Harold Part 2

Today was our last session with Harold. We really enjoyed going and learning all about friends in the bus. We learnt more about friends and how to be good to our friends. At the end of the session we sung karaoke with Harold. We were really lucky because we behaved so well we got to jump in the bus. Man it rocked! a little scary for Mrs Larsen. She was sure it was going to tip!

Rob Southam Shares Great Books

Today we were very lucky. Rob Southam came to talk to our class about great books for boys. She shared a lot of great books. She showed us how illustrators come up with a main character and read us parts of lots of great books. We were really lucky because we were given some great presents. We cant wait for Mrs Larsen to read our new books. Thanks Rob you were great! we hope you come and visit us again some time.

Rob showing us a sketch of Milly Maloo.



Rob sharing some of the great stories with us.




Our Presents, Thanks Rob

Jump Jam

Today we started a new Jump Jam. How do you think they did?

Life Ed

Today was our first session in the Life Ed bus. We couldn't wait to see Harold. While we were in the bus we learnt all about friends, how to make them, who makes them and what makes a good friend. We cant wait for our next session tomorrow.

Rob Southam

Tomorrow we are having Rob Southam visit our class. Rob will be talking about what makes boys want to read and keep reading and sharing great books for boys. I can't wait!

Dangerous Decibels

Today Tracy came into class to talk about dangerous decibels. Tracy had a tuning fork, she hit it on the table and spun it around, it sounded like the wind. She used this and a ping pong ball to show us that sound is made of vibrations. She also told us all about how to look after our hearing. Did you know you can't stand by a shot gun and shoot it without it affecting your ear. It does instant damage. In our ears we have lots of little hair-like nerve cells. If we listen to loud sounds for to long, it destroys some of our hair-like nerve cells. Once they are damaged they stay that way. We cant fix them. So we need to look after them by either walking away, turning it down or wearing protect our ears like ear plugs or ear muffs. Check out the photos from our fun morning.

Weekly Challenge!

Each week I will be posting a challenge. Lets start off with an easy one, How many teams are competing in the Rugby World Cup?


Tell me your answer by making a comment. First correct answer wins the prize.

After Hours - Lets Have Some Fun!

Each week I'm going to post online the extra practical homework I would like you boys to give a go. If you can I would like you to take photos to show me how you get on.

This weeks homework task is an easy one, teach someone at home to make a comment on the blog. Get them to put a comment on the class blog. Remember to teach them the basics, comments need to be meaningful, positive and you can ask a question.

Snow!

Can you believe it we had snow in Wanganui. Lots of teachers brought their cars to school and they still had snow on them so we all had fun having snowball fights. Even Runi joined in. Room 2 was really lucky one of their dads brought 3 huge bags full of snow in and they played around. Check out the photos.

Haka Powhiri

On Friday we had Kapa Haka with Matua Ash. The children have worked extremely hard on the Haka Powhiri. I was blown away with the effort they put in. What do you think?

Striving for Accuracy

Unfortunately there is no one for striving for accuracy this week as the boys need to work harder on their presentation. Lets see if they can worker harder to get there next week.

King of the Den

Orkut Scrap Toys

Mystery Reader

Today we had our very first Mystery Reader. It was Mr Petersen! He read us a story he wrote himself. It was about his motorbike crash. We loved the expression he put into the story and the acting we got do to. What a great start to our mystery readers.




Here is a video of the boys acting like Phantom Road snaking slowly.

I wonder who it will be next week. Thanks Mrs Roberston for the great idea.

Our Celebration

Today we celebrated our blog reaching 10,000 blog hits. We celebrated with junk food. We played the chocolate game, pebble game and had cake. It was so much fun.

Cross Country Practice

This week we started Cross Country Practice. Every Tuesday and Thursday we go out and run around the block and Domain. It is challenging but good practice.

Buddy Art

Today we went to Buddy Art for the first time this term. We are helping them create a collage of the first letter of their name.

Our Visitor

Today we had a visitor in our class for the whole morning. His name is John and he comes from China. He was interested to see how we teach and learn English. We enjoyed having him in our class.

We did it!!!

Can you believe it! It's finally happened... we have all been waiting for this... 10,000 blog hits. Way to go everyone. This shows that there are lots of people out there reading our blog.



We try really hard to keep it updated and interesting for people to read, so I think we deserve a celebration. What should we do??

Special Guest

Today we had a special guest in senior assembly Simon Watson. He is a New Zealand number 1 rower. He came to school to share with us what has helped him to be successful. He also brought in his oar, shirts and a medal he has won. We all had a turn at holding his oar. He gave us lots of great advice and taught us about setting goals. Simon said the best thing to do is give everything a go, stay positive and learn from our experiences. We really enjoyed having Simon come in.

Duffy Book Winner

Congratulations Caleb

Our New Classmate

Kingi is away in Scottland with Mr Burgess at the moment but he made friends with Runi while he was Thailand, so he invited him back to class. He has been having fun hanging around and checking everyone out.

Striving for accuracy

Tarron put a lot of effort into the quality and content of his work this week. He was very proud of his achievements in spelling.

King of the Den

Create Your Custom Message

Chop Sticks

Today the boys were given there last present, chop sticks. They had a challenge to eat rice with their chop sticks. Some were great, some not so much. After a lot of rice being dropped the boys gave fruit a go. They were much more successful at that.

Ultranet Title Page

Carlton School is in the process of setting up ultranet an online learning management system. Isaiah worked hard to design a home page for our class. What do you think?

Chinese Students

Today we had some exchange students from High School come and visit us. They come from China. They taught us lots of things in Chinese like how to count, say good morning and write our names.

Presents from Thailand

Over the past couple of days the boys have had fun playing with some presents they got from Thailand. Doesn't it look like fun.