Term 4 Week 7 - Gold

At this morning's assembly five Room 5 people received a Gold Mathletics certificate.

This is an amazing achievement and we are all very proud of 

Samantha, Kate, Nicholas, Finn and Marissa.

Samantha was receiving a Gold certificate for the second time this year.

Our production practices are progressing well. We will be having a dress rehearsal on Monday morning and on Wednesday morning we will have a practice in the Aurora Centre. Children need to be at school before the 8:45am bell on these days so we can start the practices on time. Thank you for your support with this.

Enjoy the weekend.

Gold Mathlete

Congratulations to Finn for gaining a Gold Mathletics certificate. Ka pai, Finn, this is an amazing achievement.

Term 4 Week 5

This week has been very busy and we are all quite tired. I hope everyone has a relaxing weekend.

The children have enjoyed their swimming lessons at Wharenui. They have all worked hard and made great improvements. Check out these photos:

Ruby, Neave, Kate and Harriet

Kempton

Bree

Bridget, Roisin and Trinity

Nicholas and Finn

Today we celebrated our school's Feast Day - Christ the King. We attended a liturgy in the church, then had a sausage sizzle for lunch - a big THANKS to the Parent Council for this. In the afternoon Room 5 and Room 12 took our scooters and bikes to Westburn Bike Park. We had lots of fun riding around the track then playing on the playground. Thanks Mrs A and Mr B for coming down with us. When we arrived back at school we were treated to an ice-block, A big THANK YOU to the Board of Trustees for this.

Next week we will be having production pracitces every day. On Monday we will attend Burnside High School's production, 'The Twits'. Monday is also library day. Please return library books so that a new book can be issued.

Have a great weekend - may the weather be kind for the Garden Tour.

Term 4 Week 5 'Star of the Week'

This week's 'Star of the Week' is Finn.

Ka pai, Finn, it's great to have you in Room 5.

Congratulations to Nicholas who gained a Gold Mathletics certificate this morning. What a great effort, Nicholas.






This Week:
Production practices: Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. These are progressing well. Today the children were given a copy of the songs we will be singing. Please help your child to learn these words.
Thursday: CRT - please bring your recorder.
Friday: Show Day - No School.

Looking ahead to Week 6 - we will be swimming every day. A notice went home last week with the times - Year 3s leave school at 9am, with Room 3 and Year 2s leave at 9:30am with Room 6. If you are able to help with changing after swimming please return the slip at the bottom of the notice.

Children may bring their gold coin for 'The Twits' performance to me any time. Please DO NOT take this to the office. Thanks.

Term 4 Week 4 'Star of the Week'

This week's 'Star of the Week' is Roisin.

Ka pai, Roisin, it's great to have you in Room 5.

The Year 3s began tennis lessons today. They all enjoyed their session. They have two more sessions. While the Year 3s were playing tennis the Year 2s made ooblek. We discovered that ooblek can behave like a liquid as well as like a solid, depending on how hard you push your hand into it. Ooblek is made from cornflour and water.  

Sirayah

Bree and Natalia mixing the ooblek

Bree and Zofia  

Roisn

Finn

Term 3 Week 7 'Star of the Week'

This week's 'Star of the Week' is Bridget.

Ka pai, Bridget, you are a super role model and it's great to have you in Room 5.

Today we celebrated four sporting successes:

Congratulations to Bree who came first in her Rhythmic Gymnastic competition.

Congratulations to Finn C who received the 'Most Improved Player' at his team's rugby prize giving.

Congratulations to Nicholas who received a medal for being the fastest player in his rugby team.

Congratulations to Declan who received a medal as his rugby 

team won Division Four.

Thank you to those who attended Mass yesterday. I was very impressed with the children's behaviour, they were awesome.

Reading in Room 5

We enjoy sharing our reading books with each other. Sometimes we read to a buddy and sometimes we tell a buddy what our story is about. Check us out:

Preston and Ariana

Finn C and Marissa

Samantha and Nicholas

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Term 2 Week 11 'Star of the Week'

Today's 'Star of the Week' is Finn C.

Ka pai, Finn, it's great to have you in Room 5.

Samuel (soccer) was named 'Trier of the Day'; Finn C (rugby) was 'Player of the Day; and Finn H (rugby) was 'Player of the Day.

Ka pai, boys, it's great to hear how well you are doing in your sport.

Term 2 Week 9 'Star of the Week'

This week's 'Star of the Week' is Bridget.

Ka pai, Bridget, it's great to have you in Room 5.

