Last week we went to camp at Aoraki Mount Cook. We went for these reasons:
1. To have fun together.
2. To learn about the history of an area that is close to where we live.
3. To learn about being away together in a co-operative team.
We stayed at Unwin Lodge for 2 nights. Unwin is the hut that belongs to the New Zealand Alpine Club. It was a great place to stay.
Here are some of the things we did:
1. We were history detectives on the way there, looking for places where the old Mount Cook road was
2. We visited the Department of Conservation Visitor Centre. Ann gave us a great talk about the history. She was impressed with what we knew.
3. We walked through Govenor's Bush in the dark - we had to take our torches and headlamps. It was scary and everyone was shaking like a leaf.
4. We visited the site of the first Hermitage and the Alpine Memorial, and the rock where Freda du Faur had her photo taken after climbing Aoraki Mount Cook.
5. We played the Billy Goats Gruff game under a wooden bridge. Steve and Les were the scariest trolls. They are Dads.
6. We walked up to the Red Tarns. Most of the girls think there were about a million steps but there wasn't that many!
7. We went the Hermitage for a hotel tour and movies and the musuem.
8. We visited an old farm called Black Birch Station. We found the grave of one of the farmers.
9. We had delicious food - yum yum even ice blocks and ice cream and sausages.
10. We went to the Tasman Glacier, to the lake and a lookout.
11. We had lunch with the super cool kids at Aoraki Mount Cook School and a fast and furious rugby game.
12. We pretended that Corbyn fell off a mountain and learned how to rescue him. Thanks Coral for teaching us about the rescues.
We are a class of 26 Year 3 and 4 students at Twizel Area School. Twizel is a small town surrounded by tussocks and mountains. We are the closest town to Aoraki Mount Cook.
Monday, 7 November 2011
Monday, 19 September 2011
Cross-Country at Omarama
We had a great time running at Omarama. Don't our new red T-shirts look great?
Wednesday, 14 September 2011
Our Class Ski Trip
Yesterday our class went skiing at Ohau Ski Field.
The snow was hard and in some places it was icy.
The weather was cold and windy.
BUT ...
We had a great day because of everyone's fun and positive attitude.
Thanks to the parents who came with us.
Thanks to the staff at Ohau Ski Area - we love skiing at Ohau!
Today 53 students from Twizel Area School are at the field, including 8 of our class. That's because today is Race Day! Go racers!
Here are just a few photos of our day yesterday.
Here is a link to the Ohau Ski Area web-site.
Have a look ...
http://www.ohau.co.nz/
Did you know that Ohau means place of wind?
O means place of and hau means wind. Put them together and you get place of wind!
Have a great day!
From everyone in the Room 4 Learning Team
The snow was hard and in some places it was icy.
The weather was cold and windy.
BUT ...
We had a great day because of everyone's fun and positive attitude.
Thanks to the parents who came with us.
Thanks to the staff at Ohau Ski Area - we love skiing at Ohau!
Today 53 students from Twizel Area School are at the field, including 8 of our class. That's because today is Race Day! Go racers!
Here are just a few photos of our day yesterday.
Here is a link to the Ohau Ski Area web-site.
Have a look ...
http://www.ohau.co.nz/
Did you know that Ohau means place of wind?
O means place of and hau means wind. Put them together and you get place of wind!
Have a great day!
From everyone in the Room 4 Learning Team
Friday, 2 September 2011
Book Character Dress-up Day
Last Friday most of our class dressed up for Book Character Dress Up Day. This was the last event in our fantastic Book Week.
Hey - Twizel kids have a higher than average attitude to reading. We found this out by studying the data from the AsTTle test at the start of year. Go Twizel Area School!
Here are some of us in costume:
BOOK WEEK WAS FUN!
Hey - Twizel kids have a higher than average attitude to reading. We found this out by studying the data from the AsTTle test at the start of year. Go Twizel Area School!
