Holiday Fun!

We have had lots of fun these holidays. The best day for all of us was at the ice skating rink, as you can see we all had a ball!!

We have been to Weston to stay at a life style block, Lily and Gabe loved riding in Robbie's tractor.

We have been to the Art gallery, Botanical gardens, Bike park and lots of other adventures. I love spending time with my children in the holidays and Iain.

I hope that you have all had fun. Leave a comment and tell me what you got up to!

Mrs C-B has changed her hair!!!

Hi All!

Just so you don't get a fright when you come to school this is now the new me!!

Nice to have a holiday and relax, we have been away for a few days on holiday and we have done a heap of work around our property!

We had a lovely Easter at our house with Nanna and Robbie staying and oh Easter bunny coming for a visit one night and leaving a cool Easter egg hunt.

I hope that you are all enjoying yourself and having lots of fun. Relax, rest and laugh.

Leave me a comment if you like to tell me what you are up to.

Mrs C-B

Lexile website!

www.mylexile.co.nz

Check out cooljessy's blog!!!

http://www.cooljessy.blogspot.com/

Hi all this is Jessica's blog site, it is very cool. Check it out and leave her a comment. AWESOME job Jessica.

Have a watch and listen!

Leave a comment and tell me what you think!

Homework Task!

Create anything to share that shows new learning in your own words on anything that starts with b.

You are the teacher and you will present new learning to class on Thursday morning then share it with your buddies class after play on Thursday.

You can present it to us in any way models, brochures, posters, power point etc. The key is to have it in your own words and it is something that you don't know about! Make sure you are able to tell us about your homework - not read it from your book!

Go to stmarysroom42009.wikispaces.com
This will give you an example!! Scroll down to a-z homework and click on it, and then a!

More Interview responses!!

My Grandad lived in England and he said there was lots more pollution and way more cars.Nana said there was no recycling.There were glass bottles instead of plastic containers there were lots of vegetable gardens.They had vegetable matter that they had to put in to the compost.They also rode bikes every where.

TYLER

My Nana said that the following things have changed in the environment:
* Finding that the rivers are a lot lower than they were back then.
* Snow falls are not as big.
* Small country towns are a lot less populated.
* Banks and post offices have disappeared from small country towns.
* There used to be gravel roads and now they are bitumen.

The following things helped her environment in her day:
* Didn't have as much wastage as today (flour bags used to be used to carry the loaves of bread home.
* No plastic (eg glad wrap etc). Paper was used to wrap things and keep them fresh.
* Not as many motor cars therefore not as much pollution. Her mother and father didn't have a motor car until 1939.
* Didn't have supermarkets so you were always supporting your local supplier/shops/dairies etc.
* Milk was laddled into you billy to carry home from the dairy.

From: Holly

My Grandma & Grandad said that there was no recycling but people didn't waste things because they reused it. Like when the sheets got a hole in them they cut them up and made them into pillowcases.
They said there were not as many cars so there were not as many fumes in the air. If they saw any litter on the ground or in the lake they picked it up and put it in the bin.
Mum & dad said that the world was quieter in their day. There were no cellphones or computers, so we used less electricity. People only had 1 car in their family and sometimes none. They traveled by bus a lot.

By Tom

Nana Netty says
that the hole in the ozone layer has got bigger and the pollution has not got better

Nana Dafffy

was not as much cars she took trams and walked everywhere and went camping a lot

Mum
there is more pollution
she always put rubbish in the bin
walked to school
Dad
more pollution and a lot more cars
did not litter walked and biked to school

Grandad said they didn't know to care for the environment when he was young. No one talked about the ozone layer, they had never heard of recycling and they used to throw out all their rubbish. They used to get rid of waste in big huge burn ups every week, even at the dump. He said supermarkets were different, you couldn't buy meat there, and his dad was a butcher and used to sell meat off a horse drawn cart. There were no disposable nappy packs, and some people used to bury bad nappies in the garden!!
Sam K

To Mrs CB
DAD:We used coal and now we don't.
We fixed everything and now we just throw it out.

Jess