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.