Parent Interviews

What a fabulous response to our parent interview request. I was able to offer positive comments about all of fantastic five. There are 3 parents yet to come in so please make an appointment with Suzie at the office.

This is an example of the portrait artwork we have done at school in art.

Pikelets

First of all we need to thank Dianne for taking groups to the canteen. We are learning to follow instructions accurately. The first pikelets were amazing, golden and delicious! The trick was Mrs. Gibbs then had us write a retell of what we had done from memory. Not so hard you say? It is if we then have to cook pikelets from one of our retells!
Luckily Kezia had written a pretty good one, so we tested it out. The photo's below show our efforts and us writing in the hall.

Room 5 Newsletter No. 1 February 2013

End of the Year

Dear blog readers,

It is the end of a really busy year. The students of room five have consistently worked to achieve learning goals. We shared a wonderful lunch on Tuesday out under the elm tree. One of the highlights for me in the last term was the teacher vs student touch game.
Sadly we can't share any of our trip photographs because Mrs Heaps' computer died. :-(

I really hope you all enjoy your break, spending time with your families and enjoying the great Dannevirke weather!                      
From Mrs Gibbs

P.S. One last teacher tip- find some games that involve maths and words so you keep practicing and learning in a fun way.

Making Faces

Children who had completed their homework were given the chance to make icing faces. With Coral-Mae they made coloured icing and used lollies to make faces. These are our creations! Yummmmmmmm!

Paint a Visual Picture with Words

Broken window by Josh

On one hot summer day Jarvis was kicking his black and white rugby ball around his backyard. "Yaa," he said.
Jarvis wanted to have one last gigantic kick. Up went the ball, up, up UP! and the ball went so high that Jarvis said, "that ball will have snow on it when it comes down."
Down came the ball. Down, down, down... SMASH!!! just as Mum was peeking out the door beside the window. Mum came stomping out the door and yelled, "Jarvis, you naughty little boy." Jarvis had his hands on his ears because of the loud shattering noise that came from the window and because of the shock he was in.
He was crying so hard that  there was a huge puddle around his feet.
"Jarvis, you're grounded for a whole two months and you'll be paying for that window," said Mum.
"I'm so, so sorry Mum. I didn't mean to break the window."
If I was Jarvis I would be kicking the ball at the rugby park.

Athletics by Renee

I find athletics quite interesting but there's one thing I dislike, and that thing I dislike is high-jump.
Now you're probably thinking, "why doesn't she like high-jump?"
Well I'm not actually as tall as a nine year old is supposed to be, I'm only 1 metre 36 centimtetres. So, of course it's going to be hard if the pole's taller than you.
Back to the subject. The thing I dislike is high-jump but now I'm going to tell you the thing I cherish the most. It's long jump, because I'm small I have an advantage! I can run quite fast and jump quite long.
"Now you're probably thinking that, if she's fast them why doesn't she like sprints?"
...well, sprints take all your energy.

Visiting Storyteller