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