We are big fans of F! F is fun, fantastic and definitely fabulous!

A few photos to share just some of the fun we had with 'f', our sound of the week!

FOOTBALL

FROGS EAT FLIES!

Tristan became the teacher today. He taught us how to make origami frogs to catch our pesky flies. We used white paper while we are learning. When we get better we will break out the special green paper! 

Go to THEME LINKS down the side of our blog to read our big book: 'The Dancing Fly'

Did you find Miss Turu in our photos? She popped in to say Konnichiwa. We were flabbergasted. It was a fabulous surprise! We are her biggest fans!

THERE'S MORE THAN ONE WAY TO SPELL THE 'f' SOUND!

Sounds like an F but it's a PH!

COUNT IN JAPANESE!

Thanks Mrs Taylor for coming in and sharing your treasures from Japan. Thanks also for sharing this great way of learning to count to 20 in Japanese! A5xx

OLYMPIC HOCKEY DAY

On Tuesday, A5 had the special privilege of representing Cornerstone Christian School (and Japan) in an Olympic Hockey Day put on by Hockey Manawatu. Samuel summed up the day well in his story when he wrote "It was tiring but it was fun at same time".
We had an opening ceremony and a closing ceremony. We got to lead the other countries around the turf. Amber was chosen to raise the Olympic flag in the opening ceremony. That was a bit of an honour!

(Remember you can make the photos bigger by clicking on them.)

We played hard! We even played against each other in one round! We were good sports.

Other fun things the day included were listening to a former hockey Olympian - Tara Drysdale and a tug-of-war against other countries.

We're off! JAPAN HERE WE COME!!!!!!

JAPAN

We are studying Japan this term. Professor Von Krum (Mrs Forrest's crazy statistician cousin from Sweden) heard about this and left us an envelope with a plane ticket to Japan! We only had 3 sleeps to get our documentation in order.




Last Friday afternoon, we packed our bags for our 2pm flight. We were ready to take on Japan with our passports in hand.

Here is Ruby getting her passport checked and stamped at the Auckland airport.



A Japanese flight attendant checks our ticket.

On the plane. 

Good bye New Zealand!!! 

Note the capable looking pilot at the front. 

We watched the Qantas safety video diligently, enjoyed the take off, the roar of the engine and rising above the clouds. The in-flight refreshments were scrumptious and our flight attendants were very kind. We had regular messages from the pilot as well. As we landed in Tokyo airport we noticed with our birds eye view that the land looked a little different to New Zealand's... but exactly how different? We will find out!

You can 'watch our flight' here...

  Safety video

   Leaving Auckland Airport

   Landing in Tokyo

Our Kingdom Kid for August!

Our Humble Dude-ess

This girl knows that she is not more than anyone else but also, that she is not less important. People like this are so peaceful to be around. Time with our stunning Azaria is just delicious.

Azaria's award says...

"Azaria's humility, caring nature and willingness to stand up for what is right makes her really beautiful. She has an amazing brain and an amazing heart. She makes our learning space a better place."

Calendar Challenge winners for July

These entries really are starting to look professional in a wonderful 'I did it myself' kind of way!

Humble Dude

Our school core value focus this term is HUMILITY. We love this song!