Practising for Athletics

We learnt to run fast by using the power of our elbows! Maihi and Shalom were super fast. "We had to sprint like a cheetah," said Cohan.

"It was fun doing long jump because it felt like I was flying in the air. I got fourth at our athletics. I was really happy about that." -Zara.

I had a very long jump and I felt proud of myself for jumping that far. I came fourth on Athletics Day too. I went to Counties for high jump and short sprints. On Athletics Day Mr Melrose whispered in my ear, 'Try and imagine it in your head you getting over the jump." And I made it. I gave Mr Melrose a big smile and a high five. -Maihi

I loved doing long jump. I practised hard to do it and thought I would be able to jump pretty far. I tried my best on Athletics Day. - Connar

"It was fun doing the long jump. When you jump in the pit the sawdust feels nice and smooth. You have to do a big sprint before you jump. If you don't do a run up you can't jump high or long."- Brooke

Code Club

EA Networks sponsored students to take part in a computer code club at Ashburton College on Thursday 15 th October, after school.  Riley from our class went and a student from each of the other Senior classes.

Riley said that it was the first time he had done coding. He made a singer sing, a drum make music and created a stage as a backdrop. He had to put all the coding in the right order or it didn't work. He listened to one of the speakers talk about Christchurch teenagers who created an App that Apple bought. They made a lot of money.

We learnt how to use the program 'Scratch' at home too. We are going to be tutors for our Code Club at school. 

Riley is looking forward to seeing the newspaper with the photo of the Code Club at College.

Descriptive Writing

We have been creating interesting sentences that describe setting. We are trying to use words that we haven't used very often and that make it easy for the reader to imagine where we are.

I crossed the rough mountain path and avoided the hard bitten river. - Riley.

I crossed the prehistoric mountain path and avoided the soundless river. - Anastasia.

I crossed the unstable mountain path and avoided the bottomless river. - Maddy.

I crossed the sandiest mountain path and avoided the frantic river. - Maihi.

I crossed the freezing mountain path and avoided the horrifying river. - Koby.

Having Fun with Tennis

We learnt how to have tennis ball races on the faces of the tennis raquet. We hit the ball over the net so our friend could catch it in the cone. It was a lot of fun seeing how many bounces we could get up to before we had to chase the ball.

Skiing on Mt Hutt

We started off the day with a ski lesson. It was a beautiful sunny day.











Kelly was taking lots of photos. It was such a warm perfect day that Anastasia was able to take her jacket off. It was awesome that her Nana was able to go on our trip.

Byron thought it very new to stop on a snowboard. He couldn't put his feet in the snowboard properly because he hadn't tried it before. Byron enjoyed seeing two kea, one was on top of the bus and one was on the ground near the play area.

Cohan, Dion, Miss Ovens, Jamie and Aleisha were learning how to do 'the pizza' stop. It stops you from going too fast.

It was such a beautiful day looking down from the top of the magic carpet. We noticed that Jacinta from Room 6 got very good at going down this on her own.

Cohan's dad gave lots of helpful advice during the day. He is a pretty amazing skier.

James is very happy because he didn't run Mrs C over.  He was able to steer and stop all by himself. 

When I was sliding down the snow got deeper near the end. The snow was soft because noone had been on it yet. I slid down about five times. Jayden

Lucy, Ruby, James and I were trying to race, but I started to slide down so I got to the end first. I liked knowing how to stop and turn so I didn't crash into anyone. -Jayden.

Kelly is still taking photos. She even managed to get in some skiing time. Our day was a whole lot of fun because she had organised it so well.

Brooke and Mia were learning to stop. This is quite important on a tall slippery mountain. Brooke and Mia were suprised at how hot it was.

Mia was very brave. She challenged herself to ski high on the mountain and did a great job.

We all really enjoyed our day. It was such perfect weather. The snow was soft and dry and everyone was friendly and helpful. Mrs C noticed a few people eating the snow.

Print Making Begins

We have created our polystyrene prints. First we had to draw 4 designs and then choose the one we liked the most. It  had to be suited to creating an easy to see print. Zara chose an octopus and Brooke used what she had learnt from our drawing unit to create a landscape. We learnt to carefully put the ink on our block and then use a dry roller to make sure all of the paper was covered. We worked hard to keep the edges of our print clean. 

