Monday, 14 October 2013

Brilliant Bernie

As part of our home learning this week we are comparing the size of a dinosaur footprint to our own.
Bernie did this over the weekend - look at what he discovered!


Bernie, I was so incredibly proud of you today - you had completed your home learning before school even started back for the term .... and even more wonderful was the way you spoke so clearly and confidently in front of our class.  I was so impressed with all of your dinosaur knowledge and that you were so confident to share it with us - you are amazing Bernie.

400 Words

WOW!

A while ago we entered some of our great writing into the 400 Words Writing Competition on The Breeze radio station.

Today we checked to see how we got on -

Ashely
made us so proud as we discovered SHE is one of the finalist!

Have a listen to Ashley's story being read by a famous author here

Ashley's Story

Tune into The Breeze on Monday 21 October to hear if Ashley is chosen as the overall winner - she might win $400 and some books for our school library!

We are so proud of you Ashley

Dinosaur Dig

Today we became Palaeontologists.
We made a magnifying glass and then we went on a Dinosaur Fossil Adventure.

We went to the Egg Playground.
We used our magnifying glasses to hunt for dinosaur fossils.

We all found some!

Then we went back to our class and used toothbrushes, tweezers and water to free our fossil.

It was amazing - Charlotte
It was hard to get the dinosaurs out - Briannah
we got our toothbrush, tweezers and water.  We scrubbed at the fossils - it was mightily hard to get out but we each got our dinosaur out in the end - Riley B
I had water on my fossil to get the dinosuar out - Fatai
The fossils looked like plain rocks - Bina
In the fossil there were little toy dinosaurs - Ava
I tried my best to get the toy out - Nethasa
We also learned about using our hairclips as tweezers! Great thinking Lily! - Harper
I tried to get my dinorsaur out with a toothbrush - Tiaan
We needed toothbrushes and tweezers to get the dinosaurs out of their fossils - Lily
We had to find dirt that covered a dinosaur - it was really hard to get out - Ashley



Saturday, 5 October 2013

A Holiday Challenge for my Wee Pickles

Hi My Little Pickles I hope you are having a great holiday. What have you been up to? Have a listen to this and see if you can make your own recording.


 



Can you add a goal to this Padlet?



Can you have a go at this survey?
Get your own Poll!

Writing Fun

This is a clip we will be using at school after the holidays - what sort of adventure would you go on?


Bubbles from gabriela zapata on Vimeo.

Wednesday, 2 October 2013

Happy Holidays

Hi My Lovely Wee Pickles

I hope you are having great fun in the holidays.

I would love to hear what you are getting up to - you could even send me a photo to post on the blog!

Today we had lots of fun in Hanmer.  This is a photo of my wee girls having a lovely walk before bed.