Food for thought

Who watched the All Blacks play England on Saturday. Answer and give your thoughts on this:
- Do you think Aaron Cruden was brave, because he decided to tap and play for the try instead of take the automatic 3point conversion? or do you think he made a risky decision and didn't think with his head. What if he got it wring and the All Blacks didn't score. Hmmm  share your thoughts ...

Homework Week 6

Hey Guys!!

Please make sure you are tested on your spelling words every night! You are also to read 20min each night - this will help you move up in your reading age.

Can you please complete the following activities :

1) Record your words and their meaning
2) Now write your words into a sentence 

Keep up the great work Room 1
Miss Lockett

Homework Week 5

Hello Troopers!

Please make sure you are tested on your spelling words every night! You are also to read 30min each night - this will help you move up in your reading age.

Can you please complete the following activities :

1) Draw a picture (any picture) and write your words in the picture
2) Record your words and their meaning
3) Now write your words into a sentence

Keep up the great work Room 1
Miss Lockett

Lunchtime fun in the leaves ! Check out our massive pile. 

We've just heard about this COOL photo competition.  This is something you'll need to enter from home as you need your parents permission.   Key details of the competition include:

• competition closes on Saturday 31st May
• can enter up to 5 times
• you must enter your parents phone/email (not your own)
• once you've entered, you need to get voting!

Click on the link below to find out more and enter the competition!

Competition - click here

Homework - Week3

This week you have a simple task of reading food packet labels.

You must choose four packets of food from your pantry at home and write the label into your homework book - remember we are looking at 'per serving' not per 100gms

Once you have recorded the four packets into your book you then must identify which food group the packet belongs to e.g fruit / vege / fibre / calcium / treats


P.S don't forget spelling this week.

We were super busy this afternoon learning new large ball skills with Sport Waikato Energizer Nicola

Today Nutritionist Andy from Food for Thought came in to talk to us about 'healthy foods' we learnt loads and tomorrow we visit the supermarket in Matamata to read food labels

Homework

Healthy Eating - Homework

Your task is to create your own food pyramid based on what you learnt today with Andy and myself.
Remember good foods at the bottom and not so good foods at the top. You can either draw your pyramid or create it on the computer.


Due Friday

P.S don't forget your spelling !!

Today in maths we looked at a range of fractions and how to identify them in everyday life.

We identified - proper fractions, improper fractions and equivalent fractions. 

Ethan, Sean and Ollie you all worked extremely hard today in maths - well done x2 Dojo points each!

Next week is National Sign language Week - start practising your name !

Please remember if you would like to keep up with your studies click on the many educational links on the right hand column. 

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Wowzers - what a long term! You all deserve a well-earned break. Please be safe over the Easter Break and remember manners get you a long way! 

Have fun and enjoy and see you back at school on May 5th. 

Miss Lockett and Mrs Kurth 

Dear Parents

Next Term we expect all students to have updated their stationary, as both Anna and I are lending out far too many pens/pencils etc. Please name also.

Your child will need the following:

x 2 pencils
x 1 red pen
x 1 blue pen
x1 eraser
x1 ruler

Thanks in anticipation,


Emma

Some fantastic Easter Art made by Room 1 students. 

Today we learnt how to entertain an audience through describing a person.
We had to be creative with her her origin and life in general.

This piece of writing was written by Will Adams - Year 5
Once I met a dirt poor, vintage woman who lived in a remote aboriginal village in Australia. She was roughly 100 years of age and had been through a lot of hardship. Her name was Betty and she had served her time living as a prisoner of a war camp in the World War. Betty lived in the camp for many years and only received two slices of bread per day. In the camp she made bullets for the German Soldiers, and from this she was caked in gun powder, unfortunately thats why Betty had a darker skin colour to other prisoners and they often made fun of her. Betty had stringy hair that had a silver tint and she couldn't smile because she had sowed her lips together when she went on strike, as she wanted to prove her innocence. Betty had dopy eyes from the gun powder and no longer cared about her looks, she only cared about about her freedom. At the end of the war she was released - Betty was happy for freedom but also sad because she had nowhere to go and no family to love. Sadly on the trip home she past away from a heart attack which was later found out that the cause was from her breathing in too much gun powder which had affected her heart.

Kaleb is on 'leaf -blowing' duty today !!

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Inquiry Challenge

Students working hard on their inquiry project. Their task was to design their 'dream' outdoor play area for Walton Primary. They first began by drawing their design, once this once complete they had to make a 3D model.

Awesome Books

Below are a list of some fantastic books that I have read over the years.  Try get your hands on some!!

