This looks interesting. I wonder if we could have a go at this in class this week. What do you think?
Christmas Origami
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Dancing Divas
We had our end of year concert on Tuesday evening. Last year’s was pretty eventful as a rather nasty storm blew in just before it started, damaging our PA equipment, instruments and speakers. This year we were fortunate to have a beautiful evening. Lots of families came with their picnics and eskies and many arrived super early to secure a good vantage point.
The students from Room 13 made me very proud. They danced a medley of the cha cha, waltz and jive. They hadn’t really had that many practices of the routine and it was a bit complicated in places. They were amazing and received well deserved applause and cheers when they finished. Thank you to Annie from Room 10 who stepped in to help us out as we had odd numbers, and to Marilyn for all the help with the dance steps.
Top work Room 13 people! I’m proud to be your teacher 
Soles 4 Souls
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This week our school is collecting shoes for the Soles 4 Souls charity. A simple donation of a pair of shoes can make a huge difference to someone’s life. Read here about some of the issues that can be helped by this venture.
Do you do anything to help others less fortunate? Does your school support any particular charities?
Our USM Buddies
Mr Piper has just sent me a link to the Voicethread that his students & Mrs Choren have prepared to show us around their school, University School of Milwaukee. It’s very interesting and is very different from our school. In class we will have a chance to leave them a comment on the Voicethread as I have an account for you all to do that.
Here is the Voicethread:
Musical Collaboration
Last week our New Zealand Performance Choir and the South Hornby choir from Christchurch, New Zealand, performed to the residents of the Waterford Retirement Village. To say they did a great job is a serious understatement. The residents had some wonderful feedback for them and we were told that they would be welcome to come back and perform any time. One resident had tears in his eyes when he told us of the pleasure these wonderful students had brought to them all that morning. Mrs S was very proud of you all, and I was very proud to be able to say that I was your teacher. Thank you
This is a video of the two choirs singing Adele’s song “Someone like you”. Sadly the video stopped just before then end as the memory card was full (that will teach ne for taking so many photos and not downloading them from the camera!), but i still think it’s worth watching.
NZ Choir Visit
I always love hearing the South Hornby choir sing this welcome song. Unfortunately the beginning is missing but Ii don’t think that’s spoiled it.
Which of their songs did you like the best?
SAPSASA Softball
A big congratulations to our SAPSASA softball team who had a very successful day on Friday. Alhtough they seem to have a bit of a memory problem about the score ( ) they definiteley had a convincing win! Wll done everyone!
Student of the Week
Our first Student of the Week for this term is….
Eka @ HPS
Eka from Room 7 at Mosgiel School in Dunedin, NZ, is spending some time with us in Room 13.
On Friday Eka went to Performing Arts and PE lessons with the students from Room 13. In Performing Arts he joined in with playing the drums and the xylophone. He looks as though he enjoyed himself.
In PE he worked on his ball handling skills, but I think he may need a little more practice
On the weekend he went home with Amelia. He’ll be going to the Kids Teaching Kids conference in Adelaide with Amelia, Olivia, Trevy, Charlotte T and Hayley. I hope he learns a lot about the environment when he’s there.
EKA
This we have a special gest from Dunedin in New Zealand called EKA he is staying with us for a little while. EKA is a toy bird, She is Mrs Keneally’s class Mascot.
We are all taking turns for taking him home I was the first I took him to my dance lesson.
