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.