LETS GET CRAZY!

Get ready..... CRAZY DAY IS COMING! -HOUSE COLOURS STYLE!

Mr Clement's Weather expertise

Yesterday, we had a visitor: Dr Alistair Clement, who studies and teaches weather at Massey University. He taught us all about weather -more specifically clouds, and the water cycle. Firstly we put our observational skills to the test and observed the clouds, discussing what words we would use to describe the clouds and each made a sketch of a particular cloud. Then we learned and identified what type of clouds were out today and that we had seen. His slideshow he had prepared for us was very informative and it included lots of juicy information that we wanted to know about the weather. We learnt about temperatures and how they are affected by altitude. Mr Clement showed us how this information might be presented on a graph and explained how we might see a trend in the data.  Then we learnt about how updrafts keep newly formed water droplets up in the air and why tropical islands like Fiji have hurricane seasons. To finish off, we did a group quiz with Room 6 about clouds and the water cycle and some explanations of some pictures showing either evaporation and condensation.

Overall, Mr Clement’s visit was very, very cool.

Thank you very much Mr Clement!

Bananagrams!

Today, Miss Fleet introduced us to a new game called Bananagrams. It is a game for us to practice our spelling and vocabulary by making words and getting rid of our tiles. This game is similar to scrabble. It sure was very quiet while brains were thinking hard!

'Have you ever?' Poems

Last week we wrote some wonderful poetry in Room 5. Following the structure of an exemplar, we created our own 'HAVE YOU EVER?' poems to describe an 'EXTREME' event we have experienced in our lives. Take a read!

Working Bee!

Yesterday, some of our senior students set to work doing a whole list of jobs around our school. It is so important for the students to be involved in creating and maintaining the environment that we all enjoy. We helped by spreading wood chip over the paths, gardening, clearing the stones from a new garden and cleaning up our new garden area. We enjoyed working together and had quite a few laughs along the way and we are certainly pleased with how the place is looking!

We even gave our class garden a new makeover. It looks beautiful now and we are very lucky to have celery and lettuces growing so we can soon enjoy eating them!

Senior Swimming Sports!

We all had a wonderful time on Tuesday morning, competing and swimming in our annual senior swimming sports. Everyone competed in a range of races allowing them to show off their skills and what they have been learning in swimming over the past 6 weeks.

Great effort kids, you all did an amazing job!
Well done to all those students who were champions of their year groups, and a special congratulations to Rebekah and Annabel from our class who are the senior girl and junior girl champions!

Photo credit to Kim. Thanks for the awesome action shots!

Cyber Safety with Constable Sarah

Yesterday we had a very informative visit from Constable Sarah. She refreshed our memories about how important it is to be cyber safe and smart, and provided us with a very useful 'THINK' strategy to ensure we are being safe online.

Thank you so much, Constable Sarah, for your useful tips and for reminding us of what is important when using the internet, apps and programmes.