Marvellous Martha!

We have an incredible artist in our class...Martha!  She entered a competition for Newspapers In Education and won!  Her prize was a beautiful book and a certificate.  Here is a photo of Martha with her prize and Lily holding the newspaper with Martha's amazing collage picture in it (it is the one in the middle of the page).

Well done, Martha!

Special visitor!

Mosese had a special visitor...at his house!  It was Ngani Laumape from the NZ Warriors rugby league team.  Ngani knows Mosese's aunty.  Mosese had a white cap and Ngani signed it.  Awesome!

You look so happy, Mosese!

Mixed up stories..yahoo!

Joel W and some friends were making mixed up stories in reading today.  Here is the one he shared with us:

Then we got to thinking...
We have been learning about making our stories better ALL YEAR!  Could we change the mixed up story to make it even better?  We decided to have a go! 

Here is the first 'new' story:

Overrated R2-D2 the unit droid
bathed in the squishy gooey mud
and fell instantly in love and ended up kissing
a fierce fiery dragon.

Here is the second one:

Shocking R2-D2 the unit droid
dived in the squishy gooey mud
and instantly fell in love with
a fierce fiery dragon.

We only changed a few words but we liked these stories better!

Athletes in Action!

We are having a lot of fun at the moment practising for athletics.  We go out twice a week and work through the 6 events that we will have to do on Athletics Day.  Here are a couple of super athletes in action!

Caragh and Namitha showing great style on the high jump.

Joshua's awesome gift

Joshua is in the team that won the Division 5 trophy in hockey this year.  He came to school last week with something special to show us.  Here is his story:

Sarah Naylor works with my Dad at the Eye Clinic.  He told her about my hockey team and that we won the Division 5 trophy this year.  She has a daughter who plays for the New Zealand Hockey "Black Sticks" - EMILY NAYLOR!!
Sarah said to my Dad that she would get her daughter to sign a small t-shirt and give it to me as a gift.

Here is a photo of Joshua and his very special t-shirt:

Awesome Joshua!  Maybe one day you could play hockey for New Zealand too!!

Super Spring Art!

We had the lovely Mrs Ayers teaching in Room 10 the other week.  One of the activities we did with her was some Spring art.  We used paint and pastels to make the pictures then cut out a black shape for the tree.  We also added a sun made out of orange and yellow paper.  Lastly we scrunched up some tissue paper to make the blossoms on the tree.  Here are a couple of our pictures:

God is our Redeemer

What have begun the term thinking about our new theme - God is our Redeemer.  Here are our first thoughts about what that means!