Tanks in the car park!

We had some unexpected visitors this morning. Everyone was buzzing in class with two NZ Army APC's in the car park. We went to investigate and they were friendly. We got to have a sit in the driver's seat and they answered heaps of questions. Thanks guys for a great response to our students and Kia Kaha.

Ka Mate Haka for assembly

We have some really keen AB's fans in Room 13 so we have been finding out about the Haka that the AB's often start their matches with. This website is awesome and tells the story of Te Rauparaha and how he wrote this Haka.

Click here to visit this cool site

This Friday we are having a party for the end of a long term and also to farewell our good friends Jade and Arwen. Jade is jetting off with her family to Canada and will have to remember her bear bell and cougar hat! Arwen is off to the coast at Timaru with her family and is looking forward to swimming whatever the weather. Mrs Sweney had a little concert with them before they left to share their awesome playing with us. We then had a massive shared plate for morning tea. No-one ate much of their lunch!! Then it was onto Singstar for a sing-a-long. Mr A and mrs A were battling it out with some help, and Mrs A held onto her Singstar crown.

Dance Off with Room 9

Friday's Library Day

Every Friday we get to go to the library as a class and choose some new books. We have a class set which we can change and everybody has to choose two books, one for them and one for a friend. We have to use the "5 finger rule" when choosing. Anne Marie is always ready to help us, she makes the library bright and cheerful with cool displays and chooses new books for the library. Thanks Anne Marie from Room 13.

Tessellating Shapes

Over the last few weeks we have been working on tessellating shapes. This is where a shape can be repeated and joined together or joined with another shape and it leaves no gaps. Ms Douglas lent us some great connecting shapes and we designed and made a repeating pattern ourselves in coloured paper. Such concentration and careful cutting.

Lewis's Lizard

Last night I found a lizard under some wood on North West Arch Twizel. I called it Lucky, it is about
15 centimetres long. He has a really cool pattern, he has lots of shades of brown. His tail is fully brown, he looks camouflaged. It was really hard to catch him. I googled it, we think it is a skink. Here is a picture showing the different lizards. We looked at TeAra, the encyclopedia of New Zealand and found this chart:

Visit TeAra

Report by Lewis