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We were tired when we got to Hanmer so had a lovely soak in the hot pools.
Next term we are going to be looking at our solar system and learning about astronomy. Here is an activity to get you started. Do you know the order of the planets?
What do you know about astronomy. What would you like to know more about?
Happy holidays! I wish school was still on to share Into The Book with you all. It is a great site with movies, lessons and games to support learning to read and making connections when you do. We will have a more in depth look at it when school goes back.
This is Helen and Harold. They came to our school to teach us about body parts. For example we learned about kidneys, bladder, lungs, heart, brain, muscles, intestines and blood vessels.
Fletcher was chosen at the end to have a little one-to-one chat with Harold.
Today Helen and Harold came to visit from the Life Education Trust. Our particular learning focus is to learn more about our body and the way parts of our body work.
Today we learnt a little about our digestive system. This animation shows you how different foods are dealt to as they pass through our digestive systems. Click on the various foods and follow their path until the end!!!!!
This is the Aim High Awards from the news paper, The Nelson Mail. Price's Pharmacy got together to make an Aim High Award. It is to encourage people to aim high and be the best that they can be at doing something. Some of the people got awards for ambulance driving, music and other things. I was one of the winners of the award. I got $200 for me to get more music lessons and Appleby School got $200 as well. We are going to use that money to buy more musical instruments.
This is me playing Wonderwall on the guitar at the ceremony. I even got recorded on YouTube. You can watch it by clicking here. Everyone is very proud of me and I am so glad it is over but I sort of want to do it again.
Angus and Monty are officially opening the Appleby School Shed. So now we can use it all the time.
This is Holly standing by the mural. She has just pulled down the fabric and wow!
This is Sheryl doing her speech that she doesn't like doing but I liked it.
We are all sitting down waiting not so patiently for the interesting assembly to start.
Here is a new typing game for the newbies. Keyboard Climber helps you identify the individual keys quickly.
This is a picture of us in Grace's party uniform. Her mother made them. She actually bought the white jerseys and embroidered our names on the back of them. They look wicked. We went rollerblading at Tahunanui- next to the go-karts. Then we went to the park. We had some delicious cake at the beach. Some people had two pieces. YUM! Athough some of us had trouble at first at rollerblading we all had fun. That was a fun day. Thank you, Grace.
This is me. I am standing on an anti-aircraft gun. It is really cool.
This is Mini-Dylan at the island night at the Rarotongan. I saw George there.
This a plant called the taro. It tastes like dry bread.
This outside my island home when it was windy.
This is me climbing a coconut tree.
The music on Castle Quest might eventually drive you outside into the sunshine but at least you will be good at your times tables when you go. Give it a whirl.
As a reward for those making a good effort with their handwriting and those achieving well with their handwriting, three children (we only have three laptops) will be chosen each week to do typing practice instead of handwriting practice. Here are a couple of places they can go to get the practice.
Dance Mat Typing is very cool because you can choose the level you want to start on to see how good you are.
There are two options with Bleat Box- an easy one where you just learn where the keys are and a harder one where you have to use your memory.
Typing Master is an old style Pacman game where you type the letters to move your man!
Tux Type is a downloaded game that Allanah has put on the laptops for you to use. Only click on the link and you have asked your parents if it is OK to download a game from the internet. It comes in a Windows, Apple or Linux version.
Our Appleby Fair was a raging success. It even made it to our local newspaper, The Nelson Mail. They have cut together a brilliant video of the day. There are lots of us in it so do have a look but you will have to be quick as I am not sure how long the link will work from the paper.
It was a stunning day yesterday at the Appleby School Fair. I didn't get much in the way of photos because I was busy with the bouncy castle but I did manage to get some video of Jacob showing his skills at wood chopping. I was scared he would chop his toes off while I was watching but he knew what he was doing. Awesome stuff, Jacob.
Today we did an experiment about coins. What we did was we cut some paper cups. We did a small one, a medium one and a large one.
We got a tote tray and put water in it then we got the cut paper cups and we got a bag of $2 coins and put them in the paper cups one at a time.
We put money into the cups that we had in the water. We had four different sized cups. The baby sized cup only took two coins to make it sink. The mummy sized cup only took two coins and the daddy sized cup took five coins. It was hard to put the coins in the middle so it was even.
This Fleebur and Splinky multiplication game is a bit different but will help you get your tables more quickly.
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