Singin' the Blues

Here is our item for the End of YEar Celebration. 

We sang 2 songs.. 

Cut Lunch Blues & I'm Gettin' Nuttin' for Christmas 

What do you think of our singing?

200 metre Swimming Challenge

Here we are...

the crew in Room 2

who can swim 200m continuously!

Ka mau te wehi!
Here they are still holding their breath

 



Student-Led Conferences

Today we start our Student-Led Conferences.

We have been practicing and are ready to talk to our

family & whanau about 

our progress and achievements this year.

Good luck Room 2 from Mrs T and Mrs Gomm

Snorkeling at the Marine Reserve

Here we are at the Marine Reserve...

these are my photos for "Wordless Wednesday".

Wordless Wednesday

What can we photograph on Wednesday that needs no words to explain it?
Take a look at what other people have found last Wednesday here.

It might be like a tourist's album like this one here.

Or it might be about something in your world like this one here.

Or it might be something that you have seen/made/cooked/painted like this one here.

R2 Karakia

Every morning Room 2 say karakia (prayer). 

 Watch our video. 

 The words in Maori and English are here for you to read as well.
What do you do to start your school day?

Karakia Tïmatanga
Whakataka te hau ki te uru.
Whakataka te hau ki te tonga.
Kia mäkinakina ki uta.
Kia mätaratara ki tai.
E hï ake ana te atakura.
He tio, he huka, he hau hü.
Tihei mauriora.

Prayer for start of day/meeting
Cease the winds from the west.
Cease the winds from the south.
Let the breeze blow over the land.
Let the breeze blow over the ocean.
Let the red-tipped dawn come with a sharpened air.
A touch of frost, a promise of glorious day.

My first Glog

Tourist Attractions in Gisborne

Room 2 have new posts about tourists attractions around Gisborne.
This is for our USA & UK Quadblogging buddies to find out more about where we live.
We look forward to reading their comments and answering any questions they have for us.

The tourist attraction I would like to write about is the Tolaga Bay wharf.

I was brought up in Tolaga Bay and still love going there.
Tolaga Bay is 50 kms north of Gisborne.

The wharf was the centre of attraction at this year's Transit of Venus celebrations.
The wharf is the longest pier in the southern hemisphere.
When I was a kid we used to have bike races along it.
Green-lipped mussels grow on the piles and they are easy to gather and delicious to eat.

There is a walkway to Cook's Cove.
When walking to Cook's Cove you get a really good view of the wharf and Tolaga Bay form the top of the hills.

Captain Cook voyaged to NZ in 1769 and when he returned to England and told them about the beautiful land here, it was seen as a great place to migrate to. People started to come to NZ in the 1800's and settled here. Lots of us have an english heritage.

Children banned from NZ's Got Talent

Children under 12 are not allowed to be in the studio to watch the

New Zealand's Got Talent semi finals.

They reckon kids will fidget during the 4 hours

it will take to tape the session and distract the performers.
Read the news item here

Halloween

Halloween happens next week. 

I don't know much about Halloween and 

our family have never celebrated it.

What do you know about it?

Maybe our Quadblogging Buddies in USA can help us out

Quadblogging for term 4

Yipee! We are back into Quadblogging!

Our group members are from USA and UK.

The links to their blogs are in the left hand side bar.

Our first post for them is about our place...

what is your favourite part of Gisborne / East Coast?

Here is a "tongue-in-cheek"

picture of our harbor.

Athletic Sports - day #1

The senior syndicate managed to get some events completed before the rain came today. 

We will finish the rest of the events over the next 2 Thursdays.

The results from today are are...

		1st	2nd	3rd
50 metre sprints	Y5 girls	Taylor Trott	Kaipo Olsen-Baker	Tessa Hills
	Y5 boys	Corbyn Peach	Ohaia Gillman	Troy Wharepapa
	Y6 girls	Tyla Wharehinga	Messiah Haenga	Manaia Hutana
	Y6 boys	Angus Briant	Kayden Ingram	Whetu  Ruru
75 metres sprint	Y5 girls	Taylor Trott	Tessa Hills	Kaipo Olsen-Baker
	Y5 boys	Corbyn Peach	Ohaia Gillman	Troy Deakin
	Y6 girls	Manaia Hutana	Tyla Wharehinga	Messiah Haenga
	Y6 boys	TK Reihana/ Angus Briant	Dante Paea	Kayden Ingram
200 metres	Y5 girls	Taylor Trott	Tessa Hills	Kaipo Olsen-Baker
	Y5 boys	Corbyn Peach	Karlyle Te Maari-Te Paa	Luke Low
	Y6 girls	Manaia Hutana	Maringi Riddell	Messiah Haenga
	Y6 boys	TK Reihana	Dante Paea	Bradley Wright
Ball Throw	Y5 girls	Omni Rehutai	Kaipo Olsen-Baker	Madison Savage
	Y5 boys	Marika Rawiri	Karlyle Te Maari-Te Paa	Luke Low
	Y6 girls	Messiah Haenga	Kiana Ria Renata-Kokiri	Lillian Hema
	Y6 boys	tbc	tbc	tbc
800 metres	Girls	Taylor Trott	Lillian Hema	Daysha Williams
	Boys	Luke Low	Bradley Wright	Ruben Bronlund-Sheridan
Tabloids		Room 2	Room 4	3rd=R1        4th=R3

Congratulations to these people
and well done to everyone for participating

 and making these races and tabloids competitive events!

