Room 5 Hawera Primary

Welcome to Room 5 - 2011

2011-03-23T01:16:00.000-07:00

Hi everybody,

I am finally getting around to updating our classroom blog. It has taken me a while to get here, but now we are up and running I will update it as often as possible! Keep checking for updates!
Thanks for viewing Room 5's blog, please feel free to comment on any blog posts!

Miss Barraclough

Funky Town

2009-12-12T18:04:00.000-08:00

Congratulations on two awesome performances at the school concert. You all looked great and performed wonderfully.

Thanks to Lee for her fantastic costumes and to her daughter and my other helpers who applied face paint and dressed the children. The help was greatly appreciated.

Liz

School Picnic

2009-12-08T09:24:00.000-08:00

Yesterday we had an awesome time on the school picnic. The sun was shining and we had loads of fun at the park and the pool.

Thank you to everyone who organised and contributed to the day.

Grandparents Day

2009-11-16T23:35:00.000-08:00

On Friday the 13th we were very lucky to have lots of our wondeful grandparents spend the morning at school with us.

We began with a school assembly where some lucky people were given the ultimate bridge to sucess.After a cup of tea and some lovely baking the grandparents came and visited our classes. Some of our grandparents looked at our work and books, others made playdough models with us. Some grandparents even played target ball, hopscotch and elastics.

Before lunch the whole school went out to play house games on the field. We had so much fun.

We really enjoyed spending time showing our grandparents around and hope they enjoyed it too.

Room 5

Discovery Fun

2009-11-07T23:10:00.000-08:00

Today at Discovery we had lots of fun. Room 6 finished their scarecrows, we made huts with the sheets, built structures with the blocks and did lots of other interesting things.

We took lots of pictures on the two new cameras.

Target ball - Inquiry

2009-11-01T01:15:00.001-07:00

This week we have set up some games of target ball on our wall space.

The games were lots of fun to play.

We got into groups and decided what the target should look like and where it should go.

What do you think?????

Discovery time

2009-11-01T00:41:00.000-07:00

We spent an action packed morning learning new things. We made chipaties, (rice bread), bread rolls and hairy heads. The hairy heads were lots of fun. We made them out of stockings, cotton wool and grass seed.
We can't wait till they grow and we can give them hair cuts!

Cricket training

2009-10-27T00:29:00.001-07:00

Some of the class went out to critcket training today. It was really cold but we learnt lots of new skills.

Check out our Personal Recounts

2009-10-20T12:25:00.000-07:00

I was off to Sean-Michael's house to play tag. fter we played tag we played on the playstation 2. Later we played Seek and Destroy, it was a cool game. After we played the tank game we played Ben 10. We had fun chasing each other.

By Cameron

On Saturday it was my birthday. I got clothes and socks. They were nice. Today I am wearing green socks that only go to my ankle. Mum and I made my birthday cake. It was a bananna cake. It was yummy.

Shontel

Kung Fu is my favourite movie. Mummy, Daddy and I wathced Kung Fu on Saturday night. My favourite movie made me giggle a little bit. So we all snuggled up on the sofa and watched it. Dad smiled at the funny parts and some of the silly parts too. Mummy was making us smile by doing a silly dance.

Shyla

In the weekend I went to my Dad's house because it was his weeken. I played X box 360 because it was fun. I felt lazy when I got there because I was playing with my train set.

Casen

I went to the Warehouse to get me a sword and I got a game to play with. My Uncle Paul and I clocked it.

Whetu

In the weekend I played with my little brother. We played with the power miner. I was happy crashing into trees.

Ethan

Yesterday Cameron came to my house. It was a great time to see him coming to see me. Cameron said, "I like your house". We played Seek and Destroy. It was a crack up when we went into the water. When we played we screamed loudly like a pig.

Sean-Michael

"Pooh that stinks", I said. I had a little look then I went back to bed. Cows were everywhere on the driveway. They looked scary and big. They looked disguisting. There were 20 of them. We had delicious breakfast after Mum's friend scared them away.

Georgia

My sister Gina jammed my finger and it was sore. Also I had to put my finger unde the water. After the blood blister was gone I went to play tennis on the drive way. It was hard to hit the ball. After a while we went back inside to watch TV. Later we had tea and had ice-cream. Then we went to bed and watched TV. After we watched TV we went to sleep. In the morning I had breakfast and went to school.

Michelle

WE NEED YOUR HELP

2009-10-13T00:17:00.000-07:00

For Inquiry learning this term we are goingto make the environment in front of our class room more user friendly.

We would like to know:

What games do you play at your school?

What games do you play in front of your class?

What do you play on the concrete?

Do you have any games marked on your concrete?

Please leave your comments or email us: r5@haweraprimary.school.nz

Thanks

Room 5

Our Assembly Item

2009-09-25T22:50:00.000-07:00

Today we shared our item for assembly.

