Just keep getting stronger.

A very special song with an important message! Our challenge is to never give up and always try our best - it's all about perseverance!

Tryathlon Fun.

Today we had Claire White come and speak to us about competing in a triathlon. She showed us her equipment that she uses and talked to us about safety. We are working hard to prepare for our tryathlon and our goal is to persevere and keep going - even if we fall over or get worried.

The fabulous Gecko children 2014.

Welcome back to school and what a happy start it has been. We are enjoying the sunshine and swimming in the school pool. Our senior buddies have been up reading stories with us and we love buddy reading time!

An amazing day in Oz.

We had the most amazing day with each other in the land of Oz. We dressed up in fantastic costumes and made some masks of the characters from the book/movie. Then we had a parade with all the other junior classes to show off our costumes and masks. Mrs Cooper played Wizard of Oz songs as we paraded. After that we followed the yellow brick road down to the enviro centre and the teachers surprised us by giving us bubbles to blow. But the biggest surprise was the bubble man coming! He blew ENORMOUS bubbles and we were amazed. After lunch we had a nice cool down with an ice block - what a wonderful day we had with our friends.

What's the plan Stan?

This term we have been learning how to keep safe in natural disasters. The children had a strong interest in natural disasters and enjoyed researching on google images together, looking for pictures and finding information. This morning we have finished off with talking about wind storms. After reading about different wind storms some chose to go off and share a tornado book together. They then created their own 'tornado suckers' out of mobilio. Very creative.

Half and quarter.

Mrs Hislop come and worked with us on Wednesday. We had a wonderful time in maths learning all about half and quarter. We chopped up the fruit and shared it with our friends. We were very safe using the knives and now know how to cut food into half and quarter. Thanks Mrs Hislop for a fun time!

Gecko Room kids learn about mass, capacity and volume.

We have been learning about mass, capacity and volume for maths. On youtube we found the Numberjacks and we LOVE THEM! They talked about capacity and we talked about our own containers for filling at home. Watch this episode and share with your family - enjoy! http://youtu.be/eR20PMLni3U