Here are some of us in costume:
Bad Jelly the Witch
Cat Woman
Fern from 'Charlotte's Web'
Cat in the Hat
Draco Malfoy
Bad Jelly the Witch
Zoro
The Ice Queen from the Narnia books
The Fat Controller from the 'Thomas the Tank Engine' books
BOOK WEEK WAS FUN!
House Stories inspired by 'The House That Went To Sea'
We have been writing stories about a house that went to sea, or about something else that happened at that house.
They are narratives - stories with problems and a solution.
Our writing was inspired by the new picture book 'The House That Went to Sea,' written by Melinda Szymanik and illustrated by Gabriella Klepatski.
Here are some of our stories:
The Hurricane
They are narratives - stories with problems and a solution.
Our writing was inspired by the new picture book 'The House That Went to Sea,' written by Melinda Szymanik and illustrated by Gabriella Klepatski.
Here are some of our stories:
The House with Silver Wings
“Save me,” said Mac. His words trembled.
Dark black rain clouds closed in on the old creaky house. Mac ran to the doorway and flung open the door. “Help” he yelled. I don’t want to be alone! I want my dream to come true! I want to fly! I want to live in Hawaii!” He waited.
The only sound was of the wind racing past his ears.
Mac slammed the door shut. He closed all the windows as tightly as he could, and then ran to hide under his bed.
As Mac dived under his bed he grabbed Nibbles, his pet mouse that lived in a hole in the wall, and stroked him. “Don’t you ever wish you could fly?” he asked Nibbles.
That night Mac went to bed dreaming of soaring through the bright blue sky and having all the adventures he wanted.
“Good morning Nibbles” Mac said, with a yawn. “I hope that the storm didn’t do any damage to the house!” He went to grab his cup of tea and go sit in his deck chair on the porch.
When he opened the door he nearly dropped his cup of tea. All he could see was fluffy white clouds! “What’s happening?” he asked. Then he saw something silver poking out the side of the house. His house had grown silver wings overnight and was flying about high in the sky!
With no warning Mac started doing a little dance on his porch. “My dream has come true, my dream has come true, hooray!” he shouted.
The little house started to slope down towards the ground. As the clouds cleared Mac could see a little dot of land surrounded by water. It was Hawaii! For all his life he had been dreaming of living in Hawaii and now he was nearly there!
The house landed in a village and a crowd of people swarmed around it.
For the rest of his life Mac was never alone, and (the best bit of all) his dream had come true.
“I love my life,” Mac said to himself, and I always will!”
By Morgan
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The House That Went To Sea
Splash! Another raindrop fell from the sky. It got heavier. The grumpy old man did not want it to rain. He stomped his foot.
Thunder and lightning started. That night the thunder got louder and the rain got heavier. The rain started to come through the cracks of the old man’s creaky house.
”Help!” shouted the old man, waving his arms wildly. “I don‘t want a flood in my house.” The water started to get deeper. It covered the whole downstairs floor.
Crash! The big oak tree beside the man’s bedroom window fell on the house. Cracks began splitting in the roof.
“Oh no,” the old man shouted. “I am going to die.” His heart started to tremble. He was so terrified inside his body. He wanted something to eat but his food was all soggy and wet. He could not go to bed, so he just grabbed a blanket and sat on the ground and tried to close his eyes, but he couldn’t because he was so scared.
The next morning the old man woke up and looked out the window. He was in the sea!
So he opened the door to the balcony and it looked like he was in the Atlantic Ocean.
He looked over the edge of the balcony and there were fish flying up in the air and dolphins blowing bubbles.
Will I get home? he wondered. Will I survive in this part of the world?
One night when the old man was in bed a rescue helicopter went by. It saw the old man’s house. “Look at that house floating in the sea!” they said to each other.
The old man was asleep. He did not hear the helicopter. The rescue people thought that they should drop some food and water in cause the old man didn’t have any. They dropped it on the balcony.
