Our Assembly take two!

Our chance to share with our families and school what we have been learning.

Spelling Activities

Here are some activities to consolidate your spelling and phonics. Leave a comment on which activity you like the best and why.

This will tell me what activities you prefer so we can keep them and use them in our phonics/spelling programme : )

All entries receive a Dojo point!

abcya! - how many words can you spell?

kitty hop - an addictive game, can you bet the other players?

We did it!

Finally after 4 weeks of making paper origami cranes we have reached our goal of 1,000 cranes.  It has been a busy time as we tried to steal any time we could making cranes, we even made them during our break times and Mrs P made some while Bruce was driving.

We begun the paper crane journey for Peace Week. We read Sadako's story about how the bombing in Hiroshima left many families sick even years after the tragedy.  Sadako was 2 when the bomb was dropped but she didn't get leukaemia until she was 12.  In hospital a nurse shared a story if she made 1000 paper cranes her wish to get better would become true, but unfortunately Sadako only made 648 before she passed away.

Our buddy class LC 17 helped us make cranes, but it was tricky even watching Youtube.  Some of our buddies quickly learnt how to make them and became experts.  At first we were very slow and Mrs P even needed help from the buddies. But with practice and patience we succeeded! And boy did we feel proud.

Ms Cider's daughter will be visiting Hiroshima as part of her culture exchange, where she will hang our cranes up on the Children's Peace Memorial.

Lucy's Mum visited Hiroshima before Lucy was born and took these photos. 

Cranes draped over a statue to the entrance of the Memorial Park.

Huts that have been made to house the thousands of cranes sent in from around the world

Peace Week on PhotoPeach

Ewwwwww

Our experiment of seeing which bread would keep longer has resulted in a quote from Liam..."The room is smelling of stinky socks!" It was the perfect time to photograph our evidence.

What can you see?
Here are some of our thoughts...

There is no wonder they call it mouldy bread. Because its an old, it is a bigger loaf and it is made from different materials  Brody

I think the olden day bread got mouldier quicker because it doesn't have the same ingredients in it as the bread now days Yoris  

  

I think that it has mould on it because it has been inside the bag for a long time Leila 

Yesterday there was some bread and it was really mouldy and every one smelled it and it smelt yuck Dallas

No wonder it is called mouldy bread

I think our mouldy bread is mouldier because it stayed in the plastic bag for longer Sophie

For Interchange this week Room 10 made Maori bread. We waited for 18 days. It was a long time but finally it started to grow mould Thomas 

I  think the mouldy bread  is called Maori bread because it'sbeen in the plastic  bag  too long and it can probably grow mould with no air in the bag Jennifer

I think the Maori bread went mouldy because air could not go through the bag Lilly

  

Some of us wondered who put strawberry jam on the bread!

This is Bruce's bread after 18 days of incubation.  

This is our Maori bread after 16 days of incubation

On Monday LC10 made Maori bread. Then we hung up bread it took 2 or 3 day then we waited for about 20 days then we looked at it. It was all mouldy. It smelt worse than our Dads socks. There was red mould on the Maori bread. The Maori bread was mouldier than the normal                                                           bread.  

Filling our buckets!

After a weekend of picking some beautiful daffodils with Ms Crosby from Hadstock farm, our classroom was bright and cheery.  Our buddy class told us about Filling each others buckets, so we thought it would be a great way to fill the teachers and staff's buckets.  Here are some of the compliments we received...

Mrs Coster said "thank you"

Mrs Busch said "you're nicer than James"

Jayden said "ladies before boys"

Ms McKenndry said politely "thank you very much and I'll put them somewhere in the classroom"

Mr T said "thank you I will have those"

Mrs Moake said quietly "thanks for the beautiful flowers"

Ms Crosby said "thanks, I'll put them with the rest of my flowers"

Ms O B said "thank you, you are a star"

Ms Cider said "thanks for the flowers"

Mrs McKee said "you're the Hulk"

Mrs Busch said "could you please go and get a jar for Mrs Bromley so her flowers don't die"

Mrs Mac said "you have made our day"

Mrs Thompson said "are those for us?" "You can have one of Mrs Armstrong's flowers"

Mrs Hyde said "well thank you very much"

Mr D said "how could we fill Mrs P's bucket?" Mr D gave LC 10 a sheet of stickers.


We also learnt that it doesn't cost a thing to make people smile :-)

Leila felt happy filling Mrs Coster's bucket!
James felt grateful because we all gave teachers and staff flowers
Tayla felt good inside because we were giving the flowers away
Brody great because giving out flowers makes me happy!

LC10's Cricket Lessons

Buddy time!

Today for buddy time we were blogging buddies.  Mrs Busch told us about a book she shared with her class called Have you filled your bucket today? What does a bucket filler mean? How do you fill your bucket?  Some of our buddies used a google doc and wrote about how we could be bucket fillers...

Other buddies wrote their own stories and will continue to work on these stories through the week.  

Turkey Fractions

Here is a online activity to help practice your fractions.  How many turkeys can you hit?
Turkey Fractions

Hunter's playhouse

On Monday, Hunter shared this newspaper article about the Monopoly house his parents designed and built as part of the Christchurch city gap filler projects.  Hunter now has his very own hut to play in.