Sailing and Beach Ed

Sailing (Year 6) and Beach Education (Year 5) is on Monday.

Sailing:
You need:
* A wetsuit (if you have one)
* Warm clothes and a change of clothes to wear home
* A windproof jacket
* Sunhat
* Warm hat
* Shoes to wear while sailing that can get wet. They need to be shoes that will stay on and not slip off (not jandals)
* spare shoes to wear home
* towel
* sunscreen
* Lunch, snacks, drinkbottle

Beach Education:
You need:

* A wetsuit (if you have one)
* Togs
* Warm clothes and a change of clothes to wear home
* A windproof jacket
* Sunhat
* Warm hat
* towel x 2
* sunscreen
* Lunch, snacks, drinkbottle

Any questions, please email me olivia.falkner@stalbans.school.nz

Wacky Week 8

Monday
On monday Mr Macs daughter Morgan came in and did a drama lesson with us.we learnt how to make frozen pictures with our bodies and how to express our emotions through drama. The rest of the day wasn't very exciting.


Tuesday
On Tuesday in the morning we went to Mrs A's class and sung some christmas songs. Then we went out and did an awesome Futsal tournament with room 26 (we also started our Weslandia writing). We also got to go swimming.


Wednesday
The start to Wednesday was saying good luck to the people going to Canterbury athletics well done you did so well. WE also started pasteling on our kowhaiwhai they look so cool.


Thursday
On Thursday the year 6s all did a sailing lesson so we are prepared for monday. We also had swimming and some of the class was lucky enough to go and have some buddy time.

Friday
On  Friday we have go the year 5 & 6 photos for the year book. The year 6's had singing practice. we also had some fun sport in the afternoon.

By Maddie and Piper

Wicked Week Three

Monday: Monday was awesome because it was Labour weekend yay extra day off.

Tuesday: Tuesday was Heaton testing and all the boring stuff like Reading, Writing and Maths the day
went so fast.

Wednesday: On Wednesday everyone was bursting with excitement because of Athletics everyone in our class strived for there best and did so well especially Alice, Estella, James R, Aliana, Beth, Triny and Mia who are going to Zones good luck girls and boys.

Thursday: Thursday the choir people went to Horncastle Arena for their practise while the other kids got split amongst the senior block and later that night they did their real performance you sounded so
beautiful .

Friday: Friday was another exciting day with choir performing again and sport at Hagley this morning we did some jump jam it was really fun! After school is Halloween.

By Alice and Piper

Wacky Week 1 and 2

Week 1

Monday: To start off the term, we had a whole school Powhiri. The Kapa Haka group sang a song in front of the school. Mrs Hanson (Ms Falkner) taught us some really fun art called "Through my camera". The whole class worked on them really hard and now they look great!

Tuesday: In the afternoon we did athletics. We started with long jump and finished with shot put. We also did our daily routine of writing, reading and maths. For writing, we started planning our narratives. For reading, we started our new text on fiction stories. And for maths, we started learning about fractions.

Wednesday: The time our class was all waiting for was the announcement of what bunk room we were in for camp. We had at least 1 friend in our bunk rooms and most of us were happy with what the results were. Everybody is excited for camp.

Thursday: We went to the hall for singing. We sounded amazing altogether. Some people got house points for singing exceptionally well. Once again we did what we always do. Maths, reading and writing.

Friday: We did athletics again but this time we did relays and high jump. Speaking of relays, Mrs Hanson put a twist to it. We had to crab dance, run backwards, grape vine, side step, and had to run properly. For high jump, we played last man standing, but time ran out and we had to run back to class.

Week 2

Monday: We did our 4 pieces of art in 4 days. We started this with koru art, where you use koru to make a picture. Then we did our maths PAT test. Most people got very high scores which is good for our classes' reputation.

Tuesday: We kept doing the 4 pieces of art in 4 days. This time we did a 1/4 circle coloured in with hot and cold colours. Some people went to sports extension and they missed out on art. We also did discus and sprints for athletics.

Wednesday: We did our reading PAT test. More than 1/2 the class got top points. We continued our pieces of art by Printmaking, where you go around the school finding different textures to trace with crayon. Then you cut out your favourite pieces and glue them to a big sheet of paper.

Thursday: We had a assembly with Mrs Howison so she could give away the ICAS, AMT, and OPS awards. A special mention to Ryota Niwa from Rm 26 for getting nearly every question right with a total of 23/25.

Friday: Don't really know what's going on because today is Friday!

So that's what's been going on in Rm 27 these 2 weeks :)

By Robert D and Triny

Wednesday Touch: Important notice

The venue for Wednesday Touch has changed. It is now at McFarlane Park, not Westminster Park.
The draw for this week:
Barracudas: 4.30 Field 2
Mini Blacks: 4.30 Field 3
Gladiators: 4.30 Field 4

INNOVATION INQUIRIES

Last week we presented the Innovation Inquiries we worked on at home, on our own or with a buddy.
We came up with questions about different innovations that we were interested in.

Miss Falkner was so impressed with what we came up with! If you would like to see them more closely, some of them are on display in Room 27!

Kate and Beth's question was: How have punishments and rewards changed at home since the 1900s?

* The no smacking law came into NZ in 2007

* Punishments have become less cruel

* Punishments now are usually to do with confiscating technology

 James R and Owen's question was: How have pencils changed through time?

* They have changed from lead to graphite

* Pencils are safer because they don't contain lead, which can get into your organs

* They used to be encased in string and now they are encased in wood

Dom's question was: How have computer games changed since the first computer game?

* Pong was the first game, which was a big arcade game

* Now games are a lot smaller

* You used to control them with joysticks and now you use keyboards and mouse controls

 Jordyn and Niamh's question was: How have punishments at home and school changed since 1960?

* Boys were picked on more than girls around the 1960s

* In the 1970s, a common punishment was to sit in the corner on a chair

* Teachers don't slap kids on the hand anymore

 Grace and Triny's question was: How has food and drink changed in the last 75 years?

* In the future, the girls predict that fresh food will become more uncommon

* In the past, there was a lot less processed food

* They used to wrap fish and chips in newspaper.

 Maddie (not pictured), Piper and Issy's question was: How have cars changed since the first car?

* Cars used to be a lot simpler, with not as many flash features

* Changed from horse and cart to cars

* The first cars had pedals and no engines

 Myah and Mia's question was: How have phones changed through time?

* Most phones are now cordless and wireless

* The first phone had a dial and 2 separate pieces

* Now, many phones are touch screen and have a lot of features

 Jackson's question was: How has Nintendo changed through time?

* There have been many different types of Nintendo systems

* The first thing Nintendo invented were cards

* Nintendo has changed from very bulky to slimline

 Bella and Alice's question was: How have punishments and rewards at school since 1930?

* You used to get the cane, which is now illegal

* If you did something good in the 1940s, a common reward was a family picnic

* If you went to Selwyn House in the 1980s, a punishment was sitting in front of the whole school assembly

Tyler and Brad's question was: How have planes changed since the first plane?

* The first plane only stayed in the air for 12 seconds!

* The Wright Brothers invented the first plane and it was made of wood and cloth

* Now, planes are much safer and study as they are made of aluminium

Estella and Aliana's (photo coming soon!) question was: How has medicine changed since 1900?

We are also working on a class inquiry about Modern Learning environments and how they change the way we learn. We will continue to work on this in Term 4!

Slippery skating

On Thursday 4th September the senior school went to alpine ice.Alpine ice is a place where you go ice skating.First of all when we jumped onto the ice we all started skating and most of us slipped over.
We all enjoyed slipping skating and winning prizes.

Some of us found in very tricky but we all gave it a go.At the end we were very excited because we got an extra 10 minutes on the ice ice baby.Over all we had the best day ever.

We had lots of fun at alpine ice and we think you will have fun solving these word problems. The ice has mixed up these letters and we need you to put them back.


p c i i l n e e a

by Isaac and maddie

Week 7: Spectacular!

This week has been very busy. On Monday there was kapa haka festival at Horncastle Arena. In the morning the people in kapa haka went to the arena for a dress rehearsal. Then at five 'o'clock they came back to school, got changed and went to the arena to perform. All the kapa haka people said it was really fun and they had a good time.

On Wednesday we started an inquiry project about modern learning environments. We designed our own classroom based about how we like to learn, some people had lots of desks some people only had a couple of desks. There were certain things that we had to put in like a mat space, the library shelves, the blue shelves, the computer desk,  the long table with the blue cover, the small teacher whiteboard etc. We also wrote a couple of sentences about where we like to work and how many people we like to work with. 

On Thursday for writing we wrote like and dislike lists. We wrote things that we like and dislike some of the options were foods, drinks, numbers, books, movies, animals, places, games, days and month. We will use it to give us ideas when we do free writing.

A couple of weeks ago we started inquiry projects about innovations. Some people will be presenting theirs next Wednesday and Thursday.

Thanks for reading our blog about Week 7 we hope you liked it. See you next week!

by Tyler and Beth

Cultural Festival Performance

18 people from our class performed with Te Mahuri Kapa Haka at the Cultural Festival on Monday. Here's the link if you would like to see it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FjsyhTmne8

Super Mega Fun Ultimate Awesome Epic Week 6 YAY

This week has been very busy. We went to the pop-up library on Monday. Everybody got books out. Keep calm and read on everyone!

We also had skipping for p.e. on Monday and some people did have a bad attitude but they still had fun in the end.We had skipping races a skipping tournament and of course FUN!

We also had a great time at kapa haka even though i wasn't there but I still know a bit they have a recital on Monday. Keep it up kapa haka team.

We had a great time doing are Wacky Wednesday activity on Thursday we had to do a very wacky like page of a book its great fun.

We had winter tournament on Thursday as well the a hockey team came 7th. That's all we know about winter tournament so far.

by Jackson and Jarkwyn 

Innovation Inquiry

As part of this term's focus on 'innovation', your child will be working on an innovation inquiry as part of their home learning. They were VERY keen to do an at-home inquiry, so I have allowed them to do this. We will be working on a different inquiry in class as part of our learning.

They filled out a form in Week 4 which outlines their inquiry, this should have been stuck into their homework book.

At school, we came up with a whole lot of different innovations (e.g. telephone, medicine, vehicles etc), then each student picked something they wanted to learn more about. They then came up with a question that they wanted to find the answer to. Some students have chosen to work alone; some in pairs and others in groups of 3. The expectation is that the more students in the group, the more work that should be there. They can present it in any way they choose.

We have been learning how to summarise information in our own words, by using 'headings' and 'trigger words'. This will enable the students to clearly understand the information they are researching.

As this is a self-directed inquiry the focus is very much on the students managing their time and their resources. We will be doing some work on it in class but the majority of the research needs to be completed at home.

It is really important that this is not a stress at home. It is merely an opportunity for the students to find out more about something they are interested in.

We will be presenting our inquiries to the class on Thursday 11th September (Week 8).

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Wicked Week 5!

On Monday the start of our wicked week, we heard about what we were doing for our innovation inquiry. We have started collecting information already but some speedy people have already started a bit of the work!

On Tuesday the pop-up library opened. The real library got pulled down last holidays so we have moved it into a small spot in the hall as a pop-up library. We were going to go to the library on Monday but it was being set up again after the quiz night. So some people decided to to go at lunch time. We also had Mrs Glasson for Tuesday because  Miss Falkner was sick.

On Wednesday we had a relaxing normal day with heaps of the novel! Only a few chapters to go..

The busiest day of the week was definitely yesterday with the poetry competition. There was so much stress on everyone. Everyone did so well but only three or four people got chosen. These people got chosen: Beth, Issy, Estella and Owen but we had lots of runners up. Mrs Allen (our judge) did so well because it was a hard decision. So well done team 27.

We have a exciting Friday ahead of us! Great work team 27.

By PIPER and Ella ;)

Year 5/6 Poetry Finals

The senior school poetry finals are next Tuesday (Week 6) at 1.30 in the hall. Our finalists are: Estella (Year 5), Issy, Owen and Beth (Year 6). Parents of finalists are welcome to join us for the competition! We are so proud of our finalists!

Aiming high!

We have decided to aim for 6000 blog views! When we get there Miss Falkner says we can have a shared lunch. We know that we will all have to contribute in order to make this happen! 30 students all working together will make it happen!

Week 3 and 4

Welcome to week 3 and 4 this is Alice and James R. This week is maths week so we had lots of different mathematical challenges.We had to create a poster including numbers and shapes that are important to us. We did number posters on a number and we had to write everything we know about that number. Also Miss Falkner gave us an answer and we had to come up with a problem.

Today is Miss Dunbar's last day before she becomes an air hostess for Air New Zealand. We will miss her.

We also had a 'dance party' where we learnt to dance with a partner.If you ever go dancing beware James twirls you way too fast.

