HAPPY EASTER!

A blog post from Week 8! (found it on our old blog!)
We have been doing freeze frame images with Miss Pottinger - we have a disaster that we act out and Miss P pauses us with the remote and mutes us, the others have to guess what we are acting.

We said goodbye to Darcy and Chontae Munro.

Our soccer skills have been going well. With Matt we have started doing some game practices.

We have been writing explanations about disasters.

Week 11: What a great term we had! It is a busy classroom with 28 pupils and Mrs Coyle is very proud of the way every pupil carried out their activities during the last five weeks, especially while Miss Pottinger was in charge of the classroom! We have learnt a lot about our SMARTs (learning styles) and many pupils are choosing to use their learning turn-ons to help with completing their tasks.

There was certainly a lot happening, especially once the Year Sixes returned from their awesome camp in Dunedin - thank you to Mr Hart, Mr Smith, Mrs Heads, Mr Durry, and Mr Musalov for providing our transport and wonderful parent support during our four day trip to Dunedin. 

The Year Sixes enjoyed a wide range of activities - visiting the Chinese Gardens, swimming at Moana pool, yachting at Port Chalmers, ice-skating, visiting the albatross, seals and yellow-eyed penguins on the Otago Peninsula, staying overnight at the Otago Museum, and creating awesome landscape paintings at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery.

We had a lot of fun and laughter on our trip and the Year Sixes behaved wonderfully, carrying out the values of Edendale School at all times.

After camp Miss Pottinger was in charge and for inquiry she had each g3 group writing and performing a mini-drama of a TV news report about a disaster; it was really exciting to see every group carry out their drama performances so fantastically after all the practices - the videos will be uploaded to our YouTube channel so look out for those via our wikispace http://room6eps.wikispaces.com/ or go directly from here http://www.youtube.com/user/Rm6Edendale

The art work that was done with Miss P also looks awesome and our pastel portraits will be on the back wall of the classroom.  Great to see the improvements people made with their statistics skills in maths, and what a super finish we had to the term of soccer skills sessions with both teams winning all four of their games at the Four-Sports Soccer Tournament in Gore.

Wacky Wednesday was a great day, raising a lot of money for the school's Tanzanian sponsor child, and the Royal Rumpus last Thursday was a lot of fun - very nice for Miss Kate Middleton and Prince William to join us for the royal parade!

Hopefully everyone is having a fun and safe Easter holiday break and will return on the 2nd May, ready for another busy term to improve our skills and knowledge across all areas of our personal learning needs!

Week 6 Reading Response

This week's poem is by James K Baxter: The Tree House

John and Judith and Billy and me,
We have our own house in a willow tree.
It's built of boards and battens and tin
From the packing case that the tractor came in.

Up the slippery trunk of the tree we climb
With a rope to help us, one at a time;
But once we're up and safe inside
Only the wind knows where we hide.

Down in the paddock the brown horse neighs
And in stormy weather the whole house sways
Like a ship at sea while the branches roar
And birds fly past at the open door.

Today we designed our dream tree houses and shared these designs with our groups.

LMV Athletics

 What a great day we had yesterday at the LMV Athletics in Wyndham!  The weather was just right and we were able to run, jump and throw to our heart's content, putting into action all the practice we have been doing for the last three weeks.

We will post our results as soon as we have confirmation, but there were quite a few Room Six Kokako pupils who placed in their events so the list will be a goodie!

We look forward to finding out who will be eligible to represent the LMV at the Southland event.

Week 5 already! - Student Council

Wow, the term is flying by and we are into week 5 already.

Today we are heading off to athletics to put into action all the practice we have done with our shot-put, long jump, high jump, discus and running.  Wish us luck!

The Year Sixes were welcomed in Week Three with an afternoon tea and guest speakers that included Mr McKenzie (our principal), Mrs Lois Heads (BOT Chairperson) and Aaron Barclay (junior triathlete champion).

We also had a panel of expupils whom the Year Sixes asked questions of.  A huge thank you to Mitchell, Bayley, Samantha, Sean and Shaunni for their input.

Aaron spoke to the group about the importance of using failure as a stepping stone to success - using disappointment to motivate yourself to work harder and succeed.  His words were very inspirational and down to earth and parents, staff and children alike all enjoyed his speech.  We wish him all the best for his sporting season this year.

 

The Student Council were announced.  The successful candidates are: Liam Cameron, Anton Musalov, Rhiannon Gorman, Kim Heads, Josh Jolly and Mckenzie Smith.  We know these pupils will do a fantastic job representing the pupils throughout the year. Congratulations to the six of you and commisserations to the others who missed out.

Christchurch Earthquake

Room Six wishes to express their sincere sympathy and best wishes to the people affected by Tuesday's big earthquake.

We are sorry to hear that people have died and many many more are badly injured.  We hope that the trapped people are rescued safely and we admire the strength of those who are all working to find or help others in need.

Welcome to 2011!!!!

Hey everyone, thanks for checking out our new 2011 blog.

We have a new group of twenty-nine Year Five and Six pupils and we are starting the year fresh and rearing to learn!

Our first three days were action-packed; we have been spending a bit of time thinking about who we are, the values of the school, and the sort of behaviour that is expected of us as senior pupils.

We are thrilled to welcome back Liam and Daniel and to also have Kobie join the class.  We are sure they will enjoy being in Room Six Kokako and taking part in all the fun activities that are planned for this year!



Shaz, Josh J and Daniel B practise their pepeha
(personal introductions in te reo Maori)