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The Java Dance Group. St Clair School had a visit from the Java Dance group. The group performed a dance called Pick A Path. It is an adventure dance. This is their second week of their 3-month tour around NZ. Nick & Judy thought that this was a good way to end the week. Click [|HERE] to see a photo peach

Skype With Bailey Road Team 17 ** Thanks Mapilli and Sheetel for your help!!! ** **
 * Today some of the Scoopers skyped with Mapill and Sheetel from [|**Team 17 at Bailey Road School**]. We wanted to find out how to make a quiz on Photo Peach after we read their blog and saw the quiz option. The start of the Skype was a bit nerve racking, but as it went on it got a lot easier and easier and began to feel like we were just talking to someone in the classroom. We enjoyed learning with other children from the other end of the country! Now that we have learnt how to set up a quiz, we think we will make one for Team 17 and our friends from [|**Motorua**]. We think it will be a fun chocolate fish challenge! **

The Wavy Gravy ** Room 7 enjoy performing and getting creative so much that many of them meet and get creative at lunchtime. Nick and Riley made up a song called the Wavy Gravy, that is sung to the tune “Baby” by Justin Bieber. This has been videoed in our classroom. With some help from our friends. We hope you enjoy it. Here is the [|link to the video]

Living & Giving last day. Today the Living and Giving team went to Helen Deem Kindergarten. They performed 4 songs, everybody follow, Frere Jacques, Octopus’s garden and Tau ana. After that Helen Deem presented a song to the Living and Giving team, It was called John Browns Car. After lunch they went to the St Clair, Hot Salt water pool and enjoying a nice reward in the cold water. After the swim, they couldn’t wait to go home after the swimming in the very hot weather. This is the last blog post for Living and Giving. Blogging Challenge By Ben and Nick [|Dunedin] is located in the East Coast of the South Island New Zealand. Dunedin attracts tourists for the famous Monarch cruise, which travels up the harbour, and stops at the known Albatross colony where you sight the longest wing spam bird in the world. Or come and watch an exhilarating match of the [|All Blacks] playing teams from all over the world. Down at Dunedin’s local rugby stadium (Carisbrook). If you are thinking about visiting for the World Cup, you could wait until our new stadium is finished. If you are a gardener at heart, you could simply enjoy a coffee from the [|botanical gardens] with stunning scenery and the amazing bird aviaries. The Chinese Gardens are world renowned. They were constructed by visitors from Shanghai – our sister city, using traditional methods. If you are interested in histroy, you will find that we are a very young city by European standards but you could take a history tour around Olveston or [|Larnach castle]. (Dunedin’s only remaining, still-standing castle). Dunedin’s is a great place to visit and is great because it gets cruise ships coming from all over the world. There are wide range of activities to choose from. At the beginning of this year, we hosted a tourist from France called Sebastien Ze Frog! He enjoyed more than anything our own backyard. St Clair, where most of us live backs onto a beautiful beach.