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