Last couple of weeks of school

Most of us have finished our Celebration posters and they are hanging around the classroom looking really awesome. We learnt that it is better to take some time to learn about the topic and to make the poster look really effective.

All the people from our class that participated in the talent show did a really good job! Well done Zoe and Anitra, Molly and Alex.

Last weekend it was the Timaru Rose Festival. The Rose Festival was at Caroline Bay and the childrens' flowers were displayed in the community lounge. We all made sand saucers and some people made treasure chests and decorated a boot. Well done Shaun. He won a prize for his treasure chest.

Amy, Zoe, Oakleigh and Tane went to the inter-schools. Zoe got into the finals for sprints. Amy, Zoe, Melanie and Jenna got in to the finals for relay. Well done. It was hot, fun, sunburning, school-free, sporty!

busy end of term coming up

There are only four weeks left until the end of term. The week after that it is Christmas. Lots of us are looking forward to Christmas and already have our presents planned.

Coming up on December 3rd is the talent show. The people from our class who are entering are practising hard for what will be an awesome display of "Highfield's Got Talent". It is going to be on at Mountainview at 7pm. Come and see us!

Interschool are coming up on the first of December. We wish the people from our class luck in their events. Go Zoe, Oakleigh, Amy and Tane.

Some of us are busy making treasure chests and decorated shoes for the Rose Festival that is on in Timaru at the moment. They will on display at the Bay on Sunday. They will be judged and there will be prizes given. So far they are looking awesome.

For Kiwican we have been nominating people to get the tiki for showing respect. Anitra got the Kiwican certificate at assembly last week. Well done Anitra.

We have been working hard to make posters for our celebrations topic. We had to find the information first then plan the layout and the use of pictures to make an informative poster.

We learnt a new maori song for assembly. It was about working together and taking care of each other. It was called "E tu kahikatea".

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On Tuesday, we walked up to the stadium for our school athletics day. All our class was there. The day was sunny, fun, awesome, exhausting and toasting.
Some of our class got through to the interschools: Zoe for relay and sprints, Oakleigh for high jump, Tane for baseball throw and shotput, Amy for relay and sprints. Way to go folks!!!


Lauryn left Highfield on Thursday. We had a shared lunch to celebrate her time at our school. We wish her all the best at Gilberthorpe School.

The teachers celebrated no children at school on teachers only day on Friday. We think they went to Chatters and had a party without us! Mrs Roxburgh might not agree with us.

Term 4 Week 3 The week that was

Celebrations in our class.

Congratulations to Zoe and Cadell who got placed in this week's cross country.

Congratulations to Naomi, who got 88 lines in this week's journal writing challenge.

Today we are having a mini-fair to raise money for the tsunami in Samoa. We are looking forward to being able to spend the money we have brought and to eating the lollies.

We are also all wearing mufti. Mrs Roxburgh has come to school in Mountainview High School uniform.

Tha talent show is coming up soon so some of us are practising for auditions. Cadell is playing the guitar. Anitra and Zoe are doing a poem. Molly is singing a song. Molly, Alex and Zoe are doing a dance. Naomi is playing the keyboard.

Lauryn will be leaving us soon to go to Christchurch. She will miss the talent show. We wish her all the best at Gilberthorpe School.

We are studying celebrations.

Here are some of the things we have to celebrate in our class this week.

Every week, we have a journal writing competition. We have to write about anything we like for 20 minutes. The highest number of lines written this week was 50. It was written by Naomi. Last term the highest score of 38 lines was written by Jack and Tane. The competition is on! Some of us might be practising at home!
Lately we've been playing a maths game called round the world and Oakleigh and Jack have been our champions so far. We have to be very quick at our basic addition and subtraction facts to 20.

Extreme Term 4

Yay! School's back again. Now we can learn some more. Welcome to Term 4. We have got a busy term ahead.

We haven't done much yet but we are going to be learning about celebrations and we have got athletics and cross country coming up.

We are sad that a class member is leaving at the end of the year too.

Some of us miss the holidays because we enjoy having time to do what we want to do when we want to do it but ... that's school days!

Last week we had an awesome week.

We started designing our powerpoints about water.


We went on our Wai Water trip to the reservoir, the milliscreen and the museum..
We went to the milliscreen. Some people found it really, really smelly.
When we went to the reservoir we went in a tunnel. The lights went off and most people screamed.
We went to the museum and we got to see some whitebait and some bullies. To start at the museum, we had five minutes free time to have a look around. Some of our favourite finds were: telephone box, a gun with a knife on the end, Richard Pearse plane, the big ship's wheel, the wee shop upstairs, the twenty-two magnum guns, the dresses, and the cannon.



At the milliscreen. "What is that stuff?"

At the museum. "We can find the right words."

This is where the fresh water comes in to the reservoir from the rivers.

We went skating at Tekapo Alpine Springs. We went in the hot pools too. We got to see all three states of water there; solid, liquid and gas.

We enjoyed the warm water pools.

The parents were a great help and we got better and better at skating.

We have a new person in our class. His name is Tane and he came to us from another school in South Canterbury. It is awesome having him as a classmate. Tane says his new school is bigger and he likes having the go-karts to play on at break times.

We are really enjoying the KOS sessions. We are looking after eggs. Everybody thinks it is an eggsellent idea

We had an awesome performance by some of our classmates doing a play that was written by one of them. We also heard an interesting story and are looking forward to seeing it made into a book.

police

Welcome to room 8's blog.

