Harvey's amazing cake!!

Harvey was so kind, and made this amazing banana cake for our whole class! it was huge and delicious.  It had really cute little flags on it with everyone's names.  It was a really nice way to say "Happy holidays" to Freddie as he headed away today to Australia.  Thanks Harvey & Melonie!!

Annie's Ballet Trophy

Annie has been working really hard.

Even for her exams, her grade was grade one.

Robbie's amazing video

Thanks for watching guys and girls

Benji's video for watching to the boys and girls.

thank you for watching the video.

Otto and Alex's string game

Otto and Alex have been working hard to do this movie it took us 1.40 to make it.

String games with Alex & Cleo

Alex and Cleo have been working hard to make these string games.
It took us 5 minutes to make 2 videos.
Have a go & try challenge your family- even when they don't know how to do it!

Thanksgiving, Waitangi Day & Dia de los Muertos

Here are the links to stuff we looked at today:

Thanksgiving

http://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/culture/thanksgiving/

Waitangi Day

http://www.wcl.govt.nz/blogs/kids/index.php/2013/02/05/waitangi-day-the-treaty-of-waitangi/

Dia de los Muertos

http://www.celebrate-day-of-the-dead.com/day-of-the-dead-facts.html

If you are interested in experiencing some of Dia de los Muertos in nelson on Labour day!

http://www.nelsonartsfestival.co.nz/programme/community/day-of-the-dead/

Links to movies we watched about celebrations

Halloween:

http://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/culture/halloween/

Diwali:

http://mocomi.com

http://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/culture/diwali/

We didn't get to this page, but it has some great information on it too:

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/stories/peopleplaces/diwali/

Festivals around the world

What we are up to this term

We have been looking at and making timelines and working out patterns.  It is so nice to have everyone back in our class!!

 

 

Online time line

Here is a cool resource to make timelines online.  I can't work out a good way to save and continue working on them- maybe you can!!

http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/timeline-30007.html

British history timelines

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/timeline/timeline.shtml

What does BC or AD stand for?

http://www.digonsite.com/drdig/general/53.html

Minecraft book club

I am reading the beginner handbook. I think the best page is 12 and 13 because if you don't know
 how to play, it teaches you about the controls on all computers and x-box remotes.
 MINECRAFT IS AWESOME!