Olympic Sports We Would Love To Try.

At the moment we are learning about the Olympics. These are some of the sports we would like to try:
Sophie - I would love to try Hockey because I like competing against people.
Ryan - I would love to be an Olympic swimmer because I went to Southland swimming and came fourth.
Sandra - I like soccer because it's really fun to play. I like shooting goals.
Kaira - I would like to play basketball because my cousin taught me the sport and it's heaps of fun.
Morgan - Skeet shooting. It is something I'm very good at and I enjoy it.

Speech Finalists

Congratulations to our lovely speech finalists.
Well done to Elan Hill and Amber Mirfin who will be competing in the Year 4 speech competition tomorrow. Also to Liam Smith and Chelsea Ledington who made it through to the Year 5/6 competition.
The finals begin at 11.15am tomorrow in the hall. We welcome everyone to come and watch.
Best of luck you four!!

This week Room 6 has learnt about the Olympics:

• Liam and I have learnt about Mountain Biking and it was first introduced to the Olympics in 1996. By Degan.
• I learnt about Rowing. I found out it was introduced into the Olympics in 1828. I also found out that New Zealand are really good at it and that we have won lots of medals. We have won 21 medals in singles since 1920. By Jack.
• Me and Kaira learnt about Basketball. It was first introduced in Berlin. New Zealand has never won a medal for Basketball but I hope they do this year. By Briar.
• Elan and I learnt about Archery. Archery was first put in the Olympics in 1900. In Archery you have to try and hit the target with an arrow. By Amber.
• Micaela and I learnt about Soccer and that it was introduced to the Olympics in the 1900's and New Zealand has never won a medal in Soccer. By Tristan.
• Me and Ollie learnt about Boxing. It was first introduced to the Olympics in 1904. Nicola Adams from England won a gold medal in the 2012 summer Olympics. By Chris.

Rio Olympics

* Room 6 has been learning about the Olympics.

* Room 6 have been learning about mascots for the Rio Olympics! Vivicius is a mixture of all the different Brazilian animals. Tom is a fusion of all the different types of plants in the Brazilian rain forest.

* Room 6 has also been learning about the Olympic rings, we got to design our own type of Olympic symbol.

Room 6 Inquiry Projects

This week we were learning about the Great Wall of China, we got lots of information about the Great Wall. Zio made the background and photos for our slideshow. Micaela wrote the facts.
We did a really good job by Zio and Micaela.
Click on this link to have a look.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1g2v_jd_u4EUDDxzrvls1ofL6Z4BrVZCTXYOcpEvl-aI/edit

I learnt about Duck Shooting. A long time ago duck shooting never existed. When people started shooting ducks they first used pistols.
By Hayden

Our Inquiry

During this week we have been doing our Inquiry unit. We got to pick a country and then pick a subject about it that we were interested in.
For example I chose to do NZ history of Cray fishing. I learnt that cray fisherman used to do a lot of cray fishing in the chatham Islands by Morgan. Me and Erin are doing Buckingham Palace. We have learnt that Buckingham Palace has 775 rooms by Sophie. I am doing my inquiry about English clothes and I learnt that you were not allowed to see a ladies legs by Sandra.

The Best Part of Me

Room 6 was doing a writing activity about the best part of me. Everyone wrote about there favourite part of themselves. Everyone enjoyed it because it was amazing.
By Tristan, Amber, Chris, Degan and Jack.

 

Scotland

This year we have been learning about ourselves and our heritage, lots of us have relatives from Scotland so this week we have been learning about it.

Scotland has a tradition of highland dancing, tartan and bag pipes.

Room 6 have been learning about all the different types of tartan in our family.

Here is a picture of some of the different types of tartans.

By Chelsea, Erin, Brooklyn, Connor and Liam.

Room 6 2016

Here is our stunning new class for 2016!
We have a wonderful group in Room 6 this year and I can tell it is going to be loads of fun, and hopefully loads of learning!
Already it has been an action packed year with Swim for Life lessons, athletics and all of the usual getting to know each other that happens at the start of the year.
Only two weeks until camp so that will be the focus for the next little while.
We look forward to sharing our learning with you all.

Chicken the Rabbit.