Term 3 Week Three

Kia ora!  The last two weeks have again been action-packed as we cram our days with lots of learning and skill-building!

Sarah was last week's VIP

 Our ski trip was the motivation for some writing this week - first we used a circular plan (looks like a pizza) to help us quickly write eight main events that happened to us during the ski trip, which we then used to create the draft of our recount.

The Dahl group were then looking to recraft one sentence from their work - trying to add in details to make it more descriptive for the reader.  What great work they came up with - see some examples on Blogs By Us.

The Mahy group took two of their events in the recount and used the hamburger plan to add more details to each event so that they would be able to create a really descriptive paragraph to extend their main ideas.  The improvements made by using the planner were fantastic and we could really see how the details are important for sharing our experience.  You can also see these on Blogs by Us.

The Rowling group had been working the past two weeks on My Story (writing entries for the NZ Post Young Writer's Contest) and these have been sent away online by Mrs C.  So this week they began writing an informational text titled " What to Expect When You Are Skiing" and they will turn these into posters for next year's skiers to read. These will also eventually be on Blogs By Us.


Hayden was this week's VIP

On Wednesday we hosted the Lower Mataura Valley Schools' Speech Contest for Year Five and Six pupils, with up four pupils each coming along to represent Edendale, Wyndham and Tuturau (we hope all our friends at Glenham are feeling better soon!).

Well done to Maria and Sarah who spoke very confidently and presented their speeches well. We were very proud of you.  Check out some highlights here:

We began miniball skills with Callum from Sport Southland last week and look forward to using these skills in the end of term tournament.

Maria shared her Connected Award activity
- a booklet about her overnight weekend tramp in Fiordland National Park.

We are also excitedly looking forward to performing " Murphy's Marvellous Time Travelling Machine" on stage at the end of the term too! Who will be our star actors, singers and dancers???

The Student Council Master Chef competition started this week - on Friday Nich created a batch of very delicious butter cupcakes as his contest entry. Good luck to Nich and the other seven Year Five or Six contestants! Mrs C is most willing to be taste-tester!!


Nich shows two samples of his cupcakes (the rest had been eaten!)

Our inquiry into why we need to look after our natural resources is well underway with Mr Lloyd Esler coming along to speak to us about the Earth - he had a billions of years old piece of space rock that had been found in South America - probably the oldest item any of us will have a hold of! 

Allynah holds the space rock - it was very heavy for its size!

Finally, more of us have been busy producing Take Two News clips (but a technical glitch meant we have not yet had a chance to edit these) - so we will be sharing these with you soon! E noho ra!