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





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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

Message from Katherine Applegate, author of "The One and Only Ivan"

Last term when we finished reading "The One and Only Ivan" we emailed the author - Katherine Applegate to tell her how much we loved her book. We also asked her a few questions. Today we got a reply from her. it was very exciting getting a reply as we know she is very busy.

Here is the reply.........

Hello to beautiful New Zealand, and thanks for your note. Your questions were :

> How long did it take you to write the story?        
Two or three months plus the publishing cycle

> Did you go and study how gorillas behaved?    
I read a lot of books, plus a zoo visit

> How did you know about Ivan?                           
 Can't quite remember .. a news story I think

> Did you ever go and see Ivan?                            
Yes .. my daughter Julia and I went to see him

Thanks again for writing to me.
Katherine Applegate

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Made Awards

Congratulations to all the winners in the MADE awards. We watched some of the clips today - they are amazing.

Click HERE to view the winners in all the categories.

Remember swimming starts tomorrow. Make sure you have everything named.
We leave school at 10.45 and return 11.45

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

MADE Awards

Good luck to all the finalists in the MADE Awards tonight.

Fingers crossed for our year 4 group with their entry in the Year 4 -6 documentary section - topic Ancient Greece.

Skyping our Quad Buddies - Cambridge School in Melbourne

Today we skyped our Quad Buddies in Melbourne Australia.

• there school is bigger than ours , 800 children, to our 560
• its a lot warmer over in Melbourne
• they have a special computer teacher as well as their own class teacher
• both classes have class mascots 
• there are 25 children in their class, we have 27
• we thought it was quite funny that we were just finishing school and they still had 2 hours to go.
• some class levels have an ipad or laptop per child and they get to take them home!!!!
• They have more playgrounds than we do 
• their school is 20 years old, ours is nearly 150! 

Thanks for skyping with us, it was fun. Hopefully we can do it again sometime.