Zeus, Hera, and Little Io (An Ancient Greek Myth)

 One day Zeus was bored and went out onto earth where he found io a little water nymph sitting near a lake. Then Hera came down. 

  

So Zeus turned io into a cow because Hera always got jealous when Zeus was around other women.

Then Hera asked Zeus if Hera could have the cow as a present, so Zeus sadly agreed so Hera wasn't suspicious.

Zeus knew he had to get io back and release her. When Hera found out about the cow getting away she sent a gadfly after her. (A gadfly is a horrible insect that bites cows)

 

The gadfly found her and io swan across the sea trying to lose it but the gadfly hung on. A sad io then travelled to Egypt. Hera thought she had suffered enough so made Zeus promise never to see io again.  Then she left io in Egypt. But Egypt was a horrible place for io because she is a water nymph and there is crocodiles in the Nile... Back at Olympus, Zeus was still really bored. Surely there must be something he could do.                

Picture from:http://greece.mrdonn.org/zeus.html

The Visiting teachers

For the last week and a half there have been teachers from lots of different schools coming in to see how our class ( which is an e-learning ) class works. There have been some really cool teachers who have also showed us some things to. The teachers normally ask us how it works and they get some ideas of they are going to do in the future!

I hope we get some more teachers coming in soon!

From Lucia 

The visitors

This week last week and next week and the week after that I think we have some teachers from other schools coming in to have a look at our class and miss bakers because we are an e-learning class of course.  So every day of the week for four weeks we have visitors from a lot of schools.  It was really hard keeping focused with a lot of people staring at you.

By

Phoebe

Anansi The Spider ( Why The Spider Has Eight Very Skinny Legs)

Anansi was a spider, he lived with his wife.
Anansi's wife was a very good cook, but most of the time he wanted to try  his neighbours food.

One day Anansi goes to Rabbit's house, Rabbit offers him food. "I would love to, but I must get going". Anansi knows that if he stays rabbit will make him help clean up.
Anansi suggests that if he ties a web to one of his legs and to the pot, and when the food is ready, Rabbit will pull on the web, Rabbit thought the idea was wonderful.

Anansi goes to Monkey next, Mokey asks Anansi to stay for food, again he says that he must leave, but suggests that he tie a web to his leg and to the pot. Monkey thought the idea was great.

Next Anansi goes to his friend Hog, Hog invited Anansi to dinner, but again Anansi says he must go, he suggest that he tie a web to his leg and to the pot. Hog loved the idea.

Walk the Talk.....

Theseus and the minotaur

Aeons ago there was a prince called Theseus across the sea in Athens. There was a problem in Athens though, because King Minos always challenged the Athenian king to war.

Later the Athenian king made a deal with King Minos that every 9 years, 7 Athenian girls and 7 Athenian boys would be sent to be eaten by the brutal beast, the minotaur.

The Athenians waited 9 years and then the prince went with the other 13 children to get eaten by the minotaur.

Then when the prince got to King Minos's kingdom he met the princess who made a deal with him.

After the princess helped Theseus to slay the horrible beast, the minotaur, Prince Theseus let the princess sail with him.

In the end Theseus took the princess and they stopped to get supplies and she fell asleep. The people on that island soon fell in love with her beauty, so the prince left her on that island to be admired .

THE END

art from: http://camphalfblood.wikia.com/wiki/File:Minotaur.jpg

dance trials

Today at school we had senior dance trials. It started off doing some jump jam songs and then some people had to leave. Then other people got their names written down and now Miss Evans and Mrs O'Donnell are trying to decide who should be in the dance group.

Integrated studies

In integrated studies my group have been doing the Mayans. My group is Milan Dominic and Zach. We've discovered that they made the first Mayan calendar and they were the only ones who knew how to read it but from generation to generation they forgot how to but their trying to find out again. I like doing topic ind i want to do some more.

Our Popplet Map

soccer

On Tuesday 

a couple of days ago some kids from our class went to a soccer tournament to represent

Clevedon our first game we lost 1-2 but we played well.

Our next game we won 8-2.

after that we had a brake we watched another Clevedon team.

The next game we won 9-0.

he last game we won 10-1.

Jacqui Sharp and Visitors

So far this week, room seven has not had Miss Thomas as there teacher, for the next to weeks we are having Jacqui Sharp to teach us. While Jacqui is here, we will be having Teachers, Principles and Deputy Principles coming in the morning and in the afternoon. The people that are visiting are watching how we learn in the E-Learning Class.
It has been an enjoyable time :-)

Soccer fun day

Yesterday on the 14th of may primary schools had a soccer fun day at Ardmore my team won three

Out of four games in my team I had Sam.l,Sam.s, Blake ,joe,Alex,Chloe,hayley ,hayley,Isabella and I .  We had lots of fun .

Day two with Jacqui...

Today we have started our writing using our iPads to draft our myths and legends as a narrative. We are using an inspiration graphic organiser along with pages. 

Yesterday we set up our geometry and reading google docs. We are doing novel studies with books like..... Percy Jackson, Outlaw, Stormbreaker and Artemis Fowl. 

We are looking forward to using our new geometry and reading apps, especially the tessellating app!

By Phoebe

Progress & Effort Term One

New furniture

Yesterday we got some really cool new furniture. We now have different height tables, cushions for our low tables and stools and chairs for our high ones. They are awesome colours and make our room look brighter. We all enjoy choosing where to sit.

Swimming sports

On the fifth of April it was Kauri and Kowhais swimming sports in the first race it was one lenth freestyle which harry came first in and louis came second in. The next race was two lenths freestyle which louis came first in and miranda came second in. The very next race was one lenth backstoke which aria came first in and kate came first aswell because they had a tie. The next race was 2 lenths backstroke which miranda came third. The very next race was one lenth breaststroke which louis and ruby tied in. The next race was two lenths breaststroke which charlotte, ella, and miranda came first tied in. Thank you for reading our blog
by phoebe

Orienteering

On the seventh of may pur class did orienteering. After we did the roll we lined up to go to orienteering there was two men that were called jack and shane they talked to us about orienteering but before that we got into pairs but i had a group of three because there was noone else it was lucia, ruby, and I we also got a map twp pieces of paper with numbers on them one of them was our clipping card and the other was the numbers that we had to find.

Holidays

In the holidays I went to the movies with my ella Toby Luke and me first we got in the car and left to botany downs second we went to get a park then when we got out and got our tickets and we got our choc top and coke and went to see scary movie 5 it was funny then after we went home I played Xbox with Toby and Luke we played nba and cod.