Junior Athletics Fun Day 2014 and new class members

Room 5 has been very busy this week. We had a group of  9 children come to visit us on Wednesday for their pre-school visits which was very exciting.

Room 5 has some new faces! We have welcomed Taylyn Walker, Alexis Broekhals and Ciana Allen to our classroom.

On Thursday the junior syndicate participated in the Junior Fun Athletics Day. Room 5 students took part in the long jump, relay races, balls skills, parachute activities and high jump - what a busy and fun day! Thanks to the parents that came and watched us all, it was great to see you there.

Week 6 

Room 5's earthquake drill

This week we talked about what to do if there is an earthquake. We watched a video that had a cool song on it and showed us what we should do. After that we had a practice. Here are some photos from our earthquake drill and a link to the clip we watched.

Turtle Safe

Sunny Days

It has been lovely and sunny the last few days, so we have been having our milk outside in the sun. We are all very good at remembering to wear our hats. Here is a photo of room 5 during our milk and fruit break.

What's happening in Room 5 this week....

Room 5 has been very busy this week. We have been working on our story writing, practicing counting forwards and backwards from 20 and keeping an eye on our seeds.

This week we welcomed Clarissa Rhodes to our class , who has moved to Te Aroha from Auckland. Clarissa has had a lot of fun making new friends with the Room 5 children. Her favorite activity in class is working on the iPads and reading in our library corner.

This week our star learners were Zion and Lily who have been doing excellent reading in class and at home. Keep up the great work ! If you click on their picture below it turns into a puzzle!

Our Garden

This week we have been getting our garden ready so we can grow some vegetables. First we did some weeding ,then we planted some lettuces and some little tomatoe plants.

We have been talking about healthy food that we can grow ourselves and what we need to do to look after these plants.

We also planted some seeds that we are looking after in class. We have to remember to water them ,but not too much, and make sure they get sunlight.

We are very excited to see what happens with our seeds.

Livestock Day 2014

On Friday , Stanley Ave hosted the 2014 Livestock Day. Room 5 had a lot of fun looking at all the different entries. We had three students from Room 5 who entered animals. Johnny and Paityn entered calves and Briar entered her lamb.

Term 3 final assembly

On Friday we had our last assembly of the term , part of this was a chance for us all to say goodbye and good luck to Mrs O'Connor.

Many great items were shared. We had a quiz where Mrs O'Connor had to guess which of her previous students was behind a screen giving her hints to who they were , the students in the Kids for Kids choir sung a song and there was also a Kapa Haka performance. To finish off the assembly we all sung a song about Mrs O'Connor to the tune of "She'll be coming round the mountain ".
We will all miss Mrs O'Connor  but know she will have fun on her new venture down south.
Wishing you all the best on your new adventures,from all of us in Room 5.
Enjoy the rest of your holidays, not long until we see you back at school, don't forget in term 4 that we all need to be wearing our school hats, if you haven't got one you can buy them at the office.
See you all soon.