south canterbury athletics 2010

On Thursday the 2nd of December
Bluestone pupils went away to the SBS events stadium to compete in the South Canterbury Athletics for 2010.
All of the students from top to bottom of the South Canterbury were all very talented and competed very well. Our students did very well and most of them got a placing.
Our own Room 14 student Henrietta Fotofili got 1st in ALL the events she tried for they were base ball throw and shotput which makes the best thrower throughout South Canterbury in her age group. Izzy Docherty got 2nd in the girls under ten 100 metre run.
Well done to all the other people that competed in this huge event.
Oh and our class came 4th in the school relays good job girls.

By Abby

This week on Wednesday we found out our pen pals from Arizona America !!

My buddys are Josefina and Eric and they go to Lincoln Elementry School. We are writing to them and we will get to know them better.
Sharlene was the only teacher in South Canterbury that said YES!
I'm really looking forward to writing to my buddy. I think we will be really good friends.

By Meg

This term for art we have been doing 3D soft toys with Mrs Wilsher, using old material or old clothes we no longer need (its called being sustainable). We needed to pick what soft toy we wanted to do. Then we picked what material we wanted to use.We got our pattern pieces and traced them on to the material. Then we cut it out.We sewed the pieces together.Once we sewed them together we sewed the pieces on the main part of the soft toy.Then we stuffed them.Soon they will be on display.
By Courtney Smith

On Thursday 28th of October The Wearable Arts competition was held in our Bluestone School hall.
The group that I was in had Izzy Docherty, Kera Notton, Siobhan Connolly and Me , Skyla May.
I was the model for our group. It was quite scary and very nerve-breaking but apart from that it was very exciting and exhilarating.

Our lovely but absolutely horrid costume was made from Kera's old dress that she was so kind enough to let us use and stick at least 50-60 ties on.

The wings that were underneath the dress were just an old poly-prop and had at least 17 ties on each side of the arms to symbolise wings hanging down or flopping down.

Our beak was quite large and kept on getting hit by people walking past. "I'm surprised that the beak didn't fall off the mask or the browney-black painted mask or the orangey-yellowey-blackey paint didn't scratch off".

The shoes were made from my old shoes and some paper-mache toes to really look good.We also put pieces of glass on the shoes to really show that birds and any animals are dying of pollution and that was the message we were tying to tell everybody.

Wearable Arts was really out there too,because the lighting was amazing the audience and the judges were great. ''I have loved the experience and can't wait until next year!"

By Skyla May!

bluestone inquiry

My inquiry is all about Possums.
Grace and I are up to making it look really good. We are nearly finished because we have checked it against our rubric.
We should be able to finish it today. Lots of other people are doing things like Oil spills,Whales
and Penguins. We should all do well.

by Gracyn Lindsey.

Athletic Practise

Room 14 has been getting ready for athletics this term. Which is hard to find a time to have a race. We have had a practice to show us what will happen, we have also been practicing relay and long jump. This is good Sharlene says. We are getting better at it. It has been good though the practice will hopefully pay off. Also last term we ran round the field and versed people on the play ground which helped us too.

This term in Room 14 we have been working on sustainability for our inquiry learning. Sustainability is about keeping things clean and un-polluted and things keep going.

For sustainability our class made paper. It was a lot of fun and our groups made a reasonable amount of paper and shared it out fairly around the others in the group.

We all got a sustainability book and wrote things in it and watched videos on you tube about sustainability. It was great to watch the videos because they taught us a lot about it.

My favourite part about sustainability was the activities my group the "New Moons" did.
We got the option to either make a flip chart or create a poster.I choose to do a poster. I made it about the gecko.

Sustainability is a very exciting topic you learn heaps and will always want to learn more.

By Abby Room 14

Room 14 have been doing Tapa designs with Mrs Wilsher.
We have also have been doing crayon batiks .
this is the start of a curtain for our class. it is a very slow process,
but will look great when it's finished.
By Courtney

sport

This year Jack Wooffindin is our new sport councillor on our School Council for the rest of the year. 'Yes!'
He will be going to some meetings about sport, and he will also get some more sport equipment for our school with some other people .

from Jack W

The Hui

The Hui
Yesterday I went to a hui. We talked about how to have more maori in the school and what changes we can make to the school. After we had a talk we had afternoon tea with sprite, chips, biscuits, and savouries. It was really yummy then we went back to class.

By Gracyn

We have been working on tapa cloth. We made some little as well.
They look really good but they will never look like the big one. We will be working on this for another 4 weeks.

This tapa cloth is hanging on our wall. and it belongs to my Dad's family. It is a treasure.

by Jack G/P

varietty concert

On Tuesday the 22th of June Room 14 and the rest of the school went to the hall to watch the variety concert. The students in our class who are in the concert are: Siobhan Connolly, Skyla May, Jack Gibson-Pani, Henrietta Fotofili, Alexis Townshend and Chloe Perry. One of the bands that people in our class were involved in was The Nasa Band. It was a great experience even though it was a rehearsal.

