Gingerbread House Demolished.

After lunch, we demolished our gingerbread house, instead of eating our usual brain food.  There was very little left after only five minutes of nibbling.

Next stop:  Year Four. 
All the very best to everyone in Room 18.

Christmas Shared Lunch

Room 18 had a shared Christmas lunch on the last Wednesday of the school year.  There was a fabulous variety of party food, thanks to the parents.  We also were able to wear our Christmas cracker hats instead of sun hats at lunch time if we wanted, just for that day.

 

Weka Water Fight

Water fights are just about the only kind of fighting that is allowed at Cockle Bay School, and then it is just once a year!  Room 18 challenged Room 1, then Room 2 and lastly Room 3.  At the end we could roam anywhere on the field shooting whoever we liked, including the teachers!

The armoury.

Gingerbread House Mark II (the eating kind)

The next day we decided to make a much smaller gingerbread house, one we could eat!  We used tin cans to stabilise the four corners of the house, and then glued on the two roof sections using thick sugar icing.  Decorating the house with lollies was the most enjoyable part, and everyone had a go.
Kate O brought a milk chocolate cow for the garden.  The cow had lolly mushrooms and m&m flowers to eat.  (This was before Kate ate the actual cow itself!)

Ken made the icing.

We colour coded the lollies. 

Mathew S helped to erect the walls, 

Ayan and Grace tiled a section of the roof.

Our gingerbread house, complete with chimney.

Kate's cow making herself at home in the garden.

Gingerbread House

Room 18 made a big gingerbread house for Christmas.  First we painted the big cardboard box Mrs Bear's new dishwasher came in.  We used several coats of brown paint to cover all the signage on the box.  Mr Want loaned us a big stanley knife to cut a door that could open and shut.  Next we attached candy canes to the outside walls using wire.  We glued all kinds of lolly wrappers to the walls as well.  Then it was time to make the solar light.  We filled a water bottle with water and stuck in through the roof, so that half was on top of the roof catching the sunlight, and half was inside lighting the inside of the gingerbread house.  People who live in shanty towns with no electricity use this technology to light their homes as well.

We left our gingerbread house outside by our library so that we could share it with other children as a kind of Christmas present to the Cockle Bay.  Here are some Year 1 and 2 people taking a look at Morning Tea.

Maui and the Fish

Our last piece of Visual Art we have been doing in Room 18 has been of Maui to illustrate our re-tellings of the famous Maori myth, Maui and the Fish.  You can read all our narratives on the Writing page, but here is a sample:

Here is  the re-telling of "The Fish of Maui" by Kaleb.

Letters to our favourite toys

When we had our the Weka open morning, we were writing a letter to our favourite toy.  Now that these letters are published, you can read them on the Writing page.  Here is one for you to enjoy:

A letter to Vera from her old friend, Catise