A+ Celebrity Spotlight

This week our A+ Celebrity Spotlight was on James, Zoe and Ellie.

Paper Cranes

Over the last three weeks, Karen has been reading us the story Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr. This week I tried making some of my own paper cranes.

Phone a Friend Peformance

On Friday 27 April we went across to a performance called Phone a Friend. The performers were really funny because they acted crazy. The story was about a high school boy who was being bullied by people texting him. The boy had an old phone that was really big (too big to put in your pocket) but in the end the phone helped him to solve his problem.

Anzac Day at Springston

Anzac Day

Today and tomorrow we are looking at why we have a holiday on Anzac Day. I hope the children will be able to share what they are learning with you at home.

Carol sent us this link to a blog today that you might find it interesting to have a look at the video
Least we Forget by Rachel Boyd


This is a link you can hear the Last Post which the music that will be played at the Dawn Service


Here is a copy of the poem "In Flanders Fields" by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae on May 3 1915.

Homework for this week is to choose one of these activities

1. Make Anzac biscuits
2. Attend an Anzac service
3. Cut out a newspaper article about Anzac Day - highlight the when, where, who, why or how
4. Investigate another war that NZ has sent troops 

Time is Running Out

This term our theme about time continues and we are looking at Time Running Out.

What or Who could be running out time?

My PicLits Poem

Here is a poem I made using the Pic Lits Web site. You will find the link on the Word Power Page.

Try making your own poem to share with us.

Holiday

Hey Room 5 - I hope everyone's holiday has gone well and you are looking forward to coming back to school on Monday.
I went to the top of the North Island for my holiday and visited Cape Reinga.
Can you find it on a map?

I also had to take a picture of this boat  - it has a very interesting name.
I think I might need to add it to my Bucket List!

I am looking forward to hearing about your holiday. Email me a holiday picture so we can share your holiday on the blog

Libby's Slideshow

I made a slideshow to present the ideas I found out about people's treasures.

What do people treasure?

We asked lots of people, children and adults about what things they treasure and with this information we created a wordle.

Claudia's Memory Poem

Ellie's Family

I interviewed my mum and nanna about what was the happiest memory they have ever had.

James Interviews his Grandmother in England

Treasures

Hypertufa Making

This term we made  hypertufa to represent natural stone for our craft activity.

We used equal parts of
peat, sand, perlite, cement and water
to make our Hypertufa.

It was very messy putting the mix into the moulds. We then planted our pots out after they had cured for a number of days



The pots and pavers will improve over time - like all good things!