Stars for Starship

Our school councillors organised a Stars for Starship concert at school this week. Several of our Jump Jam teams performed routines as well as some of our talented gymnasts. There was also a special performance by none other than the staff of Motueka South!!

Starship Hospital is a childrens hospital in Auckland. The concert was to help raise money for Starship to buy a helicopter so patients can be airlifted quickly. Pupils were asked to donate a gold coin and they received a special "star" badge to wear for the day.

The staff dressed up in frog costumes and performed a routine to the music of "Who let the FROGS out!!
It sure got the crowd on their feet and made everyone laugh...

Miss Robinson said he was "a bit tired" after the performance and that she will probably have sore legs tomorrow after all that hopping around on stage!

Thankyou to Mrs Karetai who made the frog costumes for the teachers- they looked great.

Photos by Sophie and Nick

Peer Mediators

This is Chloe and Mikaela. They are a couple of our peer mediators. Their role is to help our pupils deal with conflicts peacefully and to help people make good choices in the playground. They also record any incidents that they come across or witness so that the problem can be solved more easily.
Thanks girls, you are doing a wonderful job!
(The duty teachers love having you out there helping to keep an eye on things for them!!)

Making Instant Pudding

Today our class made some instant pudding for Privilege. Each group made a different flavour. We had chocolate,banana,strawberry and rasberry. We ate it with a scoop of Hokey pokey ice-cream -yum!!!

Here we have all our instant puddings setting in the fridge.

Here is Jesse with his group.They had some banana pudding , it looks delicious!

by Lyric and Jahmalaki

More gym action

These girls are from Room 8. Look at their fantastic pyramids! They worked well together and co-operated nicely as a team.

Here are some of our boys with their score cards. Each judge gave the competitors a score out of 5 for their exercise. Those who demonstrated correct techniques scored 5/5. Well done boys, your floor routine was excellent!

Gymnastics Festival

The B Grade Gym Festival was held at the Motueka Rec Centre on Friday 6th June. 14 schools from around the Tasman district took part. Motueka South School entered 14 teams which was more than any other school. The B grade competition is all about participation and having fun. Children have been practising their routines for about 4 weeks. The festival comprises of 10 exercises which includes both team events as well as individual events. Pupils demonstrated their skills on the cross vault, long vault, skipping, pyramid, beam, floor and mat agility (handstand against a wall) .We started off with a Jump Jam session run by our senior pupils to get us all warmed up before we began our exercises. Here you can see some of the Mot South pupils doing Jump Jam.

Thankyou to Ms dowell who organised this event for all the schools, she did a fantastic job!

Thankyou also to the teachers and parents who helped to prepare our teams!

the MANA performance

We had a very talented performer visit our school last week. His name was Bernard and he was able to tell stories, sing, dance AND juggle. He now lives in Australia with his family but he was born in NZ. He wore lots of different costumes which represented various countries in the Pacific. Here he is dressed in traditional Hawaiian clothing - he was very entertaining and had the audience laughing along the whole time. He had a lot of energy on stage and is a very clever performer.

Mmmm..jelly and icecream!

We made jelly last week. Each group had a different flavour. We had to read the packet and follow the instructions carefully. It was a fun way to improve our writing and reading skills. We also had to work together as a group otherwise it wouldn't have worked very well. We put the jelly in the fridge for 2 hours and then once the jelly was set, we got to eat it with some hokey pokey icecream! (As you can see,Tiana and Ashlie like their jelly a lot!)

Milo Instructions

How to make a cup of milo....

you will need:
*spoon
*cup
*milk
*sugar
*milo
*boiling water

Method :
1. You need a clean cup from out of the cupboard and put it on the bench.

2.Get the Milo tin down from the cupboard and put it next to the cup on the bench.

3. Open up the drawer and get a clean spoon and put the end where you hold it and open up the Milo tin lid.

4. Grab the milk from the fridge thn close the fridge and unscrew the lid and put it on the bench.

5. Go and get the sugar from the table and put it on the bench.

6.Put one teaspoon of Milo into the cup.

7. Take the jug and boil it and put in the cup up to about 3/4 full.

8.Add the milk until it nearly reaches the top.

9.Relax and enjoy.

By Sam S and Ellen

Rugby Rules!

Tyson and Angus play rugby for Motueka United under 9's on Saturday mornings. Last weekend they played Riwaka. Angus scored 7 tries- yes 7 tries! Here they are shaking hands with the opposition after the game. All the players got a free icecream on Saturday which was a nice treat!
Good luck for the rest of the season boys!

