Rm 27's Paint It Black entry

WoW! Congratulations to Room 27 for an amazing entry into the Paint It Black competition. They came 2nd place! Here is their entry.

Our big day in

This morning we chose activities to do. Some read audio books, some made stories on StoryJumper, some played board games and card games and some finished their art.

Flynn reading Cars the audio book

Jade, Vienna and Shayan read some browsing books on the listening post

Brigit, Isabel, Heathcliff and Gracie work our 'whodunnit' in Cluedo

Emily, Jazmin and Amanda battle it out at UNO

Jaeda helps Iso finish her koru artwork

Kai, Connor and Ollie making a book on StoryJumper

Shannae finishing her koru artwork

Our favourite part of the day was when we had to cook our BIG BREAKFAST. Luckily we had some fantastic parents who were able to help.  We cooked everything ourselves - pancakes, waffles, hashbrowns, eggs, smoothies, bacon. You name it, we cooked it! Thanks to Mrs Wakefield for also coming in to help out.  Here are some photos and videos of us cooking.

Canterbury Cross Country

We have some fantastic runners in Room 23.  Corban, Iso, Brigit and Gracie made it into the St Albans Canterbury Cross Country team! They competed at the Halswell Quarry against all the other representatives from all over Canterbury.  Well done to you all for all your hard work and training.  Here are some photos from the races.

Advertising and food

As we have been looking at food and cooking this week, I found this clip on YouTube about how when food items are advertised they look a lot better than what we end up buying.

Check out this clip it's quite interesting.

Our Restaurants rule!

This week the children have decided to cook breakfast for themselves next Tuesday. They have been put into groups of 4 and have created a restaurant, uniform and menu. On Tuesday they will be bringing all the ingredients and equipment to create their wonderful meals. Here are some of their ideas.

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Do you want to win an iPad?

MORE FM has decided to play Kidsfest iFactor with Si and Gary! You’ve seen X-Factor, 
American Idol and Britain’s Got Talent…well now MORE FM is bringing you Kidsfest iFactor!


If there’s some hidden young talent in your family we want to hear it!
It can be anything from a rapping, beat boxing, a poem, playing the spoons….. ANYTHING!


All you have to do is call the TV2 Kidsfest iFactor Talent Hotline on 340 1234, record 
yourself showing off your amazing talent, and you’re in to WIN one of 5 iPads!! 


Be sure to tune in to Si and Gaz 6am-10am Monday-Friday to find out if you are one of their 
favourite entries and you could be winning a brand spanking new 16GB iPad!! 

Touch Canterbury Holiday Programme

Rugby World Cup comes to town

Come and see a very special guest....

The William Webb Ellis Cup (Rugby World Cup) will be on display at the Christchurch Football Club this coming Saturday - 16th June 2012. 

See it in person and get your photo with the cup that All Black Captain and Christchurch Football Club member, Richie McCaw, held aloft after winning the 2011 Rugby World Cup.

The William Webb Ellis Cup will be at our clubrooms 250 Westminster St from 10am untill 2pm this Saturday. 

Don't miss out!

NZ Black Sticks Hockey visit

Tomorrow (Tuesday, 12 June 2012) Black Sticks players will be in Christchurch visiting Marist Park @ St Bede’s and Nunweek Park – to promote their Olympic campaign. 

This is a chance for the hockey community to show their support of our Black Sticks players and encourage them as they head to the Olympics (beginning in 45 days!!!). 

This is a meet and greet opportunity and all kids are welcome to come down to the parks to say ‘hi’.  Great to have a photo taken with the players and get signed autographs.

Times are as follows:
Marist Park (at St Bedes) – 3:40pm until 4:10pm
Nunweek Park – 4:30pm until 5:00pm.

Photos of snow

If you have any photos of you, your family or just of snow, email them to me by Monday next week. We will use them for some writing.  Email me at kirsty.ford@stalbans.school.nz. Thanks!  Here is one of me yesterday at Nunweek Park where I play hockey.

Me and my dog Maddie standing outside Nunweek Park. Don't think I'll have training tonight!

Snow

Here are some photos from our classroom! Not many braved the weather except these tough cookies!












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Turbo touch

We have a session every Thursday afternoon with Shane from Touch Canterbury. He is teaching us skills to plat Turbo touch. It is a mix of touch rugby and netball. Here are some clips from our latest session.

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