Room 13 Feels Inside

We love this song.....



Looking forward to seeing you all at the Toymaker's Dream recital at the Twizel Event Centre on Saturday 8th December at 4pm.

Solar eclipse!

Wow, we had an amazing experience today. A partial eclipse of the sun. Mr potter brought a huge home made pinhole camera and Mrs Arkless had her special glasses to look through. I loved the gasps of amazement when you put the glasses on and looked up! We saw lots of crescent shapes as rays of sunlight came through trees and bushes. Mrs A's cardigan made a heap of these.
 I wonder who could find out why this was happening?
Another 13 years to wait for another one and 16 years for a total eclipse! Where will we all be and what will be doing by then I wonder!

This weeks Super Spellers

Well done to these students who learned their spellings really well because they got nearly all of them right, or even all of them!

 Remember: LOOK - SAY - COVER - WRITE- CHECK and 3x is the charm!

Chrome Weblab

Click here to visit the lab.

As part of our inquiry into "What is science?" we have been looking at Chrome Weblab.
See the magic of the web brought to life through 5 Chrome experiments open to the world online. Live from the Science Museum, London.

The sketchbot drew a picture in sand of two of our class, can you guess who they are?

Waitaki Valley Athletics.

We've been training hard for athletics for the last couple of weeks. It was the first time some of us had thrown a shot putt or discus.

Many thanks to all of our friends, parents and whanau who came along to support us on our athletics day. the weather was kind and the wind held off until later. There was lots of jumping, throwing and running going on during the day and our students made a great effort to be good hosts for our guest schools. Well done everyone.

Luca has made it through to the North Otago championships, way to throw Luca!

What is science? Inquiry

We had an awesome science investigation afternoon on Wednesday with a circus of activities base around the Physical and material world.
We were asked several questions to investigate as part of our tuning in to this inquiry.

Can we see sound?
Can you make a rainbow?
Can we see magnetic forces?
Can we make the light bulb light up?
Can we make a stone float?

Ask us about what we found out and why we thought these things happened.....

Can you think how these science processes are used in our world?

White Hat thinking

In our inquiry this term into the Nature of science we are using De Bono's thinking hats to help us with our thinking and learning.

Think White hat - Think paper - FACTS

We will be investigating the physical and material world, researching experiments and doing a few, hopefully leading to an online Science Fair.

Watch this space.

Toi Kowhaiwhai

We have been looking at traditional Toi Maori, especially kowhaiwhai patterns. We started with the koru, then the puhore and have moved on to the mangopare pattern. I wonder who will comment first and tell me what those three words mean.

Golfing naturals

Janelle from Golfing New Zealand came to school today to share her golfing skills. Some students will get the chance to visit the golf course tomorrow .

Harriet Potter - the story

We hope that you enjoy the multimedia storybook of our play - Harriet Potter and the Magic Ball of Oomble Dumble. We storyboarded the play and decided on freeze frames to capture the main events. Then we worked in teams to write the story with our freeze frames, finally we narrated the story using our expressive voices.

In memory of a dear friend.

It was with great sadness that we learned of our good friend Katie's unexpected death later that weekend. We are all deeply saddened and our thoughts go to her family. We miss her and will never forget her.

Harriet Potter

Many congratulations to our awesome cast of characters in their drama festival. Mr and Mrs A were very proud of you all as you were in character and acted your hearts out.

Junior Drama Festival

We had a great dress rehearsal today for our junior drama festival. We are keen to share our great characters, awesome acting and expressive voices with you. We hope you can come.

What?: Junior Drama Festival
Where?: Twizel Events Centre
When?: Friday 14th September 1.30 prompt start.
Who?:
Room 7 - Going on a bear hunt.
Room 13 - Harriet Potter and the Magic Ball of Oomble Dumble
Room 4 - The history of the Olympics
Room 5 - Maui changes shape.
How much?: Gold coin donation please.

Defend the cone

 We learnt a new game over the last couple of weeks in PE. It is called "Defend the cone" Mr A gave us the aim of the game and some rules to start with. We had to play the game and improve it. We came up with rules for gameplay and tactics to make it more fun and fairer. Well done Room 13 , some great sportspeople who know how to play fair!

Olympics Inquiry

We wrapped our Olympics inquiry up last week with a  "Told us, made us wonder review" We shared our information with each other and had to have a good look at each others research. We recorded one new fact  that we had learned and a question this made us ask. We then had some time to try and answer the best questions and improve our slideshow. Have a look at our slideshow below.

 

Room 13’s olympic inquiry from Twizel Area School

Cross Country practice

We have been practicing hard for the Waitaki Schools cross country races at Omarama soon. We have been building our stamina running around the field and the juniors went down to the river walkway to practice running on rougher ground with some hills too.

What time is it?

We have been learning to tell the time. Everyone should be able to tell, o'clock, half past, quarter to and past. Some people can tell the time to 5 minute intervals and others can even use digital time too.
So next time you need to know the time then ask us!!

We have looked at how early people used the sun to tell the time, we drew our shadows during the day. We found out that our shadow gets shorter and then longer again. We think this is because the sun appears to move in the sky. This is because the Earth is spinning. Do you know how long it takes to go around once? Ask us!

Our cross country champs

Well done to Kasey and Blossom in their excellent effort at the North Otago cross country races yesterday. Both girls did us proud and represented the school very well.

Ski trip cancelled today.

***************STOP PRESS***************** Our ski trip is cancelled today due to high winds. Postponement date will be in two weeks, a note will come home to advise. ***************STOP PRESS*****************

Tubing and Ice-skating

What an awesome day out we had at Tekapo Springs. The snow and ice were melting fast so we had to bring our class tube and skate forward. Thanks to our parent helpers who shared the driving to make sure we all got there safely.