WHOOOOAH ! We  have  not  Blogged  since  March  [ The  Maadi  Cup ] and  we  have  done  sooo much  since  then!.
    At  the  moment  Room  5  students  are  working  hard  at    composing  catch- ups  so  watch  this  space.

Maadi cup

Today we have been doing writing about the  Maadi  cup. At the moment there are over 2000 rowers from secondary schools all over New Zealand  in Twizel  for the Maddi cup. so Twizel's   population is more than double at the moment .We have made  posters and singlets for every school rowing  and we're putting  them up around Twizel  town square, in the shop windows. The Maadi Cup originated in Egypt during WW2, when members of the second NZEF based at Maadi Camp, competed in regattas against local Egyptian rowing clubs.

Special Visitor!

In Week 5 of this year we had a visitor who  came all the way from SWITZERLAND!  He is a musician and his name is Jan. He is very creative with his music. He plays the Trombone, Harmonica, Ukelele and he also  has a Looper.

He came and took us in groups into Room 6. He taught us how to beatbox for his tune and he told us to say "Don'T CheaT" and   also" Don'T eaT" :) [ but don't stop eating!] ;) Here are some pictures of Jan with us! :)

Here we are , at the end of Day 1, Week 3. Swimming is going very well although the pool temperature has dropped a few degrees.  We hope it doesn't drop too much more before our Swimming display on the 28 February!
Today we did a timeline about The Treaty of Waitangi , + before and after and discovered some interesting facts surrounding it...
.eg  * The first New Zealand Company ship , the "Tory", set sail from Britain in May 1839.,
      *  In 1814  Reverend Samuel Marsden preached the first sermon in New Zealand  on Christmas Day and the local chief, Ruatara interpreted the sermon for the Maori people. This year marks 200 years since this happened and throughout New Zealand  there are happenings/ celebrations planned to commemorate it.
We are beginning to draw our portraits too....quite a challenge!
     

Welcome Room 5 to 2014

The year started off very well, for Room 5 and the rest of the school .   We were privileged  to have a visit to our local Marae where Komene performed a challenge  and Mr. Feasey accepted it. Later we went to the Twizel Event Centre to take part in several work shops....Poi, Waiata, Haka and Rakau. It was GREAT fun and we learned heaps!!

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