Tremendous Tree Planting

SCIENCE FAIR 2009

Amy from our super class, had a go and persevered with her entry and guess what - she WON first place out of the whole school. She will now represent C.T.S. at the inter schools science fair next week. CONGRATULATIONS WONDERFUL AMY :-)

Greek Meal

Have a look at our super Greek meal photos.

We all had a go at the eats and treats.

Exciting Formal Letters

Our letters we wrote and posted away.

Our questions have been answered in many different ways.

Thank you to all who answered so well.

Now we can go and tell each other what questions have to tell.

An Outstanding Assembly

Last Friday 31 July we hosted our feel good assembly.  The emphasis was on our Keys for Learning.  John was excited, Hamish was a wee bit nervous, but, disappointed because his dad was not there as he had a sore back.  

We began with some spinning around, with some extremely cool music where we introduced our Keys for Learning opportunities.  When Mr Wemyss spoke, he was extremely polite ( of course ) as he turned around and said "Sorry for having my back to you - lovely children".  Everyone in our class said something.  It included our learning opportunities, the slide shows and other general comments.  

There were two slide shows involving Room 2 scone baking / box making and the superb senior school (Rm's 8,9 and 10) ski trip.  We hear the ski trip might happen again next year as well.  Fantastic eh!    

We can tell a few of the general Keys for Learning comments some people said:

Welcome to our valued feel good assembly.

At C.T.S. we like to show initiative and actively care for our school environment - visitors welcome to morning tea afterwards.

Teacher's are confident speakers.

Notices - Now you need to be active listeners.

We are innovative thinkers.

We know that mistakes are a learning opportunity.

We like to have fun too.

An opportunity to all to participate fully - school sang the NZ National Anthem

Hoped that departing students would reflect on their fabulous time at C.T.S.

At the end of the assembly we also invited all to reflect upon our assembly.

It was a great team effort, just like this blog.

Slideshow

On the 15th of July 2009  3 bloggers, Mitchell, John, and Hamish, created a fabulous slideshow. The slideshow was about process of mouth watering Scone & Boxes.  If you would like to see this mouthwatering show, you are welcome to come to our fabulous school assembly, at 9am  on Friday 31 July. Look forward to seeing you there.   

Room 2 Scone Boxes

On the 9 of June we will be designing our scone boxes. Last week we drew a diagram 

of what we,ll design our boxes. We are all EXTREMELY excited well, most of  us :-) 

Mouth Moving Games and Toys

Thank you to our Home and School for giving us $300 to purchase some games and toys for our classroom.  We have started our purchases and there will be more to come.  We are looking forward to playing and learning with our new games and activities.

Science Record

Mitchell's  experience  with his rocket went well.  It was a blast.  He was our winner out of our class and hopefully he is the school's winner too.   The rocket went 32  meters within distance.  It was great to see it fly high in the sky before it landed with a thump, crunch and crackle in amongst the rugby teams at our school grounds.   This Friday Mitchell will blast off against the others.  We beat he will come first.  What do you think? 

  

Science Record

Outrageous Cross Country

Tuesday last week was our outrageous Cross Country. We had a super time. It started off with a bang and ended with a puff.  Now enjoy our photos.   

Annette Smith Author

Last Friday the 15 of May on a soaking day, Annette Smith flew from Hamilton to Nelson.  She rattled down the road to C.T.S. school.  First she watched us zip past her as we practiced for our very professional cross country race.   Twenty minutes later still puffing, we gathered into Room 1 to hear our famous author share with us her secrets of writing.  We found out we need to use descriptive language to paint our story pictures.  Please enjoy our photos, especially notice we have some young authors at our school too.  

NEW CAMERA

NEW CAMERA

Our new camera is fantastic because it takes really cool photos.  This is a photo of us writing our sixth day in our diary.  We are learning to write about a major and minor theme using describing words and excellent sentence starts.  Enjoy our photos.

BACKYARD SCIENCE :-)

On the Friday 1st of May, the class eagerly walked along to the Art Room to do some painting, only to discover that the science man Sterling, was waiting at the door with his big box which had science written on it.  

Once settled and sorted with our safety equipment he told us to think the coldest thing.  The answer we came with was dry ice. We had lots of fun experimenting with dry ice.  Have fun looking at all of our action pictures.