What's going on in room 6?

Wow!  What a busy time we're having this term, scroll down to check out some of the awesome things we've been up to over the last 6 weeks.

ALSO... don't forget you can leave comments and ideas with just the click of a button. All you need to do is click on the 'comments' link (under each post), post your message, and select a profile (if you select Name/URL you can just leave your name and once Mr Chalmers has moderated your comment it will show up on the blog) it's as easy as that! Keep visiting to keep up to date and find out what's happening.

Harcourt Park Picnic

In week 3 we had an awesome day at Harcourt Park!  With our beginning of year testing all done it was a great opportunity for kids, parents, and teachers to have some fun.  We played on the playground, had a picnic lunch, played games, and had a swim in the paddling pool! 

Check out the slideshow above to see some photos of our day or take a look at our Picasa Web Album HERE!

Creative handWRITING!

We've been getting creative with our handwriting practice!  For each letter we practice we've made up some really funny sentences that we want to put together and turn into a children's picture book.  We've even been illustrating our sentences as we go!

Each sentence is about a silly animal named after the kids in our class.  Unfortunately we don't have a name for every letter of the alphabet so we'll have to think of some new names for those letters.

Check out our progress HERE!

Swimming Fun Day!

In week 5 we went to the Stokes Valley swimming pools for a day of fun swimming races (and some serious races for the kids that wanted to try out for the interschool swimming sports). 

We were grouped according to our confidence, ability, and house colours and we had wacky races called 'horsey noodle', 'train', and 'circle ball'.  After the racing we had a sausage sizzle lunch and once our food had gone down, we had free time to play on the waterslide and in the pools with all the equipment!

Check out the slideshow above to see some photos of our day or take a look at our Picasa Web Album HERE!

What does it mean to be a TP kid?

Our inquiry unit this term has been all about TP and what it's means to be a TP kid.  We have brainstormed everything we know about TP and how we can be TP kids too.  Then we thought of all the famous New Zealander's that demonstrate or have demonstrated some or all of the qualities of a TP kid and we discovered that there are lots!  We've found out about sports people, actors, directors, musicians, politicians, artists, authors, chefs, scientists, inventors, and adventurers! 

This week we're going to write to some of our favourite New Zealander's to see if they will visit us or even just send us a reply, it's worth a try!

Things to look forward to in 2012

Finally, here's a few things to look forward to this year. It's going to be a busy one so GET READY!

We've got Rippa Rugby, cross country, swimming lessons, athletics, lots of gardening, house sport, golden time, Te Reo Maori lessons, homework challenges, outdoor week... AND... all the reading, writing, mathematics, arts, inquiry, and physical education we can fit in! Phew! Don't forget to keep visiting to find out what's happening!

5000 HITS!

Wow, in less than 9 months we've reached 5000 hits on our blog!  We're still getting hits from all over the world but most of them are from you guys using the blog everyday at school and then visiting it again at home with your friends and family.  Thank you for all your comments too, it's really nice to hear how much you're enjoying using the blog for fun and learning!  Let's keep making it bigger and better together!