End of 2011

Well another year has come to an end and what fun we have had in Room 12. I will miss each and every one of you. Good luck for the rest of your school days at St Francis Xavier Catholic School. Merry Christmas and God Bless to you and your families.

The Minstrel's show at SFX

The Minstrel

The Minstrel

Imagine - ans outdoor concert with The Minstrel. We had so much fun singing and dancing on Thursday.

Wacky Hair Day

IMAGINE coming to school with any hair style that you want.
What do you think of our hairstyles?

IMAGINE

Our concept for the term is............. I M A G I N E .
Try this fun site at home
http://www.drawastickman.com/

We had fun at school today!

Cricket

Imagine coming to school and playing cricket. Well that is what Room 12 did today. There were 5 cricket coaches and we learnt how to bowl correctly and then played a game of speed cricket. It was so much fun.

Heritage Park

Visiting the museum, the Kiwi House, the Clarke Homestead, the chapel and the ladies jail was something we all thoroughly enjoyed. We found out about all the treasures that are stored there: old things, dead things as well as living treasures!

Make your own digital scrapbook

Art

A few busy children concentrating on their artwork. They are drawing Pounamu necklaces.

Art

Dominoes

Look what we made when we were playing with the dominoes!

Michael's Treasure

We had another visitor to Room 12 showing a treasure that has been around for a few generations. Click on the picture to make it bigger and read all about Michael's dad's painting.

World Cup Rugby

What an amazing day was had today as our school held it's own World Cup Rugby event.
Children were put into teams and dressed up in their teams colours. And guess who won............Ireland!
Although we had a fun day and cheered Ireland as the winner, we REALLY want the All Blacks to win the real Webb Ellis trophy!

World Cup Rugby

Tangaroa's Gift

We read the book Tangaroa's Gift and were inspired by the colours of the paua shell. We used pastels to draw these Paua shells.

Paua shell art

Max's treasure.

Another treasure was shared in Room 12. Max has a small handmade book. Click on the page to enlarge the image.

Ruggerland

This is a maths site set up for the World Cup. It involves answering maths questions to get the treasure. You have to go to locations around New Zealand and answer 3 levels of maths problems to get all the treasure you need. We have registered in class.

Ruggerland

http://www.ruggerland.co.nz/maths/

AFL (Aussie Rules)

We are loving Thursdays learning all about Aussie Rules. We were practising how to drop kick the ball towards a buddy.

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Lucy's treasures from her Great Grandad

Aria's Treasure.

Family Treasures

A Family Treasure.

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Family Treasures

Treasures in the Church

Catholic Churches contain many objects that play an important part in our worship or help increase our worship.
Can you find these treasures in the slide show?

Altar, Lecturn, Chalice, Paten, Tabernacle, Stations of the Cross, Statue of Mary, Statue of St Francis Xavier, Holy water Font, Baptisimal Font, Monstrance, Organ and Paschal candle.

Taonga / Our Treasures

Taonga / Our Treasures

Our school wide topic is Taonga / Our Treasures. If your family has something that is special to you, and you are able to share it with the children of Room 12, please contact the teacher to make a time to share it. We would love to hear what treasures your family has.

Planning and making pencil holders.

Designing and planning. on PhotoPeach

Pencil Holders.

We worked with Anna from Eco-Solutions, revisiting the 3 R's - recycle, reuse, reduce.
We made pencil holders out of a tin can and recycled materials. Anne thought we were very creative!
Here are the end products...............What do you think?

Angels

Angels are God's unseen servants. We all have angels in our lives and we painted some angels for Room 12. We only used the three primary colours and white. The we added a bit of gold or silver for detail. What do you think of our angels?

Angels on PhotoPeach

The Lorax By Dr.Seuss

Today we watched the Lorax and talked about one rule we could make to take care of the Earth. In RE we also spoke about what we could do to look after God's creation.

Science Rotations

CHANGE! As part of our Change concept the Year 3's and 4's explored and observed various changes when making popcorn, butter, sherbet and lava lamps.
Lava Lamps on PhotoPeach

Making butter

How can cream change to butter? We tried this in Room 11 with our science rotations.
Making butter on PhotoPeach

Making Popcorn

Inside a kernel of corn is starch. The water in the starch turns to steam when it is headed and it explodes causing the corn to POP!

Popcorn on PhotoPeach

Science Rotations

Making jelly on PhotoPeach

Hockey Skills

Some more butterfly stories.

Butterflies on PhotoPeach

Life Cycle of a butterfly.

We have been observing the changes in the life cycle of Monarch butterflies that are in the garden at school. We used the Comic Life programme to write about the changes. Here are the first 16 from Room 12