Jaxon's Story

I am moving to new a house. I will have built in draws in my bedroom. The colour will be blue. The house will have two lounges. They will be big. It will have a sandpit. We get free couches because my mum asked the people if we could have them.

Milk in Schools Carton Folding Race

We have had milk in our school for just over a week so we thought it was about time we had a race to see who can fold their milk cartoons the fastest. Mrs Larsen soon realised to check the cartoons at the end of the race to make sure they were folded correctly, some people were so worried about finishing first they didn't fold it correctly. Check out how we got on. I wonder if anyone is ever going to beat Kahu.

Gourd Project

Yesterday Margie from the museum came to talk to our class about Gourds and how to plant them. Our class is taking part in the Gourd project.

We learnt all about Gourds when we went to te museum to learn about Puanga. Gourd was the first cultivated plant grown in New Zealand. Gourds were used for things like water containers or storing food.

Go to the Gourd Project blog to learn more. Gourd Project Blog

Disco

Last week was the senior school disco. What a crazy night that was!

Interschool Cross Country

Last week a group of students went to Aranui School to take part in the interschool cross country. They all ran really well and did our school proud!

Supermarket Visit

Today we went to the supermarket to practice our label reading skills. We split into groups of 4. We went all around the supermarket reading lots of different food labels. Towards the end we went into the fruit and vege section to see how many different coloured fruit and veg we could find. After our session on the way out, the kind people at New World gave everyone a lunch box and our class a $60 voucher to spend on a healthy lunch. Thanks New World and Nova!

Gymnastics - Session Three

Today we went to the gym for our third session. This time we focused on keeping our bodies tight when completing gymnastics moves. We also spent some time learning how to do a hand stand and head stand. We all got to have some time rotating around the equipment to practice our new skills. We were really lucky because again at the end our instructor gave us 10 minutes free time on the equipment. Most of us went straight to the pit and started to have a foam fight. We all tried really hard to push Mrs Larsen in but she was just to strong for us. Maybe next time! At the very end of the session we were shown how to make a human pyramid. We had to have a few goes at it but we got it in the end.

Food For Thought

Today Nova from the Food For Thought programme, came to our class to share some more information with us that would be useful for our inquiry. We learnt some new things like its okay to have a scoop of vanilla ice cream as long as you don't add anything to it and the correct serving size of meat, chicken and fish. Nova is coming back tomorrow to share some more information and do some more work with us on food labels.

Mathex

Last night 3 very clever people from Room 15 went to WIS to represent our school for Mathex. They were all pretty nervous and not surprised the questions were challenging! Congratulations boys you worked hard and did our school proud.

Milk in Schools

Today we were all very excited! It was the first day we received milk. We now get milk every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. We all really enjoyed tasting it for the first time. We can't wait to have some more.

Cross Country

On Tuesday afternoon we had our school Cross Country. This year it was on the school grounds. We ran around the fields, up and down banks and even over jumps. All of the boys tried very hard and now we have 4 going to Aranui representing our school.

Gymnastics - Session Two

Today we went back to the Wanganui Boys and Girls Gym Club for our second session. Today we focused on forward rolls. We soon learnt if you don't keep your arms straight you roll wonky! Also if you don't curve you back and roll, you can get a very sore back after a while from smacking the ground. We enjoyed jumping over the ropes for our warm up and playing with the parachute for our cool down.

Student Blogging Challenge

Well its that time of year again, Student Blogging Challenge time. http://studentchallenge.edublogs.org/ Over the next 10 weeks all of the senior students at Carlton School will be taking part. Each week they will be completing a challenge a putting it on their blog. So make sure you check out what they get up to. You can find links to the boys blogs down the side.

Mouse

About a week ago Mr Waite brought in a pet mouse to share with us. It belongs to his daughter. They named the mouse Ella Rose. Ella Rose loves to run around her wheel. Se could go for ours. We were really lucky because Mr Waite took her out of the cage so we could all pat her. We made sure he didn't go near Mrs Larsen though because she is a big chicken. Thanks Mr Waite for sharing your mouse!

Angry Birds

Today for writing we watched an angry birds trailer on YouTube. While we were watching the video we thought about lots of different verbs, verbs we could hear, verbs we could see etc. We used these verbs to create a wordle on a new website http://www.abcya.com/word_clouds.htm

Gymnastics

Today we went to the Wanganui Boys and Girls Gym Club for our first gym session. We enjoyed a few games of Seaweed for a warm up. We then practiced jumping and landing correctly. After that we were able to go on all of the equipment. we loved jumping on the tramp, the air track and into the foam pit. We were really lucky because we got 10 minutes free time at the end. We had a great time.

