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 8 'Star of the Week'

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

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

Five girls have been attending a weekly Writing Club. Today  Neave and Lulu shared the books they'd co-written. What wonderful authors they are.

Ginger’s Chair By Neave and Ruby

 One day Lucy the little cat was sleeping happily on the chair. Along came Ginger, the fat cat. Suddenly Ginger hissed at Lucy.

Lucy woke up and notice that Ginger, the fat cat, was looking madly at her.

Ginger leapt up onto the chair and hissed at Lucy again. Lucy jumped off the chair and escaped from Ginger’s claws.

She raced up the steps to her cat door and dived through it.

Once she got inside , she was safe. She was smiling to herself.

The Cat that Can’t Climb Trees By Lulu and Harriet

Cute Cat was eating some food from Fat cat’s bowl. It was scrumptious.

Fat Cat cam running along and nearly pounced on Cute Cat but Cute cat sped away with Fat Cat right behind her.

Cute Cat climbed hurriedly up the tree. Fat Cat tried to climb the tree too.

Cute Cat climbed right to the top of the tree, but Fat Cat did not climb to the top. The branch was going to break!

Cute Cat said, “You can’t climb trees.”

Thank you for having your child at school early today so we could attend Mass. The children .were amazing during mass and I am very proud of them.

Term 3 Week 6

At today's school assembly Nicholas received a certificate.

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

We have been learning about God being Present in the World. We have read the creation story from the Bible as well as a Maori creation story.

We have created art work to show one part of the story. Come into the classroom to see our masterpieces.

Harriet

Trinity

Natalia

Jacky

Sirayah

Lulu

A reminder that the Junior School will be attending 9am Mass on Sunday 30 August at Christ the King Church. Please meet outside Room 1 by 8:45am. Children are to wear full uniform.

Happy Birthday

Today Samantha turned 7. We sang 'Happy Birthday' and wished Samantha all the best for the coming year.






This morning Declan, Sirayah, Finn H and Neave presented a play called 'Baby Bear's Present.

Term 2 Week 11

At today's school assembly Kempton received a certificate.

Ka pai, Kempton, we are proud of you.

Sirayah will turn 7 during the holidays so we sang 'Happy Birthday' to her today. Thanks to Sirayah's Mum for bringing in a cake for us to celebrate with.

Have a fantastic two week's holiday. Stay safe, keep warm and may the bugs stay away. Keep up the reading, check out Mathletics and take a glance at the Essential Spelling Lists. See you all back on Monday 20 July for an 8:45am start.

Mathletics Silver and Room 5 Stars

Congratulations to Zofia who has gained her first Silver Mathletics Certificate. Keep up the great work.






Thank you to those who were able to come along and watch us perform our plays this afternoon. What amazing stars we have in Room 5! The children have worked really hard and really stepped up today. I am so proud of them. Look out Hollywood!

Ruby, Harriet, Jessica, Lulu, Declan & Nicholas

Trinity, Roisin, Bridget, Neave & Gabrielle

Declan, Finn C, Finn H, Kempton, Preston & Samantha

Bree, Ariana, Kate, Marissa, Zofia & Samantha

This morning we finally had our last hockey session. We have remembered lots of skills so we were able to enjoy some relay races using the skills before playing a game. Next term (on Thursday 23 July) we will have a celebration afternoon when we will play games against the other junior classes.

Ruby

Preston

Trinity

Sirayah

Term 2 Week 10

At today's assembly Sirayah received a certificate.

Ka pai, Sirayah, we are proud of you.

Over the last few weeks the Young Vinnies Group has been running a Talent Quest. Today the top acts in each syndicate were announced.
Congratulations to: Bree, Marissa, Declan and Samuel. for winning the Junior Syndicate section. You were all fantastic, and very brave to get up and perform in front of an audience.





Today we farewelled Patrick, who is heading back to Ireland on Monday. We have loved having Patrick in our room and will miss him a lot. May God richly bless you, Patrick, on the next stage in your journey. We all enjoyed the party lunch (thank you so much for the effort you made in preparing the yummy food for us) and the movie Hotel for Dogs (apologies for the lateness in getting out of class this afternoon).

We have one more week of school left for Term 2. Keep warm and healthy.

Room 5 News

We are working hard on preparing our plays ready for performing next Thursday. Here's some photos of us creating our props.

 

 

Finn and Sirayah visited Mr Bonisch's office so they could read their story book to him. Ka pai, Finn and Sirayah, you are great readers.

Term 2 Week 7 'Star of the Week'

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

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

We had lots of other things to celebrate as well:

Sirayah received her first Bronze Mathletics Certificate. Ka pai, Sirayah, keep up the great work.

Nicholas was named 'Player of the Day' after his rugby game. Ka pai, Nicholas, you played well.

I forgot to give out the homework certificates on Friday, so it was a long wait for the following: Neave, Bridget, Kate, Marissa and Samantha as well as Roisin who received the certificate. The standard of homework has risen and I am impressed with the sentences people are coming up with. You can have a break from spelling and sentences this week.

 

This morning our buddy class came to do some discussing and writing with us. This is in preparation for our character day next Tuesday (9 June). Last week you  received the Create a Character newsletter about this. Our buddies wrote some lists of characteristics of our made up character in our homework books. Please check the list to see what your child is planning to be. You are not expected to spend up large for this, but can use items you already have. If you have any questions about this day, please contact me.

On Thursday we plan to have our last hockey session (this is weather dependent). Please bring sports shoes and (girls) shorts to change into.

Hockey

Today Sian took us for a hockey lesson. We all learnt how to do closed and open dribbling before playing a game. We had a great time and are looking forward to another hockey session tomorrow.

Bridget, Sirayah, Kempton and Kate listening to instructions

Kempton showing his dribbling skills

Jacky showing his dribbling skills

Nicholas and Finn H

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