Check out our Glogs

We are busy working on Glogs about New Zealand Natives. they are not finished yet but here's a taste of what they will look like.

Autumn

We have been collecting sights, sounds and words to describe Autumn time at our school. We are using these to write some Haiku poetry. Do you know what Haiku means?

This weeks top Mathletes

Welcome to the Maadi Cup Rowers

Our senior school students did us proud welcoming the rowers with a rousing version of Aoraki E. We have been practising this in class and Alex wanted to join in. good on you Alex and well done.

SuperSpellers

This week these students made an excellent effort to learn their spellings and earnt a special certificate. We are learning the short and long vowel sounds and their spelling patterns.

Parents please check your child's homework book at the back for spelling practice and word lists. The spelling patterns are learnt best thinking about lots of different words using these sounds and letter patterns.

Native creature Inquiry

We have been following our Twizel inquiry Model to find out about native NZ creatures. We are at the research stage and are using traditional and digital sources of information. We are going to share our findings using Glogster, a web 2.0 app where we will make a digital poster embedding sounds, video, images and text.

Sharing a passion with the middle school

We've been having fun with the middle school students who chose our class to share their passion with! They decided to come along and teach us some dance moves which we will share at assembly next week.

Room 13 Little Theatre Company

Those robot machines were on the blink again and the repair robot was sent for... but what's this? It's a human!

Great games

As part of our inquiry we are looking at the features and rules of board games. We will use these ideas to design and make our own game with an NZ native creature theme.

Safe Walking

We have been working with Constable Hocken today learning about safe walking. Every year 40 pedestrians are killed and over 1000 injured in New Zealand. Please ask your child what they have been learning and practice this at home. Our students could be 'experts' to teach a younger child.

Harold visits Twizel

One of our favourite guests has arrived in town this week for our life education sessions. We are learning all about the heart with the help of our favourite giraffe Harold and his helpers, Jo and Sue.

Colourful jelly science!

Awesome, bright, squishy,colourful, nasty nappy jelly.

 
   At Ava's house we made nasty nappy. An EXCITING chemical chaos Experiment. It was VERY slimy jelly. It was fun seeing what it was going to turn into. We had to wait for an hour. IF YOU DO EAT IT WILL MAKE YOU FEEL SICK! The biggest one was green and the smallest one was red.

Year 4 Athletics

Our year 4 students took part in their first athletics sports day with the seniors today. They tried very hard. We all had a go at the long jump and high jump yesterday. Some people were a little quick for the camera or Mr A to take the picture!

Last weeks Mathletes. These students worked super hard to earn over1000 points. Keep up the good work Room 13.

If I was an animal ...

Students in Room 13 found a mysterious bottle on their way home. They took it home to recycle it. Later on they noticed it glowing and they opened the lid. A genie popped out who gave them a wish to be an animal of their choice for a day. They had to think carefully about their choice.