Here are John and Des pushing the frame together on Rooms 4 and 5 skating  and tubing trip. We skated at Alpine Springs and Spa Lake Teakpo. We had a great time. Some people went tubing. They had a very great time. Everyone was screaming. It was soooo funny. The others who didn't go tubing watched or played on the ice. Everybody was super tired and sore.

Reporters Abigail and Hannah

Face painting........

Here is Kian getting his face painted. Our teacher Mrs Sweney painted his face. She is a very good artist. She painted some All Blacks initals on his face .Kian looked great! This was to do with the Rugby World Cup 2011. All of the class are getting their faces painted eventually.

By Sam Preston and John Mccambridge :)

Hi We're Back....!

Wow, it's a long time since we posted a blog and lots has been happening......eg Rugby World Cup [ Yay the A.B.s!!] camp ,athletic sports, Artz in Action Week...to name but a few. Next week we'll post many , so check back.
Mrs Sweney

Holidays....yay.....!

Room 5 is on holiday until Tuesday 25 October . We have had a great Term 3 and are looking forward to Term 4!
 Camp will happen in Week 3 so lots of planning will happen between now and then. 
The guitar and ukulele players are practising hard for their recital in Week 2...."Musical Maestros "[in the making]
Meantime, Happy Holidays everyone!
PS  Go the All Blacks!!

Moving in!

Here is some of Misss Douglas's classroom furniture. They are moving it  into Room 6 so that new carpet can be laid in their classroom. Some pupils from room 5 helped move it. Some of the stuff was heavy while other stuff was light. Rooms 1,3,4,7,9,13 and 18 are also getting carpeted, as well as the corridors. Wethink it is a great idea.

By Sam and John

Clean-up day!

Room 5ers were cleaning out their large slim-pics while some were helping others clean! Here is a pile of scrap paper from people's slim-pic wallets! We will use some of it to make paper next term [recycling]
Our slimpic wallets are quite a bit slimmer now!

Reporters-Abbie &Crystal.

Saturn video!!!

This is a video about saturn ( We are studying about space!) John and Hannah and Mrs O'Carroll created this video! We hope you enjoy it!

Ding Ding!...... GO!

Yesterday (the 22nd of September) Room 5 had a great day doing some awesome Conservation Week activities. The activities we did were: Grab that Worm!, Radio Talk, Walk like a Black Stilt, Animal Hospital, Kaki Egg Rescue, How good is your Memory? Can you Survive in the Bush and Centipede Shoes. In this picture Caliean Rive and Liam Tonner are working  well together in Centipede Shoes.
Ursula and Mike from D.O.C. brought the "programme" to school.
Reporters...Sam and  Abigail

Cross Country at Omarama 16 September 2011.......

Speeding to come 1st!

Here is Taylor Allan running. Mrs Sweney is cheering her on. Taylor is running her hardest to come in 1st place. She came 4th and is very proud of it. When Taylor was running she was saying to her self "Come on Taylor come on."
Ms McNeil trained her for cross-country and she has come very far.Taylor has trained for cross-country for weeks, on the school field and the river track, before the big race in Omarama [on the 16th September].Well done Taylor!
By Sahar Ritchie and Briar Swanson.

Room 5 Tubing

ZOOM! Kyung In Kim flies past the camera in her snow tube! She though it was incrdible and fantastic when she went on her tummy and zoomed super fast! She said when she went on a 4sum with other people, they went really really fast.
This was on Room 4 and 5 ice skating trip to Tekapo last week.. We could also do tubing[ like Kyung In] and many of us chose to ..


Reporters Liam and Awhina.

At Art Designing Masks.......

This is some Room 5 students at art,  drawing masks. Soon we will make the masks that we have drawn. We are all doing our own type of mask that we have chosen from different counties.We are all excited about finishing them.

Some of the countries the masks are from are Korea, Africa, Singapore and Fiji .

Reporters Kian and Georgia.

