Star of the week

This weeks star of the week is a real team player, they get on with everyone and I am impressed with their motivated attitude towards all aspects of school life. They are curious and ask a lot of questions.
This weeks Star of the Week is (drum roll please) ........

Brooke

I think Brooke is really awesome at soccer and a good team player from Brad

I think Brooke is real cool and a good friend from Tom

Brooke is great at speed stacks and is happy and good at poker!!-From Aidan

Brooke is a curious Wai Learner- from Alisi

Brooke is a happy and fun Wai learner- From Faith

Brooke is very sporty and a true Wai learner From Prea

Well done Brooke.

Have a fantastic weekend everyone.

From Miss Wilson

Today in Room Eight

Today Aidan, Shaun, Faith, Sonnie and Amber went to Waihi School for the interschool cross country they had to verse people from other schools. We have heard there are some challenges like going through rivers we look forward to hearing how well they did.

We started painting our canvas today we sketched an olden day desk and have put lots of layers on our canvas. We are trying out all the techniques we have learnt.

In Reading we read a story called To spray or not to spray about the Apple moths in Auckland we talked about whether we should spray to keep pests away from our native trees.

Written by Brooke

Celebrations

My celebration for this week is...

• Playing sport with Mr Anderson, we played soccer and seaweed - Tim
• Knowing I am going to the interschool cross country- Aidan
• Making an elephant mask with Mr Anderson - Rain
• Being star of the week and having Mr Anderson teach us on Thursday- Shaun
• Drawing my Term Two page for my portfolio- Gali
• Going to Te Reo and learning some more Maori and being part of the CHAT team and teaching the little kids to make wraps - Amber
• Doing our Inquiry booklets and finding out information -Sonnie
• Being introduced to Speed Stacks and getting to take them home- Faith
• Playing bum shuffle at KiwiCan- Brooke, Shinia and Alisi
• That the band are having a BBQ tonight-Bailey

Speed Stacks

Yesterday I got to take the speed stacks home.
They are really fun to play with I learnt how to do the cycle really fast.
I bet the people on the dvd - they are really fast.
I watched the people on the dvd, the world champs are super fast.
My Mum and Dad timed me at the speed stacks.

Cross country

Congratulations to....

Shaun

Aidan

Sonnie

Amber

and Faith

You are going to the Interschool Cross Country on Tuesday 24th June.

Celebrations

Each Friday we write a celebration for the week. The person who is Star of the Week gets to take the celebrations folder home.
These are some of our celebrations for this week.

My celebration is...

• Maths because we did problem solving and it was easy - Dylan
• Finishing my cross country report writing very quickly - Rain
• Playing SeaWeed because we had finished all of our work- Tom
• Wearing mufti to school we raised $405.60 for Ronald McDonald House in Christchurch- Bradley
• Painting, I liked trying out different techniques - Nicola
• Painting we are learning about Vincent Van Gogh and I liked the splatter technique!- Erika
• Going to KiwiCan and earning 47 points out of 50- Lucky Room Four won Classiest Class- Alisi
• Coming third in the Year Five Cross Country- Sonnie
• Going to Cross Country and coming second for Year Five - Amber
• Questioning we learnt about the seven levels of questioning. We are trying to ask questions that have key words and 5 w's and H- Prea

We hope you have a great weekend.

From Room Eight

speed stacks

On Thursday the 12 of June I got to take home the speed stacks.

practically they are plastic cups.

My fastest time was 3 minutes.I built all the speed stacks up to as high as they would go.I watched the DVD,I tried to beat the people on the DVD and I finally did.Nicola.

Wednesday

Today was a great day especially when Cathy was here. Miss Wilson was impressed at how much we have learnt the last term in Te Reo. Xavier
Today we went to Kiwican, we were so close to getting full points and Brooke won eyes up eyes down.- Brooke and Gali
Some people came up our stairs to measure up for our new classrooms. I wonder when the building will begin?

Snow

Hi Room Eight.

Wow look at all the snow on my lawn!

I had fun making a snowman with my sister.

Can you guess what we used for eyes?

Looking forward to hearing about your weekend snow stories tommorow.

From Miss Wilson

World Environmental Day

Tom putting his leaf on our tree

Our environmental tree filled with goals isn't is great?

This morning after Bible and Schools we drafted a class environmental goal in our draft books. We published them on a leaf template , then we cut them out and coloured them.
Because some of our class were away with the chat team Miss Wilsonlet us put our leaves on the tree in the office foyer.
We got some ideas from the tree people website which we joined last week.
Here is the link if you want to have a look at it. (our tree is called Room Eight)
http://www.treepeople.co.nz/Home.mvc/

From Teresa

handwritng

Yesterday we did handwriting and listened to some music. It was Baroque music and it was slow and it helped me write neater. I would like to listen to it again.
From Tuesday

Jono and his life

Today we went into the hall to go and see a man called Jono.
He told us about his life in a wheelchair and his career.
We learnt that it does not matter if you are disabled or you can walk what we heard that Jono went through was a lot

By Sonnie,Thomas and Will