North Island Cycling Champs

Six Room 6 children attended the North Island Intermediate Road cycling Champs last Friday at the Taupo Race Circuit.

Competing against Year 7's, Harry finished 6th in the Boys event and Molly finished 16th in the Girls competition.

Congratulations on a job well done!

 

Strike Percussion

Last Wednesday the school had the 'Strike Percussion' experience.  First a a display of their talents, followed by a hour long music lesson.

Speech 2015

Speech topic this year is

"How a person's technological idea has changed society."

Discuss the topic with your child and assist them to make a wise choice in topic.  Year 5 expectation is 3 minutes and Year 6 is 4 minutes.

The final is in Week 9 - dates and times to be confirmed.

Week 6

Week 5 in review. . .
Well done Room 6 children (and parents) for your efforts in tackling the "Taradale Terror" adventure race on Friday evening.  It looked like a lot of fun.

Thanks to Andrea and Paula for their help with the sausage sizzle at School on Sunday.

This week:

• Mid Term assembly this week takes place on Wednesday along with 'Strike Percussion' workshops.
• North Island Cycling Champs take place in Taupo on Friday  and 6 children from the class will be competing.
• The Book Fair is set up at school  - children will have the opportunity to check out the latest in children's books.
• The Literary Challenge has been postponed due to the Principals Conference.
• Selected children will be sharing their origami skills with Room 3 children on Monday afternoon.

In maths we will be working on multiplication and division skills. Remember to check out e-ako and the 'basic facts pathway' to help with your understanding.

In language we will be investigating 'root' words and looking at Latin and Greek derivatives as well as continuing with procedural writing. We will also be using www.mindmup.com to share our understanding of new vocabulary.

Room 6's Artwork

The "Grow, Harvest, Prepare, Share" art is now on display in the hall.

From HB Orienteering

We'd like to thank you all for organising your kids to run in HB Schools Relay event yesterday. 

Please can you pass on this thanks to the kids and parents who came along and made it a successful finale to our 2015 HB Schools Orienteering events. The results are on the HBOC website and we will finalise school points and the certificates for the winners over the next few weeks and get these sent to your schools. If anyone missed out on their ribbons for the podium for any of the events please let us know and we'll get these sent out with the certificates.

Please share the HBOC facebook page where there are numerous photos of the relay, at www.facebook.com/hborienteering

and there is a google photos link: Hikanui Map:  315 photos in this album

We'd love to hear your feedback about the events - please send to  schools@hborienteering.com 

HBOC runs more events through the remaining year and so if your kids are keen we would love to see them at the events, events calendar is on the HBOC website, with a sprint scheduled for next Sunday 23 August at Napier Central. 

Thanks

Karen and Cryn

Week 5

Congratulations to the Year 6 Girl's Orienteering team for winning the relay event on Sunday.

Renee, Molly and Pearl - Great job girls!

Week 5 - another busy one

Sunday 23rd

 I need a couple of volunteers to help with the sausage sizzle for the last duathlon of the season (approx 10.00am - 12.30pm)

Monday

Mrs Cannon will be teaching in Room 6 on Monday - I have asked her to share her artistic teaching skills with the class.

Tuesday

Open Evening at HNI - 6.30pm

Wednesday 

Tech visit to HNI for those attending next year.

Thursday

Orchestra play in for 8 children from Room 6.

Friday

Taradale Terror at 4.30pm.

In language, we will be writing procedures - this week the focus will be on a Treasure Hunt.  Our spelling this week is based on vocabulary from the book (Hatchet) being read in class.

In maths, we will finish off algebra and revisit multiplication and division strategies.  Have a look at the e-ako website and click on the basic facts pathway!

Room 5 Visit

While some of Room 5 and 6 were at choir and soccer, the rest had a technology challenge!

TARADALE TERROR

Taradale High School has organised and adventure race for primary aged children.  This takes place on 21st August from 4.30pm-6.30pm.

Entries need to be back at school along with payment by this Friday 14th.



I will collate entries but the children/parents need to confirm teams.

Week 4 & Camp Info

Welcome to Week 4.

• CAMP FUNDRAISER - Sausage Sizzle at school on Friday - parent helpers needed!

• Maths Week - http://www.mathsweek.org.nz/

• Sentence of the week: - Kua oho mai koe = You're awake.

This is a busy week with the "Kids Sing" festival and associated practices on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.  This involves 18 of the children from Room 6.

On Wednesday afternoon 23/27 Room 6 students are involved in inter-school soccer. Make sure that the notices are returned.

Great attitudes!  Great participation!

We will be continuing to learn about patterns and relationships (algebra) for maths and reading and writing procedures in Language.

CAMP - new legislation means that all parents attending camp will need to have a police check prior to acceptance for camp duty. Forms are available from the office.

Next Wednesday (19th) there is a HNI Tech visit for those Year 6 students intending to go to Havelock North Intermediate.

Haiku Poem and Number Cruncher

Work out the rule of this number cruncher to win a prize!

and check out Imogen's haiku poem below.

and remember click below to give e-ako a go.
e-ako

Haiku by Imogen

Pearl update - good news!

Hi all

Pearl had an accident in the playground today and was taken to hospital in the ambulance.  The good news is that she has been discharged and is now at home!

Week 3

Welcome to Week 3

This week we are learning to write Haiku poems in Language and learning about algebra - patterns and relationships in maths.

Look out for choir notices for 'kid sing' next week and a soccer notice for inter-school soccer - also in week 4.

The children are using the 'e-ako' website to assist their learning in algebra.  Ask them to demonstrate this website at home.

e-ako