Jessica at the Santa Parade

Jessica was involved in the santa parade in the Dunedin last week.  Can you see her on the float?

Our Last Outram Sprint Fast Facts- 5 December

Congratulations to the following children who broke their record in the basic facts test.

Emily, Mika, Jade, Jessie, Jacob, Angel, Will, Trey, Hugh and Jason.

A big Congratulations to Jason who got 60/60 and has made it into the Outram Sprint Club.

Outram Sprint Fast Facts- 28th Nov

Wow, record breakers this week are:
Tyler, Brianna, Lilly, Evie, Mika, Jessie, Jacob, Trey, Jade, Will and Leah.

Gold for Trey - Mathletics

Congratulations, Trey has achieved his Gold Certificate in Mathletics. You are a clever cookie.
There is only 8 weeks left of mathletics. See how many of you can get your gold certificate.

Zachary's Fossil Find

Zachary found a huge rock full of fossils at home. Great one Zachary!

Sound of the Week Girls - u_e

Brianna brought along a cute dog.
Katrina brought a rude doll and a cute cat.
Madi found the word 'flute' in a book.
Well Done Girls!

Artefacts

More artefacts found at home by children in Room 7

Sound of the Week Ladies -ue

Thankyou to Jessica who brought some Blue along for the sound table and to Caitlin who found another word - queue.

Santa comes to Room 7 with prizes

Wow, Tyler won all these prizes on his pony. He even won a prize dressed as santa. Kai pai Tyler

First Prize for Katrina at Horse show

On Saturday we went to a horse ring club. I had two events. One event Smokey was being silly. But I got first place in trail!!! The show was awesome. I had a fun time seeing my friends especially Tyler. By Katrina

Sound of the Week -ew

Thankyou to these clever kids who brought objects for the sound of the week table - Trey - screw, Brianna new calculator and new toy, Mika - a list of lots of ew words.

First Place Getters from the Athletics Sports

Congratulations to all the 1st place getters who were presented their athletics certificates at assembly last week.

Outram Sprint Fast Facts- 14th Nov

Congratulations to Kayleigh who has persevered to achieve 60/60 in the Outram Sprint.  She has now  joined the Outram Sprint Club.  Kai pai Kayleigh!  Brianna and Katrina celebrate Kayleigh's sucess.  What great friends!

Jonas Brothers leave a comment on our blog!

The Jonas Brothers are a popular, young rock band in the UK. You may recognise some of the songs they sing including the one below - 'Kids of the Future'

Kayleigh's Precious Stones

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Kayleigh brought along some precious stones for our theme topic 'What lies beneath us?'

Stories from the Athletics Sports

Wow! what a great day. Yesterday the first stop was the 6 year old girls. They went to the balls. It is where you put the ball in your guts and you do 3 jumps. It was hard but I did it. Thankgoodness it isn't the running race because Jessica always wins! I can't run a running race. Oh no! the 6 year old girls have to go to the running race. I can't do it. I definitely can't! Then the lady said "On your marks, get set go!" I ran as fast as I could. I crossed the finish line. My mum was proud of me. I was proud of myself. There are still more activities to go.
By Lilly

"Ready, set go!" said Mrs Bellamy. I thought Mika would sped up. We had to go around a big field two times. I was getting puffed. I past the finish line. I came first. It felt like I was an Olympic person getting a gold medal for Outram School.
By Jessica

Wow! the sports were amazing. I got in the finals. I was so proud with Katrina. I ran so fast that I almost fell over. We all tried to be first. I did not get first. I was feeling like a road runner. We did a long distance run. I got 6th in the long distance run. It was a good day for athletics. There were lots of people there.
By Angel

I was excited when it was athletics day because I was going to get second and I did. Mum and Grandma came to watch me. My favourite activity was the beach flags because I came second. I got in the finals. I was proud of myself so was mum and Grandma. They thought that I did well. At the end we did races and I got in the finals then we did it again and I didn't get anywhere.
By Emily

On Monday it was a fantastic day. I was flying through the poles. Mum was cheering for me. We moved to the beach flags. I had to lie backwards, it was hard. Sam and I snatched for the stick. We had to have another race. "I got it. I got it" I said. I was so proud of me. It felt like worms sweating down my face. I got two points. I pushed a ball over the cones. My second throw I got one point. I thought I was going to do a big, huge throw but I didn't do a good throw at all. It was a small throw. "Ready, set go!" we slowly walked the 400 metre race. It was just not walking it was probably running. So since we ran it all we were puffed and exhausted. "Ready, set go" we are doing the 400 metres now. I am coming 1st. I looked back I have got motor crossing bikes in my legs. I got four points. I got into my line. I am doing the 40 metre race. I heard the whack. I zoomed off. I still had those zoomy motor crossing bikes in my legs. It was a tie. I had to do it again. I came 1st place. I was buzzing! I went driving home. It was a fun and cool athletics.
By Trey

