Today was our first day of clubs. There were so many different things going on around the school including kite making, animal care, chocolate making, picture frames, electricity, pirates etc.
We had a great time. These are some of the things we did.


We did electric stuff with bulbs. Riley
I put papermache on my boot. I got it all covered. Ben R
We put pasta on the picture frames. Alice
I papermached my boot. Now it is all white. Eric
We made pirate hats and we painted pirate swords. Jamie
I liked the picture frames. I wrote Santa on mine. Jonty
We got pirate books with pirate talk in them. Dylan
We made kiwis. First we started with cardboard and we are making it into a pompom. Levi
There were mazes in the pirate book and you could colour in a pirate. Ben W
I put papermache on a flowerpot. Ruby
We got to find treasure. We found our name tags and we caught Mr Brell. Conal
We did music and we made koala bears. You can bend the arms and put them on the christmas tree. Hannah
I liked making the koala bears. Emily
We made dip and we got to eat it. I liked it. Brianna
We made hummus and we dipped crackers in. Jackson
We looked at these sprouts and they look like seeds. We put hummus on crackers. Harry

Today Room 2 ran the whole school assembly. I was so proud of how well you did. You were fantastic. To think we only started practising this morning. It was lovely to see so many parents and a Nana, there to support you.

Last week Jonty, Ben, Jackson, Michael and Hannah taught the class their games. They did very well explaining the rules to everyone. On Friday morning we got the chance to play the games. Well done, you did a great job. We are looking forward to learning more games this week as everyone else has their turn.

Below are our amazing takahe pictures. Wouldn't they look great as stamps to put on our mail. Pop into Mitre 10 in the next few days and have a look at them all up on the wall with the other competition entries.

Yesterday the Green table wrote their stories straight onto the laptops. This was their first time writing this way,so they had to think carefully, not only about what they wanted to write but where to find the letters they wanted, how to leave spaces and how to make a capital letter.
Mrs Paterson wrote under one story in a different colour to show just how well we can work out our unknown words. Please remember these stories haven't been corrected and are our first effort.
Click on them to make them bigger.

Welcome back to Term 4. I hope you all had a great holiday. This term you need to have a hat at school everyday just like Michaela in the photo. Remember- "NO HAT- NO PLAY."

Have a look at the "Undercover Cody" website in the link under his picture. It has lots of fun ways to learn how to be sunsmart. Share this with Mum and Dad.

I hope you all have a wonderful holiday after a very busy term.
If you have a chance, please add a sticky note to the new "Wallwisher" (at the top of the blog) about what it was like learning and presenting your circus skill.
A big thank you to Ben and Jonty's Nana for the yummy marshmellow mushrooms. What a lovely end of term treat. Remember to keep reading and practicing your wordblast.

We are clowns on PhotoPeach

Room 2- You are all stars. I was proud of you for working hard to learn a new skill.I hope you have really enjoyed our Circus Inquiry. Thank you to Mrs Robinson for writing such a fun webquest.

The LAVs come to visit on PhotoPeach

Ronald McDonald singing "Stop Look and Listen"

Ronald reminds us to "Make it Click" Do you know this song? Remember it each time you go in the car and keep safe.

Stepping Out with Constable Roz on PhotoPeach

Green Day at Riverlands School on PhotoPeach

Today was GREEN DAY at Riverlands School. Nearly everyone came dressed in something green. There were lots of fancy hats and decorated vegetables.
We had a very special surprise when Ronald McDonald came to visit the junior school just before lunch. Then when we got back to our rooms we found pieces of "Green eggs and ham" (vegetable fritatta) and fruit and marshmellows to make our own delicious fruit kebabs.
The day didn't end there. Next we had House activities including face painting, collage, playdough and art.
WHAT A FANTASTIC (AND TIRING) DAY


I liked Ronald McDonald even though I didn't like him when I was Little. Emily Kate
I liked the face painting. I got a butterfly. Hannah
I got 2 butterflies at face painting. Emily
A big girl painted a moustache on me. Levi
We had to make insects with play dough. I made a worm. Michael
I liked the face painting because I got a moustache and a train on my head. Jamie
I liked the playdough because I made a snail. Eric
I like face painting because I got a star and a spider and a moustache. Jonty
I liked Ronald McDonald when he said, "Bye bye baby." Ben R
I liked the playdough because I won when I did the octopus. Ruby
I liked the chicken kebabs. Dylan
I like Ronald McDonald because he didn't know he was at Room 10. Harry
I liked the fruit kebabs because there were lots of different fruits. I tried them all. I put marshmellow at each end. It tasted very nice. Jackson
I liked Ronald because he said, "I'm just going to run across the road" but we said "No!" Alice
I liked the playdough because I made a snail. Brianna
Ronald McDonald had a sock that stuck to the clothes line on the big book. Conal
I liked the face paint because the boy gave me a moustache. Ben W

Today was the first day of "Green Week". Our school has been asked to be the first school to launch Green Week. We have lots of fun things to do all week. Today we had a "Really Wheelie Fun Day." This slideshow shows some of the beautifully decorated wheelie things.Tomorrow we have lots of fun games at lunchtime and then a Green Assembly. On Wednesday there is green face painting and library fun.
Thursday is Keep NZ Beautiful Day so we will be doing a clean up and then the teachers will take on the Yr 8 netball team!!
Friday is time for House fun and a special visit from a mystery guest.

