Kid Pix - How to Catch a Star.

Green Hat Thinking - 'How to Catch a Star'

How to Catch a Star

by Oliver Jeffers

We read ‘How to Catch a Star.’ Then we put on our ‘Green Thinking Hats’ and tried to think of some creative ways  we could catch our own stars. Here are some of our wonderful ideas.

• Get a long, long ladder, the longest ladder in the whole world.
• Put rainbow lollypops in a mouse trap and catch it. Stars should like rainbow lollypops.
• By riding in an airplane.
• Build a rocket ship shaped like a star and the star will think it’s a star and be tricked.
• Go up in a rocket  ship that never ever runs out of petrol.
• Climb up a rainbow to reach the stars.
• Go in a rocket ship way up to the stars.
• I am going to wish a star and I won’t tell anyone incase it doesn’t come true.

Here comes the sunshine...

On Thursday we made a mosaic picture of the sun. First we decided what colours we would use. Then we cut the paper from magazines and advertising mailers into little pieces. 

Next we used our glue sticks to glue the paper into a big circle.

We used red, yellow, orange and dark brown to make our sun because we wanted it to look like a fire.

NASA History Highlights

Check this out... man really did walk on the moon. 

Yellow Hat Thinking

We put on our yellow hats to help us think about all the good things we know about the sun.

Here are some of our thoughts...

• The sun makes us nice and warm.
• The sun helps us see things without lights.
• The sun makes the day time.
• The sun makes things grow like trees and flowers.
• The sun makes me happy.
• The sun makes our washing dry.
• The sun makes things more fun.
• The sun helps flowers grow.
• It makes things nice and warm.
• It would be really really cold if there was no sun

Check out one of our wonderful new multi-cultural puzzles that we have purchased from http://www.pinegrovepuzzles.co.nz/Home. We have puzzles in Samoan, Tongan, Mandarin, Punjab and Hindi. 

Today the Samoan children were teaching some of the teachers colours using the paint pot puzzle.

To Infinity and Beyond...

Our topic this term is ‘ To Infinity and Beyond ‘ a space exploration. 


We began by looking at the differences between Day and Night. Check out the posters we made using all the children’s ideas.