Baby comes to school

On Tuesday the 22 of November room 6 got to see Mrs Elliottes new born baby boy.

He was called Oscer.

Oscer had small hands and purple cold feet with small cute ears and a cute little cosy hat with tiny slippers. He was born on Tuesday 15 November when we were at out athletic sports

SAD TO LEAVE THE HOLIDAYS

First week back X-mas coming soon only 8 weeks (not much) .We are writing news reports about water and what we now about it.



By jessie and sophie
Ps all blacks won the cup !!!

Term 3

Well Term 3 went really fast. The children have done some fantastic work. Do check out our class wiki site where there is so much on show of the children's efforts.....plays, debates, voice threads.

http://roomsixhighfield.wikispaces.com/

We also had a short skype session with a class from ChCh.....something we hope to use more often

the haka.

This week we have been leaning the Haka. We taught it to room4, room 5 and room13. Putitng the words and actions together was tough. See our efforts on the home page of our wiki.

HFS news

Hello Im Angus and this is Hollie

Two weeks ago a new boy Seth came to room 6. He has got lots of nice friends now. Seth came from Invercargill.

We have a new teacher called Mrs C because another teacher called Mrs Adams left. Mrs Cooper is still here too, so we are lucky as we have 2 teachers in our room.

We are learning to write expositions. In groups we are writing to Mr Gallagher to persuade him to ban school uniforms. We wonder what he will say when we give them to him.

The Rugby World Cup starts this week and we have been learning all about the countries and things about New Zealand too.

this term we have Mrs Adams teachinng us. For the RWC we have been making posters about rugby around the world. So far we are finishing are second country. the first poster that got finished was England by jacob. its been fun with Mrs Adams. We made these little wakas. Jacob jack and bryn r finished their waka first. We have just finished watching the movie called Holes.

by baxter and jacob

FIRST WEEK BACK!!!!!

New term - new topics!
This term we are studying the rugby world cup. We have to adopt a country that is coming to the world cup and learn about that country like there flag, emblem, rugby jersey, population and things like that.
And our new topic in KIWI CAN is CO-OPERATION. We are doing table points to demonstrate that we as room 6 co-operate with each other together and at the end of the week we count up the points and see which team has been more co-operative throughout the week.

By Jessie and Sophie

Cross Country

Today it is the schools cross country . The year 4's have to run around extended track the boys
and girls will be in separate groups . The year 5's have to run around the lake and then the extended track.

We will put a photo of us running on tomorrow.

by Morgan and Sophie

FIRST WEEK BACK

It's the first week back some say yeah, some say boo. We're all doing new and exciting things. Our new subject for KIWI CAN is Curiosity. We played human- naughts and crosses to figure it out. And we're learning about Simple Machines. We were put into 3 groups,then put into groups across so everybody got a machine. There were 6 machines.
They were Levers ,Pulley ,Inclined Plane,Screw, Wedges,Wheel and Axle. At the end we had to use a simple machine to work out how to get a present in the house. Check out the simple machine inquiry under topic on our wikisite to follow what we did.

By Jessie and Jessica
Bye Bye

Term One Nearly OVER!!!

We have had a very busy term and a very cool one with EOTC week and Camp. We also got two new pupils after the Christchurch Earthquake.

Unfortunately next term we actually say goodbye to some of our class.

Isaya is off to live in Wellington. We know that he WILL keep in touch and perhaps even Skype us!!!

Also 5 boys are going to be part of the new class in Room 3. We will miss Shay, Mitchell, Lachlan, Jayden and Dylan but know they will be part of our syndicate so will still do lots together.

Have a great holiday.....don't eat too many Easter Eggs!!!!

Camp/E.O.T.C week

Last week the yr 5/6's went to camp at Raincliff while the yr 4 had somthing called E.O.T.C week they went to Sir ArtherPark and did Archery at YMCA .At camp we slept in dorms with different people. At night Mr Sheperd took 20 of us eeling when it hit dark they disected the eels and we saw its guts, heart and other vital organs while we were killing it it started to MOVE!!!!!. The yr 4 came out to vist us at Pioneer Park at camp and did a bug hunt.The yr 4's came back to camp with us to look arund we did a water balloon throw and wet alot of people. On the last day we had a BBQ for tea and after that we had a sleep out in tents with other people We had a lovely time at camp and we think the yr 4's had a lovely time to! By Jessie and Hollie

reading and maths

We have been sorting our maths and reading groups. the reading names are moshi monsters,diamand leoperds,awesome skeletons, lightning wheezels and thunderstorms.
Our maths groups are mathletics,fraction thunders and counting cucumbers.



BY MITCH AND JAKE.

What we have been doing for topic

NZ native bush



We are learning about nz native bush and the layers of the forest.

We know that there are 5 layers and the Forest floor is mostly moss and does not get any sun.

Year 5's are getting really excited about their first camp. Some have taken home raffle cards to sell to raise money for it.

Today we had our first tennis session. Look out for a photo next week.


Bryn R and Hollie

first day at school

It was our first day at school on Monday. It was great. We came to school in the morning and sorted out our books. We found out that the year 5's and 6 get to go to school camp at Raincliff this term. The year 4's get to do the same thing in the Centennial park but not camping and they come out for a day.
Jack and Morgan

Welcome to 2011

Welcome to the 2011 school year. There is a lot to look forward to this term.

To keep you up to date children will take turns to complete this as often as possible during the week.

We don't have twitter but I am sure this blog will be fantastic.....especially if you join us and write back