Greek Shield

John emailed this to me - I think he has done a fantastic job and he is definitely getting ready for our Greek Day.

This is the Greek shield that I made with Dad and painted with Mum.

I made the shape myself. I drew the pattern onto a piece of paper and then cut it out and stuck it onto the wood and drew around it. Then I used Dad's jigsaw to cut it out. For the handle, I cut blocks of wood and used a bit and brace to make holes in the blocks for the poles to go through and then screwed the handle onto the shield.

Then Dad painted it black for me.

I found a design I liked in a Greek warrior book, I pencilled the design onto the shield, and Mum helped me paint it on.

I'm really proud of it.

A+ Celebrity Spotlight

Congratulations to this weeks celebrities

Mathletics Awards

Congratulations to Ineka, Ellie, Sevao and Te Hawiki for earning their Silver Certificates in Mathletics. Keep up the great work.

Maths Week

Last week we put together some maths images from around the school to practice different ways we could put movies together. We found this lots of fun and we will be trying to make other movies over the next few weeks.

Black Gold

Heather's Homework

I had to design a shield or make a helmet. I enjoyed making the helmet.

Mya's Bush Picture

Here is mya finishing her pastal work

Book Group

This term we have been reading the novel 2MUCH4U as a group. This is what we found out and liked about the book.

Joshua's Homework

Joshua was very busy this week practicing his paper folding. Have a look at what he made.

Pastel Art

Ellie's Homework

For homework for this week I made a Greek Shield

Book Review

For our novel study my group read Fat Four-Eyed and Useless by David Hill. 

Zarah's Calender Art

At the moment we are busy designing our calendars. 

Sam's Maths Problem

Zoe has $100 to spend on books.
She spends $73 on 5 books.
How much money does she have left?

Our Olympic Devonshire Tea

Today Letesha, Liz and Karen helped us make scones and tea for our Olympic celebration. Here is how we did it.

Olympic Devonshire Tea on PhotoPeach

Maths

Thursday's Problem
There is a total of 16 chickens and rabbits in a farm.
The total number of legs (chickens and rabbits) is equal to 50.
How many chickens and how many rabbits are there? (hint: use a table)


Try to work out the problem for today at home and let me know tomorrow if you can solve it.

Postcard from Zoe

Today we received a post card from Zoe. She has been to visit the Grand Canyon she told us it 6,000 feet deep. We thought it would take a long time to reach the bottom.

We wanted to say thanks for sending us the postcard and we hope she is having a good time. We thought we would try a quick movie and hope she is looking at the blog.

Writing

On Monday we were writing about how the sheep must be feeling out in the rain! Especially the rain that hasn't stopped.
Zayden went home and did some more writing.

Photo by j_wijnands'

Its been raining for the past 2 days now. I am soaking wet from the raindrops and it is making me shiver.  I am going to huddle together with my friends to keep warm.  Look! Here comes the manager, we are getting shifted to shelter.  We are much warmer now which is good because it is nearly dark.

Math

Well done Heather and Sam for getting your answers in for the first math problems.

Wednesday's Problems
John had $100 to buy drinks and sandwiches for his birthday party. He bought 5 small boxes of drinks at $4 each box and 8 packs of sandwiches at $6 each box. How much money was after the shopping?

Here is another problem to try on your parents.

Math

Did you put your entry in for yesterday's problem?

Tuesday's Problem

Mr Boss runs 6 kilometres everyday from Monday to Friday. He also runs 12 kilometres a day on Saturday and Sunday. How many kilometres does Mr Bill run a week?

We tried these two problems (from Cool Math 4 Kids) in class today. Test your parents and see if they can do them.

Don't forget to try the daily challenges and earn lots of dollars on the Maths Week Website.

Maths Week

This week is Maths Week. Use our Maths Links to go to the Maths Week Website and try some fun maths activities.

I will also put up a problem each day. Write down answer and post it in the mail box before the end of the day. Prize for most correct answers at the end of the week.

Monday's Problem
The rectangle on the left and the square on the right have the same perimetre.
What is the length of one side of the square?

Olympic Opening

On Friday last week the Senior school took part in their own Olympic opening. Alice T official opened the ceremony and Alice M was our torch bearer.
Springston Olympic Opening on PhotoPeach

A+ Celebrity Spotlight

Sam's Dog Hero Story and Rocket Comic

Sam has been very busy crafting for homework.

Dog Hero and the Crazy Parrot

One day Dog Hero was walking in his garden and he saw a mean boy snatch some bread from a crazy parrot. So the parrot nipped him.
The boy began to grow into a dragon. It ate everything in sight. It ate and drank. The police came, and it ate them up.
Then Dog Hero came with an Avro Lancaster and bombed him. The dragon exploded and where the dragon was there stood the boy and he was a nice boy.
Hooray for Dog Hero.

My Rocket Comic

Ellie's Homework

Dear Lauren Boyle

I woke up one morning excited to know that you were in the finals for swimming.  It was important to eat my breakfast fast as Mum wouldn’t let me turn on the TV till I was ready for school.  This meant the chickens had to be done, my hair had to be done, all before 7.07 am.  

Finally I could turn on the TV and there you were coming out in your grey tracksuit with the New Zealand fern standing out for everyone to see.  I can’t imagine how nervous you were because I was feeling nervous for you.  Suddenly the starter went bang, off you dived.  Mum kept on asking me what lane is the New Zealand girl in.  I was getting fed up with Mum because I had to keep telling her lane 6, lane 6.  I was so proud that you got into the final and tried you best.  GO NEW ZEALAND, GO!

From

Ellie