My Best Goal EVER!

On Sunday we played our first game of flippa ball against a team called the Water Sharks. In our team we have Felix, Maya, Kaia and Holly who are in my class. It was there first time playing flippa ball. We had a great time and won the game 1-0. I scored the goal it reminded me about the time I scored my best goal EVER. I was at a flippa ball game with my team in Term 1. We were against the Good Shepard's. No team has ever beaten them and we didn't either. I was in attack with Ethan then the ball smashed infront of Ethan he picked it up and passed me the ball very quickly and it landed in the water with a splash.  Then the Good Shepard's defence came charging towards me I picked up the ball as fast as I could but just as I looked up the goalie came stepping towards me. I lifted up the ball and through the ball right into the goal. That was the only goal we scored that day.

Extra Week of Holidays

On the last day of school I did not have to go to school because my plane flight was that day. On the plane it was awesome because I got to eat a lollie and a cookie and drink some water. When we landed  in Dunedin we slept at my dad's friends' house we stayed there for 3 nights'. One of those days we went to a chocolate  factory we got to see 1 tone of chocolate fall. After Dunedin we went to Queenstown. In Queenstown we went up a mountain on a gondola and at the top of the mountain we went on a luge it was awesome. The next place we went to was Wanaka. In Wanaka they have an awesome thing called Puzzling World we went there.  First we went in some illusion rooms they where werid and scary then we went into the great maze it took me 30 minutes to do the maze the rest of the family about 45 minutes to do the maze. The next place we went to was Christchruch there we went to the antarctic centre. We went into this room which had snow and was -8 degrees we also saw little blue penguins and watched a 3D movie it was funny because when a bird did a poo water came into your face. The next day we went to arhana park we got to see a chttah run 100 k per hour  the next place we went to was kikria we saw about 133 wild seals. The next place we went to was Picton the top of the South island. The next day we got on the ferry in 3 hours we were in wellington we went inside the beehive and on the cable cars and got to go into a pool the next day we drove to Taupo. And then we were in Auckland. The whole trip took 3 weeks and 1 day.                                                

Journey to Cape Reinga

In room 13 we recently just started counting up how far people in room 13 were running for cross country practice, well okay not just recently about a week ago. So lets get on with the story now we kind of took the idea off room 12. Each lap around is about 250m and we tally up how many laps we do then convert that into metres and add them all up. Anyway on Wednesday the 15th of May our total km run is 189Km. I thought that was great we are trying to get up to Cape Reinga its the top of New Zealand. We took some photos of where we got up to on the map. We have gone past Whangarei and Hikurangi. The next run we will probably pass Paihia. Uala and me counted up what we got up to, today we ran 41.25Km altogether, I think we went pretty far well thats what i thought if you ask me. When we are running my normal amount of laps I would go is about 5 or 6 laps in ten minutes, thats how long we run for. I like doing the running because we do not have to do work for ten minutes, now I find that Impressive.

By Georgia

Tip Top Factory Tour

In the holidays I went to the tip top factory were they make all the ice cream. I went with Ella my au pair, my Mum, Sienna, Zara and Mikayla 3 sisters. I went on wednesday the 1st of may 2013. We saw all the machines the lady also asked the men that were walking past if they had taken any ice cream because otherwise they would destroy the whole pack. Did you know that they make at least 1000 meltdowns in 1 second. We saw them all getting packed up. After that we went and watched a movie on cameras around the factory and had a free ice cream. I had a hokey pokey meltdown ice cream, yum yum. I felt really excited before hand and then had an awesome time.

The Mud Run

On sunday I went to a mud run. A mud run is when there
is three races a short, medium and long I only did the short
race. Me my mum my brother and my sister and two of
my sisters friends. We all had to tape our shoes on. I lined
up for the short race and GO!!!! I tried to run. I ran with my
mum but then...OH NO I got stuck I had to call my mum.
I had mud all over I got up and got to the finish I went to
the fire mens hose to wash of then I lined up to get a little
bag of goodies. I had fun and felt tired.

Seeing Ourselves!

Today Room 13 went to the Corbans Art Centre to learn about portrait painting. We meet Joy and Ann-Sophie who taught us about sketching and painting self-portraits. We learnt about painting a 'Bust' self-portrait, a bust portrait is a portrait from your head to your shoulders. We really enjoyed going and found it to be a lot of fun.

We learnt....
- that your face is more than just one colour
- how to blend colors
- how to use smiley faces and two tear drops to draw a nose
- that our face is an egg shape, not a circle, square or an oval
- how to draw eyes using smiley faces and eyelashes
- how to paint
- that we need to take our time and enjoy the art
- how to sketch using charcoal
All in all we learnt how to do better portraits of ourselves.

WATCH US GROW!

In Room 13 this year lots of our learning will be based around the big idea of 'GROWTH'. We have discussed different ways that we will grow and ways we want to grow.

Here are some of our ideas....

Our maths knowledge will grow
Our bodies will grow and get bigger
Our brain will grow from things we will learn
Science knowledge will grow
Hopefully our energy levels will grow
Our Art skills will grow
Our word banks will grow
We will be able to read bigger words
We will grow more brave as the year goes on to experience challenging things.

Please join us on our blog page throughout the year and see how our growth is coming along