Year 8 students share their learning

Today 3 Year 8 students visited our class to share their research and writing about the history behind nursery rhymes. We were very impressed with their level of understanding.
Thanks guys!

Book Week has started at Twizel Area School

This week we are celebrating the importance of books in our learning and in our lives.

There are lots of things happening. Some are:

* Book Character Dress-up Day on Friday
* Win a Book competition
* Bedtime stories in the library on Wednesday
* Display for parents about helping kids learn to read
* Quiz questions about books.
* Mrs Sheridan, read the whole Junior School a book called 'The House That Went To Sea' by Melinda Szymanik. Here is a photo of some of them.

Keep checking on our blog. We will post some more Book Week activities this week.
Have a great day and please leave us a comment.
Joo-chan - we miss you too!
From everyone in the Room 4 Learning Team

Estelle's Diary Entry

This is Estelle's diary entry for today:

Today is Wednesday. We had Mrs Nelson for the whole day. We did maths, writing and general knowledge quiz. For maths we practiced decimals and fractions. For writing we started to grow an idea about our house stories. And also Mr Potter talked about an exoskelton and cicadas. I had a tino pai day.

Tino Pai Estelle - this is a great diary entry. I hope you have a good afternoon too.
From Mrs Nelson

Ghosts of Iron Bottom Sound

Lots of people in our school have got a copy of The Ghosts of Iron Bottom Sound, written by Mrs Nelson.
Here are just some of them.

Maori Art

Kia-ora blog readers,
We are working on improving our Maori art skills. Today we are painting koru and kowhaiwhai patterns.
Tino pai Room 4!

SCIENCE FAIR - ROOM 4 WINNERS

Winners in Room 4 were:

YEAR 4
Highly commended:
Taine - What Objects Float on Water?
Iain - What are the Different Jobs of Teeth?

YEAR 5
1st - Kaya - Cluck Cluck Clucky
3rd - Kaya and Maddison - Go Away Pests

Highly commended:
Jonathan - Comparing thar and human skeletons
Jack - How to Measure the Height of a Tree
Morgan and Estelle - How Does Toothpaste Work?

These projects have gone to the Regional Science Fair in Fairlie. Judging is happening right now!

Congratulations to all these students, and to everyone who participated in the Twizel Area School Science Fair

SCIENCE FAIR PROJECTS

Wow - our Science Fair projects are all ready. They are great!  Thanks to the parents who supported us with this learning.

Here are photos of our projects. We are displaying them this afternoon with the projects from all the other students in Year 1-10. They will be judged after school today. The best projects are going to Fairlie for a Regional Science Fair on Wednesday.

Parents and community are invited to view the Science Fair after school on Monday and Tuesday, in the Multi-Purpose-Room. PLEASE COME!

We think Science is awesome. We love finding out about our world.

George and the Dragon - we did it!

              SHOW-TIME WAS SUPERB!
                           Congratulations to all involved!

In the last week of Term Two our school performed the wonderful show George and the Dragon, written by our Deputy Principal Neil Potter.


Congratulations to the cast, chorus, junior classes, and everyone involved.

Room 4 were peasants in a couple of scenes, and were evil characters in another scene. We also created the food for the banquet.

We did four shows: a pantomine, and 3 evening shows. Our community was very proud of their school.

Twizel Area School is awesome!