A tribute to Margaret Mahy

At the end of the week, we learned the sad news that famous NZ author, Margaret Mahy, had died.

  We read some of her stories.  One of them was called Fantail, Fantail and we made fantail headbands with coloured feathers. 
Mrs Keating's favourite story is The Lion in the Meadow.  She read it to us and we made amazing lion faces with paint and paper strips.  They are hanging up in the hallway.

We changed the words of the story too, "Mother, there is a big, roaring, yellow, whiskery lion at school!"  We thought of some other adjectives to describe the lion too...such as:  vegetarian (because he only eats apples), scared (of the dragon), friendly... you will see smiles on our lions' faces because they are friendly too.

We are sad that Margaret Mahy has died but we are glad we have so many fantastic stories to read - thank you, Margaret!