Cute.......

Cute baby girl giraffe born at Orana Park today

The Christchurch Star ,Moon Landing Souvenir from 1969

Phases of the moon - oreo cookie style !

Last Wednesday we made the phases of the moon out of Oreo cookies.
The moon has 8 phases, - new moon, waxing crescent moon, first quarter moon, waxing gibbous moon, full moon, waning gibbous moon, last quarter, waning crescent moon.

To make Oreo moons we had to twist the cookies so they came apart into 2 pieces , then we looked carefully at the diagrams and used spoons and knives to scrape away the cream / icing.
we put them in order on the paper plates and labeled the moons. 
Then Maia took a photo of our work then............we ate all the moons!!! - yum





Oreo moons on PhotoPeach

Eclipse

Today we were extremely lucky to be able to watch some parts of the eclipse. Luckily we had special glasses so our eyes wouldn't get damaged.
It was awesome because it changed to different shades of colours - red, yellow, orange.
Have a look at this link to some amazing photos.

Eclipse

Willowbank Cultural Experience....3

Willowbank Cultural Experience ....2

Willowbank cultural experience ...1

Animals at Willowbank

Willowbank trip

Today our whole team went to Willowbank. We had an awesome time looking at all the animals and then participating in the Maori cultural experience.
Thank you to all our parent helps. 
Photos and videos coming soon.....

Interesting news from Taffy

Year 4's made this amazing video

The story of Persephone - retold by Room 19 - part 1

listen to ‘The story of Persephone - retold by Room 19 - part 1’ on Audioboo

Persephone - part 2

listen to ‘Persephone - part 2’ on Audioboo

Persephone - part 3

listen to ‘Persephone - part 3’ on Audioboo

4.09.2010

Two years ago today our lives changed when a 7.2 earthquake hit Canterbury. 

Two years ago some of our school was red stickered and we  moved our whole school down the road to Halswell Residential School. We "camped" there for awhile, in classrooms, hallways, lounges and kitchens. After many weeks the year 1-4 children came back to Halswell School and our year 5-8 children were split between Hillmorton High and Manning Intermediate Schools.
8 of our classrooms were demolished, our staffroom, admin area demolished and all our playgrounds were badly cracked. Our school hall was badly damaged - we still cant use it :( Halswell School looks very different now.

Over the two years our lives have changed - friends and families have left Christchurch, our houses have been demolished, repaired or still waiting....Parents jobs have gone, changed and many have had to move their businesses. Hundreds of buildings have been demolished, we still cant get into some of the CBD. It is now normal to drive a different way to work/ school each day as the road works change.
Sadly, many Children in Room 19 cant actually remember what Christchurch looked like before 4.9.2010 or what our school looked like - must admit I have difficulty remembering as well.

BUT -

•  we appreciate the small things 
•  our priorities have changed in many different ways
•  our friends and families are more precious to us
•  we can access geonet lightening fast!!! 
•  we can accurately guess the magnitude and direction of an quake!!

 and even after over 10,000 quakes, you children still come to school everyday smiling :)

Kia Kaha Christchurch

 

Jet Boat Experiments

Sailing On Land experiment

Molly's Greece work

I made this HUGE poster about Ancient Greece.

Fabulous job Molly :)

Some interesting facts about Ancient Greece

Ancient Greece.

On Friday morning the children from Rooms 18, 19 and 20 experienced what life was like for children in Ancient Greece.
The children were split into 3 groups - 
Boys- who went to school.
Girls - who had to learn how to cook, sew and look after a house.
Slaves- boys and girls doing jobs for everyone.

Slaves cleaning

Boys at school...not a fun way to learn!

Girls happily learning how to sew

Slaves washing feet!!!!

Interesting comments came for the experience....not all positive about how the Greek children lived. Always good to find out about others.  Video comments from the children coming soon.