Eye on Nature trip

Earlier in the term, Room 12 was lucky enough to be invited to attend the Eye on Nature day held at the Botanical Gardens. This yearly event is hosted by the Manukau Beuatifucation Charitable Trust. The trust generously pays for 1500 students to attend this event over 3 days.

We attended last Wednesday, and it was fantastic. Students got the opportunity to participate in a wide range of activities including; a bee maze, where they had to race to find facts about bees; a talk from local bee lady, Sara; a lesson on recycling and all the different ways we can help reduce what ends up in the land fill; challenges to identify from which plants common grocery items come; and making newspaper pots and planting vegetable seedlings and seeds.

At morning tea the students also got to make buzzy bee hats and have an iceblock, which was much appreciated as it was such a hot day.

Just before getting back on the bus to come back to school, we also got the chance to admire all of the planter boxes entered by local schools into the Planter Box competition. I know that there were a number of students that would be keen to enter this next year... Keep your eyes peeled for entry details.

Space Science

Learning about space with Mr.Munro

Last week we did Science with Mr.Munro. Our topic was SPACE! We learnt all sorts of cool things. We learnt about the sun, planets, stars, astronauts and Earth. There were lots of tasks. One was to fill in the blanks about the planets atmospheres, temperature  and wind. On one you had to write the correct fact under the picture of a planet. We also had to write a story about a day without gravity. 

It was really awesome and funny because Mr Munro kept calling me a gas planet. We did a quiz to see our knowledge in space. Some people got all 15 questions correct and some people only got 11 but thats good enough. 

Week 7 Science

Science with Mr. Munro

 This week for science we learned about planets, stars, astronauts, how they live, vacuums of space and atmospheres. The first day we just learned about planets and how we can live and how we can't live on the planets. The next day we learned about how you get food & water in space. On the third day we learned about atmospheres and the other planet's atmospheres. We also did a I want to a be millionaire quiz.

Science with Mr Munro

                                                            SCIENCE WITH MR MUNRO 



On Thursday we did science with Mr Munro. We learnt about space and all  the different kinds of planets and why its not such a great idea to live on them.  We had to learn about  the different ways to do things up in space.

Resene let the kids paint the house competition

 Room 12 have been working on drawing our houses in our art books, as we are doing a competition with the resene paint company. As soon as we are happy and Miss Salt has said yes to our house and it looks like the real one we can go onto the actual sheet.

Cross Country Practise!

                                                                      Cross Country Practise...



At Reremoana School we have started to practise for cross country. We do it on every Tuesday and Wednesday, it started in week 7 and the students are doing really well!! After all the practise's everyone is huffing  But the problem is that some students didn't bring their hats, so they missed out on the practise's. :(
SO REMEMBER TO BRING YOUR HAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

planter box

                                                       Planter box

Room 12 has a big planter box by the library. Jani, Marianne and I spent a whole block collecting seeds and pulling out weeds. One weed was about 50cm long. The roots went every where, it was ages before we could pull it out.  Now Room 12 has a lovely planter box.

cross country

cross country 

On Tuesdays and Thursdays we have cross country practice. We do this so that when it comes to the actual day we will do better. 

Cross-county practice

Reremoana school has been doing cross-county practice. Cross-county is were we have to run around a track.

PUKEKO CELEBRATION

PUKEKO CELEBRATION                                          

IN WEEK 7 CELEBRATION WAS HELD BY THE PUKEKO TEAM. THE SPEAKERS WHERE SAMANTHA FROM RM 6 AND JOSH FROM RM 6. THE FIRST CLASS TO START WAS RM 6. EVERY CLASS USED THE PROJECTOR. THE PUKEKO TEAM IS RM2 , RM1 , RM5 AND RM6. THEY DID TWO SONGS. ONE WAS SPISH SPALSH AND THE OTHER ONE WAS A SONG IN TE REO ABOUT WORKING TOGETHER.

Eye on nature trip

Last week on tuesday we had the eye on nature trip. We done many activites like bee hats, the bee maze honey tasting etc . We also got an ice-block after our morning tea. after morning tea we done the shopping  activity where you think about what country the food comes from. It was an awesome day also the trip was hosted by mbct.

