The Gorge Walk

We have been writing a recount of our exciting adventure on Monday - The Gorge Walk! Have a listen to Bethany's neat piece of writing. Can you hear the descriptive words and similes she has used?

Jesse Sergent cameto visit Ashhurst School

Today Jesse Sergent came to visit our school. He is a New Zealand cyclyist who has competed in the Commonwealth games recently.

Caitlin asked "How many years have you been cycling for?" "10 years" replied Jesse

Rhys asked "How many times have you come 2nd?" "Too many" replied Jesse

Rinaldo asked "How many sponsors do you have?"

Other wonderings we had but ran out of time were....

Tayla: How many places have you compete in?
Emerson: Who mostly wins the gold medals?

Lamb and calf Day

WALT write a recount about Lamb and Calf Day.

On Wednesday 27 October 2010 it was lamb and calf day. I took my lamb around the square on the field and I called it. I got a ribbon and it was for 2nd in care and attention. 1st in the whole group was Ryan. I had lots of fun!

By Emerson

Roimata's Cloak Learning Journey...

Assembly

Well done to room 16 who put on what I am sure was the best assembly this year! A big congratulations to Braedon who received the "Principal's Pencil" You are a star!

Roimatas Cloak

We read the story "Roimatas Cloak" and many wonderings came from the children...

- What is a cloak?
- What makes a cloak so special?
- Why is the cloak important?
- Can we have a cloak?

We thought we could make our own cloak that would represent us! We all brought a piece of material to school and wove it into the cloak. We saw how we can weave together and unite as one.

Music with Tim

We were lucky enough to have a music lesson with Tim! He can play two recorders out his nose! We had loads of fun dancing, marching and experimenting with instruments. We are all excited for our next lesson soon...

Photography - Electives - 2010

As promised, here is the presentation the photography team showed on our celebration day!

My Best-Loved Bear

My Best-Loved Bear

We read a book called "My Best-Loved Bear" which is about a bear so loved that it is worn and tatty. Room 16 thought it would be a neat idea for us all to bring our my loved bear to share with each other.

After a bunch of sharing we decided to write about our bears. I set the class the mission of:

- use descriptive words (adjectives)
- use a simile
- try to use at least two different conjunctions
- remember to use capital letters and full stops.


My teddy is as bright as a banana cake cake. Her name is Berry and I like Berry because she always keeps me in company and she is old as my big sister. Her eyes are like gold with sparkles. Her scarf is pink as a pink. She is special because she always sleeps with me.

By Taya

GYMNASTICS

Turanga team has been having a blast learning new gymnastic skills. Most of us enjoy using the vault and beam best! We talked about how we felt when doing something that is a personal challenge:
- scared
- sense of achievement
- worried
- proud
- excited
- buzzed

were all words we described the feeling as.

Persuasive Writing

We have been working on developing our persuasive writing to convince someone of our own opinion.

Over the last few days we have been working on letters to send to the editor of the Guardian Newspaper to convince them that our Dads are the best Dads ever!

Here is Jenna's:

Dear Editor,
In my opinion I strongly believe my dad is the best dad in the world because he always reads me a book every night. Firstly he always buys me treats and takes me to the shop everyday after school. Secondly, he gives me great big hugs and kisses because he loves me. Lastly he makes me smile because he cares about me. In clonclusion my dad is the best dad in the world because he always makes sure I m snug.

From Jenna

RAINBOW DAY

Today was rainbow day and what an amazing sight to see it was. All classes of Ashhurst School turned up in all the colours of the rainbow. I will post a photo of the final turnout shortly. Well done to room 16 who ALL dressed up and supported the fantastic cause of the Ronald McDonald house in Wellington. We raised over $170!

Juicy writing

We have been learning to use Juicy words to make our writing more interesting. Rain and Campbell have recorded theirs below:

Orkut Scrap Toys

Lady Bug Note Generators

Repeating patterns

ALGEBRA

We have been learning to find repeating patterns. Can you find our repeating patterns from around the school in these pictures?

How hard does our heart work?

We have been learning about "Our Amazing Machine"

We have discovered just how hard our heart really is working... Did you know your heart pumps 150 mils of blood around your body 70 times in one minute? Well we wanted to see if we could work as hard and fast as our heart...

Have a look at our video

How to save trees

Today we learnt to google - and we have found a number of ways to save trees.

1. Stop cutting down trees
2. Reuse things like paper boxes and other things that come from trees
3. Don't cut down trees until you really need to use them
4. Chose products that are recyclable
5. Don't pull bark off trees
6. Reuse newspaper
7. Plant as many trees as possible
8. Don't hurt nature
9. Don't let the bugs or woodpeckers on the trees
10. Reuse envelopes and make your own cards
11. Cure trees if they are ill

Do you know any other ways to help save our trees?

Leaf explanation

We have been learning to use a flip video. This is Lizzie's first go giving an explanation of a leaf. What do you think helps to make a good video?

