August's Calendar Challenge!

Congratulations entrants! This month's animal is a gibbon, a white-handed gibbon or lars gibbon to be exact.

Here is one 'singing opera'!

A5 on Kenyan Safari

S is for Safari!

We made binoculars for our Kenyan safari tour...

In our 4wd with our safari animal checklists!

Watch our safari!

Sound of the Week: 's'

Memory Verse Term 3, Week 6

What fruit are you growing?

Contraction surgery - it's an apostrophe invasion!

DOCTORS READY FOR SURGERY...

IN SURGERY...

ALL OPERATIONS WERE A SUCCESS. THE CONTRACTIONS ARE NOW RECOVERING...

A5 has an apostrophe invasion!

Apostrophes have two jobs. Watch out for Mr Apostrophe. Don't be fooled by his smile. In truth, he is a thief! We have caught him red handed! When he is thieving we call these words CONTRACTIONS.

 

Contractions are like a worm when it moves. Extend, contract, extend, contract. The two words 'I' and 'am' (extend) are the same 'worm' as I'm (contract). Both carry the same meaning.

I am a wiggly worm.

I'm a wiggly worm.

We are going to look at Mr Apostrophe's second job in a few weeks, after we learn to identify him at his thieving tricks!

There's a new protector in town! Protector 'tch'

Sound of the Week! 'ch'

Hawaiki brought her sister's chicken into school for a visit!

Chips, chocolate, chalk and torch! Speaking of chocolate...look at these chocolate smothered faces!

Looks like you boys are in chocolate heaven. We had a lot of fun writing about the experience of eating chocolate. We are not sure if you would want to read our stories though. They would definitely make you hunger for chocolate. That was our goal.

We used sentences in our stories like...

"Deep dry hard chocolate tastes like chocolate silk." Harry 

"Irresistable chocolate..." Maximus 

"It's layers are chocolaty liquid that take you to the world of chocolate." Mason 

"Chocolate dribbling down my chin. Mmmmm... yum, yum! Liam 

"Chocolate like a stream of creamy custard running down my mouth." Caleb

"I smell the sweetness of drizzling chocolate. It is bitter. It's sweet and great." Jerushael

"Bleeding, deep brown chocolate smothered my mouth. My tongue licked all the creamy taste. Matthew C

"Chocolate cream melting in the mouth." Joseph

"Chocolate drizzled down my chin." Jerushael

"Chocolate dripping down my lips, melting slowly on my tongue. Drip, drip, drip.

Chocolate so big that you want to eat it. “Chocolate come to me. Chocolate I can see you,” I cried out." Hawaiki

"Smooth amazing chocolate slithering down the mountain of my mouth.

Yum, yum, yum.

Melting like raindrops and shining.

Dark chocolate mixed with cream milk. 

Perfume like candy." Steffini 

"Chocolate melting like rain in my mouth." Ellaye

"Chocolate is dripping smooth, soft drips in my mouth." Harry 

"It made me crumble like a rock." Ellaye

"Creamy brown dried up into a block." Matthew T

"My eyes grew bigger and bigger." Matthew C

"It's delicious but... not nutritious." Maximus

Fish and chips

Memory Verse Week 4, Term 3

Our flight to Kenya!

It is important we know where we are going. You can see Joseph, Jerushael and Steffini making a massive map of Africa before school in this photo. A5 learns all throughout our day.

Good bye New Zealand! We're on the plane. Our passports are in hand. Our luggage is in the back of the plane. We've been through customs and we are ready for our 25 and a half hour flight to Nairobi, Kenya!

Update: We've landed!

Sound of the Week: 'u'

A bunny, a camera and a cup!

Pride vs Humility

Will Pride or Humble win at the end of the day?

National Anthems - Special Songs for our Countries

Kenya National Anthem

New Zealand National Anthem