Nim's Island

We are reading the novel Nim's Island by Wendy Orr in class. We are also watching the movie starring Abigail Breslin and Jodie Foster. We have been making slideshows about sea lions and iguanas. We are spotting differences between the book and the film. We have learnt about acting from Abigail. We drew Nim's Island by following a dictation of instructions from Ms K. We also imagined that we were Nim's Dad, who is shipwrecked, and wrote a letter from him to her.

Shrek the Sheep

Shrek was a very old sheep. He was famous. He was found in 2004 and had a lot of wool. It was sad for New Zealand to see Shrek die last week. He is being kept in a freezer because they do not know where to bury him. By Romana

Shrek was a very famous sheep. Sadly he died because he was over a hundred years old in sheep years. John Perriman found him in a cave.  By Harold

Shrek was a very old sheep. He escaped from his station and he was found on a mountain in a cave. Sadly, he died because he was old. He was famous in New Zealand.   By Thaleisha

Snow's visit to LZ4

Today when I went to school I saw a guinea pig from Miss Baker's class and I was impressed. I wanted to touch it and Ms Koltonowska let me touch it. She also let the other girls touch it. Then for a while, Ms Koltonowska said it was time to sit on the mat to hold it and to give it a little scratch. When it was my turn, I held it in a towel and I started to feel a bit braver so Ms Koltonowska took off the towel.   By Tanisha


Today, we got to hold a guinea pig. First Miss Baker brought the guinea pig. When she was finished with it, we got to have a stroke. The guinea pig's name was Snow. He was an albino. That means he had no colour. He was just white with red eyes. I felt excited. We had to hold him inside a towel. I was excited to see a guinea pig inside our class.    By Romana


Today Miss Baker brought Snow to school so we could look at him. He felt like a teddybear. He looked like snow on a hill. His eyes were red like apples and his fur looked like snow.   By Kawiti

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.

SPCA

Today we had a talk from the SPCA: the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. We learnt about the five main things our pets need: water and food, shelter, love, vet care and exercise. We watched Suzy's World and learnt that their is only one SPCA centre in Auckland and it deals with 15, 000 pets a year! They have all types of animals from cats and dogs, to sheep and horses. We had a chance to stroke a rat. We donated some cans of food to say thank you for coming to talk to us.

Max is my pet dog. He is a Maori Cook Islander. Max has four legs and has a wet nose and black eyes. On cold nights he goes to my bed and sleeps. By Romana

Milo is my pet rabbit. He looks a kind of chocolate colour. He has brown creepy eyes and freaky invisible whiskers. He lives in a little rabbit house outside. He has four legs and a bushy tail. He loves me and I love him. By Connor

Ella is my cat and she has four legs and whiskers. She sleeps on my bed when I sleep. She kisses me. After that she goes outside then my Dad gets my cat. By Lorraine