Kapa Haka

Our Kapa Haka group were awesome in assembly today!  

The Senior Social

We had a blast at our Senior Social last night!  We all looked pretty 'swag', and had loads of fun movin' and groovin' to all our favourite social songs.  The supper was awesome too!

The Great Potato Project

We have once again joined forces with Room 1 to participate in the Great Potato Project of 2018!  Working in teams of three, we had to plant our seed potatoes and say some magic words to help the potato grow well.  It will be interesting to see who can grow the biggest/heaviest potato this year!  We are looking forward to a big feast at the end of the year!  

Interhouse Quiz

Today we held the annual Interhouse Quiz!  The students in Rooms 4, 5 and 6 were divided up into teams and had to work together to answer 70 questions.  Topics included geography, general knowledge, history, famous places and faces, music, movies and books.  The results were amazingly close!

1st:  Totara
2nd:  Kauri
3rd:  Matai
4th:  Rimu

Congratulations to Kauri 5 - the winners!  Well done Holly, Hayden, Sophie, Isabella and Rielli.

Fun Times

We did some cool activities with our reliever, Mrs Skelton yesterday!

Firstly, we made 'Love Letters' to send to the children at Starship Hospital.  The letters are used to spell out a patient's name.  We hope the kids like our work!

In maths, we had a geometry/construction challenge, where we had to make the tallest tower using spaghetti and marshmallows.  Congratulations to Ruby, Abbie and Lucy, who won the challenge with a tower measuring 55cm tall!

Turbo Time

Our class turned into a full-on Green Machine today, at the Manawatu vs Wellington rugby match!  After winning a 'Game Day Experience' thanks to Norwood Farm Machinery, we were treated to a BBQ, (cooked by Turbos players), a tour of the training facilities the Turbos use, and tickets to the game.  Unfortunately the Turbos were well beaten.  We all had loads of fun though!

Drama Show - Cinderella

Well done to Regan, Shaun, Dylan, Ryan, Finlay, Shania and Ashlee, who were awesome in their performance of 'Cinderella' last week.  They spent loads of time practicing, and we're all proud of you for what you have achieved.  The show was very entertaining!  Great work kids!  Well done to Elisabeth and Bethany who helped out behind the scenes too.

Sports Fun Day & Sausage Sizzle

The Sports Fun Day was awesome!  We had heaps of fun planning, testing and actually teaching our crazy games to the other students at our school.  There were loads of laughs, some big wipe outs and great competitiveness shown on the day.  Well done Room 6.  You did good.  Check out the highlights:

Congratulations to the Y8 students from Rimu, who did a fantastic job of cooking a sausage sizzle for lunch.  Yummo!

Ball Rush

Some of the students in Room 6 have invented a new game - BALL RUSH!  This game is a combination of ball tag and bull rush.  Players must run from one end of the field to the other, while the taggers in the middle try to smash them with a swiss ball.  The result?  Complete carnage.

Tech Group B - Movies

Tower Building Championships

We launched into our latest team challenge today!  We were divided up into teams and had to build the tallest tower we could in eight minutes. Then our towers were measured and the results recorded.  We'll do this eight times with:

• buckets
• cards
• plastic cups
• atlases & dictionaries
• rods
• multilink cubes
• wooden 3D shapes
• plastic sticks and balls

We know that activities like this help us to develop HEAPS of great skills, such as decision making, compromise, communication, perseverance, problem solving and making a positive contribution to our team.  A steady hand helps too!

Check out the video from the action today!

Movie Making Fun

There were lots of giggles as Tech Group B launched into some movie making today...

Tech Challenge

Today we completed our first Tech Challenge in ages!  The problem?

'Forest fires are sweeping the land.  Build a tower that would allow Marge (our wee plastic doll) to keep watch and spot any new fires'.

Criteria:

• must be freestanding
• Marge must stand up
• the higher the better

We worked in teams and had about 45 minutes to construct our towers.  At the end of this time, 5/10 groups managed to make a tower that could actually stand up.  It was great to see some originality with some of the designs.  Congratulations to Rebecca, Shania and Holly, who were clear winners in the end.

Reflection:

Was your tower a success?  Why?

Message From Australia!

Remember this video?  Well, we've received an email about it...

Good Morning  Room 6,

My name is Mrs Kerrigan and I am the Music Teacher at Allendale Primary School in Geraldton, Western Australia.

I recently saw your amazing Synchronised Basketball assembly item (on youtube) and was blown away by it! I was just wondering if you would be able to let me know the name of the track that you used for it? Was it one easily accessible, or did you remix a few different songs into one?

I'd love to use the same track for a dance that we are doing next term.

Thank you so much for your help!

Mrs Kerrigan

How cool is that?  In case you're wondering, Geraldton is located on the west coast of Australia (see below).  Mrs Kerrigan will send us a copy of the video they make - awesome!

Tech - Final Rotation

Today we started our final rotation for Tech - we'll be all done in four weeks!  We are excited to start our new activity, and we're looking forward to learning new skills and making some cool stuff!

Check out what Group B made today: