Brearna's Dinosaur Story

My dinosaur is pink.  She has big dark pink sports. She's got small skinny long legs.  She's got a big pink spikey mohawk.  Her claws are on her feet and some claws are on her hands.  Some of her friends are big and small.  Her tail is pink and small.  Tney all love to go out every day and explore the whole world.  They love the waterfalls and the trees.  All of them love to eat.  The grass is fresh as can be.  All of them always love to sleep in every day.  They all love the mountains.  There are lots of logs that they can munch on.  They love to go swimming with each other.  My dinosaur also loves to listen to music too.

Can you guess which one is Bre's dinosaur??

ANZAC Biscuits

On Tuesday we learnt about Anzac biscuits and why they're important.  Then we made them!  They were so yum!  However, there was a challenge - we had to create the packaging for our biscuits to go in.  We could use any materials we wanted and decorate them however we wanted.  What a great job everyone did.  Miss Sharland is super proud of how well you all worked in your teams.  Superb effort!!

Dancing

We spent three Monday afternoons with Miss van der Merwe learning all about dance.  We had to think about things like expressing ourselves, moving our body, responding to the beat.  We had a whole lot of fun whilst we were learning about the elements of dance. Thanks Miss van der Merwe!

AROHA

Last week, when we were in the ICT room, we had a big talk about AROHA and what it means to us.  It's great to see that so many of us know what it means and what it looks like in the classroom, the playground and around the school.  We then used Kidpix to draw our heart and write our 5 values.

Painted Animal Faces

A couple of weeks ago we started making animal faces with Mrs Martin.  We looked carefully at a photo of our chosen animal and then thought hard about it's features such as its eyes, markings, nose shape, whiskers etc.  From here we carefully painted our animal faces to make them look as realistic as possible.  Now we have a scary jungle wall.  Thanks Mrs Martin!

Avatars

Today we learnt how to create an avatar using buildyourselfwild.com.  We had to think carefully about what our hair looks like, what our eyes look like as well as our mouths.  From there we could choose any arms, legs, tails, bottoms and wings that we wanted.  Don't we look cool!

Swimming

We love having 5 minutes of free time at the end of our swimming lessons.

Murray the Monkey and Brearna

Brearna was the winner of our Duffy Certificate last week so she got to take Murray the Monkey home for the weekend!

Brearna is hung Murray up so that she was hanging by herself, they went down the slide together and then Bre threw Murray up into the air and caught her.

What a great weekend they had!!

LSS Values

Welcome to our new LSS Values! LSS children are going to have lots of AROHA.

Akohia (learning)
Respect
Ownership
Hautoa (courage)
Ambition.

When we talked about them we decided that we would write down what they look like in our classroom and everywhere else in the school. We even gave each part of AROHA an animal to make it easier for us to remember. Look at what we came up with.

There is always a lot to do in 'The Jungle' during wet lunchtimes.