Bike Safety

Bike Safety

Today Mr Tonkin came to talk to us about bike safety. We watched a video about a boy who really wante a bike but he had to find a helmet first. At the start of the movie we saw a boy who had fallen off his bike and became unconscious. He is now brain damaged and cannot walk or talk. if he had been wearing a helmet he might be still OK. After we had watched the movie we went outside and did a safety checklist with our bikes. Mr Tonkin told us we had to get into pairs and get a bike.

Here is a photo of Sam and Susie checking each others helmet straps to make sure they are correctly fitted. If your helmet is too loose, it will not protect you in an accident. The best helmets are the ones that are brightly coloured so that they can be easily seen by drivers on the road. Helmets should also have a special safety approved sticker on them.

By Ellen and Room 7

Spiders at school

We went spider web hunting and we found lots of spider webs around our school. There were heaps in the bikesheds, hidden up in the corners. There were also some in the tree hut down in the backfield.


we found this spider web
it is very interesting it has a twisty bit and the rest is around it is awesome .We also found a pretty web down by the bike shed, it had drops of water in it.

by Grace C and Grace B

Alana the athlete!

I went to prize giving for Athletics and I won a medal and a ribbon for going to athletics all year. On the 22nd of march I went to Christchurch to compete for Tasman.

By Alana

Happy Birthday to you.....

Toby and Alysha both turned 8 years old this week. They brought these delcious looking birthday cakes along to share with their classmates. Toby had some sparkler candles which he blew out but it took him quite a few puffs first!! The cake was banana flavour and it was scrumptious. We had to cut the cakes into 27 pieces so that everyone in our class got a piece to eat.

Alysha's mum baked this really cool popcorn cake, inside it was chocolate flavoured. It had real coloured popcorn on the top. Alysha got a brand new bike for her birthday and it is purple, white and black and it is very shiny!

Hockey coaching

Here is room 7 is learning to dribble the hockey ball.

1. Here is a picture of Craig teaching us how to use the hockey stick properly.To hold the hockey stick you need to hold one hand down the bottom and one on the top.
   
   
   by Alana and Grace B
   
   
   

Spider Webs

We are studying spiders this term as part of our science unit. Yesterday we made these wool webs. It was quite tricky to wrap the wool around the sticks to make a pattern. As you can see, Callum did a fantastic job of weaving his wool around to make this cool pattern. Some people got their wool a bit tangled up!

Here is Ellen working on her wool web. She is busy trying to weave some yellow wool around the sticks.

Joy Cowley

Isaac is holding a book written by Joy Cowley called "Snake and Lizard". His mum went to a conference recently and she met Joy Cowley and got her autograph. Joy wrote a personal message on the inside cover. Joy Cowley has written lots of childrens books and is Isaac's favourite author. Joy Cowley is a New Zealander.

By Room 7

Dayna competed in the Weetbix try-athlon in Nelson on Sunday. She had to swim first then she biked and last of all she had to run. She got a medal, a t-shirt and her photo taken with 2 NZ Olympic athletes called Nick Willis and Andrea Hewitt. Nick Willis won a bronze medal at Beijing for the 1500 metres race and Andrea Hewitt came 5th in the womens triathlon in Beijing.
Way to go Dayna, you must be super fit!!

Swimming Sports

On Tuesday 3rd March some pupils from our class competed at the High School in the Motueka District Swimming Sports. Ellen came 3rd place in the 8yr old girls backstroke final which was a tremendous effort! Well done to Brooklyn, Cameron, Grace C, Dayna and Grace B for also making it into our school swim team. We are very proud of you all!

Introducing Room 7 for 2009!

Saltwater Baths

The Middle Syndicate went on a trip to the Saltwater Baths down at the Motueka Beach. It was a l-o-n-g walk but it was worth it once we got there. We all sat in the shade to have our morning tea first and then each class had a turn at swimming in the baths. Mr Wentworth took all our bags down to the beach on the back of his ute so it made it easier for us to all walk. Even though the tide was out when we got there, the pool was full of water. Lots of people enjoyed jumping in from the side and splashing about.

Those who didn't want to swim spent time fossicking along the beach. There were lots of squeals from girls who were looking for crabs! Some children also built sandcastles and collected shells and feathers they found on the sand.

The playground was heaps of fun too. We tried to see how many people we could fit along the see-saw...

Thanks to all the mums, dads and grandparents who came on our trip with us. We had a fantastic day!

Merry Christmas!!

Summer is here....

Jake brought us some new tyres for the swimming pool. We have got around 10 or 12 tyres now. This is the GIANT tyre. Here is Paige,Jahmalaki, Eva and Sam H playing on the huge tyre .It was heaps of fun.I stayed on even when it TIPPED UP.

by sSam Hastings

Santa Visit

Here is the middle syndicate doing a lolly scramble with Santa. Santa came with a big stereo playing music. We got lots of lollies and the only thing you could here is GOBBLE , GOBBLE , GOBBLE in the classroom!!
(Lucky we remembered to put our lolly wrappers in the bin after we had eaten them all so that we kept our school nice and tidy)

By Tyson and Shaquille

Advent Calendar

Sophie got the first chocolate out of the Advent Calendar!!! The mould of the chocolate was a moon. Here is Sophie opening the little window to get the chocolate out.Yum....I wonder who will get the other chocolates? The countdown til Christmas is on....

By Sophie

Paige gets a new bike...

Here is Paige on her new bike that her dad bought her. He will not be here for her birthday on Friday so this is her birthday present. It is a BMX bike and it is yellow and red. Paige is turning 9 on the 5th December.

By Paige

Stain the Vein

Here I am pouring red food colouring in to a jar of water.

We did an experiment on STAIN the VEINS to see if it was true if you put red food colouring in a jar with water and put a lily in it in a few weeks it might just turn red or if we did it with yellow food colouring it would turn yellow.. we wanted to find out how water travels through a plant. We made predictions as to what mgiht happen and then we will write up the conclusion at the end of the week.

By Isaac

Music with Ms Richards

this is Cole and Andrae playing a ukelele Coles got a green ukelele.And Andrae is playing a blue ukelele by jay.

this is laiana and ashlie playing with there ukelele with Ms Richerds and the class we had fun by jay.

Randomland

Last week Room 8 invited us to Randomland. They were having an election to see who would be the Prime Minister of their country. They each had to come up with a name of a political party and they had to convince us to vote for them. Each leader did a speech. The greens said "vote for green, we won't be mean!". They also offered free money for the girls and a voucher to Hannah Montana. They offered free cars to the boys that went 350km/hr.

Here is Sam S and Sam H getting ready to vote at the polling station. There were 4 parties altogether. The Red Randoms, the Greens, Randomland First and the Fanta party. Each party offered lots of amazing things if we voted for them. One party said they would give us $1 million each if they were elected!

Here is Tyson casting his vote at the Randomland election- I wonder which party he voted for (its's a secret)