Our Learning Celebration...

Yesterday we had our Learning Celebration with LT 2 & 4.  We got to share our playground designs.

The Amazing Place Ceremony...

On Thursday our Year 4's went to a ceremony. There were acrobats, a joker, Carrot the clown,  a girl on a no handle bike and cupcakes too!!! The ceremony was for the amazing playground that heaps of schools entered. Guess what we won.....first place our year group. We won eight hundred dollars.  Four hundred dollars for the the class.  So that's $100 each for Haley, Ruth, Oakley and Kiara. We got a photo with Prime Minister John Key and shook his hand. After the prizes we got lunch boxes with a bread roll, crackers, grapes, carrot sticks, a twisty thing with bacon and sushi. Then we hopped on the bus and went back to school.  We felt proud!

Click here to see Mrs Bourke's Amazing footage of the ceremony.

Jayden eating a delicious cupcake....at the awards ceremony.

Collecting our prize from Prime Minister John Key.

We are so proud...

Press play to watch the awards ceremony or click here.

Amazing Place Winners Announced from CCDU on Vimeo.

Our Amazing Playground - Our Year 4 entry is a finalist!

Haley, Ruth, Oakley and Kiara designed and created an animal themed playground....you can watch their presentation below.  Their entry was entered into The Amazing Place competition and they made it into the finals!  This is very exciting.  They will be going to the awards ceremony next Thursday to fine out if they got first or second place.

Making Our Amazing Place Playgrounds...

Our Amazing Animal Theme Playground...

This is our animal theme playground.  It took us a lot of work to get it right. Our playground is mostly made out of P\plasticine.  The rest of the playground is made out of cardboard and sticks.

Kiara was the project  manager  and she likes the hamburger stand and giraffe slide.
Oakley likes the hamburger stand and the animal train.
Haley likes the flying fox and the animal museum tree house.
Ruth likes the tunnel car park and the elephant sprinkler.

We thought a giraffe slide would be good to put in the playground on a hill.  Children can climb up the back and slide down the neck.  We had snake bars, were snakes hung down and you can climb on them.

Our Amazing Playground: An Adventure theme

Our playground had an adventure theme.  In it we have a pool, flying fox, panda, dragon, igloo, seal maze, climbing wall, turtle and dolphin swings, snake water fountain and toilets. The seal maze you can go through the maze or climb on the seal. The swings are called turtle and dolphin swings because there is a dolphin and a turtle. There is an igloo that has snow falling from the top, but it is actually white foam falling from the top of the igloo. There is a panda sculpture that you have to go through the mouth and look out its eyes.

My Amazing Playground

This playground is all about having fun and having adventures on it!  You can go down a banana slide and it feels like you're in a banana.  There's a fruit house and you can climb up the carrots which have holes in them, it's like a rock climbing wall.  If you're not too sure you want to go up it there's a ladder.  In the fruit house there's fruit you can find and you can put them into a puzzle.  When you get all of them right you get to go onto the fruit flying fox!

Our Amazing Playground...

Our playground is about dinosaurs. Our playground is amazing because it is like it is in the time of the dinosaurs. Our playground should be built because it has a big toilet, two drinking fountains, a long seat, a shade area under the tree by the toilets. Our playground is for the children who suffered in the earthquake.

My Roller Coaster Theme Park

I came up with doing a Roller Coaster theme park because I thought it sounded interesting. When you go to my playground you can go to the Roller Coaster and sit in the carts. Then you go on the track of the Roller Coaster. After that you can go to the telescope and look through the telescope. When you look through the telescope you can turn the telescope anywhere you like. At the tables and chairs you can sit down on the chairs and you can watch the people on the roller coaster.  When you get to the bouncy tyres and rope swing you hold on to the rope and swing. The tyres are there for you to land on.

Our Amazing Playground Mystery Bus Trip...

We went on a amazing bus trip for our inquiry.  We went to Marine Parade Park,  Pack 'n Save park at Wainoni, Murchison Park, Bishopdale Park and the Botanic Gardens.  My favorite park was the Bishopdale Park with the elephant because it was the only that had an obstacle course and a giant slide.  At the park near Pack 'n Save there was a giant climbing net and a spinning chair.