Three people were recognised for their efforts at their Saturday sport. Congratulations to:

Finn C, rugby 'Player of the Day'; Samuel, soccer 'Best Trier'; and Ruby, netball 'Player of the Day'.

Last week we read Maori Legends. On Friday each group presented their legend to the class. I am very impressed at how well the groups worked to prepare for Friday. Everyone read their part clearly and with confidence. Thank you for the home support.

Roisin, Bridget and Zofia

Marissa, Samantha, Bree, Ariana and Natalia

Neave, Harriet and Ruby

Trinity, Kate, Jessica, Gabrielle and Lulu

Patrick, Finn C, Samuel and Declan

Term 2 Week 7

 Patrick was presented with a certificate at today's school assembly.

Ka pai, Patrick, we are proud of you.

We have been learning about symmetry. This has provided us with some challenges, but also lots of discussion. We have been trying to work out lines of symmetry for capital letters. We discovered that 10 letters have no lines of symmetry, 4 have two lines and 12 have one line of symmetry. Check out these photos of us working out the lines of symmetry:

Lulu and Jessica

Trinity and Zofia

Jacky and Preston

Samuel and Finn C

A reminder about the Character Day on Tuesday 9 June. Keep thinking about what your character looks like, their emotions, what they like and what they do. I am looking forward to seeing what you come up with.
Enjoy the weekend - keep warm.

Term 2 Week 6

At today's school assembly Neave received a certificate.

Ka pai, Neave, we are proud of you.

This weekend Finn C (30.05) and Bridget (31.05) turn 7. We sang 'Happy Birthday' to them this morning and wished them all the best as 7 year olds. Have great birthdays Finn and Bridget.

Today's hockey session went well. We learnt how to do a push pass before playing a game. We have one more hockey session, on Thursday 4 June.

Enjoy the long weekend - hopefully you'll all get a sleep-in on Monday!

Player of the Day

On Saturday Finn C was named 'Player of the Day' for his rugby team. Ka pai, Finn, we are proud of you.

Term 2 Week 1

Welcome back to school. It was lovely to see everyone this morning and to catch up on the holidays. Sounds like everyone has had a good break. This is an eleven week term, so it should be a little more relaxed than last term.

Today we celebrated two milestones that occurred during the holidays:


Patrick turned 7 on 12 April, so we sang 'Happy Birthday' and wished him all the best for the coming year.

Lulu gained her first Silver Mathletics certificate - ka pai, Lulu.

This morning we wrote about our holidays. Here we are sharing our recounts with a buddy:

Ariana and Bridget

Finn C and Samantha

Lulu and Ruby

Patrick and Kate

This week we will be focusing on ANZAC Day and what that means. We will be reading a different ANZAC poem each day and this will be part of the reading homework. Spelling homework also begins again.
There will be NO school assembly on Friday as the Senior Syndicate is on camp at Hanmer Springs.

Last Day of Term 1

This morning Finn C was presented with his first Silver Mathletics certificate. Ka pai, Finn.

Natalia worked very hard today and gained her first Bronze Mathletics certificate. Ka pai, Natalia.

This morning we watched the recordings of our plays. I am having a few issues with uploading the videos to the Blog and with sending them by email. You can come into Room 5 next term to view them.

Thank you for your support this term, I have really appreciated it.
Have a Happy Easter and a safe and relaxing holiday. We will see you all back at school on Monday 20 April. Remember that children are to be in their winter uniform.

St Patrick's Day

Today is St Patrick's Day and we all dressed up in green. What a smart looking bunch we are! Thank you for your support in bringing along breakfast food for the St Vincent de Paul food bank, it is greatly appreciated.
Triona came to tell us a little about St Patrick's Day and share some Irish stories with us. She even showed us evidence of a leprechaun's visit. Thanks, Triona, we enjoyed your visit.
Thanks, too, to the Parent Council for our green lollipops.

Bridget, our 'best dressed green person'

Yesterday we tried our hand at writing 10 word sentences about an object, without mentioning the object. Here's some of our sentences - see if you can work out what we are talking about!

A gentle pet loves bones, it digs as well. Marissa

Barking, sniffing, jumping, scratching, running, loves bones, my best friend. Declan

Patting my furry and fun thing, licking my face. Natalia

It runs fast, it's a scratchy thing, it jumps up. Roisin

Strawberry flavour, sun melts it, lick it, it's cool. Bree

Fluffy, slobbery, stinky, cuddly, digs, a loud sound. Nicholas

The sun melts it and the taste is strawberry cone. Samantha

Furry, sharp teeth, likes food, has a ball and collar, walks and plays. Harriet

Melts in the sun, lots of flavors, taste is superb. Finn C