A letter from Wales

We have got some friends in Wales and they sent us a letter to say thank you for some cards we sent them.  In the letter they told us about the longest train station name in the world.  It's the name of a station in Wales and the word is Welsh.  Here it is:

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

Our friends said that not many people know how to say it and we saw this as a challenge.  We are going to use the video below to practice saying it and see if we can learn to say it.  Can you say it?

The Invention of Hugo Cabret

We have been reading The Invention of Hugo Cabret this term.  While we were reading it we discovered that one of the characters, Georges Melies, was a real person.  We had lots of questions about him so Kenneth did some research and he has created a doc with some information on Georges.  Here is his finished research:

Georges Melies full name is Marie Georges-Jean Melies. He was a french illusionist filmmaker famous for  leading many technical and narrative developments in earliest days of cinema

Born: December 8, 1861.

Died: January 21, 1938.

Children: Andre Melies, Georgette Melies.

Siblings: Goston Melies and Henri Melies.  

Georges Melies was one of the best magicians in Paris he has made 5554 movies in 6 weeks.  

Here is one of Georges' most famous movies - A Trip to the Moon.

Face Time with Wally and Room 5

Our Giraffe Wally has been on an adventure for the last ten weeks and we miss him.  He's at Green Bay Primary School at the moment so we thought it would be a good idea to call them and see how he is.  We'd also been working on some persuasive letters and we wanted to read some of them to Room 5 to see if we could convince them to let us have Wally back.   We had a lot of fun chatting with the children in Room 5 and we know Wally is happy there.  Our letters must have worked though because he's going to be coming back in a week.  We can't wait! 

Here are Siale and Losana reading their letters:

Wally has been found!

Last week we got a comment from Green Bay Primary School saying that they had found Wally! 

We were very excited that he has been found safe and sound.  The children in Room 5 at Green Bay Primary School are looking after him well.  They are putting up posts on their blog to let us know what Wally has been getting up to.   We think it was our missing posters that helped us to find Wally.  Here is Scott reading his missing poster.  

Making Porotaka

We have been reading and learning about Matariki this week.  As part of our reading programme we read and followed instructions (with the help of Nana) to make a porotaka.  It was a little tricky but also a lot of fun. Here is a Jadaleigh explaining how to make a porotaka.  She used educreate on the ipad to make her video.  

Here is a video showing us as we made our porotaka.

Where's Wally

This is our class giraffe, Wally.  In the school holidays he went to Samoa but we haven't seen him since.  We've had three postcards from him, one from Holland, one from England and one from Australia.  In his last postcard he said he was heading back to Auckland, but he still hasn't come to see us.  If you see him running around Auckland city, send us a comment to let us know.  

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Another Keen Learner

Kaitati is another student who has been using his own time to become familiar with google apps. All week he has been using any free time he has on the computer to create a google drawing with some tiger facts.  He has gone home today and finally completed his project which he then shared with Miss Kirsty.  Kaitati has shown great perseverance and initiative to complete this project- especially since we haven't even started using google draw yet.  Keep it up Kaitati!