Water week 2014

Last week was so much fun! We were learning lots about water. We learned all about the water cycle which was great fun! We learned some songs about water and did lots of estimating and measuring with water in Maths. We also enjoyed doing lots of experiments based on water such as floating and sinking, dancing raisins, lava lamps, alkaseltzer pop and much more. We even measured how much air was in our lungs using water. It was really cool! All the Mums and Dads had a good time during our Open Water Day in school! They were very happy when they got to take home a tub of Eco friendly hand scrub! We hope we can do another water week soon!

The mysterious package: please help!

Today we received a very mysterious package in the post.

There were strange (but delicious!) sweets, maps of places in New Zealand and brochures about various aspects of tourism in New Zealand in the package… but no card; no letter or no hint about who sent it.

We don’t know who sent it but we do think it came from New Zealand, because of the postmark, the maps and the brochure. The only thing is…we don’t know anyone there!

Our clues seems to point to the South Island and an area named Haast or Taihaipe.

Look at our clues below and see if you can help us, please!

Acrostic Poems

Whales.
Have
A
Long fat body.
Eat plankton.
Sea mammals.
By Aoibhe (rang a haon)image

Rabbits are so cute
Are fast
Boxes are the good place for rabbits to live
Burrows to live in also
It has a fluffy tail
Twitchy nose
Smiles when he sees a carrot!
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By Hannanh

Footballs are spheres
On the pitch
On top of the net is where it shouldn’t be
Teams for football
Barcelona is a good team
A goal for Man United!
Loads of teams
Love football!
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By Seán

Hay
On the farm
Rides
So pretty
Excellent
Saddles

By Siobhan .
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Fire
Foam, like a blanket on the fire.
I would like to be a fire girl
Run as fast as you can.
Engine – big and red!
By Eve
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Making Leaves

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On Tuesday, the 11th of February, our school made cardboard leaves. Two women named Bridie and Aiga came to our school to help us make them. It was really fun making the leaves. On the back of each leaf we were told to write something. On the back of one of my leaves I wrote “Keep Calm and Rock’n’ Roll” and on the front I drew an electric guitar.
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Today, the 13th of February, we went to see where our leaves would be put. All of our leaves would be put on a handmade tree. This handmade tree was created by an artist in Canada. The artist wanted to get lots of children to design leaves for it and then the tree would be passed around the world! I really enjoyed making the leaves!

The End
By Amy

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Leaf making for the tree in Arus Inis Gluaire on PhotoPeach

Leaf making for the tree in Arus Inis Gluaire on PhotoPeach

Mental Man Magnetic: My Favourite Article from Primary Planet

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(From The Primary Planet February 2014)
My favourite article from this month’s Primary Planet is about a man from Georgia who says his body is magnetic. He is putting on a show to prove his weird talent! Etibar Elchyer had the audience rubbing their eyes to see was this actually happening, apparently he balanced 53 spoons on his back and his chest.

The show went on by him pulling a Mercedes car, attached by rope to a metal sheet, and he actually pulled the car for 30 seconds.

Etibar reckons he’ll pull a empty train carriage and an aeroplane.

Some people think human magnetism is a sign of supernatural powers and others think it happens because of sticky-skin.

The End!!

Our visit to Áras Inis Gluaire

A long time ago scientists put a special buoy in the ice in the North Pole to measure how deep the water is,how salty the water is and how cold the water is. Then it started to drift with the waves down the Atlantic Ocean. Then another iceberg slid over the top of it and it lost its signal for a long time. But then while it was sliding down with the waves It got its signal back again! The iceberg had melted! But then it lost the signal again as it went down the waves and then the waves brought the buoy to Blacksod Bay where a man called Fergus found it.He called someone to come check it out. The man told him it was a buoy that came from the North Pole. He told the civic center and then decided to display it so that people could come and visit it! Our school went to visit it. It was so cool ! It was yellow. The buoy must have met LOADS of mammals along the way,dolphins, polar bears, penguins, seals and maybe even whales! We could not lift the bouy! It was so heavy! By Siobhan + Hannah

A visit from an artist!

Last week two artists came to visit us. They showed us paper leaves and asked us to design our own. I made a patch with the paper leaves. They will put them up in the civic centre soon for everyone to see. They will be part of a tree. There names were Aiga & Bridie . We went to the civic centre & saw other people’s leaves. There were messages on them too.
By Seán Antaine

Cuairt ar an bhfeirm

Chuaigh mé gó dtí an feirm.
Chonaic mé bó ag ithe.
Chuala mé caora sa pháirc.
Chonaic mé madra ag rith.
Bhí mé ag obair ar an bhfeirm.
Bhí alán uan nua sa pháirc.

Seán Antaine

Chuaigh mé go dtí an bhfeirm.
Chonaic mé gabhar, muc agus cearc.
Bhí mé ag marcaíocht ar an gcapall.
Rinne mé luascán leis an roth.
Bhí mé ag sugradh leis an bails.
Chuala mé an madra ag tafann.
Bhí an madra ag bailiú an caora.
Chonaic mé an cat ag an geata. Bhí an cat an sàsta leis féin.
Is Maith liom an bhfeirm.

Le Siobhán

Là ar an bhfeirm
Chuaigh mē go dtí an bhfeirm .Bhí mè ag obair le dàidi. Chonaic mè bò ag ithe. Chonaic mè cat ag rith sa pháirc. Chuala mè caora sa pháirc .Is maith liom an bhfeirm .

Le Hannah