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Busy, busy, busy!!!

Wow, what a fun filled last two days we have had!  

On Thursday morning we were lucky enough to have Oliver's baby rats come and visit us.  They were super cute and friendly!  Oliver taught us all about caring for them.

On Thursday afternoon we opened up our Zany Zoo to the public.  We have spent the last couple of weeks designing a 3D animal that fits into the classification of an animal group.  We then showed them to the rest of our syndicate and invited our parents in to see them.

Today we had a party day in Room 5.  This was both the end result of our Statistics unit (see earlier post) and a farewell party for Sally as she is off travelling in Term 2. Jenny Dron will be our teacher.  As surveyed by one group of children the most popular theme was a beach theme.  Lots of us had fun dressing up.  Here we are doing the hoola!

Week 11

Wow the term is quickly coming to an end and what a week we had in Week 11.  In Maths we have been focusing on Statistics   As part of it  we are planning a farewell party for Sally as she is having Term 2 off to travel around Europe.  We have each chosen a topic to survey in order to plan a great farewell party.  We are surveying different things like our favourite party games, party theme,  flavours of fizzy, lollies and so on.  Some of us chose to make voting boxes, others are interviewing and some of us have even created surveys on the computer using google docs! 

On Friday we also had lots of fun blowing bubbles with our little buddies from Room 10. Their poem that week had been all about bubbles. Check out more photos on our class facebook page. Room 5 Class Facebook Page

3D Animals

This week we have had an awesome time making our 3D animals for our inquiry.  First we chose an animal group that we wanted to create e.g. mammal, insect, fish and Sally matched us up with a buddy.  We planned our animals and decided what we were going to use to make them.  We created our animals.  Some of us made them out of salt dough and some used cardboard, paper and recycled junk.  Today lots of us had fun painting them and adding all the extra details.  In Week 12 we are going to turn our classroom into a zoo.  Hopefully you might be able to visit it!

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter from Room 5 and Sally!

Today we had lots of fun having our own little Easter egg hunt.  The girls had fun hiding the eggs for the boys and then the boys enjoyed hiding the eggs for the girls. We hope you have a great Easter enjoying time with family and friends.

3D!

 

Last week we had lots of fun exploring constructing our own 3D monsters and dragons.  Sally didn't give us any instructions but rather let us explore and trial lots of different ideas.  Before working we discussed what 3D meant.  We decided that 3D=

- Pops out - Floss

- Three Dimensional - Emily

- Like going to the movies it is going to come out and touch you. - Jasper

- Opposite of 2D - Theo

Some of us found it challenging as our ideas didn't quite go to plan.  Hopefully when we design and construct our own animal as part of our inquiry topic we will have gained some new ideas and ways of making things 3D.

Hockey and Soccer

Last week we played hockey at the front of our school. Nicola was the name of the coach. We played a game of rob the nest. She told us how to hold the hockey stick and also how to run with it. She told us that no one was allowed to swing our hokey stick round so we didn't hit anyone.!!!

We   all so played soccer and someone called Charlotte hurt her arm & had to go to hospital and the next day she came with a sling on.  We had heaps of fun playing lots of action packed games!

Written by Floss, Charlotte and Sally. 

Animals, Swimming & Purple!

What a week we've had in Room 5! Animals, swimming and purple sums it up well!

On Tuesday we visited Natureland as part of our inquiry topic on animal classification.  We got to meet a wide range of animals including a tuatara, porcupine and lots of very small baby mice! After this we enjoyed a picnic lunch at the Tahuna Playground

Today we held our Kahikatea Swimming Carnival.  We each chose to swim in a length or width race and then we joined with 2 other classes for a class display. Finally we ended the event with a class relay.  We were very proud that we came 2nd out of 5 classes. To see more photos click here to visit our class facebook page

Today we also celebrated Purple Cake Day.  This day is all about kids helping kids all over the world.  At Nelson Central School we raised over $600. This money will be used to help educate and care for children in countries such as Nepal and Kenya.  We were lucky enough to have Caleb's Mum bake us a cake and Emily's Mum come in paint many of our faces!  To check out more photos click here to visit our class facebook page.

Our little buddies

Every second week we meet up with our little buddies from  Room 10.   Some of us are very excited as this is our first time being a big buddy.  Check out the photos of us below.

School Picnic

On Monday we went to the school picnic.  Lee from Sporting Initiatives came. We had lots of fun, so much fun we nearly exploded with fun.We brought yummy food to eat there and there was cup cakes and juices as well. And there was nearly the whole school there. Written by Callum and Ollie