Tuesday 5th September

Speeches

Over the past few weeks, we have been writing speeches. Our aim was to try persuade our audience. We had a variety of topics including:

• We need to look after the environment.
• Why I am the best person for the job.
• The best animal is...
• We should stop hunting animals.

Today the Middle and Junior Rooms presented these speeches in front of parents, the Senior Room and Miss Ward. It was a very nerve-racking experience having to stand up in front of a lot of people and speak. Leading up to today we had practiced using loud clear voices, making eye contact with our audience and having good posture while speaking. Even though many people were nervous, everyone did extremely well and enjoyed the experience.

Tuesday 2nd August

Sports Activator 

Today we had our first visit for Term 3 from our Sports Activator Greer. Today’s focus was on Netball. We learnt a new warm up game which we all really enjoyed. We all had to run around and find people to tag. Once we tagged them we played a game of rock, paper, scissors. The winner got to carry on running while the other person had to sit down. If the person who got you out lost a game, you got to stand back up and carry on. It was heaps of fun and one of our new favourite games. We then moved onto passing skills. We practiced chest passes, high lob passes, and bounce passes. Finally, we had a game of numbers. We split into two teams with the winning team being the one that counts to 10 first. To do this a player has to catch the ball and place it on the ground and count 1. They then pass to another teammate who would count 2. If the ball got intercepted, the score starts at 1 again. There was a lot of excitement and energy with this game!

These skills we have been practicing will come in handy when some of us participate in the Netball Tournament in Balclutha next Thursday.

Thursday 27th July

Inquiry

Last Term our inquiry topic was ‘What makes a Kiwi Inventor?’ Today we presented our Going Further projects to the rest of the class. Some of the ways we presented these were slides and posters. Some even made a prototype of their inventions to support their presentation. It was great to see the time and effort that went into these projects.

George and Flynn looked at Handpieces. 

Courtney told us about the Gold Coast Theme parks. 

Emily showed us her poster on Bungy Jumping.

Hayden telling us about remote control cars. 

Esther did her presentation on bikes. 

Caitlyn looked into robots. 

Taylor sharing her findings of spaceships. 

James explaining his prototype he made for his invention of a citrus powered clock. 

Rylee told us about headphones.

Bree's presentation was all about cars. 

Nikita telling us all about the invention of T.Vs.

Kordelia made a slide about computers. 

Tristan sharing the slide about computers that he created with Arthur. 

Wednesday 26th June

Healthy Eating

For the next couple of weeks our health topic is Food and Nutrition. This week we looked at the food pyramid. We had to cut out a range of different foods and place them in the 6 food groups on the food pyramid. It was quite interesting to see how many serves we should have of each food group and the types of foods we should be eating more of. This topic is going to link in with our Life Education Bus visit in week 3.  

Tuesday 25th June

Morning Programme

Here is the Morning Programme schedule for Term 3. Morning Programme starts in Week 2. I look forward to seeing all the great presentations you come up with. :)

Monday 24th June

Welcome back to Term 3! The year is flying by and I’m sure this term will be no different. We have another busy term ahead so make sure you follow what we get up to here.

Check out our map below of where we went in the holidays!

Friday 16th June

Music Festival

Last night was our performance night at the South Otago Schools’ Music Festival. It was a fantastic night and was really awesome to hear all the schools come together and perform after all our hard work practicing. Our item was a song by the band The Script called Superheroes. Our students did a super job and sounded fantastic even though there were a few nerves about the big crowd, even from Miss Chapman and Miss Taylor! It certainly was a great night. Thank you to all of our parents and families for bringing your children along to the event. Check out our item below.

Wednesday 7th June

Otago Museum Trip

Yesterday we journeyed to Dunedin to visit the Otago Museum. We were learning about inventions for our inquiry topic. Our class was split in two, with the Year fours going with the Junior Room and the Year fives going with the Senior Room.

One group worked with the Museum educator Emily to learn all about different inventions. We looked at a wooden plough that is 4000 years old, and then one that was built of metal. It was interesting to see the difference between the two inventions and why they were useful at the time.  We also split into smaller groups and went on a scavenger hunt to look for different inventions. It was cool to see all the great ideas that were being shared.

While one group was working with Emily the other group was exploring the Tropical Rain Forest which was so awesome! There were many colourful butterflies and we were even lucky enough to have them land on us! We also saw little birds called quails, goldfish, turtles and a couple of tarantulas. It was really hot in the forest and we learnt that the butterflies couldn’t go outside or they would die.

We also got to spend some time in Discovery World, where we played with the fantastic equipment and thought about inventions that we would like to make. Some of our favourite games were the mind-controlling game, table football, the distorting mirrors and the giant piano you get to stand on.

It was a fantastic day out and we learnt heaps about inventions for our inquiry topic!

Otago Museum Trip on PhotoPeach

Wednesday 29th March

Sports Activator

Today we had another visit from our sports activator Greer. In today’s session, we were focusing on soccer. We started with a few warm up games of flush the toilet and shark tag. We then moved onto some dribbling and passing skills. Finally we finished with a game where we were able to put all of our skills into practice. This is great practice for when we attend the Football Tournament next month.

Friday 17th March

Schoolkit writing

At the beginning of the year Miss Taylor, Miss Holden and myself signed our classes up for a "Get NZ Writing' initiative by School Kit NZ.  A couple of weeks ago we received a package from Room 10 at Cornwell Park District School in Auckland. It was very exciting to check what was inside. There were 32 postcards that had metaphors describing all the children in Room 10 and a ‘Found Poetry’ Poster that described their class and where they lived. They also sent us 'something random' which was a snake that moves randomly! It is very cool and it is our new favourite thing! We have spent the last few weeks preparing our postcards and classroom identity poster in preparation to send away to Cornell Park District School.

We all wrote two metaphors about ourselves on the postcards. Everyone has put a lot of effort into them and have done such a fantastic job.

We have packaged them all up and hope Room 10 enjoy what we have done!

Working together to put the puzzle together.

Carefully working on our postcards.

Making sure they are neat!

Our finished postcards put together.

Esther and Bree designed our class map. 

Taylor found a poem inside a poem.

Three most important things to our class are our technology, our school values and our artwork. 

Bree is very proud of our poster!

Doesn't it look great!

The snake we got from Room 10 at Cornwell Park District School.