Long Jumping!!

We have been preparing for our upcoming Athletics day. Today was long jump. Check out some skillful jumping styles. . . . . . .

ICT Presentations

This term we have worked so hard researching our chosen mammals and writing reports then producing an imovie or video clip with the information we discovered. It has been a great process and we all learnt so much - lots about mammals, lots about time management and team work and most of all lots of ICT skills.

Check out a couple of our finished presentations.......

This imovie presentation was made by Connor N and Tom

This imovie was put together by Satori, Jordyn, Jackson, Emily and Te Iwa

This video documentary was made and presented by Olivia, Aimee and Bridget

Week 7 Summary - Tie Dye

CHECK OUT OUR AMAZING PILLOWCASES

During Week 7 we have been doing tie-dye with pillow cases and painting on fabric as part of our Antarctica study.

The first step is choosing which design of tie dye you want to do.

We all chose our designs, some scrunching their pillowcase up and some making circles or using pegs to make stripes.

Aimee used a fan fold and pegs to end up with a striped tie dye

Te Iwa tied lots of little circles

Next we had to choose an Antarctica animal, a penguin or a whale to paint onto a small piece of calico fabric.

Jordyn paints her penguin

Ben adds some background detail to his penguin picture

Then we put our designs in the blue dye and waited for the dye to soak in.

Emily gives the dye a stir to ensure it covers everyone's pillowcases evenly

Hanging the pillow cases out on our balcony to dry

When the pillowcases had dried we needed to iron them and also the fabric painted picutres needed to be ironed for 2 minutes to seal the paint. Our animal paintings were then sewed on with the help of Miss Lythgoe's Mum and Ben's Mum.

Jackson enjoyed ironing so much he wants to do all the ironing at home Mum!

Connor is another keen contender for weekly ironing duties!

Trish helped Heke complete his pillowcase by sewing the whale painting on

Josh waits patiently as Kate sews on his painting

Here are some examples:

Aimee's,Emily's and Renee's Tie-dye

Heke's Tie-Dye

Written by Connor N

Poetry Contest

Last week the class recited their chosen poems to the class. There was a real mixture of poems chosen and it made for great show. Mr McKenzie was our judge.

Congratulations to Connor N, Bridget, Emily, Harlen and Nadun who have made it though to the finals for the Year 5 and 6 Poetry Competition. We look forward to watching you over at English Park on Thursday.

I aim to get video clips of the students doing their poems up here on the blog asap. Just a few technical hiccups at the moment!

Individual Pursuit Finals

What an amazing day today, watching our classmates compete for the top 4 in their Year groups in the Cycling Individual Pursuit Finals. I am so proud to say that our 4 top cyclists competing all had outstanding results. In the Year 6 Girls Olivia came 3rd overall and Emily won 1st place. In the boys race, Connor N and Satori were competing against each other for the top 2. It was very close race and we were so impressed at Connor even taking part considering he has a broken collar bone! Well Done Satori coming in 2nd, meaning Connor is the Yr 6 boys champ for 2010.

It was also great to have members of the NZ mens track cycling team at school to help us out.

What a week of sport it's been. GO team 24! You're awesome!

Our school cross country

I think that we all did really well at the cross country 

imovie made by Heke and Josh R

Topic -Our Inquiry

This term we have individually researched a country or city to discover

'How would my life be different if I grew up in ............?'

Back in Week 2 of this term we discussed the differences our environment can have on our upbringing and looked at a few examples. The children then had time to browse through a large amount of books and decide which area of the world they would like to explore. We had places such as the Amazon, Rwanda, Jamiaca, Sweden, Mexico and Kenya chosen.

Over the next few weeks they decided on questions, researched, took notes and made decisions on our to present their work. They also had to come up with a conclusion on where they would prefer to grow up, NZ or their chosen country.

Now in Week 8-9 it has been time to share their new knowledge with the class. They were assessed by one of their peers and by their teacher. It has been a fascinating time, learning about so many different areas of the world and just how it would be to live as a child in that country. Almost all concluded that life in NZ is just about perfect, though we may now have a few students with a great desire to travel in the future!

Bridget and Te Iwa use the laptops to research

Costa Rica and Jamaica

It looks like chaos but....here is Rosie, Aimee,

Jayde and Renee putting their posters together.

Proud of their efforts and so they should be...

Harlen - Afghanistan

Olivia - France

Josh R - Kenya

Dominic - Samoa

We had power points, speeches, homemade videos, booklets and posters.

Connor N - Madagascar

Dragos - Romania

Cullen - Rwanda

Tom - Amazon

More proud researchers with their finished work

Renee - Hawaii

Ben - Amazon

Connor D - Jamaica

Jordyn - Sweden

Cayden - Amazon

Corben - Mexico

Jump Jam

Jump Jam has become a very popular option for our daily fitness. Sometimes we have the opportunity to lead the other classes. Recently Satori, Josh R, Cole, Connor N and Connor D showed us their Jump Jam talents performing the moves/sequence to 'In the Navy and 'I like to Move it'
Jump Jam auditions were held this week and I was really pleased to see lots of our class head along and give it a go. Good Luck you guys!

Swimming Champs

Our Swimming Champs! Satori, Emily, Alex, Jayde, Olivia, Te Iwa and Connor proudly show off their certificates from the recent Senior Swimming Sports held at Jellie Park. Awesome effort you guys, we are proud of you!

School Swimming

Jackson and Sam enjoying FREETIME after swimming

lots of lengths!
Josh D has an impressive noodle style
Josh R shows us how to swim breaststroke
Dominic, Connor N and Bridget all set to

race in Backstroke

Satori - our champion swimmer!