Geometry

This term for maths we are learning about Geometry. We started off by going over what 2D shapes we know and learning a few more we weren't aware of like a trapezium and a parallelogram. The boys used there knowledge to create a shape picture.

Keylen

 TePaerangi

 Brandin

Holiday Art

On the first day back the boys created a piece of art, using sharpie and dye, to show what they did in the holidays. They look great!

Costello

 TeWaoriki

 Cole

Welcome Back!

Welcome back everyone. We have now fully updated our blog with all the lost posts and will be back in action for the rest of the term.

We have an extremely busy term. Lots will be happening so watch this space to see what we get up to.

Food For Thought

A couple of weeks ago we had a visit from Nova who is a food nutritionist. She came to talk to us about eating healthy foods. When she first came into our class she drew up a food pyramid  and then we had to figure out what foods we thought went in which part of the pyramid. Then the next time she came we each got a packet either rice snaps, coco snaps and wheat biscuits and we had to read out how much fat, sugar, energy, sodium and also how much dietary fibre the each had in them. We also went down to New World and were given an activity sheet to fill in. We had to choose a treat food or a every day food. It was fantastic.

Ms O'Connor's Milk Experiment

A few weeks ago Ms O'Connor come to our class to do a milk experiment with the class. We were in 4 groups and we had a bowl each. We filled the milk up to half way. There was four food colourings, we were only allowed three different colours. After that we put 1 food coloring in at a time. When we had put the last food coloring in we put the dish washing liquid onto one of the food colourings. It made little bubbles and swirled around. It was fun as.

Closing Ceremony

On Monday it was the Carlton School Olympics Closing Ceremony, that's when they hand out the medals to the people that got a gold, and for the people with second and third place you got a ribbon and a certificate. I got a gold in sprints because I am super fast and in vortex, I picked up a second place, it was just too hard to beat Cole because he has a strong arm. The gold medals were  made out of  wood and they were spray painted gold, on the front they said Carlton School Olympic Champion.
There was a special guest that came to hand out the gold medals, she was an Olympic athlete. Her name was Phillipa Baker-Hogan. She placed fourth in the wom'n;s double skulls rowing final just one place away from a bronze. That was in 1992. She also went to the Olympics in 1996 and got 6th in the womans double sculls final.
Over all I think every body did their best and I felt proud because I got a gold and silver medal.
All Room 15 did pretty well. Check out the winners.
By Keylen

Philippa Baker-Hogan

A few weeks ago we searched some information about Philippa Baker-Hogan because she was going to present the gold medals at the Carlton School Olympics, here are some of the facts we found out. She had a walkway named after her in Wanganui, she is now a member of the Wanganui District Council, she has won 47 rowing world titles and was the first female rower in NZ to get a world title, she used to be a rower in the Olympics and just missed a bronze coming 4th. She has won quite a few medals in women's lightweight singles and women's double sculls.

Olympics Heats And Finals

Last term on Monday it was the start of the Carlton School Olympics. There was 12 sports that we had to go around and try in our houses. We had to find the person that was the best at each one of those sports and they would go through to the final. On Monday we did 2 events. Then on Tuesday we had to do 5 events. But on Wednesday it was to wet to carry on so on Thursday we had to do another 5 events. It was very hard on Thursday because I got a pulled hamstring which was so sore that I had to go home. Then finally on Friday it was the finals. You could only go into the finals for three events. I won at soccer dribbling, hockey dribbling and I came second for long distance. It was an awesome week but a sore one at times but I think that it was worth it.
By Jake

Supermarket Visit

A few weeks ago we went to the supermarket with Nova for label reading. First we walked to New World and met Nova there. Secondly Nova talked to us and told us what we were to do and gave us a sheet. We found out what was healthy and what wasn't healthy. We read the labels on the back and found out important information about which food is healthy. After that we learnt about the different colour fruit groups. When we were done Nova said well done then we walked out to the bus and went back to school.   

Palmerston Trip

Last term Room's 3, 4, 5, 6 and 15 went to Palmerston. When we were there we went to the Regent Theatre to watch a show called Magnolia Street. The show was about a lady who meets a boy. The old lady teaches him to not be such an idiot. After that we went to the Esplanade to have lunch and to have a run around. When lunch was up we went to the Lido Aquatic Center to have a swim and play on the hydroslide. Once we had done that we packed up and went home.

Totara House Meeting

On Tuesday Week Eight, Totara had a house meeting about our house anthem and flag at the Carlton School Olympics. People from each house could put in a suggestion for an anthem and a flag. Totara's anthem was Queen "We are the champions" and our flag said Totara in the middle and had a koru at the top saying in the middle we are the champions. All of Totara had to learn the song of by heart and say that they will try their best.

By Isaiah

WIS Production

Yesterday the year 5 and 6's all piled into buses and made their way to the Opera House. We were really lucky because we were invited to go see their production "The Wiz". They told the story of the Wizard of Oz with a few modern day twists. We all loved it!

Duffy Assembly

Today we had a Duffy Assembly. Our role model was Mr Ngapo. Mr Ngapo used to be the principal at Aramoho School. We learnt he did lots of studying at University to help become the best teacher/prinicpal he could be. Mr Ngapo worked so hard he received a Queen's Service Medal for his services to education. We enjoyed Mr Ngapo's stories and we loved our books.

Perseverance Cup

Wahoo Tarron! Well done for always working so hard and earning the perseverance cup. You deserve it! You are a great role model for the school. You work so hard and deserve to be recognised for it.

