Fotobabble reflection

Today, we experimented with fotobabble as part of our reflection and thinking about our 5 + a day event last week!

First lesson learnt was to turn the photo before you record our 'babble' !!

Here's a couple of our tests:

5 + a day Shared Lunch and Dress Up Day

Parents and Whanau are invited to come and share our 5+ a day snacks

November is 5+ A Day Fruit and Vegetable Month and to mark our school’s support, we are holding a:   5 + a day Shared Lunch and Dress Up Day

When: Thursday 25th October, 11:30am Parade, 11:45am Shared Lunch

What:

•  Dress in the colour of your favourite fruit or vegetable.
•  Costume Parade – Prize for the best dressed
•  Share healthy snacks (children to bring their normal lunch).
•  Learn about why eating 5 + a day is important.

• Adults needed to help refresh our playground with bark and sand after the festivities - creating a healthy, happy environment for our tamariki.

Making Soup

Today is the eve of our big 5 + a day celebration. We are having a Shared Lunch and each class is making a healthy snack to share with the rest of the school.

This afternoon, Riley's Mum Debbie came in to deliver a wonderful parcel of donated vegetables. She stayed to help us 'slice and dice' our vegies ready to cook for tomorrow.

Check out the recipe on Sticky TV's website.

Come back to hear how it goes and what our healthy 5 + a day snacks taste like!

We are authors!

As part of our learning about healthy eating habits and eating 5 or more servings of fruit and vegetables every day. Room 2 read and then rewrote the story of 'The very hungry caterpillar' by Eric Carle.

I've been learning how to create ebooks (write and read books on the iPad).












Here are my first two attempts, the cool thing about ebooks is you can record your voice reading the story. Now we have our own book to read and listen to during 'listen to reading' in the Daily 5.

It's Summer in Room 2

Despite the rain showers this afternoon, we know it's 'almost' summer and time to get our sunhats on!

One serious shot and then a fun one...

Painting Tiles to fill the Gap

Last Friday, Room 2 had the opportunity to paint some tiles with images of Richmond and their community. These tiles are going to be placed in Churchhill Park on Guild St as part of a gap filler organised by students of the Student Volunteer army.

We were very excited to be able to draw and paint our favourite parts of the community. Tai and Iveni talked about their friends and family being important, Rishap said the trees and the environment were important for him and lots of tamariki said 'Room 2' and 'Richmond School' were important too... I agree!



Painting Tiles from Alice Keeling on Vimeo.

Student Volunteers...

Have a close look at these photos of our outdoor classroom area... do you notice anything different?

Look closer...

Have you figured it out yet?

This weekend we had some amazing volunteers, organised by a group of University of Canterbury students, came and gave up part of their weekend to re-paint our picnic tables and benches. It is all a part of the Student Volunteer Army's 'The Concert': a massive musical line-up with a twist.  The only way to get tickets is to do 4 hour volunteering in the community.

If you're interested in earning a ticket: http://www.theconcert.co.nz/

What a fantastic example of volunteer spirit these young adults have shown our young people at Richmond School! They have really made an impact on the future of our school and made our outdoor classroom area look in top form! Bring on summer !!

Watch this space, as this is not all these successful volunteers have offered our school community...