Today Mrs Grant came to our class for Cybersmart we were learning to create a respectful, responsible and positive digital footprint. We learned to stop and think before sharing it online and if we don’t know if it’s safe we can ask a parent or a teacher, then we learned how to hyperlink it onto the logos.
My Pelican Fact File.
On Thursday 27th April, Mrs Agnew bought Anzac biscuits so we could try them and gave them to our whole class because we were going to write about them. When Mrs Agnew gave all of us a biscuit, we wrote what it looked like, and I thought mine looked like the humps on the road! It smelled like oats in our cereal and coconut. It felt as hard as concrete, but smooth on the bottom like a chair. It tasted like coconut and oat milk. I put it on my forehead and tried to eat it and then the tiny tiny dust went inside my eye like someone had stabbed a pencil into my eye. During World War I in 1915 the women baked biscuits for the men who were fighting in the war and the ingredients were butter, flour, golden syrup, Baking soda and sometimes coconut. These ingredients could last for 4 months all the way up to the men far away. The cookies were so delicious that I almost passed out that they were the best biscuits I have ever tried. I am so happy we got to eat them and learn more about why they are important to us.
Last week on Friday morning I was so excited and a little nervous because it was St Patrick’s 175 Jubilee and I was reading during mass but I had practised heaps of times.
As soon as I arrived at school I was feeling happy. When the bell rang we lined up and walked up to church and we sat in our seats and then when it started, Eldrich went to the front to speak because he was doing the introduction. He had said he was nervous and we all said you can do it. When he came back I said ‘well see I told you, you could do it” and he was relieved.
After Father was talking, he began the Prayers of the Faithful and I knew it was nearly my turn. I was nervous because the church was filled up with heaps of people. I felt relieved when I returned to my seat.
When we finished mass Father said we were going to dig up a time capsule so we went out of church and gathered around it. When it was finally dug up, we looked inside and there was old stuff from 1998. After that we walked back to school for morning tea.
Later, Ms Bullot called our names out for teams to enjoy some games. My team first went to Mr Bell. We had to throw three tennis balls and when we threw the last one, the fielders had to run and get the ball and put it into the hula hoop and the thrower had to run to the other side. We helped the little ones play the game because it was quite difficult. We went to all the other teachers too. My favourite activity was with Sr Evalesi.
At the end our leaders handed out popsicles but I didn’t want one. Mrs Deeney said I could help to collect the rubbish. After lunch we went back to class and we read and drew pictures while Ms Kyle read us a book.
On Sunday morning we went to church again and when we left home we thought we might be late. Luckily we made it in time. I saw Nixcent and Mrs Agnew walking. When we sat down more and more people came and soon we were very squashed. It was amazing when a little Tongan girl was sitting on a chair (fata) and four men were carrying her down the aisle. She gave the Bible to Father. There was also a girl singing really high and everyone started clapping.
After mass everyone went to the hall and we sang three songs for the parents and guests. There were lots of people there but everyone was happy. The Samoans, Tongans and Filipinos danced and sang. I think it was a successful Jubilee celebration weekend
On Monday afternoon Mrs Grant came to our class for Cybersmart. We got out our chrome books and we were learning how to embed on our chrome books because we were going to post our Kawa of care learning. So Mrs Grant told us what to do and we had to listen very carefully. So she told us what to do and then we did it. Some people needed help so we helped them and when we finished we sat on the mat and we looked at one other school’s blog post. We saw that they made alien monsters with shapes and scribble lines and we decided to do it too. So we left a comment and opened google drawing and then we started drawing whatever we wanted. I did not know what to draw so I was thinking and thinking and I realized maybe I could draw a duck and should call it dookling. So I did a random outline and then I was thinking maybe a ghost but was like never mind so I kept it as a dookling. I just added random details and decided to make another one so I made a random one and added colors. Then Mrs Grant had to leave so we kept on going and I completed this.
We are learning to have a thorough understanding of the Kawa of Care.
This morning we had to make a poster about the Trinity.
We had to fill up the space with words and pictures.
I really enjoyed doing this and it was so much fun.
