School Celebration Movie

Room 5 showed this movie and then performed a recorder song in front of the whole school for our school celebration of learning concert. Well done to those who played . . . you were very brave!

More Pet Day Photos

Pet Day

Today we had our school pet show in the afternoon. There was a fantastic turn out of pets in every classroom. In Room 5 Chelsey brought a chicken, Charlotte brought her pet rat "Nibbles". Zoey brought along her tadpoles. We had 5 dogs: William brought "Nettle", Hayden brought "Sky", Sophie showed us "DD", Denver introduced us to "Phantom" and Inari showed us "Maisy".

All of the dogs were well behaved and gave us lots of licks :)

Tadpoles

Today I brought some tadpoles to school. We are going to feed them dog food and lettuce .

We will keep them until they are frogs!

By William

Charlotte's Web

This week in Room 5 we have been reading Charlotte's Web . We are up to the chapter called Sunny Days . Charlotte and Wilbur are talking about keeping Wilbur alive. Can they keep Wilbur alive or not?

By Lara

Recorders

Room 5 are learning to play the recorder. We are learning b, a and g. We are learning Mary had a little Lamb.

By Denver

Hungry Caterpillars for Art

We made caterpillars. There is a thing that says: We used the primary colours to mix the secondary colours we needed for our caterpillars.

by Brayden

Science Fair Prize

Inari collected our prize money for our winning entry in the Science Fair. We received $100 for our "Bombs Away" entry (finding out which shape parachute flew the best). With half of our money we donated a science book to our school library so that Birchwood students will have information for their future science fair entries. We still need to put our thinking caps on to decide what to spend the other half of the money on!

Happy Holidays!

Hi Room 5, I hope you are all having a relaxing and well deserved break. Here are some photos from the mask parade on the last day of school. The photos were taken by students in our class. It was an amazing parade and well worth the effort to be part of it!

Take care . . . love Mrs Trolle :)

Gold Award Winners!

Wow! Room 5 won the Gold Award for our science fair entry "Bombs Away!". Our science fair entry competed against lots of other schools and we were judged Gold standard :) A big thank you to Cheryl and Inari for going to the award ceremony at Broadgreen School on Friday night to collect our certificate and prize money . . . $100!!!

Sole Survivor

On Saturday I went to Natureland with my daughter Sienna. While we were there, we were asked if we would like to see the only surviving turtle from the fire at the Mapua Aquarium. All of the other 200 animals died in this fire and this little turtle was the only animal to survive. The staff at Natureland have called him Phoenix (the myth of the bird that rose from the ashes to live again). Phoenix is being well looked after as they are worried that he might have breathed in smoke from the fire. It was nice to see a life was saved after such a sad loss of our special Aquarium.

Run, Jump, Throw

On Thursday Allison McQuillan came to take us for Run, Jump and Throw activities. We will be starting our Run, Jump, Throw unit next term in preparation for the school athletics day. Allison showed us how to take off and land correctly for long jump.

Rugby World Cup Information

If you want to look up information about your adopted country in the Rugby World Cup, click on the link below. It will take you to the official Rugby World Cup website. On the right hand side you will see small emblems for each country. Click on your country and then click on 'tool kit'. You will see information about your country and you can also click on national anthems to hear their special song.

http://www.rugbyworldcup.com/index.html

Happy Roald Dahl Day!

A big thank you to Keryn and Denver for making us yummy peach muffins for Roald Dahl day today. 13th September is Roald Dahl's birthday and it is also the day the world celebrates this amazing author. We love Roald Dahl books and we certainly loved our peach muffins!

Sneak Peek!

Here is a sneak preview of the Tui bird masks that Room 5 are creating for the Nelson Wearable Mask Parade on the last day of this term. A big thank you to Cheryl (who traced and cut out 22 pairs of bird bodies and 22 tails) and Karen (who custom made 22 helmets). This week we will begin crayoning and dying our beautiful birds.

Finished Lion Masks

Our finished lion masks are on the wall and looking fantastic!

Lion Masks

Our lion masks are looking ferocious! They are made using paper plates, paint, vivid markers, shredded paper and glue. They need 2 or more layers of paper on the mane to look furry. We will post new pictures of the finished masks soon.

Masquerade Masks

Yesterday we made our first masks to practice for the Wearable Arts Mask Parade at the end of this term. We created some masquerade masks. They look gorgeous with colourful feathers and sparkly sequins and glitter. Everyone was very proud of their creation :)

SPCA Cup Cake Day

Joseph made some cupcakes at home and sold them to friends and neighbours. He made $23 to add to our class total. Well done Joseph!

SPCA cupcake day

Room 5 iced and decorated around 150 cupcakes yesterday for the SPCA fundraiser. They sold out at lunch time and we raised $207! Great effort Room 5 :)

Kia Kaha

We finished our Kia Kaha unit today with a last visit from Constable Garland. We have learnt how to be confident telling people our feelings and who to go to for help.

New iPad

Our class has been given an iPad to trial in class before the school set of iPads are used in classes. Here is Ryan and Zanthy having a turn this morning.

We Love Swimming!

We are really loving swimming. We have free time when we get to the pool while Room 4 swims and then we swap over and have our lessons.