Term 3

Term 3 is flying by, we are in week 3 already! Soon we will upload highlights of the last 3 weeks, including ski photos!

Colgate Carton Race

We are going to sign up for the Colgate Carton Race! And we need your help! We need to collect as many colgate cartons as we can! We could win heaps of sports gear and by heaps we mean heaps and heaps like $7000 worth. Please if you have any colgate cartons please send them to us at
Room One
Waikari School
23 Princes Street
Waikari
North Canterbury

Thanks!!!!

Our New Topic

Our new topic this term is weather. Our teacher thought about an activity called Keeper of the Word. If you don’t know what that means [keeper of the word] I’m going to tell you. Some examples are my friend Brandon he has the word tornado, Poppy has snow, Trinity has temperature and I have seasons. We look up what they mean and everything about the word, then we make a word card for our word. After you have finished making the card, the teacher will laminate it for your desk so anyone can look come to you to look at that word.

By Bradley

Gussies First Try on GoAnimate

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Harold - By Gussie

On Monday the 14^th May Harold came. Karearea went in his truck for the first time after lunch, we learnt about decision making. Seeing Harold was fun! One of the activities we had to do was decide what place was better to go to on a pretend holiday out of the North Island, Fiji or New York,(Miss Gorman apparently won lotto)Genevieve told us all these choices. We got to go to Fiji for five days also we got to go up to the North island for two weeks we got to go to New York for a month and we got all these choices of how much money we would spend in each place.  The most money we got was in the North Island we got $1000 dollars a day for doing nothing from Miss Gorman ,we got $5000 dollars from Miss Gorman on the plane. In the end we spent all the money in New York! Making the decision was hard. Then when we finished Harold told us a joke the joke was when do trees smell? When their leaves blow off. The next day we went and we learnt about the body we learnt how the body works and what was good for your body and what was bad for your body Drugs are bad for your body! By Gussie

Cross Country - By Trinity

Waikari School will be going to go to cross country at the Hassels farm in WAIKARI North Canterbury  New  Zealand.

We have to run up a hill and on a feld.

Cross Country is fun but really hard as well.

We will be runing for a long time at School hours.

We will be starting in the morning just about near 10 .30am.

Then when we are finished we will go back to school just like normal.

Nicholas - By Charlee

By Goscinny and Sempe

At the start of the term we started a book called Nicholas he’s a cool French boy. He’s got a friend named Alec if you meet him make sure you don’t make him drop his chocolate croissants or else he’ll moan and ask for another one. There is a goody good kid named Cuthbert there is a bully called Eddie he thumps everyone accept Cuthbert. There is a principal named old spuds the kids call him that because spuds have eyes.                                       

Poppy - Saving Is Like Training

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Charlees Go Animate

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Holly Comes to School

On Thursday 10. 5 .12 Holly from ASB came to Waikari school to talk about financialliteracy. She was a fun and active person first she showed as this gig.  The song went likethis saving is like training the early you starts the better you get. She had a really good imagination.  She got 3 people up Poppy, Tom and Ben and they helped Holly tale a story. At the end she told us what the different is by debit cards, credit cards and eftpos card debit card is mixed with an eftpos card credit credit card is the banks money eftpos card is your money. It was fun learning about financial literacy with Holly . By Poppy

Liam Book Fair

 The book fair

In week 3 we had a book fair. In week 2 it was set up with lots of books . Lots of people were buying books. I bought a toystory 3 book and you have to make cardboard darts I’ve made all of the five of them. And there were lots of pens. I got a pop out monkey one. I did bring it to school .

Finns First Attempt at Go Animation

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Brandons Go Animate First Try

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Canterbury Duathlon

On the 9.5.12 Nic and Brandon went to the Canterbury duathlon at Ruapuna Race Track. Nic was the 12 year old and Brandon was in the 10 year old. A duathlon is when you  run 2km; bike 6km and then run again we had to run 1.5km and after that we had to wait until the last person finished. Then we came to get our bike so we can go home.

