2016 in Review

Check out this cool Youtube clip that shows some highlights of 2016.
See how many trends/things from 2016 you can identify...

Bigfoot bike safety visit

We recently had the awesome people from Bigfoot Bikes come and visit us to talk about bike safety. We learnt a lot of great things to keep us safe.
Rm 22 you need to comment with some of the valuable safety information you  learnt.

Take a look at our day...

Mannequin Challenge

We decided to take on the Mannequin challenge - check out our results!

Our focus for the rest of the school year is...

Irish Music

For my Irish dancers - here is the music we are using.

Our focus for Weeks 5-6 is...

Camp 2016

We have just had an amazing 3 nights and 4 days away at camp at 'Chosen Valley' in Araimu (Hunua). With lots of fantastic activities to keep us busy the students had a fun, challenging and exhausting time. Big thanks to all the parent helpers and teachers who did such a fantastic job.

Check out the awesome time we had!

Our focus for weeks 3 and 4 is:

Irish dancing lessons - You Tube playlist

For my eager and talented Irish dancing group - Here is the you tube playlist for the dance moves we are learning. Practice practice practice!

Green week fun

This week we have been having a great time enjoying our green week activities. We looked at finding other ways to use plastic bags rather than throwing them into our already overused  landfill.
We made them into skipping ropes! It turned out to be quite a full on process but we persevered and ended up with a durable, workable skipping rope - and it's waterproof!

Holiday Fun for Free!

Paper Plane Challenge

For Chapter Chat, this second half of the term, we are reading the book 'Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing' by Judy Blume. For the first round of chapter chat activities one of the tasks was to make a paper plane and test out it's aerodynamics.
Of course most of the class jumped at the chance to make and fly paper planes around the school and, with the added incentive of winning class points, they put in a great effort into not only the design but the aesthetic as well.
Check out the video of our fun Paper Plane Challenge...

Our last focus for this term is...

Room 22 speech finalists

Congratulations to Olivia, Vinnie and Brooke who represented Room 22 in the Kauri team speech finals. You all did an amazing job and represented Room 22 fantastically.
Olivia's speech was on safer intersections
Brooke's speech was on more fitness spaces for Owairaka School
Vinnie's speech was on why Pokémon go must go

Awesome work guys!!

Owairaka School Olympic Day 2016

Awesome time had by all at the ODS Olympic Day. Great effort and sportsmanship shown by all the competitors . Big thanks to the organisers and officials at the events!!
Check out some snaps from the day...

Next learning focus weeks 5-6

Minute to Win It - Challenge - Wet Ball

With the first challenge of 'What-a-racquet' about to be done it is about time to set the next challenge... 'Wet Ball'. Good luck competitors!

Another great session of chapter chat

We are picking up some great 'twittering' skills as we use Twitter every Friday to chat with other schools and classes about 'The Faraway Tree' by Enid Blyton.

Here is some of the awesome work Rm22 has done after reading chapters 9-12.

Awesome work running in the cross country today Rm 22!

Everyone put in an awesome effort and showed great fitness and determination.
Big shout out to Brooke who came second overall in the Year 6 girls division!

Check out this library blog post which tells us about early Owairaka School days and the cross country then...

http://odslibrarians.blogspot.co.nz/2016/08/owairakas-original-cross-country.html

Classroom Olympic Challenge

Inspired by the 2016 Olympics, Room 22 is being offered some classroom challenges which we will hold a class competition for on Fridays.
Our first challenge is:



Credit to 'Minute to Win it' TV program for the challenges.

Chapter Chat

This term we have been taking part in Chapter Chat where we read 4 chapters a week of 'The Magic Faraway Tree' By Enid Blyton and then do activities set by the organiser. Also, every Friday, we take part in a twitter session where we share the work we have made and answer questions about the book. It is a great way to find out what other people think about the book, how creative they are and to connect with other students across NZ.
Here is Room 22 with some of their awesome creations...

Term 3 weeks 3-4 Focus

Room 22 is awesome!!

Here is our 'Room 22 is Awesome' video trailer made using Video Editor.

Volleyball lessons

Science madness

A quick snap shot vid of some of the science fun we had last term . Bouncy eggs, popping and unpoppable balloons and slippery slime to name a few.

End of term Winter Wonderland disco

To celebrate the end of an amazing term 2 we kicked up our heels showed off our dance floor skills at the end of term disco.

Term 3 Wk 1-2 Focus

Welcome back after what I hope was a very relaxing holiday. Our first focus for the term is...

