Week One Challenge

Each week I will post a challenge onto our blog. The first person to leave a comment with the correct answer wins the prize. Anyone can answer the challenge (not just our class), so be in quick.

This weeks challenge links to the science experiment the Yr 5's did.

Lady Bug Note Generators

Gooey Mess!

This morning all the Year 5's from Room 6 came to Room 14 to do a gooey science experiment. First we put newspaper down on the floor. Then we got a board and put it on the paper. Next we got a bowl and put two cups of cornflour in the bowl. After that we got a cup of water and mixed it in. Mrs McAvoy came around with green food colouring. We mixed it all up. We created....well we really don't know what we created. It was like a liquid, it moved around and dripped out of our hands. But when we punched it, it was solid. How strange! All we do know is that is was a lot of fun and very messy.

Here is the recipe if you want to make some at home.

2 cups of cornflour
1 cup of water
A few drops of food colouring

Put all the ingredients into a bowl. Mix it together slowly and then you are done. When you have finished experimenting wash your hands etc in a bucket of warm soapy water and then tip the water on the grass. The gooey mixture will block your drain. Any mess of tables can just be wiped up. If you spill some on the floor, it's okay wait for it to dry, and it vacuums right up. Amazing stuff!

Try some of the things we did...
Touch it
Squeeze it
How does it feel?
Put your fingers slowly into it, what happens?
Now punch it hard, what happens?

What's coming up?

Persisting Display

Last term we focused on Persisting which is a habit of mind. The students wrote down all the things they thought persisting meant and we created a wordle. They then made a poster. They also each thought of a time when they used the habit persisting and wrote a story about it. Here is the display I made with all of their work.

This Term we are focusing on managing impulsivity. A habit we all need. Watch this space to see what we get up to.

Mothball's Holiday

Mothball has been very busy exploring New Zealand. He went up to Mt Maunganui for a holiday. He also went to Taupo, Ohope, and Te Puke. While he was there he met Mrs Larsen's aunty. After his holiday up north Mothball went to Wellington with Mrs Lasren to explore the capital and go see the Wearable Arts Show. Unfortunately the weather wasn't to good for sight seeing. But he did get to see the show. It was amazing. Check out all the place he explored.

Kingi's U.S Trip

Just letting you know that Kingi has arrived safely back in Australia after his trip to the U.S. He had a great time!

Fun Day Out

To celebrate such a great term Room 14 and Room 1 went to the Splash Center on Friday for the whole morning. We then came back and watched a movie called Jumanji. What a great way to end the term!

Abstract Castles

Our art design topic this term is Castles. To start off our topic we looked at Paul Klee's abstract castle.

We thought we could create our own. I think they look great.

Big storm on Saturday

On Saturday there was a huge storm in Wanganui. It was really scary at the start. There was hail, thunder, lightening and heavy rain. The lightening hit the bottom of my fence and it came flying off. Even at school there are a lot of trees fallen over and branches broken. At Mrs Larsen's house there was a huge tree that went into there driveway from their next door neighbours.
By TeKaha

Production Practice

This week and last week we have been doing full out production practices. At pratice we have to take all of our work for the day so we have something to do in our spare time. Our first show is on Wednesday at 1:30 and the after school shows on Wednesdxay and Thursday start at 6:00, so we are getting really excited to perform on Wednesday. Hopefully we get a big crowd.

Drawing Castles

For art this term our topic is design. We have spent the last week drawing castles in 3D. Check out this video. It guides you step by step over what we have been doing in class.
TeacherTube Videos - Draw A Castle 3D Step By Step

Chance Card Winner

Campbell did it again. Way to go Campbell!

Duffy Book Winner

Congratulations Shannon. You have worked really hard this week and deserve that book. Keep it up!

Loud Shirt Day

Today it was loud shirt day. Everyone was encouraged to wear their loudest shirt and make a donation to support the hearing impaired. I think we did a pretty good job and we were definitely loud. Congratulations Kobi for having the loudest shirt in Room 14, he got a cool prize from Mr Petersen.

Smart Sharks lend a helping hand

For a few weeks now Room 1's Smart Sharks have been collecting lots of items that would be useful to people in Christchurch. They made contact with a school down in Christchurch and asked if they would like to be the recipients of the goodies. The Smart Sharks arranged the Army to take the items down for them. Check out what they donated good job Room 1.

Triangles Maths Group

The triangles maths group has been working really hard on their learning intention, to find a fraction of a set using multiplication and division. I have been learning to use voicethread so we worked togther to create a voice thread to show they have mastered there walt. Aren't they clever!

Rutherford

Today the Year 6's went back to Rutherford for their last YAP day this term. A lot of students didn't get to go because they had production practice or the netball tournament. I decided to go to Rutherford as well to get some photos and videos to show what they get up to. Treyzhan programmed his robot to move. Joshua did lots of different types of printmaking, Trayven had fun doing gymnastics and TeKaha worked on his Kapa Haka performance. Other children from our school also had a go at cooking and 3 of our very clever students performed a song they learnt in band.

