The countdown has begun!

We have had such a busy couple of days.  Yesterday we were really interested to find out more about the eruption at Mount Tongariro.  We watched some news and talked about how Rotorua and Taupo were so volcanic.  We decided to write some poetry about it.  We started by writing down 20 things you might see at a volcano.  It is actually harder than it sounds.  We all managed to write down the easy things like rocks, lava, smoke and ash but by the time we got to number 15 and 16 we were having to be really creative.  We managed to come up with some awesome ideas like 'burnt skis' and 'abandoned toys'.  Then we chose some of our favourite ideas and thought about why they were there and what had happened to them.  We wrote as much as we could for 5 minutes without stopping.  Then we picked our favourite lines and published them.  It was a lot of work but what we ended up with sounded really great, here are two examples:

Toys burnt

on the ground

Rock fell

Baby ran

buggy left.

 Alex

Lava red

and orange

Scare me I run

Leave my toys and dinner

behind me

Terri 

Today we have been getting ready for our mini Olympics.  We picked our pictures out of a hat to decide if we are in Team Tonga or Team Latvia.  

Some of us painted flags and banners to support our team. We also spent some time practicing the different events we will take part in tomorrow.  Mr Miller was really proud about how sensible we all were and how hard we were trying.  This afternoon we looked at some ancient Greek pottery and tried to design our own Greek vases.  They look pretty neat!

Don't forget that tomorrow you can come dressed in your countries national colours.  Team Tonga are red and white but Team Latvia are white and red!