At athletics day I thought it was very hot and that I needed a bigger water bottle. I loved the race at the end because I got to see how good I was. In the race I thought that I would get something different but all I got was one point. I thought that I might get a different number but I guess that's that. Then, when I did my long distance race, for my warm up I walked. Before my long distance race I felt like there were jumping jelly beans in my tummy. When the starting lady said "On your marks, get set, go!" I raced ahead of my self like a volcano was going to erupt. I got one point but I was still proud of myself.
By Elizabeth

Athletics Results in Room 7

Room 7 Athletics Champion in Room 7
Congratulations Katrina
1st agility poles
1st beach flags
1st sprint 40m
2nd vortex throw
3rd 3 leaps
3rd long distance


Trey
1st long distance
1st agility poles
1st sprint 40m
2nd vortex throw
3rd beach flags

Jessica
1st 3 leaps
1st long distance
3rd sprint 40m

Jacob
1st vortex throw
1st push throw
3rd 3 leaps

Mika
2nd 3 leaps
2nd long distance
2nd sprint 40m
3rd push throw

Madi
1st sprint 40m
2nd beach flags

Emily
2nd beach flags

Kayleigh
3rd agility poles
3rd beach flags

Leah
3rd beach flags

Will
3rd vortex throw

Zak
3rd vortex throw

Well Done to everyone who participated in the athletics. You made Mrs Bellamy proud!

Athletics Day -Finally a fantastic day!

Outram school once again took away the honours winning nearly every race. Here are some photos of top kids competing in the long distance race - 400 metres. A clean sweep for Room 7 in the 6 year old girls race.

400 metres long distance:
6 Year old girls
1st Jessica
2nd Mika
3rd Katrina

6 Year old Boys
Trey

Rocks Galore!

Jacob brought along some of his Grandad's amazing coloured rocks to share with the class. These were once found underground. Jacob has enjoyed learning and studying rocks with the help from Mrs Stedman and Mr Beaton in the library.
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Sound of the Week -OO

Amy from room 8 brought to phonics a tooth and a boot for the Sound of the Week table -00. Well Done Amy! You have earned a values ticket.

Outram Sprint - Fast Facts 7 November

What a great week we had in the Outram Sprint 60/60. Eleven clever kids broke their record and ten children scored 50 or above. A BIG congratulations to Jade and Hugh who scored 60/60 in the Year 3 test and are now ready to move onto the Year 4 test with division sums (big & scary). Congratulations to the following clever kids who broke their record this week:
Zak, Jessica, Mika, Madi, Jade, Hugh, Tyler, Evie, Emily, Elizabeth, and Leah.

Let's learn about the silent e

A Wordle from our Museum Trip

We wrote about our trip to the museum and then made a wordle. A wordle is a visual representation of the things that stood out for us on the trip. The bigger the word the more times that word was written in our stories. You can visit wordle.net and make your own wordles.

Sound of the Week Man - Trey

Trey has been busy looking in books at home and finding lots of words that have 'e', 'ea' and 'oo' sound. He found 73 words. Kai Pai Trey!

Outram Sprint - Fast Facts

Star Students
Congratulations to Tyler, Jason, Hugh, Leah, Elizabeth, Zak and Brianna who broke their record last week. Well Done!

What lies beneath? - Kayleigh

My Dad has these old fossils which are very precious. They are fossils of ammonites and old snails. The class was very interested in seeing them. We saw some on the museum trip too. I also made a volcano at home. Can you see the lava running down the mountain? By Kayleigh

What lies beneath? - Zachary

Grandad found this huge nail. It went through his tractor tyre. He was not happy. I wonder where it came from? We also found this big horseshoe. They must have used big horses in the old days to pull the plough. By Zachary

What lies beneath? - Angel

I found an old rusty knife under the ground and a funny looking rock. By Angel

What lies beneath? - Madi

I found a strange rock under the ground. I wonder what kind of rock it might be? I will have to ask an expert like Mr Beaton or Mrs Stedman in the library.
By Madi

Our Trip to the Museum

Story by Leah
Wow! we went to the museum. It was really fun! We went into a room but we had to put on some gloves. We saw with our surprising eyes some eggs. It wasn't just eggs it was birds eggs. After that we went to a room and there was a big box of sand. Briannasaurus left her foot print and the lady talked about poos and how they turned into stone. We went into another room. We had a board, a piece of paper and a pencil. We saw a really, really, really, big ammonite. It was humongous. I haven't seen an ammonite for a long time.

