Young Innovators-Making Newspaper Bridges

We have been very busy making and improving newspaper bridges.  Our bridges had to be able to hold our sellotape dispenser.

We practised rolling paper...

And we practised some more..

then we started to build our bridges.

We are ready for the test.

A bit more work needed here!

So did we.

Rooms 2 and 4 made Thinking Hats.  Our hats were made out of paper and had to include some features to help us think.  We used the Te Anau Inquiry model as we started at Base Camp, designing our hats, then began climbing as we made our hats. When we had reached the top we explained our designs to each other.

Bob Bickerton Came to Town

On Thursday, the musician Bob Bickerton visited our school. He showed us his amazing musical instruments. Then he played a tune and some of the children and teachers danced merrily! After that he told the story of Tom and Huhana, who lived in the days when whalers worked in New Zealand.  They fell in love and married.

This shell is a traditional Maori instrument

This is also a traditional Maori instrument, the koauau, and can be made from bone, wood or bamboo.

Bob played the violin beautifully.

Bob played the harp when Tom and Huhuna fell in love.

Hearing the Irish bagpipes made us want to dance the Irish jig!

Ronald MacDonald came to town

Ronald MacDonald came to Te Anau School because he had lost his sock.

He had to be careful of hazards while he was travelling to school.

He wondered if any of us had seen his missing sock.

We found his missing sock on his back!

Ronald MacDonald's sock friend reminded us again about road safety.

Ronald said goodbye as we went back into class.

More Anzac Day activities

We walked down to Anzac Park to see the memorial to our soldiers.

 Then we went to the library to experience life in the trenches.  We saw some of  the old equipment they may have used.

After that we turned the lights out and heard the sounds of battle that the soldiers would have heard as they sheltered in the trenches.