Amazing Wednesdays

Every Wednesday Kea class has Variation Thinker’s Key. It is when we think of many different ideas about something. Variation stands for different or changed. We try to get a new high score each time. This week we thought of things that always go round. Most of them were about planets, but also second clock hands and the asteroid belt.

Last week we did how many different ways we can say a greeting. 

Our highest score is 44. We all thought it great fun and an exciting learning experience.

Richmond Street Parade

 

Boom! Boom! Boom! We could hear motorbikes driving past. Clickety clack, clickety clack, we could hear feet walking past. Oh no, it struck us. We were RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF A PARADE!!! Suddenly I heard my feet walking for some reason and then boom. I felt a flag in my hand and then I started yelling “USA, all the way”. Then it actually struck us. I was really really in a parade. I felt a smile on my face. Yay, I was in a parade. We walked down Queen St, Richmond, New Zealand and then into Sundial Square. After that my class finished and we all went back to school.

Ruby

On Monday we did a parade and we saw a brass tuba and a leader in the front of the band. We saw two army trucks and lots of motorbikes. We saw lots of USA flags and we chanted “USA, all the way”. We had fun in the Queen St parade.

Lily 

 

Yay, yay, hooray. That’s the sound that I heard on Monday. Here I was at Sundial Sq in my blue shirt just about to go on Queen St for the parade. When we got there lots of people were on the side of the road cheering.  We shouted out “USA all the way”. Once we got to the end there was a band playing. We got our pictures taken with our flags in the air.

John

The Queen St audience cheered for us at the Support USA Parade. At school my class made colourful red, blue and white USA flags. While the parade was happening my class said “USA, all the way”. There were other schools too. There were vehicles behind the schools. Logan R had his face painted. My whole school walked down the middle of Queen St. When the parade was finished there was a brass band.

Zach

We dug under the lettuces to pull them up and shook the dirt back into the garden. We cut the roots off so we could eat the lettuce leaves.

We dug under the lettuces to pull them up and shook the dirt back into the garden. We cut the roots off so we could eat the lettuce leaves.

Kowhaiwhai

Last Friday the Middle School Syndicate did some Maori art work called Kowhaiwhai with Cindy. 

We did some sewing of patterns that told stories.

We drew patterns then cut them out and glued them to black paper to make a story about New Zealand and the early settlers.