We are proud of our efforts.

Our next task is to create cardboard block prints.

Evie going to School

Evie is a Japanese Spitz dog. She is 4 months old and belongs to Joshua's family. Evie has white fluffy hair and Koby thinks she looks really cool. Evie is making good friends at school.

 We hope she visits us often.

Josh and Evie are very good friends.  "She looks like a fluffy ball," said Maihi.  Mia told us that after she patted Evie her hands smelled nice.  Connar said that Evie liked to get patted backwards. Zara could tell that Evie didn't want to leave Josh.

Evie is getting training. She can sit when she is given the command with just hand signals.
She is learning to lie down with just a hand signal too.
Even though she is a quiet dog, her family is teaching her to stop barking at strangers when they are walking past.

Konnichiwa Our visit from Japan

We had a lot of fun when some students from Japan visited our school. We met for a special assembly and we sung a waiata.  They sang two songs with actions. One of the students conducted.
Some of the students met with Room 9 and Room 10. They taught us how to shoot balloons with a gun made from chopsticks and rubber bands. Then they gave us prizes!

After that they gave us all a heavy balloon with some water in it that we used as a yoyo.  It was cool because they made things for us.  We made them some origami windmills, with paper and glitter in Hampstead School colours.

James's Dragon

I learnt to draw this dragon when Mrs Crossen showed me how to copy ideas from a how to draw sheet.  This was my first try. I was quite amazed because I had never drawn a dragon that good before. I think drawing is cool. I am going to learn how to draw a bugatti veyron. I have a lot of pictures on my ipod of them. My favourite is a silver one. I also have a picture on my wall of one.

Artist James

Swiper says Hello

I liked bringing Swiper to school because he has never been to school before. This was his first day.

He's a friendly dog. He is a labrador and he loves to meet people and get patted. His favourite toy is his duck. It makes a noise when he bites it. 

by Maddy

Swiper was relaxed and friendly when he met us.

A lot of us wanted to get the chance to pat him and say thank you for coming.

Gymnastics in our Classroom

First we did a gymnastics walk across the room. We had to be relaxed while holding our bodies straight. Koby remembered we had to have our arms straight by our ears and our fingers together for the Releve walk.  After that we did a walk and hop while staying balanced. It was funny because it was called Walk and Hop. 

Brooke thought it was fun because we got to go in pairs and take turns. Riley thought it was fun to watch because everyone was walking and hopping.

Science with Shadows

We had to cut the shoe boxes to let enough light to see the shadow theatre. We used baking paper and created our characters out of paper, cardboard and straws. It was important we didn't cut the characters the wrong way.  

 We learnt that when something is in the way of the sun then on the other side of the object there will be a shadow. We had to actually find a spot where there was enough light to see our character's shadows.

We showed our plays to other people in our class. Todd thought that it was very funny, the play looked like a comedy. 

 Maddy liked using the shadows to make the play. Mary thought it was funny because our comedy was really funny. It was called Mumma Mia.

Milly the Explorer

Jayden tells us that Anastasia's dog, named Milly, is a Lhasa Apso.  Zara likes it when Milly visits our school. Sabastyan wishes that Anastasia would bring Milly to school every day. She is a very cute dog.

Milly is taking time to say "Have a great day at school!", to her best friend.  Mary thinks Milly is a very happy dog. Koby thinks Milly is a great dog because she is careful with people. Braydon agrees. Anastasia knows Milly is very friendly and she follows her everywhere. She licks a lot. Mrs C thinks she is a very well behaved puppy and loves to see her at school. Josh would like a dog just like her because he thinks she is so adorable.

Congratulations Amelia

What Room 14 said about Amelia's Story (Click this Link)

Bald Eagle Acrostic poem

When I wrote this acrostic poem I had to search up facts on Google Chrome. This helped me to find words that started with the letters of Bald Eagle. I didn't know Bald Eagles were endangered.
James

Beak as sharp as claws
Amazing sites it goes
Legend claws
Deadly as a tiger club

Eyes like a tally scoop
Above your eye sites
Glides as fasst as a plane. 56-70km/h
Length 30-34 inch
Endangered