By Brandon

Waikari Schools New Sports Gear

This week Waikari School thanks their F.A.S.T for contributing to getting our school some new sports gear. It is not every day that we get new sports gear, so we are very grateful to have it.

We also hope that our sports gear lasts a long time and it doesn’t get lost.

By Finn                                                                         16.5.12

Go Animate

We tried out Go Animate today because we saw it on learning hub 3's blog from Stonefield School. Its really fun. We are going to make some more and upload them soon.

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Welcome Liam

Liam has joined us in Room One this term! We are loving having you in the team Liam!

Canterbury Duathlon

Good Luck Nic and Brandon for the Canterbury Duathlon today!

ANZAC BISCUITS!

Leadership Camp Photos

Leadership Camp

On the 5^th of March Chantelle, Tom and Grace travelled with our school’s principal Mr Kemp with neighbouring schools which were Waipara, Hamner, Greta Valley and Omihi. This year’s Leadership camp was held at Windy Point Boyle River.  

The activities on camp were very challenging the activities we participated in were

·       Rock Climbing

·       Abseiling

·       Swing Bridge

·       High Trees

·       River crossing

·       Two Wires

·       Swamp Challenge

·       Bush Walk

·       Leadership Games

We have experienced new skills like trusting one and other , making new skills , working together as a team.

On leadership camp we learnt the 6 best words in leadership which are

6. I admit I made a mistake

5. You did a good job

4.  What is your opinion

3.  If you please

2. Thank you

1. WE!!!

0.  Not a very good word in leadership is I

leadership means:

Ø Honesty

Ø Trustworthy

Ø Responsible

Ø Respect

Ø Believing in yourself and others

Ø Being able to trust other people that were participating .

By Chantelle

Canterbury Triathlon

Good luck Nic and Brandon who are competing in the Canterbury triathlon at Pegasus today!

Surfing

In week 4 many schools gathered to go surfing at Waikuku Beach. We went there to go surfing and boggie boarding. It was a roasting hot day although the waves were frezzing cold. It was very hard surfing becasue of the crashing waves splashing down on us.
By Grace

Hurunui Triathlon Results

Gussie - 10th 10 year old girls
Claudia - 9th 10 year old girls
Ben - 2nd 9 year old boys
Brandon - 1st 10 year old boys
Nic - 1st 11 year old boy
Trinity - 3rd 19 year old girls
Charlee - 10th 9 year old boys
Lachie - 6th 9 year old boys

Beach Education

A while ago we went  on a whole school trip to Waikuku Beach! When we came back we wrote recounts. We've been a bit slow putting them up here but here  is one now.

On Thursday the 9^th of February 2012 Waikari School went to Waikuku Beach in cars.

 When we got there we rushed inside to put our bags away in little cupboards finally we went up the steps to meet the three lifeguards their names where Chris, Dan and Nic. We talked a little bit about sun-safe. After a while we had morning tea.  Next we talked a lot more about surf safety. We got split into groups like rm 1 and rm 2 and 3 when we played games and the role of a lifeguard. Afterwards it was lunch time. We came back and did some awesome sand sculptures and castle making competition. Fifteen minutes later we got called in to get changed into our togs and get a boogie board to go into the water. We waited to go on the big huge waves. I got soaking wet when it was time to go home.
By Trinity

What a start!

WOW!
What a whirlwind start to the year.
We have surfed the waves at Waikuku, worked out Kung Fu Punctuation, figured out some trickey basic facts tasks and swam in our not so warm pool everyday!!! This week and next week we are having swimming lesson at Hurunui pool.All this on top of all our other school work. We have almost mastered the art of blog writing so soon we will publish some of our blogs about Dr Seuss on here.
Thanks for checking in on us!

Oh and our quote this term is "A persons a person no matter how small." - Dr Seuss. It reminds us to respect EVERYBODY!

Welcome to 2012!

School starts on Thursday and the Room One team will be together.