Aya's Christmas Poem!

CHRISTMAS

Christmas is about spending time with your family

And at home you might put up a tree

You would put a star on the top of the tree

That will hold your memory

Christmas is 1 of the best times of the year

Christmas smells are everywhere

Time to go inside and have some hot cocoa

Drinking your hot cocoa while watching the snow

When you go to sleep

Santa will take a peep

 Under your tree he will put presents galore

When you wake up you will be as happy as can be

Cause you can see Santa’s footsteps leading to the door

You can tell Santa’s been here

You can tell Santa’s been everywhere

When you open your presents a smile appears on your face

And then you start dancing around the place

Its time to go out in the snow and have some fun

The Christmas spirit has just begun

A+P Show

On Wednesday the 16th of November, the year 5 team went to the Canterbury A+P Show. We split into small groups and we went where we wanted. There were animals, balloons, traction engines, an FMX motor show and tons more. We all took $2 for an ice block at the end. There 3 choices, a Blasta, a lemonade Popsicle, and a mini ice-cream tub. There was a horse float that could fit up to six horses. There was a gigantic blow up bull dog as well.

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Room 22's bloggers.

Rm 22's Poems

In rm 22 we have been doing poetry. We did Diamante poems, poems featuring our spelling words and a poem of our choice. We shared a poem of our choice as speeches. Here are some of the poems:

A hike, By Leo Marryatt

On February I went for a hike on my motorbike I stopped and got stuck
I saw police  ahead
I hung by and saw a pie, that pie might die
I told a guy it was to late
It was gone, I said bye to the guy's stomach


Animals, By Cushla Barriball

Big and small
Tiny and tall
Skinny and fat
A dog with a hat
Cats and dogs
Mice and frogs
Bears and hares
Long hair, short hair, or no hair at all
Wild or tame
Friendly, scary, cuddly
Some nice, some not so nice, some beastly
Animals tell tales, short tails, long tails, or no tails at all
Fluffy and scary
Fluffy and hairy
Fluffy and cuddly
Fluffy and beastly
Animals that live in the wild
Animals that live in a paddock
Animals that live in your house
Animals that live in a pet store
I love animals
Do you?
Should you?
Would you?
You could if only you tried
So beg and plead and cry
Try puppy dog eyes
See if your parents will buy you one.

Christmas Shoe Boxes!!!

Room 22 are sending away Christmas shoe boxes! Christmas shoe boxes are shoe boxes that we send away to poor countries containing gifts like pencils, books, and toys. The whole syndicate are doing this and we were inspired by a video on youtube. It is a great opportunity to be able to light up a child's day. We are doing our shoe boxes to one boy and one girl, both aged 5-9.

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Rm 22's bloggers.

Operation Christmas Child

Hi all!

I know that I usually let the children do the blogging, but today I felt that I had to share my impressions of the rewarding activity that we have undertaken this week.

At the beginning of the week Mrs Haylock asked us to open our minds to consider the plight of children in under privileged countries that wouldn't be getting a Christmas present.

Operation Christmas Child has been linking people from all over the world since 1990, filling a need and bring a great deal of joy.

After our initial discussions we decided to create a special Christmas box for a boy between the ages of 4 - 9.  The children wrote a list of what they thought would be appropriate gifts and we discussed why somethings could, and couldn't be sent.  I really do have a class of great thinkers!

I am so proud of all of you.  You and your families have astounded me with your generosity.  We raised so much that we managed to fill a second box, this one ready for a little girl somewhere in the world to share the joy of Christmas.  Letting them know that somewhere in this world, a bunch of wonderful, caring and thoughtful kids are thinking of them.

You have made a change ... there is nothing more powerful than that.

Ka mau te whei

From a very proud Ms. B

Proud bunch of Queenspark-ians <3

Swimming PMI

Read about what we enjoyed about our swimming lessons.

Alijah's Little Bird Tale

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Kia Kaha Christchurch

Today is the 2nd anniversary of the first big earthquake that hit Christchurch and changed all of our lives.

Although the event feels like it was yesterday, we know that we can cope with anything that Mother Nature can throw at us.

Today we reflected on the feelings that we still feel about the earthquakes and OUR city, Christchurch. Together we have created this broken heart that contains all our emotions.

Our Messages of Hope:
Cam, Taylor, Leo  -  LOVE

Jenaya, Jamie leigh, Renee - We Believe.  All of our hearts are chipped but we still believe in ourselves.  We can take anything Mother Nature throws at us, and we mean ANYTHING!

Josh, Ethan G, Bailey - We wil stay strong no matter what Mother Nature throws at us, no matter what it is.

Lina, Cushla, Piper, Aya - Kia Kaha Christchurch. Stand up and be strong.  We can do this.

Christian, Ethan P and Logan - Christchurch is destined to rise up again.

