A 'MONDAY' in the Life of Room 13.....

To start the day we set up our class by putting our bags away, putting the chairs down, rolling the blinds up to let in the golden sun. While we wait for the school day to start at 8:55am we can go outside and play, we can use the iPads and computers in our class, hold Cheeko (he is our class pet rat) and we can do some quiet reading, drawing or writing. But for the last few weeks we have been watching the Americas Cup as racing starts at 8:10am. We hope Team NZ win soon.

When the bell goes we come in, sit on the mat and call the roll. After that we discuss the timetable for the day and we start with fitness. Reading is the first thing that follows fitness and we do that until about 10:30am. Writing is next and we have been learning to write a narrative. This is followed by morning tea where we can have a bite to eat and have a play!

After morning tea we continue a little bit with writing and then get into maths. To finish of the middle block we go to the library to chose books for the week. And then its one of our favourite parts of the day... LUNCH TIME!

After lunch we do SSR for about 10mins (Sustained Silent Reading). Our day is finished with sharing our homework from the previous week and getting the new weeks homework and spelling ready. Then the bell goes at 3pm. 

And that is a typical 'MONDAY' in the life of Room 13.

 Cheeko our class pet

The BEP's are hard at work this morning!

Room 13s Chopper Challenge!

Today (Wednesday 18 Sept) we did the one and only......  WESTPAC CHOPPER CHALLENGE! We are doing fitness to raise money for the Westpac Rescue Helicopter. The top fundraisers get a ride in the helicopter for their efforts, how cool is that! Duncan and Kimi our instructors gave us a pep talk before we started. First we did the vertical hang, where we needed to free hang for 60 secs on our playground. After hanging around we did a shuttle race where we worked together to move weights up and down the obstacle course. Next we did the stretcher carry where we carried a patient (pretend of course) 50 metres, that was very tiring. We finished off the challenge with 30 sit-ups, 25 push-ups, 25 burpees and 30 star-jumps. To celebrate the completion we finished off with a game of tugger war. Overall it was challenging as expected, awesome and loads of FUN!

Heres a video of us in ACTION!

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Our New Cross Country Goal

On Wednesday the 29th of May, we have our school cross country at Grey Lynn park. For the past few weeks we have been training extremely hard. We have been running non-stop for ten minutes around the school every morning. We have been totaling our distance as a class and we made it to Cape Reingas' lighthouse. Our new goal is to get back to Kaitaia from Cape Reinga before Wednesday. Here is where we are now....

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Certificate Winners 26 March 2012

The certificate winners for this weeks team assembly were Arlo, Sophie and Caitlin:

Arlo McLean won his for finishing work early and it always being at the highest standard. He felt very proud that he won and surprised out of all the people in his class . Next was Sophie Jones for thinking critically about her SMART goal. She also felt surprised because she said she never won that many certificates . Last is Caitlin Ward for being resilient at swimming sports and not giving up she felt astonished because she said she wasn't the only one that tried and wondered why she was the one that got the award and like all the award winners they all use the grey lynn school values respect, responsibility and resilience!!!!

Room 13s Words of Wisdom

Hi and Welcome to Room 13s first blog post for 2012. We have been writing about words of wisdom, words of wisdom are about life, giving things a try, never letting yourself down and advice on how to achieve your goals. Here are our "words of wisdom"......

Charlotte - Never give up on what you really love. Scarlett - Love life, follow your heart and never give up on yourself. Nathan - Never give up on yourself. Bay - Keep on trying until you succeed. Kayleen - If you lose don't feel like a loser, just keep on trying. Mason - Keep on trying until the job's finished. Juanita - When your ready you will be undefeated. Sophie - I follow my heart so I never give up. Madeleine - Patience is a good thing to have because if you wait good things will come to you. Nami - Keep on trying in your life and you will succeed. Harvey - Never stop trying. Malachi - If you work hard you will succeed. Chelsea - If you fail try again. Ben G. - Never stop trying. Anisah - Trying is the perfect way of succeeding. Olivia - Nobody is perfect you learn from your mistakes. Caitlin - You don't want to go back to the past because of bad memories that you had, its just life thats how we get stronger. Phoenix - Don't wait for the perfect moment take this moment and make it perfect. Ethan - Practice makes perfect because you know you love it. Marlo - Kindness, love and friendship will help you in life. Maya - Try your best, do as much training, never give up and it will all be worth it in the end. Queenie - Life is like a maze if you come out it is up to you. Nina - Go with your heart it will lead you to the right path. Sydnie - If you work hard and you put all your heart into something and you know you can do it, then you will and you will be the best at it. Ben P- Never fall back, never give up and always try your hardest.