Go GIANTS Go!

This is Michael Harrison! He is one of the American imports playing for the Giants this year.

Here is Eva and Lyric with GI-ANT

A group of us went to watch the Nelson Giants play the Canterbury Rams on Saturday night at the Trafalgar Centre. It was such an exciting game and Nelson ended up winning 84-83 in the last 3 seconds.

We had great seats, right behind the goal and next to the Wannabes. We cheered the players on and sang "I'm blind, I'm deaf, I wanna be the Ref!!"

The crowd was very loud and really got in behind the Giants team and supported them.

This is Rowan Gray. He is over 2 metres tall-we had to get him to bend down so we could fit him in the photo!

Some people stayed behind after the game to get autographs from the players and to stand next to them so they could see just how tall they REALLY were.

We hope Nelson wins the National Championship again this year.

Book Fair Parade

Our school ran a Book Fair on the last week of school. We all dressed up as our favourite book character and we had a parade in the playground. Mrs Beatson dressed up as Mrs Wishy-Washy and Mrs Latimer was Nana Mihi.

The Book Fair theme was "The Beach" so some people dressed in beach clothes instead. it was great to see so many people get involved and we sold lots of books too which was fantastic!

Here is Geronimo and his helpers. They did a wonderful job of setting up the hall and displaying all the books that were on sale during the week.

Bad Jelly the Witch with Jahmalaki, Macey and Laiana...watch out girls,

Who is behind these amazing costumes? Any ideas?

Could it be Isaac and Akeila?

Aquatic Centre and Rabbit Island Trip

This is Isaac sitting on the boot of his dads car at Rabbit Island. That looks like a delicious lunch you have there Isaac!

Here is Tyson, Nick and Jesse getting ready for their treasure hunt. Everyone had to find lots of different things such as a piece of driftwood, a piece of metal, a fish skeleton and a yellow leaf.

Ashlie, Jahmalaki, Lyric and Laiana had heaps of fun in the lane pool practising their diving and pin drops. It was REALLY DEEP at one end and the water was way over their heads.

The wave pool was popular with everyone. Some people tried to stand up on the surfboards. Every 15 minutes the siren comes on to let people know that the waves are about to begin.

The spa pools are the warmest pools at the Aquatic Centre.

Iced Biscuits

On Friday Mrs Latimer took iced biscuits for Privilege. It was a very popular choice. Everyone got 3 biscuits each to decorate with icing and lollies. Here you can see Macey and Jay with their delicious looking biscuits!Mmmmmm..yum

Principals Awards

Angus and Shaquille are holding up their Principals Awards that they received this week at assembly. Angus wrote a wonderful fairytale based on Cinderella-he used his imagination and included lots of interesting language in his writing. He changed some of the main ideas in the traditional story and made it really funny.
Shaquille did some fantastic measuring in maths using centimetres and millimetres.
Congratulations boys, you are producing some awesome work!

Tidy Kiwi award

This term our class has been trying REALLY hard to keep our school environment clean and tidy. After lunch we often go out and pick up litter from our playground. You would be surprised at how much we collect some days -it can be up to 2 or 3 supermaket bags FULL of chippie packets, muesli bar wrappers and gladwrap.
This week we won the "Tidy Kiwi" award at assembly. Here you can see Lyric and Sapphire with Kevin the Kiwi.
Wouldn't it be fantastic if everyone remembered to put their rubbish in the bins after interval and lunch - lets keep Motueka South litter-free!

Measuring Madness

For maths today we used metre rulers to measure the distance between various buildings around our school. We used chalk to mark off each metre for the really

l-o-n-g things such as the tennis courts and the library deck and then recorded it into our books.

Ashlie and Jahmalaki are measuring the length of the bikeshed - it measured 13m altogether

Andrae and Sam H are measuring the length of the sandpit - it measured 10m altogether

Tiana, Jahmalaki and Eva are measuring how far it is from the school office to our classroom- it measured 17m altogether

We now know that 1 metre=100cm or 1000mm

Art Attack

On Friday we experimented with colour mixing for art. We tried to create 20 new colours by just using the primary colours: red yellow and blue. We also had a little bit of white and black to work with so we could make paler and darker colours too.

Here you can see Sapphire, Jahmalaki and Shaquille with their art books showing off their work.

We can now apply the skills we practised today to our paintings in the future and make them much more interesting.