The Short but Incredibly Happy Life of Riley

Over on Muritai TV this post was uploaded today, and is a great recap of the school production "The Short but Incredibly Happy Life of Riley".

What I loved so much about our Year 4 item this year was that probably 80% of the choreography for the dancing parts was arranged by the students themselves! We have some very talented dancers, and it shows!

I hope you all have a chance to see the show this week.

Halfmen of O/ International Literacy Day

This term I have been reading "The Halfmen of O" to the children in Room 7. As one of my ALL TIME favourite fantasy books for children I tend to read it to my class every 2-3 years. each class I have read it to has enjoyed the crispness and clarity of Maurice Gee's storytelling.

I am also excited to see online that there is FINALLY some movement towards the novel being developed as a feature film. As a 3D feature (which could emphasise the 'unsighted/sighted', 'yellow smoke/shy' contrast) I think would be really quite fantastic.

I plan to spend International Literacy Day reading just a few more pages to the class....

Mummified Apples- after 7 days.

After 7 days we uncovered our mummified apples and had a very close look at what had happened.



Some mixtures of salts had dried out the apple really well. Others left the original colour of the apple intact.



Have a look at the comparison board and see if you can decide what mixture was the best for mummifying an apple.

Rugby World Cup!

The Webb Ellis Cup (aka "The Rugby World Cup") payed a visit to Muritai School on Monday!

Room 7 children got to have a close up look at it! We weren't allowed to touch though, that honour is reserved for Richie McCaw to be the first NZer since 1987 to hold the trophy up high, when we win the world cup next year!