Is this really what the teachers look like at the end of the year? Ha ha ha ha

King of the Mountain 2013 finally receives his trophy!

Marcus (holding his trophy) has waited a little while for the King of the Mountain trophy to be found.  Turns out, the engravers had it hidden the entire time.  Marcus was the first boy up the mountain at Year 6 Camp earlier this year.  

Our Golfing Pro

Samantha was awarded the 'WGC Juniors - Handicap Improvement:  Girls'

Congratulations!

Te Aramoana in the Paper

Roman's Animation

Roman's Animation

Roman has been playing with Adobe After effects to create some animations.
Here is the link to one of them.  Very cool Roman!

Remaining Sailors have a beautiful day on the water....

The weather was amazing for the final group to set sail.....

Mrs Fearon joined the group today which was an extra special treat.  

PHILIPPINES - TYPHOON COIN TRAIL

Emilene and her organising crew managed to put together just over $270 for the typhoon relief fund.  This photo shows Room 10 and Room 6 after putting their coins on the letters.  

Fun with Mrs Parkinson making monster bookmarks this afternoon

Wet Day Duty antics…...

Ashley and Vlad got dressed up by Room 20 and 21 children at lunchtime today while they were on wet day duty.
They couldn't wait to come and show me in Room 10 how pretty they were!!  

Very funny guys.

KEY COMPETENCY CHALLENGE

The groups collaborated their ideas - This is what they came up with.

SWIMMING @ WAIKANAE POOL

SWIMMING!!!
Make sure you know which group you are part of and bring your togs and towel on these days….
Intermediate Group = This Wednesday 27th November and 4th December
Advanced and Beginner Group = This Friday 29th November and 6th December
ALL = Wednesday 11th December for a fun swim
We leave just after morning tea and return at lunchtime.  Hats and sunblock required!

MOUNTAIN BIKE CHAMP

Congratulations to our very own mountain biking superstar - Lachlan!
Here is a photo of Lachlan's medal and trophy from the mountain biking series where he placed 3rd.

ANOTHER AWESOME SAILING DAY......

CHOOSE YOUR DEVICE....

We are extremely lucky in Room 10 to have a selection of desktop computers, iPads and laptops.  We are currently using Google Docs to write our own plays.  Look how busy everyone is!

Warmer Weather.......

We decided to take our books outside under the shelter of the big Rata tree today.  

Beautiful warm weather.  I did however see quite a few 'pink' shoulders today.  

Sunblock is most definitely required and should be applied before coming to school as well as reapplying throughout the day.

SAILING - The first of our groups (Mix of Rm 10 & 7)

END OF YEAR CLASS PHOTO!

The coolest class on the coast!  

SAILING DATES FOR ROOM 10 - Updated

Everyone has been sailing now.  So much fun!!!!

MONDAY 18th NOVEMBER

Craig, Lachlan, Corey, Taimana, Sydney

MONDAY 25th NOVEMBER

Leilani, Samantha, Jasmine, Jade, Jemma, Eden, Cyrus, Roman, Josh, Mitchel, Marcus T, Scott

MONDAY 2nd DECEMBER

Bianca, Emilene, Charlotte, Bridie, Eleanor, Sophie, Vlad, Marcus F, Ashley, Dean, Vincent, Zach

We will be leaving school after the roll (9am).  

Please make sure you check you have all the right equipment for your sailing day.

Lunch and a drink

Togs and a towel

Wetsuit (if you have one)

Sunhat and/or beanie

Beach/wet shoes

Warm change of clothes

Woolen or thermal top

Sunglasses

Sun block

LEADERSHIP - What mindset do you think this little boy has?

http://www.youtube.com/v/GPeeZ6viNgY?autohide=1&version=3&autoplay=1&feature=share&attribution_tag=LBN2_IvIsB30SJhopZUAYg&showinfo=1&autohide=1

WORLD VISION INTERMEDIATE REWARDS DAY

Today, 4 of our Year 7/8 students are attending a rewards day which celebrates the 'top' schools in the lower north island.  This is the 3rd year we have been invited to attend this day which encompasses the overall picture of World Vision, what can be done with the money we raise and leadership skills for intermediate students.  YOU could be one of these people next year Room 10 as you enter your 7th year at primary school.  The 11 schools represented here at the Dowse Museum in Lower Hutt have raised over $70,000 for Bougainville, Papua New Guinea.
That equates to helping 8900 children!!!!AMAZING!!!  

Next year we are raising money for Bangladesh.

WACKY HAIR DAY

We had lots of fun today making our hair look 'wackier' than usual!  

KAPA HAKA - 2013

Congratulations to the group who represented our school at the annual Kapa Haka festival at El Rancho.  6 members of Room 10 joined the almost 100 student strong group ranging from Year 1s to Year 8's.  The group that stands up when Waikanae finishes are ex students who attend Kapiti College. They are then followed by Morgan who we all know well at school from his time as a teacher aide.  