Hayley, Ella, Lauren - We hope that Christchurch will rise up and we will be our old selves again.  We hope that we are all strong and work together to rebuild Christchurch.  Kia Kaha, Christchurch.

Sam, Xyron, Ryan - Fear, sadness, anger; all of these emotions merging into one.  Hope, courage, love; all of these rise from the quake, it is unforgettable.  We have come so far.  Kia Kaha, Christchurch.

Maddi, Sarah, Reese - Kia Kaha, be strong.  Be brave.  All this stuff is broken.  Be strong.  We can cope with anything that Mother Nature throws at us because we are AWESOME!

Room 22 have been doing swimming. We have been going to Graham Condon for week 7 and 8. It has been very fun. Here are some photos Ms.Boyle has taken.

Week 6 was Maths week, after Maths Interchange, we went out to do D.E.A.M(Drop everything and do maths).We went out and drew maths sums and things related to maths in chalk.It was REALLY fun. Here are some pictures Ms.Boyle took of Maths Week:

We did maths hats as well, we made our own hats in shape we wanted, and then gave them a number theme. Here are some pictures of them.

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room 22.

The Olympics are upon us!  We have teamed our learning to make the most of this exciting time.  Here is what the children will be doing over the next 3 weeks.  We recommend that you log in to the Queenspark School Library website to make the most of the information on the Year 5 Concept page. 

Welcome back!

Welcome to term 3!  We hope you've had a wonderful holiday. Our topic for this term is ADVENTURE, we have been focusing on what adventure means to us. We have written procedures on whatever we wanted and then published them.  They include How to Kick a Goal in Soccer, How to Draw an Ice-Cream, How to Draw a Person, and How to make an Origami Chair, just to name a few.

Also, we are focusing on the Olympics, we have to make a 4 page report, 1 page is for a profile of our Olympian we have chose, another for facts about that person, another for facts about the sport they play, and the last for facts about the country they come from. It looks like it will be great fun.

Thanks for reading,
Room 22's Bloggers.

Welcome back!

Welcome to term 3!  We hope you've had a wonderful holiday. Our topic for this term is ADVENTURE, we have been focusing on what adventure means to us. We have written procedures on whatever we wanted and then published them.  They include How to Kick a Goal in Soccer, How to Draw an Ice-Cream, How to Draw a Person, and How to make an Origami Chair, just to name a few.

Also, we are focusing on the Olympics, we have to make a 4 page report, 1 page is for a profile of our Olympian we have chose, another for facts about that person, another for facts about the sport they play, and the last for facts about the country they come from. It looks like it will be great fun.

Thanks for reading,
Room 22's Bloggers.

Welcome back!

Welcome to term 3!  We hope you've had a wonderful holiday. Our topic for this term is ADVENTURE, we have been focusing on what adventure means to us. We have written procedures on whatever we wanted and then published them.  They include How to Kick a Goal in Soccer, How to Draw an Ice-Cream, How to Draw a Person, and How to make an Origami Chair, just to name a few.

Also, we are focusing on the Olympics, we have to make a 4 page report, 1 page is for a profile of our Olympian we have chose, another for facts about that person, another for facts about the sport they play, and the last for facts about the country they come from. It looks like it will be great fun.

Thanks for reading,
Room 22's Bloggers.

name bugs

RM22 have been making some bugs out of our names.
we wrote our names      
on a piece of paper, then traced over them with pastel.
Then we pressed down on the piece of paper and made a mark so that we could trace over it.
Then we turned the piece of paper around so it looked like a bug.
Then we coloured it in and dyed the background.
when everyones name bug was finished they looked AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Elgrego

We went to a show and at the show as a magician called Elgrego. He was amazing at doing magic tricks. The first act he did was turning a sheet into a bird called ZuZu. He also made a bird sitting on tree in a painting come out of the painting.  He also put a ball through a mirror. and he had loads of wine bottles inside a container that could only fit one. also he turned paper into snow. Also, They broke somebody's shoe and put it back with first aid.He taught us how important it is to respect others and to say stop if somebody is bullying you.

Art time!

Room 22 linked their names on a piece of paper, then we put pastel and crayon on top of it.  Next we folded it over and made a mark on both sides of the paper so we could colour it in.  We had made alien name bug with only writing our names!  We have some examples here.

Beginning 2012 in Room 22

Hi, Room 22 hope you had a great time over the holidays. We hope you enjoyed it very much. Room 22 have had a great time working with Ms Boyle and you are welcome to in to look at your childrens work so far. We are all looking forward to camp this year and will surely have lots of fun =) We are hoping that the weather will stay as good as it was in summer. We learn tons and tons of stuff from are teacher and are trying our best in the new year. We hope you have as good a year as we are having at the moment. We are learning Rotation, Reflection and Translation for maths. We have also done some really cool art and are studying the art of cubism. We're doing lots of fitness and playing some great games.

Wishing you the best for the new year,
From room 22. =)