MASSIVE

Colgate Smiles

The dental nurse is at our school at the moment. Quite a few pupils in our class have had to visit her recently and some children have even had to have FILLINGS!

Luken, Kyle and Russell are trying hard to prevent plaque from forming on their teeth.

Hannah, Zoe and Jessica are hoping they don't have any cavities in their teeth this term.

After morning tea each day for 2 weeks we are taking time to clean our teeth together and go over ways to brush properly. It is so important to look after our teeth and get into good habits such as:

*cutting down on sugary foods

*brusing at least twice a day

*using dental floss

*brushing our tongues

Jonty, Hunter and Josh are making sure they brush the back teeth as carefully as the front teeth.

It is important to brush our gums as well to prevent gum disease. You should brush your teeth for at least 2 minutes each time.

We found a great website called www.colgate.com which has lots of games and tips on dental hygiene. Check it out...

Makos Mishap!

Mac and Jonty got free tickets to the Makos game against Bay of Plenty but Macs dad forgot it was in Blenheim so he ended up in Trafalgar park with no-one thereWell Jonty was enjoying a good game of rugby.He got lots of free stuff like a makos cap, poster and stickers.Jonty was Motueka United's representative. His coach took him over with some other players from his team.

by Mac and Jonty

Mr Loder visits

On Thursday 6 of September Mr Loder came to our class to talk about Talleys and how the system works .We asked some questions that we didn't know like how many boats are there?

..and after working there 21 years are you used to the smell?. But no, he was not used to the smell of Talleys!

Then he gave us some pamphlets about there ice cream, seafood and where it goes and comes from. Some of their fishing boats go all the way to Antarctica for 5 weeks away from their families .

If you want more infomation go to www.talleys.co.nz

By Luken

Cross Country

On Friday the 31st of August our school went down to the Goodman Reserve to do some cross country .The 10yr and ups had to run 2 whole laps and around the pond .They were so tired after they finished their race.Some people only ran around the pond and straight to the finish.It was a big day for us when we ran. Miss Dowell was the person that said '' On your marks, Get set ,Go".

Everybody tried their best to go to Rabbit Island to race all the different schools .The people that came 1st to 5th are going to race all different schools later on in the term.Some people ran like the wind to come first and go to Rabbit Island to race schools like Lower Moutere and schools like that!

After some peoples games they were so hot that they got their drink bottle and put it all over their faces so they were not hot !But everyone tried their best at running !

Here is Mac receiving his prize for 1st= place in the 8 and 9 yr old boys section. he came first with Hunter.

By Jessica

Speeches

On Thursday 30th of August,Chloe T and Robbie took part in the M.S.S speech competition.They represented our class. Unfortunately they didn't make it to the inter-school speech competition , which is being held at the Upper Moutere school hall on Thursday the 6th of September.The people from our school that are going are Haylee and Sophie.Their speech topics are ...The future is and Discover Tasman.

We wish them luck and hope they do well.

By Chloe and Robbie

Daffodil Day

On Friday the 31 it was Daffodil Day in New Zealand. At our school we have wacky hair day and on the same day we had cross country so you can tell that our school was busy! Our class had really wacky hair CHLOE T had a 11 pig tails in her hair . Even our Teacher tock part in wacky hair day. Miss Robinson had 5 pig tails in her hair and she dressed in yellow even though she is in Rata .Later we played music and gave a donation for the cancer society and we decided if we gave a donation we would get a daffodil tattoo.We all went around in our classes . But the main thing is that we all had loads of fun.

By Jadine

Tasting Talley's icecream

Talley's at New World

Netball Finals

Last Saturday was finals day down at the netball courts. Both of our senior netball teams were playing off for 1st and 2nd place in their grades. Here are some of the supporters who came down to cheers the players on. We blew up green and white balloons, took our school flag along and some people even put green hairspray in their hair!

Even though our teams didn't win, we were very proud of them. Both teams DID win the deportment trophies which is a great achievement.

Thankyou to everyone who played, supported and coached our teams this year. It has been a great season.

Collage Boats

Mr Brown visits Rm7

This is Taylor's grandad. He came to visit our class to speak to us about life as a fisherman. We wrote letters to him last week, inviting him along. We found out that he owns two boats. One is called the Mako and the other is called the Pursuit and that he sells his fish to Talley's. He has been fishing for about 40 years now and he brought lots of photos along to show us. He sure knows a lot about fishing and had a lot of interesting stories to tell. Everyone in our class had lots of questions to ask him and we could have spent the whole day listening to Mr Brown. Taylor is holding up some photos of some of Talley's first boats.

He told us that he was out at sea for 7 weeks once which is a long time to be away from home. He also told us that one of his crewmen fell overboard once but luckily they managed to rescue him and haul him back aboard. His trawlers often fish along the West Coast near Westport as well as in Tasman Bay. He said that some days he can catch up to 20 tonnes of fish (which is a lot of fish'n' chips!!)

