3 Amazing things Kereru have done!

Cross Country

Last week Dorie School did Cross Country.

We were all proud of all the people that got a placing and everybody else did well too.

We can't believe how far everybody got. We did so much better than last year. Dorie School is so happy about Cross Country!!! 

Sailing and Making Rafts

Kereru had some fun and decided to make rafts as part of our technology unit in Topic. We were looking at making innovations - this means making things better from what they used to be.

Ms Reader said that if our rafts sunk in the swimming pool, she would throw one of us in to save it. We all screeched with horror!!! "Yuck, no way it's too slimy and green!!!" We had a fantastic time sailing the rafts. It was funny watching the rafts get from one side to another. Some of them just went round in circles!!!

Book Week

This week we have had Book Week. On Monday we made fairytale finger puppet shows. We filmed them but we have had some technical difficulties so we haven't seen them yet. On Tuesday, we visited the Ashburton Public Library and had lunch in the Ashburton Domain afterwards.

On Wednesday we did Ms Reader's book quiz, and once again Olivia's team were the winners! Well done guys!! On Thursday we dressed up as book characters. We all looked so flash! We also had Amirira's and Sidonie's mum read to us. It was a really good story.

On Friday we did lots of reading with other teachers, classes and visitors to our school. Thanks to all the Dads and Grandads who came to share books with us on Friday afternoon.

From Charlotte, Aimee, Danielle and Rebecca - some of the Kereru Bloggers.

Welcome to term two!

Hi,

Welcome to a new term and we hope you all had a fantastic holiday.

Topic

In topic we are doing an animal transport challenge! We had to get split into groups of four, then we got to have a sheet of paper and write some facts down about the animals. The animals were a Snow Leopard, a West Lowland Gorilla, a Great White Shark, a Sea Turtle, a Short-Tailed Fruit Bat, and a Polar Bear. Then we got some vehicles which were a Cattle truck, a Road bike, a Holden Ute, a Milk Tanker, a Station Wagon, and a Refrigerated Truck. After that we had to match the animals with the closest vehicle we could think of, so that they could go safely back to the zoo they had escaped from. We also had to supply food and care for the animals during their journey. We can't wait for the results!

Scruffy 

Unfortunately over the holidays Scruffy was very sick and had to go to the vet. She was in too much pain so the best thing we could do was say good bye and get her put down. She has been buried in the school grounds. She got buried next to room 1.

Have a great weekend!
- from Danielle, a Kereru Blogger.