Next weeks excitement

>On Monday afternoon the Minstrel is coming for a show - we are looking forward to seeing what Hiwi the Kiwi has been up to.

On Wednesday the school cross country is being held.It starts at 0915.Our Year 2 girls are the 2nd event and Year 2 boys are the 4th event. We have been training really hard and we would love you to come and support us on the day.

Hopefully you have all received the notice about our Rocky Shore trip - can you make sure you sign and return them next week?Many thanks :)

Shared Lunch for Adam notice

18 May 2010

Dear Parents and Caregivers,

Tuesday the 1st of June is the last day in Room 6 for Adam. He is traveling to Norway with his family to live for a year. We thought it would be nice to farewell him with a shared lunch. Could you please provide a small plate of food for us to share? Adam is a vegetarian – it would be great if we could respect that on this occasion.

Many thanks and regards
Adi Sutherland and Sandra Morgan
Room 6 Teachers

Room 6 - you have mail!!!

Email from Stella today ..

Hi Adi, Mrs Morgan and Room 6,

I'm having a great time on holiday and I'm really missing you!

Yesterday I went to a wildlife park with my cousins and I fed lots of kangaroos. I saw joeys and they were jumping around. There was one called Peanut and he tried to jump on me! He was trying to hold my hand and he clung onto me. He almost got out of his enclosure!

I saw a little newborn joey called Jasmine. She was little. Then I helod out some grass and she came over to me.

I patted koalas. They are really soft. They sleep for over 20 hours a day!

I saw a parrot that was talking to me and mama. It kept saying hello, hello, hello! We saw a snake and lizards and a wombat. She was a baby and she was only 1 year old. Her name was Nat. She was pretty big for a baby.

I played golf today with my daddy, my uncle James and my nanny and papa.
I was allowed to drive the golf carts! I went really fast. There were lots of kangaroos on the course.

Mama is going to try to work out how to put a photo on the blog for you to see us in Australia.

There is a 4 hour time difference in Perth. That means that when school starts at 9 oclock in the morning for you, I am still in bed because it's only 5 oclock in the morning here!

Im excited to be able to see you again. You can send me emails to mama's address and I will reply.

I miss you,

Lots of love from stella xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Fun Friday

we had a great day today.We had a whole syndicate cross country run - sorted out who our main competition is....was awesome weather for it.The papier mache went well and we are at the drying stage.In choir we learned our new school song for week 6 assembly....check it out here - I am sure most of your parents will know it......

The excitement for the disco tonight was at fever pitch come 3pm.........enjoy and dance your hearts out Room 6 .......

Newsletter oopsie

Stu Duval, storyteller, artist and author will be performing in the hall at 1.30 on Monday for the whole school. (That is Monday 17th, not 24th as stated in the newsletter) The show is free and he will be setting up a bookshop in the library after school to sell and sign books.

today

as part of our Integrated Unit we learned about Pollution in the sea.We discussed the oil rig explosion off the Gulf Of Mexico.We discussed the implications for marine life in the area.We wrote about pollution.Ayden had his writing published in todays newsletter - we are so proud of him.
We looked at the pictures here.We are learning about factors that cause pollution in the sea.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/3692811/BP-execs-under-fire-over-oil-spill
Tomorrow we are going to start making Papier Mache fish.Later in the term we will make sea diorama.If you have a spare shoe box at home can you please send it along?Thanks :)

Folk Dancing with Room 7 at Assembly

REPORT WRITING

At the moment we are leaning to write reports.We know they need a title ,some facts and a summary.Here are some of our reports on whales....

Amazing whales

I know whales are the biggest sea creatures in the world. Whales eat fish. They suck the fish and water into their bristles. They blow the water out of the blowhole. They do not swallow the water, they blow the water out. They do not have teeth. They have bristles. They are baleen. They swim deep.

By Izzy

Whales

Whales are big. They like playing. Whales are blue. Whales have fins.Instead of teeth they have baleen.They are the biggest creature in the world. Wow there is a lot about whales! Whales are so big!

By Annabell

 

Whale facts

There are different sorts of whales. Whales are the biggest creatures in the sea. They live in the deep blue sea. they might have sharp fins. They have baleen not teeth. They suck up fish and water, they get the water out of them but leave the fish inside them. They have holes at the top of them that squirts out water. So that is facts about whales. By Rylee

Whales

Whales are the biggest creature in the world. Some whales are blue. Whales have spouts. Whales have a big tail. Whales have fins. Humpback whales have calves in the Spring. By Zander

                           Whales

Whales have a spout. They have a big body. They are the biggest animal in the world. They have a big tail. They have big fins. By Ayden.

Hello

we are very excited about full school assembly tomorrow .Together with room 7 we will be doing our folk dancing.We have been learning Jibidi and the Birdie Dance to perform at assembly.If you can't make it - don't worry, we have arranged to have it videoed and hope to have it on our blog  pronto.

NZ Post Book Awards Trip

Thank you to everyone who has brought back their permission forms for the trip. If you haven't please bring it back this week.
We are going on the 19th May. We will leave school at 9am.

If you have lost your notice follow this link to get a new one.
http://www.plimmerton.school.nz/files/78eebf45941198da/notice_areas/7/NZ%20Post%20Book%20Awards%20Performance.pdf

It's going to be awesome!