Five Sentence Challenge: The Bus Stop

Check out the picture prompt for this week's five sentence challenge.

It is due in on Wednesday and I will only be postiing up the work from the 'Boys Box' writers this week.

All other posts will be celebrated on our blogs and tweeted out on Friday for people to read.  Try getting your family to write you a comment on your post this week.

Try gathering some ideas for us in a comment under these headings:

1.  Nouns

bus, sky, church steeple, bicycle, butcher shop

2. Adjectives

tall, cloudy, dark, shiny, jolly, 

3.Verbs

Stopped, sitting, gathered, watching

4. Adverbs

Sitting silently, watching carefully

5. Similes

The dark sky hung over the village like a bad mood.

Improving Team Work

This morning we looked at a video of us doing a team activity and we were not using many of our team skills.

We made a list of the things we saw that were not using team skills.  We then made a list of what we would expect to see if we were all in the waka and working as a team.

Here is a picture of our ideas.

We were much better at completing the task after we had unpacked what we wanted to see in our team activity.  Take a look at our video.

Three ECO projects for Term 1

There are three amazing projects to start 2014 for all Springston ECO Warriors.  The ECO Teachers will be helping but we are looking for some Senior Students to lead some of these projects.

1.  Make a scrapbook page about what we achieved last year - to be published in a book! (End Term)

2.  Environmental Earth Hour Movie - for a competition (Due March 7th)

3.  Ellesmere Re-cycled Sculpture Competition (Due 31st March)

Anyone can join an ECO project so roll on up and belong to one of the project teams.   Come to Room 4 at eating lunch to put your name down for the project you want to be part of!

What are you doing for Earth Hour?

What will you be doing for Earth Hour on March 23rd 2013 at 8.30?
Is one hour enough?
What can you promise to do EVERY DAY to help look after our Earth?

Write a comment to share your promise. It might be something like turning off the lights when you leave the room. It might be turn the tap off or even pick up rubbish when you see it.

We are a team and imagine if we all made and kept a promise to look after the Earth?
What would happen then?

10 Books Finished - how is your total going?

I have just finished my tenth book of the holidays (luck they are short!).  
The last books I read two were.......

How are you going with the reading challenge?  Check out the Leap into Books Blog and leave a comment on any of the books you have read too.

Reading Challenge - how many have you read?

How are you going with the reading challenge?  I have read four books and finished these two more ... check them out on the Leap into Books Blog.



Ella the Rose Fairy
The Gruesome Truth






 Watch your whiskers Stilton
 Ant Invasion














I finished these books that we had started too...

Charles Darwin: through the diary of the ship's boy


George's Marvellous Medicine

Write a comment to tell us what you are reading at the moment and well done to the Sutherland Family on two comments towards the Family Comment Challenge Term 3!

Snow Fun - Sophie

Hi Allana,  this is me in the snow.  My snow man's head fell off lots of times.  This is Me and Taylor doing a snow ball fight.  From Sophie

Snow Fun - Angus

Hi  Mrs Taylor
Hi this is Me.Mae and Hayley. We went on Mae's slay.

from Angus

Snow Challenge - Isabella #2

Like the Queen, except in my motorbike drawn carriage!

Isabella

Snow Challenge - Lachie

This is what Lachie got up to during the snow day yesterday.  I can see that his snow man makes sure he gets his 5+ fruit and vegetables every day!

Snow Fun - Isabella

Hi Allana,
This is a picture of my tree. It has snow on its branches.
These are some poems that I wrote even before we looked at the website and
saw your challenges. Mum was out this morning so I wrote her some poems.
Isabella
 

SNOW

I love snow
Yum yum yum
I love snow
In my tum
Snow is white
Snow is soft
Snow makes you sick and cold
COLOURS
I love colours
Pink, blue, green
Indigo too
I love colours
Colours are bright
MY HAPPY PLACE
My happy place is under the sea
My happy place is up a tree
My happy place is not my knee
MY PET
I have a pet
It is a pig
But he gets the TV
I wish I got a puppy or lamb
Not this greedy pig

Snow Fun - Phelix

Hi Mrs Taylor,

Here is a picture if me eating my triple scoop snow cone! It is really yummy. We played the dice game as well and had lots of fun.

Cheers,

Phelix

 

 

Sorry Phelix - I have tried all my tricks and it keeps flipping over.  Are you sure you weren't lying down in the snow while eating your snow cone?

Snow Challenges

Hi team, I hope you are all wrapped up and warm at home like me.  I have a couple of challenges for you so we can prove that learning can happen anywhere!  Are you up for the challenge?

1.  Try that fun dice game we learned yesterday.  Throw 2-4 dice and see who can get closest to the decided target using any operation like addition, subtraction or multiplication.  E-mail me your target and how you got there if you want it to go on the blog - how about a photo of you doing it?

2.  Write a poem about your day at home, the snow or just write for fun.  I know you all have lots of great ideas just bursting to get out.  Make sure you e-mail it to me so I can put it on the blog for you.  Is there a picture or photo to go with the writing?

3.  Take some photos of the snow around you house or what you are doing in the snow. I have put up a photo of the snow at my house last year because there is not much here in Southbridge - yet!  

I wonder how many posts and photos we can get up onto the blog today when we are not even at school!  The challenge is on for the E-Team - I know you can do it!

This is not a chair....

This is not a chair ....it is a ...

Holiday Home Learning

Must do:

1. Read every day (Blue & Green groups books from group box)
2. Work on spelling and tables
3. Have family fun – take photos and e-mail for the blog with writing 
         (1-2 sentences) e-mail to   allana.taylor@springston.school.nz


Can do:
4. Research ANZAC DAY and present it in any way – mini project
5. Complete your own mini research project
6. Weaving – bring your projects in for Liz’s display in the office

Have a go at the Dance Mat touch typing programme in the tab at the top of the blog.  It will improve our typing skills for all those great pieces of writing in Term 2.

We have been using Allana's iPad in class.  How can we use this idea to share our learning next Term?  Write a comment with your ideas.

Surprising Challenge

This was found in the newspaper.  

Are you up for the challenge?  Would you go?  What would you take if you were limited to 10 things?  What would you hope to find or even hope you wouldn't find?

Use this as a writing challenge this week and over the holidays.  We will post all responses to the blog.

Get an egg naked - raw with no shell!

30 Days Challenge

Can we all do 30 new things  - not just in September but over this year?  What could our new things be?  How could we keep a record of all the new things we have tried?  Are you up for the challenge - a time for being A+ Adventurous.



Write a comment telling me one new thing you could try in the next two weeks or how we could meet this challenge of trying new things as a learning team.  Allana

Lewis Chess Men

You can see in the pictures that our first attempt at making Lewis Chess Men did not turn out very well.  We looked carefully at what went wrong and decided what we would change.  We also decided to use what went well again.  I hope you agree that these chess men came out much better than the first ones.

Learning:
Sometimes the mistakes help us learn.
It is important to do something more than once so you can get better.
It is important to take care of things - like our art work or equipment.