Cross Country Pictures

Children's Work

Here are some stories written by the children. We did a lot of talking together and planning of our story along the format of another story called "3 Wishes". They were aloud to change the characters and the situations, but they had to follow the same pattern of events. These children did this very well and used some great language features to enhance their writing. I hope you enjoy them and can leave some nice feedback.

Stephen J

Hannah K


Well here it is!!! Hot off the press, here are some of the finished re-written "Jack and the Beanstalk" stories. We have worked very hard on these stories. They are based on the story of Jack and the Beanstalk, but we have changed a few things. We have written them according to the way we want you to read them as we have learnt a few tricks about reading with expression this term. So here are our stories. We hope you enjoy reading them as much as we have enjoyed writing them.

Georgia Dannika

Hayden Alicia

Olivia Hannah B

Troy

Connor MacD

Jackson

Isla

Stephen J

Samantha

Lucy

Annaliese (I'm quite taken with the main character in this story!) :-)

Prajna

Oliver

BIG thanks to Hannah's Mum (Julie) for typing out our stories! :-)

Term 2

Well, we all made it back from our holidays and we are "diving head first" into term 2. Literally! We are swimming twice a week this term, and having heaps of fun! We are also doing PMP (Perpetual Motor Skills) so by Friday afternoon, we are all very ready for our social, low key afternoon of Developmental.

Unfortunately we did not win the Hurricanes competition, but the winners were from down the road, so it's not too bad.

We will keep you posted with what is happening this term. Keep an eye out for our updates.

Hurricanes

Alcove 4 have gone Hurricane crazy. We heard on More FM that we could decorate our classroom in Hurricanes colours, and the best class gets a visit from the boys!

Here is a photo of some of us. Check out another photo of us on their web site. You can also keep an eye on the competition!

MoreFM

Links

Here is the link to the site to make the Tiger enclosure. Sorry for the wrong address! It is a fantastic site to investigate with your children!


This site is also a way of getting more ICT into the classroom. In developmental we had a play on this site Art Rage. It is a free download for Macs and PC, so does not have all the tools, but it is a neat way to draw on the computer. Have fun and explore. Click on the image below.

I hope that those of you who down loaded art rage have had fun. Another link that I have found is Fun Brain. It is filled with educational games (but the ones from edalive are great too, and raise money for our school).

FUN BRAIN LINK

I know that we have some High School Musical Fans out there. I am going to the stage show myself. I thought that you might like to have a look at some of the vidoe clips (if you don't have the DVD already) They are off you tube and there are some aspects of this site that may need parental supervision.

HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL

Also there are links to Hi 5 as I know we have fans of that in Alcove 4 too. SO have a look and then you can search for your other favourites too.

Hi 5

Here is a link to an Astronomy site for kids. We have had a look at it with the Syndicate the other week, so have a play with your children.

http://kidsastronomy.com/

Easter Activity

Hi all,

We have discovered a cool trick on the internet. We put our names in the boxes and out pops a story, with us and our friends as the stars!

Here is the link, just scroll down the page to get to the easter story.

Easter story

Easter Hunt

Easter is on it's way and the Easter Bunny is in training! He contacted Mrs Pepperell at our school and asked if we could help him. He said that he would race around and deliver eggs for the Kowhai children and we would rush around and find them. He chose the Kowhai children because he knew they were good at sharing! He asked if the children could find all the eggs and put them in the basket, and then each child would be able to have one, even if they couldn't find one! Have a look at our slide show. It shows a sneak peak at how we got on!