Monday, May 31, 2010

Mrs Cowan's Farewell

We had a farewell assembly for Mrs Cowan last week.The place doesn't seem the same without her!

Monday, May 24, 2010

Papier Mache

Papier Mache Masks- Building up from a paper plate base.

Self Portraits

Friday, May 21, 2010

The Wonkey Donkey!


The other day when we visited Tawa Library, we heard the story of the Wonkey Donkey. This picture book has won the Children's Choice Award for the NZ Post Children's Book Awards. Here is the author Craig Smith, with his musical version of the Wonkey Donkey

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Some Special Visitors!




Eugene gt a couple of turtles for his birthday last week. Today they came to Room 5 for the morning!

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Monday, May 10, 2010

Sir Peter Blake

From 25 June-2 July the Peter Blake Trust is promoting 'Leadership Week' across the country. As part of this we will be part of a Red Socks Day on Friday 2 July.
Who was Sir Peter Blake? Find something out about him and post a note on our wall.

Friday, May 7, 2010

Cross-country training

We have been having a lot of variety in our preparation for the school cross-country. Beep tests, hill training, fast/slow speed work, hill training, extended course work, hill training, distance work, oh, and did I mention hill training!
Today we worked on the field in a circuit. All this training is paying off!

Thursday, May 6, 2010



We've been busy training for the school cross-country next Tuesday. Here is a link to "Map My Run" A site where you can mark out your training run and measure how far you've run!

Look up your starting location by entering it into the QUICK START box in the left-hand column and press or click Enter.

Once your address is found, take your mouse and start clicking on the map following your route. You'll see that the ROUTE INFO box will automatically update the total distance of your route as you go.

If you make a mistake, click the Undo button in the DRAW IT toolbar on the upper right-hand side of your map to undo the last point.

To start again and clear the whole map, click the Clear All button.

Blending Colours

We've been experimenting with paint, trying to get colours to flow into each other....