the wedding of the year!!!!!

just on saturday Miss Nixey and Mr Power had a big event they got married!!! at a beautiful place called fair park house. it was very hot!!Everyone was dressed fancy and the boys wore ties and jandles even Mr Power!!!! But the girls wore girly dresses. Miss Nixey looked amazing!! She came in a blue bettle car. Her dress was cool its was white and here shoes were bright pink. they said there vows and also said they love each other!!! Everyone was crying but in a happy way! And they had a big smooch aww!! it was like a fairytale Miss nixey even said she loves him more then harry potter! we thought that day would never come. Once that all happened they said i do!! Now they are Mr and Mrs power!!! Once all the lovey dovey things were over the kids got a lolly mixture and fizzy YUMMY. I think we have to call her Mrs Power its going to take a while to get used to it.

By Lauryn and Georgia

R.O.T.D (Reporter of the day)

Salty did his reporter of the day first and it is a science experiment what he did was he got a bowl and filled it with water he put a paper towel made it float on the water and put a paper clip on top and left it for a while then took the paper towel away and it should of floated on the top of the water but it sunk and we didn't know what happened. Then Tiffany had hers and did who's who christie and Jyles and Jyles was Santa Claus and Christie was Harry Potter and Jyles won. Taine did the samething Seth was Barbie and Tyla was Greg Heffly off Diary of a Wimpy Kid but jyles spoilt it by saying the names.
By Jack and Cameron N

No Talking

Today Most of the class is not talking because this reading sheet is one where you can pick four choices and one of them is no talking for a School day. All of us are writing on paper. About 5 people aren't doing it. This is a challenge for us today so we hope we can do it.

By Jack and Cameron N

Interschool Athletics

Today people from the middle and senoir Syndicate are going to saxton field for athletics. Athletics include: High Jump, Discus, Long Jump, Sprints and Shotput. These are the people from our class that have gone Taine Paki Paki, Sothearo Kim, Son Nguyen, Seth Kingsbury, Lauryn Hippolite, Amiee Book and Cameron Neame.
By Jack and Jasper

Pet day for room five!

Yesterday we had a pet day. There was a dog called Tess. She was 2 and a half year old border collie and she had such a good nature she is such a smart dog. Then after the dog there was a rabbit called Fudge.He was a mini lop , a mini lop is a rabbit with ears that are flopping down although fudge was very frightened the class was happy that he was so cuddly .It was fun having the rabbit and dog in the class and seeing how these animals act.

Seth and Jordan.

Rock Our world final animation

Last week room 5 and the rest of the rock our world classes presented their final animation on the Internet .
In L.A it was Friday the 19Th of November family night in Autumn/Fall 8:00pm but it was 2:30pm on saturday the 20th of november in spring .We went live at 4:pm and answered the questions we were asked.we had so much fun.

year 6 records

Last week the year 6's in the senior syndicate of N.P.S tried to break the school records for high jump, long Jump,discus and the longest softball throw. The closest to breaking a record was Taine from room 5. He was 2 cm away from breaking the record in high jump. The record was 1m 27 cm. Son was to breaking the record. He got a 1 m 20 cm





By Jordan and Seth

end of year speeches

it is near the end of the year now and room 5 are starting their end of year speeches.The end of
year speeches are speeches about your time and your memories at Nayland Primary School.

One person from each classroom in the senior syndicate is chosen to read their speech in front of
the entire school

clubs

All of the middle and senior classes at NPS have a big interchange each Friday after lunch.
All of the students go to their club.our clubs are for children to have a fun afternoon in a different teachers class.

Some of our clubs are cooking and drama.

Seth and Jayden

Athletics day

Yesterday Nayland Primary School had their athletics day.The events include gutter board ,high jump ,long jump ,discus ,shot put and our school event the vortex.After lunch we did the 100 metre sprints.

The day was filled with excitement and fun.

