2013 CALENDAR

Room12 made  calendars we had to cut out our photo we had to glue them onto a coloured piece of paper. Then we put our hand print on the back of paper then we waited  for it to dry so we could write on it... hand made by who ever then it got laminated by Mrs McKee.  We are making wrapping paper to wrap the calendar in for our parents Christmas present.  The wrapping paper is hard because we are using a rotation pattern using Christmas decorations.

By Aidan, Tyler and Staisha

Recycling Highlight in 2012

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

Recycling  When we went to the Recycling centre and it smelled really bad some people didn't like it and some people could not smell it because they had a blocked noses.  After a while the man told us the bad smell was rotten milk.  Then they showed us the security system.  We went into this room and this man talked to us about what happens to the rubbish when it comes to the recycling centre. Then we went into this other dark room, the man turned on the lights and started talking about where the other recycling centres are all over the world and he had a camera on a centre in china it was so Amazing.

   

2012 Highlights.

Our Year 5 Highlights for 2012 are.....

Skyping  Darfeild primary and Jericho school in the U.S.A, making sushi, shortbread, green tea,mallow puff raindeer and Christmas puddings.

And we have been raising money for the Year 6 camp 2013 next year by having a Friday Fun Day.

 Miss Egerton and Bailey waiting to be soaked.

It cost $1 to soak the teacher buy one throw get the 2nd free










Doing research about countries such as Ireland, England, Australia, Canada, Tonga, Spain and Thailand.

By Gabrielle, Blade and Kathryn

Highlights of 2012- Borland Lodge

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This is a photo of us on the Burnt Ridge track. Here are some of the activities: On the way to Camp we had a Quiz , Kayaking, Archery, Abseiling, helping in the kitchen ( the onions made us cry ), ball skills, photo orientation horizontal bungee, marble race, leadership skills , playing neighbours next door to us (the boys didn't want to play LOL) max taught some of us to throw and catch the ball, blind fold trail, ropes course. Camp was a great experience!!!
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http://www.borlandlodge.co.nz/
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Skyping Jericho and Darfield Primary

On Friday our class skyped Jericho in the USA and Darfield Primary in Christchurch.  We performed the boys haka, to Jericho school and they liked it because they all clapped when we were finished.  Darfield showed us there mini hot air balloon, it looked cool and they even made a dance called Room 9 Super Stars and they showed us the dance and then we all clapped at the end :]

By Kaea and Kylos

Our Te Awa Hou Journey

Well it starts off in term 1 where The Te Awa Hou Kapa Haka Roopu became ONE.We started with Mia as a kaea Kotiro and Josh as a Kaea Tama.  We have a guitar player called Matua Simon Kairau.

Term 2 we started with this medly and we practiced as hard as we could untill...

Polyfest.  Our roopu came together as a very good kapahaka roopu.

We were all so excited :)

Term 3 we were so hyped because we had Polyfest it was the great roopu that became a group.
The items we did were: He Honore and Medly.  

We were so good!

Term 4, after our hard work and sweat we finally made it to Nga Putangitangi Festival where we came:

3rd for our haka and our kakahu placing was 2nd.

Our kapahaka ropu were all proud of each other.

So that is the end of our Kapa Haka Journey 2012.

By Michael, Sapphire and Lane :)

Breakfast with Santa

Last Friday we had "Breakfast with Santa" which we all thought was a catch phrase Mrs Rolton was using to spice up the name for having breakfast at school.   But would you believe Sanata actually arrived?!  It was amazing he knew all our names - he said "I work as the caretaker all year and then just before Christmas I am Santa".

We had toast and our favourite spread that people brought from home.  The most popular was strawberry/chocolate nutella - YUM.

We then skyped a school in the USA - can you believe that?! They came from Jerichoe, Vermont.  We had to come to school at 7.45am to skype them and at 8.15am they were packing up to go home, and we hadn't even started our school day!

We then skyped our buddy class Room 9 Darfield Primary - this was our last skype for the year which was a little sad!  They sung and danced a song called "Room 9 style" it was great.  We sung them a Christmas Carol.

Wow what an amazing day which ended in assembly, it was our turn to lead it with Room 4 and the kapa haka ropu sung the boys and girls haka which was awesome.

To end the day we got our school newsletter and our school report.  Next week will be the last week of the school year before Christmas.