Welcome Back

Welcome back for another exciting year in 2014. We have some new class members and some old. Room 5 has two teachers this year. Mr Jenkins and Mrs Graham who are both looking forward to a great year in Room 5. We hope to have regular updates of things going on in Room 5 and around our school so keep checking our blog for new posts.

Winter Cameo

After the cold and wet day yesterday we really felt winter moving in so we wrote some winter poems.

Here are a couple from our class. 

Community Walks

As part of our community study we have been going on walks to look around our local community, look at local shops, sports areas and our community streets. We noticed a lot of rubbish around our school area so went on weekly walks picking up rubbish in an effort to make our community look better.

Walking through the tunnel under the new bypass to Walker Cres

Outside the Jack St Dairy

Jayda and others with their rubbish bags

Waiting patiently at the railway crossing

Just about back to school

One walk worth of rubbish. All this picked up in an hour around our local streets!!

Swim for life

We have been very fortunate to have the swim for life instructors in again this term for swim lessons. As part of this programme our children have learned about water safety, life saving and water survival skills. The children have loved participating in these swim sessions and look forward to visits again in term 4.

Community visit to Kensington Park

The Junior Syndicate walked to Kensington Park to visit some of our community support groups. These included the Northland Electricity Rescue Helicopter, St Johns Ambulance, Fire Service and the Police. We were able to look and hear about how these essential services assist the community and also identify ways to keep ourselves safe when out and about. Here are some photos from the day and also some video footage of the Fire Service in action.

Class photo

Here are our star pupils so far for 2013.

Welcome to 2013

Welcome back to Room 5 in 2013. We have new class members and are all excited about starting a new year. Our focus for this term is 'Our Community'. We will be looking at our community which will involve walks, visits by community groups and also an in school community day where we will invite whanau in to join us for the day. So please visit us regularly and tell others to visit. Please remember to post a comment when you visit.

End of Year Sign Off

Due to technical problems this past term we have been unable to update our blog. We are all go for next year so check back in in February 2013 to see what is happening in Room 5. Enjoy your Christmas and we will see you back next year.

Olympic Poses

Today we made Olympic Wreaths for craft. Here is Room 5 wearing their wreaths showing their wonderful Olympic poses.

Medalist Visit

We have loved watching the Olympics and seeing our New Zealand competitors doing so well. We have learned about the Olympic mascots, Mandeville and Wenlock and we have watched some of the olympic sports on our Activ-Boards. The whole school went to the library to watch the 100 metre final. We were very lucky to have Ann Muir, our very own Lawn Bowls bronze medalist from the Commonwealth games, come in to show us her medals and talk about what happens at the games.We have also watched some of our local players playing for New Zealand at the Olympics in hockey, soccer, sailing and the triathlon. All of the school watching the 100 metros final.

Ann with the children showing her fantastic haul of medals

Welcome back to Term 3

We are back at school and looking forward to another exciting term. We have 3 new students who have moved up from Room 2. This term we will be focusing on the London Olympics and our local sports people. Hopefully we will have some local sportspeople coming in to visit our school and talk to students and we will also be getting out to visit some of our local sports centers to see what happens.Look out for more news shortly.

Visit by Fire Service

This week we started our "Get Firewise' program me and had some of the local fire brigade come in to talk to us and learn about fire safety. We talked about what we need to do in a fire, what causes fire, and how to keep safe. Here are some of the things we had to say about the visit. "Don't play with matches 'the fireman said. We pretended that our classroom caught on fire and we had to crawl out. Unique Yesterday I learned about fires and matches and lighters and we read a story. Verne When I smell smoke I stay low, crawl under smoke to the door. Call out "Fire! Fire! Fire!" Lennox I went to the fire engine and it had a big ladder on top of it. Rosa The fire engine warns us with it's siren. Bradley We had to go outside and pretend there was a fire. Nigel We pretended that there was a fire at school yesterday. Jamie My Mum and my brother and me are home and it is on fire. We have to meet at the letter box if the house catches on fire. O'Riely The firemen visited us and we crawled under the smoke and we went out of the class and we came back in to sit down . It was fun because we crawled under the smoke. Chrisma I stayed low and crawled under the smoke to the door and shouted, "Fire!Fire!Fire!" Myra Mei I liked crawling under the black thing because it was dark. When we started we were asleep, then the smoke alarm ringed. We waked up and started yelling "Fire! Fire! Fire!' Then we started to crawl under the black thing. We had to go outside or else we would die. Bonnie

Life Education Caravan

These are two videos of Harold saying goodbye to Room 5. We loved having Harold and Nadine in to visit us. Hopefully we will see them again next year.

This week we have had the Life Education Caravan in for a visit. We loved going on a picnic with Harold the Giraffe and learning about healthy food and looking after our bodies. We all farewelled Harold on Tuesday. 

Tiger writing

This week Room 5 has created a book about tigers using our computers. On the computers we have been learning to drag a picture on to our pages document. Check out our great tiger images and descriptive writing.

Keeping Ourselves Safe

This week we have started working on Keeping Ourselves Safe. This involves visits from Constable Jasmine and also work in class regarding our homes, staying safe and our bodies. Today we looked at expressing our feelings and how we might react in different situations. Have a look at our facial expressions and see if you can choose between the following feelings - sad, happy, angry, proud, scared or confused.