ANZAC Parade 2011

Today members of our school, and other community groups, marched 

in the  Anzac Day parade, 

to commemorate the lives lost in war.

ANZAC means Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, 

and the day is observed in 

both New Zealand and Australia.

This morning we gathered at the RSA (Returned Services Association) building and marched behind the pipe bands

to the cenotaph.

Words of remembrance were spoken,

the Roll of Honour for our district was read out,

and the wreaths were laid.

The brass band played 'God Save the Queen' and a lone trumpeter played 'The Last Post'.

Anzac Day is an important national day to many 

New Zealanders.

What are the days that are important to you and your community?

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Dylan writes a post

Dear Everybody

This is my class emblem. 

It took me about two days.

I chose a kiwi on the road, a rugby course and 

the computers in my class, 

because it's about my class and New Zealand.

by Dylan

What would you put on your class emblem?

Do you wear an emblem on any of your clothing?

Follow your Dreams

We always look forward to a Duffy 'Books in Homes' assembly.
This time we were lucky enough to have Christine Fernyhough speak to us. 

Chrissy is one of the founders of the Books in Homes scheme, 

which our school takes part in.

Chrissy told us to follow our dreams, something that she did when she moved from Auckland and bought a high-country farm several years ago.

After the assembly we collected the box of books for our class, and what did we do? ......

We read of course!

What is your dream?

What will you need to do to achieve it?

Is it a short-term dream or a dream that will take longer to achieve?

Postcard Project Up-date

We are so enjoying being part of the postcard project, created by Ms Leakey in NZ!

Every week or so another postcard arrives and we put it up beside our world map.

We are learning a lot of Geography this year.
We might need to use a larger wall soon!

This week and next, we will be writing some more postcards 

to send out to other classes on the list. 

Have you received a postcard from us?

What did you learn about New Zealand or Reefton from our postcard?

Playground Songs

Recently Hawes Primary in England put up a post about playground clapping games.

You can view their videos here, and here and here.

They were keen to find out about playground songs from around the world,

so Mr Salsich and his class put up a post on their blog with a playground song that they know.


Mrs Kistler and the 49ers in San Antonio, Texas have also got some videos up. Check them out here.


Mrs Hembree and the Bellbulldogreaders have their 
videos here.

Mrs Lynch and Grade 1 have videos here.


Some of our Year 3,4 and 5 girls have been doing playground songs at our school, so here are our contributions:


Hey Mr Postman
do your duty.
Here comes along Miss American Beauty.
She can do the pom-pom
she can do the twist,
But I bet you five bucks
she can't do this...
ABC

Old mella, kiss a fella

lazy boy, ping pong.

Old mella, kiss a fella

lazy boy, ping pong.

Turn around, 

touch the ground.

Freeze like this

We would love to see playground songs from more countries.
 Please put links to 
Hawes Primary, Mr Salsich and Open the door to b4
on your post.

Measuring Area

This morning in maths each group had to sort objects from biggest to smallest by 

measuring the area of each object.

'Area' means the amount of flat space that an object takes up.

We discovered some interesting ideas as we worked:

You can't compare 2 objects by measuring with different units!

That wouldn't be a fair comparison.

If we choose measuring units that are too small, it takes a lot of counting!

Some of our units overlapped the object we were measuring. That made it tricky to count the number of units used!

But we worked together as teams and overcame the problems.

Yay us!

How does working as a team help us in our learning?