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Kids Expo

Rohan O, Sam and Joe were our class representatives at the Kids Expo last month and Viv has finally organised to put the movies they made onto the blog. The task was to interview people and take photos at the expo and create a finished movie, all within one hour. We hope you are impressed!

Clean Streams

We have been learning how to make animated movies and this the first one finished. Look on our personal blogs and you will see them as we finish them.

Clean Streams, Creeks and Ponds

We have been learning about streams and comparing the fearures of clean streams and those which have been affected by external influences. Today Mel McCoglan told us about stream life and she showed a great video about a stream which had some pollution and some clean parts.
After that we played a game where we tried to score points by cleaning up Old Bernie's Pond. Some of us were able to get to the end, score 7 points and win a certificate. There is a link for people from room 5 to have another try to clean the pond. I hope you can remember the username and password. I'll write it up at school in case you need to copy it. Have fun.

Landscapes at the Suter

On Monday we visited the Suter Art Gallery to learn about landscapes with Esther. Landscape can mean the way you place your paper on the side or it can be an art work of an outdoor scene. We learnt about some special techniques thta artists use when they paint landscapes. The use overlapping, angles, making things big in the foreground and small at the back and theyuse fading in the distance.
Esther helped us to make a ladscape.
We were so lucky after that because Sally Burton was there putting together her installation of Hueia Matenga and the wreck of the Delaware. She stopped and told us lots of stories about why she had chosen the different piees of driftwood and how she had used very limited colours for her work. It was very interesting. We will be going to see that exhibition next term.

Field Trip to the Maitai River

Beautiful Bloggers

We had a wonderful Blog Party today to celebrate just over 3000 hits in the last two and a bit terms. The food was wonderful with lots of delicious, healthy treats and a few not so healthy treats.
I wonder how quickly we will get the next thousand hits on our blog?

Weekend fun

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People from Room 5 were out and about having all sorts of fun over the weekend. George went to stay with Thomas so he had fun. There were two birthday parties.
Happy birthday Saffron and Madison.
There was a Light Party, several family get togethers and some children went Trick or Treating.
Viv had her first try at making a pumpkin to welcome them so she could give out treats.
Viv said, "I'll make bigger holes in the pumpkin next year because the candle kept going out."
Amarah said, "I went to a light party at our church."
Grace said, ''I went trick or treating with Maddy. We took Spiky too.''
Harrison said, "No one came to get lollies "
Alex said, "I went trick or treating. I got lots of lollies. "
"Hannah said, ''I went to the light party too. I won a Lone Star Voucher. ''
Tom said, " I had very sporty weekend."
Albie said '' I went trick and treating with Rohan."
Phoenix said, ''I went trick or treating and I got 7 lollies. "
Rohan said, " I went to Albies house for Halloween"
Jonti said, '' I went for two sleep overs.''
Rohan O said, "I dressed up as the Joker."

Teapot Valley Camp Rocks

Teapot Valley Camp

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Last week, Room 5 went to camp at Teapot Valley with Room 14. We had a great time and luckily the weather was so good that we managed to do all of our activities. Our toy George came with us and he had a great time as well. His favourite activities were archery and basketball.
He is hoping that Room 5 will go there again for camp next year.
If you would like to see photographs of Room 5 children at their activities, they will be showing each morning before school for the next week.

Dancing

Kelly Sports

On Thursdays the Kelly Sports people run after school activities and sometimes they come in school time to show us about their programme. Last Tuesday we did Kelly sports. Rohan Sam and Albie were in a group together. Joe was in a group with someone from Room 9. Kelly Sports is all bout having fun while you do sporting activities. Some of the activities we played were soccer, basketball, rugby and cricket relays. We thought basketball was soccer because it looked like a soccer ball. Everyone had a race we won. We had a great time.

Time Games

I've been looking for some good maths games for you to play. Next term for Maths, we will be learning about telling the time, months, seasons, reading calendars and solving problems about time. I found a very easy game where you make the time on a clock face. It's a bit noisy because the little creature keeps shouting, "Yes," whenever you get the correct answer. Your families will be able to hear how clever you are!
Click on this link to BBC Games and have a try.
Another fun site is Johnnie's Math Page. You can time yourself while you match digital and analogue clocks. You can also practise the skills you learnt in Measurement last term.
I hope you have fun with these games.

Children's Rights Speeches

We havebeen looking at the Save the Children wish list site and thinking about what we would like to buy to help children's rights become a reality for some of the children who Save the Children works with. Listen to our speeches and perhaps you might like to help. Click on the link to go to the wish list to see why a yak is useful and how plumpynut can save a child's life.
Thanks to Save the Children for allowing us to use their photographs for this topic.

Holiday Fun

I have found a fun website for people who love looking at art and making art works. It's the Washington Art Gallery in USA. Click on the link and Have fun exploring. There are lots of fun things to make and do on NGAkids.

Another fun site with activities is National Geographic Kids.

John Bevan-Ford

Yesterday we went to the John Bevan-Ford exhibtion at the Suter Art Gallery. We looked at his workand we used some of his ideas to make patterns in the middle of an outline of a bird. Birds are special to John Bevan-Ford because he used them like people who moved to and from countries. At the end of our session we made a giant floor puzzle of one of his paintings.

Habitats for our Birds

Last month we to the Suter Gallery to see Bing Dawe's exhibition, "Vagrants, Stragglers and the Unloved." We made clay models of threatened and endangered birds and Esther fired them for us. We have been painting them and today we made a big habitat for them. Some are water birds and some are forest birds so we have a forest, a lake and a river that runs down to the sea. It looks great.

Spelling Fun

For our homework last week we had some fun with our spelling words. We wrote funny stories using some of the words. Some people recorded their stories when we shared them on Friday.

Gymnastics

Every Thursday morning we go to the hall for gymnastics. Recently we have been learning about rotation and spring. Last week our focus was spring so we used beat boards and the mini tramp.
Year 4's were tested on beam passes where they did a routine on the low beam. Each week we choose a group to demonstrate the lesson for the next class. It's fun and we love it.

Mathletics

We all had great fun with Mathletics last week. That has finished for now so I have found a little maths game that we can play to help us remember our multiplication facts. Click on the link to play Fleebur and Spinky.