An information report by Olivia

Listen to Olivia read her information report about Stegosaurus

Custard's cat flap decorated for Christmas

We have been reading a book about Greedy Cat and how he ate too much on Christmas Day and when he tried to squeeze himself through the cat door he got stuck. Katie kindly pushed him out and when she did the door came out and it ended up around his middle !!!! We are enjoying the story and noticed that Greedy Cat's cat flap was rather fancy- surrounded by tinsel. It got us thinking about how many of us decorate our cat or dog flaps !!!!

Stephanie has a cat called Custard and we have heard a lot of stories about Custard throughout the year - including some rather naughty things along with things that made us all laugh like the time he tried to catch the raindrops as they ran down the glass window!!!!!

Stephanie went home and decorated Custard's cat door and her Mum Joanne sent us this email.




Hi Room 6
Here is Custards Christmas cat door.
It is a bit like Greedy cats one.. but I think Custard has more tinsel on his!
I am not sure what he thinks of it, he has checked out the Christmas tree and he was very sensible, no climbing or messing around with the decorations.
Maybe he thinks this cat door is just all part of the christmas decoration theme going on, ........
or otherwise he has become a bit fancy and thinks all cat doors should look like this!!
have a good fun day and hope you enjoy your fancy lunch
Joanne

Thanks Stephanie and Joanne

Dinosaur fun - thanks room 14

Room 14 drew this amazing dinosaur on our school playground. We watched with interest as they drew a grid and the dinosaur began to appear. Can you see what type of dinosaur they drew - its fierce, a meat eater and has 2 powerful legs......



It was T. Rex


We got Blake to lie down beside the dinosaurs leg to get an idea of how big T. Rex really was. We discovered he was quite a bit bigger than Blake!!!!




We stood along its tail .......



We stood around its mouth !!!



Then we stood anywhere we wanted to on the dinosaur.


Thanks room 14 for making such a cool dinosaur in our playground and letting us join in the fun.

Celebrating a birthday

At Sunnybrae Normal School, when it is your birthday Mrs Stewart our principal calls you over to her office and gives you a very special bookmark which has the school crest on it. Nicole is turning 6 on the 24 of December. We won't be at school on the 24th so Mrs Stewart called for her today. It was very exciting in room 6 - as she is the first person in our class to be called over and when she came back we all crowded around her to see what she had been given. Now we are all looking forward to receiving a bookmark when we turn 6.

The happy little dog by Nicole

Nicole wrote this narrative about a dog that stole some sausages from a butcher. What did he do with the sausages?

A view from Flynn's window

Flynn sent us this really neat photo that he took from his bedroom window. In the email Flynn sent to us he told us .........
Here is a picture I took from outside my bedroom window. You can see the big trees in the back are on our paddocks and the mountain behind is called Tamahunga that we live under.





Thanks for sending us the photo Flynn.

What can you see from your bedroom window?
Send a photo taken looking out from your bedroom window to us via Mrs Rennie-Younger (hrennie-younger@sunnybrae.school.nz) and we will put it on our blog.

Dinosaur song

Mrs Rennie-Younger has returned and is happy to be surrounded by the room 6 children who have learned so much about dinosaurs over the past 5 and a half weeks under Mrs Chambers careful and enthusiastic guidance.

This week we have enjoyed listening to his song. The children are keen to share it with you all and have asked me to place it on the blog. Enjoy.

The sneaky cat by Stephanie

Listen to Stephanie reading her story about a rather sneaky cat. What happened to her cat?

Week 1 and week 2 Term 4 2010

In week 1 Mrs Rennie-Younger headed off for 5 weeks to work as a teacher administrator for the National Education Monitoring Project and the lovely room 6 is being taught by Mrs Chambers. This term we are looking at footprints in the past, with a focus on dinosaurs.

In week 1 room 6 recorded what they knew about dinosaurs using a Y chart.


In week 2 the children had to search through the sand to find some very special dinosaur bones!!!! Once all the bones were found they carefully put the bones together to discover what dinosaur they had made. It was the great dinosaur dig.

My Dad went to the toy tea party by Callum

After the toy tea party, Callum wrote this personal recount of the event. What special toy did Callum's Dad bring to school?

Week 10 Term 3 2010 -

It has been a very exciting week - Production week. On Tuesday and Thursday night we came back to school to perform 'Footprints in Story land' to a packed audience. On Monday we performed to the local kindergarten's and Wednesday to the rest of the school. It's been a very exhausting week and we are all looking forward to the holidays.

The caterpillar by Oscar

Listen to Oscar read his story about a caterpillar.

The caterpillar by Nicole Patton

Nicole wrote this narrative about a caterpillar. What did the caterpillar like about the apple tree?

The squashed caterpillar by Charlie

Listen to Charlie read her story about a caterpillar. Why did the caterpillar get squashed?

The caterpillar turned into a butterfly by Blake

Listen to Blake read his story about a caterpillar.