Senior Team Showcase

All the seniors did an outstanding job on Thursday evening demonstrating their musical skills. Thanks to Mrs. Beckers and all the extra practises in their classes they showed a range of skills. It was great to hear all the feedback. This was some of the feedback students in Room S received. 

Another busy enviro day.

 Straight after morning tea Room S and T ripped into our butterfly garden. Last enviro day we all submitted our ideas and plans. Mr Belk edged it and the new compost was delivered on Thursday. Mr Ward worked with a group to spread all the dirt out ready for planting. It was finally time to get the plants in. Ms Ellis has been organising a range of plants to attract butterflies and other insects too: swan plants, lavender, Rosemary, nasturtium, daisies, cosmos, lemon balm, scabiosa, etc These plants all work together helping each other, that's why they're called companion plants. Having the rain come later was great for our newly transplanted plants. It was great to have so many dedicated helpers, especially in the clean up stage. It isn't over yet though. It's great to have our long term project finally created, now we need to monitor the swan plants so that they get a really good headstart before the butterflies begin laying eggs. Just before Ms Ellis left for the day she noticed the wind was whipping around the corner so Mrs Finlayson helped her stake the scrawny stalks of the swan plants.

What a busy day! After the enviro assembly, our first task was going with our buddy class to pick up litter in our assigned area around our community. Everybody was amazed how much glass we picked up. The weirdest item probably was a coat hanger and the grossest was a dead hedgehog. But we did leave that where it was. 

 

Food always tastes better when you have been working hard outside in the fresh air. It was great to have our pizzas to keep the machines fuelled up. Mrs Munro we are really fortunate to have you on days like this. A big thank you to our chief oven supervisors too.  Our pizzas were perfect.

 

Critter castle

Our wero (challenge ) for enviro day was to make a invertebrate habit out of only up cycled materials. Ms Ellis scrounged around in her garden and found an old box that her dog had chewed the handle off and some scraps of wire netting. Both would make a great start. We discussed what would be ideal materials for insects to live in and where we would find these. The hunt was on. We searched the school grounds and even asked other classes if they had any scraps left. Perfect. Lots of bits and pieces to construct our critter creation.

Andrew shares soccer drills that everyone could do.

Controlled kicks, chest blocks and headers were all skills Andrew had the whole class doing. As we got better and believed in ourselves we had more fun. Not only did we improve our skills but we were considerate of our partners skills too. Thanks Andrew for getting us outside for a fun Teach the Teacher.

Homework to be proud of.

Look at these fabulous examples of the effort put into homework. Nolan and Brenden both showed their artistic talent to illustrate a message.

Worth the effort!

Congratulations to all the people who entered the ICAN poster competition. There were so many fantastic entries it would have been really hard for the judges to choose. Amy came to assembly today to share the good news with the whole school and who won at different age groups.

You can see by her outstanding poster why Bonnie came first in the senior category. For her clear message and supporting art work she received a $100 voucher.

Well done to everyone.

Responding  to bullies is something you need to think carefully about.

The "target" should try not to give away their power. Bullies do it for power. If you respond in a certain way you can give them your power. That's what they want - THE POWER!!

There are many different situations and not one answer. Even though there is ....tell someone. You may need to try different people until you find someone you can talk to. You shouldn't have to deal with this alone.

Co-operation and teamwork are an important part of our learning.

Working together on our posters needed lots of discussion and teamwork. 

During our Bystander Education lesson with Amy and Lewis we got a better understanding about how a person feels, thinks and acts when bullying occurs. 

It's good to have a better definition of bullying, being mean or being rude. 

We are looking forward to the third lesson next week.

A bomb of deliciousness about to go off in your mouth.

That's what Marcel thought of what Elizabeth shared with us for her Teach The Teacher today. 

Was it cooking or was it a science experiment? Could it be both?

Room S can tell you it was many things:

"It tastes golden syrupy", purred Ellee

"...like edible gold " murmered Tom 

"It looks like a chicken nugget " observed Connor 

"Yummiest thing on earth" exclaimed Georgia 

"....like heaven in your mouth" shared Hamiora 

"It's like having $100, you just want to have it straight away" bubbled Libby 

"It's a rock of magnificence " gushed Georgia 

"It's just REALLY delicious", decided Elizabeth.

7 people had never eaten homemade hokey pokey.

Thanks to Elizabeth's assistant, AKA mum, for helping her record her demonstration and having plenty of delicious gold to share with the class. 

Room S pen pals

Room S has now got pen pals from the United States of America in Mount Vernon, Washington State That's on the other side of the world. You see that little bright green dot at the top of the world map that's our pen pals and the other little dot down the bottom is us Room S. Those clocks mean the time difference of our pen pals 

 buddied up with who

Room S letters arrived to our Pen Pals in USA.

Room S have got pen pals at Big Lake Elementary in Washington State in USA. Don't get this confused with Washington DC. It is way up north near the border to Canada.
We all wrote letters to our buddies and sent them the end of last term. Finally they arrived and our buddies were thrilled to get them. It is a great feeling getting a letter in the mail. We are looking forward to our letters.

Teach The Teacher: Chef Gabi

Yum, Yum, Yum!!
Well, Room S certainly wouldn't send this Chef home. Gabi was our Teach The Teacher this week and she shared a sweet from Brazil. Translated they are called "Little Kisses".
As the lead chef, Gabi was a great leader. She was organised with all the equipment she needed, had her recipe and had a script for her to follow. Taihuka and Zack were very proud to be chosen as her assistants and they certainly showed that they were worthy of the task. They asked questions, listened to instructions and we all learned a lot.
Everyone took a copy of the recipe and we even discussed ways to adapt the recipe.
Thanks Gabi and her team.
Delicious.

Rippa rugby

We were so fortunate to have two Rippa Rugby sessions with Clayton. He showed us some cool games to improve our skills. Each time we got better at working as a team and the basics of Rippa Rugby.

We learned to get our target hands up for passing, how to wear the tags properly, what to do if we rip someone's tag, .... And we had lots of fun.

It's going to be great to play some of the games Clayton taught us.

Teach the teacher - Riley

A mad scientist came to teach in Room S today, Riley.  He came complete with red wig, black lab coat and a PowerPoint to support his experiment. 

We waited in anticipation. It certainly was worth it. As he mixed his concoction, we watched quietly, learning from his teaching. Did you know that water has a heavier density than water and that's why oil floats on top? Very interesting. 

Finally it got to the last step of adding the alka seltzer tablet. Magic.... Chemical magic. Everyone was impressed. 

To test if we were listening to his teaching, he even had a quiz! What are great teacher. 

We compared what we know about lava lamps and this experiment. Safety was important too. Ms Ellis held it carefully over a lamp, which made the food colouring glow as intense as lava from deep inside the earths belly. 

We'll done Riley.

We love teach the teacher.

Room S Student Of The Week

Week 1 and week 2 Bonnie and Libby got student of the week. I,(Bonnie), got student of the week because I was focusing on my learning. I, (Libby), got student of the week for being on task. I,(Bonnie) , felt amazed that I was the first one in the class for being student of the week. I felt stunned. On week 2 I, (Libby), felt very surprised when Ms Ellis called my name. I was so happy. The thing that you get if you are student of the week is a trophy. We were both very happy that we got to keep it in our room for a week. It is also very shiny and it has got Student Of The Week graved on it. We loved being Student Of The Week. 

By Bonnie and Libby