Money Maths

Well done to Andre who found out who is on all the notes of the new zealand currency. Today we had to solve sums involving how to add money together. It is hard to remember to put the dollar sign in front and the decimal place. We found that there are not many places on the web to find out about NZ money, so if you know of any please could you post a link in the comments. We tried www.sorted.org but it was a bit hard.

Andre's Polar Bear Poem

Progress!!

Congratulations to our readers who have made the most progress this term in moving up the reading colours for the PM Benchmark test. Andre is now ready for the Probe test!

Professor Flumf the Great Explorer

We have been reading a book about Professor Flumf, a famous explorer who finds treasure on an island. He is a bit forgetful and leaves his suitcase at the airport, his compass in his sailboat and his camera on the plane. He recieved a letter from a Pharoah inviting him to visit the pyramids of Giza. We wrote a reply pretending that we were Professor Flumf.

The Big Paris Hotel,
Room 105,
Paris

30th August 2011

Dear Pharoah,
Thank you for the invitation and ticket to Egypt. Please bring a friendly camel who won't spit on me when I get there. But where is the pyramid? I will be happy to tell you about France and Thailand.
From Professor Flumf AKA Andre

Dear Pharoah,
Thank you for the invitation. I am happy to tell you about France and Thailand. Are there some mummies in Egypt? I have got a ticket and will be coming next Sunday. Please bring a nice camel that doesn't spit to the airport.
Love from Professor Flumf AKA Harman

Howick Historical Village recounts...

At school we came in and packed our bags and the bus came. Then we climbed on to it and we drove to Howick Historical Village. Only the people who are 6 and 7 could go. We played with wooden horses, stick, bowling and stilts. We explored the village. We saw tents, shops and wooden things. There were old places. We made butter with Mrs Pots. We ate butter with crackers.  By Andre


Yesterday LZ4, LZ1, LZ6 and LZ5 went to the Howick Historical Village. First LZ4 and LZ1 went to make butter. We saw how Mrs Pots made the butter. First there was cream inside the glass and we sang a song, but on cold days the cream takes a long time to turn into butter.      By Amisha


On Tuesday 2011, the Yr 2s went to the Howick Historical Village. It was old, cold, different and fragile. It was cold and damp. My favourite past was when Mrs Hill taught us some outside games like bowling, wooden horses, triple sticks, stilts and skipping. To me, the bowling was the super best. We all had exciting things to do, like different things than now. By Connor

Excellence Award Week 1

Congratulations to Andre! He was awarded the excellence certificate for a huge improvement in remaining on task and completing all his learning in a focused manner.

Chinese Dragons

The dragons have spikes and scales of a snake and cat whiskers. They have the legs of a tiger and claws of an eagle. They are sharp. They can fly in the sky and they can swim. They live on land. By Harshil


In Chine there are special dragons who are the guardians of China. Each dragon lives and guards stuff in China. There are metal dragons who protect jewellery. Next water dragons live in the water and protect China's sea monsters. Fire dragons protect fires and blow the fires out to keep China safe.  By Andre

The Taniwha

For the last three weeks of this term we have chosen to learn about dragons. This week we are learning about Taniwha. Watch this space for our fantastic art on Friday and a video of us singing 'One Day a Taniwha' with actions.

A taniwha is a Maori monster and it is a Maori legend. It is big and it has a lot of Maori patterns and scales on its body. It lives in the water or a swamp or on an island or in a cave. Some are good and protect the island and some are bad and eat people. By Andre

A taniwha looks like a snake. It is a maori monster. It has big and sharp teeth. It lives in the sea or in the cave.  By Xuan

A taniwha is a Maori guardian monster. A taniwha lives in a lake. Some taniwha protect people, some taniwha want to eat people. By Liang

A good friend

Using our imaginations...

Today it rained. It rained all day. We were cooped up inside ALL day! Our teacher took out the dressing-up clothes for the first time this year and we went wild. It was so much fun dressing up, playing princesses and cops and robbers. We had time to use our imaginations to role play different scenarios. We laughed so hard we thought our sides would split.

The holidays

Today we wrote a recount of our buddies holidays. We had to remember to write in the third person.

During the holidays Tanisha went to the pools. She went with her brother and her Mum. Then she went out of the pool and jumped into her teacher's arms. By Thaleisha

Connor is my buddy. He went to Queenstown and threw a snowball at his Dad. He went one more time to have fun and make a snowman. Then he went home and had pizza. By Andre

During the holiday Xuan went to her Aunty's house. They ate porridge and some tomato with eggs. She got her nails painted, She was happy and then she went home. By Michelle

Facts about Ants

 We watched a few documentaries about ants and weaver ants. We also read non-fiction books about ants. After this our teacher asked us what we could remember or already knew about this social creature.

We then did some research on the Internet to find new facts. We had to remember the new information and share it with the class. We are now ant experts so feel free to ask us any questions you may have.