He has caught a few sharks in the nets before and even caught a Great White a few years ago - that would have been scary!

Mr Inglis

This is Mr Jack Inglis. He came to our school to speak to us about cancer because on Friday it is Daffodil Day. Mr Inglis has had lots of operations on his face because he has got skin cancer. The surgeon had to build him a new nose. He told us that it cost him $16, 000 for the operation. He had to have a melanoma cut out of his ears 2 weeks ago. He is lucky to be alive today. He went to Christchurch to have his operation and he had to have a bandage on his face for about 3months until the skin healed. He had a skin graft from his forehead and this skin was used to make his new nose. The surgeons are very clever!
He told us how important it is to wear sunhats and sunblock these days. When he was a young boy, he never wore a hat or sunblock at all and now he wishes he had.
Remember, SLIP, SLOP, SLAP and WRAP!

Tennis Coaching

Madeleine and Kaitlyn are playing "hand tennis" - they had to hit the ball over the racquets on the ground to each other. It was one of the games that Greg taught us during our coaching session today.

This is Greg. He is the tennis coach who came over from Nelson to teach us some skills . We had to practise bouncing a ball on top of our racquet for as long as we could. It was tricky, lots of people lost control and balls went all over the place!

(Some even went up on the roof...ooops. We will have to ask Jake nicely if he can get it back down for us)

Our Town-My Space

TALLEY'S fisheries

We began our study by brainstorming a list of things we ALREADY knew about Talley's ..

Then we wrote some "I wonder?" questions such as

"I wonder how many boats they own?"

"I wonder how many factories they own?"

"I wonder how many different flavours of icecream they produce?"

These were questions we wanted to find out answers to and this was the basis for our research

Here is a photo of Talley's headquarters which is at the Motueka Wharf

We took a photo of one of the huge freighting trucks used to transport Talley's products around the South Island

This is a photo of the Rongatea 11. We created some collage boats based on this old fishing boat.

Our class is studying Talley's as part of our Discover Tasman inquiry topic. We have found some information on the www.talleys.co.nz website. Most of us have realised what an important part of our community the Talley's company is - nearly everyone in Motueka knows at least one person who works there.

Miss Robinson took some pupils down to the Talley's shop at lunchtime to do research. Some pupils have emailed Talley's and asked if someone could come to our school and speak to us about the company.

A group of pupils also took a trip to New World to see which Talley's products were stocked there.

(Miss Robinson found some delicious Talley's icecream in her freezer and we got to taste it..YUM!)

Winter Sports 2007

Our Class Trip

Makos Photostory

Problem Solving

For maths recently we have been extending our "thinking skills" by trying to solve problems that require a great deal of concentration. Here you can see Renee and Josh trying to put together some tangrams and Emma is making a pyramid where each side has to add up to the same total (harder than it looks!).

We found out that there are often more than one answer for the same problem. For more problem solving ideas wheck out http://www.nzmaths.co.nz/

Funny Money!

The two Chloe's are pictured with their hands on the BIG cheque - $10, 000. They wish it was real! Mr Harrison is busy now planning what to spend it all on. We are hoping to get some nice new playground equipment which will be fantastic.

Zoe's Scarf

The pupils in Room 7 are so talented. Zoe has been very busy knitting at school. At breaktimes, instead of playing in the playground, she can be found sitting quietly with her friends outside our classroom knitting. What a great skill to have.

Miss Robinson asked Zoe a few weeks ago

"Are you knitting me a scarf Zoe"?(Miss Robinson was joking of course)

Imagine her surprise when Zoe presented a beautiful pink scarf after the holidays and said

"Here, this is for you Miss Robinson".

What a lovely gift, thank you Zoe. I will treasure it, I have never had a pupil knit me a scarf before!!

Now the other teachers are jealous and want to know if they can have a scarf too!!

Miss Robinson is wearing the beautiful scarf that Zoe made for her, doesn't it look great?

Tasman Makos

Yesterday we were fortunate enough to have 2 players from the Tasman Makos rugby team visit our school. Their names were Tim Taylor and Peter Nixon. They brought posters and a t-shirt along to give away to pupils. They asked us quiz questions about the Makos team and those who answered them correctly, won a prize.

They also signed autographs and some children got their shirts signed and their arms signed!

Chris Jack has been playing for the Makos but soon he has to leave for England to play in the World Cup with the All Black team.

You can check them out at http://www.makos.co.nz/ and find out other interesting facts about the team. Good luck for the rest of the season!

Cameron's Water Rocket

Cameron and his dad made this really cool rocket using an old plastic bottle, a pump and a special valve. Cameron showed us how it works and explained a bit about it. We had to make sure it was facing AWAY from other people in the playground so that they weren't in any danger.

