Miss Morrison (our student teacher)

In Term 2 on Monday the 20th of August 2015 a student teacher called Miss Morrison (Miss-Mor-ris-

in) came into our classroom(Rm11). She was a very nice student teacher. She stayed for a couple of weeks. We had a lot of fun with her. We made Matariki discs with her and many other things. We learnt a lot from her and she learnt a lot from us. After those couple of weeks it was the last day of Miss Morrison being in our class. Before we had lunch we sang a song called ‘See You Again’ and I cried (Crystal) and then we had a sausage sizzle. After going to singing assembly we came back and we all said goodbye and Miss Morrison said that she was going to come to one of the nights of our production. We all hope she will come back.

By Crystal and Alina

Netball Field Day

On Wednesday 24 of June when everyone else was busy learning we were out in the nice warm weather playing Netball the only people who went where the year 5 and year 6 netball teams. We split into our normal teams and played 5 games of netball each against other schools on the North Shore. We had an awesome day!

By Jorjia

Making Space Gadgets

Hey parents did you know your kid in Room 11 made space gadgets out

of recycled materials? At the end of Term 2 the theme was a rocket but

most kids did something else like robots and diagrams. The first thing

we did was to make our teams - in my team was Anthony, James, Jack

and Bradley. The reason why I choose James and James choose

me was because James is good at designing and I am good at

putting stuff together. Jack is good at designing as well and Bradley is good at crafting stuff like me. Our team created a robot space dog with three heads!

So let me tell you how we made this. Firstly you get four toilet rolls as

legs. Secondly you get a shoe box from number one shoes for

your body. Thirdly you get a box about half the size of the number one shoes box and make two holes in the sides of the box for eyes.

Fourthly you cut the bottom of the box and tape glad wrap cutter for

the teeth be careful you can cut yourself once you have done that you

will have your jaws. Fifthly you make a cardboard scorpion tail with

three stingers. Sixthly you make two large bunny ears of any colour.

Next you stick a toilet roll to a strip of cardboard, draw two black eyes

and cut out some teeth. Lastly you stick it to the body and also use strings to keep the heads above the ground remember that you need two heads.  We had fun making our space gadget!

By Anthony

Marzipan Drama

Early in June, the Marzipan drama Monday group of kids did a play called the Banditos. It was about 4 banditos that liked to steal things but then a man called Churro the true taught them to always  tell the truth but then the sheriff arrested them and then the banditos went to jail. We did the play in the hall and then everyone in the group got to eat a slice of Peter's cake.

By Jack and Peter

Science Roadshow

On the third of June 2015 we went to the science roadshow at Wairau Intermediate School so we could learn about ‘scientific stuff.

There were two other schools there Saint Mary's and another which I can’t remember. The guy there, I’ll call him ‘presenter’ who coinsidently presented to us a slide about water , we learnt that :

• salt water makes up 2 thirds of our planet and only 3% of the water on the planet is freshwater
• 70% of this freshwater can be found in Antarctica.

cool facts right.

After the slideshow he let us look at some totally mean machine engines, a spiky (but strangely comfortable bed of nails), a pulley chair, and a 3D printer - cool :)

The 3rd thing we did was listen to another cool bananas show about  . . . . . gherkins ( you're probably thinking what the heck do you mean ) the have a high concentration of salt, meaning a lot of salt and apparently salt is a good electrical conductor so if you're having trouble connecting 2 wires in a circuit just use a gherkin to connect them.

Then we did the tesla coil here is a picture of Nikola Tesla’s  one

 

pretty freaky how he just sits there reading his newspaper and they made one and showed it to us.

I loved going to the science roadshow I really want to go again.

By Levi