Room 5's Trophy Winners for Week 6 were..........

Congratulations to Kaylee, Lucy and Haki who have all worked very well this week to earn our Room 5 class trophies to take home for the week. You can all be very proud of your efforts this week and I'm sure everyone at home will be very proud of you all too!!

Our writing about Powelliphanta Snails

Haki brought along a Powelliphanta snail shell. We all thought it looked very neat but none of us really knew anything about the Powelliphanta snail. We did some research and found out that these snails are not snails that you will find in your garden but you will find them on the West Coast of New Zealand where we live. For writing we wrote about something we learnt about the Powelliphanta snail and we would like to share our writing with you. I'm sure you will all learn something too. Thanks for bringing the shell along Haki.

We made bird feeders

Last Friday Room 5 made bird feeders to feed all those hungry birds around our school. We used a pine cone to make a bird feeder. We mixed some fat(dripping) and bird seed together and then we pushed it onto the pine cone.

We hung the bird feeders on the trees around our school. We put some wire on the top of the pine cone to hang them up.

On Friday we went to check out how much the birds had eaten. Some had fallen off the tree so we hung them back up. Ben found his pine cone and all the bird feed was gone. We hope some hungry birds have filled their tummies. Someone said it could be a hungry weka. We all enjoyed making them for the birds around our school.

We are trying to read around NZ

This term we are trying to read our way around New Zealand as part of our reading at home. We chose how we wanted to travel. Some of our transport is faster than others e.g. motorbikes, car, horse, plane, skateboard, train, car. We began at Hokitika and travel around moving a town for each book we read. Some of us are visiting places we have never been to before and seeing things we've never seen before too! Here's what our Reading around NZ Map looked like today.

Room 5's Calendar Art

Room 5 students make the prefect summer garden!!

Week 2 and Week 3's Trophy Winners

Well done to the Trophy winners for the last 2 weeks. Jasper and Haki were the trophy winners for Week 2. Great work both of you.

Skye and Tom were the Trophy winners for Week 3.

Congratulations to all of you. All your hard work has paid off!!

Ed and Hilary went to Maruia

Lucky Ed and Hilary!! They went off to Maruia Springs for the weekend. They had never visited there before. Haki took great care off them and when they arrived back to school today they were exhausted. They got to milk a cow which was another first for them and were eye to eye with an ostrich. They are such well loved and happy bears. Thanks Haki.

Haki was Room 5's 'Star Is Born'

Haki you were a fantastic role model to others in the class as our 'Star Is Born'. You brought along lots of things to share and we found out lots of things we didn't already know about you. Thanks for doing a super job. Room 5 enjoyed writing your poem together.

The Trophy Winners for Week 5 were........

Well done to Vinny, Deegan and Haki who were awarded the trophies for Week 5. You have all worked hard and should be proud of your achievements. Here you are with the winning Trophies for the week. Congratulations!!

Our Phonics Learning

One phonics group has been learning about the short 'a' and 'o' sound in the middle of 3 letter words. Each phonics session we finish off with a dictated sentence that we have to write. Here are some of the examples from today. We are learning to remember that a sentence starts with a capital letter and ends with a fullstop and that we need to leave finger spaces between words so that our sentence can be easily read.

Another phonics group is learning the letters of the alphabet and the sound that each letter makes. For the last two days we have been working on the letter n and learning how to write this letter - short stick, tunnel. Look at how clever we are writing this letter.

The Trophies Winners for the 1st week of Term 3 were...........

Shae, Haki and Jasper. Well done you 3 for making it through your very 1st week at school. You did very well and we are all enjoying having you in Room 5. I bet you went home each night very tired. Keep up the great work.

Haven't We Aged!!

As part of our 100 days at school we have being writing about the photos Mrs Scott took of us to try and make us look old. We thought they were funny photos. Have a look and read our stories.