Triathlon

The Triathlon

Yesterday we did the triathlon. We started at 11;OO!!! Everyone had a buddy and they helped us to get on our bikes!!!! After the swim we ran and then biked. After 30 minutes it was my go to swim. I came out of the pool and got my shoes on then ran around our school. After about 5 minutes I was on my bike. I had to do two laps. When I was finished I ran back to the seats. I came first in my group. Everyone tried their best and we all had fun!

By Dylan

Wacky Hair and Odd Shoe Day

Today is our wacky hair and odd shoe day!! We are also wearing mufti. We are raising money for Camp Quality who help children living with cancer. We all look different and amazing! Some people have different coloured hair and some have spikey hair. It is so much fun and we are raising money for a great cause.

Elgregoe

Today Elgregoe came. He showed us lots of magic and had live birds. He even walked through a brick wall. By Evan                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

Wax Museum

Thank you to everyone who came to our wax museum today. We really enjoyed sharing what we have learnt about heroes. Here are a few of our pictures.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interesting links

Take a look at our interesting links! Here you will find literacy and numeracy games that reinforce what we have been learning at school plus links to websites we like using in our class.

Wordshake

Fruit Shoot Addition

Jet Ski Addition

Multiplication Games

Monkey Drive

Dance Mat Typing

Kiwi Kids News

Gymnastics

On Wednesday we went to the Christchurch School of Gymnastics. It was so much fun! We went on the beam, bar, ropes, and trampolines. The tutors were really helpful and taught us how to stay safe when doing gymnastics. Here are a few of our photos.

Swimming

Last week and this week all of our school have been swimming at Graham Condon pool. The swim instructors split our class into three groups to help improve our swimming ability. It has been really fun and we have learnt a lot.

Cross Country

Today we participated in cross country with the junior school. We all tried our best and had fun! The weather was ideal for running!! Here are a few of our photos.

AWESOME ART!!

Every Wednesday we have Mrs Kroening come and teach us and we do AWESOME ART!! We are drawing insects, birds, butterflies, and dragons. We have been sketching for about four weeks. It is a long time but we have learnt a lot. It is really fun. We are turning our pictures into fun sticky dough. We learnt a lot of different sketching techniques like dots, lines, and cross hatching. We drew many different features like feet which can be webbed or not, wings that can be all different shapes, feathers with lots of little lines, and beaks for birds which can be pointy or wide. I can't wait to see what they are like in dough!!

By Saskia.

Queen's Birthday Assembly

On Friday our class ran school assembly. Our theme was the Queen and the royal family! We have been learning about the Queen and her family:

• Queen Elizabeth II has been the Queen since the 6^th of February 1952.
• Queen Elizabeth II was born on the 21^st of April 1926. She is 87 years old.
• The Queen has 3 sons and one daughter. The Queen is married to Prince Philip.
• For over 100 years the birthday of the reigning King or Queen has been celebrated in June each year in both Britain and New Zealand.
• The Queen is the head of state of New Zealand. New Zealand’s Governor-General carries out different duties on behalf of the Queen.

Sign Language Week

Last Friday we had a sign language class with people from Deaf Aotearoa New Zealand. We enjoyed learning how to say hello, goodbye, thank you, and our name in sign language. Here is a photo of us learning.

Air Force Museum

Last Wednesday we went to the Air Force Museum because this term we are learning about flight. When we arrived we met Chris. He taught us about the history of flight, the parts of an aeroplane, and the science of flying. We learnt four important words which were weight, lift, drag, and thrust. We really enjoyed our trip.

On the last day of last term we dressed up as what we want to be when we grow up!! We had a great day and raised money for the Canterbury Charity Hospital.

Reading in Room 6

In reading we are learning to use word attack strategies to help us when we are stuck on a word. The word attack strategies we practised today were re-reading, reading on, and looking at the picture to give us a clue. When we were unsure of the word bushline we read on and found out that it was an imaginary line at the top of the trees. We also used the pictures in the story to help us.

By the Tui's - Mia, Brianna, Evan, Thomas, and Ethan M

Maths in Room 6

We have been learning to do hard maths and try our best. We have been doing addition, subtraction, fractions and multiplication. Sometimes we use counters and beans to help us with solve problems. We count backwards and forwards to get the right answer. We tell the person next to us how we got our answer then we tell the group. On the computers we do maths buddy or www.nz.ixl.com activities. We have learnt about patterns with numbers and shapes. In group box we do games where you roll the dice and count up what it equals and add the cards together we work with our buddy. Sometimes we get sheets to do.

Fold a Flower

On  Monday  we  made  a  flower  that  was  made   out  of  paper.  To  make  them  we had to follow the  instructions. 1. Cut  some  straight  strips  of   coloured  or  patterned  paper  7   centimetres  wide.  2.  Take  the   end  of  a  strip  of  paper  and  fold  it  over  to  meet  the  side  edge.   When  you  have  both  edges  carefully  linen  up,  run  your  fingernail   along   the   fold  you  have  made  it  sharp.  Step 3 Cut the triangle. Step 4 Place the triangle in front of you and fold the corner across. Step 5 Fold the corner across to the right and glue it down. make 4 more and glue them in a circle.
By Nicholas and MacKenzie

fantastic worm juice

Hi, our class has started to sell worm juice. Worm juice is good for your garden and  lawn what we do is we collected milk bottles and we bring it to school then we fill it up with worm juice we have tow difrint kinds one dark coler and one light coler  And then we sell it. By Gabriella.

Super Sand Dunes

At the beach we had lots of fun and we learnt about sand dunes. We put on some plants and shells. We also learnt how to protect the sand dunes. We need walkways so people won't damage the plants. We learnt about the plants they were called ice plants and Marram grass they are there to protect the dunes and they are good for the animals and insects. Sand dunes are good because they protect houses and roads from getting all sand in them and breaking down. Everyone enjoyed going to the beach and we learnt a lot about sand dunes.