ANZAC acrostic poems

This week we have been learning about ANZAC day and Gallipoli.

Today we wrote acrostic poems using Gallipoli as our base word. We then used a QR code generator to create QR codes for our poems. Tomorrow we are going to stick them on our piece of poppy art.

Abby's poem

Anika's poem

End of term awards

Some of room 7 collected an award at Progress and Effort today for their hard work and learning this term. They were; Nicholas, Lily F, Lily N, Holly, Tate, Joseph and Ryder. Congratulations!

Progress & Effort

We had lots of children in room 7 who could not fit in anymore learning in this term as they were here everyday of this term. Great

100% Attendance

Green Day Term 1

This term for green day we pulled the weeds from along the fenceline and behind some of the classes. We also picked up any rubbish we found. It looks much tidier now!

Jack Flash

Today we watched a funny play of Jack Flash and the jumping beanstalk. Jack had the task of finding out who was dropping rubbish from out of the sky. You can guess who the culprit was.... it was the giant. We really enjoyed the jokes, funny parts, songs and the storyline.

Stormwater drains

On Tuesday we watched a show presented by the Auckland Council on protecting our stormwater drains.

We learnt the following things:

- always wash our cars on the lawns or at the car wash

- pick up litter from the kerb so that it doesn't go down the drain

- check for leaking taps and tell someone

- let the council know if the stormwater drain caps are coming off

- to never wash oil into the stormwater drains

and lastly rain should be the only thing going down a stormwater drain.

Our letters head off to Room 30

This year we are going to be buddies with another school. We have written letters to Room 30 at Point View School. We hope they arrive before the holidays and that they will be excited to be our buddies. We are looking forward to getting a reply to our letter.

Tate's report on bush fires.

Bush fires in Australia

Bush fires are fires that rage through the bush and cause lots of damage, and can spread and destroy villages. So planes, fire trucks and choppers have to go get water pour it all over the top of the fire to put it out.

In southeast Australia, bush fires tend to be most common and most severe during summer and autumn, in drought years, and particularly in El Nino years. In the north of Australia, bush fires usually occur during summer (the dry season), and fire severity tends to be more associated with seasonal growth patterns.

They happen mostly in Hobart, Melbourne, Perth and a few other places in Australia. Some of Australia’s worst fires are in thick bush areas.

Fire fighters look for a natural edge or boundary, such as a road, stream or plain field, and they do a controlled burn of all the fuel between the barrier and the fire. This means that before the fire gets there, it would have already burned out.

In my opinion, I think firefighters are brave because they carry on fighting the fires to save other people's lives, no matter what