Room Six - Whangarei Heads School

Hedgehog Fun

2011-02-20T16:12:00.002+13:00

Harold the giraffe from the Life Education Trust came to visit us. He taught us about what foods we needed to keep our bodies healthy. Then we read the book 'Hedgehog Fun' by Diana Noonan, after that we made our own fruit hedgehogs. They were really delicious.

Our New Class 2011

2011-02-20T16:06:00.003+13:00

This term we have started with 9 children, 5 boys and 4 girls. We expect to be up to about 20 children by the end of the year. We have some really exciting events happening so watch this space. After a long time without a blog post we aim to update regularly this year.

Nadine's Swiss Biscuits

2009-10-31T14:00:00.003+13:00

Nadine from Switzerland is visiting our school, and has been helping in our classrooms. On Friday she taught Rooms 5 and 6 how to make Swiss biscuits. She also taught us some Swiss words, and about the Swiss flag. We even made a box for our biscuits, that has the Swiss flag on the box. Thanks Nadine the biscuits were really nice and thank you for helping in our classrooms.

Cardboard Boxes

2009-10-29T15:57:00.002+13:00

During the last week of term we were given two big cardboard boxes from Mrs Ogle, and one from Maddy's Mum. We had great fun working together and using our imagination. Look at our photo story to see what happened to the boxes.

Performing our Maori Songs at Assembly

2009-10-29T15:40:00.003+13:00

In the third term the junior classes performed some Maori songs. We had been having special Maori lessons with Koiuru all term. The assembly was for us to show all the cool things we had learned. The photo story shows how much fun we had. Thanks Koiuru.

Cross Country at Vinson's Farm

2009-10-02T13:02:00.003+13:00

This term we have been training for cross country. We were going to run the school cross country at Vinson's Farm. However due to heavy rain we ended up running the event at school, we called this 'cross concrete'. However the week before the 'cross concrete' we had a practice race at Vinson's Farm. We had great fun and had such a good race, that we made a video about it.

Jellybean Maths

2009-06-14T13:22:00.006+12:00

We have been learning about making Graphs. We made two graphs about what colour jellybeans we found, comparing two packs of jellybeans. We sorted the jellybeans by colour. We then compared the results of the two packets. We found that in the first pack of jellybeans there were 17 blue beans this was the colour that there was the most of. In the second pack there were more yellow jellybeans 18, more than any other colour. We made graphs to show our results. The best part was eating the jellybeans at the end, they were yummy. The favourite colour, and flavour jellybean in our class were the red ones, we made a graph about our favourite flavour jellybean as well.

Whole School Jump Jam Fitness Fun

2009-05-29T07:51:00.004+12:00

The whole school is taking part in Jump Jam for fitness twice a week. The sessions are led by Mrs Bidois and a group of senior girls. Everyone joins in even the teachers.

Room 6 Term Two

2009-05-28T16:30:00.003+12:00

2009-05-27T17:43:00.004+12:00

Hi there, we have been out of touch with everyone for a little while due to unforeseen circumstances, but will be back to posting new details about what we have been doing recently in Room 6. We have one new boy who has started this term and we are looking forward to including him in our blogging. Our class number now stands at 12, so watch this space for more sharing.

Making masks

2009-03-19T10:53:00.009+13:00

We have been making paper mache masks with Room 5 on Fridays. We are making animal masks. We will add more photos and videos to the blog as our masks develop. We have to wait for the masks to dry before we paint them. We are having lots of fun

On Friday we made Gingerbread Men

2009-02-20T11:13:00.005+13:00

Our Class at the start of 2009

2009-02-20T09:37:00.003+13:00

We have started this year with 10 wonderful children. Nine of our children started last year, and one new boy started at the beginning of this year. We hope to have around seven or eight children coming into our class throughout the year. We have five boys and five girls. We have lots of exciting activities planned for the year, and have already had a visit from the Life Education truck,where we learned all about VIP's, which is what we all are, Very Important People, which all the children enjoyed, especially when they got to hug Harold the giraffe. We hope to share our exciting activities with you throughout the year.

2008-10-24T16:56:00.004+13:00

On Friday six children from our class and our teachers Mrs Bidois and Mrs Humphries, went to visit Manaia Kindergarden. We went to give them a copy of the book and PowerPoint we had made about coming to our school. We had a cool time there, having our morning tea, dancing, playing with the children and listening to stories. Thank you Tania, Bev, Dee and all the children at the Kindy, for making our visit such fun.

First day back in Term 4

2008-10-18T17:01:00.003+13:00

On our first day back we had our usual Monday assembly with Mrs Ogle, our Principal welcoming us back. We are looking forward to all the exciting things that will be happening this term. Next week some of us have 3 way conferences where we share the work we have done in term 3. We have taken our portfolios home to share with our families.

A Book and a Power Point about Starting School

2008-10-02T13:41:00.003+13:00

We have made a book and a Power Point about our classroom for new children, and their parents, about to come to our school. We can send you a copy of either, if you contact us with your e.mail address via the comments option on our blog, or just contact the school.

School Production

2008-10-01T16:24:00.004+13:00

On the 23rd and 24th of September our whole school put on a production called 'Kiwiana'. Our part was the 'Buzzy Bee' party. We had to dress up in our best party clothes. The older children from Room 2 helped at our party, one of them played Buzzy Bee and they also dressed up as party food, we had cup cakes and Cheerios, jelly, pineapple lumps and a big bottle of tomato sauce. We sang happy birthday in Maori and we danced and said some words out loud to the audience. It was a bit scary but everyone thought we were awesome. The other classes were awesome too.

Our School

2008-08-19T14:17:00.004+12:00

Our school is in a beautiful place.
We can see Mount Manaia above us. Out of the windows on one side of our classroom, we can see Whangarei harbour, the oil refinery, Mount Aubrey, trees and birds, especially tui's. We can also see vegetables growing in the new gardens at the back of our classroom. The adventure playground, is out of the other windows, also the playing field, the senior classes, and the court where we ride our scooters and skateboards.
Let us know if your school is on the side of a mountain or overlooks a harbour.