We worked hard all week to get it just right.We showed our robot pictures and performed a robot dance. We all read a piece of our robot poem to assembly.

Mrs Williams was really proud.

Discovery Day with Room 6

2009-09-25T22:45:00.000-07:00

Today we shared our discovery with Room 6. We woked hard to show Room 6 all of the skills we had learnt this term.We have got really good at sharing and working together to complete things.

Today we made some jewellery, created colour spinners, played with some boats and created felt stories. We have even started learning to juggle scarves.

Lots of fun was had and we finished the session by making pop corn.

Yum!

Weeding our class garden

2009-09-15T12:05:00.001-07:00

Georgia is digging the garden. Sophie is weeding the garden. Madison's Dad and all the kids helped to clean up the garden ready to plant. Tyler and Mason are sotfening the garden soil.

We will plant the garden on Thursday.

Abigail's night with Harry

2009-09-15T12:01:00.000-07:00

Today Harry came home with me. First before we came home we went to the petrol station and I made Harry sit on the roof of the car. When I put Harry on the roof I made him slide down the curved bit. When we were going home Harry sat on the back of the seat. We had fun. We went to my Nana's house because my Aunty Amy wanted to show Mum the Halloween costume. My Mum took a picture of Harry and I in my bed, on my skateboard, and Harry drawing on a piece of paper with one of my Mummy's good pen's.

By Abigail

Making Piklets

2009-09-10T22:01:00.000-07:00

We had a yummy discovery day today. We made piklets. We had to follow the recipe and then double the mixture to make enough for everyone.

We had to use an electric mixer and an electric fry pan in the class to cook them.

Other children made snow globes today with a jar, water, glitter, food colouring and some things to put inside.

We also played with the playdough, cars and farm animals.

Liam took the photos today.

Our School Cross Country

2009-09-10T20:01:00.000-07:00

Today we went to a nearby farm to run the Hawera Primary Cross Country.

We had to run on a muddy track that smelled of cow poo!!
Some people got wet and lots of people got dirty.
In the 6 year old boys Liam came first, Tyler second and Mason third.
In the 6 year old girls Shontel came second and Alyssa third.
Terry came third in the 7year boys and Michelle came third in the girls.
Although it was cold we still had fun and ran really well!!

Terrys Power bot.

2009-09-09T15:11:00.000-07:00

In the holidays I made a power bots thing. It was a robot. At first my mum and I did not know where the switch was but then mum found it. The robot looks funny when it goes. The hardest thing about it was when the arms had to go on the chasy.

By Terry

Abigails day off !

2009-09-09T14:45:00.001-07:00

On Wednesday I helped my Dad. Me and Dad went to NDA to take these things that go on the bottom of big tankers. After we went to Eltham and I got a chocolate and vanilla ice-cream, but I didn't eat all of it because I can't eat while I am travelling. So my Dad ate the reast of it. We were in my Dad's blue truck and I sat in the front because there is no back seats.

By Abigail

Ronald McDonald visit

2009-09-03T17:03:00.000-07:00

This morning Ronald McDonald came to visit the junior syndicate.

Ronald McDonald talked to us about road safety.

We need to remember to STOP, LOOK and LISTEN!!!!

It is essential to wear a helmet when we are biking.

When you are going out in the car you need to MAKE IT CLICK!

When we are walking we need to stay on the house side of the footpath and watch for hidden driveways.

By Sophie

Discovery with Room 3

2009-08-29T01:58:00.001-07:00

On Friday Room 3 came to share some of our discovery time with us. We had a great time. We learnt some great skipping moves, made a new structure for the train track, made puppet shows and felt stories. Some of us even finished jigsaw puzzles.

We also used salt to float an egg in water.

There was lots of sharing and questioning, not to mention helping each other.

Pancakes will be one of next weeks discovery! Yum!!!

Mathletics

2009-08-29T01:53:00.000-07:00

This week we have been playing mathletics on the computer. Most of us had our bronze awards after 1 day of playing. We have learnt lots of new things and have played live maths against people from all over the world.

Mathletics is only avaliable until 9am on Monday.

Discovery Day - 21 August

2009-08-21T01:54:00.000-07:00

Today Janna came to help out with discovery day. Some of us made play dough with her. It was lots of fun, we had to follow a recipe and work together to measure the ingredients.

Caleb, Ethan and Casen spent lots of time co-operating to get the railway built. They even found some boxes from last week and used them to create tunnels and sheds for the trains.

Some of us learnt how to skip in a big rope. We had to get our timing right or the rope hurt when it hit you. Tyler and Jahleea couldn't skip at the start of discovery but were superstars by the time they finished.
We also used the lego, the felt stories and worked on reading eggs on the computers.

Wonder what discovery next week will be?????