Resene compition

Resene Compition

This week in Room12  we have been working on our drawings of our house's for the compition.

First we had to do a draft of our house's in our draft book so we could practice the right shapes of the 

house.

Then we had to draw our house on the compition paper. 

Now we had to paint our house so it could be realistic 

They turned out awesome!

DigItal newsletters and health

This week  newsletters won't be sent out by your child every thursday . the newsletters will be weekly  posted on the school blog  every thursday as normal .    


Last week in room12 we have been  doing health , we have learnt the average amount of total fat , sat fat , sugar and salt we all should have .

Flower art!

Flower art with Ms Fothergill!!!!!

Last week we did flower art with Ms Fothergill!!! The first thing we did was look at images of other peoples flowers. Then we watched a you tube video, showing the blending techniques.  Next we got a big piece of paper and folded it into quarters. We drew the flower on the paper and made sure the petals were the same. The next day we started coloring. Every flower was colored different. Some were pink some were red. There were all sorts of colors. We also got to color in our background. The colors of backgrounds were: Red,Blue,Green,Purple,Yellow and Brown. All the flowers were cut into quarters, judged by the fold. Finally we each code four designs we liked. One had to be the flower you made. They all turned out great and it was really fun.

Room 12's Goals

Recently in Room 12, we have been coming up with goals. 

We have typed them up on laptops and most of them are ready to go.

We had to select 3 (or more) goals to work on throughout the term. Some popular goals are....

Writing, Maths, Fitness, Spelling, and Reading.

Goals are to  help you improve your learning each Term.

Thanks for reading! :P

Strategy test

Strategy test

Last week we room12 we had to do a strategy test so that miss salt  could tell what level we were on

student conferences

Today is the goal setting conferences.This time we are more in charge of our goals. Everyone is trying their hardest to finish

FLOWER ART

Flower art with Miss Fothigill!!!!!!

Last week we did flower art with Miss Fothigill! First we looked at images of other flowers, and we watched a blending vidio. Next we folded our piece of paper into quaters. Then we got a capachino cup and traced around the circle for the circle in the center of the flower. After that we drew the petals. They could be any kind of petal as long as they were real petals. Each petal on someones flower had to be the same. The next day we started the coloring and shading.  It took awhile but we finished the coloring. Then we colored the background. Once your background was done your flower was*decapitated*(Cut into quaters) Then Finally when everyone was done, we got into a circle, and when Miss Fothigill said go we grabbed one quater from some ones flower. Eventually we got four different pieces each. We hung them on the wall and they were complete. It was a fun day!

Art with miss Fothergill

                                                                 FLOWER ART


On Tuesday  and Wednesday miss Fothergill came to our classroom and did some art with us.
We had to calibrate as a class. First we had to draw the flower lightly, second of all we had to cooler the flower with pastels, finally we had to cooler in the background.

colorful flowers

This week in room 12 Mrs f has taught us how to do a puzzle of flowers it was great.

P.E with Mr Fourie

Last Wednesday the 13th of March Room 12 had P.E with Mr Fourie as usual. We did tennis and learnt some new tennis skills. After all the mayhem we had a game of king and of course the reining champion was Gabe.

art with miss fothergill

flowers with  miss Fothergill
  
On Wednesday miss Fothergill came in to do art with us.
We did flowers and it was fun. First we had to fold our piece of paper in quarters. 

We colored the flower to make the flower fansy. Then miss Fothergill cut the flower in quarters.Next we swapped with other people. Everyone went fast to katies one.  

flowers

Last week we drew some flowers. We coulered them with pastels and them cut them in quarters. They looked funny with other peoples pictures.

Goal setting conference

This week we are having goal setting conferences. Our class room has been making goals to share to our parents this term.

Strategy test

Strategy test

In room 12 we have been practicing math strategies for the math test on all the strategies that we have learnt. Hopefully all the practicing we have done has paid off.

Goals

This week in Rm 12 we have been writing up our goals for this weeks goal setting conferences . 

                                PE with Mr. Fourie

This week we learnt hockey skills we played with a puck and a ball. 

