our cool camp books

on December the third the year fives and year six's

a going on camp to wainui. We have all been doing camp books to

remind our self what it was like there.

We have the info of wainui camp in our camp books

like the directions to wainui and a map of the camp site.

We will be doing all sorts of activie like bush walks

archey rock climbing and swimming!

And much more we are sorting out which

bunk rooms we are going in we will not be going

with every one that we chose we will be going with one or two of them.

We are very lucky to be going on camp

by azaria and andie

Why NIE?

Reading is fun thanks to NIE "newspaper in education".

A few facts on NIE!

• You get your own newspaper



• Every activity we do in our books



• We get a news paper every month



• You make your own title page



• Get us in to the mood of reading about the news more



• We read for info

Why NIE cause we read for info!!!

Calendar Confusion

Today we have been doing our calander art for next year.

Our topic was a scene of Wainui camp.

First we planned it on a piece of scrap paper then once we got permission from the teacher we went onto our good copy.

We drew what we had planned then we outlined everything in vivid.

We then coloured only the pictures in the border what ever colour we wanted it to be. Then once again we had to ask the teacher if we could start dying our border on our picture.

Here are some photos we will share with you.

By Gemma Waters and Brie Gullery!!!!!

THE MOST HARDEST WALK OF ALL

On Tuesday 6 November we were ready for the Walkathon. We did the Walkathon to raise money for the school and to get fit. We started walking at 1pm. We got stamped off on our cards for every lap that we did. Alex Davidson went around the crescent seventeen times, along with Anton McGeachen! The Kiwi team joined in as well. They joined in at 2pm and most of them did at least three laps and some did six. Even some of the teachers joined in and went round the crescent with us. There were three great prizes to be won for the three poeple who raised the most money and you could also win spot prizes. Thanks to everyone and to the parents who helped as well. We will be able to get new sports gear for the school with the money that we raised. But at the end of the day we all had fun. Some people's legs are still really sore, though!

ZONES ATHLETICS

On Friday 2nd November, it was the athletics zone competition.
First were the relays and poor Amy Robinson tripped up as she was passing
the baton to Morgan.
Next there were the sprints. Ella and Amy M. were in the 50 metres. Ella came 1st
in the heat and 3rd in the final. Sheree came 1st in her sprints.
The middle distance was getting closer and closer and I was
getting so nervous! Then the time had come. I got out and . . . ready, set, go!
I was going as fast as I could but in the end I don't know where I came!
Next, Ella and Abbey had long jump. Abbey jumped 3.15m and Ella jumped 3.39m.
Azaria threw 5 metres in shotput and Prue threw 6.49 meters! It was a really tiring day in the end but it was worth it till next year.

This exciting blog news was brought to you by Ella Spinks and Georgia Taylor!

HALLOWEEN

Hello! and Happy Halloween!


Yesterday and today we have
made covers and title pages for our camp books. The camp is coming around very fast now and we are all looking forward it, here are some pics of us illustrating our books:













We are also looking
forward to being coached in cricket
this afternoon.

And if any of you go "trick or treating" this afternoon we will be honoured if you brought us some of your candy, we are in LC5!!

Thank-You very Much!!!

By George Watson and James Cider

Do you know what teachers get up to?

Over long play, Morgan and Georgie have been keeping an eye on teachers to see what they get up to. Here are some shots so you can see what they get up to as well. But who knows what they get up to in the staff room when we are not in there????

TRAINING FOR THE WALKATHON

Over the past few weeks, the Moa team have been training for the upcoming walkathon.
We have been walking around westview cresent from two to three laps a day. We have also been busy trying to get sponsors to raise money for sports equipment. This is how it works say somone sponsered you one dollar a lap and you walked seven laps you would get seven dollars. Last year we raised sevral thousand so we decided to do it again this year. This event is also for our finess. The person that raises the most money will win a mountain bike. second and third prizes are scooters there will be spot prizes given out on the day too.
By Honor and Amy R.

BANDANAS AND BUDDIES

This week is Bandana week!Emelia and George have shown their courtesy to people with cancer by wearing canteen bandanas.
Also today we enjoyed seeing our buddy class Room 10 and listening to them read to us.It helps their reading skills and makes them happy if we bring their favourite book.Today we met outside on the front court and went to find our buddies.After we found our buddies, we found a place to sit and read on the front court. In one ophoto you can see Mathew Emms and Matthew Blain reading together. In the other photo, you can see Cian and his Room 10 buddy Jack Kelliher and Alex with his Room 10 buddy Max. And guess who else, the wonderful teachers Ms McKednry and Mrs Trolove.
Today's blog entry has been brought to you by the awesome Nadia McGeachen and the brilliant Brie Gullery.

CRUISING ON THE NEWS

On Thursday 18 October, four amazing groups set off at 11:30 to Christchurch Boys High, to take part in the News Cruise Challenge, which is a sort-of of Social Studies and Current Events Challenge.
The two Yr5/6 teams are:
The Einsteins with Honor, Ella, Brennan and Emelia who is filling in for Cullen.
The Intellegent Jellybeans has Bradley, Steven, Blain and Kirsty.
The other two teams are Yr7/8's.
There are lots of spot prizes.The catergories are read all about it,pictures tell stories,whiz around the world,people in the news and the scavanger hunt.
The news cruise challange is run by The Press newspaper.
The time limit is 45 minutes altogether for each section.
You can get prizes for the name banners for your team.

by Gemma Waters and Belinda Field-Dodgson

OKTOBERFEST TODAY

Today Room 5 did work about Oktoberfest. We had to write a short paragragh of explaining what it was all about. Then we had to make a copy of the German flag with all of colours of the flag. We had to find Germany on the map and colour it, and we could colour all of the map too. We found out the English meanings of German words and wrote them beside them. We did it in pairs and some people in the pairs did one thing and the other person did another. Next week we will finish it off and stick our work on a big bit of carboard, and some people have already started that. When we are finished you might want to come and see our cool German work in Room 5 at West Melton School
by Ryan Filer and Hamish Roessink

WE ARE THE HIGHWAY MEN!!!!