The next morning when the old man woke up he went to open the door to see if it was sunny. He saw the bag. He picked it up and had a look inside it. Just as the old man was looking in it, the rescue helicopter went by again. The old man saw the helicopter so he started waving and shouting. The rescue team saw him waving and heard him shouting, so they sent a person down a rope. He landed on the balcony. They rescued the man and took him to safety. He went to live in a little town with lots of friendly people and he got a pet mouse called Squeak.
By Sarah
The Hurricane
The old house rattled. The hurricane had arrived. Creak, creak, smash. The dead tree with the crooked braches next to the bathroom window had fallen on the house.
Rua, a golden Labrador with a thick winter coat, barked twice and ran under the table. He snarled at the door.
Manu, his owner, a man who had a dream of going to New Zealand, walked to the window and saw three waka parked on the island.
Manu quietly walked to the door and opened it. “AH!” he said with a big shocking look on his face. It was his old tribe.
By Nikau
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A Dream Come True
Crash! Clang! Click! Smash!
A brick fell from the tall thin chimney on Joe’s old house in Australia.
"Help me - my house is falling to bits, piece by piece!” Joe yelled. “I don’t want to die, I want to live! I want to live to be able to go to Auckland!”
CRASH!!
Joe ran into his room and jumped into his bed. His body was trembling with fear.
Sally, his chocolate Labrador, barked fiercely at the rain pelting on the windows. Wind blew cobwebs off the tall, boney tree by the back door. The waves were getting bigger and closer and louder.
In the morning Joe woke up and saw…
He was on an island in the middle of the ocean.
Now he had a big problem, he was alone with his dog and he was in the middle of the sea.
“I’ve got an idea,” said Joe. “Why don’t we build a boat?” So he broke some wood off his house, and some branches off the tree.
He had made a wooden boat.
“Sally, I am going to make my dream come true by sailing to Auckland.”
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When they got to Auckland after 3 weeks on a stormy sea, they looked for jobs. Joe found a fishing job. When he got his job he made some friends.
“My dream has come true!” he said, and smile appeared on his face.
By Maddison
We hope you enjoyed these stories. Please leave us a comment.
From everyone in the Room 4 Learning Team at Twizel Area School
Duntroon Sports Day
On Monday we went to Duntroon for a Winter Sports Day. Year 4-8 students went, from these schools:
1. Twizel Area School
2. Omarama
3. Waitaki Valley
4. Duntroon
The Year 4-6 stuedents did 4 out of 6 activities, in groups with kids from all the schools.
The activities were:
1. Badminton
2. Netball
3. Orienteering
4. Basketball
5. Hockey
6. Soccer
Here are some photos. Twizel kids have the beautiful red T-shirts, thanks to our Home and School group who are also doing great work to raise money for our playground.
1. Twizel Area School
2. Omarama
3. Waitaki Valley
4. Duntroon
The Year 4-6 stuedents did 4 out of 6 activities, in groups with kids from all the schools.
The activities were:
1. Badminton
2. Netball
3. Orienteering
4. Basketball
5. Hockey
6. Soccer
Here are some photos. Twizel kids have the beautiful red T-shirts, thanks to our Home and School group who are also doing great work to raise money for our playground.
Wednesday, 31 August 2011
Year 8 students share their learning
Today 3 Year 8 students visited our class to share their research and writing about the history behind nursery rhymes. We were very impressed with their level of understanding.
Thanks guys!
Thanks guys!
Monday, 22 August 2011
Book Week has started at Twizel Area School
This week we are celebrating the importance of books in our learning and in our lives.
There are lots of things happening. Some are:
* Book Character Dress-up Day on Friday
* Win a Book competition
* Bedtime stories in the library on Wednesday
* Display for parents about helping kids learn to read
* Quiz questions about books.
* Mrs Sheridan, read the whole Junior School a book called 'The House That Went To Sea' by Melinda Szymanik. Here is a photo of some of them.
Keep checking on our blog. We will post some more Book Week activities this week.
Have a great day and please leave us a comment.
Joo-chan - we miss you too!
From everyone in the Room 4 Learning Team
There are lots of things happening. Some are:
* Book Character Dress-up Day on Friday
* Win a Book competition
* Bedtime stories in the library on Wednesday
* Display for parents about helping kids learn to read
* Quiz questions about books.
