Mini ME!

This week we finished off Room11 speech finals.  It was a fantastic to hear everyone's speech and everybody learned so much.  Well done to Una and Charlotte who will share their speech in front of the Syndicate on this Thursday.
We have also been busy creating 'mini-me's.  Each person measured the length of the arms, legs, body and head and divided each number by 2.  Then we cut strips of paper at those lengths and glued them together to make a scaled down version of ourselves.  We added loops and layers of paper to make it look more 3d and we stuck the finished models onto pictures we had drawn of famous NZ places.  We think the end result looks awesome.

For homework this week, we are learning the names of some towns and cities in NZ.  For each sentence we need to write an interesting fact that we know or found out about that place.  For example, 'In Rotorua you can find oozing, bubbling mud pools.'  You can find the list of place names we are using for spelling at the bottom of the page.

Auckland Christchurch Dunedin Wellington Nelson Palmerston North Timaru  Rotorua

Hamilton Queenstown Taupo Invercargill Mt Maunganui Whangarei Coromandel Town Napier

Tauranga Greymouth Russell Stewart Island Ohakune Gisborne HastingsNew New Plymouth