Cinderella

This week we had a visit from a story teller called Kim.  He came to show us a play called Cinderella.  He told us that this play has lots of dances and music, but there were no dancers or actors which surprised me because he wouldn't be able to do the play all by himself.  When Kim called up the first group of children, I then realised that all the classes were helping with the play.

Room 2 and 3 were birds and they had to clean the cobwebs from 

the walls and ceiling and eat the spiders up.

 Their part was funny when they were running around the room pretending to eat spiders.

Room 4 had to play the part where Cinderella was heading to the ball.  The fairy godmother danced around the room and then gracefully introduced Cinderella to the audience.

The children from Rooms 5 & 6 had to play the part where everyone was dancing at the ball.  I found the steps tricky because I had to do funny things with my feet but I managed in the end.  The clock was struck, Cinderella ran out and everyone danced to 'Dancing Queen.'

(Thank you to Deanna for this post)

Miniball

Our miniball players were treated to a special session with Brent Charleton and Lamar Gayle from the Otago Nuggets.

These two very tall men came to school to teach us some miniball skills.  We had lots of fun dribbling the ball up and down the court, trying to steal the ball of other players and passing the ball to each other.

Look at this great action shot!  He may play for the Nuggets one day.

Doctor Margaret Visits

Last week we had a visit from Dr Margaret. She was talking to the children in Rooms 5 and 6 about the organs in our body.

She brought along some plastic organs and we were able to hold hearts, lungs, a stomach, a liver and a small intestine.

She also brought her friend - the skeleton! He had a few bones missing but we thought he was awesome.



Dr Margaret explained how we can take care of our insides - wear protective clothing when we're riding bikes, exercise and not get too fat, eat lots of fruits and vegetables, drink lots of water and not to eat too many salty foods.

Dr Margaret is teaching Jasmine how to check her reflexes and now David is having a go. Don't sit too close or you might get kicked in the face!

Dr Margaret let us use a stethoscope to hear our heart beat. We worked with a buddy and we checked our buddy's heart rate. Our heart goes lub-dub, lub-dub. Our ear canals face forwards so we had to put the ear plugs in a special way or we wouldn't hear our heart so well.

We were able to check our pulse with a little clip thing that went on to our finger. A digital read-out told us what our pulse was. Some of us went for a run and checked our pulse again - it was way faster!




Nicole and Khali have found a new friend.


Here are Sydney and Brin checking their pulse. Brin's pulse at rest was 82 and after he had run around it was 106.

Thank you Dr Margaret for coming to visit us and thank you for answering all our questions.

Cross Country

This term we have been practising for our cross country. We run around the boundary of the whole school - twice. We think the hardest part is going up the hill beside the trees on the top field. Each time we ran Mrs Tobin timed us and we had to see if we could beat our time. We trained every day.



Now is the time for the BIG RACE. We have practised heaps and we are all nervous as we go to Balmacewen Intermediate. Lots of other schools are there. The day was really, really windy and it was really hard running into the wind. We all tried our very best and the rest of the school cheered us on.



Jacob and Camble came 7th and 8th in their race and everybody else did fantastic. We felt really puffed and proud at the finish. Here are some photos of us running to the finish line.

Busy Room 5

On Monday's we do buddy reading with the children in Mrs O'Donnell's and Miss Little's class. First we listen to our buddy read their story. Then we choose a picture book from the box and we read to our buddy.

We are learning how to make the reading interesting by asking our buddy some questions either about the story or about the pictures. Asking questions is sometimes hard because it is hard to think of a question.

We like buddy reading because it makes us feel important when we read to the little kids.






On Wednesday we participated in World Maths Day. Lots of children from lots of countries used the internet to answer maths questions. First we had to create our character by choosing a hair type, what shape and colour eyes we wanted, what clothes we wanted to wear, etc.

When you signed in, you competed against people from all over the world. We had to answer as many questions as we could in one minute. There was a bar on the screen that moved across if you got the questions right and you could see if you were beating the other people.

Most of us were really good. We had an hour each to see how many questions we could answer. The World Maths Day was trying to get 5 000 000 answers. We don't know if they made it but we helped.

It was fun and it was good for our maths.

Harold Visit

Do you know who this is? That's right. It's Harold.

Harold and the Life Education bus came to visit us at school this week. All the classes will be going to see Harold.







Jacob is looking confused and no wonder! He is looking at all the ooey bits that we have inside us, like our heart, liver, lungs and kidneys.

We are learning what these parts do and how to keep them healthy. Do you know that your brain feels like mushed-up avocado, looks like a walnut and smells like blue cheese.

We also looked at drugs. All medicines are drugs but not all drugs are medicines. Some drugs are helpful because they can help you get better, but some are harmful. You should never, ever take anyone elses medicine because it has not been made especially for you.

We like Harold coming to school because we learn heaps.

Sky High 2008

Look at this lovely, luscious lot!

This is the cool crew in Room 5 this year. Some of these children are in Year 5 and some are in Year 6.

We have been busy creating our CV's so that we can apply for all the jobs that the senior class has to do.

Our first unit this year is 'Amazing Me! What Lies Beneath?' We are going to be looking at all the important parts that we have inside our body. Stay tuned and you may find out some interesting (and yucky!) facts.