Sounds Amazing

We had a fantastic time at the museum with lots of really interesting things to see and do. Thanks to all the parents who came to help, I'm sure they had fun too.

Suter Visit - Landscapes

We had our last visit to the Suter Gallery for the year. We looked at landscapes and Esther showed us how to create the different features of a landscape. We finished off our landscapes at school by using watercolour paints.

New Kid in Town!!

We have a new class member this week. Here is Steven and he has come from Germany. Welcome to room 6 Steven we hope you are enjoying being in our class.

Find It at the Suter

We had a great time looking for all the different animals in pictures around the Suter. Thanks Esther for an awesome time.

We have all got our own blogs so have a look at what we have been up to at camp. Please be patient as some of us have never had our own blog before and it may be some time before we have anything on them!
I will be putting together something about our Teapot Valley Camp later, so watch this space!

Mask Parade

Here are just a few photos of us in the mask parade practise and the real thing!

Mask Parade practise

Here we are busy getting ready for the mask parade.
We have a spare one waiting for you Bryn!

Gymnastics in Room 6

Here we are bust at work again
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Soccer Tournament

Well done to all of those who took part in the Kahikatea syndicate soccer tournament.
The winner of the final was team 4 Tom and Callum room 5, Luke and Aiden room 3, Jordan room 14 and Bailey, Max and Kahu room 17.
The girls put up a brave match, they were Tayla and Molly (Jessie was away sick) room 6, Aimee and Ella room 3, Hannah and Madison room 5 and Cheyelle and Cheyanne room 17. The final score was 9-1.
Congratulations to everyone who played.

Soccer Tournament and Tennis

Here are a couple of things room 6 are getting up to. We have the finals of our syndicate soccer tomorrow so watch this space for some more photos!!

Welcome Tango to Room 6!

We hope Tango will have a longer life than Frankinstein!!!! Tango is the bronze coloured fish.

Art work in room 6

Come and have a look at some of the awesome art work we have done in room 6. We looked at work by Kay George and used her work as inspiration to create our own piece. We included people, places and things which were important to us.

New girl in town!

We would like to say a big welcome to Huixin who has just joined us from Christchurch.
We hope that you are enjoying yourself in room 6. You have already made lots of friends, we are so happy you have come because now we have 4 year 4 girls in our class!!

A busy week in Room 6

We have been soooo busy this week with lots of learning and fun activities. We started the week with a syndicate tug of war to try out our new rope. Then on Friday we went to the Suter to work with Esther on the Bing Dawe exhibition and we can't wait till the clay birds are fired so we can paint them. To end our week we celebrated Library week with a dress up day in your favourite book character, whew!! have a great rest Room 6 next week will be just as busy!!!!

Room 6 Top 6 Most Important Children's Rights

During our Inquiry Learning discussion on Children's Rights we talked about what we thought we the top 6 most important rights. We were able to decide the top 4 but the last 2 were difficult as there was a spread of opinion. In the end we had a secret class ballot and here are the results.This was part of our Setting the Scene using the SAUCE inquiry model.

1. Clean water
2. Clean air
3. Decent shelter
4. Medical care
5. Nutrious food
6. Practise culture, religion and language

Do you agree with us? Why? Why not?

Children's Rights

In room 6 we are learning about Children's Rights. Here we are sorting out things we need and things we want.

Here we are at Kelly Sports with Brice. We had a great time

Welcome Frankinstein and Bubbles!!!!

We have 2 new room 6 class members. The bronze one is Frankinstein and the spotty one is Bubbles. We had a class nomination and votes for the names.

Some pictures of things we have been up to in room 6

Taking part in The Magical Stars Choir Concert

Finishing our Inquiry Habitats
We have been so busy working really hard for the last couple of weeks. Here are just a few photos of some of the things we have been up to. I will put a slideshow together for another time.

Maths in Room 6

We are learning to draw graphs in room 6. We had to choose which question we were going to ask. Here we are collecting our data. We made a tally chart first and then asked each other questions about favourite things. We will be using our data to draw block graphs.

Dead Precious

Here are some photos of our museum visit. We really enjoyed ourselves and got to hold some fossils too!!!

Cross Country

You are all amazing room 6 well done! Thanks to the warm up team you all did a wonderful job on stage.
Here are just a few photos of the day.

The Gladwrap Challenge

Last week we collected gladwrap again to see if the children of Nelson Central could reduced the amount of gladwrap they used in their packed lunches and here is the end result!
Well done to everyone who made a difference. Remember to keep up the good work!
Why not try a package free lunch next, buy large packs of things and decant them into smaller reusable boxes rather than having individually wrapped items.

Movement and Dance at the Suter

Wow! What a great session we had at the Suter today. We had a fantastic time moving to music and making up our own dances to show the movement in the paintings and installations.
Thanks to all the parent,auntie,uncle and grandma helpers who came along today. Your help was really appreciated and the children loved having you there. Here are just a few photos of the session, I will put more up as a photo album later.

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

This week we are collecting gladwrap from our packed lunches to encourage others to reduce the amount of plastic we use. Plastic takes a long time to decompose, polystyrene NEVER rots! We want people to use paper as it can be easily composted and then used in the garden to help our fruit and veggies grow!