Poetry theatre!

Fitness fun!

Outside fun. For. Rm9

Spelling in the sun:)

Crazy Collage!!!

Fergus and Nikau rule yea!

Snowy Day!! Our small class today..

Let it snow let it snow let it snow!!

-8:55 at Hampstead School!!!!

Poetry Theatre..

Today we wrote poems about ahh (things that scare us). My favourite was, Ahhh is... deadly scorpions that try to bit my face off!

By: Charlotte
 

Super Class

Playing with our blog!

Singing with Religious studies

Working on a poem together

We had 9 laptops running at once and we were all writing at the same time! 

Click HERE to Check out how we made a poem about Rain together!! Make sure you press play when you click on our link!

Post by - Rita

Planet postcards!

Come into class to flip over our postcards and read them!

Polystyrene Print Making!

Rm. 9 Takin' it Easy

Check out our music video that we showed in our Class Assembly last week! Take it Easy!

Measurement Mania

We are learning to read different scales using mg, g, kg, and tonnes. We have been predicting, measuring, and comparing different objects around the room! Last week we split into our 5 different groups and baked one batch of chocolate drip biscuits each. We had to work together to measure the ingredients using our scale. You have to make sure you are following the recipe! Some of the biscuits turned out really yummy :)

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Cross Country Day!

Wicked Wednesday Workouts!

It has been raining, raining and raining some more lately. We have been taking advantage of the rainy weather and having Wednesday workouts in the hall! Our class is split into five different groups and we rotated around an exciting interval circuit! The step-ladder, bench jumps, and circle sit-ups were just a few of the challenges! Check out some photos of us having fun training!

Welcome Voki

Timaru Trip

Make a free scrapbook design

Check out our Timaru Roadtrip photos!

WHALES, WHALES, WHALES!

This term our topic is Sea Life and Room 9 is researching different types of whales! We decided we would become experts on the Blue Whale and began to research using the internet, books, and information I gave them. This is what we found out!!

* “The heart of a blue whale is as BIG as a mini car!!” Tyreece

* “Some of the blood vessels are so wide you can SWIM down them!” Liem

* “Its tongue weighs as much as an elephant! “ Emma

* “Its tail is as wide as a small airplane!” Mac

* “The Blue whale can be up to 32 Metres long!” Fergus

 We went outside to measure how long 32m was! This is our entire class laying down together to make 32 meters!

 

WOODEND CAMP!!

Last week the Year 6's went on school camp with Miss Dobbin and Miss Sloan. We did all sorts of fun things! We jumped the trampolines, went to the beach, did archery, orienteering, rock-climbing, soared through the trees on a massive flying fox, had a lollie scramble and played kick the can (just to name a few)! We were away for three nights and we were on the waterslide whenever we had free time. The food was so yummy and delicious! Here are a few of the photos from camp! Check out our video for more!!

We are learning to...

We have been learning to use straight, curvy, and diagonal lines, shading, and smudging in our drawings. We have shown this through our foreshortening artwork! We first traced our feet and hands and then drew a body so it looks far away!

Check out a few of our drawings!!

Author Study - Anthony Browne

 In reading, we have been doing an author study on Anthony Browne. He writes all kinds of different stories and even illustrates his own pictures! After reading and comparing 'The Shape Game' with other stories, we decided to give it a go! It turns out Anthony Browne's mother (the creator) was onto something great! See!

Back at Hampstead School!

Haere Mai, Welcome to Room 9. We kicked off the school year with a day one group challenge.We discussed the different traits of 'great leaders' and spoke about Ritchie McCaw and how he treats his teammates and coaches. Some of the characteristics that were named included, "loyal, hard-working, dependable, inspirational, kind, encouraging, honest, and responsible". Each group agreed that they would try their hardest to become great leaders this year and signed our Class Treaty/Contract. 

Later that day we had relay races outside and then each group was assigned to create a marshmallow tower using only toothpicks. The groups earned points for working together as a team, showing encouragement and support to the other members, and creating the tallest       standing tower they could in ten minutes.

Afterwards we discussed the positive and negative things we noticed during the challenge and what we would change next time. It was character building and a lot of fun!