A present from Thailand

Paige is wearing some special clothes that her grandad sent to her from his trip to Thailand. Cool hat Paige! Her little sister got some clothes like this as well and her brother got $20.

Wonderful Wildlife

Hamish drew this really cool picture of a giraffe using the PAINT programme. We are studying different types of wildlife this term for science. We are learning about animals and their various habitats and environments.

Wildlife Sketches

We are learning to sketch in detail using our observational skills. This is a picture of a tuatara.

Laiana did some fantastic shading on her tuatara as well as sketching all the details such as the scales and the wrinkles on the skin. We learnt that tuatara have 5 little claws on each foot and that they lay eggs.

Andrae drew this cute little kiwi. She got a principals award for her sketching this week. Well done Andrae!

Writing Instructions

We are learning how to write instructions clearly by writing each step out carefully and in detail. We thought it would be a great idea to write instructions on how to ride a bike. Angus lives just over the fence from school so he ran home and got his bike and brought it to school so we could talk about the steps and actually see it for ourselves at the same time.

Here I am writing instructions about how to ride a bike. As you can see I remembered to wear my helmet!

After we finished the writing I was allowed to ride around the court as fast as I could. Luckily Mr Harrison never saw me!

By Angus

Numeracy

On Wednesday we had a special teacher called Mrs Cobb come into our class to take a maths lesson. She showed us some really cool maths games that we can play that help us learn our basic facts. Here you can see the circles group doing an activity with Mrs Cobb The circles are learning to count on in their heads quickly without using their fingers.

Making sandwiches

Here I am getting some marmite on my knife ready to spread on my sandwich.

We made sandwiches on the 21st of may.Here is a photo of Jayjay,Laiana,Macey and Ellen making a sandwich. We had to write each step out clearly in our draftwriting books. We had to get a buddy to read out the steps so we could make the sandwich.

I am eating my sandwich that me and Sam S made. Sam read the instructions to me while I made the marmite sandwich.We cut the sandwich so we could both eat it. I think the marmite sandwich was very delicious.

By Ellen and Isaac

Life Education

We went to the Life Education Truck this morning.Here is a picture of Harold and Helen.Helen taught us about healthy food and unhealthy food.We didn't get to see Tam but it was actully a lot of fun without Tam.We had an awesome time at the Life Education truck.

Harold was sick today and through the weekend.When we got inside the truck Harold was still in his pyjamas.He had pink pjs and Barbie dolls on it.He came out and said we look very intelligent and good looking.Harold had a look in his dads telescope and saw an alien on earth.Here is Jahmalaki and Ashlie with some food.There were three groups.Food made from Ingredients,Food from Animals and Food from the ground. After that, Harold chose Ashlie to come and get the activity books from him.He held on to the books in his mouth and wouldn't let Ashlie take the them away. It was really funny because Ashlie hit him on the head and then he let go!

By Jahmalaki and Angus

Autumn

Here is our photo of our school oak tree. The leaves have turned brown and are falling off the tree. S00n the tree will be bare. By macey and Akeila .

Treewalkers

It was very fun when the tree walkers came to our school. They gave us an apple tree. They said it was a MAGIC apple tree because it grew two different types of apples. The kapa haka group performed for the tree walkers. They thought it was GREAT that we like trees.They said that trees were on the planet before us.

by Eva and sophie

Gymnastics practise

We are busy practising our skills for the gymnastics festival in week 6. Over 25o pupils usually compete from about 10 schools around the Tasman District. The festival is held at the Rec Centre...come along and watch us if you can!

One of the compulsory activities is creating a human pyramid. Here you can see some groups working together to help each other balance. Some people are still a bit wobbly but I'm sure they will improve over the next few weeks.

Way to go Eva- don't fall off now!

(Tiana looks like she is ready to catch you if you lose your balance)


Look mum, no hands!
The people on the bottom need to have strong backs and keep very still to make it easier for others to steady themselves on top.

Kapa Haka

This is our Kapa Haka group performing at our special assembly on Tuesday. We have 7 girls from our class who have joined the group this year. Mrs Whitwell-Archer and Mr Marr work hard with these pupils, they practise every week during their lunch break and I think you will agree that they look fantastic in their uniforms.

The Kapa haka group get ready to perform on stage..