Tuesday 7th May

Kia Ora all


Cross country is on tomorrow. House colours if you can. A warm top definitely, as well as any medication.
Parent helpers: please come on in to class when the bell goes.

Permission: There are still a couple fo outstanding permission forms. Without these students will need to stay at school. The school office sent an email earlier regarding this with further instructions.



This morning we listened to a recording of the reading "Anzac button" from our Anzac Ration Pack.

Here is the link to listen to the recording. 

Once there, scroll down and look for "The Anzac Button". You will get an mp3 download which can then be opened in itunes, or a similar PC media player.


Group 1 did a reading called, 'The Long, Long Night' about World War 2.

For writing we practiced using either a [.], [!] or [?] to end a sentence. We talked about how we can 't see what the writer is feeling, so they use these punctuation parks to show their feelings.

Today we launched our term 2 inquiry -  Science and the living world - animals.
We watched a funny video of 'how animals eat' and then had a discussion about living and non-living things, and gave our explanations as why we consider them to be such.

Some of the things we discussed were: water, chocolate, a giraffe, a chimpanzee, a box, a rock, grass

Here are some pictures of us in group discussion.

 

 

ANZAC CONNECTIONS

Today Grace shared two medals belonging to her grandfather, and Maddison shared an excerpt from her great-grandfather recorded in the book, 'Torpedo. Kiwis at sea in World War 2." It was a letter he wrote about conditions during the war.

Thanks girls. It's great to see you are helping us with a very important meaning of anzac day - Lest We Forget.