The boys Haka

After lunch today these boys wanted to share a inspiring piece of our culture. I thought it was so cute I had to video and share this neat enactment.

Mrs Amos

Our Autumn Art!

We have been completing some autumn art lately - what do you think?

Eva's pet Rabbit

Room 16 was extremely lucky today to have a special visit from Eva's pet Rabbits. Over half the class had never touched a rabbit before! We all enjoyed this special visit, and are planning another pet visit for next week - I wonder what it could be?

What's on top...

- This week we have been doing jump jam, and we all felt really really hot afterwards. By Bethany

- This week we have been looking at trees and we have done leaf rubbings, and tree art. By Paige

- We have been writing about our favorite memories, mine was of the first day of school this year. By Brodie

"Pump it"

Room 15 and 16 have started learning a hip hop dance to "Pump it". Here is a video of our dance so far - we will up date this video regularly to show our progress throughout the term.

What do you think?

Other Junior class blogs

Here is a link to other junior class blogs if you are wanting to check out some other classes around Manawatu - Click here

Continued oral Language - By Rinaldo

Oral Language today - Cross country

Oral Language: Cross Country

"We had cross country on Wednesday the 11th May 2010. I came fourth!" By Roisin

"We had to chase a rabbit at cross country, and I ran the WHOLE way" By Eva, and Rain

"At cross country I ran with with Mrs Amos, we ran the whole way" By Tayla

"On Wednesday was the cross country, and we ran through the bush tracks. I came first, and I tried to catch up to the rabbit" By Campbell

"On Wednesday was the cross country. I hope everyone had a good time and enjoyed running" By Rhys

"I came fifth, it felt exciting" By Grace

"At cross country the year three girls had to run over this big hill. I came 14th" By Lizzie

"At cross country I finished the race in 3rd place" By Thomas


"We sat for a long time and we got to go on the playground" By Taya

Cross country!!!

The Builders

Images of our Triathlon

Mothers Day Poems

We have been writing mothers day poems this week.

Grace would like to share hers:

M is millions of hugs

O is the only mum for me

T is for being the most terrific mum in the world

H she is the happiness mum

E is she is an exciting mum

R is she is just right for

put them all together and they spell mother a word that means the world

Monday 3 May 2010

Welcome to week 3! Time is whizzing by so fast. Todays top star was Paige.

Room 16 has had a fabulous new change around. You will have to come and have a look.

"We did an exciting reading activity today about our own creature, this was really fun" By Thomas

"We have been talking about our wonderings of Our Beautiful World. We all want to know about what's inside trees and plants" By F :)

"I am excited about our secret activity. We have done big bright blobs to brighten up our cloak bay" By Lizzie

"I am excited to learn about Our Beautiful World" By Roisin

"We have been learning about features of creatures" By Campbell

"We have given our tables names, my table is called golden fire" By Ryhs

Ashhurst Memorial wall

Yesterday we went with room 15 to the Ashhurst memorial wall to conduct observational drawings of all the wreaths laid around the wall. Everyone gave this a good go and produced fantastic results! I am really impressed with some of the key words room 16 have come up with associated with Anzac day. Examples are:

Freedom, life, hope, hero, battle, survivor, love, families, lost, famine and trust.

Well done room 16!

We made ANZAC Cookies!

We had so much fun today making ANZAC cookies! The children were put into four groups and needed to follow the instructions of adding and mixing their ingredients. It was fantastic to see how well they all worked together. Once the biscuits were in the oven we needed to make labels for our packages. I was very proud of how well this exercise turned out - and amazingly not that big of a mess!

A visitor from the NZ Army

Today we had a visitor from the New Zealand Army - Sgt Mathew Hannah. The children found this an extremely rewarding experience and asked loads of questions. Mathew spoke to the children about what ANZAC meant to him - being a soldier, the importance of poppies and some general ANZAC knowledge. A big thank you to Sgt Hannah for taking the time and being with Room 16.

Welcome Back

Welcome back to term 2!

This week we have been focusing on ANZAC day. We have been making poppies, completing ANZAC art, constructed a class wreath and learnt lots of associated key words to do with ANZAC day.

Tomorrow we are making ANZAC cookies and are having a special visitor from the NZ Army. I will be putting photos on in the afternoon :)

Triathalon

What a fantastic day!!!

I was so proud how everyone participated today, well done to you all!

We had a great combination of individual competitors and teams.

Our year 2's completed:

* 1 x lap run

* 1 x lap bike

* 2 x widths of the small pool

Our year 3's completed:

* 1 x lap run

* 2 x laps bike

* 2 x widths of small pool

A great big pat on the back to you all :)

We learnt the life cycle of a butterfly

Welcome to blogging!

Kia Ora,

Welcome to Room 16s blog where we can all follow our learning journey. Please feel free to comment and participate within our blog.

Kind Regards

Mrs Amos