M.A.F Special Visitor

Today we had a special M.A.F Visitor come in to teach us about M.A.F.  M.A.F is a Ministry that makes sure when you come to the airport it checks your bags to make sure you have no drugs, animals, wood products or anything that carries diseases.

Chunks

 In Room 30, during reading we made a huge long snake of words with chunks. There were 69 chunks. It took a very long time.

Birdman visit

When we first stepped into the hall we saw Mrs Naus in a hand glider it look like great fun. Next we got started, we met the BIRDMAN his real name was Patrick Manrow. He talked to us about century legend we wonder if they were true. Then we talked about people who tried inventions of flight. We also got to try flying some helicopters an we made gliders. It was fun we had races it was magnificent . We talked to Patrick about hot air balloons he also had a little hot air balloon that he filled with hot air rose to the roof like a lion chasing a deer. Then the cold air stared to fill and it stared to drop it dropped through the basket ball net and got stuck then it sunk. Then we said bye to Patrick and we all left the hall.

Writing to instruct

Check out our slide show of the shared writing we did today in class to show how to make a mini booklet. We also made these booklets and will be publishing something exciting in them to display in the class. 

Mother's Day Art

On the first week of school room 30 made mother's day art for our mums. We were trying to copy the artist, Claudia Pond Eyley.

First we drew flowers in a vase. Then we colored them in with pastel. We enjoyed not having to color right to the edges. For the vase we used magazine bits to collage it. Finally we dyed our background.

Challenging Choose Day!

Well done to everybody in Room 30 who participated in Challenging Choose Day today! We had many medal winners! Please keep visiting as we will post up results and photos in the next day or so!

Unusual Numbers!

Today we learnt an unusual pattern with numbers for the year 2011...

Take the last 2 digits of the year you were born. Now take the age you will turn this year. Add them together. Did you get 111? Try it out with your parents, grandparents, etc!

Grace's Persuasive Writing

Point View School is the best school in New Zealand for so many reasons. We have an amazingly huge field, we’re the third biggest school in New Zealand and we’re going to have a hedge maize built.

Our field is so huge and spacious. It’s very fun to run around freely on. It’s very useful because many sports races can be held on our field. We can also kick balls around at lunchtime.

Secondly Point View is the 3rd biggest school in New Zealand and the bigger the better. We have 3 grounds for each syndicate so we eat in different areas.

Finally, on the 9-10th April there will be a fun working bee and lots of our helpful community will build a hedge maize just for us. It will take a few months to grow but we will still get to enjoy having fun on it for 2 years.

I hope I have proven to you Point View is the best school in New Zealand or even the world and I certainly hope you believe me!

Julia's Persuasive Writing

Point View School is the best school in New Zealand. Read this and you will find out exactly why and you won't be able to disagree!

Firstly, lots of pets visit, including cats, actually mostly cats, but after school, all types of animals come and there are lots of dogs. But if you are afraid of dogs or other animals, still come, because they are all controlled and hopefully by the end of your first day you will be lulled into the life of animals, because they are great!

Secondly, Point View School teachers are absolutely wonderful, kind and caring. I could go on forever but they help you learn and get you to your best standard just like saying a magic word!

Last but not least there are Mufti days and very cool mufti days. There are orcasome orca mufti days and lots of activities at lunch time whenever. Other times we have we have to wear certain colours like on the Christchurch earthquake we wore black and red.

Now you have got to believe me that everything Point View does is awesome. So... I must have persuaded you that Point View is the best school in the world!

Lake Pupuke Trip

Tomorrow we are going on our trip to Lake Pupuke with Room 28. We are so excited! Please go to the address below to take you to our wiki page with the newsletters on them for you to download if you need to check them again.

http://room30pvs.wikispaces.com/Newsletters

Equipment we need to remember:
Sports uniform (to be worn to and from school)
Suitable footwear - sneakers and socks (NO sandals)
School sweatshirt
Rain jacket - even if it seems fine
School sun hat
Togs and towel (in a separate plastic bag)
Change of clothes
Rash shirt or wetsuit if available (no cotton shirts to be worn in the water)
Lunch - plenty!
Drink - plenty
No jewellery
Long hair must be tied back
Sun block
PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT ALL CLOTHING, TOGS AND TOWEL ARE NAMED

World Maths Day

Today is world maths day. We're playing 20 games per level. There's a total of 100 games. It's really fun and good exercise for your brain.

Check out some of our photos:

You can visit the World Maths Day site yourself.

Photos and writing by Grace

Christchurch Quake: From a child's point of view

We read this Stuff news article from Lily Anderson's experience last Tuesday at school in the Christchurch quake. It was interesting to read about what it was like being at school when the earthquake struck. Check it out! Reunited after the quake: mother and child

Who we are!

Welcome to our fifth wall blog!

Responsible, respectful
Ownership of our learning
Obedient (most of the time)
Marvellous, mega-magnificent

Terrific, talented, team players
Honest, helpful, humorous, happy
Incredibly intelligent
Red and green uniform
Thinkers, thoughtful
Young, yay for our new blog!

Written in 3 minutes flat collaboratively by the students of Room 30!