Planting Pingao

Yesterday we went to Midway Beach to plant pingao in the sand dunes.

We ate our lunch at the beach and enjoyed the beautiful spring day.

Here we are watching to learn how to plant pingao in the sand.

News of the Day

Message from Mrs T

It's what I'm worth!

You can make one too here

What did you do in the holidays?

Add your best holiday moment...

Senior Shield Winners - Term 3

Congratulations to these people who were awarded the

Student of the Week shield.

Ka mau te wehi!



Blogger of the Week

After looking at all the posts of Garden Creature Report Writing, the class

voted for Blogger of the Week.

The votes came out with Tyra topping the list.

She was chosen because she had included a glossary and her voice was clear in the recording.

Click here to read Tyra's Garden Creature Report.

Don't forget to leave a comment!

Here are the other nominations and the voting count...

To view the work of the other contenders...click on their name to visit their

Science blog and read their reports.

Jade

Lillian

Zara

Kyle

Britten

Karsen

Angus

Ambrosia

 

Netball Staff v Kids

Lots of fun today as the staff used the Green Ferns

to practise against to get ready for thier big game on 9th October.

Thanks kids for the great game!

 

Win an iPad with Mathletics

http://blog.mathletics.com/index.php/2012/09/20/win-an-ipad-with-mathletics/

Class photo

Finally - everyone was here today to have an 

updated class photo taken.

Here we are...all 30 of us!

Art Mural - Our Place

12 artists worked with 2 tutors to create this mural.

It will hang on the end of Room 1 for us all to see.

See if you can find Q Bear...he is hiding all over the place.

A big thank you to Miss Lewis and Mrs Langford for tutoring this group of artists.

Senior Syndicate Shield Winners: Term 3 update

Lunchbox Legends

Nude Food Day Trial Run

National Nude Food day is coming up in October. 

Nude Food is where we try to reduce plastic and reuse containers.

We had a trial run today.

Were you a "Nudie Foodie"?

Here is one person who was!

 Ka pai Levi of Room 8!

Nz Medals at Paralympic Games

Read the latest news about the final count on the medal table...

NZ Tops Paralympic Medal Table per Capita

Blogger of the Week

Tremaine & co. chose David because of his homelearning post last week.

Well done David!
To see this post click here

Paralympic Medal Table - Day 10

So here we are with 17 medals and 21st on the table

21

New Zealand

6

7

4

17

Paralympian Visitor

If we won the photo competition and could have a Paralympian visit us, 

who would you choose and why? Complete the online survey below by clicking on the link

.

Darryl Fitzgerald

Darryl spoke to the Senior Syndicate today at their assembly.

We had lots of questions for him.

Luke got to wear the cool glasses, accreditation lanyard and GPS watch.

Cleveland held up Darryl's competition uniform.

Cleveland wanted to know how to put it on...it looks really small and tight and there's no zips.

Awapuni School's own Olympian

During the Olympic Games we discovered that one of our NZ Olympians went to Awapuni School.

He is coming to talk to us today at Senior Syndicate Assembly.

What questions do you have for him?

Here is his class photo when he was in Room 1 in 2001

13 medals at the Paralympics

We have 13 medals.

This equals the Olympic Games tally.

Will we get any more?

Vote here...

Paralympic Games competition

Mrs T has entered us into a photo competition.

The main prize is a visit from a Paralympian.

Cross fingers and hope we win.

Here is our photos entry.

Room 2 - Please leave a comment telling Mrs T which Paralympian you would like to visit us and why

Beach Races

Today were the school Beach Races.

Room 2 performed exceptionally well.

9 students from Rm2 are going to the

Interschool Cross Country on Wednesday.

Good luck and...bring home the bacon!

Year 6 boys

Year 6 girls - girl power. All from Room 2

Year 5 girls

 

 

 

Year 5 boys





Blogger of the Week

This week Blogger of the Week is awarded to the person who wrote the most creative captions on their Mini Indoor Olympic slideshow.

The award goes to... Tremaine.

Well done Tremaine!

Go and have a look at his slideshow here.

Paralympic Medal Count

Wheelchair Jump Jam with Ruben

Everyone in Room 2 has a day on the wheelchair
in term 3. 

We are doing this while we follow the Olympic and
Paralympic Games this term. 

Here is Ruben doing Jump Jam on his day in the wheelchair. 

He was able to move forward and backwards and clap all the while
staying in time to the music. 

Ka pai Ruben!

Sitting Volleyball

One of the games at the Paralympics is Sitting Volleyball.

We had a go at it - only difference was we used 

balloons instead of a ball.

It was fun - but those balloons don't 

go where you want them too.

Karsen has his eye on the balloon.