Diary Entry - The Mines Afire!

Diary Entry - The Mines Afire!

This week we have continued reading 'The Mines Afire!'. The task for this week was to pretend you were either a son, daughter, brother or sister of a miner who has unfortunately passed away from the mine and write a diary entry saying how your feeling, how your Ma is coping and what has happened the past view days. I chose to be a daughter from a family of 4 siblings and parents. I wrote about the explosion and then the funeral. Stella Addington is just a person I made up, she is not real. I had a lot of fun writing a diary entry and would like to write another one from a brothers perspective. Would you like to write a diary entry? Here is a link to my diary entry if you can't read it - Link.

The Mines Afire! Tui Facts

The Mines Afire! Tui facts 

In class today we read some more of The Mines Afire as well as completing some more activities on the book. One of the activities was to pick a bird out of 4, there were Wood Pigeon, Weka, Pukeko and a Tui. I chose to do a tui. I found 5 interesting facts about tui's and really enjoyed looking and reading these facts. Has your class done something similar to this? 

Week 8 Reflection

Week 8 Reflection 

This week Totara 1 have been working on times tables, subtraction and addition of positive and negative numbers. Then we were given some maths sheets to complete from Miss Power obviously around times tables, subtraction and addition of positive and negative numbers. We have also continued reading The Mines Afire, we then looked at what Greymouth used to look like and what buildings use to be and where they were. I had a lot of fun looking at the buildings and seeing what they used to be and what they are now, I even made a slide with some old buildings and the new buildings. In the weekend I competed in the Moonlight Triathlon with my sister Aimee but we did it separately, I completed the triathlon in 48 minutes.

History of Greymouth

Moonlight Triathlon