Survey

Go to this link and complete the survey - let the teacher know once you have done this for a greenie :)



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Black Fever by "The Minstrel" featuring Ashhurst School

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvMOIOQm9U8

check out this amazing video Ashhurst School put together. This song was written to inspire the All Blacks to win the Rugby World Cup in 2011.

Make sure you click "like"

Danicing with Dean McKerras

WALT write an informative explanation

By Jannah

I Can Animate - Fractions

Poetry

WALT write a cinquain poem of the snow in Ashhurst this week.
Listen to Caitlins:


Listen to Ethans:

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Te Reo - Introductions

Alanna's Storybird

Room 5 has been experimenting with a website called "Storybird" during Reading time. Check out Alanna's fantastic story...

Sitting at the Bottom of a Pond by Alannaroom5 on Storybird

It all started with a sneeze...

Shuffling Song

WALT improve sentences so that they create a picture in the readers mind

1. The cat sat at his food bowl

"Sally fat greedy cat purred as his sad huge green eyes peered down at his empty bowl" By Jannah

"Yesterday, the hungry lonely and sad cat sat down while his fiery red eyes glared into his empty bowl" By Emma

"The small hungry kitten slobbed at his dry slimy cat food" By Sam

2. My garden is nice in spring

"My lush green garden is always best when the great seasonal spring comes round to New Zealand" By Nick

"My colourful garden lights up like a beautiful sunset" By Tennille

3. I'm so hungry

"Tummy rumbles and sickly feeling... all the things I'm feeling. In other words I'M HUNGRY!" By Alanna

CONGRATULATIONS

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE FOLLOWING....

* Outstanding results in Room 5 with their efforts in cross country! We had Emma, Jannah and Jamie make it through to the inter-school this year! I am very proud of you all that participated and gave it a good go.

* Emma - 4th place at inter-school! Congratulations that is an outstanding result! We are so lucky to have you join Ashhurst School!
* Jannah and Jamie - both gave it 100% and were placed in the top half of the runners. Well done you two!

* Also, I would like to congratulate Tennille, Britney, Madison and Jannah for making it into the DJ netball tournament team - Kai Pai you guys!

Mrs Amos

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Our Bake Sale - Raising Money for HeartStopper

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Is how much this amazing class raised today for those Heart Babies! I am so proud of each and every one of you. The commitment and generosity is amazing - you all ROCK!!!!

Thanks to the families for their support in helping Room 5 with their baking.

Our Special Visitor - Tyler

Our Inquiry Wonderings for our special visitor tomorrow...

Room 5 wanted to make a difference...

We decided to raise some money to change someone else's life for the better. After a vote we decided to help children with heart conditions (there was a personal connection as Mrs Amos is "taking the plunge" on Sunday raising money for this cause. Along with our baking sale we are lucky enough to have a super special visitor tomorrow... Tyler a 2 year boy who is a heart baby! We are so excited - this makes it all so real and meaningful. Below are some of our wonderings we have....

Inquiry Action

Room 5’s Inquiry Action - Having empathy for others, we want to help those in need.

On Friday the 20th May 2011, during Morning Tea, Room 5 is having a baking sale. We are raising money for the Heart Stopper (which is an organisation that raises money to support heart kids throughout their life) which is being held this Sunday in the square. We are wanting to make a difference to those less fortunate than ourselves. Did you know 12 babies are born with heart conditions a week?

Bring your small change and support us by buying some YUMMY baking with all proceeds going to the Heart Stopper NZ.

SO COME ON ASHHURST SCHOOL... MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN OUR COUNTRY! BUY SOME BAKING AND SUPPORT THIS WORTHY CAUSE!

Visit http://www.heartstopper.org.nz/ashhurst_school if you would like to support the Ashhurst School teachers, who are taking the plunge this weekend.

Sailing the Titanic

On Saturday in the weekend my cousin came around to my house. She stayed until Sunday and as you know it was very wet and rainy on Sunday so we got the umbrellas and went outside. It was amazing because in the gutters of the road all of the water was moving a round and there were bits that looked like waterfalls it was so cool. So we ran to the shed and started to make boats. Mine looked like titanic kind of. Once we had finish making them we went and sailed them in the road gutters. Mine had lots of nails in it and three white flags I was hoping it wouldn't sink but listen to what happened next............. It sank and it was so funny because it sank just like what happened on titanic!! So I took off all the nail and it floated. Me and my cousin had a boat race and I kept smashing into the side of the road gutter but it was a tie. It was fantastic because sometimes when you moved all the leaves out of the way the concrete wasn't leveled and it would make a waterfall! Wow!! Soon it got cold and we went inside but that was the most coolest and entertaining thing to do in the rain! By Teana

Red Nose Day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pQyWgnVLvU

You make the whole world smile,

with your little button nose.

