Christmas Greeting

Thank you for your support this year. I hope you all have a lovely Christmas and restful New Year.

Room 3 Summer Holiday

Summer Holiday on PhotoPeach

Rocket blast-off

Alyssa mixed the baking soda and vinegar together to make the rocket blast off. It went all over Mrs Stevens which the children found very funny!!

Christmas Fun

Mrs Kenneally has found this wonderful site for some Christmas fun.

http://christmasinschools.wikispaces.com/Home

Science News with Jayde

Thanks Jayde for showing us how to make an egg float.

Junior Assembly

Junior Assembly on PhotoPeach

Athletics Day

Athletics Day on PhotoPeach

Athletics

A big "Thank you" to all the parents that helped at Athletics day. The children had a great time and I am sure there were some tired bodies after a very busy morning.

Exploring Language

We are Exploring Language this term. Please ask the children about their Reading Log that is in their Reading Folder.

Folk Dancing

We had lots of fun Folk Dancing with Room 4.

Holiday Fun

What a busy term we have had.

Remember you can have fun on the blog site with Spelling City and the ICT games in the holidays. Look around the other St Mary's blog sites as well as they have different sites to have fun on.

Have a great holiday!

Science News from Chloe

Today Chloe showed us how a rocket balloon works. It moved very fast.

Cricket Skills

We had lots of fun with Steve in the hall today learning cricket skills.
Cricket Skills on PhotoPeach

School Cross Country

We had lots of fun at the Cross Country yesterday even though the weather wasn't so good. Some quick thoughts about the Cross Country from Room 3:

Running fast

Having fun

Coming first place

Watching people run

High fives to people trying

Not stopping

Getting a card for a place

Finishing the run

Cheering on people

Good to have a go and run

Racing people

Parents coming to watch

Passing people

Getting muddy

Kiwiana by Room 3

Kiwiana by Room 3 on PhotoPeach

Fitness

We have been changing stations for fitness and on Friday we go for a run.
Fitness on PhotoPeach

Congratulations

Congratulations to Emma and Finn who were baptised on Saturday.

Term 3

What a busy start to the term we have had. Here are some photos of Room 3 hard at work.

Taieri College Bands came and performed for us today. The children all really enjoyed the performance and we even had a star of our own. Well done Jasmine and "Thank you Mrs Cochrane" for bringing the Bands to perform for us.

Taieri College Bands on PhotoPeach

Room 3 Play

Room 3 performed a play today for a wonderful audience. Mrs Dykes was very proud of them and so was I.

Room 3 Play on PhotoPeach

Senior Interchange

Today we went out for a few minutes (it was very cold) to watch the Senior teams play netball. We gave them lots of encouragement.

Room 3 Science News

Fabulous Science News on PhotoPeach

Disco Fun

Disco Fun on PhotoPeach

Friday's Disco

Thank you to the PTA who worked hard and organised the fantastic school disco.
Some comments from Room 3 :
It was cool.
It was awesome.
There were colourful lights.
The decorations were awesome, especially the balloon arch.
We had fun dancing.
It was fun going to the disco.
Thank you for setting it up.

Our Room 5 Buddies played some great music for us.

Robotics

Robotics

Emma and Finn's cousin Charlotte came and showed us her Robot that can dance.
Robotics on PhotoPeach

Young Mary

The whole school went to watch a show about Mary MacKillop's life because she is Australia and New Zealand's first Saint. She lived in the 18oo's and was such a thoughtful, kind girl who became a Nun and continued to help people all her life. There were two people in the play. The man played lots of different characters. He was so funny and we laughed a lot. the show's message was "Never see a need without trying to do something about it."Young Mary on PhotoPeach

Drama

Drama on PhotoPeach

Over the last three weeks of term we are having an Arts Exchange where the children get to experience the four different Arts components. Here are some dramatic faces and poses from Room 3.

More Boat Making

Jonty worked hard on his boat for two days and it carried lots of crayons.

Boat Making

Boat Making on PhotoPeach

Players of the Day!!

Room 3 had 4 Players of the Day on Saturday.
Well done to Eric- Player of the Day for Rugby. Well done to Taine- Player of the Day for Rugby.
Well done to Akayla- Player of the Day for Netball.
Well done to Emma- Player of the Day for Hockey. It is great to have so many children involved in Sport.

Room 5 Buddies

Buddy Time Fun with Room 5 on PhotoPeach

Rain

Room 3 Assembly

Room 3 Assembly on PhotoPeach

Magnet Fun

Oliver and Aidan showed us how some magnets pull together and others push apart.

Rippa Rugby

Rippa Rugby on PhotoPeach

Science News

We had great Science news today with Alyssa showing us a model of the planets and Connor has started an experiment by putting an egg in vinegar. The egg has to stay in the vinegar for a week so we will continue the experiment next week.

Kayla's Lava lamp mixture

Kayla showed us how you can make your own Lava lamp mixture by using coloured water, oil and salt. She read how to do it in the newspaper.

Term 2

We have had a very busy start to the Term. The children are straight back into it and have had a productive week. We were lucky to have a show put on for us this week demonstrating various instruments.

Bob Bickerton on PhotoPeach

Golf

We had golf with Melanie today and it was lots of fun. The children progressed from a big plastic ball, to a tennis ball, to a golf ball.
Golf with Melanie. on PhotoPeach

Reading

Today for reading we were reading into a microphone and playing it back to listen to ourselves.

Yummy Fudge!

Reuben explained to us if you mix the ingredients together and boil them and take it off the heat you can make fudge but if you keep boiling it, it will make toffee.

Room 5 Assembly

Well done to Room 5 on a wonderful Assembly on Friday and also well done to Room 3 for their item.

Devon's balloon experiment.

Devon picked up paper with a balloon. Do you know how he did it?

Cars that change colour

Connor showed us how his car could change colour from green to white and back again if we put it in hot or cold water.