Cross Country

Today all of our hard work paid off. It was the school Cross Country. Some of the boys went down to the Gonville Domain early to help Mrs Larsen and Mrs Steedman set up the running track. It was very wet and muddy for the senior but that didn't stop most of them from trying extremely hard. Congratulations Boys! I look forward to taking some of you to interschool next week.

Awesome websites

A while ago Mrs Larsen introducted us to 2 new web sites, Hero factory and Build Your Own Wildself. We had time to play around and create some awesome characters. Click on the links below to have a go yourself.

Hero Factory

Build your own wildself

Design

For art this term our topic is design, so Mrs Larsen thought castles would be a good idea because it fits in with our production 'It's a knights life'. Mrs Larsen asked us to draw what we thought castles looked like.

Player of the Day

Congratulations Kobi for being the player of the day for the Carlton Cavaliers Basketball team.

Jump Jam

This term we have been doing Jump Jam every morning. Jump Jam is fitness/dance. We have 3 Jump Jam videos. We will be working through all of them over the term. Today Mrs Larsen took a video of a couple of the routines. How do we look?

Paper planes with Mrs Bennett

On Thursday the boys lunch time group made paper planes with Mrs Bennett. Mrs Bennett showed us a book that had lot of different types of jet planes to make. We wanted to see whose plane could fly all the way across the hall. Treyzhan made a plane that kept doing flips. Jahzia had a plane that could keep spinning around. The one i did was a jet plane and when I flew the plane lightly it went right across the hall. I think Shannon's plane was probably the best.

Raffle Tickets

On Friday our raffle tickets for the grocery raffle closed. It's exciting because I brought some too. Mrs Larsen is organising the draw today. Here is the prize.

Mothball's First Day

Today was Mothball's first day at Carlton School. Here are some of the fun things he learned.

Our new classmate Mothball

Today after lunch we, Room 14, got a package from our buddy class in Australia. Mrs Larsen opened up the package and described what she saw as a furry, brown fluff ball. It was a wombat! At first we didn't know if it was a boy or girl, but the wombats name is Mothball, so that answers that question. Our travel buddies also sent us a cool book called Wombat Stew, a DVD about Australia Wildlife and a profile of each student. We took lots of photos of mothball. We had a class photo and we put him on our plant and then our teacher took a photo of him with all his things he came with. Then we took him to Room 12 to introduce him to them and their travel buddy Koko who is also from Australia. We think Mothball is going to enjoy his time in our class.

Room 14's Writing Displays

Last term Room 14 learnt all about report, so Mrs Larsen thought it would be a neat idea to write about our holiday as a newspaper report. Look at our new display.

Kingi is safe and sound

Last night Mrs Larsen heard from Kingi. When Mrs Larsen told us we were so relieved because Kingi was safe and sound in Auzzie. We're looking forward to be seeing our new buddy. He should arrive in the next couple of days. We will introduce him when he gets here.
By Jahzia

New Inquiry

In Room 14 we have been wondering why eating right is so important. Here are some of our ideas. To keep fit, be helthy and to help us think.
Why do you think being helthy is so important?
By Joshua

A new look

Our School is getting repainted. Yay! We will have painters at our school for a while as they are painting every building. All of our buildings will be the same colours as our school office. It is going to look fantastic once it is finished.

They did it again!

We are getting really angry. Again over the weekend people came and vandalised our school. They are damaging our school lots and we want them to stop!!

Room 12 Artists

Today we went back to Room 12 to help them finish off their art work. All of them worked really hard and got their work finished. Here is a few of them, don't they look amazing.
































We also got them started on their new art activity. They used chalk to draw their head, neck and shoulders ready for them to be painted next week.

Unfolding Stories

On the first day of Dare, Constable Tanya said that we all have to make an unfolding story. So we all got 3 pieces of paper. The colours I got we're yellow and green and blue. We started with the title page. Then we had to do pages on our family, affirmation chart, our favourite food, our hobbies, special things about our culture and what we wanted to be when we grow up. Everyone worked really hard on them.

