Winter Tournament

Winter tournament was really fun and tiring.I really enjoyed it. Hayley and I played rugby in Waimataitai Team 2. Both teams were year 5 & 6.
Our teams were called waimataitai1 and waimataitai2 unfortunly waimataitai 2 lost all their games but Waimataitai 1 won 2 games.
Thank you for attending our Winter tournament
Thanks all parents for helping and Ollie and Red for coaching.

Our class novel

Mrs Jopp has been reading to us The Boy In The Dress. Here are some of the reviews we wrote.

"I think there should be a sequel because I really want to find out what happens in the play!"-annonymous,
"This book is great, and I love the description. I would recomend this book year four and up."-James D5,
"I like the part when they are all wearing dresses!"-annonymous,
"I think this book is AWESOME and David should write another book."-Georgia,
"The message in the book is, everyone is different and it doesn't really matter what clothes people were!"-annonymous,
"It's a magnificent book and I would recommend it for lots of people."-George,

"David Walliams is hillarious writer and Denis, or should I say Denise! is a very different boy, and should be a super model!"-annonymous.

kiwican leadership

Keesarla searching for items in the minefieldThese team mates are communicating while their blindfolded team mate needed to be directed. Do you think the blind folder person will see them pointing?
Our topic for KiwiCan this term is Leadership. This week we talked about the qualities of a Leader. This is what we thought a good leader's qualities should be....

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  respect your team


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  be on time


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  care for your team


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  give everyone a turn


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  co operate


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  listen to there team mates


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  respect


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  communication

We played a game that used both leadership skills and communication skills.
it was fun (and loud!)

We are really proud of Hayley she was the winner of the girls skate competition held at the Skate park this weekend. Hayley won loads of cool prizes including a new skate board and a MP3 player.

Yay Hayley

Wai Learner Assembly

Today we were very excited when our own Kate was announced as the

Learning Team Three Wai Learner for term three.

This is a very special occassion as it only happens once a term. We all cheered.

We had written down who we thought should be the Wai Learner and wrote reasons why we thought Kate should be.

We think Kate is happy, helpful and extremely motivated. She has great manners and asks curious questions. She is respectful to everyone and is reflective about her learning.

Yay Kate you rock!

Have you read this book?

As part of our book week Mr Willers read his favourite book to us.
It was really funny and a bit different to what we read now days!
We all learnt some interesting words


Thanks for coming to see us.

our mystery box

Room 5 book characters

This week is Book Week at Waimataitai.

We all dressed up as our favourite characters.

Can you guess who we all are?

our vegie person goes flying

kiwi can

On monday morning our class
had kiwi can.We were making
parachute men out of vegetables
(potatoes,1 cherry tomato,
4 carrots and 5 toothpicks)

Check out the next blog entry to see videos of it!

Hadlow to Harbour

The Hadlow to Harbour was on the 12th of March you could choose the 3km or 10km.

There was three water stops for the 10k. We had to run across the spiral bridge near off the cafe.When you finished you got a certificate with your time on it.

ps this is Miss Culhanes dog flynn he did the walk too.

Camp+ earthquakes

Sadly Year 5\6 camp has been cancelled because of the Christchurch earthquake.
We were going to Ferrymead but the bridge & barn were destroyed.
We were also meant to go to Pioneer Woman's Memorial track, visit the Early European Musem and go swimming.
We felt both sad and relieved about camp.
Hopefully we will go on another camp in Term Four.
In our class we are luckily enough to have four students from CHCH. We like having them in our class and are glad they are safe in Timaru.
Written by Thomas and Hunter
(class bloggers)

new term

Wow Week Three already - we are getting excited about camp.
Check into to see what we have been up to soon.