Flat Stanley

In Term 1 we read a book called Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown. Stanley Lambchop was an ordinary boy until one night while he was sleeping his bulletin board fell on top of him and squashed him flat. In one bit of the book he is sent in an envelope and was sent to his cousins’ place in another country.

Then we decided to make our own people. First we wrote a bio about ourselves. Then we wrote how we were flattened. After that we got a template of Flat Stanley and we coloured it in. Then we made our people.

We then sent our people to different countries, such as America, South Africa, England and France. We have even made our own blog about it! Flatworld09.blogspot.com

                              Super Striking Recipe Writing

After the holidays our class decided to do some recipe writing. First we put the ingredients on what we did in the holidays in teaspoons, cupfulls etc. After we have finished the Ingredients we started on our Method. 

We first got a piece of paper and wrote as many words to do with cooking like pour , stir, mix , Fan Bake etc. We had a c made this into a competition to see who had written the most words that other people didn’t have. Can you believe we had 70 verbs to do with baking. Then we started on our Method.

We started each sentence with our baking verbs first, then we used adjectives to make it more interesting. Once we had finished writing our holiday moment  correctly we  started to publish our recipes.

Once we started publishing we first copied all of our work into our publishing book and made our title in bubble writing if we wanted to.

After we have published our writing in our publishing book we started to illustrate all the things we did in the holidays  and colour it. It was a very different way of writing.

                                                                 BookWeek                                                                                                                    Each year we have a Book week and this year’s topic was Science Fiction. Room 9 and Room 4 made pictures of what we thought was in space and we came up with great ideas and this is what some of them looked like

First we got black paper and left it on our table ready to glue stuff on. Then we got some scrap paper drew aliens or planets. We could make square planets or triangle we didn’t really care what shape! A few people got some coloured paper and made planets small like Pluto and big like Jupiter we could varieties of different colours.

 Then we got purple stars from Room 4’s teacher Mrs Reid we stuck them on then we got yellow glitter and glittered the outline of the stars to make it look like they were real stars. A few people didn’t want glitter so they left it plain purple!

Around 2 days later we made some robots, aliens, astronauts or rockets some were real crazy!

To do this we used bottle caps, glue, selatape, rope, hot glue, paper and a few accessories

We started with the head and went down from the head it was really cool and this is how a few of them finished

This is our very first blog post.

We are a group of fun loving students aged 7 to 9 years old and we LOVE school (sometimes)!

We go to Shelly Park School in Howick. There are a few people from other countries such as China, India, South Africa and Korea. There are around 25 people in our class. There are about 20 classes and over 400 children in our school.

 Did you know that Howick was the biggest Fencible landing ? Howick Historical village is all about the arrival of the Fencibles and we took a school trip there recently.The closest big city to us is Auckland, the biggest city in New Zealand.

 Last term we learned about NZ innovators including Lord Ernest Rutherford, Jean Batten and Kate Sheppard. 

In our school there is a uniform. We wear a jade green or white shirt, jade green or navy blue sweatshirt and either navy blue shorts or long pants. We also have PE (Physical Education) gear. There are 4 groups in the whole school. They are Whero(Maori for Red), Kowhai (Maori for Yellow), Kakariki(Maori for Green) and Kikorangi (Maori for Blue). Maori is the language of the natives of New Zealand also called Maori

Shelly Park Primary almost on Auckland. Can you find Auckland?