Printmaking

For the second half of the term we have been experimenting with Printmaking.  We have done prints with rollers, vegetables, leaves and made monoprints. Here is a photo of some of us doing our prints on the last day of term.  Feel free to come in and see our artwork.  Some of it is pretty high up. Mrs. Bone had to get the ladder out and had Natalie to help her!!

 

Measuring in Maths

Yesterday we read The Gingerbread Man and then we put five gingerbread men in order from the tallest to the shortest.
                                                                                                                                                                                                            

 

 



Today we played The Game of Shorts. We got into 2 lines and then looked at the front person in each line to see who was shorter.  The person who was shorter took the other person back to their line.

Maths This Week

For Maths this week we are looking at length.  Today we made worms out of playdough as part of our unit.  Then we had to talk about our worms. Here are Jack and Aymon's long worms.

 Anders made the l o n g e s t  and thinnest worm.

Ged and Nate made short worms but Nate's was the shortest.

 

Hero Quest - Our School Production

This term we have spent a lot of time practising for our school production which was held on Wednesday and Thursday nights.
It was the first time most of us had been on the stage and there were a lot of people in the audience watching us. 
 It was an exciting time for all of us and the production was wonderful.  We think we were the best team at coming up the back stairs and being quiet backstage.There is certainly a lot of talent at South School. We hope everyone enjoyed the production as much as we did! A lot of people put in a lot of effort to make it such an amazing show - from Miss Hutchings who wrote the script, to the backstage crew, all the people who loaned us props and costumes, the parents who helped in so many ways and last but not least all the actors i.e. the children. A big thank you to everyone.

 

Waiting for our first item!

 

 

Our first item !

 

Some of us got to be the water and the beach people for The Life in Sunshine singers!

 

Our second Team item!

 

Our 3rd Team item.

 The Whole School Final Song!

On the last night there was confetti dropped down from the roof and streamers sprayed!  We felt like real super stars and real heroes!

If you would like to see these photos on the wall come and have a look in our classroom!

Odd Shoe Day

 

Today we had Odd Shoe day at school.  We were allowed to wear odd shoes and socks to school if we brought a gold coin.  The money raised is for Camp Quality which is a camp that is especially for children who have cancer.  The rest of New Zealand is having Odd Shoe Day tomorrow but because we have production practice tomorrow we did it today.

Mona Williams

What a busy week we are having.  Today we had a visit from Mona Williams who is an amazing story teller.  First of all we did The House That Jack Built.  Her next story was titled Black Rugby Shorts. After that Mrs.Williams told another story about How Finn found Bran. Her last story had us doing some dancing and lots of actions. Here is apicture trail with some of the photos Mrs. Bone took.

Jamie McDell Comes to South School

Today Jamie McDell came to Dannevirke South School.  She is a singer-song writer from Auckland who wrote her first song when she was seven years old.  Her album that was released last year is called  Six Strings and a Sailboat.  Brady welcomed her in the morning.



We were lucky enough to have our photo taken with her and to have her come and talk to Team 1 about her singing.  She also helped the people who have bigger singing parts in the production and took a workshop about writing songs.





In the afternoon we had an assembly. She sang for us and answered lots of questions.  Fenella and Micah thanked her and gave her a thank you present.

Spooky House

Our big book for Shared Reading this week is Spooky House.  Here are some of the great stories people wrote.

I went to the Spooky House.  I saw a white tail spider.  I saw lots of spiders.  The spider webs were sticky and they were soft. By Nate

The boy went upstairs into the room.  He got scared. He went down the stairs. By Dyllin

Ipads

So far this term we have been using the Photobooth app on the ipads.  For the second half of the term we are having fun experimenting with Toontastic.

Daffodil Day

On August the 30th it was Daffodil Day in New Zealand.  Jordon brought the Teddy that he bought and Olivia showed us the brooch that she had bought.  Mrs. Bone bought some daffodils from the staffroom.  All the money goes to support people with Cancer.

Winter Warmers Library Programme

Nikki Price from the Library came to South School on the 23rd of August to present the certificates and books to the children in Rooms 2,3, and 4 that had done 6 report ins.  We were so lucky to get such beautiful books.



Unfortunately Majah, Renee and Ryder were away that day so they are not in the photo but they did all get a beautiful book to keep! We are lucky enough to have been invited to do the programme again next Winter.

Anna Lindsay Comes to Assembly

Anna Lindsay was a student teacher in Room 3.  She came to Assembly last week to talk to us about Odd Shoe Day and to share her experiences from Camp Quality.  Camp Quality is a camp for children with Cancer.  On the 12th of September South School is having an Odd Shoe Day to raise money for this good cause.  Nationally, the day is on the Friday but since we are having a rehearsal at the Town Hall ours will be on the 12th.