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 :)

Jayson's Holiday Space Research

My Space Study - by Jayson

In the holidays I studied space and everything about it like:

• In the middle of the galaxy there is a black hole in every Milky Way.

• Without a Black Hole in the middle of the Galaxy, there will never be a Galaxy.

• Black Holes have a gravitational pull .  This pulls everything to it - like the gases from the Galaxy, this holds everything in the Galaxy together.

• Black Holes are also important to the Galaxy as they have a dense gravity.  The Galaxy needs this to support it.

• A Black Hole is made by a dying star that then forms into a Black Hole.  The fragments of the exploded star collide together and form the Black Hole.

• How are Supernovas made?  A star collapses on its core and two stars collide together to form a Supernova.  These have to happen together to form the Supernova.  Supernova’s are very common.

• Gamma Ray bursts are made with a Supernova.  The Gamma Ray is formed from a star that is spinning faster than the speed of light which then explodes and makes a Supernova with a laser firing out of it.

Made by Jayson thanks for reading my research.

Greer's holiday :)

In the July school holidays, Greer and her family had an awesome holiday in Sydney.  Here are some of her favourite holiday pictures, and a story by Greer about her amazing holiday :)

In the photos below, Greer is having a yummy breakfast (the pancakes are as big as her!!), she saw turtles, baby crocodiles and stingrays at Manly Sealife park, she patted a kangaroo at Sydney Wildlife park, she cartwheeled on Bondi Beach, she climbed a HUGE crane (very large), and she visited a prison (very small) and a power station at Cockatoo Island, her family role played in the Titanic (very scarey!!, Richie was in 1st class, Dad and Greer were in 2nd class and Mum was in 3rd class).  Greer also met the Queen, Princess Katherine and Prince William - and she sat on the Queen's throne!!!  They are lookalike statues - but don't they look real!!! Prince Harry was there too but he didn't make the photo :)  

My holiday by Greer

In the holidays I went to Sydney.  I had to get up up at 3.00 am. We flew out at 7.30 am. We got to Sydney at 9.00 am and caught the train over to Central where our motel was.

First we went to Darling Harbour. We went to Sealife. There were dogfish and sharks and more.  We went to Wildlife I got to hold a koala.  It was fluffy. I also held a snake and a baby crocodile.  We went to Manly Sealife. I got to swim with sharks.  We went to Madam Tussauds.  The Queen was there.

I went to Cockatoo Island. We went to the jail and the power station.  

For breakfast we had buffet every day, but not Thursday.  For tea one night we had Chinese.  Another night we went to an Italian place and another night we went to the steak house.  Two nights we had tea at the motel.  

I went to the Opera House.  We went on a boat to Circular Quay  and we went on a train and a bus.

We went to a beach just out of Sydney.  I didn't swim.  It was too  cold.  

We went to a shopping centre.  We went to a chocolate shop there.  We got 11kg of Lindt chocolate for only $11!

There was a Nike shop there too.  I got nike pro shorts.  I got gold and grey and pink ones.  My mum got two pairs of shoes.  My dad got five tee-shirts.  My brother got nike air shoes.  

On Thursday we left our motel to go to Sydney Airport to fly home.  We had to get there at 3.30pm. We flew out at 6.30pm. It was a 3 hour flight to get to Auckland.  We got to Auckland at 12.30am.  We got home at 2.30am.

Thanks Mum and Dad, I had a fun holiday in Sydney.  Love from Greer.

Charlie's published writing :)

Our Charlie has had an article published in the New Zealand "Fishing and Outdoors" newspaper for June 2017!!!

Here is a photo of her awesome article about hunting deer, pig and boar.  The photo is of her and her sister Olivia when they were hunting.

We are super proud of our published class journalist!! Well done Charlie!!! :)

End of term 2 in Room 10 :)

WOW!!! Its the end of term already!!!

At the end of the term we were lucky enough to have the awesome Mr Muir visit to talk to us about Healthy Eating and Projos Lunchbox.  Here's some photos of us working with him.
Here's photo from our first session with Mr Muir. We did this session with Room 9. Justin was our walking organ diagram, and Senator shared his 'super banana man'. :)

Term 2 our first session of Healthy Eating with Mr Muir on PhotoPeach

Term 2 Session 2 Healthy Eating with Mr Muir on PhotoPeach


Thursday night of week 10 was our PTA disco with a pyjama party theme.  It was a really cool night!! :)

The last few weeks we have been practising our Middle and Senior Syndicate jump jam sessions - our performance assembly will feature a special dance we had been working on to wow you all with :)  Here's some photos from our Jump Jam sessions - and a special session on Wig Day Wednesday, when quite a few 'famous' celebrities (their hair anyway!) joined us....

Jump Jam - Middle and Senior Syndicates :) on PhotoPeach


And that brings us to the end of an awesome, exciting Term 2, and the end of having the sensational, super, Mrs Spooner in the office... We wish her all the very very best for a fantastic retirement, we thank her with all our hearts for always being their for us and for all she does for us.  Mrs Spooner, you are simply the best, lots of love xxxooo  (here's a video of Room 10's thank you notes for Mrs Spooner - we snuck into her office while she wasn't there and had photos taken.... Ms Trow quickly put a Mrs Spooner wig on for her photo - stick to blonde Ms Trow, stick to blonde haha)...

Thank you the sensational Mrs Spooner!! We'll miss you!! on PhotoPeach

Week 5 and 6, Term 2 already!!! :)

Wow!!  This term is just flying by!!!

This week we continued with our Jump Jam, and started a Recycling unit of learning with the lovely Kathy - we will be continuing this over Week 6.

We have been working on finishing our Pirate theme with plays, poems and our "boat in a bottle" art.  Ms Trow will post photos once we have completed our projects :)

Our Joke of the Week is from Malcolm:

Why did Malcolm eat his homework?
- Because Ms Trow told him it was a 'piece of cake'!! hahahahaha...  :)