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: