Turner's Sports Tournament

We are very very proud of those children who attended the Turner's Sports Tournament at North Street School today. The boys came away with the first place trophy after convincingly winning all three of their games. Well Done boys! And the girls did very well in coming runners up in the netball competition after winning 2 of their 3 games. Awesome work and wonderful sportsmanship by all players today! Great work everyone!

 

Colyton Sports Exchange

Well done to Room 4's Hugo, Mitchell and Alex who took part in the Colyton Sports Exchange on Tuesday. Everyone played really well, displayed some wonderful skills and showed awesome sportsmanship. We are very proud of you all for your efforts on Tuesday. Ka Pai everyone!

Statistic learning

Room 4 maths class has been learning all about tally charts, bar graphs and pictograms. Here is a wonderful example of how far we have come. We can even draw our own bar graphs accurately without a template. Ka pai room 4!

             

Kakariki literacy circle

In kakariki literacy group we have just started reading a story called 'Because of Winn Dixie'

We are going to be trying out a new type of reading (literacy circle by Sheena Cameron) to really engage, explore and understand the books we read.

Today we had to bring a picture of our own dog and some personal memories of our dog to share with the group. This was a way of us showing our personal connections to the story. It was really nice to talk to each others about our dogs and our wonderful and some funny memories of them. 

Olympic sport drama

As part of our learning about the olympics, we had some fun each taking turns at acting out the different sports. There were a lot of laughs and some very awesome acting!!

Failure is your success!!

We have been learning about being determined and how a part of being determined to succeed sometimes means failure. We have looked at how we can let this influence us but also what we can do when we do fail. De Bono's Thinking hats helped us to explore the positives (yellow hat), negatives (black hat) and our feelings (red hat) around the idea of failure. Here's what we thought! 

Yesterday's flying action!

Thanks for making the video for us all Miss Simpson!

A surprise from the air!

Today, a New Zealand Air Force NH90 helicopter came to visit Halcombe School. The 7-11 tonne air craft landed on our school field. What a surprise this was! We were lucky enough to be allowed to explore the inside of the helicopter. Many questions were asked and we learnt many interesting and mind blowing facts about the ‘Warrior’ and the air force. We learnt that the beautiful piece of machinery sitting on our field is worth 60 million dollars.

Some of the awesome things we learnt were:

·        It carries 3 tonne of fuel

·        It weighs 7 tonne empty and has a max weight of 11 tonne

·        The propellers spin 5 and a ½  times per second

·        Can carry up to 18-20 people

·        New Zealand owns 8 of these particular helicopters

·        They can have guns attached if necessary

·        It is nearly 20 m long

·        The max flight speed is between 300 and 320km/h

We had a great time and learnt so much. It was a one of a kind experience. Thank you to the New Zealand Air force and the parents involved for organising such an amazing visit. We are all feeling inspired!

Motivational video responses

Today, in room 4, we watched this motivational video about believing and being determined.




After watching, we made notes and discussed what the key messages were that we gained from this video. Here are our thoughts.

Didn't we do well?! Great listening and thinking Room 4!

Gymnastics is under way!

We had a great first couple of sessions in gymnastics this week. We set goals and discussed what we wanted to improve on, and we are now into practicing, learning and perfecting our gymnastic techniques.

Here are some of our starting out pictures. There will be more to follow as the weeks go on and our skills improve! Keep an eye out!

AAA Collaborative Art!

To kick off term 3 we thought it would be a great idea to remind ourselves and refresh our school values -Attitude, Achievement, and Adventure. We have started our pieces and have worked amazingly well altogether. We used crayon to create patterns, colour, and relevant words to do with our value. This is our progress so far. Watch this space for our completed collaborative pieces.

Multi Sport

To wrap up our large ball skills PE unit, we had a game of multi sport. Using all the skills we learnt in the different rotations over the term we played touch rugby, soccer, netball and basketball.
Lots of us hadn't played multi sport before but we thoroughly enjoyed the new game!

Room 4 in Pyjamas

Room 4 are already enjoying a very exciting and fun filled pyjama day! However, they did think just because they were wearing their pjs, they were going to have a nap! They were devastated to learn that their sleep was to be rudely interrupted by writing! Ka pai room 4, you are looking fab!

             

Interhouse Quiz

We had an awesome time competing in an interhouse quiz yesterday afternoon. We were mixed up with kids from rooms 5 and 6 and played 6 different categories! There was certainly lots of fun happening as well as some great thinking and working together! Thank you to Miss Simpson and the room 6 kids for organising such an awesome event!

Ocean Zone Group Research

This term, room 4 has been learning all about the different ocean zones. In our literacy groups, we researched all about each zone, what lives there, how big it is and what kind of temperature it is.
The zones are called the Epipelagic zone, Mesopelagic zone, Bathypelagic zone, Abssopelagic zone and Hadalpelagic zone. These zones all have nicknames making their technical names much easier to remember. We put our research together into a powerpoint and presented them to our class.

                              

                             
                             
                             
                             

Ocean Research!!

We are well under way with our ocean research projects. We are putting to use the skills we have learnt - note making and note taking, summarising in our own words, highlighting key words and important information. We are starting to present our information, ready for presentations to our class next week. 

                                  

Affirmation success

Each week the children identify and record when they see someone else being a good friend or a good learner. On a Friday we share and celebrate the wonderful things each other have done in the week. 

Here is a photo of this weeks wonderful students who have been spotted by their peers!

Ka pai you people. Your affirmations are now in your kit books for you to share with others! 

Waiata with actions!

We have loads of fun in room 4 singing and performing waiata!! Ka Pai Room 4 you guys look and sound great!

Celebrating and sharing writing!

We have just finished publishing our descriptions of our fish. They are such awesome pieces of writing full of adjectives and exciting language features! We celebrated and shared our writing with our learning buddies. We thought some peoples writing were galleries!

                                

                               

What a Ripping Good Time!

Yesterday we learnt skills in and played rippa rugby with Miss Simpson! It was so much fun. We did relays, played last man standing, had a game and got extremely muddy! Thanks for having us Miss Simpson!

PJ AND BURGER DAY!

Basketball with Miss Jeynes

Basketball with Miss Jeynes was loads of fun. We leant passing and dribbling techniques. We had a go at shooting hoops and played a pretty fun game! Thanks Miss Jeynes

Building buddy class relationships

Earlier this term, room 4 began circle time as a way to focus on our key competencies and building relationships within our class. Today it was really enjoyable to be able to share some of the fun and exciting activities we have learnt in circle time with our little buddies. We all had such a great time, laughing, problem solving and thinking together. Thanks for an awesome afternoon room 7!

Senior Winter Sport Rotation

Yesterday we got under way with our senior winter sport rotation. We started off with soccer. We learnt how to pass and stop a ball, dribble the ball with our feet as we move, and we even did some goal shooting. We ended a great session with a fun game of soccer where we were able to put soem of our skills to the test! 

Pirate Day!

As part of Our Oceans inquiry unit there has been some learning around pirates so we all dressed up as pirates! It was awesome to see everyone make such a huge effort with their costumes and boy did everyone look great! We designed our own pirate flags, created treasure maps and solved pirate puzzles as part of a whole school buddy activity. It was fun working with lots of different kids!

We had a really fun pirate day!