Nick Willis

Last week we had a visit from Olympic athlete Nick Willis. He talked to us about his training for the 1500m and what it was like to win gold and silver medals for New Zealand.

He had many messages for for us to take away with us.

"He told us that our meals need lots of different colours"

"We can be anything we want to be"

"We need to work hard to achieve our goals"

He took the the children on a run around the school grounds. His advice is going to be good for when we are training for our school triathlon.

Welcome to 2012 in Room 7!

Hello everyone and welcome back to school!

Room 7 has been busy getting to know one another for the past 7 days. We have 20 children this term.

Here is a photo of our class. Can you spot someone you know?

Room 7 created a spider web that showed how we are all unique. We had to pass the ball of string to different people around the circle to create it. It shows that we all have differences.

Come and read why everyone in Room 7 is so unique. It is displayed on our classroom wall.

We hope you enjoy our visiting our blog this term!

Welcome to Term 4!

Welcome back to school everyone!

Already we are in the second week of term 4! We have had a busy start with Gail Loane in our class on the first day of school.

Gail worked with a group of students who looked closely at some special seed pods and then wrote a poem about what they saw! Some made it to the school newsletter!

We will be writng more poems this term, so if you have some interesting things around home from nature, have a go at looking closely and writing down exactly what you see!

Also this term, the juniors are trying to get to the bush! Due to weather tomorrow our trip to the Blue Pools is not going ahead but hopefully will next Tuesday8th November.

We want to look at how humans and animals have impacted on the native bush, the different canopies, regeneration and pests and traps. We hope we get there next week!

Hopefully we will keep the blog a bit more updated this term with what we are doing in Room 7!

Coming up:

Junior Trip -8th November to Blue Pools
School fair - 19th November

Costumes

We were so lucky to have two super mums in to help us with our costumes for the school production. Thanks Liz and Suzanne!

We researched our 4 native birds that we had to act in our song. We looked at the way they looked, walked and how they made sounds.

In groups we brainstormed what we could use for the costunes. Then Liz and Suzanne cam in with some materials and helped us make them.

Some of us learnt how to sew!

Mackenzies Puppy

Mackenzie brought her new puppy Kiesha in to share with us. She was so playful and loved us all in Room 7. We had a heap of questions to ask Mackenzie about Kiesha.

Buddy Reading

We had a buddy reeading session at the beginning of the term with some children in Room 2. We enjoyed reading them some of our classroom stories

Term 3!

We are back! We have had such a busy 6 weeks getting ready for our production...

Here are some photos to show how busy we have been.

We hope you enjoy them.