Mathletics

We are so excited to be able to get the laptops out every day to use the Mathletics programme. We open the internet by getting onto Safari and then we find the Mathletics site. We have to put in our unique code and then it's time to solve all the problems. This is so much fun.

My Family Stories

We have been writing stories about 'My Family'.

We used the word lists and letter boards to help us.
 We wrote sentences about who is in our family and what we like to do together.

We published our stories and they are hanging in our classroom.

Pita Penguin Arrives at Addington School

Pita Penguin came to our assembly at Addington School.

Pita is new at our school.

Pita talked to Ms Heath and asked what was special about our school. Pita wants to know more about the Addington Attitude.

 We welcomed Pita to our school.

2012 A New Year, A New Class

2012 has begun as you can see we have made changes to the way the blog looks. This is because we are a new class of children.
Look at our names below.

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.