Parthiv's Olympic Report

Margaret Mahy Report

Margaret Mahy, 76, was a famous former librarian at a one of the public libraries in New Zealand.  She was also a teacher.  She had cancer that started early April and died of it on the 23 July 2012 at 3pm.  She was a great author in New Zealand.  She has 2 sisters that are older and she also had a younger brother.  She has one daughter.

She wrote her first book when she was 7 and it’s called “Bad Harry.”  She has since written over 200 book, but only 100 picture books, 40 novels and 20 collections of short stories were published.  Her books were translated into 15 different languages.

In 1980 Margaret Mahy became a full time author and went on to win numerous awards and honours for her country.  She also won premier children’s book awards.

When She was a little girl her mother forced her to bring, buy, fetch and carry everything around Governors bay in Christchurch, which was her home town.

John Key was at her funeral and it was a sad day for New Zealand.

By Cameron F

Cross Country in the MUD!

Miss Hammond found the biggest puddles she could and then made us run through them!  She loved every minute of it, I wonder if her students did?

 

Home Play Challenge Begins

Rachael visited today and explained how the home play challenge is going to run for the next 3 weeks.  Its going to be all about the Olympics.  We have 2 challenges to complete every night, ones a food challenge and one a sports challenge.  The class with the most challenges completed wins a special prize!

What is tonights challenge?
How did you go?

RIP Margaret Mahy

Today we did an inquiry about Margaret Mahy's life.  Check back soon for our findings.

Sensible Blog Comments

Today we had a big learning curve about why we have a blog and what we can do to be responsible Frankton Students on here.


We know that our blog is about sharing our classroom, school and learning with our family, friends and other schools.  Everyone that comes to this blog is interested in what we are doing and therefore we need to be careful about what we post.  They read our comments too.


We learnt about a comment sandwich.  This is not a tasty lunch treat!  But an important way to post a comment to someone to help them learn. 
1) You start with something nice, "That was awesome", " Wow look at that writing."  "I agree with you".
2) You give them feedback, "Next time you could", "You might like to..."
3) You finish with a warm fuzzy, "Can't wait to see how it turns out", "Lookind forward to seeing it."


The big thing to remember is:

IF YOU WOULD NOT SHOW YOUR GRANMA DON'T WRITE IT!

Jump Jam

Today we rocked out some jump jam because it was too wet and rainy to go for a run.  Check us out.  What do you think?

Welcome Uni Students

 A huge room 9 welcome to our 2 lovely uni students who have joined us this term.  They are here to learn what its like to be a real teacher as they work through their first year at University. 

The question is, who remembers what their names are?  A prize to the first person who gets it right!

Cross Country

Today was our first cross country practise for the year.  We all found it pretty tough to start with but once we got past the first bit some of us started to enjoy ourselves.  Look at Reefs big smile, and thats on lap 2!  From here on out we know that we will need to pace ourselves and not sprint at the very start because otherwise we run out of steam at the end.  Each day we are going to set ourselves a little goal to achieve.  It might be to run the first lap and only walk once on the second, or to beat your mates or to beat yesterdays time. 

What is your goal going to be?

Taiana singing "Amazing Grace" 2011

Look what I found on the internet.  Our little song bird Taiana singing.  Wow girl you have the most beautiful voice!  You should be very proud of yourself.

What have you done this holidays?

It seems like ages since we saw each other last! 

What have we all been doing? 

Where did you go? 

Who did you see?

Did you buy me a present?