Striving to Succeed Awards & Te Rapa Pools trip

Week 9 has been another busy week for all of us in Room 5! To start off our week we have had two new students join us - Manav Patel and Ella Knight, they are having a lot of fun in Room 5! On Wednesday we had our Prize giving Assembly. There were a lot of awards, trophies and certificates handed out, it was great to see! This year Zayne Fisher and Legend McLaren received the special "Striving to Succeed" award. These two boys have had amazing success in Room 5. We are all very proud of their achievements. On Thursday we had our annual Te Rapa Pools trip. This was a whole school event, so there were a lot of Stanley Ave students out and about! The Juniors had a great time under the sprinklers and water fountains and lots of swimming was done. It was a very fun day , and very tiring! Some Room 5 students even had to have a wee nap on the way home. Check out some of the cool photos from the pool trip , and of course our two award winners!

Junior Camp Day

Yesterday we were all lucky enough to participate in the Junior Camp Day. We went on a treasure hunt through the wetlands to find clues that Stanley Bear had left behind. Room 5 were very good at spotting the clues , we found all 18 of them! When we made it back to school we had to work out where Stanley Bear had left our treasure. We put our clues together to solve the puzzle and worked out that our treasure was buried in the sandpit! After some morning tea the Junior School were mixed up to form teams. Throughout the day children had fun with water activities, the parachute, canoes and even grass skis! By lunchtime we all sat down and enjoyed a yummy sausage and a juicy. We all had a lot of fun and were very tired at the end of the day. A big thank you to our great parent helpers who came for our walk around the wetlands and helped on activities throughout the day.

Alphabet Superstars!

Congratulations to Lily, Briar and Paityn who know all of their letters in the alphabet!! Good work girls, I hope you enjoy your prizes, keep up the good work.

Next week we have our end of year trip to the Hamilton pools. Don't forget we need your money and permission slips as soon as possible.

Week 7!

Another week over already!! The term is going by very fast! We had a new class member join Room 5 this week - A big welcome to Jeremiah Tilsley! See if you how fast you can put together the cool puzzle we have created using a photo of Jerry!

Last weekend our class art was entered into the Te Aroha A&P show. We had all worked on created a picture of the tree outside Room 5 when it was in blossom. We used sponges, paint brushes and our thumbs! On Monday we were excited to find out that three of our class members had won prizes in the 5 year old ,paint section!! Congratulations to Johnny (2nd), Gaebriel (1st) and Briar (3rd)! Great work guys!



Here are some pictures of Room 5 doing their tumble activities. We had a few new activities to work out this week , it was great to see everyone showing their team player skills and being very helpful when others got stuck.

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.

Teddy Bears Picnic

On Friday we had a Teddy Bear's Picnic in Room 5. The wet weather meant we had to have it inside. This was a farewell to Vayden, Calais, Rico and myself.
This will be my last post!!
It has been wonderful working with the children at Stanley Avenue School and I will miss everyone.

I will be checking out the blogs from time to time to see what has been happening.

Here is Room 5 with their Teddies:

My last week

This is my last week coming up. I will be sad to stop working in Room 5! But I hand over to a lovely teacher - Miss Hayley Williams. She is going to be great!
We welcome some new people to Room 5, Briar and Sean. We are glad that you are with us!
This is the last week for Vayden and Calais, they are moving into Room 6. We hope you enjoy it as they will surely enjoy you being with them.

Ice Cream

Today we made some ice cream. Miss Thomas from Room 6 brought us in some farm milk to use. It was yummy. Our hands got very cold shaking it. Here is the recipe:

Five Minute Ice Cream
1 tablespoon sugar
1/2 cup of milk/cream
1/4 teaspoon vanilla essence

6 tablespoons salt
Bag of ice
Big zip-lock bags
Small zip-lock bags

1. Put ice and salt in a big bag
2. Put sugar, milk and vanilla essence in the small bag
3. Zip up small bag and place it into the middle of the ice in the big bag
4. Zip up big bag and ...
    SHAKE IT!!!

Here are some photos of us making it:

Yum!

Today we were given some Homemade Ice Cream from Room 6. They made enough to share with us. We might have a go at making some next week. It was very nice.
Thank you Room 6 for sharing with us.
We have got a Story Book Castle in our room. On the door are the passwords we have to read before we go into the castle. We are going to write some awesome stories and put them where the bricks go. I can't wait to see what the children write.
Here is a photo of us enjoying the ice cream.

Here is the ice cream close up

Cross Country

Here we are all ready to run. Sorry I took so long. I forgot that I took a photo on my phone.

August 2014

Welcome to Paityn and Taylor who started this week. We know we are going to enjoy having you in Room 5.
We had our Cross Country on Wednesday, everyone ran really hard. It was lovely to see lots of parents and whanau there. That morning we made a playground. We have been looking at what it was like at school when our parents were five and one of the questions we asked was: Did you have a playground and what was on it? So we decided to build our own. Here is a collage of us making our playground and another collage of our creations.

