Room 5 camp

On the the 14th of November Room 5 students went to camp at Lake Middleton. We stayed there from the 14th to the 16th.

At Lake Middleton we did activities like: swimming, boating and biscuiting, kayaking, boiling the billy, had a camp concert, played T-ball and lots of other things.

Kayas favourite part of the camp was watching Mrs Sweney and Maddy going on the biscuit!
Morgans favourite part was boiling the billy in a different way.

We had tent groups. The names of the tent groups were: The Twizel Ferns, The Four Directions, The Ted Bear Survival Group, The Hillbillies, The Huggies and The Oompaloompas. Some people slept in the cabin and the other people slept in tents.

A big thanks to all the parents helpers and Mr and Mrs Sweney.
Room 5 had a great time!

Blog by Kaya and Morgan

Cross Country

This is a picture of mostly Room 5 children sitting together waiting for their races.


On Tuesday the 24th Room 5 and other students went down to the Omarama Cross Country. This year it was held at Lady Bird Hill. Ages 5 to 13 took part. The 5 to 10 year olds had to do a shorter course but they had to run it twice. The 11 to 13 year olds had to run all the way to the top of Lady Bird Hill and back. Evrybody looked very tired after their races. Lots of people found it very steep and some people slipped over.Twizel did very well.

This is Nikau running in his race.

This is Morgan's ginger bread house made of clay. But beware this house is not as nice as you might think, because a witch lives in it and she eats kids!!!! 











 This is Clayton's house made of clay. It is made to look like a damaged CHCH building. By the way Batman lives in there!   




Blog done by Clayton and Corbyn.

                     

These are the cross country reps to go to North Otago from Room 5.

The children are Morgan, Maddy, Des and Corbyn .Nikau is also going . He is away ski-race training today.

These are the two of the children who were in the gymnastic steam and went to Timaru to represent Twizel last Thursday.

 The children are doing a bridge, and if you walk in this stance it will be called the crab.

The children are Ailish and Chloe.
The next picture is of some of  the other   gynastics children from Room 5. there are lots more in other classes in the Junior and Senior school

Art and PE

Hello we are reporting from the class room known as Room 5.

For the past term we have been doing art. For art we had to make a clay house.

Last term we started doing our clay houses.Most people started their clay houses, but some didn't finish planning theirs so they just painted a picture of their dream house.

This week we are about to varnish our houses.

The steps for making our clay houses were:* Step 1. Start planning your dream house on paper.* Step 2. Make your clay into the right shapes.* Step 3.Attach the pieces together * Step 4.Put the creations in the kiln. Voila... your clay house!            

The picture that you are seeing is Tyra's amazing clay house.These are the things that are in Tyra's house: 1.T.V., 2.Bed, 3.Shoes 4.Shelf.

This picture [under Tyra's house] is Morgan kicking the ball.

We did soccer for P.E. on the huge school field.The task was to buddy up with a friend and practise kicking the ball to each other.

This report was done by JAYDE and CORBYN!

Olympic stamps

 Room 5 have been studying the 2012 London Olympic games. We had to choose a country that was competing in the Olympics that started with the same letter as our name, or our middle name. Once we had chosen a country we had to find facts out about it. Some of the facts we had to find out were, the population, languages spoken, what money they use and how many representatives they had competing in the 2012 Olympic games. We had to design stamps for the country that we chose. They could be famous landmarks, famous people, animals or famous sports. 
Here are some of our stamps and facts.

Blog done by Maddison and Morgan

Olympic games work

 Today Room 5 did work about Olympic games.  Our task was to answer questions about the photos of athletes that we were given. We worked hard and we actually worked

quietly for once!

Once our sheet was completed we moved on to the next sheet yay !!! Some were even up to  the next photo and questions. 

This man is head butting the soccer ball for a goal.... I wonder if he scored it ??? 

This is Morgan's fantasic good-looking work.

Your publishers are Abigail and Seth

Time Machines.....made by Us

Hello, I'm reporting from Room 5s class room in Twizel.

On the left are Corbyn,Tyra and Morgan with thier marble run, that they made out of Miss Douglas's marble run set.

On the right is Josh with his E2 timing device.

Everybody got their photo taken with their timing device, by Mrs Bessant.


Blog done by Josh and Corbyn.                

