Kid Pix - How to Catch a Star.

Green Hat Thinking - 'How to Catch a Star'

How to Catch a Star

by Oliver Jeffers

We read ‘How to Catch a Star.’ Then we put on our ‘Green Thinking Hats’ and tried to think of some creative ways  we could catch our own stars. Here are some of our wonderful ideas.

• Get a long, long ladder, the longest ladder in the whole world.
• Put rainbow lollypops in a mouse trap and catch it. Stars should like rainbow lollypops.
• By riding in an airplane.
• Build a rocket ship shaped like a star and the star will think it’s a star and be tricked.
• Go up in a rocket  ship that never ever runs out of petrol.
• Climb up a rainbow to reach the stars.
• Go in a rocket ship way up to the stars.
• I am going to wish a star and I won’t tell anyone incase it doesn’t come true.

Here comes the sunshine...

On Thursday we made a mosaic picture of the sun. First we decided what colours we would use. Then we cut the paper from magazines and advertising mailers into little pieces. 

Next we used our glue sticks to glue the paper into a big circle.

We used red, yellow, orange and dark brown to make our sun because we wanted it to look like a fire.

NASA History Highlights

Check this out... man really did walk on the moon. 

Yellow Hat Thinking

We put on our yellow hats to help us think about all the good things we know about the sun.

Here are some of our thoughts...

• The sun makes us nice and warm.
• The sun helps us see things without lights.
• The sun makes the day time.
• The sun makes things grow like trees and flowers.
• The sun makes me happy.
• The sun makes our washing dry.
• The sun makes things more fun.
• The sun helps flowers grow.
• It makes things nice and warm.
• It would be really really cold if there was no sun

Check out one of our wonderful new multi-cultural puzzles that we have purchased from http://www.pinegrovepuzzles.co.nz/Home. We have puzzles in Samoan, Tongan, Mandarin, Punjab and Hindi. 

Today the Samoan children were teaching some of the teachers colours using the paint pot puzzle.

To Infinity and Beyond...

Our topic this term is ‘ To Infinity and Beyond ‘ a space exploration. 


We began by looking at the differences between Day and Night. Check out the posters we made using all the children’s ideas.

Addington Hero - Ali Ahmadi

Ahsan Ahmadi, also known as Ali, received an award in our full school assembly today. Ali is a refugee from Afghanistan,who with his family has been in New Zealand for only 8 months, received the award from the Addington Action Committee for outstanding contribution to the Addington Community, in the weeks after the 22 February earthquake. Presenting the award was Mike Peters of the Addington Action Committee and Jim Anderson MP.
After the earthquake struck, Ali got in touch with the AAC and with his Dad spent the next two weeks helping to clear rubble, dig toilets and deliver food and water to people in need.
We are all very proud of this young man, who is an inspiration and a wonderful role model. Well done Ali.

Ali was also featured in todays Christchurch Press.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/christchurch-earthquake/4807575/New-arrival-wins-praise-in-Christchurch-earthquake-aftermath

Art Attack 2011 'The Addington Market'

This year we got together with the Green Team to create 'The Addington Market'. We hope you enjoy our creation.

School Opens Monday 14 March

School will be open again on Monday 14 August.

We are looking forward to seeing you all again. 

Remember to bring a bottle of drinking water with you. 

School Closed because of Earthquake

Our lovely school is once again closed because of the Earthquake that struck our city at 12.51 on Tuesday the 22 February. The children were mostly out playing in the playground at the time and all did exactly what they have been taught... assuming the turtle position.  
They then all stayed in the playground in their classroom groups until they were collected by their parents. They were all wonderful and very brave during this time despite the huge aftershocks. 
Our school is OK. We just have a lot of tidying up to do, and some of our computers may be damaged beyond repair, but we are all OK which is the important thing. 

We are thinking of all the people of our city  at this time.

Welcome Back

Danny and William show Sheena where they lived in China.

We are now into our second week of school for 2011.  We would all like to welcome back to Addington Danny and William who have been living in China.  We are looking forward to finding out lots about life in China.