Duntroon Winter Sports 29\08\11

Here is everybody passing to their partners with 2 netball balls per pair.Our coach was Georgina who was a Silver Fern and the under 21's coach.                                           We had a game.     With our partners we had to pass the ball and also go to each hoop and try to shoot a goal .    This Group was Group 1. Everybody got better as they went on.  There were lots of different sports .Everyone did 4 sports. It was a really awesome day.                                    By Hannah and Taylor.

Guitar playing at Assembly

Briar and Georgia  played the Lazy Song at assembly. They changed some of the bad words around so it sounded better and more responsible. The new lyrics are great! They are also funny .
Also at assembly, some students shared their Acrostic poems about DROUGHT. There is a serious drought at the moment in the Horn of Africa.
Sam
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Room 5's Awesome Day Skiing

Top Picture Of, Taylor Allan And Brooke Rabbidge.

We went on a ski trip to Ohau skifield. This is Kyung In Kim and Kian Muir on the magic carpet, going up to the top to ski down. It takes about 7 minutes to get up to the top.

It was so exciting because it was Kyung Ins second time skiing in her life. Kyung In said that it was a great day for her. 8 beginner snow boarders went snow boarding for their first time. They all had a lesson together. In the lesson there were 15 people because there was another school there. All the 8 people who went snow boarding had an awesome time. 

Lots of the children were saying I want to snow board not ski. Room 5 had a fantastic day.

Reporters Brooke Rabbidge And Kyung In Kim

Maths

This is Briar Swanson asking a question during maths.We did some very challenging sums in maths today re-multiplication and division. We are all going to learn our times tables up to the ten times. Work was interupted today by many photos being taken.

Reporters Roshni and John

Room 5 Science Fair Projects

Some of Room 5 students did science projects during the holidays. They finished them off during class time on Wednesday and Thurday last week. We all displayed them on Friday for 3 judges to decide which projects  won  from each age group. Here is 1 of the projects from a Room 5 student. Kyung Ins project was about "Which way is the best way to keep an ice-cube from melting." The best way to keep an ice-cube from melting is put the ice-cube on a plate with a bowl over the plate.It took over 50 minutes to melt..

Flyspray Project.

                                           This is a project for our Science Fair, from a student
                                            named Joshua. It is about fly sprays as you can see
                                            and the fly sprays are Mortein,Raid and Budget. He
                                             was testing what fly spray kills wasps the fastest and
                                            the winner was Mortein.
                                             

                                            By Rhys And Joshua

Fantastic Fantasy Brought to Life!!!



Crim and Nal [Liam Stewart and Josh Nelson]
 measure up Betty Luck {Rebecca Doherty}



Room 5 villagers thought "beating up
dragons would be lots of fun!"














"George and the Dragon" was an amazing production performed ,during Week 11 of Term 2, by students of Twizel Area School! They sang, danced, recited and delivered their lines brilliantly. Audiences , over 3 nights, were enthralled and performers had a fantastic time as they entertained whanau and friends. Well done!




Sir Fred(Josh CB)leapt very high to avoid the sharp, swishing
sword of Drag Justice Kirkwood!



Poor town-cryer(Finn Allerston) had a woeful time as a result of delivering his "news" to the crowds.

Technics

Sahar is having fun creating with the technics. We all got to make whatever we wanted , in pairs, with the technics,
In  the picture Sahar is making a car with the  technic box A or B, It is one of the more advanced boxes which we only have 2 of . They come with batteries so they can  make whatever you make move, if you install them correctly.

We think everyone had fun with the technics.

So Much Paper Mashe All Over You

This is Bailey Cutting and Brooke Rabbidge at Mr White's wood work room, making a big rock for the Twizel Area School production. The production is called George and the Dragon. There were 5 people working on the rock. There are 4 steps;

• You had to screw up newspaper then put it in the wire and wood frame of the rock.
• Next you had to paper mache the rock with really sticky glue and newspaper.
• Then when you were finished  you would paint the first layer of white then maybe another layer after it dried.
• After all that you would have to paint it grey/black. 

Reporters: Brooke Rabbidge and Crystal Lavery.

Rectangle making shapes

Here is the maths group called Rectangles.
They are playing maths games about geometry.

