Shadow Puppets...

Room 6 is looked at making shadow puppets with a lovely puppet maker called Juliet. We made shadow puppets for a story 'There was an Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly.' Juliet let us put on a puppet show.

Save the animals

When people have to move out of their house they have to move into a rental. But some rentals can't

have pets, so they dump them in the in the dumpster and they will soon die.

Dumping pets...

This is art work that I drew is about people dumping their animals and leaving them because when they move to rentals the land lords don't allow pets or animals.  In my picture there is the mum and daughter putting the poor dog in to recycle.

Goodbye dogs and cats...

Pets are getting dump on the street because people don't want their pets!

Running away cat...

There was an earthquake. A little girls cat has ran away because the earthquake scared it. The little girl wanted to run after the cat but her mum held her back and said "Darling be careful...I don't want you to get hurt."

Please save our animals...

My picture is about a mum and a girl who moved into a rental property and found out that the landlord did not want any pets in the house.  The girl did not like that and was crying for days.

Save the animals...

This artwork is about people dumping their pets because land lords do not let people have pets in the their rentals.

Goodbye...

This drawing is about a girl and a mum with a cat.  Then a earthquake hit and they drove away without the cat. The girl was sad but the mum didn't care…

Goodbye pets...

This is a cartoon I drew to show how the earthquake affected pets.  The houses got damaged and people had to move out to rentals and most rentals don't allow pets, so the owners have to give their pets to the SPCA.  The SPCA don't have enough room for all of the animals!

Animals abandoned….

This is a picture of animals getting dumped. Then it is too hard for the SPCA to get room for all the pets and they have to put pets down.

The house where no pets aloud...

In this picture there are lots of beautiful trees and bushes, there are lovely clouds and one of them is a shape like area horse.  Beside the house is a black chair where the people who want to sit down, so then they can have a nice time sitting outside.  When they sit down they could be waiting for their grandchild or their kid. The sky is that lovely that you would want to be in the sky.

Dumping of pets...

My animal dumping cartoon...

This is my animal dumping cartoon. In the top left corner the man has dumped his pet in the clothes bin because he needs to move into a rental property (he can't have his pet in the rental property).

Fly Me Up To Where You Are

Fly Me Up To Where Your Are - On Tuesday the Year 5 children went to a workshop funded by the Christchurch Arts Festival.  Tiffany Singh took the children through the process of making prayer flags.  All the flags children create during these workshops will be stitched into strings, these flags will be installed on Worcester Boulevard in time for the opening of the Christchurch Arts Festival on 22nd August 2013.

Our Learning Celebration...

Yesterday we had our Learning Celebration with LT 2 & 4.  We got to share our playground designs.

The Amazing Place Ceremony...

On Thursday our Year 4's went to a ceremony. There were acrobats, a joker, Carrot the clown,  a girl on a no handle bike and cupcakes too!!! The ceremony was for the amazing playground that heaps of schools entered. Guess what we won.....first place our year group. We won eight hundred dollars.  Four hundred dollars for the the class.  So that's $100 each for Haley, Ruth, Oakley and Kiara. We got a photo with Prime Minister John Key and shook his hand. After the prizes we got lunch boxes with a bread roll, crackers, grapes, carrot sticks, a twisty thing with bacon and sushi. Then we hopped on the bus and went back to school.  We felt proud!

Click here to see Mrs Bourke's Amazing footage of the ceremony.

Jayden eating a delicious cupcake....at the awards ceremony.

Collecting our prize from Prime Minister John Key.

We are so proud...

Press play to watch the awards ceremony or click here.

Amazing Place Winners Announced from CCDU on Vimeo.

Our Amazing Playground - Our Year 4 entry is a finalist!

Haley, Ruth, Oakley and Kiara designed and created an animal themed playground....you can watch their presentation below.  Their entry was entered into The Amazing Place competition and they made it into the finals!  This is very exciting.  They will be going to the awards ceremony next Thursday to fine out if they got first or second place.

Making Our Amazing Place Playgrounds...

Our Amazing Playground: An Adventure theme

Our playground had an adventure theme.  In it we have a pool, flying fox, panda, dragon, igloo, seal maze, climbing wall, turtle and dolphin swings, snake water fountain and toilets. The seal maze you can go through the maze or climb on the seal. The swings are called turtle and dolphin swings because there is a dolphin and a turtle. There is an igloo that has snow falling from the top, but it is actually white foam falling from the top of the igloo. There is a panda sculpture that you have to go through the mouth and look out its eyes.

My Amazing Playground

This playground is all about having fun and having adventures on it!  You can go down a banana slide and it feels like you're in a banana.  There's a fruit house and you can climb up the carrots which have holes in them, it's like a rock climbing wall.  If you're not too sure you want to go up it there's a ladder.  In the fruit house there's fruit you can find and you can put them into a puzzle.  When you get all of them right you get to go onto the fruit flying fox!