Hi im johannah and we have been doing lots last week we had green day . We had to have a wrapper free lunch because one wrapper can stay in a dump up to 500 years, so why not you try? Back to green day, well, I had green hair and all sorts. We had wigs and a ferns dress and green face paint. On the 23 of november 2012 we are had a guy coming in to play songs and magic, and to teach us about water safety, and good fishing. He was the Minstrel. He was awesome.

Hello people.  In only a few weeks our class is splitting up. The year 5s are going to Wellington with the year 6s. The year 4s will be having an activity week with year 4s from room 5. both groups have been doing lots of preparation for that week.

In maths this term we have been focusing on getting our basic facts right. We have also learnt about power numbers and practiced rounding to the nearest 10 and 100.

In reading we have been learning how to read and find information.  Now we are learning about reading fluently.

At writing time we have been writing our own Geronimo Stilton story. We have also been doing a lot of descriptions.

We have the life education bus at our school. Our class is learning about good friends.

Our class is also focusing on respect.

23.5.12
This week is book week. On Thursday we will be dressing up as one of our favorite book characters. The last couple of days e have had a different teacher come and read to us a book that they really enjoy. Wednesday afternoon my dad and some other local people are also reading a children's book that they have really been drawn into. When we dress up I am going to dress up as Collete from some of Geronimo Stilton's books. Collete is one of the ' Thea Sisters ' and even though she's not my best, my sister said she would be easiest because of all the pink that she wears.

The book fair opened yesterday and mum bought me a Sponge bob Square pants book called For The Love Of Bubbles and this morning I got a rubber from the variety sale. There are some really neat books so if your anywhere near Picton you could come and have a look. Some of the money goes to getting more books for the school library.

The school choir is well underway and we have some excelent singes with excelent voices. When we do the performance on the night at the Marlborough Centre with Susan Prentice, I am sure that we are going to be brilliant and even though it is not a competition, I am sure we will be the best if you separated up all the schools.

The gymnastics group has just started but I dont know much because I am not in it. I have given my sister some coaching with a skipping rope and have taught her how to do a forwards roll. The only reason I am not in the group is because I forgot to go to the meeting.

I hope to be able to update you again about what is happening in the school.
Hannah M Morris

Now its our second term in 2012....
We are going to Kaipupu Point on the second of May we are going to see native birds. In term 1 I had a grate time and I will in term 2. We are doing are self portraits and I'm doing well, and Ive almost finished. We've been doing art and we've done are wonderful sounds pictures and pyramids picture and I think mine was the best. Last term we went to Whites Bay to make sand sculptures, rock pools and we saw all sorts of creatures. Mr John came to speak to us and came with all sorts of birds and traps, some birds were big. We've been doing maths in are blue book, we are doing partner work with our friends.
By Ollie

At the moment room 1 is doing loads of fun things like we are going to kiapupu point. last term room 1 went to the millenuim art gallery at the moment we are drawing pyramids and the sounds . my favourite drawing was the pastel portraits. it is very sunny here in waikawa. all my freinds at primary school are Grace/Bianca/and Amy. I cant beleive that we are in term 2 allready. Term 2 is so fun. I like going to this school.


Monica

Wow it's already term 2 2012! This year we have been focusing on the enviroment.We are about to go to Kaipupu point. Kaipupu point is a reserve in Picton for New Zealand's native birds. Sadly quite a few native birds have passed out and not so many are left.We need to work on saving our native birds or one day there will be none left. What has been killing them is stoats, weasels, rats and ferrets. Around Kaipupu there is a whole lot of traps for the predators. Hopefully we can save them before it's to late. What expert's like Pink reading group and all other groups and classes in the school want is for there always to be native birds.
By Anna

Room 1 is doing self portraits at the moment. My last one looked like a wine glass ,we are going to kapopo point. At kapopo i hope i  see native a bird. Last term we did an art picture of the sands we also did a pyramid picer at the end of the yare y5's and y6's are going to Wellington to stay at the zoo i can't wait .
By Amelia

This year we have been thinking and will think more about Kaipupu Point and how to save New Zealand birds. In art  we have done Egyptian  Pyramids and our Self Portraits. We had to think about perspective and proportion. In writing we have been thinking about description. We had to try to "show not tell" and describe things well so people can agree with and understand what you are talking about. We also had to deliberately choose the best words to get people in the picture. In maths we were thinking about getting fast at our Basic Facts and knowing them all and knowing them well. In topic we have been learning about Maori art. We had been to Blenheim's Millennium Gallery where there were illustrations from Maori stories. In our topic books we had to draw a picture that was inspired by something at the gallery. On the day after and before A.N.Z.A.C Day we read a few poems and stories about it and then in our topic books we did a title page about A.N.Z.A.C and then glued in the poems. Fortunately the teacher said "don't draw pictures of bombs exploding and people dying." Netball practices have just started and our first game is this Saturday.
By Hannah

Wow! It's already Term 2 in 2012!. . .
In Room 1, we have being writing very interesting things about are holidays and weekends. We wrote a letter to Marlborough Express about Mothers Day and neat pictures. We started doing our portraits to be on the wall all this year and a little bit of next year. In Term 1, We learnt a lot about TEAM and I got very interested in art and the Millennium Gallery. In there, we learnt about three illustrators. We did some spelling tests too. Mrs. Easton gave us a Weekly Quiz once a week. Our Teacher, Mrs. Easton, Gave us Handwriting stuff To-Do. My handwriting got better everyday. I love writing. We are going on a Kaipupu Point trip, but it got cancelled three times. There, they take care of birds so the don't get extinct. In Reading, there are six groups. Pink is the best reading group for me,  Grace, Anna and Hannah are in Pink group.
By Grace