Briar is on the computer putting the answers in after the
group has figured them out.

Reporters Kyung In and Cailean

Playtime at assembly

This is someof the Room5 girls in assembly doing a play called Queen Bee Blues. Here they are doing a dance for assembly. This is Worker bee Briar trying to help the queenbee/Roshni do her own work.Worker bee Hannah became Queen Bee for a day until Queen Roshni got sick of hard work and took her place back on the throne.It was funny and full of action.They showed good co-operation and  drama skills.
Reporters Sahar and Abbie

Learning a Play!

 16/06/11

 Today we did plays about Bees. They were Awesome!. During the play some people were being really silly but at the end we did do a good play. When we do the play perfectly we will get to record it and after that we even might post in on the blog! At the start of the play Some of us play a cool tune on the guitar. When we are good at doing the play we may be able to use props and show assembly and it will be awesome! So thank you for reading this and hope you have fun checking out our blog we hope you have fun seeing what our blog is capable of. 
        
                                        

Paper mache for room 5's production.

Today we paper mached around lots of fake food and fake silver ware made out of lemonade bottles and rubbish bin lids. We used lots of paper and glue. We had paper on the floor and on our desks and most of the paper was coverered in glue.

                  Reporters Liam and Rhys

Room5 Reading about Bees 10/06/11

Room5 has been learning about bees.We are doing reading about bees. We read articles ,stories,poems and plays. Roshni here is writing in her book. She is writing Delightful Bees. It is really fun. Did you know? 1. that bees do go to the toilet. 2. The Queen Bee lays about 2000 eggs a day. 3. Male bees/drone bees don't have stingers   4. The female bees are the workers

Reporters Hannah and Abigail

Mr Sweney (Honey making)

Mr Sweney came to tell us about how bees
make honey and what it tastes like
fresh. He showed us some dead bees also and
we got to hold them. In this photo  Mr Sweney  is
standing by the honey extractor.He used an electrically
heated knife to take the wax cappings off.He let us
all turn the handle of the extractor. The honey
spins out, hits the side and flows down to the
bottom. The honey tasted pretty good.
Reporters Sam, JK and Rhys.

Matariki Newspapers

On the 2nd of June it was Matariki. Room 5 were given some newspapers on Matariki to read and fill in the challenging questions. Room 5 students worked together with the buddy that  they sit next to, like these two students Holly and Josh. Matariki is the New Maori Year,when seven stars can be seen in the sky. There are several Maori legends about the seven stars of Matariki. The Greek call Matariki the Pleiades. The Japanese call it the Subaru. Arcording to the Maori there are two meanings for Matariki, tiny eyes (mata riki) or eyes of God (mata ariki.) -Reporters Roshni and Briar.    

   

Room5 Music.

Room5 has been doing music. The songs we sang were, Better than War and Mauria Mai Taku Wai. Mrs Sweney plays the guitar and the children sing. One of the songs is about wisdom being better than weapons of war. We also sang Pu Kupu Maori. We sing in Room 6.

By Kian and Joshua.

Sam drawing a hexagon with a compass

We are learning about bees.We learnt that a hexagon is used because it can hold more honey. Also hexagons are tessellated ...that means they fit together with out any gaps. Some people found it hard.

Reporters- Taylor Allan and Georgia Ashton 

Room 5 learn about their new blog

We have been looking at our new blog and learning how to put a post on. Everyone will get a turn to be the class reporter.

Making a Speech....

At the moment we are busy writing and then delivering speeches about a place that is special to us and our families. We have been learning how to make cue cards which we use to prompt us . Some important points to remember are;

• Stance ie standing with both feet on the ground
• making eye contact with the audience
• speaking clearly and with adequate volume
• speaking fluently ie without "um" or "aaah"
• use cue cards

Some of us have given our speeches at Junior Assembly.

Welcome to our Blog!

Welcome to Room 5 Blog.We are really looking forward to sharing our class news, work and highlights throughout the year as we continue to learn together. We also look forward to hearing from you by way of comments!