April Fools Day jokes!

Lots of people at school got into the spirit of April Fool's Day today...EVEN the teachers.

Mrs Latimer pretended to leave her room for an important phonecall.A mystery reliever arrived to take over the class. She seemed very old and grumpy....but very familiar looking?Mmmmmmm?

It was just Mrs L dressed up in a wig and glasses!

Room 5 though it was hilarious and couldn't stop laughing and shouting.

Mrs L then loaned her costume to Miss R and she tried to do the same thing to Room 7 but they weren't fooled at all!

Some people played some nasty tricks on their family before they came to school this morning - one person said that they put salt in a cup of tea instead of sugar-YUK, the poor mum!

Angus fooled a lot of his classmates too this morning. Here he is explaining in the video what he did to everyone. We will have to think of a way to get Angus back now won't we!

(Watch out Angus, you never know what might happen!)

Isaac's holiday

This term we are experimenting with video footage and we are filming each other during oral language time.

This is Issac sharing his special Easter weekend news with the class. Isaac is going to bring some photos along to share with us of his trip. We googled Franz Josef Glacier on the computer and put it up on the large screen so we have an idea of what it looks like now. (The new data projector is fantastic!)

Isaac did a great job of explaining to us what a glacier actually is. Thanks Isaac!

Dagmar visits Rm7

This is Dagmar, she is a music teacher in Austria. She is visiting our school this week and came in to meet Room 7. We asked her lots of questions about life in Austria and she showed us on a map where Austria is. We found out that she has to drive 5 hours to get to a beach as Austria is land-locked, that mean sit is surrounded by land and does not have a coastline. It does have lots of rivers and lakes though. In Austria the children start school at 8am! They have 2 terms at school and they have 9 weeks holiday during the summer - imagine that!

Here is Ellen holding up a 20 Euro note. We passed it around and compared it to our money. Dagmar told us that $20= 12 euro approx.

Lost Property Box

It was our turn to present an item at assembly. This weeks school focus was "Use put ups - NOT put downs". We talked how important it is to say positive things to people to make them feel good about themselves rather than hurt their feelings.

We also sang Lost Property Box which was a lot of fun - Ashlie hid inside the box under all the clothes and them jumped out at the end!

It is great having assemblies outside in the fresh air now. We hope the weather stays warm for a few more weeks.

Weetbix Tryathlon

Here is Isaac and Angus with their gold medals!

On Sunday Isaac and I got up at 7.30am and raced over to Nelson for the weetbix tryathlon. We did a team race with Mac. Hamish Carter was at the tryathon too but he wasn't competing. Thousands of children from all around Nelson and tasman took part which is fantastic.

We each got a gold medal for taking part and we got a cool t-shirt too.

Munch and Crunch

Yesterday we had a visitor to our school who came along to talk to us about healthy food. She taught us that fruit and vegetables are very important and we need to eat them everyday as part of a balanced diet. She told us a story called "munch and crunch" and she dressed up in a costume.

World Maths Day

Here is Sam B and Bailey working on the laptop during Mathletics. Wednesday 5th March is World Maths Day and we all got special usernames and passwords to use. We have been racing people from all over the world . This programme is great for improving our basic facts knowledge and makes us faster at recalling sums.

A special delivery for Macey

It was Macey's birthday on the 3rd March. Her mum sent her a bunch of roses to school for her as a special birthday surprise!
They look and smell beautiful!! You are very lucky Macey.

Feet First

This week has been Walk to School Week. A walking schoolbus has been leaving from the Rec Centre everyday at 8.30am. Some people have won spot prizes and everyday our bus has got longer and longer! On Wednesday we had 84 children on our schoolbus.
It is a great way to get fit- some people come to school in the car even though they live close to school!

It was nice to see the seniors getting involved as well and setting a good example - meet our busdrivers Lucy and Sophie!

Moonhoppers

Here is Lyric, Macey and Sam H playing on the new moonhoppers at school. Miss R bought lots of new equipment for us to play with at lunchtimes including frisbees, softball gear and new basketballs.