Virtues

As part of our social skills in term 4 we are going to be practising two different virtues.  Virtues are behaviours that are seen to be "good" or "moral".  What virtue do you think the Little Engine is showing in this clip?

Wow! It's the last day of Term 3 :o)

It's Friday the 28th of September - the last day of term 3!
We've had such a busy term...
100 days at school
London Olympics
R@W Awards night - Kevin, Luana-Nan and Anthony A were finalists.  Anthony won!
Writing fairy tale narratives
Using Puppet Pals and Toontastic apps
Ronald McDonald Show about traffic safety
Going on our native plant hunt in the "out of bounds" area
Learning about fractions
New Zealand Maths Challenge
Daffodil Day
Cross Country
Making harakeke flowers
Potato Harvest
Calf Club Day
New Zealand ShakeOut
Treat's Day at the Papakura pools
What an amazing term, we have all worked very hard and definitely deserve a rest!

What has been your highlight this term?
Why is that your highlight?

Potato Harvest

Back at the beginning of June, all of the junior students planted a seed potato in a bucket.  On Thursday 20th September we had the Junior Potato Harvest.

We took our buckets of potatoes around the back of Room 5 for harvesting.  It was great fun uncovering all of our potatoes!

Monomono-Ava had the most potatoes in her bucket - she had 15.  She also had the most in the whole junior school.

Cameron had the biggest potato in his bucket - it was 175 grams.  Naiya in Room 5 had the biggest potato in the junior school - it was about 200 grams!

Here are some photos of the harvest :)

Daffodil Day (Friday 31 August)

Daffodil Day is a fundraising day for the Cancer Society.  Paerata School chose to help fundraise for this cause in 2012.

Before Daffodil Day our class decided to fundraise by selling decorated mini-cup cakes.  Room 7 fundraised by selling bags of popcorn.

Our class talked about what the Cancer Society did and many people in our class knew someone who had been affected by cancer.

Room 8 fundraised a total of $57.40!

Narratives using Puppet Pals or Toontastic

As part of our writing this term, Room 8 has been learning about narratives.  To help us learn and write about narratives we have been looking at Fairy Tales.
We read a lot of Fairy Tales and then we used some of the characters and ideas to write our own narratives.
We have used the iPad apps called "Puppet Pals" and "Toontastic" to turn our narratives into movies.  Over the next few weeks Miss Bolton will add our movies either to the blog or our wiki page.
Room 8's writing page

Puppet Pals movie by Luana-Nan

Puppet Pals movie by Aloysius

School Cross Country

Last Wednesday (29 August) we had our cross country races.  It was a great sunny day :)  We started with the Year 1 races and went right up to the Year 8s races.

Everyone tried really hard during their races.

Unfortunately the Year 3 boys had to re-run their race on Thursday because some of the boys went the wrong way - oops!

How did you feel about running in your race?
Did you enjoy cross country?

Stop, look and listen!

Ronald McDonald came to Paerata School this morning.  The junior school got to see the show, and Alaska, Luke and Mrs Tate had special jobs.  Brenda, from McDonalds Pukekohe, was there to help Ronald too.

First Ronald came into the room and searched for the juniors but he couldn't find us!  He turned around and found us - we were in the middle of the room!

Ronald set up his show, but it kept falling down!  Then Mrs Tate magically appeared - she had shrunk down into Ronald's hand.  When we counted to 3, Mrs Tate grew back to normal size!  She started reading a story about Ronald McDonald and his missing sock.  It was very funny.

Ronald McDonald came to talk to us about road safety.  We learned about keeping away from the kern and the road, to stop, look and listen for any cars or traffic and when you come to a driveway you need to stop and check if it is safe to cross it.

Ronald asked Alaska to help explain how to cross the road safely with the Road Patrollers.

Cameron helped Ronald show us how to walk safely on roads with no footpath.

Luke filmed the show on the iPad so we can watch it again!

We all had a fun time learning about road safety with Ronald McDonald!