Easter Egg Extravaganza!

As an Easter celebration we decided to decorate eggs, bake some treats and make a basket for all our treats!

Equipment:
Hard boiled eggs
Dye
Wax crayons
Paint brush
Ice cream containers
Tissues

Steps:

1. Hard boil your egg

2. Use wax crayons to decorate your egg. 

3. Use Easter patterns and lots of colour. 

Be very careful so you don't break the shell.

4. Carefully place your egg into an ice cream container filled with the dye. 

Roll it around and paint the dye over the egg.

Here are our finished products!

We would love to see your decorated eggs.

Have you ever decorated eggs?

What is your favourite pattern?

My google experts create a google form!

Syndicate 3 can you help us please???

https://docs.google.com/a/greymain.school.nz/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGlvV3ZOVEIwNTN6aWduWmw5U1c1aHc6MQ#gid=0

T-Rex - Make ten

T-Rex!

Find the powerpoint called make ten.

When you have found it and watched it, I would like you to create a post on kidblog sharing:

• what you learnt
• what you need help with

This is your first experience of 'flipped maths'! Enjoy!

http://teachertools.co.nz/lessons-more/

Puppets descriptive writing

Week 9 narrative challenge

Look at these images carefully and choose one to describe.

Make sure you describe:
their appearance, their personality, their movements and something special about them.

Use kidblog to publish your work.

Which puppet is your favourite?

Do you have any puppets of your own?

Camp animoto video!

http://animoto.com/play/IN2aVr70Gn5RUBYej0evaQ

Byron, Zachary and Darian's first google form!

https://docs.google.com/a/greymain.school.nz/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDlza1NaYW5GZlY2dmpMZVN1b3NFU0E6MQ

Survey from Room 1 HNS- swimming pools!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1b1KTvh8bqLvgbm0hciooJpBXe1YWwpQskyJMvYcncgk/viewform

Nathan's 100 word challenge #24

If we share… we can help the children that need food or clothes. So always share with your friends and people that need food at school or on the roads so they can live the life, to get older for a job. Then they can help themselves if they use money for the stuff that they need like food, a home or a good living. So help people that are not in a home so you can help the life of the children so all the kids can go help themselves on the road, school at home, at work.  Help the children.

100 word challenge #24

http://100wc.net/100wc/week24/   

CLICK ABOVE FOR EXAMPLES!

This is Andualem.   

Andualem is 12 and he lives in Ethiopia. He’s tucking into a big plate of his favourite food, injera.

Injera is a special Ethiopian pancake that you eat with your hands – you tear off a strip, dab it in spicy sauce, and then try to get it in your mouth before you drop any!

Injera is also a meal that you share with your family and friends – it often comes on a big plate so that everyone can gather round and enjoy it at the same time.

Right now, children all over the world are hungry, because they don’t have enough food to eat, but there is enough food to feed everyone if, like Andualem, we could all learn to share what we have.

Write a message about this to Andualem and others, starting with…

 ‘If we share…’

As usual, you have 100 words to add to these 3.

Banned Words Challenge

A banned words challenge is an idea I stole off this class blog:

http://stgeorgesclass.blogspot.co.nz/2013/03/banned-words-challenge.html

Describe a chair without using the following words:

• chair
• sit
• sitting
• sat

Triceratops - Three or more numbers

Triceratops!

Find the powerpoint about Three or more numbers

When you have found it and watched it, I would like you to create a post on kidblog sharing:

• what you learnt
• what you need help with

This is your first experience of 'flipped maths'! Enjoy!

http://teachertools.co.nz/lessons-more/

Stegosaurus - Jumping the Number Line

Stegosaurus!

Find the powerpoint about jumping the number line.

When you have found it and watched it, I would like you to create a post on kidblog sharing:

• what you learnt
• what you need help with

This is your first experience of 'flipped maths'! Enjoy!

http://teachertools.co.nz/lessons-more/

Sophie's Family Tree - Home Learning Activity

First example of family tree activity from Room 11! Well done Sophie! 

What a great example to share with us.

How is your independent learning going? 

Have you completed an activity? 

Ella F's 100 word challenge #23

http://100wc.net/

Emily Dribble went for her usual Saturday morning visit to the library. Suddenly Emily saw a rather mysterious looking book so she walked over, reached out and pulled it off the shelf. Then she sat down and started to read the book.
"Bob the Cat was surrounded by a mob of big finned orange gold fish. Suddenly he remembered he was a cat so he ran straight through, dodging one. Having separated the ring of goldfish he ran home to his cat box."
Emily Dribble finished reading the mysterious book, she skipped home and took a nice warm bath.

