Wednesday 23rd November

Technology

Over the past couple of weeks, the Middle Room have been very busy with our technology. We were given a brief that related to our inquiry topic of “Watch us Grow”. The brief was to design and make something that helps things grow. To be successful we had to design something that:

• Can be used in the garden
• Helps things to grow
• Is our own design
• Doesn’t cost a lot to make
• Works properly
• Is interesting
• Can work independently on this
• Doesn’t take a lot of time to complete

We have been really engaged in our work and have been working very hard to get these completed. Have a look at some photos of us busy creating our designs. We can’t wait to show everyone our finished projects!

Girls painting their designs. 

Courtney decorating her worm farm. 

George drilling holes for his worm farm. 

Cooper filling up his bird feeder. 

Boys helping to saw the wood needed fro a planter box. 

Cooper helping Maddie with her bird house. 

Flynn helping out on a planter box. 

George is layering his worm farm. 

Nic is making a container to grow wheat.

James is filling up his worm farm.

Tuesday 8th November

Middle Room Camp

Last Wednesday-Friday the Middle Room went on their camp to Waihola and Dunedin. We all had such a fantastic time. We had a jam-packed three days which saw us doing many activities including Leap Trampoline Park, Ten Pin Bowling, Swimming, Kayaking, Art Gallery, Flying fox and Sinclair Wetlands. Thanks to our parent assistants,  Brony, Peter, Brendon and Mark, who came along to help Miss Chapman and Miss Ward. It was much appreciated. Here are a selection of photos of our enjoyable time at camp!

Camp on PhotoPeach

Monday 31st October

Sports Activator Visit
On Monday Greer came to visit and teach us some cricket skills. We enjoyed the challenges she set for us and worked hard to improve our cricket!

Wednesday 26th October

Book Fair

It has been a couple of exciting weeks here at school with the Book Fair on. Everyone has loved looking through and searching for books that appeal to their interests. There has been a great buzz around and the books are flying out the door. It is great to see the children with their heads in books throughout the day, even at lunchtime! Yesterday we had a dress up day where the theme was Kiwiana. There were lots of All Blacks, bushmen and Miss Taylor even came as a cow! The Book Fair ends this Friday so make sure you get in to check it out.

The fabulous Book Fair!

Such a range of books! 

The Middle Room all dressed up. 

The whole school looks fantastic. 

Friday 14th October

Cricket

Yesterday afternoon we had a visit from Shaun from Otago Cricket who came to teach us some cricket skills. We learned lots of new skills involving throwing and catching. Some of us were learning the technique of how to bowl correctly. You need to have a straight arm, your fingers are in bunny ears when you hold the ball and you have to "pull the chain" with your non-bowling hand to get the motion. At the end we played a game of 3-bat cricket which was very fast and exciting. We have another cricket session next week which we are all looking forward to.

Bree and Georgia racing!

Flynn rolling the ball back to his team.

Taylor making sure she is aiming correctly.

Flynn practicing his catching. 

Great catch Kordelia Rose!

Taylor playing 3 bat cricket. 

Wednesday 12th October

Maths- Statistics

Lately in Maths we have been learning about statistics. Everyone had to plan and conduct an investigation based around sports questions. Some questions posed were:

How many sit ups can the Middle Room do in a minute?

How many skips in a minute can you do?

How long can you hang from the monkey bars?

How much does your breathing change before and after exercise?

What is the average height of gymnastic bridges in the Middle Room?

We have been collecting this information this week and although it was hard at times, it was great to integrate some fitness into our maths. We have been having a discussion about things that can affect our data and what this would do to our results and findings. Our next step will be to analyse the data and write a report about what we find.

How many sit ups can we do?

Push ups are hard!

Taylor and Julienne skipping hard!

Running hard! 

How long can we hang from the bars?

Esther measuring Courtney's bridge. 

Monday 10th October

Term 4

Welcome back everyone to the last Term of the year. The Middle Room have all have a great two weeks holiday but everyone is pleased to get back to school.

Term 4 is a very busy Term and there are a lot of exciting things happening including our Camp in Week 4.

Below is this Terms Morning Programme schedule. We start next Monday in Week 2. There will be no Morning Programme or homework in Week 4 as we are at our camp in Waihola.

Thursday 22nd September

Sports Activator

We have has a busy last week at school. We had a great day for Greer to visit to have another session of touch skills. We start off with some warm-up games which were a lot of fun. Then it was time to practice our skills especially passing and stepping. We round off with a quick game which was very fast paced. We are all improving so much each time Greer visits. These lessons are going to help many of us with our after school touch.

Practicing our passing.

Keep an eye on the ball.

Rats and Rabbits!

Testing our reactions.

Georgia on the run!

George stepping.

Baking

The past few weeks for Maths we have been learning about fractions. We have all worked hard and learned a lot. For our reward for working hard this term Miss Chapman let us do some baking! We had to deal with lots of measurements like ½ cup, ⅓ cup and tsp. The class split into two groups and made lolly cake and russian fudge. They both tasted so yum! Unfortunately we didn’t take any photos of the end products as they were gobbled up so quickly!

James checking Bree has measured correctly. 

Flynn stirring the fudge. It was delicious!

Oral Presentation Day

This term our inquiry has been focussed around Then and Now. We have looked at things from the past to what they are like now. These included transport, household items, clothes, and schools. We have worked really hard to produce a speech about a topic we are passionate about. Today was the day we presented them to the whole school, parents and friends of the school. We were all very nervous but everyone of us did a fantastic job. Then it was time to perform our dances we have been learning with Kayleigh Broad after lunch on Thursdays. These were performed down at the hall and we got a big crowd watching us. We got a lot of great feedback that we did an awesome job! Check out some photos of us delivering our speeches and our Then and Now dance performance.

Esther talked about computers from Then and Now.

Bree dressed as a soccer player! 

Georgia taught us all about singer Daniel Skye.

Nic came as his role model: His Dad. 

Taylor makes a pretty good queen!

George explained all about harvesters.

Flynn had a lot of knowledge about farming.

Kordelia transformed into Justin Bieber.

James told us about old and new tractors. 

Julienne delivered a speech about Meghan Trainor.

Maddie knew a lot about dolphins!

Courtney dressed as her Dad!

Cooper transformed into a logging truck driver. 

Middle and Senior Then and Now dance. 

It was great to watch!