We are enjoying doing information reports for reading and writing. We are also
looking forward to mini innovation inquiries.

That sums up week 3 and 4. See you back here next week!

Double the FUN!

Hi everyone,

Today we will talk about the first 2 weeks of Term 3.

We've started the term off with Calendar Art and they are on the wall everyone chose a quote that they liked and then we dyed the background blue or red. We either did our own lettering or we collaged it they looked really COOL!!!!!!!!!

On week 1 term 3 we had Maori language week. We learned how to say can I go to the toilet? 
We also learned how to say 'how old are you?' 'E hia o tau?' And 'he __ taku tau' 'I am __ years old.

Winter Tournament was a success! Netball A won all of their games and Netball B came 5th, so well done Netball Rugby came 4th, Soccer A came 1st, Soccer B came 7th. Well done Hockey who came 1st, congratulations.

Both classes have been working really hard at math time. Most people have finished their task sheet 
in Mrs Archbold class we played buzz. In Miss Falkner class they play the dice game times, tables in Maori.

Holiday menus are really cool lots of people have theirs on the wall and their teacher ones 

In reading and writing we are looking at information reports. We are learning how to use heading and trigger words to put information reports in our own words.

Term 3 has more blogs coming soon stay tuned!
  
no reira tena koutou tena koutou tena koutou katoa.

MIA AND KRISTAL

Writing Workshops

This could be a neat opportunity for some keen writers...

Hacky Sacks!

Yesterday Miss Falkner's mum Kate came to Room 27 to teach us how to make hacky sacks.
We LOVED it!
Here are some photos of us sewing them and helping each other.
Today we wrote explanations saying how to make them. We might publish one to the blog so keep an eye out for it!

Week 8 super great!!!

Hi this is the Week 8 news reporters. We're going to talk to you about what Room 27 did this week.

First up: Gymnastics.
On Wednesday and Thursday Room 27 did gymnastics. First we did the roll & then we went to the hall.When we got there we played musical statues as a warm up. Then we got into groups of 4, 5 or 6.
there were 5 stations with 4 activities.

On Tuesday night the senior team had their choir performance. We sung 4 songs,which were...

:Scooby- doo

:towo - towo

:Green eggs and ham

:Oh the things you can think


On Wednesday + Thursday Miss Falkner was away sick so Mrs Glasson had to teach Room 27. We learnt  about Matariki. When we had finshed learning about Matariki we made posters to show that we understand. After that she did some quizzes with us.


On Tuesday we started explanation writing. We came up with heaps of ideas to write about. ex: how to look after a pet, how to ride a bike and how to cook a meal.


Room 27 has been reading a novel called The Mysterious Benedict Society & it is getting really interesting.

BYE that has been the news with Bella & Tyler!!!

The amazing book week!

This week was awesome because it was book week we did lots of fun activities and lots of visitors here's what happened this week:

On Monday it was dress up as your favourite book character day. 
We had a parade and the most common thing that people went as was a witch. The prize for the best dressed was a book there were two winners from each class. Mia, Grace and Myah won from our class.

On Tuesday Craig Smith came and sung us ten of his songs his newest song was square eyes. Margaret his helper dressed up as a kea from one of his songs and also a monkey. Beth was a monkey too. People got puppets and nipped and tickled the audience. 

On Wednesday we had the book olympics our class came first. Jordyn Beth Ella Estella and Alice went to Canterbury Cross Country from our class .

Yesterday our class did a book swap. We gave Miss Falkner 1-3 books and she gave us a token per book then we swapped the token for a new book. It was awesome because we got new books without having to pay! Dale (a parent from Room 21) also read us his book that he wrote when he was sixteen and his sons Jessie and Max did the illustrations.

We had a really busy and exciting week . 

By Jordyn and Grace

Homework this week!

Welcome to Book Week!

We have an amazing week ahead of us!

Your home learning this week:

* Read at home every day for at least 20 minutes.

* Test your 10 spelling words with someone at home each day.

 * Fill in your family water diary. There will be house points for the people who fill this in the most!

Remember to bring in 1-3 books for the book swap on Thursday!

Week 5 :)

We started off our week having a day off... YAY because it was the Queen's birthday. I don't know why it's called the Queen's birthday because her birthday is in April. Anyway, moving on .

