Dec 4 2013

The teachers at Year 5 camp have asked for a note to be placed on the blogs. It has been very wet today and some of the children have already used a number of changes of dry clothes. If you are coming out to visit your child at Year 5 camp we suggest you bring some extra changes of clothes for your child. Thanks.

Contact details –           

St Marys 348 1701

Susan Nelson 027 697 4000

Sylvia Dunkley 027 5625 441

Teresa Rush 027 2570 668

Tui Ridge 260 Anderson Road (via Oturoa Road), Rd 2, Rotorua 3072       07-332 2508

Izaiah's uncle

Special Visiter

Dragon's Den Survey Afternoon

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We gathered heaps of information from our target groups today. Monday we build our final product. Everyone in class is looking forward to trying to win the class Dragon's Den competition.

Tip Top Shoe Inventions

Matariki Art

Playing Around

Matariki 2013

Planting Trees for Matariki on PhotoPeach

Geek force

Today I was at geek force playing flight controller and boggle

Do you know who this is?

Have you read this book

Comment to answer.

Golden Time: Dipping marshmallows into chocolate

This wasn't messy or anything!  But we all agreed it was totally delicious!
What do you think?

Fun Making Pizzas

Blake shows off his masterpiece before it goes into the oven.  We are going to write the procedure for making this easy recipe next week.  Writing about things you eat is always a great way to learn!

Caleb, Gyu Ri, Elias and Francine's Mi'kmaq Creation Story about Glooscap

Kutai Fritters

 

 

Making mussel fritters from the School Journal. 

 

They look very yummy!

 

Our Easter Parade and Liturgy

Every year our school celebrates Palm Sunday. We do this because on Sunday, before his crucifixion on Friday, Jesus entered the city of Jerusalem, riding on a donkey. Many of the students wave palms they have made or brought in from home and dress in clothes of the times.  You can read Matthew 11: 1-11 to learn more.

Kick It

Soccer fun in the hall

Swimming at the Aquatic Centre

Safety in numbers.  Using life jackets in the deep pool.

Kapua celebrating her swim in the outdoor pool. 

Primary school children in NZ are learning to have the skills to swim confidently a minimum of 200m to demonstrate they are safe around Rotorua lakes.

 

 

 

Great times at the Rotorua Aquatic Centre.  The class learned about water safety in the deep pool.

Swimming in our school pool

We have learned heaps since we started swimming this year.  We have great skills swimming on our backs.  Friday will be an exciting day at the Acquatic Centre for Swimming Sports!

 

 

 

School Tug of War

 

 

What a fantastic way to end the week.  Our entire school came out to have a tug-of-war competition.  It was hot but that didn't stop anyone from pulling their hardest.  This is MacKillop House getting ready to take on Mill Hill House.

Golden Time Week 4

It has been hot in our classroom in the afternoons lately.  Ms Nelson brought in a fan to cool us off but we thought a waterslide would be better.  So far no one in our class has lost Golden Time.  That means we get 30 minutes each Friday to choose something fun for our class to do together. 

We thought this looked like a lot of fun! 

 

Room 2 Leaders 2013

 

Noah, West, Dan, Caleb, Nidhi, Tayla, Lucy M, Kayla and Katelyn

are ready to serve St Mary's School this year. 

 

 

 

Thanks to the wonderful readers we had to help make the Leadership Assembly special.

Izaiah, Riya, Eric, Thomas, Francine, Elias, Lucy D, Alexander, Karandeep, Daniel and Joshua

Tuesday's Promise Liturgy

On Tuesday morning we had a very special liturgy at school.  Everyone in the entire school wrote promises to God for Lent.  Mrs Rush took all of the promises and burned them.  She added them to the ashes from the palms we used last year during our donkey parade.  All of the ashes were then blessed by Father Mark and were used for Ash Wednesday. 

Golden Time in the Glorious Sunshine!

The weather has been amazing so far this term at school. 

Every Friday afternoon our school celebrates excellence in behaviour with 30 minutes of "Golden Time".  This week everyone in Room 2  was involved and we decided to have a fun water fight on the field.  Room 5 did the same thing. 

The best part was our Principal  was there...we completely soaked him!  Ms Nelson was safe behind the camera.

We can't wait for next Friday!

Waitangi Day Research Fun

This week Room 2 researched and then made dioramas to retell the history of why we celebrate Waitangi Day in New Zealand.  Our dioramas had to show (through our art skills) who, where, when and what. 

This afternoon our class completed a paper tower challenge.  After 7 minutes Lucy, Thomas, Daniel and Karandeep made a free standing structure that was over 1.71m tall!  That's what I call teamwork.

Kia Ora Room 2 Students
I hope you are all very excited about starting a new year at school.  See you Thursday morning!
Ms Nelson