The Tail of the Three Trees

Over the last couple of weeks we have been practising our part in the Three Trees story. Rata retold the part of the story about the tree who wanted to be a treasure chest and was sad when he was made into a feed box (manger). But as the golden starlight poured over the barn and the baby Jesus was placed in the manger the tree knew that it held the greatest treasure of all time. 

Book Character Day

What a wonderful way to finish off book week, we all came to school dressed as a book character and had a parade around the school at 9am showing off all our wonderful costumes. Have a look at all our wonderful book characters.

Book Week

This week we have been celebrating book week. We had a visit from an author - Mr Anthony Holcroft. He read us the story of The China Teacup. He got his ideas for the story from a birds nest that was lined with lambs wool and an old broken china teacup that his son had collected. It was interesting to learn about how he got his ideas from every day objects and that he used his imagination to develop these ideas. 

Swimming

We have had a wonderful time at the Kaiapoi Temporary Pool over the last few weeks. We have been learning how to: kick properly , float on our front and back, dolphin dive, swim underwater, breaststroke, backstroke, freestyle, caterpillars and building our water confidence. 

Jesus' First Miracle

Patterns

We have been learning about patterns this week in maths. We have been learning to create, describe and continue patterns. We have discovered that patterns repeat and that there is a rule to describe the repetition. (For instance, after you have clapped, you stomp your feet and after stomping your feet you clap)

Here are a couple of videos.  You can view all the videos in the media gallery at the top of this page.

See how many different patterns you can spot around home.

Laura Fairweather Paralympic Champion

Today we had a visit from paralympian Laura Fairweather she won a bronze, silver and GOLD medal at the paralympics earlier this year. She is the pilot of a paralympic tandem cycling team and rides with Phillipa Gray. She visited our school today and let us hold her medals it was very exciting, especially holding the gold medal. She spoke to us about achieving her goals and how hard she trains.