Gala Arcade Games Day

Cardboard Arcade Games Creations

Museum visit 'ANZAC'

After an introduction we moved into groups and rotated around the activities. Some of the activities  included:
* Morse code
* Research on people and their roles in war
* Items from the war such as diaries
* Clothing worn
* ANZAC Cove
* Tents and supplies
Thankyou to the parents who assisted on the day.

RSA veterans visit Rm 10 and 11

Nelson RSA veterans were invited in to school on Wednesday so we could share our learning about ANZAC. We started by welcoming them in the library where Marcos and Kimberly introduced some of our learning and talked about our commemoration service. We sang the 'Tribute to the ANZACs' song led by Jack, Johnny and Jamie. After that we moved into small groups and had the opportunity to read our letters we had written to an ANZAC soldier. These letters shared our learning and we were able to ask lots of questions to find out even more. Finally we invited our guests to the staff room for a cup of tea and to sample the ANZAC biscuits some of us had made. We saw and held some of their war medals and listened to many stories. It was a great afternoon.

This is Ella and she is our new class councillor for 2015.
Congratulations to Ella, she will represent us well!
Ella said...."I feel excited for being class councillor because I have never
been it before".

Morning Talk

Nardia brought her baby rabbits in to show the class. They are 10 days old. We loved holding them.

Interschool Athletics

Hugh

Island Measuring

Tine to measure the perimeters of our islands. Using wool and group cooperation we wound it round our island then used large rulers to find the length, 1cm = 1km.

Maori Blog

Follow this link to our new Maori blog

: http://birchwoodschoolmaori.blogspot.co.nz

New Zealand Sign Classes

Today was our last day for Sign. It has been a great year, lots of learning and communicating. We have a good understanding of the deaf culture now. Thank you so much to Cathy for all our lessons. We have loved it.