Ella F

Darian's 100 word challenge #23

http://100wc.net/

Wow only one day till Easter! Yay! I hope for Easter I get ORANGE eggs because orange is my favourite colour but so is blue so I hope they separate the blue eggs from the orange eggs.
Hey I guess that’s a bit mysterious because you never know do you?
Hey where’s Perry? Oh I forgot to tell you Perry is my cat. Hmm he will show up sometime. 
Daniel! It’s bath time. Oh come on! Not again! I HATE bath time! It is the worst but anyway let’s get it over with…
Ok out Daniel! Tea time Yay! Yum.

Check out all the classes from our school with blogs!

Look at Our School Blogs list to the right...

Click on them and give them some feedback!!

(Just remember some are very new and haven't posted yet - Keep watching for when they do!)

March is New Zealand Book Month!

http://www.nzbookmonth.co.nz/

Use your $5 off voucher that you received last week to buy a book that inspires you to read even more!

Abby's 100 word challenge #23

http://100wc.net/

One dark stormy night there was a mysterious cat that was having a bath next to the castle. Then it walked into an orange house and looked in the window of the house. I saw lots and lots of RATS! The cat separated them into 10 groups for the best group to eat. I run as fast as I could and told my family and they said I was crazy. I said "I am not!" They told everybody else and they told them it was true then they told them the story of the MYSTERIOUS CAT and how it all began.

By Abby 
Room 11

Nina's 100 word challenge #23

http://100wc.net/

Once upon a time I was at the park with my friends and we started to play hide and seek. I ran to the trees and I saw a very funny thing… A bird was walking up and down a tree with a fish in it’s mouth. I could see that the bird had SEPARATED the fish with its beak and eaten all the insides. Then I remembered that we were playing hide and seek so I ran off to the stream and got the shock of my life! I saw a big BATH with a MYSTERIOUS ORANGE CAT washing itself! I screamed and he looked at me and he looked so angry that I sprinted back to my friends and we went to get ice cream. Then we went home talking like crazy but I didn’t tell them what had happened. When I went to bed I was sure I heard something behind the door…

100 word challenge!!

Comment below with your 100 words and I will publish!

Prompts - mysterious, orange, cat, bath, separated

100 wc

How could you include these 5 words in an interesting story???

New librarians..?

Today we buddied up with Room 4 to teach them what we have learnt about Non-Fiction books and how they are shelved.

We then sat with our buddies and read our books together.

Awesome!

Have you read to anyone lately? Has anyone read to you? 

What are you reading?

Grey District Swimming

On Wednesday the 6 Ella F, Nina , Libby and I went to the swimming pool for the grey district swimming sports to swim for our school. It was so fun and difficult at the same time. The 9 year boys went first and then the 9 year old girls went to go. I came 1^st 5 times and 2^nd 3 times and 3^rd only 2. There was only 1 mistake that I do not want to tell you because it makes me feel not good at all...

Athletics Day

Athletics day was on Monday 3^rd  March. It was awesome! I came 1^st in the running but came 2^nd in the sprints. Before that we did shot put and Libby came 1^st in that. 

Just before lunch we competed in the relays - Catherine, Tahlia, Darian and Riley were running for R11. 

I thought Athletics day was awesome and my Dad was so proud of me.

Zoe R11

Have you had your school athletics? 

Did you win a race? 

What was your favourite activity?

Swimming sports!

Swimming sports was on Friday a couple of weeks ago. 

It’s an activity that the whole school does for fun. You can choose if you want to be in the Length pool or the Leisure pool and we swim in races.

You can get 1^st 2^nd or 3^rd in either of them. I learnt that it doesn’t matter if you don’t get anywhere as long as you have fun.

Catherine R11   

Are you in swimming club? 

Did you make District swimming sports? 

What was your favourite race?

Hiwi the Kiwi

On7.3.13 Room 11 went to a show all about fishing - Hiwi the Kiwi!!

We watched stuff like:

*A Rock’n roll boogie

*People won prizes like sticker /posters    

*Dances 

*and much more!!!

We learnt what type of fish to take home and also about how to stay safe in a boat.

ALWAYS   WEAR A   LIFE  JACKET!!!!

Samantha R11

Can you remember the lessons we learnt in our Hiwi the Kiwi show??

Harold the Giraffe

This week we went to Harold twice - Wednesday and Thursday. 

We were talking about friendship and how to make friends. 

Harold gave us presents (books and stickers) but when Abby went up to get the stickers, he wouldn't let go!

I learnt that to make a friend you have to go to them and ask if you want to be friends.

Auryn R11

What's the best way to be a good friend? 

What do you like about your friends?

What's happening in the world?

 2012/2013 NEW ZEALAND SUMMER HAS BEEN THE SUNNIEST ON RECORD

New Zealand has had a very sunny summer this year and last year. The highest temperature in New Zealand was 35.1C that was recorded in Clyde in Central Otago on January the fifth also in Gisborne 9 and 10 in January.In parts of  New Zealand in the last three months have had plently of sunshine.

http://www.kiwikidsnews.co.nz/201213-summer-is-the-sunniest-on-record

Have you read the article above? What's the weather like in your home town? 

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Mitchell's tweet!