Discovery Day

2009-08-15T01:57:00.000-07:00

We had our first discovery day today and it was lots of fun. Some of us make marble tracks and others used lots of different things to blow bubbles. We used the camera and the computers.

We had lots of fun and found out that it is important to share, co-operate with each other, listen to our group, challenge ourselves and lots more.

Wonder what we will do next week????

Our future All Blacks

2009-08-13T16:45:00.000-07:00

Congratulations to our two future All Blacks, Liam and Tyler. Both boys won prizes at their rugby prize giving.

Look out Richie McCaw and Dan Carter!!!

Clowning around for art day!!

2009-08-06T16:37:00.000-07:00

Today Room 5 made Clowns and we are having fun.We coloured in with pastels.But before we used the pastels we used a pencil and a vivid.

By Abigail and Mason.

STRIKE percussion

2009-08-06T15:50:00.000-07:00

On Thursday we went to the hall to watch STRIKE percussion. There were 3 men in the group.

The music they played was really, REALLY loud. They played drums, high has and snare drum, they even made music with cans of Fresh up.
Cameron enjoyed when they all played the drums. Most of the class enjoyed the part when they made music with fire.
Lots of the class would like to learn to play an instrumnt.

By Room 5

Janna and Luke visit with the puppy

2009-08-01T01:30:00.000-07:00

Today we all got to pat Luke and Janna's new dog. She wore a pink top and was very soft.

Fresh Food Friday

2009-08-01T01:12:00.000-07:00

On Friday we made and served Nachos for 120 people at school. Some of the children helped to plate up the Nachos for the children and some of the class counted the money. We made $160 profit. Well done Room 5 and thank you to the parents that helped.

Gymnastics Lessons

2009-08-01T01:05:00.000-07:00

Each week every class at Hawera Primary get gymnastics lessons. We are learning to land and jump and complete forward and backward rolls.

The Amazing Race

2009-07-28T01:39:00.000-07:00

Today we went on the Amazing Race around Hawera. It took all day and our legs were really tired at the end! We went to the STDC, the library, climbed the water tower and had to find lots of places around Hawera and take a photo of them.

We learnt lots of things about Hawera to share with others.

Story Maker

2009-07-28T01:24:00.000-07:00

Story Maker Try this fun new way to create your own book. You choose the characters and write the story the way you want it to happen.

Symmetry at school

2009-07-27T01:43:00.000-07:00

We went around school today looking for symmetry. We found lots and took some photos of what we found.

Friday Show and Tell

2009-07-23T15:02:00.000-07:00

I got a Rio Grand canon train set on my 7th birthday. It came with a box car, an open truck and caboose.

By Caleb

On two Saturdays I rode my motor bike on a dirt track. It was in a race and I lost. I brought my motor bike gear to show the class today. I have a helmet, goggles, boots, armor and a top with matching pants.

By Casen

Follow along while listening

2009-07-22T01:53:00.000-07:00

Here is a link to click on where you can listen to stories and and follow along on the computer screen.

STORIES

Which story did you enjoy? Leave a comment and tell me.

Mrs W

Congratulations

2009-07-20T21:31:00.000-07:00

Congratulations to all the children who have recieved a Bronze Bridge to Success in the last two terms.

Keep working hard towards your Silver Bridge.

Abigail's Holiday

2009-07-20T17:07:00.000-07:00

In the holidays I went to New Plymouth to go to my cousin Eloras birthday party. Elora tured 8 on the 17 th of July. We went Ten Pin Bowling. Her cake was a number 8 that was a bluey/green colour with bats and and a cat on it.I won Ten Pin Bowling with 123 points. Elora got 101 points and her friend Larisa got 72 points. I got a goddy bag with choclate in it.Iwent with my mum and sister Madison. I stayed there for a night and went to marbles for tea. I went home at morning tea time and when I played on the Wii. I made two more mii people and one was called Puphead and the other one was called Sadface.At Bowling I saw my friend Fiona from my dancing.

By Abigail

Mason's Holiday

2009-07-20T15:50:00.000-07:00

In the holidays I went to New Plymouth and I got more marbles. I have 199 of them. I had Mc Donalds for lunch and we had a milk shake. I have 1 big marble. I`M GETTING MORE
MARBLES FROM SHI KAKAIA.

My Holiday

2009-07-20T15:48:00.000-07:00

In the holidays our family went to a new house. I like it. It has a creek behind the house. In summer we can hop in the pool.

By Liam

Welcome to Term 3

2009-07-19T00:50:00.000-07:00

Welcome to our new blog site and to Term 3 2009.

On this blog over the next two terms you will be able to view activities and work the children in Room 5 have been working on.

There will also be a range of games and activities that can be accessed on the web which can help the children develop and practice skills they are learning in class.

Please feel free to leave comments for the children to read and this will boost their self esteem, as children love reading comments about things they have been doing.

Feel free to pop in and ask if you are not sure how to leave a comment.

Mrs Williams