Science with G-Whiz and MP

Science

Swimming Fun in 2016!

Sports Extravangza Action!

Chemistry Chaos

Week 3!

An awesome and busy week in the Middle Room! Algebra, Biology, Cricket all just to name a few.

#bestclassever

Pet Day

Some action from Pet Day! It was great to have MP Todd Barclay along for the afternoon and also the wonderful Greer Muir.

Fraction Baking

First Lisa told us what we would be making. Lolly Cake - Yummy!

We separated the malt biscuits into 3 equal bags to crush. We had 9 biscuits in each bag with 1 biscuit left over. We crushed the biscuits with baked beans and pineapple tins.

Nga cut up the eskimo lollies into quarters, 4 pieces each.

Lisa melted the butter and the condensed milk.

We mixed the lollies and the mixture together.

We at the last 2 lollies. We cut them into halves so everyone got an equal piece.

We put the mixture onto some baking paper and wrapped it up to make a log.

Then we put the log in the fridge to harden up.

Chris' Maths Reflection

A great example of how to reflect on your learning!

Another great report from roving reporter Emily!

Our Paralympics Highlights

Reporting on the Mini Olympics

The Romahapa Daily Times is definitely worth a read this week! Reporter Cassie's article on the Mini Olympics is excellante!

Small Schools Cross Country

Romahapa Olympics

Romahapa Olympics from Deborah on Vimeo.

Some of the action from what was a fantastic day!

Xavier was inspired by Mahe!

China Research from Term 2!

Ripper Tournament - Forsyth Barr

Ripper Tournament from Deborah on Vimeo.

Class Meeting Week 2

Today we had our first class meeting. Thank you Cassie and Hunter for leading it.
Every Friday we are going to meet - everyone will get a turn to lead a meeting.
The Agenda we came up with together was:
Ideas for the classroom
Things we are happy about and things we are unhappy about
Book Club
Looking ahead to next week
Reviewing the week that was

Ideas for the Classroom
Job cards need to be made up for the new jobs
The Yellow Zone needs done
Places to silent read other than our desks
New cubbies
Word Power
Laptop time to finish our work

Things we are happy about
 - class timetable
 - strike system
 - maths and reading google site and our maths rotations

Things we are unhappy about
 - our cubbies
- people talking on the mat
 - our lanterns didn't get hung up
 - fighting between girls
 - people are not looking after their belongings or respecting their things

Book Club
Nicole brought 2 books from home to share with anyone that is looking for something new to read.
Sophie has kindly offered to donate her Diary of a Wimpy Kids series to the school library.

Looking ahead to next week . . .
Next week we will be doing some training for the upcoming Rippa Tournament. One reading group is going to have a turn with the programme Garage Band to record an audio play and Emily and Nicole will lead the class meeting.

Reviewing the week that was
We enjoyed Word Work
We were surprised at how much we knew about China!
There were not many strikes given out this week - good work team!
It was great that Sophie and Nicole got to plan their class treat.
Daniel said "Maths is going really well - everyone has been doing hard work and concentrating."
Logan said "MMM really helps you with your normal Maths."
Chris said "We are loving writing our Outback Australia story on google docs together - each person can see what each other has written."

Danny D's World Trip

Today is Daniel's last day at school before he heads off on a world trip with his family. Daniel has made his own travel blog - brilliant idea! 

You can follow his journey with the link below.

http://dannydworldtrip.blogspot.co.nz

Safe travels Daniel! We will miss you!

Happy Mothers Day!

Happy Mothers Day to all the wonderful Middle Room Mums!
There is a special treat for you all on your child's blog for you to read and enjoy.
Hope this Mothers Day finds you feeling loved and appreciated!

Soccer with Greer, take 2

Soccer skills with Greer. We are looking in hot form for the tournament on Tuesday.

The taste of Easter

If you are going to resist the urge to eat chocolate this Easter - read these wonderful samples of writing. You'll feel like you've tasted something yummo after reading these!

 Logan wrote . . .

The delicious treat gets placed in front of me. It smells too good for me to eat. It is an oval. It is really easy to chew. It is smooth inside the egg. It was hollow. I could not stop myself from eating it.

  Max wrote . . .

The delicious treat gets placed in front of me. I peeled it open. I feel it slowly melting in my mouth. It was all I was waiting for. Then it was in the belly of the beast.

  Xavier wrote . . .

 The delicious round treat gets placed in front of me. It is soooo hard to resist but Mrs Keach says we can't eat them yet. The egg smells soooo good, a chocolatey flavoured smell. I can't wait to eat it. I can imagine unwrapping it and savouring every bite. 

It is starting to change colour as I start to unwrap it. It is hollow. I put it to my mouth and lick, everyone else did it to. It felt smooth. My teeth crunch. I chew it. Chew, chew, mmm, yum, finally what I have been waiting for... I take the whole wrapper off and... crunch, crunch, nom nom nom. Now I feel disappointed that it's gone. HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!!!     

Nicole wrote . . .

 The delicious treat gets placed in front of me. It smells like melted chocolate hardened into it's shape. It feels hard but with tiny little lumps. It looks purple on the outside but on the inside I know it is chocolate. It's finally time to take the coloured wrapping off. The colour starts to change as I peel the wrapper off. Wow, it felt so smooth in my hand and it looks so delicious. I give it a lick and it tastes like softened chocolate. Then I take my first bite, milky warm chocolate. I start to eat more. Inside the hollow area I get a surprise of little bits inside. I am slowly demolishing it in my mouth. It gets smaller and smaller . . . all gone!

News Reporting - Week 8

This week Cassie and Cooper were our news reporters. They chose to cover a national story relating to our topic Native New Zealand.

Soccer Skills with Greer

On Thursday the wonderful Greer, our Sport Activator, kicked us off on learning the important skills of playing soccer in preparation for the upcoming Year 3 and 4 tournament. Here is the action from our session!

Book Making with the 3 sisters, Thelma, Irene and Mary!

On our final day with our visiting artists we made books - first screen printing our covers, then covering the back and insides, then finishing with binding our books - which took some sewing skills! 

We also had an opportunity to make a piece of flax paper each - a big thank you to Cassie with her help in leading this.

They will be books to treasure!!!

We will post the fabulous finished products next week.

Day 2 of our Visiting Artists

Today we spent the day with Norman, our very talented visiting artist. We sketched, learnt about primary and secondary colours, then painted the Kaka Point Nuggets using water colours.

And our wonderful school even made the news!

 

Our finished masterpieces will be posted tomorrow!

Stone Carving

Today we worked very hard on the art of stone carving! A big thank you to our art teacher for the day, Suzannne! 

Welcome to 2016!