Seth and Jayden

Our skype chat with Pennsylvania

Today we skyped with Pennsylvania about facts from our country and their state we learnt about that they are 3 hours from the Atlantic Ocean and they are nearly in Autumn and they were very interested in our hungi




By Cameron D And Jordan D

Peace Banner

In week two we painted a Peace banner which is about peace in the world and representing New Zealand. Also it is going to be put around the Beehive/Where the Government argues are held in Wellington.



By Cameron D and Jordan D*

Rock our world [R.O.W]

For six weeks our class has been talking with other schools around the world. Rock our world is about making a song about peace with a animationish animation to go with it. Our first week was sounds from our school the second week was banner and this week percussion.



By Cameron D Jordan

Peace poster.

On Thursday 21st of October everyone created a peace poster in room 5. We all chose the best in our table groups. They were Son,Lauryn,Alesha,Andrew,Rae and Christie. We all got to vote for the best two and we got two votes each. The final two were Lauryn and son. After school mr Power picked a winner and started to draw the poster up and the winner was Lauryn but they put a design of sons as well well done Lauryn and Son.

Jasper and Amiee.

The battle of Rorkes Drift.

Today at 11:00 the whole school went to the top field and we replayed a war called the battle of Rorkes drift. The British was rooms 2 and 5 they wore red. And the Africans were called the Zulus and they were the rest of the school. But the British still won because they were the best.

Jasper and Amiee.

Bank tellers

Today for the first time the year 5 bank tellers counted peoples money. The people deposited there money and gave it to the tellers and they counted it and put it in there school bank for SBS. They got a special uniform a name badge a t-shirt and a cap. The bank tellers names were Taylor, Andrew, Letecia, Kayla, Jackson and Lauren.



Jasper and Amiee

Mask parade.

On friday the 15 of October Nayland primary and other schools gathered at the car park outside of Rebel sports for the 2010 mask parade. Our theme was deep ocean because it was our topic for last term,my space, our space and outer space. Our class room 5 was angler fish and we found out that they were the size of a golf ball and that they had a light on the top of there head, to attract fish. At the end of the mask parade there was prize giving and we won the most creative.

By Jasper and Amiee

Top Team

Yesterday the house captains and deputies did top team. Top team is like different activities that you have to do as a team. The Brunner and the heaphy house captains and Jyles were one team and they were called the tiger sharks. Cotterell and spooner were also a team and they were the cooners. The games were lawn darts, egg and spoon race with a long tennis racket and tennis ball and block building. At the end cooner ended up wining!!!!!!
GO COONER!!!!! I mean great game tiger sharks
By Lauryn and cameron n

Mask paraed

Were back at school. Nayland primary school is looking forward to the mask parade.On friday night. There will be heaps of schools in it as well. The theme is under the sea and creatures.So room 5 is working hard to do our masks. The juniors are top sea creatures. The middles are the middle sea creatures. We are the deep dark weird looking creatures. Come and have a look!!!!!!!!!!

By Lauryn and Cameron N

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Here we are during our school holidays working on our bass guitar tracks to add to Oklahoma's drum track from last week! Thanks to all kids and parents who came to create and/or vote on the top bass guitar track!

In the background you can hear our original drum track which a school in California are working on by adding bass guitar to this week!
Next week = Synthesizer from North Carolina USA.

Thursday science news

For Thursday science news Andrew had a can full of water and spun it around and water didn't come out. This is not defying Gravity it's more just the water trying to go forward and hitting the edges and then clinging to the edges. Gravity is still trying to pull it out but the can catches it at the end this is not
called centrifugal force it's centripetal force. Andrew & Tiffany

ROW - Harmony

Harmony: The Story of Rock Our World from David & Cameron Barrett on Vimeo.

Here is a video of last years Rock our World project so that you parents and whanau members (and blog followers!) can see what we are just getting started on! This week we are completing our drum tracks to send off. Over the holidays we will be meeting at 3pm on Wednesdays to work on ROW. All students from Room 5 (and any parents who would like to come) are very welcome. We will continue the Wednesday afternoon meetings throughout the project.
See you next Wednesday!
Miss N

The Airshow at Rivolto

Hi everyone
How are you?
Two weeks agp we went to an Airshow.We got up at 5:00 in the morning. There were lots of Aerobatic teams from around Europe.
-The Jordanian Falcons from Jordan
- The team from France
- The swiss
-The Red Arrows from Britain
-The Polish
-The Spanish
-The Croatians
-The Frecce Tricolori [The Italians]
They were celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Frecce Tricolori.

