Road Safety

We had our first session with Constable Amanda today. Constable Amanda is a Police Education Officer who is teaching us about road safety. Today we talked about how often and how far we travel every week. We worked out that we travel more than we did when we were younger. Constable Amanda showed us how to make a travel map showing: where we travel; the distance we travel and the number of times we make each trip in a week.

What's The Time Mr. Wolf - Southside of Bombay (Real Video Clip)

We're still enjoying NZ Music Month in our class. Today we read the lyrics and sang along to two of the songs we listened to last week. This is the video for one of the songs...

Basic Facts

Yesterday we looked at the Woodlands School website and had a go at the Magnetic Fun activity as part of our Numeracy Warm-up. The Mammoths tried out the mixed facts activity and some of the timed tests. Ms Leishman added the link to the site to the Multiplication And Division page of our blog. We've also been practising skip-counting in 2, 5, 10s and 3s.

Skipping

Ms Leishman and Emma Y. took these photos while our class was skipping today.

The Teacher and the Ghost by Daniella

The Teacher and The Ghost

Once upon a time there lived a teacher. She was teaching her class and then a ghost came in. All her class were screaming arrrrrr! The teacher said, “Calm down class.” Then a brave girl called Megan got a box and trapped the ghost in it. The ghost strangled every one. You’ll never see them again. Just remember that the ghost might come back for you.

The end 

Room 8 Rocks!

Room 8 are the new holders of the Tawa Trophy. Yesterday we challenged Room 9 to a game of basketball tag, and won. We worked hard on strategies and skills before the game. Our efforts paid off. Mr McQueen says that Room 6 are going to challenge us for the trophy. We don't think they'll be able to win it off us.

Featured Authors

We've added a new page to our blog, so that we can include more of the stories written by the talented authors in our class. The stories featured on our writing page will change, so make sure you check our blog regularly. The first story to be added is, "Flame" by Lucy. It's an adventure story about a family of wolves who outwit the evil, Holly Tail. Click on the, Our Writing tab under our class photo to read the story.


Here's an extract from Lucy's story...


Just then, the guards stepped aside and the horrible body of Holly Tail entered their prison cave. Flame closed his eyes. Bear trembled. Flame had heard rumours that whoever looked at Holly would be killed at first glance and Bear-well she was just plain scared! Holly growled deep down from her throat. Then she spoke. “Who dares to cross to my territory you dirty trespassers! Tell me your name! NOW!” She barked this last word so loud all four of the foxes jumped a mile!