Wednesday, September 12, 2012

What time is it?

We have been learning to tell the time. Everyone should be able to tell, o'clock, half past, quarter to and past. Some people can tell the time to 5 minute intervals and others can even use digital time too.
So next time you need to know the time then ask us!!



We have looked at how early people used the sun to tell the time, we drew our shadows during the day. We found out that our shadow gets shorter and then longer again. We think this is because the sun appears to move in the sky. This is because the Earth is spinning. Do you know how long it takes to go around once? Ask us!

Thursday, September 6, 2012

Our cross country champs

Well done to Kasey and Blossom in their excellent effort at the North Otago cross country races yesterday. Both girls did us proud and represented the school very well.

Ski trip cancelled today.

***************STOP PRESS***************** Our ski trip is cancelled today due to high winds. Postponement date will be in two weeks, a note will come home to advise. ***************STOP PRESS*****************

Monday, September 3, 2012

Tubing and Ice-skating

What an awesome day out we had at Tekapo Springs. The snow and ice were melting fast so we had to bring our class tube and skate forward. Thanks to our parent helpers who shared the driving to make sure we all got there safely.

Storytime for Room 7 and 9

We have been writing adventure stories based on the native animals we researched in term 1 and 2. We had to try and base our stories on fact and make them realistic but also could also give our characters a personality. Our target audience was a younger class so we had to be careful to not make them too scary!

Frog School - Room 13 Little Theatre Company


Kowhai reading group shared one of their stories from the Junior Journals that they had been practising.
"It was a cool play because I liked all of the actions that the frogs could do." commented Tessa.

Drama rehearsals

We are busy working with Mrs Allerston on our play - Harriet Potter and the Magic of Oomble Doomble, we had to practice and do an audition for the parts, it was hard choosing as there were so many students getting into character. We had to think about the character's actions and expression. We also had to think about stage directions such as being loud and facing the audience.



We look forward to sharing our play with you on the afternoon of Friday the 17th September at the Events Centre.