Harold and Jacky

Kia ora! (hello)

Last week Harold the giraffe and Jacky paid us a visit. This time it was about what makes us unique.

We now know that our finger prints are very unique. So are zebras stripes. We listened to some music and made up own special story about how it made us feel.

We got out Harold's toy doll Tam. We talked about the  

 the muscular system... and the skeletal system... and 

 the air system, AND s m o k i n g. We checked the tree mail and we

got some books and a surprise in a big box!

Day 2 we watched a cartoon about smoking, nicotine, is it really that

hard to quit and tar. Tar? Yes, tar.

 

We pretended to go in a spaceship and go to a planet where everyone was the same. 

And we talked about how different we are.  We also talked about how many chemicals there are in smokes.

At the end we watched a song that Harold wrote.

At last we gave Harold some hugs and said good bye.

                                             Bye bye Harold and Jacky, see you next year!

Jeannie & Regan

Symmetrical Stuff

For maths this term were looking at reflection, rotation, and translation so were looking at symmetrical  objects. We had three cameras and we were sent off in pairs. Zayleah and Alex was a pair, Briana and Chilay were together, and Abbey and Natasha were together in a pair.

With the cameras we got loads of photos of things that are symmetrical.

Abbey and Natasha's best photo was the pipe slide.  The pipe slide has a line of symmetry right down the middle.









Chilay and Birana's found a tyre.  A tyre has an infinite number of lines of symmetry.  Infinite means that they can't be counted,  finite means they can be counted.





 

Zayleah and Alex's best photo was a cricket stand which was yellow.  It's line of symmetry goes right down the middle stump.

There are some more photos below.  See if you can find the lines of symmetry on them.















By Natasha and Chilay

Welcome Room 6 2010

Welcome! Just look at us, we're a LLL .  (lovely luscious lot)
This term we are going to be 
busy working on Dinosaurs, wow! 


In our class there are 21 students.
We are now seniors  and  we've got duties . This morning was Tuesday February 10 the flag was hung upside-down!  Apparently that is a sign of distress so we were waiting for the rescue helicopter to land on the library roof and rescue us all.  Luckily our flag people turned it round in time.


We have heaps of exciting things to look forward to this term so please keep reading our blog so you can find out about them.




Jeannie & Liam

Fishing - Year 5

All we knew about today was that we needed to bring our fishing rods and wear our walking shoes.

We started by walking from Henley into John Bull Gully, where we had lunch.

After lunch we did some fishing.

Most of us kept losing our bait and Chris had to keep putting new stuff on our hooks.

It was really windy, so windy that the wind would swirl around the river and it looked like mist, and then it would dump the water on us and we would think that it was raining.

Some of us caught crabs and some caught weed but no-one caught a fish.

When we were finished fishing we had to walk back to the cars.

After horse riding we went to Aramoana and had lunch. Then we went for a walk down the 'mole'. We tried to guess how long it was and we reckoned it was over 1km. We saw some seal at the end.

Next we went to the sand hills. It was really windy and we had to hold on to our boards. The climb to the top of the hill was really hard. Some of us went up in the grass beside the hill and that was easier. When we were at the top we got ready to zoom down.

Our body boards went really fast. We got sand in our faces and our eyes but it was fun. Some people had about 5 goes which means they had to walk up the sand hill five times.

Brenna came down on her stomach and she went real far.

Some of the girls found a cave and they had a rest in there.

There was a dead fish near where we were sitting. Yuck!

If you fell off your board and it zoomed away down the hill, then you had to walk way down to get it.

It was real fun.

Year 5 Outdoor Ed - Day 1

Monday was a fun day for the Year 5s. For a starter, it was the first day of our outdoor education and everyone was enthusiastic to know and see what we were going to do. Unfortunately Mrs T got a puncture on the way to our first activity so we had to wait a wee bit longer.

HORSE RIDING! Brenna was alergic to horses so she had to walk some of the way, but she got to ride some of the way. Our horses were really lovely - Samara rode Barney and he was a big tall horse. Natasha was on Trolls and he was very gentle.

First we had to have a helmet fitted and then we were allowed

to get on our horse. It was a bit scary at first but after a while it was OK.

We went way up some big hills - when you go up hill you have to lean forward and when you go downhill you have to lean back. Mrs T and Chris (Natasha's dad) had to walk!

We could see Port Chalmers from

the top of the walk. It was really cool.

From Samara & Natasha

Activ8

Look at this great looking bunch of kids - they are our Activ8 team who went down to KVC to do a whole lot of fun but hard activities. First we did a cross the river challenge, then a fill the bucket challenge. We had to fill the bucket but it had holes in it.

Our favourite activity was the spider web. You had to get your whole team through the web without touching the elastic, and once you used a hole, no one else could use it. Our team got 8/8 in that.

Next was the physical challenge and we all thought, "Oh no!" But it was no too bad. First you had to go under, over, under, over the hurdles then run to the monkey bars. It was so slippery that we all fell off. Then came the beams, but we did them easily. Then came the pyramid. We had to climb over it and it was high. Next was the climbing wall and then the pole. Then came a double bar thing that you had to go across without touching the ground.

The puzzle challenge was next and it was fun. You had to do lots of stuff and earn a puzzle piece but our instructor gave us the wrong piece. We finished it in 9 minutes.

Last of all we did a quiz but we did not do very well. On the way back to school, Travis' mum taught us how to say 'thank you' in South African. It is like 'by-a-donkey.'

We all had a cool day.

by Stacie and Sydney