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Following our hold-up last week we all wrote some creative accounts of our adventures. We used the actual experience of the ambush, but we all embellished a little to add interest and intrigue to our story. Charlotte did a great job of making her story more interesting by adding detail and description. Great work Charlotte, keep it up.
We have had such a lot of fun this week researching, planning and making a scarecrow. We are going to enter him in the competition this Sunday. We hope he scares the birds away from the gardens at the hospital.
On Wednesday we had 6 Room 4 people representing LAS at the South Otago Athletics in Balclutha. They were all competing in the sprints. Addy got 1st in the 100m finals and 3rd in the 60m finals. They all ran their very fastest and had a great time taking part.
Today Livvy brought in some very cool visitors for her news. They had found frogs in the swimming pool at their house last night. They were very jumpy little frogs, so we have to be careful as we took our photos.
This weekend has been very warm in the classroom, and because of this we had three new butterflies hatch out of their chrysalis' this morning. Dane when in to check on them while he was at school with his Mum, and he spotted that they had all hatched.
I was a lovely warm day, so we took the plants outside to see if the butterflies would fly away when their wings had dried.
The one in the green bucket flew away, to the top of the very tallest tree, but the other two stayed on the plant. Mrs May took them back inside to keep them safe until they were ready to fly.
She went back to school a couple of hours later, to find that they had left the plant and were flying on the windows. Mrs May opened the windows and let them fly free.
Check out the video of everything that happened below.
We have been watching our chrysalis' everyday for two weeks. Everday we hope to see that something is happening, and finally today we noticed that something was!!
We could see the wings of our butterfly through the chrysalis, and as the day went on the wings become darker and darker, until finally the chrysalis was very black.
We watched with anticipation all day long, just hoping that it would come out while we were at school...even sacrificing our swim this afternoon...and it paid off.
At 2.05pm our patience was rewarded and we all got to watch as our butterfly pushed its way our of the chrysalis. It was so amazing. Watch the link below to see our video, you will love it.
As a part of our Inquiry study of caterpillars and butterflies, we have also been doing some art. These collage pictures were inspired by Eric Carle, who wrote 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar'. He used collage made from paper that had been painted, so we decided to do the same.
We made caterpillars out of black, green and yellow. Then we made a monarch butterfly using orange and black. We are so proud of our art work.
The shining star award is not easily awarded, so it is always really special when someone in Room 4 wins the trophy.
This week Harvey was presented Shining Star gor his helpfulness to teachers and younger students. Everyday Harvey has helped Mrs Kenny with her young boys at swimming time, ensuring that they have the right clothes, and have packed up all of their gear. He does this without being asked, and it is much appreciated by everybody.
Keep up the wonderful kindness Harvey - it is making us all very proud!
We have been doing homework in Room for a few weeks now, and it we all have the hang of it. Cassidy has set the bar high in Room 4, by completing a huge number fo activities and completing them very well! It is lovely to see learners taking such prode in their work. Keep up the great work Cassidy.
On Wednesday we were invited to be a part of the fun and games of the 2018 Cavalcade. We dressed up as cowboy bandits and blocked the path of the riders so that they had to stop. We shouted out the chant and pointed our carrots at them in a threatening manner until they got off their horses. Then Cassidy rode in on Dora (a very menacing looking pair) and robbed all of the riders of their gold.
It was so much fun, and we raised $169.40 for our school camp.
Check out our video here, to see how it all unfolded and to hear our Cavalcade-stopping chant.