Even though it was a short week, it was a busy week. We did two things for our report. We did a writing sample  and portrait of ourselves, they look excellent. 

We started AVAILLL again, yay AVAILLL. If you don't know what AVAILLL is it is when we watch a movie with subtitles and do activities to do with the movie.

Mrs Glasson came on Tuesday we learnt about water pollution so don't litter or the water will get really polluted.We did an activity were we had to draw a fresh lake and a polluted lake

On Wednesday we did fun writing where we had to pick three numbers between one and twelve the fist one would give us a character the second a setting and the third a problem some of them were really hard and some were easy .

Yesterday the senior team did some amazing singing well done our class for being so well behaved at singing.

By Jackson and Piper 

For Minecraft fans!

If you're a Minecraft fan you NEED to check this out: a blog written by Christchurch students, all about Minecraft! I know we have some keen Minecrafters in our class and I know you will love this blog!
http://thecraftersminecraftguide.blogspot.co.nz

Fantastic Week Four

On Monday we went to St John training. First we learnt about the DRSABC which stands for danger, response, send for help, airway, breathing and CPR. Next we learnt about severe bleeding in which case you would put pressure on the wound and elevate. After that we were taught to put a bandage over a severe cut to keep pressure on it. Next we learnt to sling an arm in an elevated position.

Apart from that we finished publishing our 'I Wish That I Had Duck Feet' poems, here are some examples: crocodile teeth, bird wings and cheetah legs.

Congratulations to everyone who made it to zones cross-country and even more to Beth, Ella, Jordyn, Alice and Estella who made it to Canterburys.

Also this week is our last session of choir and we will be starting kapa haka with Rooms 25 and 23.

Another thing is that the Year 6s finished cycle safety. At cycle safety they learned all the basics before going on the road.

That sums up Week Four. Have a great weekend!

by Ben and James R

The Ultimate Week 3

If you think you had the greatest week, think again! Room 27 did!

The Year 5s are writing this blog while the Year 6s are at Cycle Safety. It's been pretty quiet when the Year 6s have been out of the room! Miss Falkner has been able to get lots of Maths and Reading testing done while it's so quiet.

On Monday we started our Measurement unit for Maths. It's been exciting to see what people do and don't know. Some of us had forgotten what perimeter and area were but we are starting to remember now. Our first activity was on estimating. We had to estimate the length of different objects then measure them with a ruler. It was interesting to see the different results. On Wednesday we pretended we were going to the Olympics and we had to give our measurements to Olympic officials so we had to measure things like our hip to hip, toe to heel etc.

Our Inquiry topic for this term is to do with Water. We found out that agriculture uses the most water in Canterbury! We were really surprised that agriculture uses more than domestic houses! We also did a SOLO activity where we linked a whole lot of words to do with water. We had to come up with reasons why they linked.

Later on today we are going to Choir, then we have a senior Basketball tournament this afternoon. We can't wait! The people in our team are Ella, Myah, Jordyn, Beth, Jarkwyn, James R and Robert D.

Have a great weekend everyone! From the Room 27 Year 5s.

On Patrol!

Jordyn and Issy on school patrol!

The epic start of term 2

We have had a fantastic start to term 2 we are going to tell you what we have been doing so far!

The cross country was really fun . Everybody put in great effort to finish the cross country. Everyone who came 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th and 6th will be going to zones whoever came 7th is the reserve for zones. so congratulations to everybody who ran in the cross country!!!

This week we have started AVAILLL to help us with our reading comprehension. The year 6 movie is Hoot and we have done surprise subtitles and the word hunt one. The year 5s are watching Hook and they are really enjoying it because they have never done AVAILLL before and AVAILLL is really fun.

Last Wednesday we had the water ignition day. There were so many activities that lots of groups did not get to finish the activities. We did all kinds of activities like a water blaster aiming contest, a sponge contest and so on.

Last week in writing we started our postcards. We write a holiday recount but in post card style. We write to somebody at home or at school. If we didn't know the address we could make it up we designed our own stamp and now we are doing our front picture.

by James M and Alice

Community Cloth up in the hall!

Welcome back!

It's hard to believe that Term 2 is here already! Keep up to date with all the happenings in Room 27 by checking the blog regularly! All of the students will bring home a newsletter later this week, with details of learning units and important dates. Keep an eye out for this.

Our Community Cloth!

Check out these pictures of us with our community cloth pieces!