* Mrs Sheridan, read the whole Junior School a book called 'The House That Went To Sea' by Melinda Szymanik. Here is a photo of some of them.
Keep checking on our blog. We will post some more Book Week activities this week.
Have a great day and please leave us a comment.
Joo-chan - we miss you too!
From everyone in the Room 4 Learning Team
Wednesday, 17 August 2011
Estelle's Diary Entry
This is Estelle's diary entry for today:
Today is Wednesday. We had Mrs Nelson for the whole day. We did maths, writing and general knowledge quiz. For maths we practiced decimals and fractions. For writing we started to grow an idea about our house stories. And also Mr Potter talked about an exoskelton and cicadas. I had a tino pai day.
Tino Pai Estelle - this is a great diary entry. I hope you have a good afternoon too.
From Mrs Nelson
Today is Wednesday. We had Mrs Nelson for the whole day. We did maths, writing and general knowledge quiz. For maths we practiced decimals and fractions. For writing we started to grow an idea about our house stories. And also Mr Potter talked about an exoskelton and cicadas. I had a tino pai day.
Tino Pai Estelle - this is a great diary entry. I hope you have a good afternoon too.
From Mrs Nelson
Friday, 12 August 2011
Ghosts of Iron Bottom Sound
Lots of people in our school have got a copy of The Ghosts of Iron Bottom Sound, written by Mrs Nelson.
Here are just some of them.
Here are just some of them.
Wednesday, 10 August 2011
Maori Art
Kia-ora blog readers,
We are working on improving our Maori art skills. Today we are painting koru and kowhaiwhai patterns.
Tino pai Room 4!
We are working on improving our Maori art skills. Today we are painting koru and kowhaiwhai patterns.
Tino pai Room 4!
SCIENCE FAIR - ROOM 4 WINNERS
Winners in Room 4 were:
YEAR 4
Highly commended:
Taine - What Objects Float on Water?
Iain - What are the Different Jobs of Teeth?
YEAR 5
1st - Kaya - Cluck Cluck Clucky
3rd - Kaya and Maddison - Go Away Pests
Highly commended:
Jonathan - Comparing thar and human skeletons
Jack - How to Measure the Height of a Tree
Morgan and Estelle - How Does Toothpaste Work?
These projects have gone to the Regional Science Fair in Fairlie. Judging is happening right now!
Congratulations to all these students, and to everyone who participated in the Twizel Area School Science Fair
YEAR 4
Highly commended:
Taine - What Objects Float on Water?
Iain - What are the Different Jobs of Teeth?
YEAR 5
1st - Kaya - Cluck Cluck Clucky
3rd - Kaya and Maddison - Go Away Pests
Highly commended:
Jonathan - Comparing thar and human skeletons
Jack - How to Measure the Height of a Tree
Morgan and Estelle - How Does Toothpaste Work?
These projects have gone to the Regional Science Fair in Fairlie. Judging is happening right now!
Congratulations to all these students, and to everyone who participated in the Twizel Area School Science Fair
Friday, 5 August 2011
SCIENCE FAIR PROJECTS
Wow - our Science Fair projects are all ready. They are great! Thanks to the parents who supported us with this learning.
Here are photos of our projects. We are displaying them this afternoon with the projects from all the other students in Year 1-10. They will be judged after school today. The best projects are going to Fairlie for a Regional Science Fair on Wednesday.
Parents and community are invited to view the Science Fair after school on Monday and Tuesday, in the Multi-Purpose-Room. PLEASE COME!
We think Science is awesome. We love finding out about our world.
Here are photos of our projects. We are displaying them this afternoon with the projects from all the other students in Year 1-10. They will be judged after school today. The best projects are going to Fairlie for a Regional Science Fair on Wednesday.
Parents and community are invited to view the Science Fair after school on Monday and Tuesday, in the Multi-Purpose-Room. PLEASE COME!
We think Science is awesome. We love finding out about our world.
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