Caption This!

We created spring paintings using paint and then we wrote captions. Look at our growth mindsets at writing time.

Weather reporters

To help us study change that is happening outside our window we have been looking at weather, and a couple of our students turned into weather reporters!

Working Towards Goals

At writing time we choose what goals we need to work on and then we strive towards them. 

My House, My Castle

In writing we are using our study of homes to look back a few centuries at castles. Miss Eve showed us real castles she's been to such as Edinburgh Castle in Scotland and the Hohensalzburg fortress in Austria. Some of us have been to a real castle - Lanarch Castle in Dunedin. Hunter C went to a castle in Australia that had real jewels. We explored the parts of a castle, photos of real castles and even used a 'how to' video on YouTube to get ideas for how to draw our castles. We're going to use our castles to do some writing this week.

"Castles normally have rocks and wood. And also castles have flags, drawbridges and windows." - Tom

"A castle is a safe place where you can hide from people." - Felix

"My castle has a drawbridge, walls and a roof." - Benji

"Castles can have bricks and stones." - James

"Some castles have flags." - Lily

"They have walls and rooves." - Ashton

"Castles have really good hiding places. The enemies can fall into the moat." - Luka 

"Castles have canons and drawbridges. They pull them up and down for people to come and fight." - George 

"Castles have flags on the top of the roof." - Hunter C

Who were the ANZACs?

We've activated our curiosity about who the ANZACs were. We learned that they were the New Zealand and Australian soldiers, nurses and all those involved in the wars many years ago. Some of us knew that 100 years ago (1915) there was a big war. We wear poppies to remember our special people who were there.

We were so lucky to have a visit from Alex and Oliver in Skippers. Alex showed us a uniform from his great grandfather who flew in the airforce. Felix was lucky enough to try it on. He practiced his salute. We remember how special it was to be a serviceman or woman during the war.

Lest We Forget.

Let's Get Curious About Change

We will be learning all about charge next term. What does change mean? We will be thinking and learning about change in me, change in my family, change in my community and change in my world. Here is some of our great thinking so far.