A very special day.
Please click on the link slow to watch the performance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVCZfYruIK0

NOVEMBER CALENDAR for Room 10

CALENDAR ART - PACIFIC ISLAND TAPA

We thought we would share our calendar art with you.  

These are all in a yellow clear file folder at our school office so that orders for a 2014 calendar can be made and paid for.  They make fantastic christmas gifts for family members.

Our artwork also linked into our geometry unit this term.

There were many stages in making our calendar art:

1.  Folding a square from an A4 piece of paper

2.  Folding the paper so we had symmetrical quadrilaterals and triangles to help with our design

3.  Using a 'pacific island' theme of flowers to create a symmetrical design

4.  Colour in bold colours with waxy crayon

5.  Scrunching the paper up outside several times to get a flaky look

6.  Covering it in watered down brown dye and left to dry

7.  Once dry, we placed it face down on newspaper and ironed it

8.  Watered down dye painted onto our calendar art base and left to dry

9.  Glued our tapa cloth design onto the base for our finished piece

Technology with Room 20

  Ashley, Marcus T, Corey, Jasmine, Sydney, Eleanor, Emilene, Vlad, Craig, Jade and Vincent spent some time in Room 20 with the 5 year olds to help them with the tricky parts of their technology creations.  The design brief was to make a chair for their teddy to sit on.  The success criteria was for them to be big enough to fit teddy, sturdy and strong so it stays still when teddy sits on it, creative and unique.  Some of the chairs had drink holders!!!

                     

CAROLS @ WAIKANAE SCHOOL - December 18th

KIDS CAN COOK KITCHEN

Today we had so much fun listening, cooking and tasting with 'Master Chef'!  We made apple and silverbeet french crepes which tasted delicious.  We learnt that the tip of your tongue tastes sweet, and the sides and middle of your tongue tastes sour.  When you put both together you create 'savoury'.

Sydney was 'Sous (su) Chef' which means 2nd in command whilst in the kitchen.  One of the pictures shows 'Master' plugging Sydney in so she can whisk the flour, egg and milk!

For you basketball fans...... very cool

Tongariro Trout Fishing

Marcus had a fantastic weekend away with his grandparents and thoroughly enjoyed the Tongariro Trout Fishing experience.  They only do it 5 times a year and he got to be part of it.  Check out the flyer he brought back to school to share with us.  Some of you may be up that way in the summer holidays.

Waikanae Surf Club

We had a good turn out on Sunday for the Waikanae Surf club registrations.  Great to see some Room 10 faces.  It is not too late to join.  Check out the website for more information.  See if you can spot Mrs Cameron's husband.......
www.waikanaesurfclub.comn

Waikanae Surf Club - First club day 24th November - Can you spot anyone from Room 10??

Term 4 Reading Challenge

See if you can take a photo and upload onto a google doc or some kind of presentation you would like to share with the rest of the class at the end of term.  

Some of our class members may enjoy reading the books you have read.

This reading challenge replaces our weekly reading log and it's intention is to show you that reading is fun and can be enjoyed almost anywhere. 

Please use the devices we have in class to assist you and ask questions.  Happy to help as always ;)

These photos show some of our students reading plays.

Roman used PicMonkey to create this amazing collage of photos.  Awesome.

What do you think of this article?

http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/9302145/Online-addicts-too-tired-for-schoolwork

E Toru Nga Mea - Maori Waiata/ Hymn

We will be singing this as our Waiata on our visit to Kapiti College next Friday (25 October)

Last of the Polar Bears - Online Comic

In the warming Arctic of the near future, a mother polar bear and her two cubs struggle to survive. An all-ages comic. New page every Monday.  
http://www.lastpolarbears.com/comic-pages/chapter-1/the-last-of-the-polar-bears-cover/

Kids Can Cook Kitchen

http://www.kidscancookkitchen.org.nz

Waikanae School Sunhats

Term 1 and 4 at Waikanae School is when all students need to wear our school hat.
Please make sure you have one as the 'No Hat, No Play' policy will come into effect soon.
They are available from the school office.

Do you have a 'Growth Mindset'?

Peer Mediation - Training beginning in Term 4

DAVIS Programme Graduates

Ashley with his certificate celebrating his completion of the Davis Dyslexia Programme

Lachlan with his certificate celebrating his completion of the Davis Dyslexia Programme

CONGRATULATIONS to our Otago Problem Solvers!!

Eleanor with her 'Excellence' award in the Otago Problem Solving challenges

Marcus with his Participation award in the Otago Problem Solving challenges

Roman with his 'Merit' award in the
Otago Problem Solving challenges

Vincent with his 'Participation' award in the
Otago Problem solving challenges

Scott with his 'Participation' award in the Otago Problem solving challenges