Term 3, week 4 in Room 10

This Thursday afternoon is our school cross country event!!  We will be starting the races around 1pm across the road at Boyd Park.  If you can be there we'd love to see you :)  we have been training hard and we aim to do well in our running :)

We will decide at morning tea if the event is cancelled due to weather - and the save day for the event is the following day (Friday)...  we have to run it this week as the District event is next Wednesday.

PLEASE let your child know to let Ms Trow know if you will be collecting them from the event afterwards - as all class and cloakroom doors will be locked in the school while the event is on.  If you are collecting your child from the event they will need to take their school bag over - otherwise their bags will be locked in the cloakbay until we return.

Fingers and toes crossed for a beautiful day :)


This week we are finishing our class persuasive writing projects on whether we are for or against zoos.  At the end of this project students will start their own speech writing for our class speeches.  These can be either persuasive (to debate an opinion on a topic) or informative (to discuss a topic).  The Senior school speech finals will be held in Tuesday of Week 8 with the winners competing at the Rotary speech finals in Week 9.  As the Senior Speech Finals are for years 6 and up, Rooms 9 and 10 will be having class speeches and finals between them - with the finals being in front of some of the other Middle/Senior classes :)  (This is to help prepare the students to be confident in speech writing and speaking).

Last week Room 10 held 1 minute 'on the spot' speeches on topics Ms Trow picked.  All the students spoke very well with some very confident, funny speeches being shared.  To speak in front of an audience with no preparation is a very important skill to have and builds confidence in the students abilities to communicate :)

In maths we are moving onto geometry (shape, position, orientation and transformation), and finalising our learning using adding/subtracting using a part partitioning strategy.  We will be moving onto solving equations with a missing middle number (addend) once we are all confident in subtracting.

Here are some photos from our sugar in food research - our graphs and findings will be on display in our classroom next week :)

Sugar in our foods maths research photos on PhotoPeach


In reading we have been reading persuasive/debate articles to help with our writing, as well as working on our book reviews.  We hope to have our book reviews completed and on display next week.  This week we also started some more chapter book readings.  Next week we hope to have some cool new chapter book sets to read through as Ms Trow (with Ms T, Mrs Haddock and Miss Malone) will be meeting Jenny at the RTLB rooms to source some sets to use in class.  Jenny has some awesome cool book sets - so Ms Trow is looking forward to bringing these into the class. We will also continue to use School Journal articles in our reading as well.  Our focus is on identifying and summarising the main points in our reading and looking at character, plot, setting etc.

Thursday afternoons we have started our Culture time when the Kapa Haka group has been practising.  This will move back to Wednesday middle block after cross country has been held.  We have 4 options running that students have selected:  Kapa Haka (preparing for the upcoming festival), Dance (hip hop), Singing, and Rad Rhythm.  We will be performing from these groups at the end of term Performance Assembly :)

Week 3, Term 3 in Room 10

Week 3 Term 3 already!!!  This week we have continued training our cross country - reminder:  the school cross country is on Thursday next week (week 4 - 17 August)!!!  The spare day is the following day (Friday) and we have to run it that week as the District's are on the following week, on Wednesday (23 August).

In Week 3 we learnt about the Sugar in our drinks with Mr Muir - here are some photos of us learning with Mr Muir.  We also completed some booklets and had a leaflet to bring home telling parents and caregivers all about the amounts of sugar in common drinks - we were shocked by how much sugar is in some of our yummy drinks :(

Learning about the sugar in our drinks with Mr Muir on PhotoPeach


In maths we have been researching and gathering data on how much sugar is in different foods that we eat.  We also compared the sugar amounts to the saturated fat content in the foods (these are the bad fats).  We are currently displaying our group findings - and we were very shocked at some of the results....  We will put on some photos of our findings when we have finished our display.

This week's joke is from Charlie:

Is your refrigerator running?
       Yes..... well you better catch it!!!

Term 3, Week 2 in Room 10 :)

This week we showcased our dance item at assembly.  We were so nervous but really excited to show the hard work we've been putting in to learning and practising our dance :)

Miss T videoed it for us, so Ms Trow will have it here for you when its been uploaded - but we were awesome - FABULICIOUS even :)

This week Mr Muir took Room 9 and 10 for some running training fitness - with our upcoming School Cross Country coming up quickly (Thursday week 4).  We have been training through the wetlands Tuesday and Thursday.  (Ms Trow is hoping to get fitter participating in the training each day too).

Here we are training with Mr Muir:

Fitness training with Mr Muir - Week 2 on PhotoPeach

Next week we have Mr Muir coming to talk to us about the sugar in our drinks.  We will be able to compare these with our maths statistics study graphs about the sugar in foods we have in our pantry.  We have been researching different foods in our groups and will be putting our data onto graphs next week.  We will be showing the grams and the teaspoons of sugar in our servings...  very scarey amounts!!!

Our writing this week has been finishing our rhyming winter poems - it takes time to write a good rhyme :)  these will be on display next week... and they look awesome :)

We did our term spelling test on Friday and Ms Trow has marked those - please remember you only have to focus on 5 words in your spelling list each week and aim to pass the master as soon as you think you can spell the whole list. :)

Our joke of the week is from Taranpreet:

What do you call a dog in the sun?

     - A hot dog :)

Week 3's Winter Olympics $2.50 School Lunch will be hot chicken bun - yum!!!   Remember to order them by Wednesday to ensure you get one Thursday :)