Half - way day party with the George Brothers

The George Brothers came to Waitaki 1 on 27 April. It was a special day for our class because it was the 50th day of school. We have been counting the days of school because when we get to 100 days of school, we are going to have a party. While we are counting days of school, we are getting better about understanding place value.

Curious George was so curious that he went out to the cloak bay. We had to stop what we were doing to go and find him. He had hidden in one of the cubbies. We think he ate a packet of chips and left the packet behind. We weren't so happy about that.

To celebrate our 50th day we got to do fun stuff. At maths time we coloured in a 100s chart - half in one colour, and half in a second colour. We also estimated how many popcorn kernels were in a half a cup, then we popped it and ate it! Yum!

We made blue jelly and filled our cups half way. In the jelly was a lolly fish, because we have been studying the ocean. Yum, yum, yum!!! You won't believe it - the lolly fish were half one colour and half another!

During literacy time there was a list on the board of activities that we could choose. One of them was to write 50 words from around the room. Some people tried to write a story that was exactly 50 words long. We could also read 50 pages in a book.

In the afternoon we did some art. We created new tide pool creatures that were half one animal and half another. Zach made a crabtuli which was half crab and half sea tulip. Amy made a sea cranemone - half crab and half sea anemone. Finally, we ate our jelly! We had a class photo with the George Brothers eating our jelly. Just then the bell rang. We said goodbye to the George Brothers.