Butterfly Creek

Last Thursday we spent the day at Butterfly Creek! Check out the photos to see what we got up to. 

Miqi checking out the Alligator

Enjoying the train ride

So many questions!

Beep beep!

Karlos be careful!

Fun train ride

Feeding the crocodile

Beautiful Butterfly

Eeeeeek!

Fun on the farm

Wow those Butterflies like Ruby

Petting Sooty

Feeding time

They like Benjis dad too!

Look out!

Show us your smile Vai

Eggceptional

Giant Weta!

Week 2 Aspire to Succeed Awards

Well done to Connor Jorgenson and Eliza Shaikh for receiving the Aspire to Succeed award in our assembly last week.

 

Diwali

On Friday we celebrated the Hindu festival Diwali - The Festival of Light. Everyone dressed up in beautiful outfits to celebrate the day. Take a look at Anjali, Saanchi and Raghav in their traditional outfits below. 

We also spent some time in class painting Diya, these are used as lights around the house to welcome festival spirits. 

Go to the website for more pictures of our fun filled day of celebrations. 

EOTC Week

This week the kids took part in Kauri and Totara's EOTC Week! Activities included tent building, Survivor, Orienteering, Team building and many more fun things. Check out a couple of pictures below of our tent building and also take a look at the school website for more pictures. 

Term 3 Aspire to Succeed

Well done to our Aspire to Succeed awards winners, Teresa and Zach!

We've Voted! Have you?

Today in Room 23 we have been voting for the party we want to win the election. Have you voted?

We have been learning all about the election and the policies from each party. We have also celebrated the anniversary of Women's Suffrage Day and made our own white camelias which symbolise this significant issue. See our class election results below! 

National 35.5%

Labour 35.5%

Green 17%

NZ First 6%
Maori 4%

Act 2% 

Anjali has voted!

I wonder who Jed has voted for...

Voting papers reading!

Ambury Park Pony Visit

Today we had a visit from some very special ponies from Ambury Park, their names were Bilby and Honeypuff.  Gingerbread pony biscuits were selling for $2 each to raise money for The Ambury Park Centre for Riding Therapy. Thanks for coming to visit us! 

2017 CPDS Masterchef

Red Carpet Photos

Tongan Language Week

This week has been Tongan Language Week! We have been having lots of fun in the classroom and we have made some Tongan Tapa Cloths. Check out the pictures!

The beginning of a masterpiece

Luka drawing his patter

Lauren's amazing patterns

Sam filling his patterns in with vivid

Luka giving his Tapa Cloth a good scrunch up!

Finished Tapa Cloth

Finished Tapa Cloth

Noah with his Tapa Cloth

Eliza and her Tapa Cloth

Connor's finished piece

Sam's great Tapa Cloth

Hannah and her Tapa Cloth

Science - Borax crystals!

This was the equipment we needed to make our borax crystals:

First, we made a shape using a pipe cleaner.
Next, we tied a piece of string to our pipe cleaner shape.
Thirdly, we tied the other end of the string to a pencil so that our pipe cleaner shape could be suspended in the jar.
After that, we put 3 tablespoons of borax into our jars and filled them with boiling water.
Some of us added food colouring to give our crystals colour.
Next we stirred the boiling water until the borax had dissolved.
Finally we suspended our pipe cleaner shape in the jar and waited for the crystals to form.