Scholastic Caught Being a Good Dad Award

 At Papakura Central School we are really lucky to be a Duffy School. This means that we get free books for our kids thanks to Scholastic and The Warehouse Stationary - Wairau Park.  As part of this we get given special books for some extra special awards. Soon it will be Father's Day so the next special award is the Scholastic Caught Being a Good Dad Award. The details for the competition are below.

National Poetry Day

 It's National Poetry Day!!

Poetry is something that can be a bit tricky to understand. The cool thing is though just about anything can be a poem. We have this really cool book in the library called "I'm just no good at Rhyming". It is really great at showing the different types of poems. Here is a picture of the cover so you can look for it when the library is open.

I also would like to share with you a poem about the Library.

What is your favourite poem? Why?

Library Books

Yay I have more books! I was able to pop over to school to collect some books and the things that I need to cover them. I have been busy covering books. I found it really hard to stop my kids reading them so that I could cover them! I hope that you can see some in the photos that you would like to read when the library reopens.

Mrs Fox reads The ANZAC Biscuit Man

I have a copy of The ANZAC Biscuit Man, signed by the author Peter Millet.  As today is ANZAC Day, I thought I would read this fun book for you all.  It is based on an old tale we all know so well.  How long will it take you to work out the old tale? Happy ANZAC Biscuit eating...

Enjoy!

Mrs Fox's Pepeha

Learn Create Shares today in our school was focused on Te Reo Maori and some students could create their own pepeha.  I had to create this one for one of my university papers using an app.  I am sharing it all with you.  Can you work out which word tells you where Mrs Fox was born/from?  What is the English version of this word?

Footpath Art

My favourite kind of exercise is playing Hockey but I can’t do that at the moment 😢. My second favourite is walking. I usually try to walk in the morning before school. Lately I have been going in the afternoon. I have noticed something different on these walks. There are lots of bears in windows which are cool to see but I have also noticed something on the footpaths... chalk! There is one house not too far from me who has someone drawing some really cool pictures. Here are a few.

Which one is your favourite?

I also have a friend who has shared some photos of what she has drawn with her kids. A sensory walk. This looks like lots of fun. I wonder if any of you have done any cool footpath art? Or seen any when you have been out walking or bike riding?

Cool Learning Links

Hi all, I have made a slide of some cool links that I have found in lockdown. Some of them are for book authors. There are some other websites that I love too. I hope that you enjoy them as much as I do. Let me know if you have found some other cool websites and I can maybe add them too. Who is your favourite author? Maybe they have a cool website too.