Term 3

Oh dear, it is already nearly the end of Week Two and this is my first post. Sorry!!
We have started the term off with a little class. We did welcome Lily in Week One and at the end of that week , we had to farewell Ocean who has gone back to Tokoroa.
We have set some goals for our Reading and Writing and if we achieve them we might get a special prize. We were donated a lot of things from the owners of Cockerton's and thanks to them we can use them to make our learning even more special. Thanks!!
 Gaebriel and Laelah-Belle have been entertaining us with little shows this week. Here they are singing for us.

July Holidays

Hi all,
The holidays are upon us already and I remembered about putting our end of term photo up.
We say goodbye to seven students, six of who are off to Room 6 and Zachary who is off to Australia.
So it is farewell from Room 5 to Stacey, Emere, Talia, Lay-Quan, Saskia, Billie and Zach.
We made some more lemonade as our farewell to them all. Yum!

Have a happy and safe holiday break! See you all on 21 July.

29 June

The term is nearly over. Next week is our last week, amazing how quickly the year is going. 

We welcomed two new students last week - Michael and Zayne. We are glad you are with us. 

Next term seven of the children will be moving to Room 6. Exciting times for them. 

We will miss them but we need to make room for the new people over the term. 

We had a making and creating week. The children made some interesting egg carton creations on Wednesday. Then on Friday they made a car out of boxes with Mrs Prattley. 

Parents - don't forget to book your time for interviews!

Old Fashioned Lemonade

On Friday we made some lemonade. We squeezed the lemons then added sugar and hot water to sweeten it. It was really yummy. We learnt about 'sour' and 'sweet'. We tasted the lemons and they were sour and the lemonade drink was sweet.
We welcomed Zion and Gaebriel to our class this week.
Sadly we farewell Bailey and Reeve who move to Room 6 next week. We will miss them both but we can still catch up as they are only next door.
Here is a picture of them enjoying the lemonade.

The Wetlands

We went for a walk around the Wetlands last Friday. I have made some photo collages to share what we saw.
We welcomed Amber to our class last week and we welcome Zion today. We hope you enjoy your school days.

Foyer Display

Come in and have a look at our display by the office. It is up for all of June.

2 June

We had a wonderful week last week. We welcomed Laelah-Belle to our class.
We also had the Book Fair at school and we got to dress up as a book character on Friday.
Here is a photo of us.

24 May 2014

We have had a great week yet again.
On Wednesday we used our PMP Equipment in the Rec Centre. We often go and do this but this week I remembered to take the camera and here are some collages of the photos.

18 May

We had a wonderful week last week. We welcome Ocean to our class. She has moved to Te Aroha from Tokoroa. We hope you enjoy your new town.
We enjoyed The Minstrel's performance on Friday. We learnt a lot about 'Fishing for the Future'.
We have been working on a lot of things this week. We made some wonderful spider webs and the glitter looks very special.
Here is a picture of us enjoying The Minstrel. Calais got a prize for her dancing.

Term 2

We have had a good first week back at school.
Two new people started this week, Calais and Rico. Welcome to Room 5.
We have been learning to write some words:
'I am to the'
Some of us can write all of these and lots more words too!!
We made a cool mother's day present and wrapping paper.
We made some playdough with Kelly that went a bit yucky and sticky on our hands.

Pikelets then Poppies

We had a real making day today.
We made pikelets for morning tea and then after that we made some poppies to wear to the ANZAC service at 2.30.
Here is a collage of some of us stirring, and all of us eating.

Here is the recipe.

Here are the poppies we made.

April 13

Welcome to Vayden, we are glad that you are here.
On Friday at Assembly we sang an alphabet song with Casey leading us, showing us the sign language for each one. Well done Casey, thanks for teaching us.
We made a brochure called 'The Best Lunch Box Ever'. This went home with all the children on Friday. Have a look at what we decided made a healthy lunch box.
This is the last week of term and we sadly farewell seven children. They are off to Room 6. So we say goodbye to: Max, Rhyce, Casey, Chloe, Jake, Imogen and Maddy. I am really sad to see you go but with the numbers growing in Room 5 we need to make room for new students. We have a number of new people next term.
I just found this cool iPad app. It is called Puppet Work Shop. I just made these puppets and saved the picture to my photos.

5 April

We welcomed Saskia this week.
We have been working hard on our writing and everyone has a new goal to work towards. It is exciting to see the progress the children are making, some are working towards writing two or three sentences.
It is lovely to see some of the children bringing some writing that they have done at home.

Here is a photo of a few of us at Book Box time.

Mrs Wishy Washy

This week we have been reading Mrs Wishy Washy Books by Joy Cowley. We have enjoyed all of them. We talked about the 'sequence' of events, the 'problem' in the story that Mrs Wishy Washy had, and who the characters are.

Here is us reading Mrs Wishy Washy.

Basketball Skills

We worked with Kirsty today. Here are a couple of photos of us learning bouncing skills and our winners of 'Rob the Nest'.

ASB Moneywise Visit

We had a visitor on Thursday to tell us all about money. It was pretty amazing what the children knew already.
One thing we learnt was that we should:

"Speed to our needs and wait for our wants!!"

Here we are answering lots of questions.

Harold

We had two wonderful visits with Harold and Shelley. Here we are with Harold.

Here is Shelley with Harold. Thanks you two!!