Venus our Pitcher Plant Pet

A Pitcher Plant is a plant. It eats flies. It is slippery and has water inside. When a fly is in the Pitcher Plant, it eats the fly. The Pitcher Plant is green and it has little red lines in the middle. It can't move. When the fly goes inside then the plant eats it. By Harshil

A Pitcher Plant is a plant that is dangerous to insects. It is a carnivourous plant. It is green inside and sometimes it can be slipper, then the insects fall inside. It needs water to grow. Inside the Pitcher Plant there is acid, liquid and mush. It makes mush from the insects. By Michelle

Walk on Wednesdays

This week three people from our Learning Zone were rewarded for walking to school by Mrs Hishey from the Travelwise campaign. Well done Harshil, Mellisa and Kawiti!

Heroes

Today we discussed what we thought made someone a hero. We decided that they need to be strong, kind, generous, talented and caring.

Cross Country

Ms Koltonowska's Yr 2's have WON the cross country in 2009 and 2010. The pressure was on. This year Mellisa came 1st for the Yr3 girls and Harshil came 2nd for Yr 3 boys race. Connor came 2nd for the Yr 2 boys race. Well done my champions. One gold and two silver medals is an awesome result from 19 students who ran. For everyone who crossed the finish line- well done! We are a winning team.

Race to Reading Challenge

Over the past term we have been participating in a Race to Reading challenge. We had to read a library book on top of our normal reading homework. The top three people won a prize and a certificate. Well done Harshil, Ben and Connor! Our boys love reading the most.

St George and the dragon

Today we learnt the English legend about St George and the Dragon. The English flag is a red cross on a white background and is said to have originated from St. George.


Once upon a time there was a king and a queen. There was also a dragon who killed people. The dragon was very big and kept attacking the people. St George was very strong. He threw his sword into the dragon's mouth. He died. The princess and St. George were married. By Harshil


One fierce day a terrorizing dragon was eating the sheep, but there were no more sheep. So the king sent the villagers to the dragon to be eaten. The princess got caught by the dragon. Suddenly St. George came to help to attack the dragon. Then St. George married the princess. By Michael


Once upon a time there was a king and a lovely princess. They all lived happily. But the big and fierce dragon came. He lieved in a cold and wet cave. The king said "that dragon has to go!" St George a brave knight, heard what the king had said and made a sneaky plan to kill the dragon. That night, the dragon stole the princess and decided to eat her! The next morning, St George rode a white horse to the dragon's cold, wet cave. He yelled to the dragon "Hey dragon! First eat Mr. Axe." He threw it into the dragon's mouth. The dragon chocked on it and died. St George let the princess on his white horse and in ten minutes they were all safe in the castle. Next they got married.  By Connor

Chinese Dragons

The dragons have spikes and scales of a snake and cat whiskers. They have the legs of a tiger and claws of an eagle. They are sharp. They can fly in the sky and they can swim. They live on land. By Harshil


In Chine there are special dragons who are the guardians of China. Each dragon lives and guards stuff in China. There are metal dragons who protect jewellery. Next water dragons live in the water and protect China's sea monsters. Fire dragons protect fires and blow the fires out to keep China safe.  By Andre

Three little elephants

Excellence Award

Congratulations to Harshil for achieving the excellence award for making a conscious effort to behave responsibly.

Using our imaginations...

Today it rained. It rained all day. We were cooped up inside ALL day! Our teacher took out the dressing-up clothes for the first time this year and we went wild. It was so much fun dressing up, playing princesses and cops and robbers. We had time to use our imaginations to role play different scenarios. We laughed so hard we thought our sides would split.

A report on an object

We wrote reports on objects you can find around the classroom today.

Michael and Liam:
The sewing elephant has soft fur inside. It is used for relaxing. It smells like candy floss and lavender. It lives in the elephant box.

Michelle and Harshil:
A black vivid is what people use for going around the outline when we draw. Sometimes people use them for going around the pencil line. The black vivid lives in a pencil case.