Class news

20/10/09

Ag Day was awesome!!We made heaps of cool stuff the day before like minature scenes and Vaseline saucers. We made little farms and oceans in our shoe boxes. And our Vaseline saucers were great!!We brought all sorts of animals like dogs, cats, lambs, calves and even rats and parrots. We are now studying space and all the planets. We already know all of the planets off by heart. See you later!

12/10/09

WELCOME BACK!!! The holidays are over which means we've got lots of hard work work to do in preparation for Ag Day! It will be so much fun. We've finished our calendar art which were some really cool pictures of dinosaurs. We coloured them in with pastel so they're really bright! Hopefully some of us will get a calendar with our very own art on it. And even better if a total stranger bought our calendar! Well that would only be if we were very amazing artists (which we are)!! We've also gotten our notices that say what we can make on Ag Day. In class we will make miniature scenes, pressed flower arrangements, Vaseline saucers and also an art display. If we're really creative we might even make gingerbread men! During the holidays Alisha went to Auckland and saw the Sky Tower. She said she had lots of fun. And apparently some of us went to the moon and saw aliens!! Wow what an interesting class!

24/09/09

Today is the last day of term 3!!! We've had a fun term and we've learnt lots of things. We've had a busy week, doing things like going to watch the senior school's production called... Sheik Rattle 'n' roll! It was a great show and the characters were funny and were really good actors. But for some reason no one seemed to like the EVIL queen. Hmmm I wonder why!!
Tomorrow while the lucky seniors get a day off school, we get to go to the Whakatane airport to study trains? No wait that doesn't seem right! I mean planes. Some of us have never been to an airport so it will be an interesting experience. We've also made our fossils from the chicken bones and we also made some playdough. Well it was supposed to be clay but it turned out more like playdough. Especially because it was coloured green, pink, red, blue and yellow. Well that's it for the term. See you in two weeks.

14/09/09

Room 6 have each been making musical instruments out of recyclable instruments like shakers, drums and guitars. They made them out of things like milk bottles and cardboard then decorated them with coloured paper. They look great! They are also planning to make fossils so at the moment everybody is collecting chicken bones! See you later!

01/09/09

In our class we have been writing descriptions about characters from stories like Snow White and Hansel and Gretel. We then drew a picture of the character we were describing. We also made these awesome pictures of dinosaurs out of clay. We used all different colours and they look great. We are still doing our swap with Ms Taggart for hockey and netball and we are still learning new passes. Its been lots of fun so far.

24/08/09

Hi guys!!! At the moment room 6 are studying Primary colours and secondary colours. They made colour wheels and showed them at assembly last Friday. Everyone thought it was fun to show their pictures in assembly. They've also just started a study about dinosaurs and have been doing worksheets. They have made a food pyramid by cutting pictures out of newspapers as part of their healthy eating. They've also been studying all types of citrus fruits like lemons and oranges. They've written acrostic poems about them too. A couple of weeks ago everyone brought fruit to school and they shared it for lunch. For P.E they have been practicing hockey with Mrs Andrews and netball with Ms Taggart. In netball they have learnt chest passes and sandwhich passes. See you later!

03/08/09

Its been a whole month since you guys have heard about room 6 and they've got lots of new stuff to talk about. First of all its a new term and room 6 has got a new teacher! Her name is Mrs Andrews and everyone says she's a great new teacher who loves...Harry Potter!!! Weird eh? Nah of course not. Everyone was so sad to say goodbye to Mrs Heyns but at least they have a lovely new teacher to replace her.They've been studying healthy eating and they had a very special teacher to teach them. Her name was Shirley and she came with Harald the giraffe! He told them funny jokes like 'Whats the most musical part of your body? You're nose, you can blow it and pick it!' Bye Everyone

03/07/09

Hi guys today is the last day of term 2!!! YUSS! We are all going to have really fun holiday especially Anika who is going skiing! We've had a really cool term learning things like... How to make tea, all about NZ pioneers, NZ post, how to swim better, graphs and all sorts of other cool school stuff. We've also loved doing extra things like art and fun sports. Today Miss Heyns is teaching us to make paper planes and paper boats. Some of us were finding it a bit hard at first but we will finish them tomorrow and hopefully they will all turn out to be perfect. Also next term Harold the giraffe will be visiting us to teach us about healthy eating and keeping fit. So during the holidays we will all be looking forward to seeing the cheerful giraffe. See you next term!

