Carnivorous Plants

Today William and Alexander showed us their carnivorous plants. The plants eat flies and other small creatures. Some fly traps attract insects with a poisonous liquid. Flies and other insects use up all of their energy trying to get out. Don't put your fingers in because that will use a lot of the plant's energy. The plants are green and green attracts insects. Venus fly traps go black when they are dead. 

By William, Alexander, Mitchell and Yoshi

After learning about the plant we did some close observational drawings. Greta said that this is a great way to learn. 

Logo Design for International Friendship Day: Using Google Drawing

In October, Nicola visited Singapore as part of an Asia NZ Foundation delegation. Nicola visited Bukit Timah School. Worser Bay School have continued to connect and collaborate with Bukit Timah.

Inspired by the way that Bukit Timah School celebrate culture and diversity, Worser Bay are going to celebrate International Friendship Day next year.

"International Friendship Day" is celebrated in Singapore. This day is dedicated to the understanding of Singapore’s relations with its neighbours and aims to nurture the spirit of friendship and collaboration among different people.

International Friendship Day is celebrated in schools in Singapore in April.

Worser Bay School will celebrate International Friendship Day in 2017 and have started a project for 2017. Schools around the world will make short movie about their country and culture. Schools have signed up from across the globe.

The schools that have signed up are from: Ireland, England, USA, Canada, Moldova, Trinidad, Singapore, Thailand, South Korea, Canada, Luxembourg, Australia, Philippines, China, Romania, Taiwan, Gambia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Morocco, United Arab Emirates and Japan.

Our students have been designing logos using Google Drawing for international Friendship Day. Students from Auroa School in Taranaki have also been working on logos. If you are a classroom or a teacher you can sign up here.

Watch this space...

Imagine Poems

We read a poem called Imagine by Pie Corbett. We closed our eyes and imagined. We played with words to paint a picture. Some of us used repitition, similes, metaphor, alliteration and personification.

Imagine

A hot moon and a cold sun

A worm with a bazooka chasing a bird

The solar system exploding

A bee chasing a car

Imagine

Count Dooku was tiny

A Jedi defending Darth Vader

Kylo Ren destroying his own base

Imagine

Plastic bags were not made of plastic

A Jedi with the lightning force

You don't see yourself in a mirror

Peace is war

Imagine

Everyone was bald

The sun was not light
By William

Imagine
imagine … a thirsty drink bottle waiting for water.
Imagine… a dull pencil waiting to get sharpened.
Imagine… a sharp hook waiting for a crazy fish.
imagine … yummy food waiting to get eaten.
imagine … chewing waiting to get chewed.
imagine … hair waiting to get shaved .
Imagine… lases waiting to get tied.
Imagine… a tooth waiting to fall out.

By Cruz
 

Imagine .
Imagine a bad bumblebee biting your bum.
A cat sprinting after a dog.
A princess riding a tricycle.
Imagine a pink fluffy unicorn dancing on a rainbow .
A queen riding on a sparkly unicorn wearing board shorts and sweaty t-shirt.
A goblin turning blue and a blueberry turning green.
Imagine a tiny kitten breathing fire and setting fire to a house.
One orangutan eating an orange while sitting on an oblon.
John jiggling joyfully jumping on a jam jar.
Imagine glasses giggling grimfully. .
A huge mouse in a tiny house.
Imagine all that.

By Nela 

Imagine

A beautiful butterfly blushing,
A hippo hating hip hop dancing,
A chameleon crawling carefully
Along a colourful cantaloupe.

Imagine
A water as angry as a rhino,
A rose as pink as a pig,
A moon as big as a balloon.

Imagine
An avalanche is a cheetah,
A piece of watermelon in a watery sea,
A tornado is as angry Pikachu.
By Edward

Treasure Island Fair

A huge "Thank You" to our wonderful Worser Bay community for helping us to make this an amazing event!

WBS Fair 2016 Children's Movie Trailer

https://www.facebook.com/worserbayschool.fair. 

Sunflower Art

Today we made sunflower art using pastels. 

Assembly Fiesta

These guys shared information about how to recycle at the fair. 

 

Autahi shared their Halloween writing.

Well done to these students for being powerful and receiving a Principal Award. 

Well done to our fab presenters.

Our students have been writing their own end of year reports linked to character strengths

Lily Ji

Lily’s key character strength is bravery. When she hurts herself she is brave. She loves to do computer maths. She loves to do cartwheels and flips. Hand stands are her goal. Lily is very creative. She loves to do art. She can weave a heart. Lily loves to read, it is one of her favourite things to do. She likes to read Alice in Wonderland. She thinks that the story is magical. She thinks that it is the coolest book in the world. Lily loves playing on the iPad and playing games. She loves hopscotch, climbing trees and planting. Lily loves playing outside with her friends.

Molly 
Molly's key character strengths are love, kindness and creativity. She loves to learn and she is helping her friends when they are hurt. Molly loves to write she is creating new things every day. Molly likes playing with her friends every day. Molly likes helping her teachers.

Ginas report

Ginas key character strength is zest and a bit of bravery. She enjoyed the kitchen science and tasting of the athlete snacks. She loves to read. She has got a lot of friends. If she could play all day she would. She is a big Minecraft fan. Gina has 2 bunnies and she loves animals. She is sporty smart and ... awesome!  

Marnie’s year in Tautoru!!

Marnie’s key character strengths are kindness and creativity, Marnie likes reading and doing art. She likes learning new things and playing with her friends every day and helping them when they are hurt. Marnie always likes helping teachers too.  

Jupiter

Jupiter’s character strength is creativity. He enjoys walking, sports, lego and video games. He is very joyful he has a lot of friends that he likes to play with. Jupiter shows resilience when he is sad. Jupiter sets goals. He is very smart. He like’s maths.

Nela’s report
Nela’s best character strength is a sense of humour. Nela’s favorite subject at school is reading. Nela likes helping anyone who needs help like students and teachers. Nela’s best subject is writing.
she loves animals because they are cute and awesome. She loves sport. Nela has lots of friends and family and she loves them too. She has also a lot of teachers that she loves!

Violeta

Violeta’s best character strength is creativity. She likes to read and draw. Violeta likes hatchimals. She has lots of friends. Violeta likes to be helpful. She enjoyed a trip to Island Bay to teach Spanish. She loves soft toys. She writes two pages in quiet time. She likes to play with her friends. Violeta likes to climb trees. Violeta enjoys doing handwriting. She uses a lot of bravery. She loves cute animals. Her thing to calm her down is climbing. She usually goes to the library every day. She uses resilience when she gets upset. Violeta also likes writing long stories. She doesn't like avocado.