End of year craft (making soft toy owls)

This term one of  our main focuses of learning was to create your own soft toy owl.
We started by learning to practice our running stitch.
After a little bit of practice we learnt the whip stitch.
Then we chose our material and stared stitching on the wings, eyes, becks. tails, tummy's and feet.

After that we stitched together our front and back, We running stitched the top and sides and we whip stitched the bottom.

Before that we stuffed our owls.

I really enjoyed making my owl, it was challenging but fun.

What I disliked was pricking my finger OW!!!!!

All together it was so cool

Here is my finishing result.

Paired Writing

This Term in room 12 we have been doing paired writing. We have two types of people the tutor and  the buddy. I was a tutor and My Buddy was Caleb. I had to help Caleb. 3 things I have learned are to think about the things you are writing and what your buddy is writing. To think deeper about what my buddy is writing and to fix my own mistakes. 2  comments on my buddy are to write down your words you don't know how to spell on the try page before you write on the paper. Also try put more detail in your writing. 1 thing that challenged me was making sure what I told Caleb was correct.

Juggling

In room 12 we have been learning to juggle, It is really complicated.
 First we had to practice throwing one ball in a figure eight and just dropping it.
Next we tried two balls and let them drop but trying to land them close to where our hands would have been.
We are still working on juggling two balls!
Juggling
( click on the link up the above to view our animoto)

High Jump

It is nearly athletics time at Vardon school, and room12 is practicing high jump.
We started by jumping over elastic and then we started on the poles.
You have to scissor jump your legs high over the bar and try not to knock the bar off.
Our next event is running.

I'm not very fast but I will try hard

Production Photopeach

On Wednesday 12 and Thursday 13 of September, Vardon school had their school production based on the environment. This happens every 3 years. We had different classes working together. My classroom was doing 'Air' with rooms 11 and 6. I had a link part as Mary Poppins . There were other groups 'Sun', 'Forest', 'Garden' and 'Sea'.

X-Country Photopeach

Emily's X- Country on PhotoPeach
On Friday the 24th of August the Seniors went to cross country. I raced with the 9 year old girls. I ran hard around the 1.5 kilometre track. It was hard and tiring and I acheived my goal. This goal was to not stop RUNNING I am proud of myself.

School Production

The school production is happening and I'm a link part!! Guess who I am- I can fly and I have medicine.

The answer is MARY POPPINS.
I tried out for a part in the production and  I got in as  Mary Poppins. I have an umbrella and a bag with medicine in it.
3 things I enjoyed were  the make up, high heels and the air dance !!!
2 emotions I felt were nervous because I might forget the my lines and excited because the hall was SOLD OUT.
1 thing I found challenging was making space for people to get on and off the stage.

 I LOVED THE PRODUCTION.

Studant Lead Conference

 On Tuesday I had a Student Led Conference with my family. We have these so we can show our family's our goals we have achieved and our learning. My Parents my brother Thomas came. I felt excited and proud of the things I have achieved and worked on. Some of the things I shared were my cross multiplication, my Anne Frank activities and my ,No ordinary ice-cream, story. 2 things I'm proud of are I achieved all most all of my goals and my animal report. 1 thing would like to improve on is mastering ALL multiplication and related division facts facts up 12.

Thai,Maori numbers

In the term 2 holidays Mrs Parkinson went on a trip to Thailand and she learned lots off things and in maths she taught us Thai numbers. We now know that Thai numbers are similar to Maori numbers because they use the same format e.g in Maori, fourteen is tekau ma wha because tekau is ten and 4 is wha and in Thai, fourteen is sip see because sip is ten and see is four. We like Hearing about Mrs Parkinson's adventure and if you would like to here about it come into room12 and we will show you the pictures on the board.

Speeches

In room12 on Wednesday the 6th of June we did speeches on a discovery topic. They were all AWESOME!!!!!
 speeches.
The three things I think I did well were the clarity of my voice, the vocal expression and Interesting content.The things I need to improve on my Eye contact and use of the stage. One thing I learned from Melissa speech on the discovery of new life forms was to be careful with top secret information.
GUESS WHAT I got into the speech semi- Finals. I am very proud of myself .

