Wonder this peeps......

An amazing site for wondering about almost anything in the world

Why do we get goosebumps?

Have a great holiday

                                                       Hi Room 16,

Thanks for making me feel so welcome in your epic class :)
Have a great holiday, from Elliot W.R!!!!!

Home Learning Heroes

These guys were the most outstanding effort for Term 2 - they put amazing effort into presentation, research and learning - they really upped the anti!
Check them out:

Prezley's amazing Superhero Theme Park

Cameron's amazing water theme park

Ryan's outstanding mini golf course

Amiria's stunning native bird poster

William's stunning research on his Great Great Great Grandad

Science videos for Fun

SOME of the these you COULD try and home but some are JUST for watching

Check out the science videos here

Read a Comic

Sudden Mystery comic - have a read if you dare

Celebrating the Jubilee from the UK

Practising the Enterprise Song

Superhero Day!

 

On the 31st of May it was superhero dress up day for our topic super hero's  and comics. Most people dressed up as spider man, superman and batman.  Amiria won the top made up superhero outfitfor our class her name was Kitty Kid. Tiaan won the bought costume for our class he was spiderman. Jakob won the best original superhero [made up] his super hero name was DooMAN some other kid called Johny Rose came second place. We all had a parade and photos in the hall.
This is our class of Superheroes....including our teacher.

James and Elliot

Luke's Cooking school

Luke made an amazing video as part of his Home Learning challenge - he seems to really enjoy cooking and has added some extra fun aspects to this video.

BP Class Challenge

On Wednesday, the kids in room 16 where spilt into groups for 2 and got given a box filed with interesting Stuff.  We had to build a tower the biggest tower and we all had a LEGO man that we had to put on the top of the tower. Everyone had 30 minutes. After we finish Miss Cheeseman measure them and Billy and Toby won. Second place was Xanthe and Mariah. The people that lost were  … Ryan and Isabella. 

It was fun and hard because there was small and big stuff and also because we didn't have anything like glue to glue it together.  We had to keep on trying because the problems were the tower was very wobbly because most of the stuff was skinny.

William and Mariah

BP Challenge

How to make the tallest tower with only a certain set of materials

AAArgggh Pirate Assembly

We ran the assembly this week and we decided to be pirates! Thankfully Toby had done a pirate invitation to Cap'an Weatherill so he came fully prepared in his pirate outfit! Everyone said we did a great job and it was a great assembly...arrrggghhh!

Cap'an Flynn

Cap'an Weatherill

Turbo Touch

Today was our AWESOME Turbo Touch lesson. We had a lot of fun because it involves lots of different sports like Rugby, Touch, Netball & Basketball. I understood  the rules very well because there are only 3 rules & they are very easy. I think there should be 10 touches before handover. 1of the rules is you can not stand on the black mat cause it is off side & the second rule is that the ball can not be dropped or bonce and there has to be two passes be for a try. 
Issy and William

Room 16 pirate message

I used the english to pirate translator app to figure out how to invite Mr Wetherell to our pirate assembly.

I made this card and wrote the message: Ahoy Cap'n Wetherell how's yer day?Do ye wants t' come t' our pirate gathering on Friday?If ye don't come I shall point the cannon at ye ARR!!

From Room 16

Toby

Fun Fact Monday

Did you know you are born with 300 bones in your body but when you get to be an adult you only have 206!!!!

My chocolate shop

My own challenge was to design a shop to sell my brothers fundraising chocolate from school.

I painted the signs and set up the shop.

We sold a whole box on the first day.
By Toby

My robot design

My robot is called C.A.R. short for Cleaner Assistant Roller. I need this robot to help when I clean the car. Our driveway is very steep and hard to go up so I built my C.A.R. robot to roll up and down.

The body is a bucket to carry water and a brush. I made arms out of lego to bring me a cloth and sponge.

It moves by remote control that I modified from a LEGO car. It really WORKS!!!

By Toby

My Family Crest

I designed my crest in the shape of my house. Left side is for me, it is LEGO bricks because I like LEGO. The middle is a film strip because my Mum loves movies and the right side are cables because Josh loves computers.

