An Exciting Day

Making Placemats

“We’re making placemats!” “Ohhhh!” Kimberly had told me about making placemats last year when I wasn’t here, and she said it took foreverrr. (Kimberly is my friend.) My hand shot up. “What are we making them with?” Mrs Bryant, our teacher, reached behind the whiteboard and pulled containers and packets of… “Crepe paper??” the class exclaimed. “Yes, and it will only take 2 sessions to make them!” “Grace, what colours would you like?” “Pink, purple, green and light blue,” I replied taking my crepe paper colours. David was handing out the pieces of card the size of our desk for the bases of our placemats, so I grabbed one. I grabbed my crepe paper and carefully started placing them in the directions I wanted them to be in, pink, green, blue, purple, start again… “This, class, is magic brew!” said Mrs Bryant. “How is that magic?” I thought, as Mrs Bryant stirred the brew with the end of a paintbrush. I grabbed a cup of brew and a paintbrush. When I’d painted the brew over the crepe paper I read a book. Well, I did a bot of drawing but don’t tell anyone. The magic brew had worked wonders! Mrs Bryant had peeled the crepe paper off Blake’s placemat and the colour had drained onto the paper like dye. After everyone else had peeled the crepe paper off their placemat, we found out that Mrs Bryant had photocopied some cute Hoihos that we placed and stuck to our placemats. Next, we typed up 2013 on the ipads, printed them and stuck them to our placemats. Then, well we were pretty much ready for laminating them.

Interschool Success

We got certificates for getting a placing in the inter schools swimming. Sapphire got 3rd in the nine year old 50m freestyle and Ruby got 2nd in the nine year old 50m breaststroke.

Fishing for Octopus by Jacob and Lawson

Octopus Story by Kimberly, Grace and Ruby

Place mats

Recently Hoiho made some place mats for our desks. The class used crepe paper and put it on a piece of white paper. Some people did a pattern and others put them in just random places. After we had finished putting it in the places we wanted Mrs Bryant mixed some water and vinegar and we put it over the crepe paper and it left a stain.

Later we found some Hoiho pictures and cut them out and stuck them on our place mats. The class printed a 2013 off the ipad and we also stuck that on our place mats.

Running Club

Nearly all of our class have joined Running Club so that we can get fitter. Go Hoiho!
Running Club is at lunchtimes on Tues, Wed and Fri each week.

Hoiho Fish

Last week we enjoyed swimming at the ASB Aquatic Center. There were five groups. Some did diving, some other groups did breaststroke, backstroke and freestyle.

On Wednesday our swimming instructor Darryl gave us some very heavy t-shirts to put on. We swam one length with them on. After that he made us tread water for five minutes. We had to do it in case of an emergency. It was a fun experience for us.

On the last day we had races. Some people vs. their own instructor. At the end of the lesson we got a long free time.

Heads or Tails?

In Maths each day we learn about Probability. Probability is judging the likelihood of each event. For example you will be born tomorrow is impossible. 

We flipped coins to see what the chances are of getting heads or tails. We found the chances are even.