The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees,
The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,
The road was a ribbon of moon-light over the purple moor,
And the Highway man came riding-riding-Riding-
The highwayman came riding,
Up to the old inn-door.
We have been learning about the highwaymen, we have learnt some of the poem!(which is in the picture above).The highwayman is a great poem for us to learn! Because it is quite famous and a well known poem! We are also doing it for handwriting, as you can see from the picture of James Cider doing his handwriting. There is also a song called:Stand and deliver by the famous group Adam And The Ants. now we are about to do buddy reading with room 10 so check out their blog too

SEE YA LATER ALLIGATOR
this posting was published by Abbey Shortus and Emelia Todd-Lister!

BACK TO SCHOOL AGAIN

A new term started last Monday.What a day it was! We saw our friends again Yay!But suddenly Ms McKendry stormed in, "Book monitors, reading books out!!!"
Then, now a week on from that terrifing day, William,Brennan,Ella and Georgia are busy at work!
But anyway, Room 5 are have great fun so far this term and hopefully for the rest of the term as well!!!!!!!! No doubt we will, because we have the walkathon and camp and beach education and sysle safety and pet day and athletics day and news cruise and triathlon and heaps of other stuff coming up.

Brought to you by Laughing Mat and Talkative Brad

POWERPOINT PLANNING PANIC!!!

On Thursday afternoon, we planned our powerpoints.
We are working in groups of four or five to plan and make a powerpoint. Our topic is COMMUNICATION and most of us are doing something to do with digital communication. Some of our topics are the internet, cellphones, email, advertisements, grafitti, animal communication and digital communication.
Once we have planned our powerpoints, we will make them come alive using the Powerpoint programme.
We have to work well as a team, have good information, plan carefully and fully and use not too many of the special features on powerpoint. We can take photos with the digital camera, save them onto the computer and then put them into our powerpoints. We can also get photos and images from the web to illustrate our powerpoints.
They won't be finished until next term, but we would like you to see them when they are done!
By the awesome students of Room 5

Communication Crazy

On Thursday 23 August, Rooms 2,3 and 5 went to the Police Headquarters and St John's Ambulance Service. The purpose of the trip was to learn more about our topic 'Communication'. Room 3 and half of Room 5 went to the St John Ambulance Service first, while the rest of Room 5 and Room 2 went to the Police Headquarters. All of the equipment looked really interesting. At the Police Headquarters there was a special computer that if you type in your address, you can see your house. At the St John Ambulance Service there was a room called The Fishbowl where you can see the staff taking emergency calls. In between the two trips we had lunch by the Christchurch Garden Fountain. Then we walked to the Botanical Gardens for a play!
by Brie Gullery and Andie McNeill

BOTTLED BIRD BONANZA

Why don't you check out our bottled birds? They are on the windowsill of room 5 and you can see them best if you walk past around the back of Room 5.
Over the past few weeks we have been making bottled birds. We used plastic drink bottles. We added a stomach and a head made of newspaper. We paper mached over that and then we painted the birds and then we added the details. We got some parents in to help sticking details on with the hot glue gun.Some of us got a bit burnt!!!
We all think our birds deserve ten out of ten, or even eleven out of ten. What do you think?
Honor and Brennan took some photos of people's bottle birds. In the photos, some people are holding birds that they didn't make.

KIDS WATCHING KIDS!

This afternoon we have been looking at blog sites from rooms at West melton School. We looked at some really great sites and saw lots of interesting stuff.
We really liked the look of the models that the children in Room 1 have made - great work, Room 1. It will be great when it is all looking nice out the back of Rooms 1 and 2 - we wanted it to look nice and be a fun place to be when we were in those rooms!
We also thought that the pourquoi stories that the children in Room 10 have been reading were very interesting. Perhaps you can tell us more about them at buddy reading time, Room 10.
Room 4, we liked your blogsite and your photos, but you have to admit, we're a better-looking bunch than you!
Check out our blogsite tomorrow and you will see some cool photos - but we're not going to tell you what they are, you will have to check them out tomorrow!
Meanwhile, here are some photos of us checking out all the blogsites this afternoon.
From the wonderful students in Room 5

JUMPING AND JAMMING

We've been learning lots of new dances lately in Jump Jam, eg. I'm a Believer (The Shrek song) and Chori Chori. We usually do Jump Jam at about quarter to twelve every day except Fridays and Wednesdays. Sometimes different classes get up and lead us along with the beat and the moves. All the classes in the Moa Team are all bobbing along to the music. Even the teachers join in!It is a fun way to get fit. If you are from another school and you are reading this, then maybe you should consider doing it at your school. Here are some photos of the Moa Team dancing along at Jump Jam time.
By Brennan Clarke and Blain Leckie

AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL

On Monday 6 August, Ms Taylor came in to talk to us about air traffic controlling, and how air traffic controllers communicate. They use radar and satellites to communicate. They have a special alphabet that the pilots and the air traffic controllers use - it is called the phonetic alphabet and some examples are Charlie for C and India for I and Tango for T. They use it for the planes' call signs. It is important that they communicate right so that the planes don't collide or crash. It was really interesting listening to Mrs Taylor and seeing the information on her computer through the data projector. You have to be 21 to be an air traffic controller, but you can start training at 19.