Welcome to term 4

its great to be back - and even greater to have Mrs Morgan back.We also have a new student called Molly-Love who has joined us from Orakei.

This term we are looking at Poetry in English and Measurement in Maths.Our Intergrated Unit is called "Let's make music".

In poetry we have been looking at Acrostic Poems and similies.

Here are some of our shared similies

My friends are as pretty as flowers - Stella

Meg is like a champion horserider - Hannah

Joe is as skinny as a neck - Bryn

Annabell is as fast as a lion - Izzy

Stella is as pretty as a model - Molly-Love

Olivia's hair is as brown as chocolate - Isabella

Presents are like a pot of gold - Alex

Please remember your togs for weeks 3 and 4 and 7 and 8 as we are swimming !!!!!

Misc photos

Stellas home learning challenge dance

Icing biscuits with our buddy class

Annabell and Piper buddy class with Rm 3 icing biscuits

Misc photos

Ayden and Bryn enjoying their hot chocolates.

Zander and Izzy making pizza

Cerys dancing - home learning challenge

Canterbury Earthquake

yesterday Kowhai syndicate did some baking for Burnham school in Christchurch.Room 6 made date scones and pictures and letters.These were collected by a courier and flown to south free of charge.Other syndicates did some things and we ended up sending 3 care packages away.It was a nice feeling giving to those who need.

Our cooking unit

is going well and we have made hot chocolate and pizza in the last few weeks.We have also made placemats and a sign for our cafe.We had a vote and Annabell's cafe name got the most votes.Therefore we named our cafe "The crunchy muchy cafe".
We have been doing lots of procedural writing and hopefully the children are sharing some procedures with you at home.

Kath Bee

we have been really busy in room 6 - last week a visiting performer came to se us.Her name is Kath Bee and she played us lots of songs and chose people from the audience to help her.We already know some of her songs - Dad I want to be a camel and Individuality

http://www.songs4kids.co.nz/

We cooked today

why you say??????Look at all the learning - we had to triple the recipe - we used our 3 times tables for that!!!
Then we wrote our instructions on how to make it.....
Eating it produced a lot of oral language discussing it .....
Then Adi made us run it of by going for a run 3 x around the school.............

Fudgy Photos expertly taken by Olivia

Fudgy Brownie

Beat 1/4 cup of cocoa powder with 1/2 cup of oil until smooth.Add 2 eggs,a pinch of salt,1 cup of sugar and 1 tsp of vanilla.Beat again.Then add 3/4 cup of flour and 1 cup of chocolate chips.Bake at 150 degrees for 30 minutes.....crusty top gooey inner.

Room 6 all agree this brownie is delicious!!!!!!!!!!!

Mathletics

is coming again and today children were given their usernames and passwords in their notebooks.The site to access this is http://www.mathletics.co.nz/ and practice week is 16-23 August.Go and have a look and play some awesome games and get certificates.

Hannah's home learning challenges

after showing us photos of her 5 hour Manawatu Gorge walk - Hannah wowed us again today with another skill.Hannah played for us 3 pieces on the keyboard.......she played beautifully - well done Hannah....

Vegetable Soup

Vegetable soup instructions.
1.get a vegetable.
2.we chopped and peeled the vegetables.
3.we put the vegetables in the bowl.
4.we put water in the bowl.
5.we sprinkled the vegetable stock powder in.
6.we cooked it.










By Annabell

Goodbye Week 3

well that whizzed by.We had a lot of children away with sicknesses this week and even I succumbed on Thursday - nasty Winter bugs about.Hopefully we are all healthy again this week and that Mrs Morgan is mending well and liked our get well instructions!!!
We finally got the vegetable soup made and consumed and the majority thought it was a hit.

 Was lovely to catch up with parents at the interviews on Tuesday night and looking forward to more of the same this week.

Hoping Rylee is having fun in the sun :)

Cheers Adi 

Busy week two

We have had such a busy week - the food technology unit is great.We have been apple peeling and coring and today we made spaghetti and meatballs as that was out poem for the week.

We also had birthday cakes from Annabell and Isabella.

Luckily today we did one hours worth of P.E. in the hall with room 7 and burned off a bit of it.

One reading group made clay faces - we couldn't eat those tho.....

New School Song

The song for whole school assembly in week 3 is Fireflies...

Tune and Lyrics here


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3A1CJX50BA

Shape shifters

Here we are doing Geometry - we are shorting shapes into groups - we had to work out what kind of groupings we could have.Some of us went for colour,some for 3 sides and 4 sides.Some of us were so clever we used a Venn diagram to show similarities too!!!!Wow - talk about cross-curricular whizzes!!!

Our special visitor Luca

Thanks to Joe's mum for bringing in 9 week old Luca to see us :)

Richie the Greedy Mouse

"More food" Richie cried
and twitching his nose
he thought he smelt...
sausages sitting in rows.

"Sausages,sausages oh what  a treat!
Sausages,sausages so good to eat!"

Ricie was hungry.
Richie was famished.
He ate and he ate
and the sausages vanished.

Breadmaking in Room 6