Last week we went to Venezia. They have Canals that are roads with ferries,taxis and gondolas


Having a good time. Good to see your posts on the blog. Eating lots of pizza

Jordan

Here is a special message from Peter H. Reynolds for our Rockers!
Miss Nixey

Miss Whiteheads last day

This term we have had such a lovely student teacher Miss Whitehead. But sadly she is leaving us and becoming a real teacher. Miss Whitehead is kind, nice and a really good teacher. We will miss you so much Miss Whitehead. You're the best!!!! So today we are having a celebration party for her. But she does not know but I'm sure she has a clue why there is food on the table!!!!! We will miss you so much and thank you so much for being such a good teacher. Lots of love room 5.

By Lauryn and Jyles

Space topic

This term our topic is My Space, Our Space and Outer Space. We have been learning about space and the deep ocean. Also the planets and creatures that are under water. Here are some questions about space we did not know the answers to. How was earth created?How many light years away is Jupiter? How many stars are there?Are there aliens?How big is our solar system. Then we found the answers to them.

By Lauryn and Jyles

Cosmodome

Last Friday room 5 went inside room 17 and inside room 17 was a big igloo. It was the Cosmoome. Inside it was dark and big. Inside we saw pictures of the night sky and the planets also lots of stars. It was amazing!! The man told us lots of information about our planet and space. We also watch a movie about a solor eclipse. We think you should go to it you would get a lot of knowledge out of it.

By Lauryn and Jyles

ROCK OUR WORLD!!!

Take a look at us! We are the small 'dot' that identifies the top of the South Island of New Zealand! This map shows the team of 43 classes that are taking part in Rock our World!
Miss Nixey

Rock our world

Yesterday room 5 got told that we made it in to Rock our World event. We were one of the 43 class's that made it. There are 6 continents that they picked from.We think we are the only class in Nayland Primary school, and maybe in Nelson - and perhaps one of only a few in New Zealand! Rock our World is were all the class's that got picked all make part of a song and then we join them together. Its going to be so much fun.

By Lauryn and Jyles

Disco

On Friday the 10th of September at 6:30 Nayland primary school had a disco at stoke church hall. The theme was ties and tiaras or bling and tinsel. There was really cool glow bracelets and neckless and rings. The food was so good like the popcorn and the lollies. There was big flashing lights and awesome music. Everyone was dancing.It was the best disco EVER!!!!!!!!!!

By Lauryn and Jyles

Teachers vs Cotterell

On the 8th of September there was an exciting netball game played by Cotterell and the teachers. It was 5 minutes each half. But the teachers were much stronger and thrashed Cotterell 15 -0.
Amiee and Seth

Genius cafe

Today 2 people from room 5 went to Enner Glynn School to find out about the 'genius cafe' that they will be hosting at the Rutherford Hotel in Nelson. The hosts from Room 5 will be teaching the teachers from our cluster and helping them learn more about computers eg: Knowledge NET, Keynote, comic life, garage band and podcasting. They left at 9:15 am and will get back at 12:30. They will come back and teach the class more about podcasting and some other tips and tricks we hope!
Amiee and Taine

San Marino

Today we went to the country San Marino. It was so cool there were castles and towers. First we got the Bonelli Bus to San Marino
and went up to the castles we spent a hour and a half in San Marino. Then it was so foggy that I could not see we came down and got the train home. After we got off the train we walked home.
From Jordan (visiting Italy)

Moto.g.p

Hey everybody

Today my family and I went to the Moto.g.p. We saw bumble bees but they were actually 125cc. In the second race there was one Japanese rider that died on the Moto2. Spain is having a good year, they won all of the races. Number 46 Valentino Rossi is really popular he got 3rd. While other bikes were slowing down 46 fans were running on to the track!!!! Having lots of fun in Italy!!!!!!!
From Jordan (visiting Italy)

