eTime .::. Weekly Diary

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		Each week the GATE Scholars embark on a new learning adventure. You can read their diary each week to gain insight into their Term 1 journey. Click on the blue Week Bubbles below to read each entry.
		8 February Today was the beginning of our focus on celebrations. In the morning an internet scavenger hunt led us through a diverse range of celebrations, across different cultures and times.... 15 February Today we celebrated the demise of the dreaded Jabberwocky in the poem of the same name by Lewis Carroll. Along the way we also learned about nonsense language and how made-up words can function in a sentence.... 22 February The most exciting part of our day today was a trip to Te Puna O Waiwhetu, the Christchurch Art Gallery. We viewed exhibits and then had a chance to create some art ourselves... 1 March Our theme word today was ‘party’ and together we wrote a poem with a difference. Our party poem was a celebration of words and our focus was on excellent vocabulary and originality of thought... 8 March The Festival of Flowers is an exciting, fun-filled celebration of gardens, plants and everything floral. Today, in honour of this celebration we visited our very own Botanic Gardens... 15 March Today we celebrated flight, particularly man-made flight. Humans first observed that birds have wings and most have the ability to fly. Many insects can fly but only one mammal can fly... 22 March This week the word party took on many different meanings as we researched and discussed some extremely diverse celebrations from both literature and history. We started with the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party from Alice in Wonderland... 29 March Today was the last day of term and an opportunity to share our learning with our parents, grandparents, teachers and principals. In the morning we used Photoshop Elements to create idioms...