Daffodil Day, Friday 26th August 2011

The Cancer Society of New Zealand's Daffodil Day symbolises hope for 1 in 3 New Zealanders affected by cancer.  Children at Botany Downs bought Daffodils for $2.00 and stickers for $1.00 to help support this very worthy cause.  All the money collected will go towards vital scientific research into the causes and treatment of all types of cancer. 
Together with our buddy class, we drew daffodils outside our class.

Maths Week 2011

We've just finished an exciting Maths week.  During the week we attended a World of Maths show in our hall, measured our body to make a body measurement garden, painted Mondrian master pieces, made origami hats, learnt some interesting maths facts and competed against each other in some challenging maths games.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mr J's special All Black Jersey.

 

Our caretaker Bob Johnson is very passionate about rugby.  He was proud as punch when he showed us this special All Blacks jersey which he bought recently.  There are only 2011 of these special commemorative All Black jerseys in the world.  Mr Johnson has number 425.  They are a souvenir from the All Blacks versus South Africa game held on 30 July 2011 at the Westpac Stadium in Wellington.

Bring on the World Cup!!

Special Term Certificate

Congratulations to JC for being room 19's second term recipient of Botany Downs Special Terrific Person's award.

A fantastic effort was made by JC all term who tried his very best in his work!

Congratulations and well done JC!

My Mum's Job

Our homework task was to find out more about what our parents do.  JC's mum is a Workplace Safety Co-ordinator at McDonalds.
We were fortunate that Brigitte Crowther could come into our class and talk to us about what this job means and how important it is to always consider safety first.  Mrs Crowther is contributing to society by keeping people safe in the workplace. 

 

THANK YOU MRS CROWTHER!

The Enchanted Forest

 

We talked about the different jobs we could do to help make our world a better place.  We all agreed that the world would be better with jobs that make people happy like musicians and actors.  We were fortunate to have a theatre company come to our school to perform The Enchanted Forest.  We learnt about the native animals that live in our bush and how to look after the precious treasures of Aotearoa.  Some of us even got to operate the puppets!

Contributing to Our Society: Labour or Leisure

Our new inquiry topic has been about looking at how people contribute to our society by the different jobs they do.  We thought about a job we could do that would help make the world a better place.