Interhouse netball finals

At lunch time today we played Interhouse netball 2 houses cotterell vs spooner in netball both teams battled out for first place and COTTERELL WON!!!! the score was 20 to 11. Spooner lost by 9 points but it was a good and hard game played by both teams.'
Amiee and Taine

EARTHQUAKE

On Saturday the 4th of September in Christchurch there was a big earthquake. It measured 7.4 but they remeasured the earthquake and it was 7.1. It was so big that old buildings fell down lots of people lost there homes and roads cracked. People have to live in a salvation army buildings.
Amiee and Taine

Speeches

Today the senior syndicate had the speech finals. Two people from each class presented a speech to the judges Mrs Gulbransen and Mrs Ayers. The children from room 5 came first and third place! Congratulations Seth who came first and Lauryn who come third! What a fantastic result!
Amiee and Taine

Room five Stars

On the door of room five we have a lot of fun shapes with peoples names in them and what special thing they have achieved.We have the shapes up on our door to celebrate what room five has done over the past three terms. We have stuff like our house captains in room five, netball interschool champion team members, first place in the school potato growing competition, first place in the school swimming relay, the mediators and many other celebrations.We decided to put these shapes up when the children in Room 5 kept on winning prizes. We hope to get a lot more stars up on our door over the next term.

Netball results

Yesterday Cotteral played Brunner in a sudden death match to see witch team would play Sponner in the inter house netball final the game was the best in the tournament the score was 11-8 to Cotteral. Cotteral will now take on Spooner in the final.

Inter house netball

This term the inter house netball has been running spooner house has grabed a spot in the finals by beating all of the teams by a mile.it all depends on the next game. who will win!!!!!!

Podcasting

This week Room 5 have been podcasting on garage band. Podcasting is when you do an interview on someone or something it can be on anything you like e.g. a book or a TV show whatever you like you can make a series and you could post it on the internet. We can't wait for you to listen to our podcasts! Look out for their posts soon!

New Jump Jam

Today nayland primary school learnt one of the new jump jam dances. It is about marshall arts and fighting. It is a fun energetic dance. The whole school was outside learning how the dance moves go. I cant wait to learn the new dances that the leaders have for us!

Speeches

This term the senior syndicate has been writing a speech that they have either spoken or are going to say in a small group. The best two out of every senior class will go to the syndicate speech finals. Then the two best go to the stoke interschool speech finals.

Pesuasion Map

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/persuasion_map/
Try this link for a fun Persuasive writing activity

Jordan is off off and away!

Today I am leaving New Zealand and Room 5, while I go on holiday with my family in Italy. I'll try and log in to our class blog while I am away so that I can keep everyone updated on my trip!
Bonacierra!

Netball tournament

Last Wednesday the nayland netball teams went to Saxton feild for a tournament. The hotshots won the whole tournament. In the finals they vs Henly. The score was 16-11 to nayland hotshots. In the hotshots team their were Alesha, Christie, Amiee, Lauryn, Faith, Jade, Natalie, Danielle & Sophie. We are very happy the hotshots won.

Variety show!!!

Last Tuesday we had our variety show. Room 5 and Room 3 did 'Communication Breakdown'. It is about fairy tales all mixed up so the bad guys end up being the good guys. It went really well. This is what Miss Whitehead thought "I thought room 5 and 3 did an amazing job of the variety show. The dancing and the acting was fantastic! I really enjoyed being part of it."
It was scary going on stage because there were a lot of people watching. Overall it was really cool. When it was over all felt really proud.
Rae and Sothearo

La La Luna

Today we went to see La La Luna at Nayland College. The main character trains to be an Idiot .He did lots of different tricks and he put his head in a special ballon and started to bounce it around. At the end he showed us some tricks like how to get out of writing and homework. He has 3 shows in Nelson. They are at 7:00 on Friday the 23rd of July, 3:00 on Saturday the 24 of July and 7:00 on the same day.

