Trips away and adventures at home

If you go away or stay at home let us know some of the highlights of your holidays. I expect everyone to comment on this post sometime during the holidays.

Food Technology

Please tell us about these photos. Write about what you made and how you made it. I'm very interested in how you made the sushi.

Maru the Stunt Cat

Just because we all need a laugh :)

Netball

Congratulations to our fantastic netball team for winning the ASB Netball Trophy this year. We are soooooo proud of all you!. Please comment on some of the highlights of the game. Once I get the camera back I'll post some photos for us all to see.

On 7th of September 2010, Saint Patricks 'A' team travelled up to Westport to compete in the ASB Bank Primary Netball Challenge. We left the school at about 8:45 and arrived at the Solid Energy indoor stadium at 10:45. Captain Eilish got us all ready for the warm ups. After stretching and warming our muscles we had a quick game of half court. Finally the other team arrived and we started the game.
Our 1st game against Westport North. The positions were: Carla-GS, Tay-GA, Briana-C, Eilish.R-WD, Bridget-WD, Eilish.B-GD, Breesha-GK,Alexandra-WA, Brittany-WA, Kristina-GK. Everyone had a court time on both games. We won 18-14. Close game!

Our second game we played against Westland High school. They won last year so we thought we were going to lose. But by surprise we won! (25-12) By this time we were all so tired and worn out, but we kept going and giving all our effort. We kept trying and trying.

We are all so proud of EVERYONES performance. Great thanks to Sall & Helen, the awesomest coaches ever & also a thanks to the parents that took the time off work to take us up to Westport.

Fingers crossed for the girls next year (:

Free Verse Poetry

Vocabulary work Week 5, Term 3

Find an interesting word from another language. Write the word here and tell us what it means. Don't forget to put it in your writer's journal as well just in case you want to use it in your writing in the future :) Have fun :)

Map Work for Week 5, Term 3

Ok choose a country that of your ancestors came from. Write and interesting fact about it. You might want to list all the countries your ancestors have come from.

Find three towns or cities in New Zealand that start with the letter 'E'. List them all here and write an interesting fact about one of them.

Netball

Sorry I didn't get photos of all the girls. Hopefully I will be able to some more photos tomorrow from Kristina and Mrs Olivier :)

Week 5 Homework Task

Make a family tree in your homework book. Find out where your ancestors came from. Dig as deep as you can to find out as much as you can. Ask parents, grandparents, aunties, uncles and anyone that knows about your family. See how far you can go back.

List some 'wonderings' about your ancestors and where they came from. Here are some the the examples of my wonderings:

I wonder if my great, great, great grandparents had have stayed in Scotland or England or France what would my life be like now? What language or accent would I have?

I wonder what jobs my great, great, great grandfathers had

I wonder how my ancestors travelled from their countries to New Zealand? I wonder why they came? I wonder if they lived in any countries on the way?

Write at least 5 'wonderings'.

Map Work for Week 4, Term 3

Think of a place in the world that you would be nervous to visit. In the comment box below write that country down and why you would be uncomfortable visiting it. Give us an interesting fact about it. Don't forget to add your New Zealand towns also along with the interesting information about one of them. Missed you all today :(

Tuesday

Hey guys. I'm not going to be in tomorrow. I'm still in my bed sick but I'm going to check the wiki and blog site in between naps! This is what I would like Room 5JP to do tomorrow:
- challenge yourselves with the division work we did as a whole class. Red group I would like you to work with people to help them. There are only a few that need a bit more practice
- make sure you reread the comments I put on your writing, think about your WALTs and continue with the writing you have been doing. Please explain it to the people who were absent last week
- once you have read all that you are meant to do then I would like you to find a good example of your WALT in a journal or another piece of writing in the class
- spend half an hour on your literacy boxes

Enjoy your day and post any questions about your day on here. I will try and get to them to answer :)

Week 4 Map Work

Share with us a place in the world that you would like to visit and tell something interesting about it! Three places in NZ that start with the letter 'C' and teach us something about one of those places. :)

After being pampered at the Polytech

The girls from Room 5JP were invited to have their hair done at Tai Poutini Polytechnic today. This is how some of them came back.

Map Work for Week 2, Term 3

Please post your map work information here! Don't forget that I need to know the time difference between NZ and your chosen country as well as the time there and here! Last week some of you didn't work out the difference :)

Map Work

Sorry I didn't have this ready for you sooner. Please put your map work here!

Our Writing Motivation

We have looked at this video today to inspire us to write. We have to choose our audience, our purpose and the style we want to use to write. We used our writers journal to take notes as we watched the video. Some of us will put our writing below so come back and see what we have done!

Weekend Sport Report 25 -27 June

Ok guys I really want to hear how you get on with your weekend sport. If you have any photos from your sport over the weekend bring them into school on Monday and we will upload them to our sports page. If you didn't play sport this weekend but did something else cool tell us about that too. Have a great weekend everyone :)

Room 5JP Map Work

If you want you can put the information you find about Luxembourg here instead of your homework books! Maybe we can get someone from Luxembourg to add to it as well at the end of the week :)

Weekend Sport Report

Comment below to let us know how you got on with your sport this weekend.

Our Artwork