 I drew my crest on white material and used the sewing machine to make a flag. 

By Toby

Raft racing at Armour Bay

Last Friday 23 of March the year 4s 5s and 6s had raft race at Armour Bay. When I got to school I hang my bag up on one of the hooks and went in to the class room then Miss Cheeseman told me and some more people to load the paddles and the spear ones after we had loaded all the paddles into the truck then Mr Weatherill told us to load all the big black bags into the truck. When the bell rang everyone came running into the class shouting everyone was excited. First Miss Cheeseman called the roll then told us all the rules they were so boring I wanted to fall asleep then Miss Cheeseman told us who was looking after us for the day after that we were told what bus we were going on I went on bus 3 but most of my friends went on bus 2 I sat by one of my friends Indy soon we arrived at Armour Bay.
First we went to one of the gazebos, the only gazebo left was the biggest so we shared with room 12. Soon we got to eat morning tea and then it was the first race. Room 17 won the first race I think it was the speed race. After the speed race there was the stability race and our class won that one. Then there was the All Change race and I was in this one. We had to swap another group we would go back and then we won it. I was very happy we won it but tired too.

Krystal

Greatest little cross-country in the Universe

The day of the best Cross country run in history had arrived. I was so scared, I stopped blinking! Mr.Cox called up the students in order of age of 10 to 5. It was a blazing hot day, so hot, I felt like I was in an oven! The track was 2 laps around the field and 3 laps around the school. Finally, it was my turn. I was so scared! The siren blew, I was off! Jogging along the field. The wind whipping through my hair, the ground scratching at my feet. I could see heaps of people sprint ahead of me, but I was going to take it slow and when I was close enough to the finish line, I would sprint for my life! Finally I was on my last lap, I could hear people shouting my name. I was going to come 5th place! Then I saw someone just ahead of me, she was going slow enough to get ahead of. Straight after that thought,I saw the finish line and right away I knew I couldn't let this person get ahead of me,with a sudden burst of energy I was coming 4th place! When we had finished the run, I had been running so fast that I felt as stiff as a rock! A few races after that I found myself automatically encouraging my brother which I don't usually do. I was a bit surprised that my little brother Raphael didn't come a place because he's usually as fast as a mini race car. At lunchtime, I felt so annoyed that you had to put heaps of sunblock on which is so squelchy and disgusting. I was feeling so boiling hot after that long day of cross country, but I can't wait for next year!

Manaia and Zippy

Toby looking at the clouds - Home Learning

For my home learning I watched clouds from my deck.

I recorded my ideas on my Mum's iphone. I sent Miss Cheeseman my audio file.

The great moving day!

Last week me and my family moved house. Me and my brother where so excited because it was our first  time moving. First the moving people came  they got out and put some music on me and my brother started dancing  to the music. Next  me and my dad went to get a mince pie when we got back they where still packing up. Then  my family met up at the new house I really wanted to sit down but the door was locked and the ground was a mess. I was so tired after. Then we finally got in. We unpacked and I felt happy that we moved.
Annelise [helped by Indy]

Room 16's garden

Our garden is down by room 14/15  in the field. It already had a big tree in it.
First we dug out the weeds and dead routs. And then other people dug four holes for four swan plants.they already have some eggs on them!!!! we try and remember to water them everyday.
Then one week later [today] the class got split in half about 10 of us got to do gardening. while the rest of us had to sketch plants and trees .in the mean wile the planters took terns in digging and planting.
we planted lettuce, spinach, silver bett, pansys, cutty grass stuff, flax and some red things

by Isla and Lewis

Powhiri Welcome

Book Speed Dating

For book speed dating first we got a sheet with all the books and one books name was highlighted but every one had a diffrent book name that was highlighted. Than we followed the list starting from the highlighted book name on the list. We had to read the blurb of each book and rate the book out of 1-5.

I liked the go girl book the most so I rated it as a 5
by Xanthe

I liked speed book dating because I like to read and my favourite books were Catkid and Purrfect Princess and Frog Whistle Mine and I rated them a 5. by Krystal

BY XANTHE AND KRYSTAL

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