It has been a busy week.

We are on the countdown until the school holidays now.

We carved flat out last week, and made it to the sculpture unveiling ceremony on Thursday morning. We were very lucky that Arch Deacon Harvey Ruru came and blessed our work. It looks great - take a look at our other blog site for more on the sculptures.

The Christmas carols on Wednesday night were fun. Lots of singing, even though it was hard to hear with the windy weather! The kapa haka girls looked lovely in their white clothes and angel wings.

The whole kapa haka group performed in the hall on Thursday afternoon. They were fabulous! Well done guys.

On Friday we had Tabloid sports - lots of water and lots of fun. I don't think anyone managed to remain dry, especially with Mr Wemyss "accidentally" getting people with buckets of water or the hose!

Only 2 and a half days to go now. We have moved from Room 14 to Room 9, but we still feel like we are room 14!

ENJOY YOUR HOLIDAYS AND MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Mr Science

Mr Science (Sterling) has been taking each class for 3 sessions. We had one session on magnets, one session on flight, and one session on lazer pointers and reflection. Here are some photos of us as budding scientists!

Sculpture planning

Today Ian Longley came to our class to help us plan ideas for our Smart Art sculpture.

We used wooden blocks to plan our sculpture instead of the limestone so that it didn't make a mess!

Then we had some carving practice on our limestone blocks (Oamaru stone).

Go to the link at the right of this page to see how our art is progressing.......

Isobella

I am new in room 14. I have made heaps of friends and my mum has a new job and dad has too. I've enjoyed this week, doing swimming because it's the best. I've made friends with Anahera, Rebecca, Kieran, Kyle, Finnian, Olivia, Elicia, Deon, Erica, Del'chez, Sophie, Brenton, Hannah, Janaya, and Maya.

Isobella

Maths- fractions

We started doing FRACTIONS 2 days ago. The bigger the bottom number on a fraction, the littler the fraction is.

Jack S

maths developmental 2

Maths developmental

Today we were able to choose our maths equipment because we have finished our TIME topic and will start a new topic on FRACTIONS on Monday.

Here are some pictures of us, and the equipment we decided to use. Lots of innovative thinking and team work involved!

Computer Suite time

This week we have been working on pictures of Maui and the Sun.

We read the Maori legend and have been making Kidpix pictures about the story.

We will add some words with the easispeak next week.

We are also making a big book in class - retelling the legend in our own words.

Wow! Congratulations Room 14! You are a great bunch!

I am amazed at how many of you are using the FREE RICE link on our blog to donate grains of rice to 3rd world countries. The questions are pretty tricky but you are using PERSEVERANCE and feeding heaps of people!

Well done, I'm very proud of you!

Kim x

Gymnastics

At gymnastics, going round on the bar was awesome.

Kieran

Art

On Monday when we came back to school I realised that we had a new Inquiry topic. I wondered what it was about, and then I found out when Kim started talking about it. It was interesting and we've got some people that might help us out with sculpting things. We have to design and create a piece of artwork to go outdoors at our school.

Leah

Maths - Time

We have been working on Months and Days of the Week. We have a list of the months. My birthday is in October. October is in Spring.

Arlya

What did you do in your holidays.....?

Make a comment about your holidays.....

Welcome back to Term 4

Hi everyone,

Welcome back to school for term 4.

Remember that wearing hats is compulsory this term. Summer is coming!

We will be swimming later in the term once the pool is clean and warm.

Teacher Only Day is the day after Labour Day, so you get an EXTRA LONG weekend. School is closed on that day.

I hope you all had a good break. A strange mix of weather!

I spent the 2 weeks with the Nelson Youth Theatre company, helping out with their production of "Annie". It is fantastic to see such a huge bunch of kids (about 80), all giving up their holidays to rehearse and perform. It is very encouraging to see such a great group of kids, from all ages and backgrounds, mixing together and enjoying themselves.

Well done to Leah in room 14, who was a wee star! I could see you enjoyed yourself Leah, and you are a natural on stage!

Thank you to all the audience members I saw coming and going. Hope you enjoyed the show!

And now we look forward to another exciting term in Room 14. Lots to happen before we wind down for christmas. Looking forward to seeing you all back in the class tomorrow.

Kim

I will set up another post, just for comments about what you did in your holidays, so feel free to add to the comments.

Enjoy your holidays everyone!

It has been a very busy term, but we've had heaps of fun. Enjoy your break and see you back here, and refreshed in term 4.

A HUGE thank you to all our parent help this term. I am constantly amazed at the generosity of the parents in Room 14. We love having you part of our classroom, and appreciate everything you do for us.

THANKS!

Book Week - a great end to term 3

book character day on PhotoPeach

Folkdancing from around the world

On Tuesday this week the Junior School put on a folk dance display. The dances were from all around the world. Our class did the Twist. You can really see us twisting in these photos!

tennis coaching with greg

Room 14 had lots of fun with Greg and Cameron who came to show us some basic tennis skills. The local tennis club has an open day this weekend and some of us might go and check it out!

Tennis on PhotoPeach

Digging to China

Today we read the book "Digging to China" by Donna Rawlins. We thought of places that we would want to discover if we dug to the other side of the world.

We used our imaginations and some of our schools keys for learning to help us with our ideas.

The keys we used were: INNOVATIVE THINKERS, PROBLEM SOLVING, REFLECT.

Then we drew pictures of our new land and wrote about what we would find there.

Brenton went to China. Hannah went to Fairyland. Leah went to Crazyland. Sophie went to Auckland. Jack P went to Japan. Olivia went to England. Kyle went to Japan. Finnian went to Africa. Kieran went to the Space between Spaces. Josh went to Raratonga. Rebecca went to Dragons. Erica went to Fairyland Fiji. Maya went to China. Janaya went to Auckland. Deon went to China. Niklas went to Germany. Millie went to El Dorado. Jack S went to Heaven. Anahera went to Wellington. Elicia went to China.