Olympic Study

Room 5 have been doing a study on the 2012 London Olympics. We have learnt that the first olympics were in Olympia, Greece. Some of us have been watch the olympics at home. Some of the olympic sports are swimming, track and field events, archery and hockey. This photo is of Room 5 working hard on their olympics work. GO NEW ZEALAND!! 

This is Tyra with some of her olympics work.

Blog by Amy and Morgan

Venues at the London Olympics

 This is Mrs Sweney reading something about the Modern Olympics which started in 1896 in Athens.
The Winter Olympics began in 1924.

Did you know that the olympics were stopped during the WW1 & WW2?

And we will do some work sheets about the Modern Olympics tomorrow.

This week is Te Reo Lauguage week.The theme of Maori language week is," Arohatia Te Reo". Some of us did  Maori posters to put in a competition. We have been singing Maori songs[Waiata]. They are "Pu Kupu Maori,"" Purerehua,"," Nga Tae O Nga Putiputi" and "Aoaraki.E". Mrs Sweney  said, "He aha tenei?" [What is this?] Then we had to answer, in a sentence , in Maori!








Every morning we have to say to Mrs Sweney, how we feel in Maori. This one of our answers, " Kei te pai ahau whaea  Sweney." Also every morning we have a quiz in Maori. What we have to do is match the English words with the Maori words.

I feel so sorry for the Margaret Mayhe family for what has happened. R.I.P. You were one of the best writers I knew. I loved" A lion in the Meadow".
 
By Tyra and Alyx

End of term 2 blog

For technics Amy and Clayton made a campervan 3000. They put 5 people in it. There were 2 adults and 3 children. The top part of the campervan came off and turned into a boat.


Amy and Clayton with their campervan 3000.


Room 5 sang a song at assembly called "The Ballad of Captain Cook". We had been practicing for two weeks. One of the lines was "But I must be off to the isles of the south, to observe the Transit of Venus. We sang this song because the Transit of Venus was going to happen soon. It is about Captain Cook going to Hawaii to observe the Transit of Venus.

This is our last blog for the term. Happy holidays everyone!

Blog by Tyra and Morgan

Jump Jam Fun

Jump Jam

This is Room 9 doing Jump Jam in Room 6 and they are having a good time too. They all loved it  and it was called  "Witch Doctor" . They all chose it and some Room 5 students led them.
As well , Room5 sang them a song and they loved it. The song was called "The Ballad of Captain Cook". A ballad is a song which tells a story.

Here's room 5 doing Jump Jam and the song we moving to was Coconut. When we first started dancing to it.It was very complicated
but then we got the hang of it.
We have all ready taught younger students how to do Jump Jam..
It has been really fun!Today we learned a new one called Kotahitanga.

Blog by Abigail and Corbyn!

Happy birthday Taylor

                                                         HAPPY BIRTHDAY TAYLOR!!

Today is your birthday and we hope you

have a good one. We miss you heaps!

We miss your smiles and your funny jokes.

Your friends sound awesome and

we hope they make your birthday super

special! Did you get lots of presents?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

From Room 5

Blog done by Morgan and Abby

THIS IS ROOM 5s CLASS PARTY!!! In the photo you can see most of the boys all eating lots of yummy food! Jack  and Jayde took a creamed pikelet and smothered it on their faces It was funny to watch.Also Des didn't feel so good after the party. At our class party we played lots of fun games, like Wink Murderer , Quiet Castle and Charades. We had heaps of food. Des brought some Samoan pancakes... they were so good! It took us about 3-4 weeks to plan our party :).....by Corbyn and Jack                                                           

war hero homework

Room 5 students were given a task for homework to find out about a war hero. We were given a piece of paper each which told us the name of an animal or person we had to reaserch. Some of of them were ;John Simpson, Anne Frank, Edith Cavell, Simpson's donkey, Caeser the dog and Sir Charles Upham. We had one week to complete this task. Some of the things that we had to find out were, when they were born, when they died, family history,  which war they were in, their part in the war[s] and our opinion of them.
 On Friday there were lots of creative ways that people had presented their information. Maddison showed her information on a grave that she had made.
By Kaya and Morgan

Pontoon technics

Yesturday Room 5 students had a task to make a pontoon with the technics. We had to design it so it could carry soldiers from their battle ships to the shore. We had to remember that it was very hot so we needed to add a shelter. We also needed to think about shelter from the Turks bullets. The pontoons had to be able to fit at least 40 to 50 soldiers on it. Some people added paddles so that the soldiers could row themselves to shore. Other people made paddle boats.
By Morgan and Nikau

ANZAC Poems

ANZAC DAY

Today in Room 5, we wrote some poems about the war in Gallipoli. Here are the poems that two groups composed.

