The Botanic Gardens - thoughts from the Room 1 writers.

At the Botanic Gardens I saw...

a tiny waterfly flying into my net.  Madoc
an orange slimy flatworm finding some food.  Erik
a little aphid crawling up my net.  Sam
a baby spider playing with his mum.  Zach
a tiny red spider that came down and I caught him in a jar.  Bella
a piwakawaka flying around the trees.  Noah B
a slow slug slipping on a log.  Seth-Aaron
a beautiful fantail hiding in a tree.  Charli
a song thrush laying eggs.  James
a tiny red spider crawling on a leaf.  Scarlett
a colourful moth flying high above.  Annie J
a slippery slug hiding under a leaf.  Oliver
a black beetle going fast around a tree.  Riley
a fluttering fantail searching for food.  Claudia
a bellbird singing on a branch.  Summer
a fly hanging around my food.  Ben
a tiny spider in my net!  Nathan M
a black beetle scurrying along the dirt.  Mason
a huhu grub curled up in a ball.  Katie
a cute earthworm eating happily.  Ruby

a bee buzzing by and a centipede crawling in the soil.  Zooni
28 students having fun in the garden.  Ms K

Room 1's Trip to the Botanic Gardens

Thank you very much to our fabulous parent helpers!

Goosebumps Books!

The Goosebumps book series seems to be very popular in Discoverer's 1 at present.  If you feel they are too scary for your child to be reading, please let us know so we can stop them being checked out of the library.  Thank you.

More math puzzles

Thank you from the rabbits

Hi everyone

Thank you so much for offering to do rabbit duty at the weekends and/or taking care of them over the holidays.  If you missed out this term, I would like to put you on duty in Term 2 if that suits. I will put out another form closer to the time so you can let me know which weekends you will be unavailable.

Thanks again.

Child Friendly Search Engine

11/05/2018

Dear Parents and Caregivers

Currently we are showing our Discoverers how to use Accessit (our Library catalogue -http://accessit.stmartins.school.nz:2000/#!dashboard ) to find great websites to help them with their inquiry work - websites which have been identified as useful and safe which they can access with a couple of clicks and without having to dive into Google.  

We're also introducing them to Kiddle (https://www.kiddle.co), a child friendly search engine which retrieves websites aimed at young students. 

We'd really appreciate it if you would bookmark these sites for them on your home computer so that they can quickly find them for their own use.  While you're there take a quick look yourself, hopefully you'll find some useful information too e.g. the parent collection available for loan under the quick lists tab. 

There are many other things that Accessit can do for our students but our focus at the moment is on quickly finding appropriate websites.  If you'd like to know more take a look at the how to use this web app video on the front page or contact me if I can clarify anything for you. 

Kind regards, 
Bridget Hayes 
Librarian
St Martins School   

Wabbit Woster Term 2

Thank you to all of you who are so keen and eager to care for the buns and especially to the families who have offered to take them for the holidays.

Please let me know is you need to change your weekend at any time.

Thanks again.

Weekend	Week 1 5/6th May	2 12/13th	3 19/20th	4 26/27th	5 2/3rd June	6 9/10th	7 16/17th	8 23/24th	9 30/1st	Week 1 holidays	Week 2 holidays
Saturday	CHARLI & SCARLETT	ADELLE & CLEM	RILEY & ERIK	MADDY	CLEM & ADELLE	JAMES & SUMMER	LOUISE & KATIE	MADOC & ANNIE	MATILDA & KENDAL	KATIE BEA & DAISY	SCARLETT BEA & DAISY
Sunday	CHARLI & SCARLETT	ADELLE & CLEM	RILEY & ERIK	MADDY	CLEM & ADELLE	JAMES & SUMMER	LOUISE & KATIE	MADOC & ANNIE	MATILDA & KENDAL	CLAUDIA ROSIE	CLAUDIA ROSIE

Please come with a buddy or family member and younger siblings are most welcome.  The buns love cuddles.  THANK YOU.

Mornings - Please… carefully lift Rosie out and put her into her green space

- Give a handful of greens (kale, carrot tops, celery leaves, or spinach) on their tables or in their cages if they don’t want to come out

- Half a container of pellets

- Fresh water from milk containers if needed

- Empty their beds if they are damp so they can dry out during the day - Rosie’s bedroom needs cleaning every day

- Put Rosie’s carpet in the sun if it is wet

- Rinse out toilet trays in the big blue tub of water, (Bea’s purple one, Daisy’s blue one if used, and Rosie’s red and white one) and put them back

- Put wet hay on garden and newspaper in the skip down by the library and any poops in the grey bucket using the gloves and pooper scoopers

- Leave lid of bedroom up so it can dry out during the day

Evening - Please… carefully put Rosie back into her bedroom

- Give a handful of greens (kale, carrot tops, celery leaves, or spinach) in their cages when you put them away for the night

- Half a container of pellets

- Fresh water from milk containers if needed

- Check their beds are dry with newspaper underneath and hay on top

- Close lids on both cages

                                      

lEveryday Checklist

3 Clean and dry beds      3 Fresh water          3 Greens              3 Pellets

                                                 

Please email Ms K is you are unable to do your weekend on katek@stmartins.school.nz

Thank you!