April Fools Day jokes!

Lots of people at school got into the spirit of April Fool's Day today...EVEN the teachers.

Mrs Latimer pretended to leave her room for an important phonecall.A mystery reliever arrived to take over the class. She seemed very old and grumpy....but very familiar looking?Mmmmmmm?

It was just Mrs L dressed up in a wig and glasses!

Room 5 though it was hilarious and couldn't stop laughing and shouting.

Mrs L then loaned her costume to Miss R and she tried to do the same thing to Room 7 but they weren't fooled at all!

Some people played some nasty tricks on their family before they came to school this morning - one person said that they put salt in a cup of tea instead of sugar-YUK, the poor mum!

Angus fooled a lot of his classmates too this morning. Here he is explaining in the video what he did to everyone. We will have to think of a way to get Angus back now won't we!

(Watch out Angus, you never know what might happen!)

Isaac's holiday

This term we are experimenting with video footage and we are filming each other during oral language time.

This is Issac sharing his special Easter weekend news with the class. Isaac is going to bring some photos along to share with us of his trip. We googled Franz Josef Glacier on the computer and put it up on the large screen so we have an idea of what it looks like now. (The new data projector is fantastic!)

Isaac did a great job of explaining to us what a glacier actually is. Thanks Isaac!

Dagmar visits Rm7

This is Dagmar, she is a music teacher in Austria. She is visiting our school this week and came in to meet Room 7. We asked her lots of questions about life in Austria and she showed us on a map where Austria is. We found out that she has to drive 5 hours to get to a beach as Austria is land-locked, that mean sit is surrounded by land and does not have a coastline. It does have lots of rivers and lakes though. In Austria the children start school at 8am! They have 2 terms at school and they have 9 weeks holiday during the summer - imagine that!

Here is Ellen holding up a 20 Euro note. We passed it around and compared it to our money. Dagmar told us that $20= 12 euro approx.

Lost Property Box

It was our turn to present an item at assembly. This weeks school focus was "Use put ups - NOT put downs". We talked how important it is to say positive things to people to make them feel good about themselves rather than hurt their feelings.

We also sang Lost Property Box which was a lot of fun - Ashlie hid inside the box under all the clothes and them jumped out at the end!

It is great having assemblies outside in the fresh air now. We hope the weather stays warm for a few more weeks.

Weetbix Tryathlon

Here is Isaac and Angus with their gold medals!

On Sunday Isaac and I got up at 7.30am and raced over to Nelson for the weetbix tryathlon. We did a team race with Mac. Hamish Carter was at the tryathon too but he wasn't competing. Thousands of children from all around Nelson and tasman took part which is fantastic.

We each got a gold medal for taking part and we got a cool t-shirt too.

Munch and Crunch

Yesterday we had a visitor to our school who came along to talk to us about healthy food. She taught us that fruit and vegetables are very important and we need to eat them everyday as part of a balanced diet. She told us a story called "munch and crunch" and she dressed up in a costume.

World Maths Day

Here is Sam B and Bailey working on the laptop during Mathletics. Wednesday 5th March is World Maths Day and we all got special usernames and passwords to use. We have been racing people from all over the world . This programme is great for improving our basic facts knowledge and makes us faster at recalling sums.

A special delivery for Macey

It was Macey's birthday on the 3rd March. Her mum sent her a bunch of roses to school for her as a special birthday surprise!
They look and smell beautiful!! You are very lucky Macey.

Feet First

This week has been Walk to School Week. A walking schoolbus has been leaving from the Rec Centre everyday at 8.30am. Some people have won spot prizes and everyday our bus has got longer and longer! On Wednesday we had 84 children on our schoolbus.
It is a great way to get fit- some people come to school in the car even though they live close to school!

It was nice to see the seniors getting involved as well and setting a good example - meet our busdrivers Lucy and Sophie!

Moonhoppers

Here is Lyric, Macey and Sam H playing on the new moonhoppers at school. Miss R bought lots of new equipment for us to play with at lunchtimes including frisbees, softball gear and new basketballs.

