We made the most of the sunshine this morning and did lots of activities outside during Discovery. We had lots of fun.

Grandparents Day.

ASB GetWise Programme - learning about money

Today Vanepale from the ASB came to teach us about money. Vane was very cool! Secretly he is Captain Cashtastic and he gave us superhero lessons.

We had to order money from smallest to biggest.

We had to practise our superhero poses!

We learnt that:

NEEDS are the things that we need to survive - food, water, shelter.

WANTS are things that are fun to have, but we don't need them to survive - iPads, bikes,toys.

Captain Cash taught us a saying:

Speed to your needs. Wait for your wants.

Needs are the most important, so spend money on these first.

We all passed our training and got a superhero wristband.

Stonestead is the oldest house in Upper Hutt. It was built in 1860. This afternoon we visited Stonestead and Mr Bold talked to us and let us look around the house. We asked him some questions.

Our special reader this week is Alex. Today he read a special story from another country. It was called Brer Rabbit and theTar Baby.

Cricket

Today Matt and Mitch from Wellington Cricket came to teach us some cricket skills. The Year 2's from Kiwi joined us. It was fantastic fun!

We covered lots of skills including fielding, throwing, carrying a bat and catching.

Kitchen Science in the Library

This week we explored the 500-509's in the library. This is the Science section.

Mrs Davidson and two class scientists (Emma and James) completed some kitchen experiments.

We mixed white vinegar and baking soda to create a gas. The gas blew up a balloon!

The reaction gave Emma a big fright!

We did two more experiments which were GREAT fun - ask us about them!!