Global children's challenge

It all started on the 19th of september.

Yeah! we get our pedometer's today. Here is some rules that were not aloud to do.Were not aloud to shake them,do not let anyone touch them. Our pedometor counts how meany steps we take each day and we

record this in a spreedsheet.

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Class Hits

Today the year 5's went live on classic hits in Taupo with Brendon Weatherely.Stephen,Josh,Liam,Corey,Lachlan all got to talk on the radio.
Some people talked twice on the radio but all in all everyone had a great time and lots of super duper fun.



By Bayden

Broadlands school is the best in the world because..

We have Awesome Teachers, Awesome Students and Awesome school grounds.
First I will talk about The awesome teachers in room 4 is Ms Van Der Spuy she teachers the year 0s and 1s, In room 1 is mrs Allen she

My Sisters Friend Nikita Howarth

My  Sister's friend Nikita Howarth is 14 years old and shes is representing New Zealand in the paraolmpics. Shes a swimmer. My family meet her Family when we moved to Cambrige. shes got two sisters and of course perants. Her mum is a dance teacher and her dad is a builder  she was the best swimmer in the school  and she was our next door noubur well I hope you all cheer of her bye

From Charles

cooking with Ms Matthews

Whaea margo  said to the year 5s go to room 5 becuase tou are doing cooking with Ms Matthews. We went to room 5 we sat in there for a minit Ms Matthews said who whats to do the cutting .
Some people had to draw posters and the winning poster gets to have theirs haging up at  calf and pet day. She let us in to the staff room to do some cooking and draw posters. The people doing marmarlad had to pell the orangers and put the skin in a pot Alesser squzed all the life out of the orange and put the rest of the orange in the bin. There was a pot with a mind of its self. Some people were making kiwi frute jam.

By Joshua and Stephen

Photo Day

Click,click that was the sound of a camera.Today Broadlands school is doing photo day. Piper had six photos and Jazmine had eight photos.Some people had to stay in for a little bit at lunch time because the photos were still going.There was a man that kept saying smelly socks,bananas in pyjamas,cheese and grandmas underwear.Some of the photos were family,sport,class,indervial and school jobs.
By Jazmine,Piper and Taelyn

Cupcake Masterclass

Today the year 5's are doing cupcake masterclass with Jordyn and Piper. They tought us how to make vinalla cupcakes.They went through the steps for us and the year 5's had to write down some of the steps.
Jordyn and Piper showed us what it looks like when you add some ingredients together.Some of the ingredients were butter,icing sugar,flour,vinalla essence,milk,baking powder and it takes 20 mins to cook.
Some of the things Jordyn and piper had to do was beat the eggs,pour sugar,flour,and vinalla essence cut butter.To ice the cupcakes they have to be pet day themes the theme that Jordyn is doing is a rabbit and the theme that Piper is doing is a cow.
By Jazmine soden

hot in the kitchin

For the past 4 week's the year 5's have been cooking apple chutney,couliflower pickle,lemon honey,jam and marmilade in our staff kitchin.We were put into groups and some of us had to do jobs like washing the dishes, ironing, washing the bench, and vacum.  This Friday we will be making animal cupcakes and I can't wait.
By Bayden

Division!

Room 3 has been learning about division. Do you now how to do division? If you don't please vist these websites below!
1.http://www.fun4thebrain.com/division.html
2.http://kidsnumbers.com
3.http://learninggamesforkids.com

speechs 2012

Horray Speechs caming up soon.
The year 3 and 4s have to write a speech which will be 2 to3 mintues and the years 5 and 6 speeches will be 3 to 4 mintues long.
We will share our  speechs to the class. Whaea Margo and Mr Taylor will judge  us and then they will choose the best 4 to 6 students from each group to present their speech to the community in the learning centre.   GOOD LUCK BROADLANDS !!!
By Sarah and Taelyn

olympic bus exsperiment

On the 25th of July the year 3,4,5 and 6's of Broadlands School went to Rotorua to go see the Olympic bus but it was more of an Olympic truck.  There was other schools there as well.