Miss Robinson got a real fright when it first"popped" as it made a loud noise and zoooommed past her so quickly!

Cameron also wrote a fantastic story about water rockets, you won't believe how much he knows. Maybe he could be a scientist or an engineer when he gets older?

Super Spaceships

Our class has integrated our science topic "Our Night Sky" into our ICT programme as well. Jonty and Jadine created these cool space pictures using the PAINT programme on the computer. (You might like to try this at home if you have a computer and microsoft word)

As you can see, they have drawn spaceships with rocket boosters on the sides as well as some shooting stars and planets that are found in our solar system. Jadine showed her work to Room 6 and taught them how to create shapes and use the paintpots to fill in these shapes to create their own pictures. We will find a special place to display all this fantastic artwork. Awesome stuff Room 7!

Aquatic Centre and Rabbit Island

Our class went on a day trip to the Aquatic Centre on Wednesday 1st August. We were lucky to have several parents willing to provide transport to Richmond. The first cars headed off at about 10.oo am. Everyone was very excited and noisy on the way over (the poor parents!) Bev met us in the foyer and explained some safety rules to us before we were allowed to change into our togs.

Miss Robinson hired four surfboards for everyone to use. Most people spent time in the wave pool although the spa pools were also a popular choice. Chelsea did really well to stand up on the surfboard and balance on the waves!

After an hour and a half in the pools we were so wrinkly that we all had to exit the pool and get changed again!

We piled into the cars once again and this time we headed to Rabbit Island where we had a picnic lunch and a fossick along the beach. The weather was great despite rain earlier in the week.

Some pupils spent time making huts in the scrub, others collected pretty shells and made cool sandcastles. We also took PE equipment along and played frisbee and bat down on the sand.

It was another fantastic trip and we want to say a big thankyou to the dads (and Chloe's mum) who were able to take time off work to come with us. We really appreciate it and hopefully some of these parents might be able to come on camp to Marahau with us in November?

DID YOU KNOW....

This term our science topic is "OUR NIGHT SKY"

We are learning all sorts of interesting facts about our solar system. Here are few things we would like to share with you.



*you can fit over one million Earths into the sun.

* Mars has a never ending storm.

*Earth is the only planet that can support life

*Pluto is no longer a planet

*A neutron star is heavier than 50 Earths

*Jupiter is known for its red spot

*There are 8.1 million stars for every human on Earth

*Everything is made of star dust

*Neil Armstrong was the first man to step foot on the moon

*His footprints are still there 38 yrs later because there is no wind on the moon

*The sun has been shining for about 5 billion years

This will make you laugh...

Each Thursday morning we share jokes and riddles with our classmates as part of our oral language programme - we are learning to speak to an audience with a clear voice and use expression.
We have our school speech competition coming up this term. Two Year 5 pupils will represent our school at the District Competition on 6th September.

Man:A dog bit me on the leg this morning.
Friend:Did you put anything on it?
Man:NO - HE SEEMED TO LIKE IT PLAIN!!

by Mac



What does a skeleton feed his dog ?
Anything but bones!!!

By
Renee





Why are vampires so unpopular?
Because they're a pain in the neck!!!!


By

Chloe T




What sort of cat sells wood ?
A catalogue!!!

By Emma


What is a monsters favourite shape?
A vicious circle!

By Chloe G

The Library is back...

This week Room 7 visited the school library for the first time in a year! Because we have had so many new pupils enrol at Motueka South School, our school library has had to be used as a classroom. We enjoyed being able to use the interactive Smartboard and the computers again. Here are some of the boys using the www.kidsastronomy.com website to find information about our science topic which is "Our Night Sky".

While they were doing that, other pupils checked out the new Braintastic CD on the smartboard and other people just browsed the shelves for new books and read magazines. Shana Tova issued books for people so they could take them home to read and she spent time showing Chelsea how to use the scanner.

It was great to be able to use the library again after all this time..our class has the library booked every Thursday afternoon so we are going to make the most of it.

Cross Country

On your marks....get set...GO GO GO!!

With our annual cross country coming up this term, we have started to get fit by running laps of the back field at school. Miss Robinson times us each day with a stopwatch and we try to improve our times. We record the time in our maths book so we can track our progress. Hunter is our fastest boy and Jade is our fastest girl so far during our practices. Hunter is completing a lap in approx 1min 30seconds which is very speedy indeed! (That's even faster than what Miss Robinson can run!!)

Our school Cross Country will be held at Goodman Reserve on Friday 31st August. It is always a great day out with lots of family, friends and supporters there to cheer us on!

Last year we had a parent and childrens race which was popular, we should make sure we do that again this year. I wonder who will win?

You better make sure your parents have started their training!!

Rollerskating