Pets Day

On Tuesday 20th Little River School had Pets Day. Almost everyone brought his or her favourite pet to school. There were lots of animals such as cats, dogs, lambs, horses and many more. There was a book fair where people could buy books. Some animals were dressed up and walked around the ring. There was a dog obstacle course where the owners got prizes for how fast they got their dogs round the course. The miscellaneous pets prize giving was away from the other judging so the other animals wouldn’t scare them or hurt them/attack them.

Inside the community hall, which is adjacent to the school and Little River Domain, held the inside competitions such as the sand saucers, vegetable creations and floral arrangements.

HEALTHY EATING JINGLES

This term our topic is HEALTHY EATING, and in our house groups we made up jingles about the 4 C’s-COOK, CLEAN, COVER and CHILL. First we would write the jingle out on paper, then we would record the jingle on garage band. Once we had finished our jingles we would show the class.

Lincolin Zone Athletics

On Friday November 2nd, 19 kids from Little River school went to the Lincoln Zone Athletics. The events we competed in were high jump, long jump, discus, shot put, distance, and sprints. Ethan is going to the Canterbury schools Athletics for the 80 and 50 metre sprint.

Art

Room Two have been doing art with Mrs Wilson and we are designing an underwater scene. The frame on the outside is a Maori design. The underwater creature you have picked has to come out of the frame. I'm going to do a dolphin.

Kapa Haka

On Friday 19th October people from Room 2 and Room1 did their first Kapa Haka lesson. We learnt actions and Maori songs, with a lady called Mawera. We are learning songs for an end of year production.
The boys have also learnt the Haka. We learnt that a Maori, who was about to be killed, made the Haka. He asked a man if he could hide in his kumara pit because he was hiding from another tribe who was trying to kill him. A few days later when the enemy tribe returned he said under his breath, “Ka mate, ka mate, ka ora, ka ora”, which means “tis death, tis death, tis life, tis life.” He eventually escaped and he thought those words gave him strength and saved him.
Some comments from the class:
Amy-It was fun to learn a different culture.
Ethan-We had to practise the haka a lot.
Tessa-We learnt the words and actions quickly.
Megan-It was fun to learn all the actions and the words.
Holly-It was a different experience.

Term Four Art

For art we have finished our puppets and are moving on to a topic called FRAMED. So far for homework we were asked to search for photos of underwater sea creatures, make a list of sea creatures and find our favourite creature to jump out the side of our frame. We also found underwater scenes we liked and finally drew sea creatures from different viewpoints eg front view, back view, left side view, and right side view. Mrs Wilson is planning to have a cardboard frame with Maori or Pacific pattens round the frame. Our 1 or more chosen sea creatures made of paper mache will make a 3D effect popping out of the side RATHER FISHY!!! P.S. here is a photo and background of what Tessa will be using as her background.
By Tessa and Alana

CURRENT EVENTS

This term we have started to work on current events by starting off by two house groups (Awaiti & Okuti). Mrs Patten has picked 2 people from the 2 house groups to share news each day. 1 person had a card telling what type of news they were to write about eg Local News (about Banks Peninsula)- National News( About New Zealand)- International News (About the World)- Sport (Sport in the world)- Free news (Any news you like to do).
You have to tell the class who, what, when, where, why and how about the news event. There will be exciting news every week with these reports.
Logan did his report on Jet boats racing up and down South Island Rivers.