Cupcake Decorating for the SPCA Annual Fundraiser

Today in the All Stars we decorated cupcakes to sell and make donations to the SPCA. It was their annual cupcake fundraiser day. The children could bring a $2.00 donation, a blanket or some pet food and in return they received a yummy cupcake! Thank you Lachie and your mum, Louise, for organising this opportunity for some social action to help support the SPCA in our community. The children had a great time and did an amazing job of decorating the cupcakes.Watch the Smilebox slideshow below to see the decorating in action and the superb results!

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Our fantastic assembly

Well done to all of you in the All Stars, Super 7 and Nine Inch Nails for a fantastic assembly. It was fabulous! This is the footage of it if you missed it or just want to have another look! There is a direct link on the RSS website on the sidebar to this as well - pretty fab idea! If you can't make it to assembly you can watch it live! Thank you lovely parents/whanau for supporting us in our assembly. I am very proud of the children. It is a big deal and a great learning challenge getting up on the stage to perform to such a large audience. What a super duper bunch you all are!
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Olympics Day

We had an amazing Olympics Day showing great spirit and determination. There were many fun activities to try and some of them we had never had a go at before. We gave each activity a 'good go' and tried our best. Here are some photos from the day.

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Poem of the week using the i-pad video function

We have been trialling different ways to voice record. We have had success with fotobabble (see our other poem post) and using the i-pad video so far! No luck with vocaroo yet - it didn't work but we will try again another day!

What Is This Called?

We are wondering what this is called?
Can you help us?
We have LOTS of ideas but we looked at all the things we had written down and we realized we don't have a name for it!
We think it is a sport in the Olympics.
Here are some of our thoughts:
The girl is in a stadium
It is a stage
These people are high jumpers.
I've got an x-box and you are allowed to do that. You run and then you throw it when the floor turns green, and then you get a big score.
I see the big stick
What are they doing with the stick?
I think they are throwing it over the bar - then they will get a high score
The pointy stick is an arrow
That looks sharp
We were talking about this the other day in that other picture
That's very true - here is the first picture we wondered about :

It's sports
What are they holding with their hand?


We've done some great thinking - now can you help us?
Thanks! From the All Stars!

"Mu Kau' Korero Maori

Music with Jennifer

Today we played with the sticks during music time. We were keeping the beat.
Our favourite things in music were:
Lachie: passing the ball around - put and pass
Shawn: I liked singing the new song - Shawn over the ocean, Shawn over the sea, Shawn caught a shark, but you can't catch me, Oh you can't catch me!

We all like the Boom Chicka Boom song!