A visiting Artist comes....

Delicia is one of our students mothers. She is a stunning artist who creates amazing things out of paint and sometimes traffic signs. You can see her work here

She talked to us about her art and how she comes up with ideas and we all had a go at creating something out of natural things

Have a look

Games to test your Geometry Knowledge

Check out this blog for games to practice your knowledge and develop your skills using Geometry

Don't forget to leave comments about your MOST favourite games and why!

TRY this magic reflection creator

Olympic cookies by Toby

The symbol of the Olympic Games is five joining rings, coloured blue, yellow, black, green, and red on a white background. They represent 5 parts of the world, Asia, Africia, America, Europe & Oceania and the meeting of athletes from throughout the world at the Olympic Games.

 Olympic cookie recipe 

Ingredients:
240g butter
 1 cup of white sugar
½ cup of brown sugar
2 eggs
4 cups of flour
1 teaspoon of baking soda
icing sugar
food colouring

 1. Turn on oven to 180
2. Melt butter in microwave for 1 ½ min
3. Mix butter, sugar and eggs until smooth
4. Sift in flour

5. Mix together
6. Roll into balls on tray and pat down
7. Cook for 8mins then let cool
8. Make coloured icing in 5 bowls

9. Spread icing on cookies
10. Try one Yum!

Winner!

Elliot Walker-Rendell here..... Wow! Sticky TV just phoned me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I won a Sticky TV competition:) It was the Tui School Garden Challenge and I had to write why Laingholm School should win. I won a $100 Mitre 10 voucher for our school to use on anything to do with gardening and they are sending it to school this week.

Art in a Box

Lopdell House came to school with Art in a Box

Check us out being artists!


Art in a Box Part 1 on PhotoPeach

Art in a Box part 2 on PhotoPeach

Art in a Box part 3 on PhotoPeach

The Olympic Mascots

Toby went to England for a holiday and bought back an Olympic mascot - he is called Wenlock - we discovered some information about the mascots and how they were designed.
Click here to see the movies that Wenlock and Mandeville star in
Click here to see and play the Olympic games with the mascots

Wenlock is an Olympic games cyclops mascot. He can shoot rainbows out of his hands and he can run on a rainbow wherever he goes. He wears the Olympic rings as friendship bracelets. His eye has a built in camera also a light on his forward head like the black London taxi lights. His head reminds about the three medals.
Toby

Olympic dress-ups.....

We had a fancy dress day at school to celebrate the opening of the London Olympics 2012

Some of us dressed up as the Olympic rings

the Olympic rings!

 

Manaia bought in a coin from the 1972 Munich Olympics

Prezley made an amazing Olympic torch out of an umbrella!

A home learning challenge - MAKE Olympic Cookies!

Ryans cookies - the Olympic rings

Ryan with his cookies

Paige with her Olympic iced biscuits

Lewis with his Olympic coloured cookies

Our home learning challenges - making Olympic cookies......we loved tasting them too!

Wonderopolis - Do cats and birds get along???

We watched a Wonderopolis video wondering about Do cats and dogs get along? Our teacher found this video to wonder if cats and birds get along.....

Chameleons - how do they change colour?

Check out the info here

Jet boats.

Have you ever been on a jet boat?...On Friday the 13th my family and I went on a jet boat in Rotorua. The drivers name was Crash,not really, it was his nick name and it was Crash because he crashes most things.On the jet boat, Crash told us about the island in the middle of the lake and how deep the water was around it.Hundreds of years ago there were 3 thousand people that lived on the island,then the Maori war came and killed half the islands population the rest had escaped. After that they replanted the island and cleared all the pests and now it is a bird sanctuary.It is home to many native birds of New Zealand.The island is looked after by DOC. DOC means dept of conservaition.Some parts of the lake are natural springs and you can't find the bottom. And some parts are only up to your knee and it could be in the middle of the lake.On the ride when we were going to spin,Crash would put his hand up and wave it round and round.we were meant to hold on but I put my hands up and I would be sliding around but still it was fun.So if you go to Rotorua ask your parents if your family can go on the jet boats it is great fun trust me!!
INDIANA.W

Olympics Game

Try out these three Olympic games

Play Olympic Challenge

Play Free Game

Wondering - Glitter

Check out this wondering?????

What makes Glitter sparkle?

Holiday MOVIES, MOVIES, MOVIES

Lights, camera, action.......

So what movies have you seen over the holidays?
What did you think of it?
What was your favourite bit and why?
What movie would YOU love to star in if you could and why?

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