Your itty bitty feet and your tiny

little toes.

Even in the still of night when your

a little so and so.

You make the whole world smile.

You make the whole world smile,

when you light up like the sun.

The laughter in your eyes bringing

joy to everyone.

So we will all sing this song,

and we'll beat upon the drum.

You make the whole world smile.

Let love flow through your soul,

Let it in, Let it in

Look into your heart,

come on play your part

Lets begin.

Survey from Room 5 students

This is the link to the survey you must complete:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NM7NS3H

Let me know once you have completed this....

Mrs Amos

We won this fortnight's Tararua Challenge!

This challenge was "Jail Tag". It was an intense final game against Room 7, but we came out on top - Well done Guys!!!

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Winter Snow Card Comments

Alanna's Amazing Acrostic Poem

Awesome Ashhurst School takes the lead!

Spectacular sporting opportunities!

Hurray for awesome Arawa!

Hurry don't be late for class!

United till the end!

Running to the finish line!

Snazy teachers everywhere!

Together we learn!

Swimming in the icey pool!

Cricket with Mr Reed!

Happyness spread through the grounds!

Opportunities for everyone!

Outside having fun!

Learning till our High School days!

Jannah's Acrostic Poem of Ashhurst School

Awesome ashhurst school takes the lead

Spectacular sporting opportunties

Historic history

High hills cover the sky

United we stand together

Rusty but old, but sill brave

Spend time with the kids is what the principle is all about

Tomorrow becomes anther day

Special students reaching high

Call into our fantastic school

High is what we all achieve

Opportunities fall out of the sky

Open your eyes and you will see ashhurst is the place to be

Look at us see why we are the most outstanding school that strives for excellent

Nicholas' amazing collage

This is my amazing collage and I'm going to tell you how I made it.

First we drew five wobbly lines.Next we ripped up bits of awesome looking paper and filled in one the spaces in between the lines but we made sure we did not do different colours of paper in the spaces, in some of the spaces we just coloured it in with jovies. After we finished that we put skeleton trees on the art with black pva and lastly we stapled it on to a piece of black paper and we were done.

Britney's Acrostic poem of Ashhurst School

Active,awesome,Ashhurst school takes the lead

Super dooper friends forever

Hooray, hooray for room 5!

Happy hippy girls and boys

Unafraid children help little children to learn

Right teachers who help

Super bug goes round and round the school

The entire school will learn together

Spectacula takitimu will rule the school

Clever,awesome,superb,nice,trusting teachers

Helping children are great and it will never be bad

Open lives flow around the tidy school

Oh and...ASHHURST SCHOOL ROCKS!!!!!!

Living room 5 will be the best class in the world!!!

Tennille's Swimming Reflection

In this movie I used imovie to make a movie about my swimming and how I need to improve in my swimming. I used special features to make it sound awesome and look stunning. Hope you like it.

WALT use sparkling synonyms...

Sparkling Synonyms... Just like we have been learning in class, come up with words for "big"

SURVEY...

Year 5 & 6 Survey

Hi All,

If you are a Year 5 or 6 Student, please complete this survey

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/RLRVMJF

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Having fun with words...

How many words can you make using the letters from the word....
SPAGHETTI

WALT take photo's using the macro function on a camera

Success Criteria:

We needed to...

- Use the half shutter to ensure frame is in focus
- Try to be creative with frames
- Take up close photo's

WALT write a recount from someone else's perspective

LEFT ON THE GROUND AGAIN

It was 12.51pm when it hit again but bigger- 6.3 Christchurch quake. All I could think of was my family. Walls were crashing down I was in the doorway waiting for it to stop... will it ever? When it finally finished I ran to see if my family was ok, they were but they were also shocked. We went to the park which was the safest place. We were all prepared when another aftershock hit. When we had stayed in our tents for an unexpected night out we were getting texts from friends asking if we were ok, we were. Over night we had lots of aftershocks. The church fell down, I was so sadI hardly slept just listened to the tap tap tap of the rain and emergency cars going and people yelling while being trapped in buildings. I was firing but thats what you get for living in Christchurch, its full of surprises.

By Jannah

WALT write a recount...

We wrote recounts of our marae trip, please listen to Alanna's story!

Room 5 writers...

As a class we decided what we need to be, or use, as a successful writer... check out our bubble map we made!

Our Marae Visit!

Watch this space .... we will share our learning soon!

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