We are learning about Keeping Ourselves Safe (KOS). We had Mrs Hocking in our class this morning.

We learned about touches. It was really fun.

Your kids might have brought boxes of chocolates home for the fundraiser. It sounds as if they are selling fast and they are certainly tasty.

mufti day

Today we are some colorful people like red, pink, blue, purple,black and green. We look bright and cheerful.

On Friday there will be the Kahurangi dance group at school. We will be able to learn about dance and performance as well as getting some Maori imput in Maori Language Week.

Room8, 6 and 11 are doing gym this week and next week. We have got all the equipment set out in the hall

Hope you have a good day.

From Room 8.

Hi

We have been learning about Integrity at kiwi can, we have a new guy called Vaughan he's really cool!!Sally is too!!

In maths we have been learning about telling the time.

In topic we are finding out about water this term.

Welcome back to term three hope you had a good break.

The hall is finished, it is looking great. We have put some of our art in it .

We've started jump jam, we think it's good fun.

The power of blogsites is awesome; (when Mrs R can get them to work). Here is a try at uploading us at work.

We are trying to blog some of our art work. So let's see if this works.

Room8's fun week.

On the 18th of June room8 are going on a trip to the Aigantighe art gallery. When we get there we have to split up into groups to look at the pictures. We will have fun at the art gallery.

This week was fun because we went to Harold. It was fun because Harold gave us a kiss and we got a book and a Harold sticker. WE were on a mission to find Harold. On the way we learnt about the different types of blood. Some has oxygen coming in and some has carbon dioxide going out of our bodies.We learnt about our brain and lungs too.

Tomorrow we hope we get to use the new hall.


From room 8

Room8s fun week.

On the 18 of June room8 are going to the Aigantighe art gallery.we have to split up into groups when we get there.we will have fun.

Fun week

Tomorrow Harold is coming to school so watch out for him at school!

Every class is excited about the new hall being built. We can use it next week on Thursday maybe?

Soon room 8,6 and room 11 are going to do jump jam in the new Hall.

John Key will be coming to the grand opening of the Hall.

Room 8.

We have been working on Colin McCahon's art.So far we have used pastels to make these cool montain designs.We had to smudge the pastels all around. Although it took a while to do it properly, it was really fun and easy.

We're back at school again after the long weekend.
The hall is almost finished. When the hall is open we hope John Key will be there.
We are so excited to see him.
On Tuesday the 2nd of June we were meant to be having our cross country but the scenic was too wet and soggy so we couldn't do it. It has been moved to later in the year.
On Thursday the 4th yr 1,2,3 and 4's will have a movie day it is a mystery what it is.

We are well into our topic for term 2 now and into our training for the cross country. Bringing a change of suitable shoes would be helpful.

Today Tyson and the class were looking at a butterfly on the swan plant,Tyson broke the wing.Yesterday Mrs Taiaroa came to teach us.We did lots of activites.After morning tea we had Mr Adolf.He read us a story.We played a game called scatterball.

Today year 4 to year 8 went to the highfield swimming sports.There was Back-stroke,Freestyle,Breast-stroke and House relays.Right at the end we had to sing happy birthday to Mrs.R.

Year 3 people went to Room 11.They did belly dancing and other dancing.They played lots of games and read a story.

Thanks Room 8

workmen all around

The hall is being made up again. The workmen are extending it. It is nearly finished. Members of our class went ouside to write a story about the trucks and the workers.

"There was a man hammering the steel and what a racket that was making. And they were sealing it together and burning it."

They have also started putting mats down in the adventure playground.

We are looking forward to being able to use it again.

Tuesday

We have been sharing our collections through the last couple of weeks. Here are pictures of some of our classmates.

We have had a cat at our school through last week and yesterday.The cat was black and cute. We have been learning about adjectives.

On Thursday some of us are going to the swimming sports. The year 4's are looking forward to it but some aren't .Some of us are doing a whole width of freestyle in their house colour. At the red house meeting we had an idea that we could wear a t-shirt of our house colour. We are looking forward to Thursday.

Those of us that have finished all our art work have been doing puppet shows about making friends. So far we have seen two plays. We have found out that friends always help each other, share their toys, go to each others' houses and play with each other.

Our Fun Day

It rained before we got to have our fun day.

When the weather was hot we all enjoyed the water activities.

We had lots of different games.

Our favourite games were the sponge-carrying game and the hockey game.

Some of us really liked the wheelbarrow game where you had to hold on to the water.

One person thought that, next time it would be really good to have some skateboarding activity too.

We have been getting texts from Mr Gallagher so we know that he is okay and know what he is up to.

If you are reading this Mr Gallagher, we are looking forward to seeing you this afternoon at our sports' day, if you make it.

We are wearing our house colours (red, yellow, blue and green) and we are all pumped up ready for a fun afternoon.

We had fun this week learning about symmetry by making kites with Mrs Wilson.

Welcome to our new blogsite.

We are in Room 8 at Highfield School, Timaru, New Zealand.

Today a classmate is looking after the caterpillars in our classroom.
He made us a train the other day.
We had a visit from Mrs Goodhew. She was really nice and pretty.

This year we are getting a new hall. This is a picture of the old hall. The digger is breaking up the walls.