Strength Goal Presentations

Jordan ET- Physical Education Lesson

Chris- Typhoon (Titan of the Storms) Presentation

Zed- Wrestling Presentation

Marae Visit

Recently, we went to the Marae with Model 2A and 2B. Our brilliant parent helper was: Tessa( Zed’s Mum). The bus trip was decidedly hot and long. Eventually, we saw the Marae. The sight was amazing!! We lined up, with the  girls at the front, boys at the back. Our group waited patiently for the karanga (Call).

Soon,  a faint but strong voice was ringing in our ears. Slowly, we marched up. As the voice receded, another voice started off. It was whaea Jenny. Her job was to answer the call so we could enter the Marae. By the time she had finished, we had already reached half way. The calling was carried on for about  two minutes longer. Finally, the calling ended. We looked up to the lady standing in front of us.

She smiled, greeting us warmly. ‘Welcome to the Otako Marae.’ She chorused. She led us to the entrance of the Marae, and kindly asked us to take our shoes off. Then she gently ushered us into the beautiful hall of the Marae.

By Jordan ET and Cindy

Maia's Strength Goal- Argentina

Recently I presented my strength goal to the class. I shared some Enpanadas that Miss Pereira said were glorious (she even ate two!!!!!!!). Enpanadas are a type of pie looking thing and are usually filled with meat or even with vegetables. Because my family is from Argentina I thought it is important to teach the class a little bit about my culture. I taught them about a dance called the tango and told them about a tea called mate it is not drunk in a normal cup instead it is drunk in a cup made out of ether pumpkin or ceramic. I also showed them a few places in Argentina like La boca and the capital Buenos Aires.

Sports Elective

In the sport elective we have been practicing many types of sports. They include; soccer, miniball, hockey, capture the flag and dodge ball. So far we have only had the soccer competition. Next week we are going to play miniball. The names of the teams are the Short Namers, Grinders, Villans, Epics. 

RULES OF SOCCER

1. You cannot use your hands unless you are goalie.
2. Keep both feet on the ground when throwing the ball in.
3. You cannot kick the shins of others.
4. You cannot be in front of the last defender when you are receiving a pass.

 Every week we elect a captain and coach. They are elected for their skill at the sport. The coach has to set up a warm up and warm down and run a skills session. When it is time for the game we verse every team. Our points are tallied.

Miss Pereira runs a boot camp each week, in case you do not know it is a session where you train to get fit. When we do boot camp we run up and around the adventure play ground then go around the middle court and do that twice. Then we have the choice of doing 20 press ups our 20 sit ups. She even makes us do painful shuttles.

We really like learning new sports and skills!

                                 By Will and Joost

   

Technology Challenge Elective

Darcy's Strength Goal- Making Fantails

Well done Darcy on your strength goal. The class loved making the fantails!

Wills Scrumptious Afghan Biscuit Recipe

 Ingredients

200g butter

½ cup sugar

¼ cup cocoa

1 ¼ cup flour

2 cups corn flakes

- Turn oven to 180`C

- Heat 200g of butter in the microwave or saucepan

- Take butter out and put into a mixing bowl

- Add ½ cup of sugar to butter and beat for 4 minutes

- Sieve ¼ cup of cocoa and 1 ¼ cup of flour into the mixing bowl

- Mix them well

- Add 2 cups of cornflake and stir

- Make balls with the mixture and place onto cooking tray

- Use a fork to slightly flatten the balls

- Bake afghans for 15 minutes                                

- Take them out of the oven and let them cool

Tip

Before putting the flakes in have a look and see if the mixture is crumbly. If it is then melt 50g of butter and add to the mixture.

EAT &  ENJOY!

MILK IN SCHOOLS

Hundreds of blue recycling bins are heading to the South Island to be delivered to schools joining the Fonterra Milk for Schools programme.

We  are lucky enough to get milk in schools. Milk is packed full of calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, potassium, vitamins and zinc. Calcium helps our bones grow strong! 

The waste is sent to Thailand and recycled into roof tiles. We have a special way of folding the used milk cartons, so it does not take up too much room in the bins. 

By Zi shen and Thomas 

THE AWESOME TWO WEEKS WITH OUR TWO COLLEGE TEACHERS !!!!!!

                              

For the second and third week we had two awesome collage teachers. Their names Were Miss Norman and Mr Newman. The First thing they taught us was Drama. Mr Newman was so funny. He taught us what he said when he missed his mum. It went like this: ring, ring, ring, ear-hair-low. He taught us how to do a freeze frame, wax works and body shapes. Mrs Norman was great fun too. She taught us how to make a collage out of ripped up magazine and glue. The main thing we were focusing on was blending the colours for effect and lucky for us we didn't have to rip up the magazine! 

The two weeks we were with them were absolutely awesome!!!!  

By Diamonds.         

ELECTIVES!

This term, we have started Electives. 

Electives is when parents and teachers volunteer to teach a small group of children activities that can’t normally be taught in schools. 

Here are the activities.

Art ‘n’ Crafts-Held, The Wardrobe-Held, Current events, Technology Challengers, Uke Group, Orchestral jam, Maths, Science cafe, Science World, NXT Mindstorms, and last but not least, Speaking Spanish!

On behalf of the GSNS pupils, we would like to thank the teachers and parents for taking the time to help with the Electives! We truly appreciate it!