Term 3 Reflection

This term  I am looking forward to the school production because I am going to audition and I love the thought of acting and performing. Also I am looking forward to reading and studying the Olympics! Two things I want to improve on are my listening skills and my maths (especially my times tables). I would like to have a lead roll in the school production.

Plurals

In room12 we have practiced plurals.  Plurals are nouns that are more than one.  Example kilo and kilos which adds an s but dress and dresses adds an es. The  rule for this noun (dress) is because it ends with ss you add es.Another example is if you have the word  story you have to take away the y and add ies to the noun .  Plurals have a lot of endings that can be added onto a word which makes the word a plural. Plurals can be confusing if you haven't learned them yet.

Room12 Awesome Remembrance Assembly

 

Room12 awesome remembrance Assembly was on the 25th of May. I was a tour guide and mad scientist with Melissa. We wore awesome costumes with lab coats, black skirts, a white top and funny glasses. My favourite part was the memorial service and the training in Egypt skits. I liked the memorial service because I liked  listening to the last post. The training was awesome because of the bossy Sargent's. I think everyone did an awesome job and participated well.

Morse Code

The Morse code was a special use of language used in World War II for spies spying on the enemy to contact their own army without the enemy overhearing and foiling their war plans. It is made out of dots and dashes. If the enemies caught them they would probably get killed instantly or face execution days later. We hardly ever use the Morse code any more. Did you know that the titanic captain sent out a Morse code signal saying  SOS ---...---.  the message got to the control center but help didn't get there fast enough. I also liked making wreaths from paper plates and cut out poppies. We then had to write a snippet about why we made the wreaths.   I also liked the feeding the troops activity.  I learned that hard tack {hard biscuits}can be grated and turned into porridge.

By Emily
                                                                                                                                          

Gym sports

On Monday the 2nd of April we got the privilege of doing gym sports. There were lots of activities to do they were the spring board ,bunny hops, walking up the wall, forward rolls, back stand, and lots more. I started with walking up the wall. It was quite exciting because before I started because I tried it at home and I couldn't . What I found challenging was scorpion kicks because I wanted to put both legs up and do a handstand. It was a fun day. This a picture of the class doing rear support. See if you can spot me in the picture I am wearing green.

Poster on Roman Nurmals

Over the last couple of days the porohita group have been making posters on Roman Nurmals or Maori or normal time. We had to buddy up with a partner and I chose Brooke and Brooke chose me. We decide to do Roman Nurmals. We did a draft in Brooke's maths book. Then we wrote facts about the Roman Nurmals we learnt. We then did a fancy title, a nice border and a quiz. Then we moved onto a our good copy it was on A3 paper . Then we complied our good copy and it looks awesome. Then we shared our posters to the others in the porohita group. This was cool.

Swimming sports

As we squished into the bus on the way to the pools I told Melissa how nervous I was about swimming. I am now here to tell you about my experience of senior swimming sports. I stepped of the bus and walked to the park outside of the town pools with my class and ate lunch.Yum yum. We then walked into the pools and I got changed into my togs and sat with Rutherford. We got told the rules,sang our chants and then it was time for my first race the medley. I got into the pool as Jo said 'on your marks get set'then whistle blew I swam as hard as I could go and came 3rd. In my other races I came 2nd in breastroke 3rd in freestyle and 4th in backstroke. Now its time for the relay. I swam fast and hard and our team won so we had to play of against room14 and the parents and we won. GO ROOM12

Cold and hot art

We are learning about cold and hot art. Hot colours are bright and make you feel warm and fuzzy inside. For example one hot colour is yellow it makes me feel like I'm walking on hot sand. Here are some hot colours. Pink,red,orange and brown. Then there's cold colours. The dark colours can be made into an effective piece of art. Cold colours make be feel like its winter. Purple makes me feel like I'm stuck in a icy crystal cave. Purple green and blue are cold colours. Some art we did in hot and cold colours was desk mats and bubble art here is a photo .
I chose purple for the border green for my name and pink for the inside.

Hello again

I have come back to start a grand new year in room 12. This year I want to focus on my writing and making it neater. I will focus on being responsible and showing other kids how to be role models