Matariki

Two weeks ago we had a school Hangi to celebrate Matariki.
Matariki is a time of year when we celebrate the Maori New Year. If the stars are shining brightly, it means it will be a good year for growing crops. If they're not so easy to see it will be a bad year.
We dug a hole behind the P.E. shed and Thursday just before school we started a fire with Irons in it to heat them up for the Hangi. At lunch time they put the Irons into the Hangi and started putting the baskets of kai in. They then covered it up with soil and dirt. (The food was covered with foil and old rags.) They uncovered it at about 5:30 pm to have it for dinner.
When they uncovered they found that some of the food wasn't cooked properly, so they told all the parents and children to go and heat it up in their ovens.
They did a lantern walk with lanterns the children made in class on the end of their torches.

Interhouse Football.

Last week the Senior Syndicate had Interhouse Football that was organized by the House Captains. They were so enthusiastic about it and they all played such good and tough games.
When the House Captains added up the scores it turned out Brunner and Cotterell were tied for second place. They had to have a Play off game and Penelty Shoots to see who would play Spooner in the FINAL!!!
In the end, Cotterell won and bet Spooner in Penelty shots.

Communication Breakdown!

Today we found out our parts for "Communication Breakdown" which is the 'Variety Show' item for our class this year. We had a very dramatic lunchtime waiting after our auditions from last week to find out what parts we might get.....all was revealed at 1:15 when Miss Nixey posted the cast list on our classroom window!
Keep an eye out for the BB Wolf, Cindy (Cinderella), Snow White and friends, Jack and the Giant and all of their lawyers around the school over the next term! Script is out to students tomorrow!

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BISHOPS SCHOOL

Recently we went on a class trip to Bishops School. We were lucky (or unlucky) enough to have a proper old fashioned lesson by our new teacher 'Mr Green' (It was really Nicky Green from the Nelson Museum). Mr Green terrified us! We had to dress in olden day clothing and if 'he' didn't like our outfit enough, he made us put on smocks, waistcoats and aprons before entering! Our parents dressed up too - check out their photos along with ours below. You will see us singing the National Anthem of the time "God save the Queen", doing our spelling practice firstly facing the blackboard (while Mr Green slapped onto the letters with the dreaded cane!), then facing the back of the room whilst Mr Green pointed to us individually to recite the word spellings! You can also see photos of us doing our handwriting. When we did our handwriting we had to link every letter, and if we were left handed we were made to use our right hands! Lauryn and Mike did not find this easy! The other lessons we did were reading and maths and it was also very different to how we usually do things in modern day Room 5! Mr Green thought we didn't clean our fingernails well enough and had forgotten to polish our shoes, however 'he' said our singing was 'superb'! It seems all of that Glee practice has come in handy :)

Thanks to the parents that helped by taking us there and a huge thank you to Nicky Green (Mr Green) at our local Museum for scaring, I mean teaching us.

Reporter of The Day - Science News

Over the past week Miss Nixey has been modelling how to correctly present the 'Reporter of the Day' oral language programme each morning. As Miss Lonsdale is our teacher on Thursdays, she modelled the 'Science News'. She half a cup of water, and added three teaspoons of baking soda. She then stirred this. She poured this into a drink bottle then added some white vinegar. She then quickly put a balloon on top of the drink bottle. The gas created by the mixture went up into the balloon and it inflated! Does anyone know why this happened? Post us a comment about your ideas :)

Room 5 Makes a Class Wordle

Today in Room 5 we made a class 'Wordle'. A 'Wordle' is a application on the web which allows you to add text e.g. our names, then select colours, fonts and directions of the text to appear in the 'Wordle' that is then magically created into a fun text picture by the programme. Each student got to add in their own name themselves. One thing that the students were focussing on while doing this was learning to use the 'shift' key instead of the 'caps lock' key when typing a capital letter.

Welcome to Room 5's Blog!

Haere Mai Welcome to the Room 5 Blog! We are a class of year 5/6 students in a small town call Stoke, near Nelson, New Zealand. We are part of a large urban primary school called 'Nayland Primary'. Check in on us throughout the year and take a look at our learning adventures!