This is Aria with her dog at Pet Day.

This is Gus with his dog at school on Pet Day.

Today was the first day back at school after our terrifying earthquake. Although many parts of Canterbury have been badly damaged, here in Springston we were really lucky to have sustained little damage. Power, water and sewerage services were restored very quickly. Amazingly the children's news this morning was about pet lambs and new toys.

These are some memories that the children have about the earthquake.

Ben:-

My dad found all the fish on the carpet. We picked up all the stones and stuff. And then our next door neighbour came round to check our house. The fish tank broke.

Aria:-

Our pictures fell off the walls. We had cracks in the concrete outside our house. The wine

glasses fell off and broke.

Rule Number One:- we have to wear shoes in the kitchen!

Raewyn:-

When we had "the big one" we moved into Graeson's bedroom and Mum slept there too.

Some of my toys fell down on the floor.

Jaimee:-

All of our food fell out of the pantry. Lots of glass was broken.

Gus:-

All of our stuff fell off the shelf. I went to hide in Mum and dad's bed. When it got light we

got up and saw all of our stuff. We put on our slippers.

Lachie:- (It was Lachie's first day at school today!)

My mirror smashed in the bathroom. My puppy was in my bed. My puppy was shaking.

Alphabet Fun

Here are some fun sites to help learn the alphabet.

Kiddonet Phonics Game

Frog Game!

Build Your Wild Self

Ben is writing numbers

Starting School Party

In Room 1 this term we are expecting a lot more children to start school on their 5^th birthday. We had a party to welcome them, and their parents. They played party games and had party food. The senior A+ leaders prepared the food and organized the games, while their parents had some time to have morning tea with the staff.

The children were given a bag to take home with activities, games and books which will be useful while preparing the children for their next big step – starting school.

Book Week

Book Week was an amazing experience for all the children. We had some wonderful guests and special activities. These included a book fair, drop everything and read, teachers reading their favourite books to different classes, and a performance about the children's book awards. For the Dress-up day we had pirates, Aurora, Madeline, Bob, fairies and many other story book characters. Everyone used their imagination and looked fantastic.

Click on the picture to find the Puzzle.

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Patrick is an A+ Learner

Patrick is reading his book called "The Bicycle". He is getting very good at looking at new words and getting his mouth ready for the first sound. Patrick likes this book because the bike gets squashed.

Pathfinders' Assembly

The Room 1 children welcomed everyone to assembly with songs in Maori, and then they all had turns to say "Hello" in languages from around the world. This is Lucy is making an announcement at our assembly.