Story by Jade
Room 7 and Room 8 went on a trip to the museum. We went on an Indiana Jones tour through the big museum. We went into a secret room. Room 8 went with another person. We went in the room to dig up some things. I found a piece of old shopping list. Then we went with another person and saw a dinosaur poo fossilised. It turned into rock. Then Briannasaurus left her foot print in a box of sand. The sand covered the foot print up. We drew a picture of Dunedin. We learnt that we live inside a volcano. When you are driving around Port Chalmers you are at the bottom of the volcano. There will not be any more lava coming out of the volcano because it is extinct. We looked at all kinds of animals on the walls. We went into different gallerys to look at animals fossilised into rock. We pretended to be archaeologists. We saw a fossil. When we went back to our bags the foot print was dry. Brianna got to take it home.

Story by Trey
Our trip to the museum was magnificent. As soon as Room 7 arrived is was probably the best day. Ruma ako eight and Ruma ako seven went up the stairs. My eyes were dripping hot flames because I was so hot. Suddenly we finally turned up at the top. Then we went to Indiana Jones's secret room and sat patiently. We studied objects and put the old, old, old, old objects in the years on a white piece of cardboard. I went into the secret room. We had to find if he was young or old, when and what he studied. There were two rectangle boxes, ten squares and we had to dig sand to find artefacts -that's archaeology. After morning tea we were doing paleontology.

Story by Elizabeth
Wow! my museum trip was like no other. There where so many exciting, extraordinary, fantastic things to do. First we were scientists and heard a story of a secret, spooky door. We split up my group and went to sort out olden day stuff. The other group went to see the spooky, secret room. When we went to the secret room we had to put on gloves.

Story by Jason
Our trip to the museum was amazing. I had two best parts. My first part was when Briannasaurus made a footprint and my other best part was looking at the plesiosaur. We went into a secret room. We split into groups. One group went to the secret room while the other group was sorting old things to use.
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Fast Facts- 26th Oct Outram Sprint

Congratulations to Emily who scored 60/60 in 6 minutes. Emily now joins the Outram Sprint Club. You clever Girl!
Well Done to Emily, Jacob and Jade who all broke their record this week as well.

Afterschool Star of the Week

Congratulations to Kayleigh for being selected as the afterschool star of the week. Mrs Simpson said Kayleigh was very helpful cleaning up during the week. Kayleigh got a voucher for an ice cream. Well Done Kayleigh!

Theme -What's under the ground?

Our inquiry unit this term is based on 'What is under the ground?' We will be learning about the layers of the earth, how fossils are formed, how scientists use fossils to find out about the past, classifying objects into man made and natural objects and finding answers to our 'I wonder' questions.
Tyler brought along pieces of a broken plate, a piece of clay pipe and an old rock.
Leah brought a piece of rock filled with coal.
Jason brought along dirt with layers of sand.
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Algebra - Patterns

In maths for the next few weeks we are learning about shape and number patterns. Here Kayleigh and Elizabeth are practising sequential patterns.
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Gold Certificate Winner

Congratulations to Katrina. She has achieved her Gold Certificate in Mathletics. Here she is with her certificate and crunchy bar. This is a big achievement!!! I am so proud of you!!

Narrative Stories

We are learning how to write narrative stories. We have been reading lots of fairy tales and becoming narrative authors.
A narrative story needs to have:
Characters
Setting
Problem
A Happy Ending
We will get to write our own narrative stories soon.
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Outram Sprint Fast Facts- 17th October

Congratulations to the following record breakers in the Outram Sprint:
Jade
Leah
Elizabeth
Angel
Emily
Jason
Brianna
Zak
Jacob

What a difference having to practise the Outram Sprint in the holidays made to some children. Well Done!

Wow Wee! Elizabeth, Leah and Brianna got 60/60 in 6 minutes.  Kai Pai you three!

Learn more about machines - a fun website!

Visit this website and click on start to learn more about machines.
edheads.org/activities/simple-machines/index.htm

We are Flying!

What fun we had!
We stepped into a special harness and attached the hook. Three children pulled on the rope which went around the 2 pulleys and lifted us up to the ceiling. Can you see Tyler flying and Jason giving you a wave?