Broadlands spilt up into groups.   The year 3 and 4's were together and the year 5 and 6's also.


 The year 6's and 5's started at the gymnastics area and the year 3 and 4's started at the volley-ball area.
In the gymnastics area we got a number and that was the group that we would be in. My group started at the minature tramp where you had to run, jump then land straight on the mat.


When we heard the whistle blow that was the signal for your team to rotate onto a different obsticle anti-clockwise.   We learnt lots of other things in the gymnastics area. Ding, Ding the bell rang so this means that it is time to change sections.


So we moved onto Soccer.  Soccer is really fun. We learnt how to score a goal and how to guard the soccerball.  Yay! Time for more activities. We got to line up into two lines and we were giveb a colour, wither red or blue. We raced lots of people and against one another. Some people were really fast and some were slow but it dosen't matter because we were just here to have fun.


Time for the Olympic bus. Wow! there were lots of touch screens, and we buddied up and we chose our are questions to research. At the end we got a photo with a silver medal.

IT WAS SO MUCH FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Written by Taelyn

Masterchef

Horray! Masterchef for the year 6 starts on friday 20th of July. We take our ingreedneds like potatoes, onions, cheese, ham, sauges, herbs, salt, carrots, corn, butter and pepper and take it to the kicten in the staff room.   We will take turns using the equipment to make baked potatoes.   The year 6 will be making  different things every friday.

by Lani and Sarah    

Pass it

On the 11th of June Arehi from the magics team came to our school to teach us how to play Pass it.
The year 5 and 6 students lined up and headed to the Broadlands hall, across the road from the school. We grab a hard green netball and we pass it to our partner.  Then Arehi  split us into 3 groups to play pattern ball. Pattern ball is when you and your team form a circle and pass the ball to each team mate but you are not allowed  to pass it to the person beside you. We played lots of different games to practice our passing skills.
We enjoyed our time with our coach and had lots of fun.

Maths Link
http://nz.ixl.com/math/year-5 

HELPFUL LINKS

Olympics
New Zealand Olympic Committee
http://www.olympic.org.nz/education/home

http://www.olympic.org.nz/nzoc/olympic-museum-app

http://www.nz2012.com/

London 2012
http://getset.london2012.com/en/resources

http://www.london2012.com/

International Olympic Committee
http://olympic.org/

Corrugated applique fish.

Room3 has been learning about sustainability so we have been making applique fish to hang underneath the netting which represents the river.To make the fish we had to get a piece of corrugated cardboard and draw a fish shape on the smooth side.We cut out our fish shape and made sure we have the corrugated on the right side.  Lastly we painted the backround of the fish with a light colour of our choice.The next day it was dry so we disign a patten on the fish.  I drew 3 triangles on one side and 3 twirly lines on the other side.The triangles represent the fins and and the twirly lines represent the gills.  After we completing this activity we had to sew the to sides of the fish together but we have to leave some space so we could stuff the fish with newspaper. We sewed it all up and then we hung the fish using a long string.

Sustainability

The Singing Stars

Hooray! The day has arrived. The singing pop stars have come to broadlands school so they can audition. Everybody was vocative to hear the singers magnificent  voice. We were all thrilled to hear their beautiful, sweet voices that sweapt us off our feet.  Before they auitioned they had to sing a song of their choice to room 3. Everybody was clapping. We thought that they all will make it in for a part in our school production. Whaea Margo and Mrs Sutherland are the judges and are going to pick the finalist. 
From: Anahira and Sarah

Flooding In our classroom

Flooding in our classroom!

On Monday 28^th of May 2012.

Room 3 had an enormous flood in our classroom. When our teacher Whaea Margo stepped into our soggy, soaking, squishy, wet carpet she could smell the disgusting, vulgar stink in the air.

 Everybody was moaning because it smelted like something had died under our classroom. It could have been Mr Taylor because he has been away from school for a term. WE HOPE NOT!

