Tracking, Trading and Creating

The term is quickly drawing to a close but we have still been busy, busy, busy!

In Maths this week we have been learning all about scales, co-ordinates and compass points when using a map. This couldn't have been timed better with the International Godzone Adventure Race that was going on this week.  We loved tracking the teams online throughout the day and seeing the amazing progress they made. We were especially excited because Ruben's Dad Dan was a part of the winning team Yealands.  

This week we also had our famous Totara Trading.  During the term everybody earns Dojo points which are then turned into Totara Dollars for our market day.  Students then set up their stall hoping to earn more Totara Dollars. At our first Totara Trading was a huge success with stalls selling everything from baking to smoothies, book marks, homemade lemonade and Grape Juice. Their were also games like a sponge toss and guess the number of jellybeans in a jar.

As part of writing we have been writing character descriptions.  We each created our own Wild Thing Character and then described them.  Check out our individual blogs next week to read them all. In the mean time here is Sylvie's.

Simon the wild thing

Simon the wild thing is a kind, soft, gentle wild thing and he is as tidy as a perfectionist (thats because he is one) and he cant have a single strand of fur out of place. He bathes twice a day in the water from the lake near by after his long bath he, he straitens his hair and fur. He also polishes his horn and tusks twice a day after his bath and cuts his nails to the EXCACT length that it should be. He has small ears that hide beneath his hair and he always wears a suit and he is two and a half metres tall. He has big black and white goggly eyes with no eye lashes or eye brows and underneath  his fur is thick leathery skin.

Simon the wild thing does a lot of house work and tidies up after his pet frogs. When he vacuums he is very cautions because he is aware that it could suck up his frogs. He doesn't talk much he just does what he is told. He would never disobey or disagree with his many friends.

Simon is adventures, extreme and most definitely fearless he loves to go mountain biking and sailing on his home-made raft. When Simon is climbing trees, he would go as high as he feels like because he jump from tree to tree like a monkey. During the night he decides whether he would like to sleep in his hut or hangs from a tree like a sloth. Simons weakness is mornings. He is NOT a morning person. He gets up at about one in the afternoon.

That is my wild thing

Swimming Sports

This week Floss, Jasmin and Ruben represented our school at the Inter-School Swimming Sports.  Each of the performed extremly well. Floss was part of the winning Year 6 girls relay team. Floss also came 4th in the freestyle final. Jasmin came 2nd in the breath-stroke final. Ruben came  3rd in the finals for backstroke.

Popping with pop art!

In the last 2 weeks room 2 have been doing pop art. Recently we did Andy Warhols pop art. To do this we either drew a picture, took a photo or got a picture off the internet of an object,quote or ourselves. Using an app called foto flexer we edited them to have the same unique effect as Andy Warhol's artwork. In the end they looked really good.

By Floss and Charlie

Purple, plays and participating

It's been another busy week in Room 2 this week.

As part of our Inquiry we have been learning all about the NZ flag, government systems and the way decisions are made.  This week just like many of our parents we cast our own votes as to whether the NZ flag should be changed. We had our own electoral officers, returning officers and children counting votes. It was all very official!  We await to hear final results next week!

We celebrated Purple Cake Day today.  This is all about kids helping kids all over the world!  Our syndicate organised a wheels day and overall as a school we raised over $1000!  This will go to kids in Haiti, Kenya and Nepal. Way go to NCS!

 

Check out the great song that the children at Central wrote especially for Purple Cake Day

This week whilst the Year 5's were at Peer Mediation Training the Year 5's got to retell the story of the Turtle and the Coyote.  Here is Tilly and Emma's.

Totara Swimming Carnival

Yesterday we had our annual Totara Swimming Carnival.  This was lots of fun with a mixture of competitive races and then some fun ones like the piggyback race and the wet t-shirt race. The day ended with a fun relay of students with teachers and parents. Sadly for the kids the adults were too strong for the kids!

Wet T-Shirt relay

Our week at Camp!

Room 2 were lucky enough to go on camp last week to Mistletoe Bay in the Malborough Sounds with Room 15.  We began the week by setting up our tents.  As we were such a big group we had to spend two nights in the whare's and two nights in the tents.  We enjoyed some fun games and competitions the first day competing against the other teams

Tuesday began with Mr Huhu's famous 7am Boot Camp. A run, push ups, hurdles and many other exercises were on the menu this morning.

On Tuesday we got to participate in a an awesome range of activities.  These included archery, slack lining, kayaking and raft building.

Let's just some rafts worked better than others!

Our food on camp was pretty awesome!  Thanks Matua Wayne for cooking such amazing meals!

 

 

On Wednesday we walked to Lochmara Lodge. Some of the keen beans joined a running group with Sally and Jo. We went on a little side trip and went up to the Lookout

Yay, we made in to Lochmara Lodge!  For a number of children this was a highlight! Chilling in the hammocks, feeding the stingrays by hand and just enjoying each others company were top elements of Wednesday!

Many of us cooled off at the end of our walk by jumping off the jetty

 

Thursday brought a sailing theme. We were lucky enough to have Grace and Laurence take us out on their sailing boat Steadfast.  Laurence built this boat himself over 16 years.

Putting up the main sail.

The sailing theme carried over into everyone having a go sailing a little optimist boat.  For lots of us this was our highlight for the week!

On Thursday we also had our very own camp Masterchef.  We made Mars Bar slice which we enjoyed for supper later that night.

In the evening Richard De Hamal came and spoke to us about what it is like to be a fish in the ocean. Here is Mr Huhu dressed up as a clown fish!

On Friday we had our final bootcamp.  Mr Huhu was brutal in this final 7am session.  We had the choice of either going in and getting a ping pong ball from the water or running for 25 minutes!  Many of us in the end decided that the short term pain of the swim was worth it and jumped in in our clothes!

 

 Farewell Mistletoe Bay!

Totara Tri

Today we had our own Totara Syndicate Triathlon with all the Year 5 and 6's at Central School. We started of with a run that zig zagged it's way up to the school pool. We then did two lengths of the pool before racing back down the hill and jumping on our bikes.  The bike course than had us weave around the front field before we finally crossed the finish line. Well done to Ruben who won the Year 6 boys race.  Some of us were game and decided that once was not enough and then competed in the Open Race.  Our teacher Sally also decided to compete at the last minute.  She had the advantage of fresh legs and managed to take out the open race.