The Star Rocket writers for Week 6 were .........

Renny, Olivia and Hannah. Our Leading Star was joint this week by Renny and Olivia. Well done girls for writing the most words in the class.

And the star for making the most progress went to Hannah. Well done Hannah, we are all so proud of you and the words you can write. Hannah was able to write each sound as Naomi segmented each sound for her. She can also write her name all by herself. Wow - fantastic Hannah and great work Naomi and Mrs Smith 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.

The Trophy Winners for Week 4

Congratulations to Olivia, Renny and Shae who were Room 5's trophy winners for this week. You all deserved your win and should be very proud of your achievements. Great job you three and a lovely photo too!!

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.

Yet another sight word fish caught in the net

Congratulations Olivia and yippee you've done it. You know all your sight words and your fish has been caught in the net. Well done. I bet you are very excited that there are no more sight words for you. Great effort and well done. Here you are proudly putting your sight word fish in the net.

Room 5's Calendar Art

Room 5 students make the prefect summer garden!!

What fruit am I?

As part of Healthy Eating we have been describing a fruit for others to guess. Check out our awesome writing and our great reading of our writing. Can you guess what fruit am I?

Ed and Hilary went to Olivia's for the weekend

Thanks Olivia for the great weekend Ed and Hilary had staying with you. They sure are looking forward to getting out on that jet boat when the weather gets warmer. I'm pleased they got to spend some more time with Fidget your cat, they said he was a very friendly cat. Ed and Hilary are really going to miss their friends in Room 5 over the holidays. Maybe they might come home with Mrs Scott for a wee break.

Rocket Writing for Week 3

Charleigh "you go girl". What an awesome week with your rocket writing. You wrote 61 words and improved your best previous score by 12. This was a fantastic result. You earnt both Stars - the Star for "I am the leading rocket" and also the Star for "I am making the most progress". Here you are with your Stars

Here are all those words you wrote

Here is your rocket hanging proudly on the 3rd umbrella. Perhaps Mrs Scott had better start searching for a 4th umbrella???

A special mention to Olivia and Tom who also made a fantastic effort with their Rocket Writing too. They both improved their previous scores by 11. Great effort you two - very well done indeed! Here you both are with all those words you can write.

The Trophy winners for Week 2 were.........

Well done to Renny, Rhys and Olivia who were the trophy winners for Week 2. Renny had a fantastic 1st week at school and is already demonstrating lots of qualities of a great learner and Rhys and Olivia made me so proud with their independent writing this week. Well done you 3 - super work!!

Olivia was the 'Star Is Born'

What a great 'Star Is Born' you were Olivia. You really enjoyed sharing your things with the class and you were a fabulous roll model to the others in the class as well. We all enjoyed writing your poem for you. Thanks Olivia - you certainly are a Star!!

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.

Room 5 and Room 1's Musical Talents!!

On Friday it was our turn along with Room 1 to host assembly. We shook our rice drums/shakers along to the music and Room 1 singing 'Kiwi Ukelele'. We got a wee bit stage shy when it came to our dancing but we all thought we did a great job and Mrs Scott and Mrs Phelps were proud of us too!! We made our own drums. Here we are, have a look. We're sure you will like it too!!

What do we want to be when we grow up?

Look at our great writing and listen to us sharing our writing with you. I'm sure when we are all grown up we will get to do these things.

We have been writing Character Descriptions

Mrs Scott read us the book

We all really enjoyed it. Then we wrote a character description for Aunty Elsie and here they are.....

The winner of the trophies this week were Charleigh, Lucy and Olivia

Congratulations to these three girls who were awarded the trophies for this week. Their great listening manners and their ability to follow instructions straight away made them easy winners for the week. Well done.

The trophy winners for Week 2 were..........

Here are the gorgeous trophy winners for Week 2. I've been really impressed with their learning, the progress they have been making and the effort they have been putting into their work. Well done to Charleigh, Rhys and Olivia.

The Star Rocket Writers for this week were.......

A very big well done to Charleigh and Olivia who were the star Rocket Writers this week. Charleigh got the Star for Writing the most words - 29 of them and Olivia got the Star for making the most progress. She wrote 10 more words than last time. Well done girls - great job. The photo says it all - you were both very proud of yourselves.

Maths - Taller and Shorter

Today for maths we talked about the words 'shorter' and 'taller'. Here is a class photo of Room 5 lined up.

We were able to use the words 'taller' and 'shorter' in a sentence. Leon said - "Leon is taller than everyone in Room 5." Lucy said - "Lucy is shorter than everyone in Room 5." Deegan said - "Deegan is taller than Lucy." Charleigh said - "Rhys is taller than Charleigh." Olivia said - "Vinny is taller than Tom." Rhys said - "I am taller than Charleigh." Vinny said - "Vinny is shorter than Olivia." Tom said - "I am taller than Lucy."