The Last Stars for Rocket Writing were ........

Renny and Skye. Congratulations to Renny and Skye who were the Star Rocket Writers for the last time for the year. Renny got the Star for writing the most words and Skye got the Star for making the most progress. Well done to the both of you. Well done also to anyone in Room 5 who improved on their score from the previous week. You were all stars!! Remember rocket writing is something you can continue to do over the holidays - all you need is a clock and some paper and a writing tool.

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!!