Brooklyn's Chicken

Brooklyn, from Room 6, brought her little chicken to visit Room 5. 

Room 5 Olympics

Because it was too wet to hold our School Olympics outside, Room 5 had some 'Mini Olympics' in the classroom. There were two countries represented- Brazil and New Zealand. The children had a lot of fun!

Throwing balls in the bin.

The Hurdles.

Basketball. (Thank you to Justine and Carmel for being great basketball Hoops!)

Bobby and Manaia getting ready to shoot.

Yes! Pacein scores a goal!

Jaxon getting ready to dribble the ball up to the goal.

Taylor scoring a goal!

Aarion taking aim for the hoop.

We also had a canoe slalom race, over-head ball and a relay event.

New Zealand won 3 gold medals and 3 silver medals. Brazil won 3 gold and 3 silver medals.

School Olympics Parade

On Friday 12 August, we were to hold a School Olympics Sports Day. However, after a week of beautiful sunshine, the weather changed and it was too wet to hold the Sports!!  It was disappointing, but we did manage  to have  the School Olympics Parade before the rain arrived. Each class representing a country, marched around the school playground area.  It was a lot of fun with children dressed in their adopted country's colours, waving flags.

Room 5 children, representing Brazil, before the parade.

Waiting to march in the parade, alongside South Africa (Room 7/8).

Room 10 (China) Room 13 (USA) and Room 14 (Great Britain) waiting to march.

Crazy Hats

As part of our learning about recycling, we used old hats and other materials to make a 'Crazy Hat'. First we had to decide what sort hat we would make, where we might wear it, and then design/draw what it might look like. We had a lot of fun making our hats. We shared materials and helped each other. When we had finished, we went to show Rooms 6, 7 and 8. They thought our hats looked great.

Recycling and Rubbish

Room 5 has been learning about what we do to dispose of our waste. We have been talking about how lots of things can be recycled. We went out to look at the big truck that collects the rubbish and recycling. A machine lifts up the recycling bins to empty them. We also looked at how the glass is sorted into different colours.

Cross country

We managed to hold the cross country today with all children competing well.

Congratulations to:

Alex 1st, 5 year boys. ( Sorry Alex, you were too fast for me to get a photo of you!)

Hunter 2nd, 5 year boys

Erin 1st, 5 year girls 

Manaia 2nd, 5 year girls.

Chicks!

On Tuesday, Erin and her Mum brought some chicks in to show us!  There were 7 chicks in a box with special chicken food. We patted them and some of us held them.  They were pretty special!  Thank you so much Erin and Pip!

Wala

This is the show we attended on Friday morning and it was absolutely fabulous!  Two young men from Ghana played drums for us and sang.  There was a very high level of student (and teacher) participation and we all really enjoyed ourselves!

U is for unicycle

Breon showed us how he could ride a unicycle.  Uni means one, so unicycle is a one-wheeled bike starting with our letter of the week.

Building Auckland City

During Exploration Time, three budding engineers designed and built a city! They were soon joined by classmates who helped them with some more building.They decided it was called 'Auckland City'. The children could name a number of places associated with Auckland City, plus a few  that they thought would be there!

Perhaps The Auckland City Council might be impressed with their 'Design and Build'!!

From this.....

to this...!

The children were very proud of their efforts.

Exploration Time in Room 5

Today we had Exploration Time as part of our morning programme. The children could choose equipment and activities to work with.

Joe, Alex and Liam wanted to build with the big blocks.

Manaia, Erin and Hunter counted and matched up the 'Little Shop' objects.

Pirate/Princess Dress-Up Day

Room 5 was overtaken by a band of unruly pirates!

Just as well there was a handsome Prince and pretty Princesses to keep them in line!

The Pirate Song was performed at assembly by Rooms 5 and 6, well done to you all!

Harold's Picnic

Our second lesson in the Life Education Caravan reinforced the concepts of a balanced diet. 

The children chose items from each food group to put in a lunch box. 

Dress up day

Life Education Visit

Today, Room 5 went see Harold in the Life Education Caravan. We learnt about eating a balanced diet so that we eat lots of different foods. We matched up the foods to see what they do- some help make our bones and teeth strong, some help make our muscles grow, some help us to have lots of energy, and some help to keep us very healthy. 

Carmen, the teacher and Harold the Giraffe taught us about how it is important to eat lots of different food. We liked visiting Harold.