Player of the Day

Well done Caleb. He had a fantastic first game of the season and received a player of the day certificate.

Caption This

Hi Quad Bloggers. We would like to have a little competition. Below is a picture. We would like you to think of a caption for the picture. Leave your caption as a comment. Mr Petersen our principal will be the judge. We will announce the person who came up with the best caption on our blog. So get thinking!

Quad Bloggers, we have some questions for you...

Wow, we were so overwhelmed with the amount of comments left. Thanks so much.

A few people asked some questions so here goes.
We are Yr 5/6 (age 9/10) and all boys! Which is rare. We are one of only a few all boys class in a primary school in all of New Zealand.
The bugs in the photo are our 2D bugs we are still working on our 3D, they will be finished very soon. We are adding eyes and legs now. We will put a photo up of them shortly.
For P.E at the moment we are learning ball skills. We are learning to catch, pass, throw, and hit a ball correctly in lots of different situations. We are lucky to have the Intermediate school teach us some of these skills.
The supervised game we were playing is T.Ball its just like softball but instead of someone throwing the ball it sits on the tee. Do you have T.Ball at your school?

Catching the Reading Bug

Since we started back at school we have been catching the reading bug. We started off by making 2D reading bugs. Here are some of them. The boys are currently working on their 3D bugs for us to display around the class and creating a new book cover for their favourite book.

Habits of Mind

Today we starting learning about our new habit 'Thinking about thinking'. We made a brainstorm about WHAT IS THINKING? Here is what we thought.

Music and P.E

Today we went to Rutherford Junior High for music and P.E lessons. We are so lucky. We get to go to Rutherford every Monday morning and their specialist teachers work with us. It was great today. For P.E we focused on passing and throwing and learnt how they are different. For music we had a go at playing the guitar and keyboard. It was a great morning.

Welcome Quad Bloggers!

We thought we would start off the week by introducing ourselves, showing you around our school and telling you about some of the things we get up to.

HeHa Round the Bridges Race

Today 8 people from Carlton, well 9 including Ms Whitwell, took part in the HeHa Round the Bridges Race. They all tried extremely hard and ran a good race. Tarron and Isaiah were faster than Ms Whitwell! Pretty good if you ask me.

Duffy Book Winner!

Well done Isaiah! Enjoy the book.

Supervised Game

Every lunch time we have a supervised game. The teachers choose a fun game for us to play. They encourage us to play fair and have fun. Today it was T.Ball. We have some excellent players in our school!

Buddy Spelling

Every Friday after morning tea the boys go to Room 3 for buddy spelling. We test them on their weekly spelling words. We are lucky to have so many buddies around the school.

Buddy Class

Today we went to Room 9 to say hello to our buddy class. We hadn't seen them for a while so we thought it would be nice to talk about our holidays then read a few stories together. When we arrived we saw that Room 9 had a makeover. They are called H2O EXTREME. They have a huge blow up stingray and killer whale hanging from the ceiling. There is lots of water stuff everywhere. They even have an umbrella with blow up rings underneath to sit on. What a great time!

Froggy Arrives!

 Today was our first day back. We were so excited to see Froggy from Germany was waiting for us. He came with a journal so we can record what he gets up to, some postcards showing where he is from, a little book his class made to tell us all about them and some yummy lollies from Germany. We are so excited that he is spending the rest of the term with us. We cant wait to show him around. He has already met new friends around school, taken part in Kapa Haka, met our buddy class and helped us on the computers. He is going to fit in well.

Welcome Back

Back to school tomorrow!!

Well I hope everyone had a great holiday. I have been busy planning an exciting term for us. Have a look at the wordle to get a sneak peek at what we are up to.

Meet Isaiah Our New Teacher

This afternoon Isaiah was the teacher. He was in charge of teaching maths. We have been focusing on graphs so he showed the class how to make a graph in Excel. Firstly he decided what we were going to gather information on, Room 15's favourite colours. We gathered the data as a class, then it was Isaiahs turn. He showed the class step by step how to make a graph. Once he showed them the basics he showed them a few more advanced things that can be done, then he gave them an opportunity to experiment.
Isaiah felt he did a good job because all the boys listened well to him and he knew what he was talking about which made it easier. Isaiah recognised the few challenges he did face. A few boys has issues with their graphs and he was unsure how to fix it. I think he was a great teacher. Boys what do you think?



Here are some of the graphs they made.

Joshua

Costello

Harry

Our Special Guest

On Wednesday Ms O’Connor’s sister Lyn came to school to tell us some things about her former job. She could help us with our inquiry on rules, laws and consequences because she was a prison officer. Some of the things that she told us were that you got cold porridge for breakfast and marmite sandwiches for lunch. the criminal’s family could buy them a T.V to watch but only if they are good. She also told us that the closest to luxury in a prison is getting put in a different cell that looks like a normal room. You can cook your own meals and go to work. For an average job you earn 6 dollars and forty cents a week!
By Kahu

Our Avatars

Today we finally had a chance to make our avatars. We used www.weeworld.com. What do you think? Do they look like us?

Explore Parliament

Today I learnt about a new website called explore Parliament. We had to click on the top game, your the Prime Minister of Zilagoye and to many people are crashing the magic carpets. It is your job to make a law about magic carpet riding. In the game my name was Pinwick Lollibye. I thought that the game was exciting.