Duffy Book Winners

Congratulations Harry and Makail. They were the lucky winners of a Duffy book at assembly on Friday.

Duffy Theatre

Last week we had Duffy Theatre come to school. It was about the best book in the world. It was funny because Duffy had a brother Scruffy and they were looking through the garage sale box, as they looked through the box they found tools had played with them. Then Duffy found the best book in the world and Scuffy said don't read that book, books are dumb. But Duffy read the book and it came alive and the book took Duffy on a adventure and showed him all the people that have owned the book and what they done with the book. At the end Scruffy ripped the book and started chasing the book around. Duffy asked what was wrong, Scruffy said he couldn't read so Duffy read the book to Scuffy and that was the end of the show. It was great!

 

Mathex

A few weeks ago my Mathex team went to Mathex, I was really nervous and so was the rest of my team. In my team was Blake, Mikayla, Natalie and me. We walked into the hall of Wanganui Intermediate and there were lots of people in the grandstands, there was at least 20 schools we went up against. When Mathex started we all started to figure out the questions really quickly and we worked together as a team. We only had 20 minutes to get through 20 questions and the clock stops for the first team to get all 20 right, The team that stopped the clock was Fordell Primary school. We had all tried our best and guess what? We came third!!! We were all super excited and we went up to receive our bronze certificates. We were all really happy because it was the first time Carlton School had ever got a placing at Mathex. My mum said I might be able to get it framed.

By Kahu

Well I'm Confused!

I went onto our blog to publish a few of our draft posts and guess what I discovered. I couldn't believe my eyes! All of our post between now and August the 13th were gone. Yes you read correctly GONE! How did that happen? Panic set in. All that hard work gone!

So...I did a lot of searching and managed to find some old post. I have copied and pasted them below.

Unfortunately all of our draft posts are gone! I'm not clever enough to work out how to get those back. So over the next few days we will try to restore our blog and rewrite some of our latest interesting posts.

Published Posts that were deleted!

Spelling - Week 9

by Room 15 Carlton School

Whero
Kakariki
Kahurangi
Kowhai

Our Special Visitor

by Room 15 Carlton School

Today Andrew Little one of the Labour MP's came to our school. First we welcomed him into our school with a Haka Powhiri. After the haka he let us ask him some questions about his life. After we asked him some questions we stood up and watched him leave the hall. When we got back to class he came in and looked around the class and asked us some questions about the class.

Mitchell's Weekly Reflection

by Room 15 Carlton School

What: On Monday Ms O’Connor came to our class and talked about our school Moto. She asked us questions about our Carlton school hands on learning… there are 6 hands because we have year 1-6 and the hands go bigger.

On Tuesday our class went to the gym to learn how to do cartwheels and our coach was grumpy. It was stink because we didn’t get free time like other classes… I think we don’t get it because we are a year 5-6 and we are not little kids.
On Wednesday the crocodiles were with Mrs Larsen for reading and we read ‘The Dragons Egg’. The characters are Nick, Karl, Rebecca and mum. Nick found an egg and told Nick and Rebecca.

So What: I learnt how to do P.V.A prints and how to make a warm fuzzy for our class rules.

Now What: My goal for next week is to continue behaving how I have been this week so I can make Ms Larsen even happier.

Our new HOM

by Room 15 Carlton School

A couple of weeks ago we learnt about our new HOM we are focusing on, Gathering Data through all Senses

We created a brainstorm to show our first thoughts about the Habit.

Next we wrote down a favourite memory about last Christmas. We discovered a lots of us use our touch sense and we need to start thinking about all the other senses when learning.

We are now working on writing senses poems. Watch this space to see how they turn out.

Our New Class Member

by Room 15 Carlton School

Today we were all really excited because we have a new member in Room 15, Mitchell. We are sure he is going to fit right in!

Spelling - Week 7

by Room 15 Carlton School

Whero
Kakariki
Kahurangi
Kowhai

Buddy Art

by Room 15 Carlton School

Today we went to Room 9 for buddy time. Instead of doing I.T we did some art together. We helped our buddies sponge a background for the bugs we are going to help them print make. Everyone in Room 15 was great at being the teacher. They all clearly explained what to do and did not try to take over. Well done!

Spelling - Week 6

by Room 15 Carlton School

Whero
Kakariki
Kahurangi
Kowhai

Duffy Book Winners

by Room 15 Carlton School

Congratulations Tarron and Justin!

Wacky Hair Day

by Room 15 Carlton School

Today we had bad hair day to raise money for Cystic Fibrosis. We raised a lot of money and had lots of fun too.

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Watch this to learn more about Cystic Fibrosis.

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Print Making

by Room 15 Carlton School

Today we did some more print making. this time we used the rollers and ink. We all had to find some leaves. then we came back and inked them up and created leaf prints. We created a leaf collage. They are looking pretty good.

Guess Who's Back!

by Room 15 Carlton School

We all got so excited because look who's back. Kingi! We cant wait to read all about his travels in Germany.

Weekly Challenge

by Room 15 Carlton School

Here it is..

Why is Valerie Adams now a London 2012 Olympic gold medalist? Remember the more information you supply the better your chance of winning.

Congratulations Tarron for winning last weeks challenge. Don't forget to come and collect your prize!

That's a Wrap!

by Room 15 Carlton School

After many nights staying up late, the Olympics have come to a close. Wasn't it great!

Closing Ceremony Slideshow

Closing ceremony video