Hear the angels...

...well, the angels weren't singing today in Room 10...but we did have a harp playing!  Bridie came and played some Christmas carols for us and we sang along.  We all got to listen and ask questions, then we were allowed to strum the strings.  Harps are amazing - we all learnt something new about them.

Here is Amon and Bridie with her beautiful harp!  Thank you for the amazing music!

Excellent illustrators # 8

Well, Nate took out this weeks' excellent illustrators competition.  He had lots of judges too as Kayla was away so... ALL the previous winners cast their votes and chose him!

This is what we thought:

• his illustration matched the poem
• the car on the screen is "so Nate"!  We thought it was cool that he thought to have something on the computer screen - and not just a blank computer!  It even looks a bit like the 'Create a car' game we like to play...but Nate says it is Craig Lowndes from the V8s :-)
• the details he added - like the correct keys on the keyboard - and the mouse make a really great effort!

Lily!

This is Hanna's new puppy, Lily.  She came to visit us at school today. She wasn't scared of us at all..and she even let us pat her (and she gave a few of us a lick!).  Lily was the name of Hanna's best friend in Germany, so that is a very special way to remember her here in New Zealand.  The puppy is SSSOOOOOOO cute!

Excellent illustrators # 7

Kayla was last week's excellent illustrator!  We liked the way she:

• coloured the monkeys not just one brown colour but a mixture
• made the boat in the water look like it is in the sea
• made the bucket of glue look cool
• coloured the branch really carefully but shaded over the leaves to create a different effect

Well done Kayla!  It is getting tricky to choose...good luck for next week!

Comments please!

We would really love to hear any comments you have about the ‘blog’ we have been trying out over the last 2 terms.  It has been our ‘experiment’ – a way to share what happens at school every day with our families at home.  Maybe you could tell us:

• What you enjoyed reading about?
• If the photos / videos were ‘cool’?
• Is there anything we didn’t share that you would like to have seen?
• Was it helpful having links to games etc that we use at school?
• Do you have any other ideas to help make it better next year?

 Any comments (positive and negative) will be useful for the future!  Thank you.

Either use the 'comments' tool below or email us at: ccsaroha@gmail.com

Hot off the press!

We have a super star in our class!  Asher was in the newspaper this week because he won a competition that everyone in the whole of New Zealand could enter!  That's a pretty amazing achievement!  Here is the article from the paper:

The boys' favourite things 2012! Part 2

• My fav thing was swimming because it's fun and I like swimming.  By Reuben M
• My fav thing was jenga because I like building and I liked it.  By Reuben H
• My fav thing was math becuse it is fun and I learnt a lot.  By Bailey
• My fav thing was maths because at maths I learnt my doubles.  By Vernon
• My fav thing was art because it is fun.  By Ben P
• My fav thing was art because it is fun.  By Asher