Awesome Books:

• 'Girl Savage' by Katherine Rundell.
• 'I Am Not Ester' by Fleur Beale.
• 'The Transformation Of Minna Hargreaves' by Fleur Beale.
• 'The Secret Of Spirits Bay' by Stephen Barker.
• 'One More River' by Lynne Reid Banks.
• 'Pavarna' by Deborah Ellis.
• 'A Company Of Fools' by Deborah Ellis.
• 'Shauzia' by Deborah Ellis.
• 'Calling The Gods' by Jack Lasenby.
• 'The Haystack' by Jack Lasenby.
• 'Escape The Sea' by L.S Lawrence.
• 'Malka' by Mirjam Pressler.
• 'They Came On Viking Ships' by Jackie French.
• 'A Beautiful Lie' by Irfan Master.
• 'The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Nightime' by Mark Haddon.
• 'First Girl' by Gloria Whelan.
• 'Night Of The Burning' by Linda Wulf.
• 'Throwaway Daughter' by Ting-Xing Ye.
• 'Stig Of The Dump' by Clive King.
• 'Call Of The Wild' by Jack London.
• 'Lucky' by Susan Patron.
• 'The Machine Gunners' by Robert Westall.
• 'AK' by Peter Dickinson.
• 'Dead Dans Dee' by Phyllis Johnston.
• 'X Marks The Spot' by Joan de Hamel.
• 'Over A Thousand Miles I Walk With You' by Hanna Jansen.
• 'Ties That Bind, Ties That Break' by Lensey Namioka.
• 'The Sheep On The Fourth Floor' by Leonie Thorpe.
• 'Mao's Last Dancer' by Li Cunxin.
• 'The Outsiders' by S.E Hinton.
• 'I Am David' by Anne Holm.
• 'Gentle Ben' by Walt Morey.
• 'A Small Free Kiss In The Dark' by Glenda Millard.
• 'Just Jack' by Adele Broadbent.
• 'Holes' by Louis Sachar.
• 'Small Steps' by Louis Sachar.
• 'Revolver' by Marcus Sedgwick.
• 'Peak' by Roland Smith.
• 'Millions' by Cottrell Boyce.
• 'Falling Leaves' by Adeline Yen Mah.
• 'Chinese Cinderella' by Adeline Yen Mah.
• 'Goodnight Mr Tom' by Michelle Magorian.
• 'The One And Only Ivan' by Katherine Applegate
• 'Hating Alison Ashley' by Robin Klein.
• 'The Power Of One' by Bryce Courtenay.
• 'The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas' by John Boyne.
• 'The Cay' by Theodore Taylor.
• 'Charlotte's Web' by E.B White.
• 'The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe' by C.S Lewis.
• 'The Secret Garden' by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
• 'A Little Princess' by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
• 'Because Of Winn Dixie' by Kate DiCamillo.
• 'The Reluctant Hero' by Willie Apiata.
• 'Seal Boy' by Ken Catran.
• 'Darby' by Johnathon Faqua.
• 'Polar Boy' by Sandy Fussell.
• 'In My Hands' by Irene Gut Opdyke.
• 'Out Of Bounds' by Beverley Naidoo
• 'Dunger' by Joy Cowley
• 'Mrs Frisbee And The Rats Of NIMH' by Robert O'Brien
• 'Weirdo' by Theodore Taylor
• 'Sole Survivor' by Ruthanne McCunn

A few highlights from Camp

Miss Lockett's Must Read List

Books In A Series:

• The Tomorrow Series (x7 books) by John Marsden.  Must be read in order, starting with 'Tomorrow When The War Began'.
• The Ellie Chronicles (trilogy) by John Marsden.  Is a sequal to the Tomorrow Series.
• Cherub Series (multiple books) by Robert Muchamore.  Must start with 'The Recruit' but it doesn't matter what order you read them in after that.
• Henderson Boys' Series (multiple books) by Robert Muchamore.  Must be read in order, starting with 'The Escape'.
• Alex Rider Series (multiple books) by Anthony Horowitz.
• Hunger Games Series (trilogy) by Suzanne Collins.  Must be read in order, starting with 'The Hunger Games'.
• Hatchet Series (multiple books) by Gary Paulsen.  Read 'Hatchet' first, but can read books in any order after that.
• Mr Tucket Series (multiple books) by Gary Paulsen.  Must be read in order, starting with 'Mr Tucket'.
• 'Once', 'Then', 'Now' and 'After' by Morris Gleitzman.  Must be read in this order.

Bible in Schools

Today with Mr Connolly we discussed how we can make a positive difference to someone. Mr Connolly always shares fantastic values! Thank you Mr Connolly. 

Twitter Magnets

Twitter Magnets

This week we've been experimenting with this cool website called Twitter Magnets.  

It gives you a bunch of random words and the challenge is to build sentences that make sense!  

Here are some of the sentences we've come up with: