Who has been looking at our Blog??

As a point of interest (well, for me anyway!), here is a summary of where people have been looking at our blog from since it was created earlier this year.The number refers to how many times our Blog has been accessed from that place.

New Zealand     726

United States        28

France                 19

Slovakia               19

Russia                    8

United Kingdom     7

Germany                6

Czech Republic      3

Japan                     2

Slovenia                 2
Australia                 1

Your homework challenge for this week is to find these places on the globe, and to tell me what each country's capital city is. As I am only asking this question on the blog, I will only be awarding prizes to those who email me their answers!! grant@freeville.school.nz

Grooving to the beats at QEII gymnastics

When we head over to QEII on Tuesday afternoons, this is how we warm up before starting our gymnastics work.

Jamie Oliver in schools

Have a look at the 'Links' page for Jamie's presentation to TED.

Want to know more about TED.....

Our mission: Spreading ideas.

We believe passionately in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and ultimately, the world. So we're building here a clearinghouse that offers free knowledge and inspiration from the world's most inspired thinkers, and also a community of curious souls to engage with ideas and each other. (click here to go to TED website)

Our Day at the A&P Show

Click here to read about our leapfrogging on www.stuff.co.nz

Leap frog line-up!

Here we all are, lined up in Row 13 and ready to let our frogs do the leaping!
Do you recognise any of us??

Here we are, just 24 of us in the middle of 1325 children from lots of Canterbury schools... Go Freeville!!

What a nuisance - I didn't check Brandon's camera when I borrowed it from Room 3.. and it didn't have any batteries!! Grrrrrr....

Wow, it was 26 degrees at the Show. Luckily Abby, Maison, Amelia and Maddison were all able to find some shade at lunch time! (Nice sunnies!!)

 

Here are the leapfroggers in action! Tetairawhiti has taken the lead with a MASSIVE leap... Go Tetai!

Our class project to 'Express Oursleves'

Here is an excerpt from a presentation Room 7 researched, prepared and is about to present to the school council. It is about how we want to look after our school, how we think our school should look, our rights and responsibilities as students at Freeville, and how we think we can help encourage the other students at Freeville to look after our school too.

Unfortunatley there were a few absences on the day of filming, but we all worked on this together - as a whole class - to express ourselves.

Earthquake Stories

On Saturday morning at 4:30 my dad got me out of bed and my dad said are you alright and I said yes I am alright and then my dad said to me go in mum’s bed and we do not have any power and mum and dad used their phone to see.

On Saturday I was in my bed, watching a movie. When the earthquake happened my Dad ran into my bedroom and grabbed me. One of the pots fell off and smashed on the lino. My Nana and Grandad were holding each other and their tv almost smashed. The power cut off. My Dad was scared but I thought it was cool. The power turned on again. I thought it was the wind. I went to sleep in my Dad’s room.

When the earthquake happened I was crying. After the earthquake finished I went into my Mum's bed and my Dad went into my sister's bed [Chelsea] and I couldn’t get back to sleep. The next day we went and gave some clothes to the homeless people. I felt good.

When the earthquake happened I did not do anything, until Mum told me to get under a table. I did that but I would not come out. Four days later I moved to Casebrook. I am staying there for a few months.

When the earthquake came at 4:30am, my Dad and Brother and Mum woke me up, and I said, “What is that?’’ Dad said, "It’s the earthquake." Then my Dad said, “Go to Ed’s room and sleep there.” My Dad went to get the emergency light. Then we went back to sleep.

When the earthquake came on Saturday morning, I was in bed and Dad came  into my room. He tried to get me out of  bed and  I said "I can’t see", because it was dark. I felt scared because it felt like strong wind.

On Saturday morning at 4.30am there was a gigantic earthquake. It shook my whole house. I started to scream because I did not know what it was. I thought it was a train on the road that had come off the railway track, although there are no railway tracks outside my house. Only a few glasses, a frame and a temperature thing broke; nothing else. Tyson my dog was so quiet. He was just sitting up in his cage looking around…

When the earthquake happened I was asleep, and then Mum said, “Earthquake, get the kids!" So Mum went to get me and my baby brother and Dad went to get my big brother and his friend. After the big 'quake I did not go back to sleep because I was in shock. My Nanna came to my place and then Nathaniel's friend's Mum came to pick Mitchell up, and then my Auntie came to my house and my other Auntie and two cousins came too.

The earthquake. It is 4am in the morning. I sleep through some of the earthquake. My mum woke me up. Mum was waking me up while Dad was having trouble opening the door.

 When I got back from L.A., which was 1-week after the earthquake, there were some aftershocks. One nearly knocked over the bunk that my friend and me were playing psp on. My friend and I grabbed the bunk - he’s our next door neighbour. 

When the earthquake hit my house I was scared because I live in a two story house.
My sister slept though it and my brother ran out of his room in his undies. I waited for my mum.
My Nana stood in the middle of the room and Grandad said, "Well there will be a lot of work for the builders."