Saint Gertrude

WALT find out more about a Saint. 

Today was All Saints Day and to celebrate that fact we had to chose a saint and find out more about that saint. I chose Saint Gertrude. Here is the facts I found out about her. Who is your favourite saint?

Calendar art

WALT to use texture in painting. In class we have been learning about Canadian culture so for our calendar art we did a totem pole. Most schools do it too so you should buy your children's art work! 

What did your children draw last year?

 

Twizel

WALT write a recount about what happened in the holidays. In the holidays we went to a small town called Twizel. There wasn't much to do so we went to the surrounding places. Here is my recount of what happened. Have you been to Twizel?

Twizel

After ballet on the first Saturday of the holidays we went on a four hour drive to get to Twizel and to be honest I don't know how I survived with dads farts. We really needed to buy gas masks because I nearly passed out. I got super carsick but luckily Mum brought seasickness tablets and then I fell asleep.

When we finally got there we didn’t do much but the next day we went to Mt John Observatory. It was snowing so hard I could barely see. I put crystalized snow down the back of Mum’s shirt but she got me back by shoving dirty snow in my mouth. Then we went to Mt Cook. It was still snowing hard so we couldn’t do the walk but there was a cool museum with stuffed animals.

On the third day we went to Clay Cliffs which is a bunch of rocks formed over the years by salt, grit and fresh water then uplifted. I found a ton of Rose Quartz. At one point I nearly fell about 50 feet. We drove back and I collapsed on the leather chair. I felt traumatised (side note, I'm fine) Then that night we went to an Thai takeaway and I had the best Pad Thai. 

So I had a four hour drive, ate dirty snow and nearly died. What a lovely holiday.

What a load of rubbish!

W.A.L.T: Choose  a picture of our recycling bin and rubbish bin, The school skip or another classes rubbish and analyse how we or they are helping with stewardship. Today we had to take picture of our rubbish bins and see if they are showing stewardship. I took a picture of the big rubbish bin and a small recycle bin. I was kind of sad to see normal pieces of paper in the rubbish bin when it's supposed to be in the recycle bin. Have you ever put a piece of rubbish in the recycling because they have to pay a $1000 to decontaminate a truck.

recycling

rubbish

Cricket for P.E

 WALT keep your eyes on the ball. 

At PE today we played cricket which is my favourite sport so I loved it! We jumped on a big bouncy castle to catch a ball they threw at us. I didn't catch any of the balls but I still enjoyed it. After we finished that we played two bat cricket and I hit one that went really far! Here is a photo of me running up to the bouncy castle. 

What's the furthest you have ever hit a ball?