HOKEY POKEY

Miss Fleming has been studying volcanoes with room 12. Today they made hokey pokey to show how pumice is formed in a volcano and she sent the recipe home  - you might need to check their bags! :)

Athletics

Here is a photo of Room 12 at the athletics at end of Term 3. It was a wonderful day with everyone trying their best. Thank you to Miss Fleming for helping on the day.

Rhythm Interactive

We were very lucky to have a wonderful performance this afternoon that the children got to participate in - it was a lot of FUN!

Introducing Miss Fleming

Welcome to Miss Fleming who has been observing in Room 12 and will be teaching the class from Monday 15th September. She will teach for the last 2 weeks of this term and the first week of term 4.

Sensational singing Samuel!

Samuel had an amazing weekend, he won 4 singing trophies! We were lucky enough to have him sing one of his songs to us this morning - 'The Cat came back.' Well done Samuel!

ART GALLERY TRIP

On Friday we had a lovely trip to the Dunedin Art Gallery. The photos below show the class in front of an inflatable rabbit and the other 2 show their art work in progress.

FANCY FRIDAY!

Thank you so much for the generous donations for Fancy Friday Room 12. Here are some photos of us all dressed up! Artistic photographer is Krisha.

Speech Competition

Well done to Evelyn, Jake, Samuel and Sophie who were chosen to go to the team speech competition from room 12. Sophie then went through to the school wide competition and managed to get 3rd which was a brilliant result considering she was ill. You should all be proud of yourselves for doing so well!

Cross Country

We had 2 representatives in the North Zone Cross Country. Jake and Logan both did incredibly well. Jake came 2nd in the Year 3, 4 & 5 race! He will be going to the Otago Cross Country in week 7. We are so proud of both boys efforts - WELL DONE!

SPORT SKILLS & DRILLS

What an energetic morning we had at Edgar Centre on Friday with the Sports Institute coaches. We participated in a range of sports and had a lot of fun along the way.

CROSS COUNTRY

WOW! What a wonderful day we had for the cross country and everyone tried their hardest. We had a winner in room 12 - Well done to Jake Owen who won the Year 4 boys race!
We had others that placed well too for example Logan came 4th and Sophie came 6th in their races.

PYJAMA DAY

What a wonderful day we had on Friday in our PJs and onesies. Thank you to Jake Owen who took the photos because the children wanted me in the photo. Check out the range of sleepwear worn by the students in room 12 and the silly faces we can pull.

BRAINY BUNCH

R12 children are the brainy bunch and we were lucky to learn more about how our brains work. In the last week of term 2 we had the Life Education bus (Richard and Harold the Giraffe) teaching us about the brain in an interactive and fun way.

We also had the inflatable brain (see photos) in the hall and we got to hold a real brain if we wanted to!

On Friday we had Judy (Sinead's Mum) come and talk to us about the brain, she brought a client along who had a stroke years ago and had to retrain his brain. The children enjoyed asking him questions.

BROWNIE RECIPE

Keziah's brownies were very popular so here is the recipe:

200g chocolate (dark or milk)
100g butter (melted)
250g sugar
60g cocoa powder
60g flour (can use gluten free flour)
4 eggs

Melt chocolate over a double boiler.
Add in all other ingredients to the chocolate when melted.
Beat until well mixed.
Pour into baking tray.
Cook for 20mins on 180 degrees celcius.
(Will still be a bit soft in the middle)

MISS HANSEN

We are lucky to have Miss (Tess) Hansen teaching in our class at the moment.

MUSEUM VISIT

I hope the children have told you all about the trip to the museum today. We learnt a lot and had fun.
The photos show some of the different bird parts they examined.

EXCITING TIMES!

We have been so lucky to have had the Highlanders at school for the Fonterra day. Amani was our quickest milk container folder and we thought he would win - he was close!

EASTER

Room 12 enjoyed making Easter baskets and biscuits in the last week of term 1. They may have eaten them before they made it home. I hope you had a lovely holiday and are ready for term 2.

International Day

It was International Day on Friday 11th April and these are the children in Room 12 who wore something from their culture.

Keeping Ourselves Safe

We finished Keeping Ourselves Safe today, below is a picture of the class with Officer John Sommerfield. Thank you for all the discussions, help and homework you have been doing at home for this topic. :)

Keeping Ourselves Safe

Here are some photos from Keeping Ourselves Safe. We discussed different feelings and how you can show them with your face and body. Can you work out which photo shows the following feelings? Scared, happy, embarrassed, proud, excited, angry and confused.

We were a very lucky class on St Patricks Day. Samuel started the day by doing the Irish jig, he was fantastic!

Fantastic week Feb 24th-28th

Year 5 had an excellent Outdoor Adventure Week and the Year 4 group had an Uber-Awesome week!

There were so many fun things happening for the Year 5 group - Moana Pool, Ice-skating, Rock Climbing, Orienteering, Cemetery and Ross Creek.

The Year 4 group learnt about different countries, made mosaics from Spain and baked Italian Cookies and ended the week with an "Amazing Race"

WELCOME to 2014

Welcome to room 12's blog for 2014. We will be sharing photos and information throughout the year. Remember to come and look at our blog and it would be great if you could leave a comment for us to read. Thanks.