Fun on Fridays!

It was "Free Choice Friday" in the pool today.

This is when we get to play with any gear we want to and we get to splash around and enjoy ourselves with beach balls, tyres and diving rings.

Here is our class playing in the pool.

Here is Jahmalaki, Paige and Ellen playing in the pool

This is Jesse and Sapphire playing on the tyre and having fun.

By Eva and Tiana

Sausage Sizzle

Wow, look at the long queue...

We are raising money for the Middle Syndicate this term by doing a sausage sizzle. Here is Sydnee and her mum busy cooking the sausages on the barbecue. They had to cook 50 sausages today!

You can buy a sausage and bread and a juicie for $2.50 every Friday until the end of the term.

Motueka Museum

The middle syndicate went on a trip to the local museum to learn more about the history of our town. It was very interesting. We found out that the Motueka Wharf has not always been where it is today. It used to be further up the coast near the Kumaras.

We also spent time at Memorial Park playing games such as long ball which Mrs Latimer organised for us and we had a picnic lunch under the trees. It was a l-o-n-g walk from school in the hot sun. Everyone did very well and it was great to have so many parents come along too.

Trip to the Museum

Clever Kids

Skateboarding is proving to be a very popular lunchtime activity at the moment. Shaquille and Bailey are busy learning new tricks on their skateboards....well done boys, it's great to see you getting involved and making great choices at breaktimes.

Stilts are also being used a lot these days in our playground. Andrae and Jahmalaki are learning to balance and walk on the stilts without falling off. Good thing you are practising on the grass girls, so you won't hurt yourselves too much if you do fall!

Fitness Interchange

Keep going Laiana - you can do it!!Only 15 seconds to go.....

This year the middle school are doing fitness interchange between each of the 3 classes. Each teacher takes a different activity and we rotate around week by week.

Mrs Latimer is taking ball games, Mrs W-A takes jump jam and Miss R takes circuits.

For circuits,we have 3o seconds to do as many star jumps as we can and then we record our scores. We do the same for sit ups, step ups, press ups and skips. The idea is to try and improve our scores each day and hopefully improve our fitness levels at the same time!

How good is your maths?

For maths this week we having been developing our knowledge of whole numbers from 0-1000. We are learning to order numbers from smallest to largest and put them in sequence.

We had to stand in a line according to the number we were holding - Shaquille had the smallest number which was 12 and Ashlie had the largest number wth 91.

Miss Robinson gave each of us a card with a number on it. Without speaking to anyone in our group we had to arrange ourselves in order and hold our cards up so everyone could see if we had got it right or not...here you can see Lyric, Sam H, Jay and Ashlie with their sequence. Did they get it right?

Bailey, Paige, Macey and Sapphire were very quick at doing this activity
Most of us are REALLY REALLY good at ordering numbers already and so Miss Robinson will have to give us harder numbers next time!

Class of 2008!

Introducing the pupils of Room 7!

Crusaders and Hurricanes

On Friday 25th January Motueka hosted a pre-season Super 14 match between the Crusaders and the Hurricanes. Dan Carter was injured so he didn't play but he was still popular with the crowd!

He signed autographs after the game and some people were lucky enough to get their photo taken with him...Miss Robinson was upset because her camera ran out of batteries inthe middle of the game!

Todd Blackadder arrived by helicopter and landed in the middle of the field.

Look at the crowd on the embankment. It was great to see so many local people showing their support by dressing up and and coming along to the Sportspark to watch.

The Hurricanes were warming up right next to the stands - it was exciting to see All Black players such as Jerry Collins and Conrad Smith in action.

Unfortunately the Hurricanes ended up losing the match 55-33.

End of Term Party

To celebrate the end of very busy year, the middle syndicate got together and had a shared lunch. As you can see, there was lots of delicious food for everyone to eat. Afterwards, some people had a water fight out on the backfield with Mrs Latimer which was lots of fun. Well done to everyone - we had a fantastic year in 2007!