Wacky day

Today we dressed up in crazy wacky clothes for a mufti day to raise money for different initiatives classes have been working on. Here are some photos.

Gracie's bird's nest! Yes that is her real hair!

Crazy Kai and his wacky hair! No not his real hair!

Brigit

Crazy Room 23

Even crazier!

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Zones Cross Country

Congratulations to Isabel, Iso, Brigit, Kai, Corban and Gracie who competed against other schools in our zone at the Halswell Quarry yesterday.  You guys made us very proud.

Good luck to Iso, Brigit, Corban and Gracie who made the Canterbury cross country team to represent St Albans in a couple of weeks.

Here are some photos of their race.

St Albans cross country team 2012

Crazy kids!

Run Gracie they're catching you!

Iso, you look in pain - keep going!

Trinity

Good work Brigit

Go Bells Go!

Not far now!

Well done Brigit - good to see a smile at the finish!

Cross Country

This year's cross country was very successful for Room 23.

In the 9 yr girls we had 4 girls in the top 6 - Gracie, Iso, Brigit and Isabel.

In the 9 yr boys we had 2 in the top 6 - Corban and Kai.

Well done you guys! Good luck for zones next Wednesday.
Great training by everybody, you did so well.

Here are some videos from the day.

Iso

Gracie

Vienna

Lavender

Emily

Shannae

Fighting it out - Iso and Gracie

Holes chapter 7

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Botanical Gardens and Skate Skool

Last Thursday Room 23 went to the Botanical Gardens to learn about biodiversity.  Ben from the council taught us some scientific terms for how species are going - THRIVING - animals are doing well, THREATENED - if we don't look after them they could become extinct, EXTINCT - there are no more of them in the world. Terms for where species came from - INTRODUCED - brought in from another country like cats, dogs, rats, NATIVE - found in one or more countries like the pukeko/swamp hen, ENDEMIC - only found in one country like the kiwi.

We played some games where we pretended we were fantails and the fantails had to protect their land.  This game showed us the importance of protecting trees or replanting ones that need to come down and how so many species depend on one another.

We also went on a plant scavenger hunt.  We were split into small groups - a map reader, a sketcher and a recorder.  We had to hunt for 3 numbers and draw and describe the plants we found, then by using the info gathered, find out the names of the plants and what they were used for when Maori and early European settlers came to NZ.

Later that day we had Skate Skool where we tried skate boarding and roller blading.

Check out the movie from the fabulous day we had.

Granny Groggin

On Wednesday Jazmin read a story called Granny Groggin.  She is learning how to improve her expression and read with fluency.

Here is the movie of Jazmin reading out loud her story. Great reading Jazmin!!

Ice Skating

We had such a fantastic time ice skating last term.  Mrs Ford has finally figured out how to put the movie on the blog.