Spring is definitely on its way

Friday was Daffodil Day and here are the happy bunch from R22 who bought a flower or a sticker. The money raised goes to help cancer research so we can try to obliterate this terrible disease.

We remade the boxes

After we had made the nets for our boxes we swapped them with another group who then had to try and remake it to look like the original. We realised how careful we needed to be to make sure the lines were folded in the right place and that we had all of the tabs in the correct places. It was a lot of fun and we learnt a lot about 3d shapes.

Spring has sprung at BDS

We have been lucky enough to have 10 eggs arrive at Botany Downs. These 'living' eggs have started to hatch in their incubator and currently we have 6 hatched chicks and one fighting its way out of its egg. It has been really eggciting (get it) to watch the little eggs become real live chicks! Now we all want to be farmers :-)

We investigated nets for boxes

We have been collecting boxes and today we opened a box out fully so we could see its net. We drew around the shape and made sure we included the tabs! We ruled lines where the edges of the box was so we could fold it and then we cut it out....  next we are going to give it to another pair to try to reassemble! More pics to come....

Lyn Kriegler

We were lucky enough to have a visit during book week from the wonderful author/illustrator Lyn Kriegler. She shared with us how she became an illustrator with some wonderful stories from when she was a child. We thought she was an excellent story teller and we enjoyed her visit. 

Lyn Kriegler is a book illustrator, scriptwriter and oral storyteller. Originally from the United States, her career as a staff artist and art director saw her work for a variety of organisations such as Mademoiselle, The New Yorker, and the Washington Post. In 1974 Kriegler immigrated to New Zealand and has since illustrated 22 picture books, seven chapter books and 25 readers. In 2006 she illustrated Margaret Mahy’s Family Surprises, and more recently she has written her own book, Mister Minty (illustrated by Blair Sayer).