My Calendar Art

At the end of the year we are doing calendar art. It's awesome!!! My one is a rocket city. I call it Rocket Town! The class had to do Friedensreich Hundertwasser art. This type of art is great!! I like it when it's crazy.

By Toby Kuegler

The Great Escape!

Faster he told himself or I will get caught.  He loaded more apples into his cart. Greedy the rat, he told himself, that's all I need.  Suddenly a cat saw a fat rat.  Greedy shot off swiftly on his horse and cart. Oh no the horses broke free. What shall I do? Thought Greedy. Pop! He was thrown with his apples into his hole and he had a feast.

By George Jones

My Sport!

My name is Stella and I love tennis and netball so much, I am getting lots better at both sports!  In netball my favourite position to play is centre.  Now, lets talk about tennis.  When I go to tennis I play doubles,  single and some games.  I like tennis and netball!

By Stella Benton

Greek God: Zeus

Zeus, God and in fact, the ruler of the universe. He and his children were legends of Greek Mythology but not many children smile at the thought of receiving a book about it, so I will share what I know about Zeus to get more children interested in Greek Mythology! Zeus' children include Hercules, Athena, Hermes and Cupid. Most of Zeus' children take after him so they are brave, strong, wise and best of all; immortal! If you had the gift of immortality you would live forever, so in theory immortality was very important to Zeus because ruler of the universe is a full time job and if he was not there chaos might strike. Zeus kept his youthful looks by drinking nectar and eating ambrosia, the special food for the gods, but if a mortal (people like you and me who don't live forever) ate ambrosia or nectar, they would become immortal! Zeus had a bucket full of thunderbolts that would never run out because of its magic. If anyone upset Zeus, he would hurl a mighty thunderbolt at them. Zeus created storms with his thunderbolts.  With the help of his brother Poseidon he created storms at sea. I hope you like my post about Zeus and I also hope that this will help more children be interested in Greek Mythology!

By Naomi Amarasingham-Young

Lily's Post on Wednesday, 28 October 2015

A while ago Nicola said that our class would go out side and rotate around and measure different things with metre and cm rulers . Our groups first thing to measure was the forest path . Before we started measuring we needed to do an estimate of how long the path would be . Monique and I decided to buddy up and work together . It took so long to measure from the top of the hill to the bottom because it was quite steep . Then we moved to our next station and went on and on when we finished our 4th station we all went inside.

Meera Bai's Post on Friday, 23 October 2015

On Wednesday my class went to the senior playground to measure it.  The formula for finding out the area of the senior playground is length x width.  We all partnered up and I was with Ryder the amazing.  We used meter rulers to measure the senior playground and we also marked it with pencil to help us count the measurement.  I thought it was quite fun partnering up because I like working with people.

Report - Giraffes

Did you know that the giraffe is the tallest animal in the world and every giraffe has its own unique pattern?

A giraffe has a large heart so it can pump blood to its head and legs.  Girafffe can only sit down for 10 ro 12 minutes that is why they lean their head on their back because if they sit down for too long they will die. 

A baby mammal looks like a mini version of the adult.  Mother mammals feed their babies milk.  Horses are mammals as well as giraffes and elephants.  Did you know that a female giraffe is called a cow, a male giraffe is called a bull, and a baby is called a calf?  

Giraffe live all over Africa.  They can live in grasslands or places with green grass.  A giraffe is a herbivore, that means they eat plants.  A giraffes favourite food is thorns and leaves.

 Giraffe are getting hunted down by poachers.  Poachers are people who hunt and kill animals illegally.  Once,  in the olden days, there were lots of giraffe but people hunt and kill too many giraffe so the numbers are much lower now.  There is only 450 of a certain kind of giraffe left in the world.  Cows and bulls live until they are 25 years old but they can live for longer in the Zoo.  

By Lucy