Living On An Iceberg

We read 'The Night Iceberg' then we put on our black thinking hats to think about what might not be so good about living on an Iceberg.

It would be...

• really really cold
• freezing

We would have...

• no t.v
• no bedroom
• no house
• no swimming - too cold

We would get sick of eating fish, fish, fish all the time.

The Night Iceberg

We read 'The Night Iceberg' by Helen Stephens and then we used our yellow thinking hats to think of all the good points about living on an iceberg.


We could ...

• wear fluffy clothes
• meet penguin friends
• catch fish
• slide on the ice
• build a snowman
• build an igloo
• have a snow fight
• look after a baby penguin
• look at the sky

Pita the Penguin

Pita  the penguin came to our assembly at Addington School and talked to Ms Heath and all the children. He wanted to know what was so special about our school. 
Here are some of the things that we think are special about our school...

Pita and Ms Heath 

• We know how to look after things
• We look after new people
• We have lots and lots of big trees
• We have people from all around the world
• We like learning new things
• We have the Addington Attitude
• We know all the Addington qualities.

Myspace Stuff

International Race Relations Day

Today is International Race Relations day. We are celebrating the day by trying to greet each other in all the different languages spoken by the children of our school.
For more information visit http://www.hrc.co.nz/2012/celebrating-race-relations-day

One Year On

Today is the first anniversary of the earthquake that destroyed a large part of our city. At 12.51 today we all meet together for 2 minutes silence. We also decorated the school's front fence with hearts with our  hopes and wishes written on the back.
Thank you to all those people who have sent us their good wishes.

Samoan and Tongan First Language Groups

The Samoan and Tongan children have been working hard over the last few weeks learning colours, numbers,  fruits and vegetables and animal names in their first languages. They have also been very busy making resources so that they can teach others. 

Bingo's Adventures in the Playground.

Here is the last of our preposition stories about our friend Bingo. Written by Peiai, Lance and Sovichea, photography by Peiai and Lance. Great work team.

Tongan Language Week

We had a wonderful week. It was great to hear lots of adults and children in the playground greeting each other in Tongan.

• We kicked off the week on day 1 with a list of greetings for the teachers to use in their classrooms. 
• Then on day 2 the children presented each class with a counting poster The children had made these posters using Kid Pix.
• On day 3 the children gave each classroom a ‘Tongan Colours Poster’ that we had made using our own photos.  
• Day 4 the children gave the classroom teachers some more classroom instructions to learn.
• On day 5 each class was given a list of classroom objects. 

The Tongan children all loved being teachers for the week and can’t wait to do it all again next year.

Prepositions - Bingo's Adventure

By Miracle, Marla and Neelofar

Tongan Language Week Day 2

Today we took some 'kid pix' counting posters that we made to all the classrooms. 

Bears in the Night - our version.

We have been learning about prepositions. First we read 'Bears in the Night'. Then we made our own story using our friend Bingo. Great pictures Victory, Wendy and Trissa.

Tongan Language Week Day 1

Today was the first day of 'Tongan Language Week'. The children took the first page of their booklet around to all the teachers. Then they helped them too say the words in Tongan. It was fun hearing all the teachers in the playground using the Tongan greetings they had learnt. Tomorrow we will hand out page 2 and some counting posters.