Mixed Up___________

Room 6 have been working on a mixed up book. On week two we started to decide our topic.

We had to pick three things to do with our topic. Then we took four facts to do with the things that we chose. Next we did our cover, published it and made the book.They all turned out to be FANTASTIC! Here are some of our photos that we took. 

By Lily, Caeley and Amy

Working on our writing.

Publishing

From a book

All our finished books

By Amy, Caeley and Lily



Josh and Booboo's Queenstown Adventure

When Booboo and I went to Queenstown we ...
1. Went on the luge.
2. Snowboarding down the mountain.
3. Thought it was dangerous on the mountain.
4. Went Frisbee golfing.
5. had a fun time.
6. stood by the Earnslaw.
7. Went to the Ice Bar.
8. Visited a café.

Getting ready for Puanga

Breakfast, lunch, and dinner we will give up all those to become perfect for Puanga.We will work day and night to dance, sing, and perform like professionals. In two weeks time on Friday you might be lucky enough to hear us on radio at 2:00pm (some people will be speaking in Maori so sorry if you can't understand them). Puanga is a big parade where people perform on big floats, if you do not know. 

In Puanga we will be performing: Nga Tane, Oakura, Tihore Mai and the haka.

We hope you learn a lot about Maori.

From Ally, Alodie and Francesca

Ally and Booboo's Fiji Adventure

In the first week of the holidays I drove to Auckland and we got to go to McDonald s at the airport. It was a three hour flight to Fiji. In the plane we got given some food for free. When I got to Fiji it was late at night so we went to bed. The next day I woke up at 7.30 in the morning. I yelled out to Mum to see if I could go to the pool and have a swim before breakfast. Once it was breakfast time it was a buffet and we got some hot and cold things and I saw them grinding the fruit to make the orange and tropical juice.

Some of the things that we did in Fiji were...

• going to the kids club and playing mini golf
• seeing the lovo being put down
• we went on the boat
• went snorkelling
• played volleyball with my friends

I had the best time that anyone could have in Fiji.

Ally and Booboo's Fiji Adventure

Character Day

Room 6 all dressed up.

Hermione, Wednesday, Claudine, Genie

SpongeBob, Witchypoo

Taylor Swift, Penny, Snow White

Hiccup, Horror Hero Brine, Wee Willie Winkie

Popcorn Man, Snow Boarder, Dracula, Spiderman

 

Character day is a day where you bring can of food to school for the Food Bank.  Then the head pupil will take all the food to the food bank for people who don't have enough money to buy food.  We liked getting dressed up!

 

Final Basketball Session

 

On Thursday we had our final basketball session.  We got to play games against each other.  At the end the two coaches each picked one player who they though had applied the skills we had learnt and was a fair player.  Well done Connor and Ella!

My Amazing Blue Crystal

 

Hi I'm going to tell you about how dad and I made this crystal. On Friday I was sick and dad found out about my ice crystal homework, so after we had lunch we went to get some copper sulphate. When we went home we started to make the crystal. It was huge! But afterwards lots of pieces started to fall off and it was tiny! And did I mention that it grew in a week. Well dad made another one and it grew in one night! I was so happy I showed it to class just in case more pieces fell off, and I got to boast about it.

Cross Country

Festival of the Arts Show - Greedy Taniwha

Our holidays...

Our favourite or best bits...

Going on the roller coaster and the loop-de-loops at Rainbow's End was quite amazing! Fynn
Buying me a new bike from Bike Barn. Alana
Going to the circus and seeing the bossy girl that kept on saying 'Handy-stand'. Hazel
Having a playdate with Holly.  Violette
Making my own scarf and going tramping. James
Going to the swimming pools with my sister and my Aunty. Alodie
Going to see Despeciable Me 2 and the Aquatic Centre.  Gina
Going to the mini zoo in Pukekura Park. Ella C
Going up the mountain and playing in the snow and sliding down on my boogieboard.  Aaron
Playing miniputt with my family. Ally
Winning the artist skating competition in Wanganui.  Mitchell
Climbing up the mountain and meeting my cousins.  Mack
Going to the circus and seeing a man named Mr Jeff and he was really funny.  Caeley
Playing at Jack's house and playing on the tractors, pretending to have a mine with pretend diamonds in it.  Jesse
Going skiing and having $25 to spend! Lily
When my Mum and I went on Captain Tama's boat cruise and they did a funny show with cool instruments in Rarotonga.  Theo
I liked going to Water Bomb in Pan Pacific.  Amy
Going to Palmerston North and playing on my cousins quad bike. Connor
Having Jesse to play. We went to a party and watched the rugby.  Jack
Skiing at Turoa with the Mitchells and Timmy. Francesca
Going to Queenstown and going snow boarding.  Josh
Getting a new skateboard.  Holly
Going to China and caught a great big fish! Kohen
Going to the circus and seeing the girl climb up the Chinese pole.  Rowan
Going to Nitro Naki and racing the go karts. Charlie
Ice skating in Auckland. Ella B

Week 10 Bloggers

New Homes for Star and Booboo

In week 10 we did technology.  We built houses for Star and Booboo.  The houses were made out of cardboard, string, tape, glue, wool, feathers and pompoms.  Some people worked in groups and some people worked by themselves.  They turned out to look like real houses.  We had loads of fun making them.

