Miss R went down to Christchurch to watch the All Blacks play Australia at the weekend. She managed to take these photos of the All Black haka and Richie having a chat with the referee!
We are gearing up for the Gym Festival .. the girls are practising their pyramids for the B grade event next week. They have a compulsory pyramid that they have to perform as well as create their "own" one. They will be judged our of 5 on the day. Good luck girls!
George the soccer coach came over from Nelson this week to teach us some basic soccer skills. He made us practise dodging between players and then we played a few games that focused on ball control and looking for support players while still dribbling the ball.
Josh the volleyball coach came in this week to teach us some basic skills. We have two year 6 volleyball teams who play after school on Wednesday nights. Josh showed us how to do a forearm pass and how to volley correctly. Josh plays for the New Zealand Volleyball team (even though he has Canadian accent!) and plays in competitions all around the world.
Dean and Riley read a story recently called 'The Apple Juice Test". We thought it would be a great idea to make our own juice using a special juicing machine so we could decide for oursleves which tasted nicer....apple and carrot juice or apple and grape juice. 
On Monday we sent 20 Year 5 and 6 students over to Saxton Field to compete at the Nelson Cross Country champs. It was a really tough course and most people arrived home covered in mud!! Sydnee managed to win her race and Corbin also got a top 10 placing. They will now have the opportunity to compete in Hanmer at the inter-regionals in September which is fantastic!
5 students from Room 7 competed in a Literacy Quiz recently at the Memorial Hall. They studied hard for weeks in preparation for it. They were quizzed on their knowledge of 3 books called E3, The Sting and Friends. They even came away with some prizes which was fantastic!
Last week our new administration and office block was completed and all the new furniture was moved in. Doesn't it look great!! We went for a tour around on Monday morning, it has a lovely deck for teachers to relax on and really cool lime green chairs! It even has plasma screens on the walls (but these are NOT for teachers to watch Sky on though!)
Riley, Bailey and Dean cooked noodles with Lisa last week and wrote a procedure of the steps they did.
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For our homework last week we had to find an experiment that we could show the class and I found a experiment called the Teabag Rocket. All you need was a teabag that could roll out into a long shape you also needed a lighter and bowl. First I had to undo the stapple and roll it out. Then you had to tip the tea leaves into the bowl and then move them to one side of the bowl. Then make the teabag stand up and then you had to roll the top of the teabag up. Then light it. It went flying up in air and it looked like a jelly fish floating in the water when it came down.By Eva
On Friday Isaac bought his tornado experiment to show the class. When he
Tanner came to our class to teach us how to do the dancing raisins experiment. We needed a bottle of soft drink and some raisins. First we tipped out half of the lemonade and then we added the raisins and we watched what happened.
This term we have been learning about the Paralympics and looking at how people with disabilities cope with everyday challenges. We invited Donna to come and speak to the senior syndicate about her disability and what its like to be in a wheelchair.
Donna invited one person from each class to have a go in her wheelchair. Bailey was the lucky person chosen from Rm 7. He had a bit of trouble controlling it though and nearly drove into the rubbish bin!
This term we have been learning about the Paralympics as well as looking at the challenges that people in wheelchairs face. Today we all had to put one arm in a sling at school and still try to do our schoolwork all day! 
Here you can see Angus trying to do tha PALAGO puzzle with one arm.
Today we had a man called Jim come into our class to show us a new game called PALAGO. It is made up of 48 tiles that fit together to make different shapes and patterns. We had to work in pairs to make shapes such as a cat and a snail. This game is available from Paper Plus and Potters Patch for approx $45. We had to co-operate together, some people were better at it than others! We had fun trying to create our own unusual designs...
Daniel made a three legged cat
Riley looks menacing with his pirate patch...
Room 7 went to Cody's farm to have a look at how their family produce their fruit and veges and to see the new chicken hatchery. Mr Pomeroy let us have some apples and pears each and we even got to sample some watermelon. We had a great time feeding the pigs and sheep as well as playing with the chickens who were roaming around. Sapphire was brave enough to pick one of the hens up!!
Cameron is checking out the prices of these apples at the stall. The Pomeroys grow all sorts of unusual fruits and veges such as scallopini and mini peppers.
Last Friday our school raised money for the Child Cancer Society by having a "HULLABALOO HAT DAY". We all wore strange and bizarre hats and some people brought along a gold coin donation.
Here you can see Cameron with his spiky paper helmet hat which he made at school.
Who is wearing this funny wool hat? It's not Mrs McLean is it? Nice beehive Mrs Nicholls!!
On Wednesday 10th Jackey came to teach us how to play hockey. She taught us how to dribble the ball and gave us some tips. Jakey split us into two groups and gave us numbers then called them out if your number was called you had to go and try beat the other person. Everyone enjoyed it and we hope she comes back soon. by Angus =]
On Tuesday the 2nd of March some of Motueka South School went to the Motueka High School to represent our school at the District Swimming sports. We had been practising at school at lunch time's. People had been practising for different events such as Free style, Breast stroke, A Medley, Back stroke and then there were the Relays at the end. Luken, Laiana, Jahmalaki, Angus and Jordan biked to the High School. Sydnee came 1st in the 10 year old Girls Butterfly and Freestyle finals. Alysha came 1st in the Breaststroke finals. Jordan came 6th in the 9 year old girls Backstroke finals.
This is Eva riding her unicycle. It took her about 3 weeks to learn! Now she can ride all around the school with out stopping!! We have around 12 uni's at our school that we can use. We also have a training bar to help us learn.
By Isabella & Eva
Yesterday 4 students from Room 7 went out to the Riwaka Clubrooms to see the Blues rugby team. They were training for their match against the Crusaders on Thursday night in Motueka. Riley got to have lunch with John Afoa and he met some other All Blacks like Luke McAlister, Joe Rokocoko, Tony Woodford and Jerome Kaino.
Riley hanging out with John Afoa....
