In the last 2 weeks we have been practising soccer. We are all going to a tournament in Kaponga next Friday with the children from Room 6 and the Year 4’s from Room 4.

We have been learning the rules for soccer. Some of these rules are;

• The ball cannot touch your arms from your finger tips to your shoulder.
• The goalie can touch the ball with any part of their body.
• If the ball is kicked out a person in the other team has a Throw In.
• For a Throw In, you put the ball behind your head and then you throw it to a person in your team. You bend your knees to throw further and you have to keep both of your feet on the ground when you throw the ball in.

Last week Mr Stoddart was in our class on Friday. We were talking about the Koru and the flag. Mr Hondervancer made them. He designed buildings which are made out of recycled things like glass bottles and trees and plants growing on the roof, chipped tiles. In his buildings he never uses a single straight line. You can seed one of his designs in Kawakawa. It is their public toilets. We also talked about the other buildings and Toilets he has designed. We drew a six story buildings called skyscrapers. They could have anything in them as long as we did not draw a straight line.

Week 3

On Monday this week, it snowed in Eltham, at Matapu School, Stratford, Hawera, Kaponga, Manaia, Kapuni, Norfolk and even in Rotorua. We had a little bit of snow trying to happen at school on Wednesday too.

We had to write descriptions about the snow. In our descriptions we had to talk about what it feels like, tastes like, looks like, sounds like and smells like. We got some really GOOD ideas for our descriptions when we went out to the back field and stepped on it and listened to what sounds it made, then we touched and smelt it too. Some of us tried to eat the snow too. We made and threw snowballs to see how far we could make them fly.

We built a snowman. Our challenge was to make the snowman bigger than Miss Clark but it didnt turn out that way. Because we couldn’t lift the second snowball onto the big bottom one. Miss  Clark dropped Cody’s snow ball and it got destroyed.

Some of us have been doing doubling and halving card games.

In topic we’ve been learning to save power and water. Some people made windmills in Room 6. in  room 6 we have been learning how to make power. You use water, sun or wind. In room 5 we have been making houses to see what we can do to save power.

In room 5 we had to make up instructions on how to make a hot air balloon.

Welcome back from the holidays.

This week we have been learning about Eco Buildings in Topic. Some things we have learnt are;

• Don’t waste power.
• If you take a bath it will waste lots of water, but by having a quick shower you are not using that much.
• Turn things off at the wall but not the fridge because your stuff will get rotten.
• Use a oil or fin heater instead of a fan heater.
• The best way to heat up your house is to use a fire instead of a heater because a heater wastes more power.
• If you have eco friendly twisted light bulbs they are better and they don’t use as much power.
• When you have finished using a light or tap turn it off to save energy and water.
• If you don’t turn off taps properly you will lose a lot of water from dripping.

We also were given information to read and match up with pictures of houses from around the world.

 Today we had to vote for new house captains because some of the ones we already had were not doing their jobs properly.

This term we have been full throttle and extra busy. We have had 16 new students come into Room 5 and for the first 6 weeks we felt squeezed in like sardines in a can. We got through it together by remembering our manners and respecting each other. We all were happy to stretch out when the year 4s changed class.

For writing this term we have been looking at pictures to get ideas for our story topic. We have been trying to make our stories interesting for the reader. To do this we have been putting in good describing words and different sentence starters. Here are some of the stories we wrote about the purple monster;

Once upon a time I found a purple monster and her name was Tina. She had sharp teeth and she liked to scare people. That is what she did yester day. She went to scare people and then she went to chase them. When she caught the people she ate them and then she would drink their blood. After that she went surfing with monkeys. She got hungry and she ate the monkeys then she went surfing with seals.                 By Layla

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Once upon a time there lived a hula dancer. Her name was 22. She did dancing every morning. She wore the same clothes every morning because she did not have any more clothes, only her  best dress made out of grass. It was her favourite dress. She had an adventure on every Monday.  She packed her sleeping bag and her water bottle and off she went.                    By Jenna

Once upon a time there was a monster and his name was 0015162. He killed people. On his adventure he found more little monsters and they can fly over, roll over and some can shoot. Some are sharp and some are cold.                           By Amaru.

Once upon a time there lived a humongous purple monster with furious horns and pointy sharp nails. He was a hula dancer who loved to eat Huhu  bugs. He also has sharp teeth. One day this monster went on an adventure to the mountain. He went snowboarding with two brown monkeys. They all went flying in the air and threw snow at each other. Then they started getting really hungry. So the purple monster stopped at a cafe and got some hot chocolate and Marshmallows. After that they started making extremely awesome snowmen with a carrot nose and buttons  for eyes. Then they went riding and the purple monster started doing humongous flips and the monkeys started rolling down the side of the mountain. Then the purple monster came flying down to catch the brown monkeys from the bottom of the mountain.                 By Makareta

We have been making Maths Board games and learning about comets. we have been writing stories and drawing pictures about monsters. Some of us went to the Marae and learned about the tiaha.

Next week we are going to do some options at school, such as making paper planes, kites, or other flying things like hot air balloons.

This week in room 5 we have been working hard on different blends. We have been learning how to say them properly and then we suggest some words we know with this blend in  them. This helps us when we are reading too. If we know the blends we will know how to say the words properly and this will make our reading better.

Mr Stoddart came into our room on Thursday and he showed us how to draw a building that is in a photo. The photos are of buildings in Eltham.

When we had finished sketching the building, Mr Stoddart showed us how to make waterpaint so we can paint our sketches. We did not have enough time to start painting on Thursday.

Please make sure your child has at least 2 pencils and 1 red pen at school. We have had a pencil eating goblin come through our classroom and most of the pencils have disappeared. Also check with your child to make sure he/she has all of the books they need as they are quickly using them up.

we have got new people in our class. One of our new people is called Taylor. he came from Kaimata School which is out the back of Inglewood.

Guess what… now we have 2 Taylor Cs in our class and two Carlos’s, but one of the Carlos’s is spelt with a K.

we love having new people in our school because they come with friendship and lots of new ideas.

We are getting used to being able to spreads out  in our class. It is much better now that the Year 4s have moved out because now we can all fit in easier.

We have finished doing testing now and that is good because we can do our normal work instead.

We have a new person in our class. Her name is Amber. we have guitar lessons with Mr C and we also play Ripper Rugby. The Netball Team (Cupcakes) are playing 4 games in the weekend. We are getting a new class and year 4s and 5′s will be using it.