Our Firefighter Visit

Today Miss Pauley invited us to Room E7 to meet a real life superhero.   We met Ella's Grandad.   Ella’s Grandad is called Glen.   

Glen is a firefighter and he helps keep our community safe.

Glen talked to us about his job.   We were super star listeners.  Glen showed us what Firefighters wear when they fight fires.

Firefighters wear a special suit. The suit protects their body from the burning flames.  Glen got dressed into his firefighter uniform for us.

We felt the Firefighter jacket.  It was heavy and thick.

Firefighters wear a protective hood.

 Firefighters wear a strong helmet and strong boots that protect their head and feet from being burned or crushed by something heavy.

Firefighters wear a special mask over their face.  It is attached to an oxygen tank that they wear on their backs.

Firefighters need an oxygen tank full of fresh air when they go inside a burning building.  The fresh air flows through a tube and into their face mask when they breathe in. 

We learned that Firefighters need fresh air inside a burning building because the smoke can be very dangerous and poisonous.  

Firefighters need to keep themselves safe so that they can help keep others safe!

Glen put on his special gloves last.  The gloves protect his hands from the flames and from things that the fire has made very very hot.

Glen showed us how he breathes the air through his mask.

 It was very noisy and it gave us a bit of a fright.

But...
Glen told us that if we are ever stuck in a fire and we hear that noise, we know it is a good noise because it means a firefighter is coming to help us!

We were so lucky to meet a real superhero that helps keep us safe in Lower Hutt!

Thank you Glen the Firefighter for showing us your special uniform that you wear to help you do your job safely.  

Press Here!

Yesterday in E6 we read a fantastic picture book together.

The title of the book is 'Press Here'.  

The author is 'Herve Tullet'.

Watch this clip on You Tube to see some children enjoying the story together!

We all loved following the instructions on each page and finding out what would happen when we turned the page.

All the children in E6 highly recommend this book!  

It made us all smile and laugh, and was fabulous for reading and enjoying together!  

Keep an eye out for it at the library or in the bookshops!

(thanks Rohan for sharing one of your favourite books with us)

Fruity Fun Day

Today was a very exciting day because some fruit trees were donated to our school and planted on the senior school field.  When lots of fruit trees are planted together in the same place we call it an 'orchard'.   

We went for a walk to the orchard to see the new fruit trees.  

We saw peach trees, apple trees, pear trees, and nectarine trees.

We even found a peacherine tree. 

(I wonder what a peacherine looks like and tastes like?)

We found lots of Feijoa Trees! 

We love our new school orchard.  

We all whispered to our fruit trees to grow strong and healthy.  

We can't wait to eat the fruit!

I wonder what our fruit trees will need to grow strong and healthy?

The whole school got to dress up today if we wanted to as something fruity.

We brought a gold coin to donate to our school enviro team.

Scroll down to see how fabulously fruity we look!

Look at Sylvia.

She has made a beautiful strawberry with little black seeds 

all over it.

Look at Rohan.

 Rohan chose a bright orange shirt to wear.

Rohan told us how he stapled on some pictures of juicy oranges.

Look at Taylor.

Taylor is wearing her very hungry caterpillar dress 

that her Mummy made her. 

The very hungry caterpillar LOVES to eat fruit!

Look at Eva.

 Eva is dressed up as a tangerine.

She told us how her Mummy and Daddy helped her to cut out and colour in a necklace of green leaves.

Look at Anika and Charlotte.

 Anika is wearing her sparkly cherry top and

Charlotte chose her special strawberry shortcake top to 

wear for Fruity Fun Day.  

Look at Kingston and Joshua.

Kingston's Mum helped him make an apple tree hat. 

Joshua told us about the tiny little puffy fruits that 

he has on his t-shirt. 

 Your apple tree hat is spectacular Kingston!

Look at Raphy.

 Raphy's Mum painted a bright red apple on his cheek!

Raphy also had green hair just like the apple tree leaves!

 Look at Natey.

 Natey really loves pumpkins, so he asked his Mum 

to paint a pumpkin on his cheek.

 What creative ideas we came up with to wear on Fruity Fun day! Well done E6 Families!

We went to music with Mrs Campbell in the hall this morning.  She did some clapping songs with us.  We got to clap the syllables in the fruits and if we were that fruit we got to stand in the middle.

Can you remember how to clap the fruits?

How many claps did each fruit have?

a - pple

pear

straw-be-rry

grape

o-range

See if you can teach your family how to do it!

What a fantastic fun filled fruity Friday we all had today.

We love school!

Drop! Cover! Hold!

During the school holidays there were some earthquakes in Wellington.  We have been talking about what we need to do if there is an earthquake at school.  We had an earthquake drill in our classroom.  We pretended the ground was shaking.  We practiced curling our body up tight like a turtle.  We covered our heads and held on to the table leg.  We have to stay under the table until the ground stops shaking.  

Joshua and Eva wrote some super star stories about what what we do in the classroom if there is an earthquake.

In an earthquake we get under a table till the ground stops shaking and we push the chairs out of the way.  You have to curl up your body like a turtle.

by Eva.

In an earthquake we stop, drop, cover and hold the table leg.

by Joshua.

Watch these clips to see how you can become a turtle, and keep yourself safe in an earthquake too.
(You might have learned this song at kindy or daycare.)

I wonder if you know what to do if there is an earthquake at home? Do you have a plan?

Maybe you could talk to your family and have an earthquake drill at home too!

Leave us a comment and tell us what you do in an earthquake.