Duffy Theatre

Today the whole school went to the hall to watch the Duffy Show. It was funny I liked when they were having the word battle. It was the funniest thing I thought that was in the Duffy Show. I was laughing hard out because it was super funny when they were rhyming and the person that was challenging them was sneezing when they were rhyming. Some children got given books at the end for being good readers. I am looking forward to seeing the next Duffy Show. I think Duffy Books in homes is great.
By Charlie

Weekly Challenge

In class we have been learning all about expositions. We are currently working on answering the question "Should we behave like swine, are manners important when we dine?" Before we started to write we discussed some of the rules we have. One rules that lots of people have is, you are not allowed to put your elbows on the table. But why? No one knew why. So that is our challenge...

Why are we not allowed to put our elbows on the table when we are eating?

Duffy Book Winners

Congratulations Max and Ashton. Keep up the good work!

Blogging King

Well this week it was easy to choose. I started off by eliminating any blog that had draft posts. That left me with only 5 blogs to choose from. So I then viewed every blog to see which blog looked good. Straight away 3 were out of the running because I could see simple mistakes. It came down to Costello and Zhyon. But the winner was....

Don't give up Zhyon. You might get it next week.

King of The Den

Skyping Nathan

Nathan is so lucky. He has spent the last 5 weeks flying around the world. He has been to America, London Paris and lots more places. Now he is in Thailand. Check out his blog if you want to read more about his adventures. We have been able to Skype Nathan while he has been overseas. We found out yesterday that he has held a baby tiger, patted an adult one and had scorpions put on him. Crazy!

Earthquake!

Today we had a very interesting end to our school day. We were all busy working away and the tables started to wobble. Shortly after we realised it was an earthquake. We all quickly jumped under the tables and made turtle shells. We were so surprised at how long it lasted. Also how much our lights and artwork swayed. We asked Mrs Larsen if she could get a video of the lights for us. Luckily she had her phone with her under the door frame and was able to. Can you see the lights and artwork swaying? If you listen carefully you can even hear the door frame I was standing under squeaking.

 

Assembly

Last week at assembly we had a special visitor. Chris from Life Education cam to talk to us and he brought Harold with him. Harold enjoyed being silly with Chris, some lucky people were even able to give Harold a big hug, including Mr Petersen! We learnt that Harold is a good dancer. He did a little Gangnam Style for us. Very cool!

Harold

We were so lucky. This week the Life Education bus is at out school. So that means we get to see Harold. Today was our fist day in the bus. We were very excited. We got to meet Tam and Harold. We needed to help Harold with his homework so we learnt all about the different body systems and the liver. We loved watching the lights change and listening to Harold's jokes. We can't wait to go back next week.

King of the Den

Well it has been a while since we have had a King of the Den. The boys have been asking so here we go.
Joshua is always hard working. He is very sensible and always someone everyone can rely on. Keep it up Joshua.

Introducing Max!

Hi my name is Max. I spent the day Carlton School, I think it was fun because I knew lots of people here. We played touch and stuff, It was so fun.  I had a great time. I think I might start here on Monday. I like doing all my work on laptops and I like sitting in the tree and the couch. I made lots of friends in one day I had a great day, I liked playing sports with Elazaey and Cylis. I liked the show it was really funny but I nearly fell asleep because it was very warm in there. What a great day!

Chinese Visitors

Yesterday we had some Chinese student from WHS come and visit us. They are on an exchange for Term 3. We showed them some Jump Jam moves, then we did the haka for them. I think we blew them away. After that we went back to class, found a buddy and asked them to show us how to write our names in Chinese. We discovered that it is very very hard! I think we are going to need lots of practice. After that we showed them our blog and all the videos. They really enjoyed seeing what we get up to. We also managed to get outside and have a game of four square and playground tag. It was heaps of fun spending time with them.

Mosston School

This afternoon we went to Mosston school to visit Mrs Roberston's class. They heard we were experts at making Co2 cars so wanted our help. Kahu and Joshua worked really hard to make a presentation for them. We all were given a buddy, we worked together to help them design their own Co2 car. We really enjoyed working with Room 4 and can't wait to work with them again. Thanks for having us Mosston, it was heaps of fun.

Our Present!

Today Joshua and Kahu waked in with a present from Mr Petersen, a chrysalis. He found it and thought we might like to have it in the class and see what happens. Kahu thinks there is a white butterfly inside, what do you think?

Below is a you Tube clip to show the life cycle from Caterpillar to Butterfly. Very interesting!

Our New HOM

Today we started our new Habit of Mind. This time I didn't tell the boys what it was. Their goal was to try and figure what habit we are focusing on from the activity we did.

Today they all were given part of a picture to colour in. However, they didn't know what the picture was. After they had finished we glued all the pieces together and had a look at what we made. We compared it to the original art work.

Here is what we created.

Here is Van Gogh's version.

So what Habit of Mind do you think we were focusing on?

Welcome Back!

Well this term is going to be another busy one. I hope you are all ready for lots of learning!

Here is a Wordle to show some of the things we are doing this term.