Making Anzac Biscuits

Today we made Anzac Biscuits. They were yummy.

Visualising Strategy

For reading we are learning about a new strategy called visualising. We are learning to use the text to form pictures in our mind to help us understand what we are reading.

Mrs Crockett read a description of a nogard to us. As she read it we had to draw what was in our mind.

The nogard is an animal. It has an oval-shaped body. It has a long neck and tail. The top of the neck, back and tail are covered with a row of triangular-shaped plates. The nogard’s head is shaped like a long triangle. It has big eyes and eyebrows that stick out. It also has big nostrils. Its body is covered with scales. The nogard has four short legs. At the end of each leg is a foot with five toes. Each toe has a sharp claw at the end. The nogard has two wings attached to its body. These are located behind the front legs towards the top of its back. Nogards are usually green but change to a deep purple during the winter months.

This is what we thought a nogard looks like.

What did we do in the holidays?

Manaaki is a winner

If we had 3 or less days absence from school during Term One, we got to put our name in the draw for the new bike. Manaaki was lucky enough to have his name drawn out. Congratulation Manaaki.

Check out his new bike.

Check out our new books

A big thank you to the Board of Trustees.

Books in Home Assembly

 


Our class was lucky enough to have our new books presented to us by the Board of Trustees Chairperson.

Manaia dressing up

Manaia was dressed up in traditional Japanese costume.

Visitors from Sendai

Our Sendai Visitors on PhotoPeach

Earlier this term we had a group of visitors from Sendai in Japan. The girls talked to us about Japanese clothing. They then spent some time with us, reading, playing games and teaching us how to write out names in Japanese.

Battle of the Mountains

Whaea Rose read us the story of the Battle of the Mountains. We retold the story and then created a piece of art work using crayon and dye.