By Isaiah

Spelling - Week 9

Whero - List Six

Kakariki - List Six

Kahurangi - List Six

Kowhai - List Six

Student Blogging Challenge

This week for the student blogging challenge you get a chance to catch up on any work not completed yet.

1. Is your ‘About me’ page completed and is there a link to it on sidebar or in header?

2. Have you added links to student and class blogs on your sidebar?

3. Have you made sure your blog looks good? Do you pictures, widgets fit? Have used used a font that is easy to read?

4. Have you finished your glog on commenting. Embed your glog into your blog.

5. Do you have any draft posts? Complete them, get them edited and publish them.

6. Create your avatar and upload your avatar as your profile picture.

If you have finished these activities have a go at this, research a famous woman in the world. Write a short biography including reasons you consider her famous.

Give Hockey A Go Programme

Today we were really lucky to have a hockey expert come in and work with our class. We had a blast!

Duffy Assembly

Today we had a Role Model Duffy Assembly. We had Henara O'Keefe come to our school and share with us how he loves reading. He entertained us with a great song and told us some fantastic stories. We really enjoyed having Henare at our school.







We loved getting our new books, we didn't want to put them down.

Marae Visit

On Thursday we went to Putiki Marae. We were there for the whole day. We were split into 4 groups and shown lots of new exciting things. Some people made and ate fired bread, we learnt lots of new games like Ki O Rahi and some lucky people even went out onto the river in a waka. It was an awesome day!



The boys doing the Haka

Merit Certificate Winner

Congratulations Brandin. You really impressed Ms Whitwell on the Marae trip. You did our class proud!

Duffy Book Winners

Way to go Tyson and TePaerangi. Keep up all the good work.

Cooking Dinner!

Check out the slideshow of all the people who helped someone cook dinner last week. Doesn't it all look yummy. You are all great cooks.

Spelling - Week 7

Whero - List Five

Kakariki - List Five

Kahurangi - List Five

Kowhai - List Five

Student Blogging Challenge - Week 2

This week you are going to focus on the following...

Does your blog look good? Have you chosen fonts, colours that are easy to read? Do you have pictures, widgets that don't fit within the section? Spend time making your blog look good.

Have a look at other student and class blogs taking part in the student blogging challenge and leave meaningful comments.

Create a post about where you live. Make sure it is interesting for the reader and they can learn something from it.

Create an avatar, write a post about your avatar

Our Plan

Today we planned our inquiry and made a list of people who can help us make our own class treaty.

Mr Petersen
We want to interview Mr Petersen and ask him things like, who made our school rules, why do we have the rules we have, how did you decide the consequences and does he have any suggestions for what he feels will be important in our class treaty.

Mayor of Wanganui - Council Chambers
We want to talk to the Mayor and visit the council chambers and ask them things like, what is there job and do you help make the laws in New Zealand.

Police Station
We want to visit the police station to learn about the role of the police, what their job involves and how do they enforce the laws.

Parliament
We want to visit Parliament to learn things like how laws are made, how do they decide on new laws and can you change laws.

The boys will be spending the next few days emailing and talking to the people/places above and start arranging our visits. It looks like we are going to be a busy class.

Inquiry

Today we read a story called 'The Tree Hut Treaty'.



After reading this story and discussing the Treaty of Waitangi some more, we decided it would be a great idea to make a treaty for our class after discovering our class rules weren't so great.

Everyone agreed that was a good idea. We also discussed who could sign our treaty with us or oversee us signing the treaty. Below is the list of people we came up with.
Mr Petersen
Our teachers
Mayor of Wanganui
Someone in Parliament, maybe our local MP
and of course ... US!

Spelling - Week 6

Whero - List Four

Kakariki - List Four

Kahurangi - List Four

Kowhai - List Four

King of the Den

Hi 5 Winner

Today was TeWaoriki's lucky day. He also won a prize for being a great office monitor.

Duffy Book Winners

Congratulations to our 2 winners, VJ and TeWaoriki. Keep up the hard work.

Our Super Heros

Today for Hero Day we had a go making our own super hero's on cpbherofactory.com.
It was very interesting to see all the different characters they came up with. here are some.

Tyson


Josh


Anaru

School Spirit Day

Today we had a School Spirit Day, it was Hero Day. We all came dressed up as someone we thought was our hero. They boys did a fantastic job! They were so good that Mr Petersen announced in assembly that we were the best class. He gave everyone a Hi 5 card. Isn't that cool. We had a change to parade our outfits. It was great seeing everyone else and the effort that was put in, especially the teachers! It was so much fun dressing up for the day. I can't wait for the next one. I wonder what it will be, any suggestions?

School Spirit Day on PhotoPeach

Purple Cake Day!

Today was Purple Cake Day. Purple Cake day is a day to celebrate the children in our lives! This day encourages us to learn about children globally and fundraise for those in need. This year to focus was on Nepal. The money raised on Purple Cake Day is used to delivery quality education opportunities. This brings hope, education and real change to children living in poverty and hardship.

To celebrate Purple Cake Day we wore purple. As you can imagine the boys had trouble doing this and only a few were successful in finding purple outfits in their wardrobes. We also had a chance to buy purple cupcakes which were delicious. We also had a cardboard purple cupcake which we put the donated coins on.

In class we had a Purple Cake Day Celebration with Room 9. We did some finger painting with purple paint and ate some cupcakes. It was a great day!

Purple Cake Day! on PhotoPeach