Because of this strange stink in the air, from the carpet, Room 3 had to work in the learning centre which meant that all the other classes had to miss out changing their library books this week. HOW SAD!

 Today it still smells like rotten toe-jams, and we hope to be back in our cosy warm and beautiful classroom SOON. Hopefully the disgusting horrible smell will vanish away.

By: Anahira and Sarah.  

   

Claymation

Room 3 is learning about Sustainability. We had to make a storyboard about what our message was going to be and this helped us to sequence our ideas as well. This was awesome. Once we did the storyboard we created clay figures and filmed or took pictures of then to make a movie of them.  Piper and I chose to use a clayamation program.
Here is a picture of our clay figures.

                             Written by Taelyn and Piper

Room 3's Learning Websites

Go to http://www.coolmath.com/
Go to www.learninggamesforkids.com
Go to www.miamiopia.com

Decorating pumice

This week room 3 had a beautiful teacher in our classroom called Mrs Sutherland.   We were learning about pumice. First we painted it light blue so the design on our rock will show. After we let it dry, we painted a fern design on our awesome pumice. We were all proud of our artwork because it looks great.

waka

Last term we had a challange to make the strongest,stablest and biggest waka.We got half an hour to do it all.We had three groups.Group 1 won,group 2 came 2nd and group 3 came 3rd because theirs looked like a bathtub and they had a thing that looked like a tap but luckly the tap didnt have water in it.We had to make it out of Ice-block sticks,newspaper,celotape and it had to be able to sit one person in it.Group 1's leader was Stephen.Group 3 had to judge out of group 1 and 2, as you heard group 1 won.

Written by Piper and Jazmine

young leaders day

The Best Day Ever!

Monday the 7th May 2012.   All the leaders in our school were invited to go to a young leaders day in Rotorua.
When we arrived we retrieved our wrist bands from the reception desk and took a photo of our  school leaders by the pou in the middle of the entrance.
After getting our bearings we went to the auditorium where we were ushered to our seats.  The announcer said that there were 2000 pepole in the room today.
The cameras were all  around us and we could wave out to then and ever now-and-then they would freeze the image on the screen. 
Next we got to meet our hosts who introduced each speaker.
The speakers names were Nick,poi terei,cam,ruth,dave and a photogrfor.We lernt to stick up for wahat is right 2 choose good friends 3 belive in others 4 live for others.
Give crdtit to others and anything is posepole.It was the best day ever

                                                                 By Stephen and Stephan                                                                                                

Camp 2012

On the 21^st to the 23rd March room 3 and room 5 went on a year 5/6 camp at Papamoa by Mount Maunganui. We went snorkelling, rock climbing and we also climbed Mount  Maunganui. On the last day we went to Waimarino which is a exiting water park. They had kayaks, the blob, a water slide, diving boards and we were able to accomplish the hydro-slide in a kayak or on a mat. There was a little hot pool and beside it there was a water-slide were  we had to slide on our knees. Our instructor Priscilla told us how to use all the equipment and she also said that we weren't allowed to use three swear words which were freezing, cold and can’t. Camp was fun until it was time to go back to school.

                                                 By Sarah And Taelyn

!!ANZAC DAY!!

ANZAC DAY

Room 3 has been learning all about Anzac day. We had to get into groups and we each chose a card which had a photo at the front and a story and an activity at the back of the card. One group had to make Anzac cookies and i was in that group. When we made the first batch of  Anzac cookies it tasted vulgar because we put too much baking powder in it. The second batch of Anzac cookies I tried was full of goodness and were the most delicous Anzac cookies i have ever had. YUMMY!!

By: Lani & Anahira.

KOTAHITANGA

              Kotahitanga was Room 3's inquiry focus for term 1.  

Kotahitanga in our classroom means oneness, harmony and unity.  This looks like helping one another, being respectful, caring for others, honesty.  In our environment it looks like cleanliness in our 
classroom, picking up rubbish in the school, tuakana/teina.