Walk and Wheel Week

Just a reminder that it is Walk and Wheel Week next week. Our aim is to have as many students as possible walking/scootering/biking to school over the week. If you live further away from school you can bring your bike or scooter to school and leave it here for the week. There will be spot prizes too. We are looking forward to having a fun active week!

Swimming Term 1

Room 1 & 2 have really enjoyed swimming this week. It is great to see everyone trying their best and improving their swimming skills.Mrs Jackson has noticed some great improvements so far this week so keep up the great work!

Many thanks to all the wonderful parent helpers who have come along to help out.

Community Golf Clinic

Last Friday Seth, Nathan, Harry and Poppy from Room 2 attended a community golf clinic run by the Otago Polytechnic and IGolf at Chisholm Golf Club in Dunedin. Two professional golf instructors (including one of Lydia Ko’s coaches!) gave the students a few tips. 

They practiced their golf swings and their putting skills. They learned about the different clubs and how to hit underneath the ball so it flew higher into the air. They learnt how to use ‘distance’ and ‘direction’ when putting. The afternoon was made even more interesting with the presence of a camera crew who was filming the session for Sky Sport! We are hoping to find out soon when the students will be TV so we can all watch their moment of fame!

It was a really fun afternoon. Mrs Jackson was very impressed with all four students. They were great ambassadors for Waihola District School.  Here are some of the students’ highlights:

•    Nathan – hitting the balls really far and breaking the tees! 
•    Poppy – trying to hit the targets 
•    Harry – trying to hit the targets 
•    Seth – hitting really far     

Seth under pressure from the camera man!

Poppy giving it her best shot

Harry aiming for the target

Nathan practicing with the tennis balls

Guy showing us how to swing properly - head down, feet still

Listening to coach Guy - distance & direction is the key

Seth showing great concentration

Poppy showing them how its done!

Harry aiming for a hole in one

Nathan practicing his putting skills

 Our new golf 'pros' with their cars of the future! 

Waihola's Bird Adventure

Waihola's Bird Adventure

We are learning about birds and this is a bird that Nathan and Wiremu found. The bird hit Room 2's window.

On our bird adventure we were looking for nests, eggs and birds.

Mrs Bell told us not to move the eggs and not to touch the nests that were being built by the birds.

Seth found a moth.

There are many types of nests, like ones that are made out of mud, sticks, straw, feathers, sheep wool and string.

Tagxedo!!

In ICT this week we will be learning how to make and import Tagxedo. These are 'word clouds' that we can create with our own words using different shapes and colours. We will be creating Tagxedo's using words that describe us - our family and pets and our favourite things. You will also need to include the schools R.I.C.H values and some key words from our class treaty.

Here is one I prepared earlier! See if you can spot your name!

Room 2 ICT

This year we are learning to use different Web2tools. These include Storybird, Tagxedo and cool text generators etc. We are going to become internet experts!
We are also going to be learning about cyber safety so we can be clever internet users.

We are reading some of Roald Dahls books for a Roald Dahl reading challenge.We are hoping to read ten of his books for a surprise fun day. By Wiremu and Harry.

Welcome to Room 2 2014

Welcome! We are Room 2 Rockstars! This week we have been learning about each other. We had a challenge yesterday using spaghetti and play dough. In pairs we had to build the tallest tower. Wiremu, Sean and Ethan won the challenge. It was fun but really hard! 

We are looking forward to going on lots of trips this year. We are looking forward to our Roald Dahl reading challenge. We are hoping to have lots of school adventures and sporting fun! 

Shakira, Tom, Ryan, Harry, Seth, Wiremu, Nathan, Poppy, Mrs Jackson and Ms Whitaker