Book Week

Last week we had one of the best book weeks yet!! It started off on Monday with the book parade. In Room 26 we had Hairy Hooligan Vikings, Harry Potters, Mary Poppins, The Mad Hatter, Dorothy, Tintin and many more! Willow (the Mad Hatter) and Olivia D (Mary Poppins) won prizes for best dressed in our class.

 We also had a big Book Week secret. We had been practicing a dance with our buddy class to the song "This Book's Gunna Be a Good Book" to the tune of "Tonights Gunna be a Good Night". On Wednesday at lunch time we all played on the courts and when the song came on we broke into a giant Flash Mob with the 5 other classes who had learned the dance. It looked really cool.

On Wednesday everybody bought their favourite books in to share with the class. It was great to see the range of books and authors that our class enjoy.

Throughout the week there were heaps more things to keep our minds on our books:

The Book Fair - this was set up in the hall and lots of people bought new books. It helped to raise money for our school.

Visitors - Craig Smith visited with us new song called Square Eyes. A parent from Room 21 (Dale) also visited with a book he wrote when he was 16! He is just getting it published now.

Book Olympics - this was a race between all the classes to answer questions all about books. It all got a little bit crazy!

Book Reviews - most people have presented their book reviews and they look amazing! It's great to see people putting some extra effort into their homework.

Audience Readers - some people read a picture book in front of the class. These were well read and most were very entertaining!

Book Tally's - each person kept a tally of the number of books they read over the week. Lots of people read 20-30 books and some even read over 60! That is a lot of reading.

Remember that you can keep using our Book Week saying whenever you are trying to read:

Don't bug me, I'm reading!

Water For Life

In Week 6 we went on a trip to one of the Christchurch City Council Water Pumping Stations. It used to be the old control room, but now they have a fancy new room somewhere else. While we were there we did some activities that taught us about where Christchurch water comes from. Did you know that it is some of the cleanest city water in the world!! Did you also know that if we use too much water at one time then salt water can end up in our main pipes!

To learn about how much water we use we did some groups activities where we pretended to be families in Christchurch or in other countries that don't have much water at all. It sure was eye opening to realise how much water we waste every day.

We also got to see some cool water pumps, generators and we got to look down into one of the water tanks. It holds 1 million litres of water! And that was just one of the small ones!!

Hopefully we can use the info from this trip and from our home water diaries to help us change the way we use water, so that there is plenty left for generations to come.