We have been learning to write descriptions. We made this slideshow called "Who am I?" Can you guess who we are?
Who am I? on PhotoPeach

Army Band Concert on PhotoPeach

Today we re-did our reading charts. They have all the activities we do a reading time to help us get better with our reading and writing. This new slideshow shows some of them. The children can tell you about their favourite ones.

Arts Interchange: Drama with Mrs Craig

Today we had drama with Mrs Craig.
We played a lying game. Some did an action with no sounds and when the person came back in and asked what we were doing, we had to tell them we were doing something else.
We pretended to be animals. We couldn't talk, we just had to do actions.
We got cards with pictures on and we had to make sound and find the other person with the same sounds.
We had lots of fun.

Maori Games and Pastimes with Mrs Robinson on PhotoPeach

Have a look at this great new Website set up to tell all about the Winter Challenge. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on "Your Photos". Do you recognise some of these people?
http://www.healthyas.org.nz/
You can copy this address or click on the direct link at the top of this page.

More Orange Day photos on PhotoPeach

More Orange Day photos on PhotoPeach

Orange Day: Healthy as on PhotoPeach

Because Mrs Paterson had to go away before our Disco last term, Mrs Boyce kindly took some photos of us having a great time.
Thank you Mrs Boyce.

Disco Fun on PhotoPeach

In the last week of term 2 we had lots of sick children who sensibly stayed at home to get better. Michael was away for a whole week and missed out on making bread faces with our Buddies. His lovely mum helped him make his own bead face and it was HUGE!!! This is a photo of the story he wrote about how he did it.

These short videos are of our buddy class sharing some of their science experiments with us. We had to predict what we thought would happen. When we finished we all ate the bread faces we had made together earlier in the day. We have had a great time with our buddy class this year.

Making bread faces with our Buddy Class on PhotoPeach

Try this cool new gadget. Click on the link above and you can add a "Stickie note" to tell me what you liked about our Breadmaking Inquiry. Your Mums and Dads can have a go too. I am looking forward to seeing your notes.

What a surprise we got when Sharon from Brumbys arrived in Room 2 with a big box filled with our bread. How kind of her to deliver it to us at school. The smell was amazing. We were amazed at how big our bread had become. Mrs Paterson gave it out to us and we had our photo taken before we started eating.
For those parents who didn't get to see the bread (a lot was eaten before school ended!!!) this is what it looked like.
Thanks Brumbys for giving up your time to answer our questions and for letting us make bread in a real bakery.

Our Visit to Brumbys on PhotoPeach

Our Wonderful trip to Brumbys

I found out how to make dough in the big mixing machine. Hannah
The big machine rolled my dough into a long sausage so I could plait it. Emily Kate
I could smell the dough baking in the ovens. Emily
I made a smiley face with my dough. Alice
They put the dough into a big machine that "proves" the bread. Jamie
When the bread was in the prover it got bigger as the yeast worked. Jonty
In the big ovens the tray was spinning round so the bread all cooked at the same time. Ben R
I made an E with my dough. I put poppy seeds on it. Eric
I put two kinds of seeds on my dough. Dylan
I made a W and I put black seeds on it. Ben W
I made a happy face and I put poppy seeds on it. Ruby
I made a Triangle face. Harry
I put a big hole in my dough to make a doughnut. Jackson
I made a L and I put sesame seeds on it. Levi
I made a doughnut and Sean sprayed water on it to make the seeds stick. I both seeds on it .Michael
I made a J and I put both seeds on it.Jonty
I saw how they put the cheese and ham into the dough. Riley

During the last week we have written a recount of our pizza making. Each day a different group worked with Mrs Paterson describing how we made our pizzas. It was shared writing and we all had turns at writing. You can see our draft and finished story at school.
This is our completed story and who helped with each piece of writing.

Making Pizza:

We put warm water in the breadmaker bowl. Then we put in the flour.
Next we added salt, sugar and oil. Then we put it in the breadmaker.
It whirred and whizzed as it mixed our dough.
(Jamie,Alice,Levi, Emily)

When the dough was ready we took it out of the machine. The dough was gooey and sticky.
Mrs Paterson kneaded the dough and rolled it into balls.
We rolled it into a pizza shape with the happy sticks. It was squishy and sprung back.
(Hannah, Michael, Harry, Jackson)

Plop went the tomato sauce as it landed on the pizza. Next came the mozarella, the tomato,pineapple,ham,salami and mushroom.
We got to try everything. Some of it was delicious. We can't wait until the mozarella is all gooey and our pizzas are ready to munch and crunch for our lunch. YUM!
(Jonty, Ben, Ruby, Emily-Kate)

We could smell the tasty pizza when we came into the room.
We took a big bite and the gooey cheese stretched like bubble gum.
The pizza was DELICIOUS!!!!
(Riley,Eric, Dylan, Ben W)

Pizza Making on PhotoPeach

Today we had a wonderful time making Bread. We used the same recipe and used it 3 different ways. Each dough had a different type of yeast. We made one lot of bread in the breadmaker so the machine did all the work. The other two mixtures took a bit of work. We all had a turn at kneading the bread and it when from "clumpy" to "smooth and silky". Mrs Boyce and Mrs Alderlieste we a wonderful help.

Experimenting with Bread on PhotoPeach

Two very proud big brothers with their new baby brothers. Thanks for sharing your photos boys.