Summer Tournament - T-Softball

On Thursday 24 March the Year 5 and 6 students went to Morrison Park to play T-Softball.  They played eight or nine games each and had a great time.  Sacred Heart entered three teams and they all played really well. Miss Galbraith and Mr Gander were really impressed with the behaviour of the Sacred Heart Teams and felt proud to be with them for the day.  Thank you to the parents who came and watched and a special thank you to the parents who helped look after teams for the day, transported students and umpired! (Marie, Gina, Megan, Rachel and Jo). 

St Patrick's Day

Yesterday was St Patrick's Day and we dressed up as green leprechauns.  We all brought along a non-perishable food item to donate to the St Vinnie's food bank.  Lots of food has been distributed to people after the earthquake so they need more food at this time.

Look at all the food we donated!! Well done Sacred Heart.

We look fantastic in our green gear!

Red and Black Day

We held a Red and Black mufti day at school today to show our support for the people in the earthquake in Canterbury.  Students were very generous and Room 4 managed to donate almost $80.  The whole school raised more than $540, which is a great achievement.  Well done Sacred Heart!!

Christchurch Students

We have been lucky enough to have some students from Christchurch in our class for the past week.  They have escaped the aftershocks and taken refuge in Timaru.  Some of the students are here until their school reopens and their houses get power and water back on.  Others have decided they might stay here a bit longer, particularly if their houses have been damaged in the earthquake.

We are enjoying having them.  This is what some of them have said about being at Sacred Heart:

"I really enjoyed my time here at SHPS. I made heaps of friends and the teachers are really fun.  There are heaps of fun games to play and it was fun having the tadpoles and learning about them." (Grace)

"I like it here because there are cool kids that are nice.  There are 5 minute brain breaks and I think they are a great idea.  Also, I like being away from the earthquakes and I like feeling really safe." (Georgia)

Froglet fatality

At school on the 21.2.2011 our froglet Comet died. It was Thomas’ duty to make a headstone for Comet out of stone and red vivid.

Now we have one froglet, Clash.

By Thomas & SeanJJJ

We were very sad so R.I.P-Young Comet. LL

Froglet

One of our tadpoles has grown front legs and is looking more like a froglet (although it still has to lose its tail).  The colour of this one has changed and it has turned a green colour. 

It spends a lot of time floating on top of the water and finds it hard to swim on the bottom like the others.  We have a big rock in the tank that it can climb up on, but it doesn't seem interested just yet.

We have organised a frog tank that we can put it into, but we don't think it's ready just yet.

Tadpoles in Room 4

The tadpoles are swimming and some are hiding under the rock.

These are the Room 4 tadpoles. Marika got the tadpoles for us from his uncle's place in the country. We are interested in tadpoles because we are learning about life cycles in science.

We have ten tadpoles and they are all different sizes. Most of them have back legs already. Sean found a rock to put in the tank so that when they develop their lungs they will be able to sit on the rock and breathe.

We tried feeding them cooked lettuce leaves, from Olivia-Rose's garden, but they didn't seem interested. Ryan brought along some goldfish food in the shape of a ball, but the tadpoles had trouble eating them because their mouths were too small.

Cameron brought some goldfish flakes AND the tadpoles went crazy and loved eating them.  So far the tadpoles are all growing well but we have noticed that they sleep at different times (usually during the day).  We are excited to find out what type of frogs they will turn into.  We have another tank we will use when the tadpoles turn into frogs.

You are welcome to come and look at our tadpoles.  We are enjoying learning about them.   :)

In this photo you can see a little bit of the tadpole's legs.  We are waiting for the front legs to develop and their tails to get shorter.