Mini Olympics

On Thursday we had a mini Olympic Games.  We had five different sports.  The activities we had were archery, weight lifting, chariot racing, Olympic torch and gladiator relays.  We  were in different countries.  The teams lined up on the front field and we had an opening ceremony. We sung the national anthem and marched around in our countries.  In the end Finland won! We had fun being outside and being active.  

We can't wait for the real Olympics to begin!

Futsal

Last week we were lucky enough to have a Futsal coaching session.  Futsal is a variation of soccer played with a smaller ball and often inside. We played lots of fun games like Catch the tail and Ghostbusters.

Korowai Designs

Yesterday was Matariki, the Maori New Year Celebration.  To celebrate this the homework task for the Kahikatea Syndicate was to design their own Korowai that represents them. The korowai is a traditional Maori cloak that is worn during times of celebration. Three students from Room 5 made actually made their Korowai.   Well done Lucy, Ben and Willem.  Come and check out many of the amazing designs in the hallway outside our classrooms.

Diorama Exhibition

Wednesday was the day of the diorama exhibition. Some kids parents from our class came to see our diorama's.We lined the desks up and put our diorama's on the desk.  Our buddy class also came and had a look at our dioramas.  Our parents thought the exhibition was fantastic and we were really proud to show them the result of all our hard work.

Written by Sophie, Ed and Sally

The suter trip.

Yesterday Room5 went to the suter.We learned about Rita Angus.We saw lots of Rita Angus paintings.  We drew a dove with white and brown pastle.  

Written by Charle and Maddy

Snippets of our week!

Check out the photos below for an insight into our week!

Having fun with bubbles!  This week we were learning to write cinquain poems.  We wrote a cinquain poem about bubbles.

We have worked hard on our dioramas for inquiry.  These show the habitat of our animal that we have researched.  They also show the enterprising feature that we came up with to help the survival of our animal. We look forward to sharing these with friends and family on Wednesday.

On Friday we had a massage circle as a whole class.  Many of us have also enjoyed setting up our own massage shops out in the playground!

Cross Country

Cross Country - slideshow dvd

On Friday we had the big cross country race.  We had to wait until it was our go.  We had been training for weeks and we were glad that the day was finally here!  Here are the top placings from our class.

Year 3 Girls

1st - Charlotte

7th - Grace

8th - Jemma

Year 3 Boys

8th - Ed

9th - Jack

Year 4 Girls

4th- Lucy

10th equal - Molly

Year 4 Boys

1st - Dillon

Well Done Dillon who also won the open race and Jamie who placed 8th.

Our day!

In art we have been learning about warm and cool colours.  Today we completed our artwork inspired by the famous artist Friedrich Hundertwasser.   

 Today we also had a surprise visit from Molly's cat mouse.  Mouse decided to co-operate this time and come visit us all in Room 5.

Our Week

This week our big focus in Room 5 has been researching so we can write an information report about an animal that lives in our backyard as part of our inquiry topic. Sally is so proud of how we have worked so hard.  After we have written our information reports we are going to create dioramas of their habitat. 

 On Thursday Sally decided that because we had worked so hard on our research we could have a free choice writing session. We had lots of fun writing raps, songs, letters and comics. We've also been training hard for cross country with the big race only a week away!

 Here is the final result of our work on primary and secondary colours. We used the paper that we painted using primary and secondary colours to make collage flowers.

Food Chains

As part of our inquiry topic we have been learning all about food chains and food webs.  Last week in ICT we used Tux Paint to make our own food chains.  Check out our work below.