Marae Trip

Our two classes are visiting the Marae next Thursday, March 19th. We need five parents per class - 10 for us - and we are desperately short! If you are able to help on the trip, please email either Miss Rait or Ms Saxon to let them know.

Thank you,
Ms Saxon.

ionar@stmartins.school.nz
tamaras@stmartins.school.nz

Bruno's Museum Spider Trip

 

Bruno talking about his  V.I.P spider trip to Christchurch Museum. Bruno found a spider in the boys' toilet and found out it was a brown vega. He was invited by one of the spider experts at the museum to come and have a look around and find out about what he does for a job. Bruno came back to school bursting with stories about big tarantulas being fed birds, and other freaky tales!

Congratulations Bruno, it is so great that your awesome attitude has been rewarded.

Inquiry - Talofa Pacific

Today we were given some time with the IPads and Laptops to research into our areas of interest and to try to answer some of our questions. All of our class worked fantastically on their own or in small groups putting into practise their note taking skills that Miss Rait has been working really hard with us on.

Please ask us what we are inquiring into and some of the exciting things we are discovering.

How The Turtle Got Its Hard Shell

We have spent many hours composing our own myth about how turtles got their hard shells.

We have some amazing writers in our classes and every single person has made some sort of contribution.

Grace led us with how to organise our ideas into strong sentences. Finn was extremely clever at showing rather than telling, eg. "Tama looked at the ground hesitantly and nodded." "Tama trudged along behind the fierce warriors, with his spear held pitifully by his side." Mya became an amazing narrator with such a strong voice that projects so well. Bruno was the voice of the father, Finlay was the voice of the volcano god, and Leo was the voice of Tama.

So many of our students were fantastic at changing our vocabulary to ensure it is really strong. 'Came' became 'emerged', 'under' became 'beneath', 'held' became 'clutched', 'looked' became 'glanced'. We were all great at contributing and are so excited about writing our own myth over the next few weeks.

If you have time please pop in and ask your child to share with you our shared writing book.

Try these at home

Maths you will love 

Congratulations on your pen licence!

Reading and learning