Thursday, September 29, 2011

Sunday, September 25, 2011

Play Dough Recipe

Wizards, since you liked the play dough so much, here is an easy play dough recipe.







Monday, September 12, 2011

Help us win...

Here is a link to the Ashhurst School's entry into the Real New Zealand Song Contest. It features students from Ashhurst School, along with the Minstrel himself singing his song Blaack Fever. Please like on the youtube link and share with your friends to help the school get as many likes as possible! Thanks!
Click here & 'like'

Rugby World Cup

Keep looking at this site for updates on the RWC Games.
Click Here...

Who do you think will make it to the top four? Post a comment to let us know.

Thursday, September 1, 2011

WALT Persuade

Check out these activities that will teach us about the important aspects of persuasive language.

WALT PERSUADE

Leave a comment to tells us what you think.

Sunday, August 7, 2011

MATHS WEEK

It is Maths week this week! Click on this link http://mathsweek.org.nz/
You will need a username & password. Miss Walker will give you this first thing tomorrow morning.

The more you play, the more $ you will earn to spend at the auctions. Good Luck!

Saturday, August 6, 2011

Story Bird

I have put a new reading link in the Radical Reading section.
Enjoy reading these creative stories.

Story Bird

Thursday, July 7, 2011

Our Compost + Garden!!!









On Thursday July room 6 had a look and did some work on the school compost system we turned the compost. There was quite a lot of rubbish and waste in the compost. Here are some photos that we took.
Please leave a comment.

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Student Led Inquiry

As a follow on from our Zero Waste Unit our class has split into groups to see what we can do to make a difference at Ashhurst School.

Here was what we got up to today...

RECYCLING
  • called PNCC to ask for reccyling bins for our school- they will call back
  • wrote letter to BOT to ask for recycling bins if the council won't give us some
  • We need to think about how we are going to get our recycling to a recycling centre
  • Checked out the paper recycling- lots of people are putting rubbish in their recycling bins - how can we prevent this from happening?
COMPOST
  • Looked at compost- it needs be turned but we couldn't find a fork
  • We are asking our community to help us with a compost club
  • Found some info on composting- we need to have layers
  • Notice in the news letter to ask for help
REDUCE/REUSE
  • Making posters to start a club using recycling
  • Organsing a sack to collect all of our classes rubbish over 1 day
  • We need to think about how we can reduce the amount of waste we are bringing to school in our lunch boxes everyday
GARDEN
  • Looked at garden- needs more dirt, it has lots of rubbish, not looked after
  • We need to turn over the soil
  • Need to ask the gardening centre to donate soil
  • Could ask compost club if they could give us some compost 
FOOD SCRAPS
  • Ask Mr Salmon if he had a rubbish bucket so we could collect food scraps over 2 days
  • Looked on internet but struggled to find how much food scraps we should put in a compost
 If you can help us in any way please post us a comment :)

Please help us with our inquiry

The compost group need your help with our action packed inquiry!!!
we need parent helpers to supervise us and help with our compost club.
Work will take place at lunch time (1.00-1.40 ) please leave a comment if you can help or contact bwalker@ashhurst.school.nz.
about 2/3 helpers will do.
thank you.
Kind regards Peita,Reuben,Samantha,Ciaran and Jacob

Monday, June 20, 2011

TEAM CUP CHALLENGE

Room 7 have set our next task... Top class score on Mathletics after 2 weeks.

Come on Room 6 we need our cup back! Campbell you are on the right track to get us our cup.
Congratulations on making the top 100 students in NZ!

Wizards follow Campbell's lead and get us on the score board!!!