BP Technology Challenge

This week we were very lucky because we got to do two BP Technology Challenges, one on Monday with all the Year 5's and one on Thursday with our class.
On Monday every group was given a plastic bag, 4 pieces of paper, 1 piece of card, string, sellotape and an egg. Our goal was to construct something that could keep an egg safe from breaking if it was dropped from the top of a ladder. Every group took their time to think of an idea. Only one group managed to stop their egg from cracking. One group was very close and one group was an absolute disaster. Their egg feel out and smashed on the ground before the devise even made it down.

On Thursday we did another BP Technology Challenge. This time Mrs Larsen gave us ice block sticks, straws, selloptape and string. We had to create a devise that stuck out from a desk and could hold a marble. The longest one was going to be the winner. Every team that finished met the criteria. Some were long and some were short. One team however, didn't get theirs finished in time. But they showed us how it was to work. Mrs Larsen was very impressed. They were very creative and they worked the best as a team. I wonder what the next one will be.

Congratulations

Well done Dean and Pita. They were both very lucky to have their chance cards pulled out at the school assembly. Dean for great effort in Jump Jam and Pita for being a great buddy to Room 12. They both got to choose a prize. Keep up the hard work boys!

Totara Wins

Yesterday Totara finally got their prize for being the winning house in Term 2. They all enjoyed their ice blocks despite being a winter day.

Ms Whitwell's Holiday

Today Ms Whitwell was lucky. She had lots of kids away sick in her class, which meant she only had to teach 13. She said it felt like a holiday and all she needed was a couch and coffee to make it complete. So we made her wish come true. 2 boys from our class and Mrs McIntyre delivered her our couch to have for the day and a coffee. She loved it.

Chinese Students

Last Thursday we had some visitors to our school from China. They are going to Wanganui High School while they are in New Zealand. They came to our school to see what we do. We showed them how we do Jump Jam and they even joined in. It was lots of fun. They are coming to visit our school for the next 3 weeks.

Our new student DJ

This morning a new kid came to our class to stay. His name is DJ. We were so excited when we heard he was coming. He is very cool and he fits in perfectly. He's very good at basketball.

DARE DAY OUT

On the 6th of August Room14, Room 4, Room 5 and Room 6 went on a Dare Day Out. We went to the movies and saw Karate Kid. After the movie we went to Kowhai Park. When we were at the park we ate or lunch and played heaps of games. Lots of us went on the flying fox, the castle and the boat.
By Dakota

Dare

At the start of the term we started Dare. Dare is short for Dare to make a choice. When we all started we got told that we have to get all of our work finished our we will miss out on the t.shirt and the Dare day out. In our second Dare class we were given four bits of paper for our unfolding stories. In the next sessions of Dare we learnt about making decisions, drugs and what they can do to you and peer pressure.
By Kobi.

New Friends

Today we had 2 new visitors, Kingi's cousins! Their names are Rocky and Boy. They are going to be staying with us while Kingi is away. Lucky them!

Visiting Room 12

Today our class went to visit Room 12 to help them with their art work. Mrs Robertson buddied us up with someone. We helped the children to colour in their continuous line drawings. They are all off to a great start. We will be going back next week to help finish them.

Spelling Testers

On Fridays after morning tea Room 14 students go to Room 3 and test their buddy's on their spelling. My buddy is Dion. When we first found out we were going some of us were really excited. I can't wait till next next.
By Joshua

All blacks vs Wallabies

Last weekend the All Blacks faced the Wallabies in Melbourne, their home town. The All blacks won against the Wallabies. The score was 49 to 28. The next game is in Christchurch. I can not wait till that game.

Kingi's Adventure

Friday was Kingi's last day (for now). He is off to spend the rest of Term 3 at a school in Australia. We will keep you posted on what he gets up to over the ditch.

Wheels Relay

On Friday the whole school went out after assembly for Wheels Relay. We were split up into our houses to compete. We had lots of different relays to do like skipping, sack races, dress up races, tunnel ball and many more. Kowhai won and Totara came a close second. Everyone had an awesome time and can't wait till the next inter house sports event.

Newspaper reports

A couple of weeks ago Mrs Larsen gave us a task, to write a newspaper report about our holiday. So we all started off with a draft in our writing book. I did mine about me and my cousin watching movies in my room at my house. The title I made for my head line was movie madness. The movies we watch was Prince of Persa, Boy and Toy Story 3. It was so fun and funny. After we finished watching the movies we went into the kitchen to get us something to eat. We cooked some cheese on toast. I wish that we could have another day like that.
By William