By Isabella

Spelling quiz by Abby

On Wednesday the second of June 2010 Two groups from the High flyers competed in the ODT extra spelling quiz at the boys high hall.It was quiet hard,but we managed.The two teams were:Abby from room 14,Maddy from Room15 and Richard also from Room15. We were in Bluestone two.In Bluestone one there were: Laura and Samantha from Room 13 and Courtney L from Room 16.
We had to do stuff sort of like this,
"what are the root words for these? making,eating and saving. "

There was also an adult's quiz and they seemed to like it.

I liked the spot that Bluestone One and Two got to sit in, because we were right up at the front so when we had to run up and give our answers to the adults up the front. We could just walk like seven steps and we were already there.

My favourite part was the missing letter a and b. But missing letter b was so hard.What we had to do was...the person up the front would call out five hints and then you have to try and guess what she is talking about.The first missing letter was easy..... it was earthquake.But the second one was hard it was... cycleways.

The spelling words were easy but the activities weren't.My group got a photo for the Courier newspaper.I enjoyed the quiz a lot.The quiz went for one hour and a half.I was tired when I got home.

Draft writing

This term we have been writing fiction stories. First we planed our stories in our draft writing book. Then we drafted our story, then we reworked our drafted story and edited our story.
Once Sharlene has checked our spelling so we don't get any words wrong in our published copy, we can use the laptops to publish.

By Benjamin and Jack

ART

For art at the moment we are doing our self potrait inspired Nigel Brown who is a famous New
Zealand artist.
We painted our favourite icons above us and on to both sides of us.
Most of us have almost finished but some of us don't have the gift or hand.
by Jack W and Skyla

OLD MAC DONALD VISIT !!

On the 12th of may 2010 we had a visit from old mac donald and his friends .They are a group of people from christchurch . And they travel around new zealand and do plays for kids.We all laughed a lot and we joined in with a lot of stuff. I have to say it was really fun to watch. Myu favourite animal would have to be the cows they were really funny to listen to they sang milkshakes bring all the cows to the yard ! it was hillarious . I think we all liked it.:)


by Meg

This is room 14 learning our fitness course with Julie and mrs Heaphy . the easiest part was jogging and the hardest was the star jumps.

By Bradly

Hello and thank you for visiting our blog.

This is Kera and Skyla petending to be waitresses serving our brain food POPCORN!!!!

Because we have POPCORN!!!! we think,learn and focus better and also finish of our hunger for awhile.

I think it would be great for every class to have something like us.

By Kera and Skyla

Brian Falkner visits Bluestone

On Wednesday the 28 of April famous author Brian Falkner visited our school.Brian told us a lot and most of it was funny. He acted out Little Red Riding Hood and gave us a thought none of us wanted to hear. Although it was true that the wolf stole grandmas clothes and the sight of her jumping out with no clothes on was funny.
Brian gave us the key to success. It was the two words what and if.He showed us a story graph. It was all so exciting for us.
After the showing of the graph we had a competition of taste testing the cups of different types of fizzy drinks. Annika, Cullen, Josh, Olivia and myself were in the competition. Cullen and I won a book and a pen and the others won the pens too.
After Brain Break five groups of four people competed for prizes in the writing sports. It was so competitive I mean you could tell all the groups wanted to win but in the end the book worm team won the prizes. They scored 93 and our room got 90. It was such a close draw. By lunch time people had Crunchies, pens with the web site of Brian's and even his books. He signed some of them too. It was such a fun filled day.
If you want to know more about Brian Falkner then visit www.BRIANFALKNER.co.nz.
By Abby

High Flyers breakfast

Today, we had a bring your Dad or Grandad for breakfast day,it was quite lovely because the kids could show their parents or grandparents the work that we have been doing in Room 14 and to meet the teachers. It was exciting to see all the different types of dads or Grandads in either their work clothes or normal clothes. The sausages and milo/coffee/ tea were warm and yum. Every body had great fun eating sausages/playing with the ball/playing with your parents/playing on the playground or even catching up or talking with someone.So our breakfast was a blast and all because our lovely teachers, Mr Poulter and last but not least,, Mr Redhead.
by Skyla

Having fun learning

Here we are on our laptops. We are mind-mapping questions to ask our little buddies in Room 5.So we can know more about them.When we went down there last time we asked them questions,but we didn't get enough time.

Welcome to Room 14

Welcome to Room 14
We are a group of year 5 and 6 students learning with Sharlene Heaphy.

We are hoping to share with you as the weeks go by, some of the exciting learning we are doing with our values, laptops, literacy, rights and responsiblilities.

So watch this space......and give us some feedback and feed-forward on what we are doing!

welcome to room14 webpage for 2010

Hi this is Logan and Jack and we are having a great time in the best class ever!
We have the best teacher and we love having popcorn in the morning.

We have made a 'who am I?' poem and we are starting to make celebration journals.

Come back next week for more good news about Room 14 in 2010.