Kelly Tarltons!

Today we went on an exciting trip to Kelly Tarltons!This term we will be learning about changes in the sea and we went to Kelly Tarltons to gain some knowledge on this. We had a classroom lesson from a sea life expert and then we got to explore the aquarium. What fun!

Olympics!

Over the past 2 weeks, Room 14 have been learning about the Olympics. To mark the end of these Olympics we had a closing ceremony in our class where we made gold medals, stood up on the 'podium' and sang the National Anthem. Then we watched some highlights of the closing ceremony in Rio, and some Olympic highlights for us Kiwis. We are sad to see these Olympics end but we look forward to the next ones when we are Year 6!

Congratulations Tyler!

Tyler is a super citizen in our class and today she was awarded the citizenship cup! Well done Tyler.

Structures!

Our concept this term is Structures. We will mainly be looking at the structure of a narrative story and the structure of the art process, but as a hook-in activity we made our own physical structures. Have a look at what we made!

Making Matariki Lanterns!

Yesterday our buddy class visited us to help us make Matariki lanterns! Matariki is a celebration of Maori New Year which is based around 7 bright stars. In mid May the stars disappear and they reappear in mid June. Their reappearance is when Matariki starts. We made our lanterns using tin cans, and on each side of the lanterns we made 7 holes to represent the 7 Matariki stars. Thank you to our buddy class for helping us with the hammering!

Jump Rope for Heart!

We have been having lots of fun practicing our skipping for the Jump Rope for Heart skip-a-thon! We are raising money for both the Heart Foundation and the Meadowbank School covered court project. You can set up a profile online at www.jumpropeforheart.org.nz and follow the instructions below. Once you have done that you can send the link to family and friends to donate money to your profile. If we are the class that raises the most money then we win a skipping rope each, so lets get fundraising!! 

Happy skipping :)

Congratulations Ben!

Congratulations Ben on winning the Citizenship Cup. He is helpful, polite, thoughtful, enthusiastic, he focuses on his learning and he always tries his best in everything he does. Well done Ben!

There will be 1 or 2 other times that I will be presenting the cup this year so I will be on the lookout for other super citizens :)

Seasons Artwork!

At the end of last term we were talking about the change of season and Mrs Bickley's Seasons Song. 

The song goes:

Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring,

Round and round and round again.

Seasons come and seasons go,

Bring the sunshine, rain and snow.

Tell the trees to change their leaves, 

When to sleep and when to grow.

We did some artwork inspired by the change that deciduous trees go though as the seasons change. We had some wonderful parent helpers - thank you! Come in and have a look at the finished product :)