Suddenly it is Term 2 already in 2012. We have been waiting for a Website update, but as the present site is still there. Here are some updates about our school.
We now have 5 classrooms operating. Mrs Altoft is still in Room 3 with New Entrants, Mrs Cloudesley remains in Room 5 but this year has a Year 3 and 4 class. Mrs Easton continues in Room 1, with a Year 4 and 5 class. We have two new teachers Miss Whiting in Room 2 teaching Year 5 and 6, and Miss Merrall is teaching Year 1 and 2 in Room 4. Mr Pottinger is the Principal. We also have a new Secretary - Mrs Frisken, since Mrs Boyce retired partway through last year.
We make a happy team, and the year is humming along, with lots happening of course.

A Happy Memory

Early  in the year room 1 red The Terrible Taniwha of Timberditch. Then Mrs E said we could make a taniwha. I was  very excited . 

End of Term/Hayley leaves

It is the end of the term. That means good and bad. I think you would like to hear the good news first. Well, the good news is ............... SCHOOL HOLIDAYS!

The bad news is that HAYLEYS leaving.

She is going to Nelson. We made cards for her.

Now I have some in between news. Me & 1 of my mates are very excited & we are going crazy.We were making ooooooooooooooooooooooo aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa uuuuuuuuuu eeeeeeeeeeeeee iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii noises. For 1 more time............................... SCHOOL HOLIDAYS!

Still Life

In class we have been learning about still life. First of all Mrs Easton got out a bowl from her house and some fruit. There was oranges, apples, lemons, pears and grapes. She put the fruit in the bowl. From our desks we could see it but from different angles.At the moment Mrs Easton is putting them up on the wall. They all look great. For the first time in my life I'm actually proud of my own art. Well maybe only a little bit. All of them look good. My favourite one would probably be Keala's or Sapphire's. I LOVE doing art.   

Self Portraits

A couple of Thursday's ago we did self portraits. When I heard the good news I jumped up and down . Then the the troubles began. MrsEaston saw me. She told me off and sent me to the naughty corner for a minute. Soon a minute was gone. I was allowed to come out of the naughty corner. Soon It was time to do the self portraits.We did a lot of draft copies. Then we did the proper copy. I was really happy with mine. Soon it was time to pack up. We packed up and went to the mat. As soon as we were on the mat we had a story. Soon the bell rang, It was time to go home.

ps: I'm just tricking about a naughty corner. We all make good choices in Room 1!

Poems.

July 12 we are writing poems that rhyme. Do you know what rhyme means ' it means a word that is spelled or sounds the same. Like pup and cup. Why don't you try it.They are fun.I will show you a poem.

The cow went to a round people race,

but forgot to tie up his cowshoe lace.

He hopped about, holding his snout.

He suddenly tripped over,

and ruined a pavlova.

There was a drama

and then came his farmer.

Someone will arrive, eat a beehive.

It was old Zao, who loved the cow

Bananas are flying, Zao is crying.

Paper planes are being thrown,

woolen jackets are being sewn.

Cross Country Trainning.

On Monday the 4 of the 11. When the bell rang after lunch,room 1 raced out the door!All ready for cross country training. And started to run around the front Court. Mr Neighbours called the two senior rooms for stretches. And then Mr Pottinger came out he stood at the crossing. Soon he called for room 2 room 1 room 5 room 3 and 4. We went in a flash! Then back we came from our run, and did our warm down on the court. At the end we gathered as a school in front of the steps in front of rooms 1 and 2 to say what we could improve on.

End of term

Room one at Waikawa bay school has started learning about healthy eating we have a lot of good ideas all ready.In maths we are learning to figure out codes some are easy some are hard. Mrs Easton says its good to be challenged to get you prepared for when you get older because if you get older you need to know them. In reading we are reading little chapter books then we do something called a story hill you draw a hill shape then write in it parts about the story.We are also doing cross country. We don't give up because we are very athletic so everyone does well for themselves. We do lots of art. We do self portraits, noah's ark, drawings of out the sounds. We enjoy art.

Cross Country .

On your marks, get set and Go.I raced across the road then gently slowed down to a jog.I looked behind myself and there were the others catching up to me.Then I stared back up ahead ,wow!I

was even catching up to Grace.Suddenly I felt myself walking up a slope, I wanted to stop but I

just kept on going ,and going until I reached the top.

What a relief ,I had finally made it to Mrs Altoft and I crossed the road straight away.Just then I

was almost out of breath.

I had just made it to Mrs Cloudesley so I was able to have a small rest while I was waiting for the traffic to drive past us. Suddenly I heard the drumbeat of footsteps getting louder and louder."Oh, no"I groaned."The little kids are catching up again".But Ms Clouesdsly could let us cross."Yes!" I cried.

Writing with verbs.

At writing time Mrs Easton announced "We are learning to use interesting verbs in our writing, class. What are verbs class?" We knew that they were action words and we knew that we would have to write a series of different stories. The first story was a remake of a story that the whole class had read called the number nine bus. Then a remake of the hissing bush. One day we had to make a random story with verbs. But last of all we had to make our own version of the school journal story: red flags. And Mrs Easton wanted me to show it to Mr Potinger- the school Principal.      

All about Healthy streams

We  are  learning  healthy  streams. Andrew  and  I  are  learning  about   leeches. They  play  an  important  roll. Invertebrate  means  it  has  no  backbones.  Some  graze  on  algae.