Last Garden to Table session!

We have had an amazing time these last two terms learning how to forage in the garden and whip up masterpieces in the kitchen. Big thanks to Virginia and Mrs S (and Laura), and all our amazing helpers, for the awesome guidance and teaching. We have learnt a lot of skills that will be remembered and useful in life. Thanks!!

Statistical Investigations

This half-term we have been working on designing our own statistical investigation and displaying the data on appropriate graphs. Here are the results...

                            

Our School Focus for weeks 7 & 8 is 'Manners Matter'

Persuasive Writing

Marshall found a book in the library called 'Which would you rather be?' by William Stieg, Pictures by Harry Bliss.

 We decided to use it as a persuasive writing prompt where students were asked to choose between 2 objects/living things and justify why. Here are some of the responses...

Options	Choice	Justification
A Stick or a Stone?	Stone	Stone because it is useful to hold paper or something.
An Elbow or a Knee?	Knee	Knee because It is stronger than a Elbow.
A Cat or a Dog?	Dog	Dogs because they protect their owner from strangers .
A Snake or a Crocodile?	Snake	Snake because they can camouflage on the tree.
A Mouse or an Elephant?	Mouse	Mouse because they are fast and sneaky and hard to see and catch.
boy or a Girl?	Girl	Girl because Boys are messy and girls are tidy and cleaner.
Rain or Snow?	Rain	Rain because it could give a nice shower and wash of the dirty stuff.
Thunder or Lightening?	Thunder	Thunder because it can frighten people and let people know that the lightning is coming.
A grown-up or a Kid?	Kid	Kid because you can live your life  longer.
Candy or Cake?	Candy	Candy because it is more sweeter than a cake.
The Moon or the Sun?	Moon	Moon because it can give you more sleeps when you are really tired and when the sun is out you don’t get more sleeps when you are really tired.

Options	Choice	Justification
A Stick or a Stone?	Stick	You would be able to float on water, and you could be thrown very far and it be like you were flying.
An Elbow or a Knee?	Knee	Because it is larger and harder then a elbow.
A Cat or a Dog?	dog	Because there strong and fast and are good for guarding and playing with.
A Snake or a Crocodile?	Snake	Because you would be able to move through bushy terrain really fast.
A Mouse or an Elephant?	Mouse	Because you would be able to go into tiny places.
A Boy or a Girl?	Boy	Because being a boy is better than being a girl
Rain or Snow?	Snow	Because your thick and sticky and would be able to swallow
Thunder or Lightening?	Lightening	Because your super fast and can catch things on fire.
A grown-up or a Kid?	Kid	Because you have lots of time you don’t have to work and you’ll be very energetic.
Candy or Cake?	Candy	Because you can make people super energetic.
The Moon or the Sun?	The moon	Because you can are the brightest thing you see in the sky at night.

Options	Choice	Justification
A Stick or a Stone?	Stone	It gets thrown less.
An Elbow or a Knee?	Elbow	Knees get dirtier.
A Cat or a Dog?	Dog	Dogs are more active.
A Snake or a Crocodile?	Snake	It can kill a Crocodile. That means the Snake is Stronger.
A Mouse or an Elephant?	Mouse	Mice can be pets, So they are more loved.
A Boy or a Girl?	Girl	I like the way I am.
Rain or Snow?	Snow	Snow Is more fun to play with
Thunder or Lightening?	Lightning	Lightning is more Dangerous.
A grown-up or a Kid?	Kid	Kid are sometimes More flexible, So they can have more fun.
Candy or Cake?	Cake	Cake is more expensive so there is less chance of me being eaten.
The Moon or the Sun?	Moon	The Moon is Visible for humans to look at and I like that.

Options	Choice	Justification
A Stick or a Stone?	stone	I can move where mother nature takes me.
An Elbow or a Knee?	albow	I do not get grazed as much.
A Cat or a Dog?	Cat	I can go through tiny gaps, and climb up trees.
A Snake or a Crocodile?	A snake	So I can swallow people whole.
A Mouse or an Elephant?	Mouse	I have always dreamed of being tiny.
A Boy or a Girl?	A boy	To stronger and quicker
Rain or Snow?	rain	So I can fly down like a missile
Thunder or Lightening?	Lighting	So I can strike people
A grown-up or a Kid?	Kid	So I have a bigger imagination and more active
Candy or Cake?	Candy	So I live longer
The Moon or the Sun?	The moon	So it is nice and peacefulsh