P.E. with Mr Fourie

On Wednesday 7th March we had P.E. with Mr Fourie. This week we didn't do cricket but we did do court hockey. We [Room 12] learnt some new skills with a puck and a tennis ball. In the end we played a game were you have to hit the cone with the puck to score points. Chloe, Gabriel, Sam, Jayda and I hit the puck.

Celebration

On the first of March the Kereru  team had the privilege of having the first celebration of  the year but sadly the dark sides were not able to see Rm12 .........

Mr Munro gets a shave

At Reremoana School we had a special guest named Collin Munro. Mr Munro, Collin Munro and a very generous boy from Reremoana School named Davik, he donated $40 to the Munro brothers, got their hair shaved. Reremoana School students loved watching them get their hair shaveed off. All the little ones had a good little laugh.

In Room 12 we have been learning how to use the SRA kit it is fun but learning at the same time  purple (easiest)  and Yellow (hardest)...

We complete them in our reading books and then get an answer sheet  after you complete all of the, questions and comprehension and read the story you go put the book back and grab the answer sheet.

taine

Yesterday Room 12 did PE with Mr Fourie.

We practised on our hockey skills we had to swerve in and out of the cones. 

We had to use the tennis balls and the hocky puck. 

The tennis balls were easy to use because they roll but wth the hockey puck it slides. You have to push not hit. We had to hit the ball to our team mate and run to the end and the person at the end runs back and gives the hockey stick to the next person.

Self portaraits

IN A ROOM FAR FAR AWAY PEOPLE WHERE DOING SELF PORTRAITS !!!

This week room12 did some self portraits. First we had to draw an oval shape.

Then we made guide lines so we can put the big shape's in the right place.

Now we had to draw the big shapes for the face. 

After that we had to shade and put detail in.

Self Potraits!

                  
                                                                  Self Potraits!


In Room 12, we have been learning how to sketch ourselfs. First of all, Miss Salt had to take a photo of all the students. When we recived our photos we started to sketch our faces. We used guide lines to help us find out where to put our facial features.

Cricket

                                                     cricket                        

Next week people who made it into the cricket are going to a tournament vs 6-7 schools. 

Our coach is Mrs Notley. Please come and see us win first place no one will stand in our way. 

See you there. We say cricket wise.

 By Jared.R 

P.E with Mr.Fourie

                                           P.E with Mr Fourie



In room 12 we have been doing P.E with Mr. Fourie.First we had to learn how to play
Hocky.Mr.Fourie  set up four cones on the court and we had to split into six or seven groups.we had to get a Hockey stick and Put or a tennis ball.Then we to push it through the cones and around it to the last one.

PE WITH MR FOURIE

  PE WITH MR FOURIE

This week we did PE with mr Fourie. For the PE we practiced hockey. We had to practice with a puck or a tennis ball. The tennis ball was easier because it rolled. We did two tasks. One was we had to dribble through the cones. The last task was... one of your team mates had to go on the other end of the cones, then the other player had to pass the puck to the his/her team mate. Then the player that passed the puck chasd it. The other team mate smashed the puck to the next person in line. He/she would hand over the court hockey stick to the next player in line. When We were finished our rotation, there was still more time so we made two teams, and  had to try hit the cone with the puck. You got one point if you hit the cone. For two points you had to make the cone fall over. In the end it was a tie:3-3.

THE GALA

On saturday 9th of march we will be having a school gala. The gala will be held at reremoana school. At the gala we will have lots of food stalls such as sushi, chips, candy floss, etc.We will also be having a few rides such as the terminator, water walkers, etc.

MPSSA Swimming

Yesterday a team of 10 swimmers competed at the MPSSA swimming competition held at the Manurewa High School pool. It was a gorgeously hot day and student's actually enjoyed getting into the cool waters of the pool this year, not like last year!
All of our swimmers did very well, with the following students achieving excellent personal results;

Year 6 Girls Freestyle, 2nd place: Katie Andrew
Year 5 Girls Breaststroke, 3rd place: Daneka Gordon
Girls Individual Medley, 3rd place: Katie Andrew
Girls Open Race - 2 lengths Freestyle, 2nd place: Katie Andrew
Relay - 4 x 1 Freestyle A Division, 3rd place: Katie Andrew, Brooke Rayner, Jayde Siebert, Grace Goodall

Congratulations to all of our swimmers on a great day.