Year 5's

Today we went to Room 6 beacuse the Year 6's went to Rutherford. The teacher in Room 6 was Mr Hopkins. In Room 6 we sung some songs and wrote a story about earthquakes. We also played a game of Netball. Then it was morning tea. We had lots of fun in Room 6.
By Nathanael and Campbell

Carlton School Production

On the 22nd of September the school is doing a Production called I love the knight life. There is about 65 people in the production. The tickets cost $2. I think it will be cool. Here are a couple of photos of the rehearsals.
By Dean

Castles

Over the past few weeks our class has been making observational drawings of castles using pencil. First we had to draw the castle in our art books. Then we had to show Mrs Larsen before we could darw the castle on a bigger piece of paper. Once we had darwn the castle we had to add details and shading. When our castle was finished Mrs Larsen cut around our castle and glued in onto a coloured piece of paper along with the castle we had observationally drawn.
By Pita

Persisting

We are becoming a habits of mind school. So we have been looking closely at the habit, Persisting. We created a wordle with all the things we thought persisting means.

After that Mrs Larsen got us to work in groups to design a poster about Persisting. We then shared our posters and said what we liked best about the posters. A group of boys then used these ideas to create a poster for our class. This is our poster. What do you think?

Word Activity

For the past few weeks Room 14's word activity is to use similes. We had to describe our someone in our family. It was very hard and we all liked it. Here is mine.

My Little Sister
Your eyes are brown like a tree.
You laugh is like a hyena.
You hands are little like a mouse.
Your hair is as black as the night sky.
Your mouth is as big as an elephant.
Your teeth are sharp like a tiger.

By William

Dean wins table bingo

On Monday Dean won table bingo with Mr Neilson. Dean won 3 cool fruits because he had two fat ladies 88. Two fat ladies was the last number Mr Neilson said. When Dean said bingo I was sad because I neaded 1 more number to win. It was click-ity-click 66. Dean was happy when he found out that he had won.
By TeKaha

Chance Card Winner

Congratulations Campbell. He was the lucky person who had his chance card pulled out at this weeks assembly. Keep up the great work!

New Blogs

Today some boys in Room 14 worked really hard to set up their own email and blog. They had an opportunity to change their blog background and text colour. I have added links to their blogs on ours. Check them out and tell them what you think.

Thanks Mr Petersen

We are really lucky. Mr Petersen kindly gave our class some extra laptops. Thanks so much we love them and I'm sure they will get lots of use.

We've reached 3000 blog hits so I decided to give our blog a bit of a makeover. What do you think?

Hero Factory

One day when i went on blog I saw a link to a website called Hero Factory. I made a hero. He is called Twin Rocket. We have put some hero's people made on the wall. They look great.
By Matthew

Room 12 Art

Today we went back to Room 12 to help them finish their art work. We finished adding materials for eyes etc to create a face. We think they look great, what do you think?

Jahzia

Yesterday Room 14 had Mr Neilson. We were playing a game of tables bingo. 20 numbers went by then Jahzia said BINGO!. "Yum I get 5 cool fruits" he said laughing.

High School Play

On Tuesday in week 6 we went to High School to watch their production High School Musical. When we got there we had to run around the field 2 time because they weren't ready to take us in. After 2 laps we had to line up in groups of 2 so we had a buddy. When we got inside there was already a lot of kids in there so we got separated into 2 groups so we could actually fit in there. When it started there was a lot of noise then it went down. At the end of the production everyone was talking about there favorite bit. Most people said it was the end when they kissed.
By Kobi

Mothball's Journey

Mothball has enjoyed his time here in New Zealand. He has been on lots of sleepovers and is making lots of new friends. Here is what Jonathan and Mothball got up to.

It was a scorching hot day as mothball and I bolted home, our legs quickly tired as they were flopping around like sausages.
We rushed home because the moment had finally arrived. Mothball and I were going to see "Step Up 3D".
First something more exciting, subway to kill the hunger pains! No one likes to eat popcorn, ice cream and coke on an empty stomach. Mothball and I had a meatball sub.
At the movies Mothball jumped up and down with a popcorn box on his head. He was so excited about seeing the movie. Mothball thought that the 3D glasses were extraordinary. It made the movie pop out like popcorn being popped. The songs and dancing were funky.
We loved it!

Spelling Homework

Click on the link to take you to Spelling City. It's a great site to help you learn this weeks spelling words.
Week Eight-Spelling List

Joshua's Lucky Day

Joshua was lucky to get 2 prizes in today's assembly. Firstly he was made player of the day for his soccer team. Secondly he got his chance card opulled out of the box. He choose a stress man. He thought it was a great prize and said I can borrow it next week in class :)