In the Classroom

Book Week - Reading is Magic

Students and staff celebrated Education Week and Book Week during August.  On Monday 19 we hosted a morning tea, assembly and classroom experience for our families. The school was visited by The Mad Hatter and the White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland, Max from Where the Wild Things Are and the witch from Room on the Broom also joined in the fun of the day.  Other favourite book characters to be a part of the day were Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, Spiderman, Elsa, Anna, A Kiwi Farmer and a Fairy Princess.

On Wednesday 21 the students came dressed as a character that they would write their own story for.  Imaginations were let loose for the day! Read about the adventures of the characters here below.

Celebrating National Read a Book Day

Our favourite books and why we love them.

Evie-Lee: Narnia because it's about a magic wardrobe and I love reading about magical things.

Joey: The Bowerbird because it collects my favourite colour.

Chaise: 1000 Weird Amazing Facts because it has interesting facts to read, that amaze me!

Leroy: The monster in the hole: It's about Mrs Snottygobble and it is a very funny book that makes me laugh.

Charney: Rodney Loses It. I love it because it makes me happy.

Valerie: Cat on the Run is my favourite book because it is always chasing subject so you never get bored and as a bonus it's about my favourite animal.

Holly: Rodney Loses It is my favourite book because I like the pictures and all drawings that Rodney does.

Chanse: Brave. Brave is my favourite book because it is about my favourite animal. A lion. It's about a lion that goes missing and a girl that finds the lion in a pride of lions and lion approaches her and is friendly.

Chyler: Bev and Kev is my favourite book because of the picture of the giraffe having a drink of water.

Close Reading - Years 3, 4 and 6 (Chanse, Valerie and Chaise)

This week Chaise, Valerie and Chanse did a Close Read on an article about the Irish Potato Famine following on from an article about Late Blight which was a disease which decimated the potato crops in Ireland leading to the famine.

This is the summary that they collectively wrote about the article.

Irish Potato Famine

The worst famine to happen in Europe in the 19th century was the Irish Potato Famine.  During the famine an estimated 1 million Irish people died, because of the late blight. Late blight was a disease that destroyed the majority of the potato crops. Ireland was ruled by Great Britain, the British Government proved to be inadequate in their assistance, allowing the Irish people to die of starvation.  Over the period of the famine the population in Ireland dropped significantly from 8.4 million to 6.6 million due to deaths and emigration.

Valerie - Learning about this made me feel afraid that the population of the world can be affected and decreased by a food disease. 

Chaise - Learning about this made me interested in why Ireland had to continue to give their food to Great Britain even though their people were starving.

Chanse - Learning about this was interesting.  I was surprised that Sir Robert Peel was the only government official that tried to help the Irish.

Smoothie Bike from Good for Kids; Good for Life

This week we earnt our smoothie treats by having to pedal on the smoothie bike to doing the churning. The berry smoothie was much more popular than the green spinach and celery smoothie - so surprising!