did some singing and asked him some questions. He came to our classroom first and he was with so many people. By Benny 

Wow! You would never believe who MR Class saw today. It was John Key, the Prime Minister! First we had a Powhiri. Then we asked questions. One person asked what his favourite food was and he answered, "steak, curry and oysters." Another person asked him what his least favourite food was. He said, "porridge!" I like porridge but John Key doesn't like it. After that he came to our classroom and I asked him what his favourite movie was. It was the Titanic but his favourite kids movie is Nemo. It was extraordinary!! By Trani

 Check out some of the pictures we had of John Key talking to us in our classroom.

Harold

The moment has come which we have all been waiting for. HAROLD! We went to see Harold today and he taught us all about the food pyramid. We know that there are four important food groups that our bodies need to help us grow. We know that we should only have ‘treats’ on special occasions. We also started to learn a little bit about digestion. We get to see Harold on Monday too.

Shapes, shapes, shapes

Today we had a Discovery Time based around shapes. MR Class had to focus on giving each other compliments during Discovery Time. We did this very well. After Discovery Time we had a circle time to share some of the compliments that we used.

Shape art

When John Key came we had an individual activity to do at our tables while he talked to us. Check out some of the shape art that we created. Lots of us were drawing in the lines and creating patterns.

We also did another type of shape art. Here is what Telesia had to say about it:

Chomp, Chomp! Yesterday MR Class made shape veges! We made them because our topic is healthy food and our other topic is shapes. So we got paper, shapes, a glue stick and a pencil. We got into groups of what vege we were going to make. We had three choices. Number 1: Carrots. 2. Tomatoes. 3. Corn. My group was tomato. What you need to do is put the coloured paper in front of you. Then you get the pencil and shape. Next, trace around the shape with the pencil. Then you can cut it out. After that glue it on the grey paper and there you go! A SHAPE VEGE!

By Telesia

3D Shapes

We have been learning about 3d shapes and what they are called. We know what a cylinder, rectangular prism, sphere, cube and cone look like. We made some 3d shapes. Check them out.

Stephanie Woodman Art 

Last week we had an art workshop with Stephanie Woodman. We created great art work using water colours and pastels. Stephanie was teaching us how to blend colours and what colours work well together.

Publishing

At the moment we are focussing on persuasive writing. That means we need to try and make people think the same thing that we think. We wrote about cats and dogs and had to decide which we thought was a better pet. Most people thought that a cat was a better pet but then Miss Rowe’s dogs turned up and we went and saw them at the school gate. That made lots of us change our mind!

Music

This week we started looking at making some music. We have been learning about beat and rhythm. We have come up with different rhythm patterns.