Assembly Aces

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Fire Display

On Wednesday we had a pretend fire in room 13.

Some of our students got to dress up like firemen and rode in the fire engine with the real firemen.

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Our finished masterpieces

We have completed our paintings










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What was your favorite part of your painting?

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Persistence of memory

Wow... It is SO quiet in our room this afternoon!

We are all busy concentrating on creating our masterpieces.
















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Surrealism - Salvador Dali

Today we started looking at Salvador Dali - A surrealism artist.  Surrealism is described as bizarre, unusual and dreamlike pictures or paintings.

Here is a video that explains surrealism and some of Salvador Dali's artwork




Salvador Dali has given the writer/illustrator Anthony Browne ideas to use in his pictures.  We are having a good look at his books and his illustrations as well.

What unexpected things can you see in this picture by Anthony Browne?

We are going to make our own pictures like Salvador Dali's painting - The Persistence of Memory - to help us with learning about time.

Mihi Weaving & Aurasma

At the end of last term we completed our Mihi weavings.





Then I took a video of each child saying their Mihi and used an iPad app called Aurasma to create an augmented reality of their weaving. If you open the app and put it over their weaving a video comes up showing them saying their Mihi. VERY COOL!

Please come in and check out our Aurasma weavings.

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Caversham Wildlife Park

Today we went to the Caversham Wildlife Park.  I held a snake with my cousins and I fed the kangaroos.  I even got to see a joey come out of the mother kangaroo.  I stroked a koala - it felt really soft.  And a wombat.  I saw an eagle too.  My favourite part was the wombat show.

Hope it stops raining in Ashburton soon.

from Drew

Happy Holidays

Mrs Moore and I would like to say thank you for a great first term. We have enjoyed our term and so happy with the progress you are all making with reading, writing and maths. Make sure you keep practising those skills over the holidays!

What exciting things are you doing these holidays? Leave us a comment and tell us what you are doing.

See you next term

Mrs Aberhart

Drew's holiday in Perth, Australia

Hi Everyone

I hope you're having fun at school.  I've been having a cool holiday in Australia.  It was SO HOT when we got here!  The plane ride was long, and took 7 hours, but I had fun watching movies and playing games.  We've been staying with my cousins in Perth. Lucas is 10 and Georgia is 8.  They took us to Adventure World which was really really fun.  I went on the roller coaster, free-fall, the pirate ship, bumper boats, race cars, and the cup rides.  There was also a water park.  We went to the beach and I fell over 3 times in the big big waves.  We've been kayaking on the Canning river, and ski-biscuiting, and I saw a dolphin.  Our cousins have a dog called Molly and she's a Kelpie (a real Australian dog).  Today we went to Fremantle and played at the beach with our other cousins.  Tomorrow we're going to the animal park.  We fly home on Saturday night and we get back to New Zealand at 5am on Sunday morning - we'll be tired!  

Have a good holidays.  We'll see you soon.

from Drew.

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Mihi Weaving

Yesterday some wonderful parents helped us with the mammoth task of weaving our Mihis. Thank you for the help. We are very proud of our efforts.make sure you come into the classroom to see the finished results.















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Easter Egg Hunt

Sport with Mark

Today we met Mark. He is going to be taking us for sport next term.

Here are some of the things we did.

Toilet Tag

Traffic Lights

Ball game

What was your favourite part?

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Writing

It was a hot sunny day and I turned on the hose and I squirted my mum and I squirted my dad. I ran away. "Naughty boy," said mum. I laughed.

By Charlie

On a sunny day I played with my friends. We played in the wet water. It was cold. It makes me freeze.

By Tea


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New Kitten

Jasmin has a new kitten called Mocha - isn't he cute.



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T-Ball Final