1.   Shells! Shells! that's all I hear.
"Gas masks on!" yells the sergeant.
I aim
I fire
I kill,
We call for reinforcments,"Take cover!" There are too many.

2.  Knee-deep mud
Poison-gas shells
Endless fire
Explosions!

3.  Sitting in my trench
All I can think of is going home,
Longing for peace and my family,
Clean clothes
Warmth
Milk in my tea
And a comfortable bed.


DAWN SERVICE
Dawn Service
The service in the dawn
For all the people who have been drawn
To remember the soldiers,
Fought and died.

The dawn service
An important part
ANZAC Day,
When we put our wreaths to lay.

The flags fly at half-mast
As some say their last
Farewell.

The poppies still grow,
The bag-pipers and buglers blow.

April 25th
A day to think about
The people
Who died and fought in the wars.



 

GATE challenge

On Wednesday a group of Year Six and Seven students, [including Morgan, Crystal and Corbyn from our class] got together to complete a maths challenge. Our challenge was to figure out the link between Fibonacci, sunflowers and Palazetto Dello sport stadium. We found out that the link between the three was all to do with the Fibonacci sequence. Mr Fibonacci was a mathematician and found out the sequence that he invented normally always occurred in nature. The pattern of a sunflower's inside follows the sequence.

 
 After we had found the link between those three things we had to add two more things onto the list. The two  that we added to the list were roses and pinecones. We shared with Room 5 after we had finished.

 At two O'clock children from other schools including us shared on a video conference, what we had found out in the challenge.


Pine cone.

  Find the similarities betwen these!

The Forces' Bus

Today Room5 went to the Forces bus at the Forces bus we saw videos and it showed us what you could do in the future in the Army, the Navy, and the Airforce.

As you can see in the pictures there was a boat and personnel wearing medals.I'll tell you about the boat first. Jono is the driver and Crystal, Chloe and Holly are the passengers.
The medals were awarded to Cpl. John Goodwin. They are the Operational ServiceMedal and the General Service Medal, Soloman Islands [the green one]. In the videos there were troups playing different sports such as swimming, rugby and badminton.
Also in the video we saw troups taking part in activities such as helping on Peacekeeping  missions and practising combat exercises.
The Forces bus was really awesome!

by Corbyn and Crystal

In art class our task was to design posters to welcome  the Maadi Cup teams to Twizel. There are over one hundred teams entered. Jack designed a poster with some of the teams' singlets on it.
 To colour the posters in we used pastels, crayons, coloured pencil and felts. On most of the Room 5 posters there are labels welcoming different school's teams.
M1, M2 and M3 students also made posters.They will  all be displayed somewhere around the town square.
The opening ceremony will be in the town square on Sunday 25 March at 2pm.

Bicycles....bicycles

Check out this awesome cycling.
On Monday 12/03/12 Constable Hocking from Timaru came to school to teach us about Safe Cycling . She taught us about what to do on our bikes at T-crossings and about how to wear our helmets correctly. Did you know that stickers should not be stuck onto hemets? Why? ...because the glue on the stickers eats away at the plastic and weakens the helmet.
 Our bikes were checked too, before we used them to test our slow-riding skills.

Safe cycling...easy riders.

This is when we had to go as slow as possible and Mellisa timed how long we could stay in the "box" without stopping.Some found it quite challenging.
There were 4 stations and the teams moved clockwise each time the whistle blew.Slow, careful riding was our focus. That was a really fun day.

Here is a great  class photo of Room 5, 2012 . We are 24 awesome Year 6  students.We are standing in front of the big beech tree in the courtyard in front of our class.Mrs Sweney, our teacher is on the right in the photo.
 A class member, Sam, is leaving today. We  will miss him very much because he has been a great class-member and friend....totally awesome dude!He says he will miss us too.
Today some of the class have been swimming against children from other schools in Kurow. We hope they have swum well!
by Sam and Corbyn