Netball Tournament

This year on the 5th of August the A teams from each year in each sport went to a tournament.
My team is the netball year 5&6 A team and we placed 3rd in the tournament wich means we are going to the canterbury's next Thursday.
I hope we do well and have fun.

POEMS GALORE

This term we have loved writing poems and lots of people in our class have published poems we even ate fizzy lollies and drank lemonade.We wrote about how it tasted, what it looks like and what it feels like when you chew it and bite it. I also liked eating the apple and writing about that aswell

winter sport

This week it is the last game that we have to play for our school team.Winter sports has been so fun because every wedsenday we go on the bus to hagley and we play winter sports.The sports that we had to choose from is netball,rugby,soccer and hocky but it has all come to the end and i have had so much fun doing netball.I'm in the netball A team and my mum is the coaching our team.Thank you so much for listening. BYE

Maths Week

On Monday Mrs Patten told us that she signed us up for Maths Week 09 and she had made profiles for all of us and we can play heaps of maths games and earn money and then at the end of maths week there will be an auction and you can bid and place bets for mathmatic stuff and then I think you get it sent out to you.

Maths Week 2009

Our teacher signed us up on maths week. Its a maths website that you do challenges on and earn money to buy things in the auction(the money isn't real).It's a good way for learning because it makes people want to win so they can buy stuff in the auction.

Treasures interchange

As a class we have been learning about Treasures we have made Australia,South Africa,Samoan,and mask making and finally flax making,Flax making was hard but you get used to it the first class was mask making we talked about the masks what you have to do is the first teacher we had what she had done was she had up faces some with eyes some with mouths some just plain.The next class we went to the teacher we had had given us some flax to weave a flower.The next class we went to the teacher had given us an outline of a house this was the South Africa art this was to decorate the house because what they do there is they Paint there house and sometimes there cars,The next class we went to was Australia art the teacher we had didn`t let us use green and pink which was fine and last but not least is our own room our teacher has a Samoan theme we are still finishing it but some people are already finished and they look great we all had a great time but to make it look like a real tapa cloth we iron them,Then when their all done we stick them together on one big piece of paper so we all are going to chip in to help each other because that's what class mates do.

Winter Sport

In our school we do winter sport. The sports we can play are Soccer, Rugby, Netball and Hockey. Every Thursday some people go that are in the teams. I'm not in any of the teams so I just stay at school and practice sports with one of our teachers

This week we have been writing poems about treasures of the sea. This my poem
seashell
super Saturday
swished smashed swayed
seashore shell sea-worn sparkling
smacked slipping spiraling
slippery smooth
sandy

Poetry

At school we are making poems. We have done a few each but some people have done more than others. Together in the class we did one that was about the sunset. We read a poem in the school journal called sunset then we took some information and remixed it. This is what it was

In the glistening sky
Spilling over black edged hills
Were fiery lava clouds

At The Museum

Last week Room 4 went to The Cantubery Museum.We learnt a heap about what Treasures are to different cultures,mostly about Treasures to the maori.There was a big wood waka that people had found in the river/creek.It would be so cool if we found a valuable Maori Treasure!The best parts out of the whole trip would be the big tree outside the Museum.It was so cool climbing that.I also really liked the body in action part.Oh and the Paua shell house,it was modelled straight after the real paua shell house down at bluff.

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Positive and negitive numbers

This term we have been working with positive and negitve numbers. We have been working with figure it outs books to help us. these are the keys to understand positive from neitive, += positive, - = negitve. I have learnt that if you had +8 + -4 it would = -12 because the to last symbols are different and that means that the answer is going to be a negitive, but if it was like this +7- -3 it would = +10 because the last two numbers are the same so the answer will always be a positive.
In this figure it out book we have to see how many years between the eruptions of the volcanos. The number line has a zero in the middle of it, to the left of the zero it means negative to the right of the zero it means positive.

Poetry

At the moment we are focusing as a class on poetry in reading. We have looked at two different poems, Sunset and Treasures From The Sea. we each had to write 6 poems, 2 diamentes, 2 cinquains, and 2 haikus. Here is one of my haikus:

Seashells

Under the ocean,
Nestling under the sea bed
Are smooth, worn, seashells

Aboriginal Art

At the start of the term room 4,5,6,7 and room 8 were having class exchange learning about different cultures.When we went to room8 it was fun because we all did ABORIGINAL ART and it was sure fun.First we had to choose four different colours or less and we were not allowed to use bright colours or green because Australians never had beautiful green grass like ours they only had brown grass because they were not allowed to wet their grass or else they would get a fine.For my aboriginal art the colours I used were black,red,yellow and orange and my aboriginal art had heaps of spirals.

Toad Rage

After lunch everyday we read Toad Rage.It's a novel about a cane toad that wants to find out why humans hate them so much.Limpy goes on a adventure to try become games mascot and try to make people more friendly to cane toads.On his adventure his cousin called Goliath is found on the road trying to stop traffic.There is a games competitor who finds Limpy and Goliath and Limpy thinks shes going to help make him a games mascot,but hes go the wrong idea.

Museam trip

We are currently working on arts this term and we had a visit to the museum to give us an idea about what we would be working with this term. It was fun to see what we would be drawing and painting this term.

The Museum

Our class had a trip to the museum it was amazing,The body in action was the most fun for me,The body in action was a board game and lots of other things but the board game was really exciting what you did first was you went down the tongue silde you grabbed the dice and you rolled it,you went through the intstines then you came out "THE OTHER END",There was a running game my time was 1.62 But we all had a good time and thats the great thing.

MUSEUM TRIP

Last week we went to the museum and it was awesome.The funest thing there was ''BODY'N'ACTION''because it was about body parts.I am going to tell you about what we did.
The first thing we did was go down the slide, then we got a dice and rolled it, then what ever number we got we had to go to a number and it is like snakes and leaders but it doesn't have snakes and the leaders.Then we had to go through the bottom of the person that we went round.
After that I went through a runing thing and you got timed and my time was 1.46 seconds.after that we went to some other stuff and then after that it was the end of our trip to the MUSEUM.
BY SOPHIE

Minigeofix

This term we have had minigeofix as our challenge box game. We have been making all sorts of creations like flowers, spinning tops, cubes, balls and other things. Minigeofix is like magnetix except instead of the magnetix joining together you have to click it together! There are four colours we can choose from, pink, yellow, green, or blue!There are also lots of different shapes like a hexagon, triangles, squares and some others.

Treasures

In school we are learning about treasures.We started going to another class and learning about what peoples treasures are and how they share them with masks.In another class we were learning about Kiwiana and making flax flowers.In the 3rd class we were looking at the South African house designs.The last class we went into we were creating a piece of Aboriginal art using 4 colors that were only dark

Treasures

This week we have been learning about our and other cultures treasures we also did a topic interchange and when we went to Miss Harris' class we learnt aboyut masks and they can be used for many reasons, like death, life boys coming of age and lots of other things.
We also went to Mr Mulers class we made flax flowers everybody thought that it was really hard but I thought it was easy because I had made one before.
When we went to Mr Woollands class we all learnt about South African houses and what they are made from.
Last but not least when we went to Mr Hilary's class we learnt about Aboriginal art and we got to make our own picture using dots, lines, circles and some Australian animals.