19.06.09

Hola everyone (that's Spanish for hello everyone). In our class we looooooove doing art so we've done two pieces of art in the last two weeks. The first, was a painting of instruments like the guitar. Then we began our NZ pioneers art. We scrunched a white piece of paper into a ball (yup sounds weird eh) then armed with a pencil and dye we turned a boring piece of paper into a postage stamp. But not just any stamp, it was an OLD NZ postage stamp. Which means we mixed our two topics together (NZ pioneers and post)and made lots of pretty pictures to hang on our walls. YAY! Adios.

04/06/09

In our class we have continued our study of NZ pioneers and have had lots of fun playing olden day games like hopscotch and skipping. We even made finger puppets and had an olden day finger puppet show! We also had a really exciting field trip to the NZ post office and we are learning how letters get from the post office to our mail box.

21/05/09

On our wall we have pictures of old classrooms, class photos, assemblies and playtime. This is all part of our NZ pioneers study. We have learnt a lot already and (suprisingly) we are looking forward to learning more. Its quite a bit more interesting then our usual math.On our wall we also have three charts. One is for patience, one is for kindness and the other is for following instructions. Everytime we do one of those things we get a tick beside our name.So far Tylah has the most ticks with one for being kind, two for following instructions and three for being patient!!!Everone else is hot on his heels!

15/05/09

At the moment we have been doing lots of extra running for the upcoming school cross-country! The run will be VERY long so we all have to be extra fit by cross-country day on the 4th June. We have had lots of fun playing different sports like cricket, patter tennis and T-ball. Everyone loves T-ball. See you all next time!!!

01/05/09

Hi everyone and welcome back to a brand new term two. Recently room 6 have been learning how to make tea!!! They had to write down ALL 12 steps so I'm sure they are now all very talented tea makers! They have been learning about zero waste and why we don't leave rubbish on the ground. They also traced their hands and painted groovy stripes onto them.Bye Bye

09/04/09

Room 6 have finished their huge study of whales and dolphins and have moved on to learning about the Reduce, Reuse, Recycle program. This afternoon they are making animals or people out of recyclable things like cardboard, paper and bottles.They are also making cards about Easter because its EASTER TOMORROW!!! It's also the holidays and everyone is looking forward to a big, long break.See you all after the holidays!!!!

03/04/09

This week room 6 wrote down the ingredients for a sandwich. When Mrs West comes back (Ms Robb is teaching us today,) she will make a sandwich using the fillings we wrote down. YUM!!! We have also finished our whale pictures. We cut out our whales then stuck then onto a different piece of paper then stuck on lots of facts.

20/03/09

Hello! This week we (very sadly ) have had our last swim of the term. We did lots of work on freestyle and backstroke in our swimming groups The Whales, The sharks, and The Dolphins. A lot of us had never done these strokes before so it was really new but we still had fun learning!!! Today we traced whale pictures onto cardboard but, you'll have to wait and see what we are doing with them. The thing we are all getting REALLY excited about is Top School! Only two more sleeps! See you soon!

13/03/09

Hey everyone! Recently room 6 have been having heaps of fun studying graphs! We have made tally charts, line graphs and bar graphs. We've all made some awesome pictures too. We've painted pictures of our holidays and made ink pictures of our holidays. We've also been having a great time studying...WHALES!!! We have learnt all about them and here are just a few of the things we have learnt...Whales are mammals, they are not fish, they don't have any gills and they come to the surface to breathe. See you all next week!

25/02/09

Last Friday was great! First thing in the morning everyone was looking forward to seeing some wonderful guinea pigs that one of the kids was bringing along. Then the Fun Raiser. As soon as the bell rang everyone ran to the stalls. Sadly it was raining so we all had to run from one room to another. It was so much fun.

19/02/09

Hi I'm Aroha, Room 6's fantastic new website monitor. Everyone in room 6 is looking forward to the fundraiser tomorrow. The games look like lots of fun. Nearly everyone will be getting some scrummy treats from food stalls like Sweet Tooth, Shamalamadingdong and Awakeri Extreme. Mmmmmmmm!!!