Weekly round up

By Nivae, Jack and Maddie.
Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. This week we have been doing-

• swimming every day
• we did a story about what we saw when we suddenly turned around
• we had some V8 cars come to our school. We got posters and a colouring competition. Me Topham is going to be racing in one of the cars!!! How do you think he will go?
• we hit 30, 000 on our blog
• South Learning Centre came to work with us
• our jump jammers are in a competition tomorrow - good luck!!!
• we found out today we are the runners up in the Interface Magazine Best Class Blog Competition.

Week four

This week we have done...

• buddies - played hop scotch
• changed desks
• went to the library
• found out some things about the moon
• we found out about our movie awards
• did some of our Andy Worhol art work
• The Art Gallery lady came out to take us for a lesson - we drew some native birds 
• we had music and sang some Mary Poppins songs.
• we skyped our buddies in Melbourne, Australia

From Molly and Ella

Week 2 and 3 round up

This week

• We went to Willowbank with our whole team? We looked at animals and did the Maori experience there
• we did athletics
• Today we had buddies
• Today we wrote poems about animals we saw at Willowbank
• Ad work - made adds about a Rob-tidier and a Jet Propelled Air Pack
• Wrote to our quad blogging buddies
• Did more on our Andy Warhol art work
• Started reading a book in the "Magic Tree House " series
• Had a school assembly outside
• ..........

By Molly and Gemma

Week One Round Up

Last week it was the first week of term 4. We did some measuring with meter rulers outside. We did some ad work, we looked at ads ( size, colour, font, information, products) and in groups we made an ad about a duvet that told stories.It was our turn to comment on our blog buddies blog in Wales. We did sports on Thursday and did the high jump. Also we went to the library.
Charlotte and Rose

This term so far-

We have been so busy this term we haven't had time to do our weekly round ups.

1. We read a great book called The Tunnel " by Anthony Browne and did some interesting activities.
2. We started a unit on Ancient Greece. We did a sort of play -  some boys went to school, some girls had to cook and clean and sew and the others were slaves. They had to make us desert, wash feet, help others and clean up around the school.
3. We have been making posters about Ancient Greece. We have had to research about - Where ancient Greece was, reasons for Olympic games, clothes, daily life, houses, theater, Athens, Sparta and Architecture. We have liked making the books because its fun researching, they tell us lots of information and they look really cool. It has extended our knowledge.
4. Olympics. SSHHHHHH dont tell anyone- We have had a tv on at playtime and lunchtime to watch the Olympics.
5. New Zealand is doing really well in the Olympics, we think they will get more medals.
6. Mr Baker has been in taking our class for a few days. He has a funny voice when he reads us stories, we like having Mr Baker in our class.

BY Taffy, Liam and Hamish

Week 4

This week we have been doing; wondering and descoveries and a whole group of us did re-search.Some people learnt how to fix net-work thing's.
People also did dancing and the beebot chalenge.
We also have been doing an experiment on egg's and last week we opened them and they went boom!!!!! and we could see the yolk.The egg shell felt like a balloon.That is what we have been doing this week.
We also went to the show grounds for an Olympics day. Itwas fun but then it rained and hailed and we had to come back to school early. When we got back to school we made hot chocolates - yum
from Jack and Ben.

Week 3

This week we have....

• We have been running ready for your cross country in June
• The Christchurch Art Gallery came out to us. We did some fantastic print work. We are very proud of our art work.
• We did an eggciting experiment with eggs and vinegar. The egg is now floating and the shell is coming off. The egg has also expanded.
• We have wonderings and dis coverings today. Today there is woodwork, bee bots, art, sewing, knitting.....
• We have been learning to tell the time.
• We have been doing a 5 sentence challenge
• We made videos for our blog buddies.

What a busy week :)

This week

• we  did sports and we run two times around the feild to get fit for cross country
• ON Tusaday we learnt some things about ANZAC day. We made a poppy.
• We finished our poems about colours.
• Today we made ANZAC  biscuits , they were delicious, amazing, yummy, burnt and tasty.
• We made them in groups by ourselves. :)
• We finished off our Michalaneglo paintings
• Our spider habitats got finished as well

All of that and we had a day off as well for ANZAC day - what busy little bees, we are !

Week 9

Our weekly round up -

• we have been writing "blue" poems
• we had a whole school dress up day, we looked amazing :) ( of course!!! )
• we did some more of our michaelangelo art work - with paint this time
• We did a mini  unit on dinoaurs with another teacher
• Mr Kuroda came back to Halswell school awith a famous singer
• we learned a new game
• Found out more about insects
• For buddies we made book and character cubes
• We had a full school assembly. We dont get to have many assemblies because our hall is still broken from the earthquakes
• Had a team assembly
• plus much more....................

Week 7

On Monday we had another normal day, on Tuesday we went to music for a hour and played "Trains, trolls and morning".
We also made an explanation for a practise and we did it with a buddy. We shared ours in a group of 2 or 3. it was about the spiders in Wagga Wagga escaping from the flooding.
 We also had a good look at the bugs that our class brought in from home or found at school on the microscopes.
Wednesday we were going to have Bible in Schools but it was not on .
On Thursday the radio stacon was not going, a plug was missing .
On Friday we finished our picasso pictures and made these bugs on the internet.

By Hamish and Ella