By Cindy & Jordan 

Speech Competition

With speeches coming up we have been preparing by creating some persuasive

writing. Possible topics include, the good and bad points of having siblings and whether or not ipads should be part of school stationary. In week 6 the senior team is holding their speech contest. The  year 4s from our class are competing in the year 5 competition. Good luck everyone!

Lauren

Healthy Choices

This week Room 13 have been talking about making 'healthy choices'. The choices we make now effect our future. 

HEALTH TIPS

 1. An apple a day keeps the doctor away.                             
2. Eat the best leave the rest. 

3. Seven days with out exercise makes one weak. 

4. 30 mins of exercise a day. 

5. Drink more water! 

6. Wash your hands before you eat. 

7. Brush your teeth for 2 mins , twice a day.

8. You are what you eat. 

9. Take care of your body and it will take care of you. 

10. 5+A day-fruit and vegetables. 

                          

FACTS

1. Fruit and vegetables are very good for you.

2. Bread and pasta give you energy. 

3. Small amounts of fat, such as cheese are good for you. 

4. Chicken and fish keep your muscles strong. 

5. Vegetables help with digestion. 

6. Fruit is full of goodness

EATING ELEPHANTS !!!!!

You eat about 1 kg of food every day. During your life , you will eat about 30 tonnes of food . Thats the same weight as 6 elephant!

Zishen and Thomas

Term 1

Next week is the last week of Term 1. Everybody including Miss Pereira is looking forward  to a fun and relaxing holiday. 

We have had such an awesome term. Here’s some of  our favorite things that we have been doing in term 1... At the start of the term we made name tags on comic life which was really fun. Then we drew self portraits and they look great! Swimming was next and it was very cool how we got to learn how to swim in a pool that got deeper and deeper even though it didn’t look like it did. On Year 5 Outdoor Adventure Week we went ice skating, rock climbing, to Moana Pool and had a 4 hour walk at Ross Creek. Then next it was International Day on the 28th of March. We dressed up in our national clothes and had a parade in the hall.  We also began mathletics! We all love the activities and competing against our classmates. 

So as you can see we had an awesome term and can’t wait to find out what we’re going to do in term 2!!!

Ava and Lauren

International Day

Wow what a fun day! 

Today we celebrated International day. Most of the students from Room 13 got into the International Day spirit and dressed up for the day. There were some beautiful traditional costumes! 

Miss Pereira thinks it is important that we celebrate where we are from. She believes that our many cultures make our class pretty special! 

Do you know that we can sing happy birthday in 8 different languages!!   

Easter Challenge

Homework this week involved completing two Easter challenges. It is great to see so many fantastic Easter stories and creations turning up at school!
Today we were very lucky to have Zed and his father Brent demonstrate their Easter creation.
The children were amazed at the skill and creativity that had been used to complete this Easter egg delivery system.

Mathletics

Mathletics is now up and running in Room 13!

Mathletics is an online resource for developing knowledge and understanding in Maths. It is an interactive and ICT based option to help students enjoy Maths and improve their skill set.

To gain the greatest understanding of how Mathletics can benefit your child, we encourage you to spend some time looking at Mathletics with them.

Your child has 24hour access to Mathletics. By using their unique username and password your child can access the Mathletics website www.mathletics.co.nz .

Disco

Friday the 8th of March there is a international themed disco. Juniors (years 1-3) are from 6:00 to 7:00pm. Seniors (year 4-6) are from 7:15-8:15. Drinks, food and cool glow toys will be for sale. There is tea, coffee and cake for the parents in the staff room. 

How much? Entrance fee $3:00.

Where? School hall George Street Normal School.

Max and Joost

YEAR 5 OUTDOOR ADVENTURE WEEK!!

During Week 4 year 5 Students Went On Outdoor Adventure week. They did swimming,rock climbing,Ice skating and Team building. lots of fun stuff happened that week. mrs spencer and mrs gardner ran this amazing program we would not have had such an amazing week without them!!

BY Isla AND Darcy!

THE SPIRIT TAKING CEMETERY 

Last week we took a fearsome trip to the CEMETERY!

after a talk about the lonely cemetery we were sent to

discover the deaths of certain people.

despite the eerie atmosphere, we were not at all scared.

the cemetery was insanely fun!!!!!

every group had to find out about different people’s life/death.

they also had to find a huge statue of a maori head.

Cindy and Jordan E-T

Moana Pool!

Last week we had super fun ADVENTURE WEEK  and one of the activities were swimming at Moana pool. All the Year Fives loved it. We did snorkeling, kayaking, diving, flippaball and life saving.

Zi shen and Flynn

CLIMBING

Last week all the year fives

went to logan park high school

to have a spectacular time

at rock climbing.

Ollie our rock climbing instructor

chose some rock climbing experts to try and complete the two boulder challenges.

Sheon and Thomas

Road Safety

Road Safety

Constable Somerfeild has been coming to teach us all about road safety. This includes making sure your helmet is on properly, checking your bicycle is safe, and the road rules. He also came to help at Year 5 outdoor adventure week at cycle safety in dinosaur park. Some of us learnt how to ride a bike for the first time. A huge thank you to Constable Somerfield.

Ava and Lauren 

Strength Portraits

We have been creating strength portraits .

Koru is the main focus for the senior team, so we decided to make koru designed strength portraits.

We learnt about proportions, face expressions and shading.

Everyone worked very hard to complete their work. 

By Maia and Molly-Jo