Term 4 Week 10 - Year 3 Graduation Day

This morning we attended a graduation ceremony for the Year 3s. This was a special time when the Year 2s prayed for the Year 3s, the Year 3s prayed for their parents and we sang 'In God's Circle of Love' before the Junior School leaders, Kate and Joe, handed the leadership mantle onto two Year 2s.  Each Year 3 child was then presented with a special certificate to mark the end of their Junior School days. Morning tea followed - thanks for all the yummy food.
Parents, thank you for attending today's ceremony and for all your support this year.

Gabrielle, Ariana, Harriet, Lulu, Ruby, Jacky
Jessica, Kate, Preston, Neave, Kempton

Term 3 Week 9

Congratulations to Jessica who received a certificate at today's school assembly.

Ka pai, Jessica, we are proud of you.

Congratulations to Preston, Lulu and Natalia who all received spot prizes in the draw for the Knowledge-a-thon. A big THANK YOU to the amazing Parent Council who organized this fundraiser. We really appreciate your efforts and support.

Enjoy a relaxing weekend - only one more week left of Term 3.

Celebration and Room 5 Writing

On Saturday Bree competed in a Rhythmic Gymnastic Competition. Yesterday she learnt that she came second. Ka pai, Bree, that is great news.





This morning we made popcorn in an electric frypan. We had lots of laughs as the corn popped out of the pan and onto the floor. Fortunately we didn't set off the fire alarms! We then wrote about what happened. Here's some photos, thanks to Kate, and some snippets of writing:

Bridget, Jessica, Harriet and Lulu

Patrick, Kempton, Jacky and Declan

 The popcorn went pop, pop, pop! It was really funny. I was not expecting that. Marissa

We made popcorn. Once it sizzled it started to pop. It was popping like a cannon. I just wished that it flew into my mouth. Patrick

Mrs K-C put the kernels in the pan. We waited for awhile. Then it popped all over the place. Roisin

After it had all popped  Mrs K-C put it in a bowl. We got to eat it. It was delicious. Nicholas

Term 2 Week 8 'Star of the Week'

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

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

Lots of Room 5 people play sport over the weekend. On Saturday Jessica received the 'Player of the Day' cup for her netball team. Patrick was named 'Player of the Day' for his rugby team.

Neave competed in a Highland Dancing competition.

Congratulations to these people and everyone who played sport this weekend.







A reminder that our Character Day is upon us. Tomorrow (09.06) we will come to school dressed as a character of our imagination. I am looking forward to seeing who turns up in Room 5 in the morning. We are going to have a fun day being someone new and writing with our buddies.

Homework this week is spelling and basic facts. Both lists will be tested on Friday. Reading will be a little different - we have chosen our own groups and a Maori legend to read. We will be working on this for the week and presenting our legend to the rest of the class later in the week.
On Thursday we will have recorder lessons.

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.

Silver Smiles

Today three people received their first Silver Mathletics Certificate. Congratulations to Samuel, Jessica and Kate.

Principal's Award and Run, Jump, Throw Recounts

Today Jessica received a Principal's Award for her recount of her favorite activity at the Run, Jump, Throw Display.
Ka pai, Jessica, your recount is great, and here it is:

Yesterday we did Run, Jump, Throw. We had to line up first and the teacher told us what to do. She told us to march. My favourite was jumping in the sack. But before we did that we had to have a baton and run. When all your team had a turn you had to sit down. After that we got a bean bag and we put it on top of our hats. When we had done that we got an egg and spoon. We put the egg on the spoon and we ran. After that we got a sack. We had to put our feet in the corner and pull it up and run. That activity was my favourite because I like egg and spoon races. 

Here's some more recounts:
(Come into the classroom and check out our Writing Wall for more recounts)



Yesterday we did Run, Jump and Throw. The long dash was my favourite because we had to run really fast. At the end of that we were quite puffed so we had to have a big drink. Only the Year 3 children did the long dash. Gabrielle. 

Yesterday I did high jump. I had to jump and do a scissor kick. I had to run around the cones. High jump was my favourite activity because we had to go from green to blue. Finn H

I went on the high jump. I had to do a scissor jump over the bar. Zofia 

Yesterday I did the high jump. I jumped over the bar with a scissor kick. I liked it because I was good at it. Sirayah

Term 1 Week 5 'Star of the Week'

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

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

Ariana received the homework certificate for her great spelling sentences. 

Here is a photo of Ariana''s work as a model of what is expected. Ka pai, Ariana.

It was exciting to be able to present the first Bronze Mathletics Certificates this morning. Congratulations to: Jessica, Ariana, Samantha, Declan, Bridget and Trinity. Keep up the good work. We will present the first Bronze and the first Silver certificates for each child in class. A Gold certificate, which represents 20 weeks' worth of certificates, is presented at the school assembly.

A reminder that we have another Run, Jump, Throw session with Anita tomorrow (Tuesday) so sports shoes and shorts need to be brought to school.

Term 1 Week 4 'Star of the Week'

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

Congratulations, Jessica, it's great to have you in Room 5.

Today we had our last swim session. It was a busy but fun session of water safety. We were in small groups and had four different things to do: make waves and a whirl pool, ride in a rubber dinghy, jump in the pool and swim with life jackets on, and jump in the pool fro the starting blocks and move down the pool by pulling along the side. We were all buzzing on the way back to school.

Check out this link for some photos:

Swimming Feb 2015

Remember to bring sports shoes and, for some girls, shorts for the first of our Run, Jump, Throw sessions tomorrow.

Term 1 Week 3

This morning Harriet received a certificate at the school assembly.

Ka pai, Harriet, we are proud of you.

Yesterday Jacky received a Principal's Award for writing the following story with Mrs Sharp. Ka pai, Jacky, we are proud of you.

 



Today two Room 5 people turned 7. We sang 'Happy Birthday' to Ruby and Jessica and wished them all the best for the coming year.

Looking ahead to next week:

On Monday we have our last swimming session for this term. The Year 3s will swim with Room 3 and the Year 2s will swim with Room 6. 

On Monday afternoon we will visit the school library. Children must return last week's book before they can issue a new one.

On Tuesday we will have our first Run, Jump, Throw session with Anita from Canterbury Athletics. Everyone can bring sports shoes to change into and girls who wear pinafores should bring shorts to wear for the sessions.

We will begin spelling homework. We will talk about the expectations so your child should be able to explain what they have to do. If you are unsure please come in and ask.

Have a great weekend.

Term 1 Week 3 'Star of the Week'

This week's 'Star of the Week' is Kate. Ka pai, Kate, it's great to have you in Room 5.

This morning we had our first swimming lesson at Wharenui Pool.

Finn C, Declan and Nicholas

Natalia, Bridget, Trinity and Roisin

Harriet, Kate and Jessica

We all managed to get organised and on the bus on time. It was great to get in the pool and learn some new things.

Thanks to the parents who are helping with changing, we really appreciate it.