Our Canvas for the School Fair.

This week we finished the canvas we were painting for the school fair on Friday 2nd. We chose a picture from the drawings we had made for our calendars. Theoden drew the picture we decided to use.

First we had to photocopy the picture onto a see through transparency. Then Mrs Craib helped us use an OHP to shine the picture on the canvas. We drew the picture on and then Theoden chose us to come and help paint parts of the canvas. We had to be very careful to paint inside the lines. We are very proud of our finished work. We hope it sells for lots of money at the fair.

Problem Solving

We were given a huge puzzle to solve during the week. It was a 500 piece Lord of the Rings jigsaw puzzle. It took us 3 days to finish this as lots of the pieces were the same colour. First we had to sort the pieces into colours. Each group took a colour and tried to find pieces that went together. Then we made a frame of the outside pieces. We all put the pieces we had made together but there were still a lot to add. Emmerson and Cameron showed fantastic persistence and kept trying different pieces until they found the ones that fit.
Success - we finished it!

Keeping Christchurch beautiful

Yesterday we went down to Selwyn Street to help add plants to a special garden.






Ms Loveridge and Mr Woods showed us how to dig a hole and to  put the plants into the compost.






We all had a turn at planting.







Then we helped find rocks and stones to add to a wall to protect the garden.

We are going to remember to water the garden when we go past.
We had fun planting the garden.

East Club

Yesterday the Mighty Minnows team went to East Club. East Club was at the Leeston Showground.

The children from the area were showing their animals. We saw pigs, lambs and a sheep called 'Chocolate chip', calves, kids, roosters, bunny rabbits, kittens and cats, a rat, and even eels.

We were allowed to pat the the animals and even tickle the eels tummies.






After lunch we played games with the children from Southbridge School. We had a three-legged race, jump in the sacks, tennis racquet race, bean bags in a bucket, a clothes race, tug of war, egg and spoon race and gumboot throw. We had fun with our Southbridge friends.

We went on a double decker bus - it was exciting traveling on the top deck!