Have a look at the photos below to see what our constructions looked like.

Technology

Week 9 Bloggers

 

 

Week 9 Bloggers reported on our science fun activity of making sherbet and also on our little exploding volcano activity.  It took a few takes to record the message about the volcano but once they got over the giggles it went well.

 

Connor also included his writing and photos from his family trip that he took our class mascot Booboo on.

 

We hope you enjoys our latest posts.

My trip to Rarotonga

Last month our family went to Rarotonga for 8 days. The funnest thing we did was snorkling. It was as clear as a fish tank and we could see amazing coloured fish. We hired two black scooters to explore the island. It was as hot as the desert. Unfortunately we had to return to winter again.

Amazing Photos from Rarotonga

The Magic Volcano

Sherbet Fizz

On Friday, it was really exciting because we saw Science written on the board. We got to make Sherbet Fizz. The ingredients were: raspberry jelly, icing sugar, citric acid and baking soda. There was a little bit of Booboo in it too because he kept putting his face into the sherbet bowl! 

 

The results tasted good.  Here is what some people thought:

 

Ella said it 'Burst in her mouth.'
Charlie thought it was very tasty and he wants to make it again.
Jesse described it as bubbles on his tongue.
'It was like the lava from a volcano' was how Hazel described it.

Sherbet Fizz

Week 8 Bloggers

 

We have been learning about rainforests.  We have learnt many things like there are tropical and temperate rainforests, rainforests give us medicine and food, half of the medicines used today are from rainforests and the cocoa beans make us chocolate.

 

We need to save our rainforests and stop deforestation!

Lantern Making

On Thursday the 27th of June some children made some lanterns.  We made them for the parade which is part of the International Festival of the Arts.

 

We got 10 bamboo sticks and five rubber bands. We made a frame using the bamboo sticks and rubber bands.  Then we put white tissue paper on first and then decorated with cut bits of coloured paper.  A hook was put on them to help us carry them during the parade.

 

The parade is on the 17th of August.

 

We enjoyed making the lanterns and it was a fun day.  Have a look at the Photo Slideshow below to see our lanterns.

Lantern Making Picture Slideshow

Quadblogging Aotearoa

Over the next four weeks, Room 6 is taking part in Quad Blogging.  We will be visiting three other schools blogs and leaving positive comments.

 

Our buddies are:

 

http://room9slearningjourney.blogspot.co.nz/

http://www.9plus10.blogspot.co.nz/

http://www.room14stclair.blogspot.co.nz/

 

We look forward to looking at their blogs and finding out new things about them.

Rainforest Thinking Skills

We wrote using the Black Hat, Yellow Hat and White Hat. The Black Hat is for the 'bad' points, the Yellow Hat is for the 'good' points and the White Hat is for writing facts.  Below are photos of the best piece of work chosen by our Bloggers of the Week.

 

Black Hat - What are all the things that can destroy the rainforest?

 

Yellow Hat - What are all the good things that a rainforest gives us?

 

White Hat - What are the facts? List as many facts as you can about the rainforest.

 

 

Week 7 Bloggers

Our New Enviro Centre

A week ago our new Enviro Centre opened.  There were lots of trees planted at the Treemendous Makeover.  There are feijoa, lemon, orange, plum, and peach trees.  There are bamboo plants and other native New Zealand plants.

Now we can walk along the paths and down steps to enjoy learning about the new plants.  At the bottom there is a clearing that we can camp on.  There is a wetlands area under the clearing that we can follow the steps down to. There are signs telling people where stuff is.

There is a lookout we can stand on to look over the Enviro Centre. There is a new fence protecting the area.

Have a look at the photos of our new Enviro Centre below.

Enviro Centre

Booboo and JM's Adventure

Me and Booboo went on a long car trip.  We played on my friend's ipod. We had a hot chocolate and bacon and egg muffins.  We saw Mystery Creek.  Once we got there, there was already 100s and 1000s of cars parked.  When we were inside the Field Days we bought some clothing, We saw a big dual wheel tractor. We sat on a ride on go-kart that had a toilet on it. It even had toilet paper!  We had a photo with Michael the Food Truck guy.

Booboo also went to my birthday party.  We went down the turbo hydro slide at the Aquatic Centre, we went in the waves and in the spa pool.  Then we went home to have some food.  The saveloys disappeared so fast.  My cake was Treasure Island.  We had to see if we could find the treasure.  The treasure was M & M's!

We had a great adventure and have a look at our photos below!

Booboo and JM's Adventure

Week 6 Bloggers

OakuraRoom6's Fotobabble

OakuraRoom6's Fotobabble

Week 5 Boggers

Read the stories below to find out about the Koru Landing Opening and Room 6 learning to juggle.

Juggling

In Room 6 we have been learning to juggle. We made our own juggling balls in the colours that we liked. We got a balloon and put rice in it.  Then we used two more layers of balloons to cover the first balloon. We cut little holes in the side to make them spotty. It was very fun making juggling balls.  There were heaps of colours.  We need to keep practicing to get perfect!

 

Blowing up the balloon first.

Filling the balloon with rice.

Putting balloon layers on.

A finished juggling ball!