Good-bye Room 12

Tomorrow is the last day of school for the year. We have had such a fantastic year in Room 12 and I think that we are the best and coolest class in the school!

Good luck to all the lovely children from Room 12 and all the best in your new classes next year. You can stay in touch with me:

email: petra.ohlrich@westnet.com.au

or follow my travel adventures: www.petrastraveladventures.blogspot.com

Remember: Room 12 kids shine!

Cailin's visitors

Today Cailin brought her new pet rats to school. There names are Jaffa and Jellybean. It was great to meet them. Although they were a bit excited as they kept leaving a little mess everywhere!

Art Gallery Trip

Here is some of our fantastic Christmas Art from our trip to the gallery.

You can also see the videos of two children recieving their 'prize' from John at the gallery. Very funny.... but sadly the video is facing the wrong way!

 

 

Soccer singing

When we were learning some new soccer skills from the Otago Sports Soccer Coach, we had to listen very carefully. The children that didn't listen to all the instructions ended up having to sing for the rest of the class! It was very good singing. Well done Room 12.

What's been happening in Room 12?

It has been such a long time since I wrote on our blog. So what have we been up to? Here is a little snapshot....

Room 12 performed at Assembly

We learnt some soccer schools

We didn't listen too well to the soccer coach so we had to sing him a song!

Room 12 visited the Art Gallery.

We practised being like "Our dads" and read the Kids newspaper.

Room 12 Assembly

Room 12 are so excited as we will be performing on assembly this week! Come and see us sing our very own Room 12 song this Friday at 2.15pm in the hall!

District 12 News

We had a lot of fun making this episode of District 12 News. Have a listen to some of the cool sound effects!

Writing Blogs

The children in Room 12 have been given the chance to create their own writing blog. This will be a place for them to publish their own stories for us to follow. This is a big responsibility and requires them to work hard to write and then type their work. Have a read of their stories and let us know what you think! They would really like to hear your comments.

Sam's writing blog - www.samuelswriting.blogspot.com

Annie and Brynn's blog - www.thewritersofspiderpig.blogspot.com

Sophie's writing blog - www.magicmysterystories.blogspot.com

A yummy birthday!

Yesterday it was Cody's birthday. He brought a treat in for the Room 12 children to share. He and his mum had made jelly cups and these amazing chocolate cars! We really enjoyed eating them but it was a bit sad to eat the very cool cars!

Mungo comes to visit

What a surprise! George's puppy came to visit Room 12. We got to pat him. He tried to play with us because he was really excited. He was jumping up and down. He was cute and cuddly. It was nice to meet Mungo.

Reporter: Qaswar

Photographer: Milly

Beach Day

Last Thursday we went to the beach to learn about Keeping Ourselves Safe at the beach. It was a lot of fun and the highlight was certainly going in the water. It was quite chilly but if you kept moving, it was a lot of fun!

Middle Team SHOW

Tonight is the Middle Team Show. It should be quite spectacular. Please be at school between 6.15pm and 6.30pm to get dressed into your costume. The show begins at 7pm.

North Zone Athletics

Congratulations to the children in Room 12 who did superbly well at the North Zone Atheltics today. Well done Liam, George, Rebecca and Isobel.

Home at last!

With my adventures in Mexico over, I look forward to seeing everyone in Room 12 at school tomorrow. It seems like we have a very busy week with the Middle Team Show on this Thursday night. I am looking forward to seeing all the hard work you have been doing.
From Mrs. Ohlrich

Skype call

Today I skyped Room 12. It was so lovely to see everyone and know that you are all safe and well. Meche really enjoyed talking to you in English and the other kids liked seeing your faces. It was a bit difficult for us to answer all your questions so if you have a question for me just send it to me as a comment on the blog.


Keep up the great work with your production practise!

From Mrs. Ohlrich.

Term 4

Term 4 begins this Monday. Remember that it will be sports day so please bring your runners, shorts, warm clothes, water and food. You cannot buy food so bring everything you need. Good luck everyone!
From Mrs Ohlrich.
p.s. Remember to leave me a comment on my travel blog.

Mrs Ohlrich's Travels

Hi Room 12. I hope you are having a fantastic holiday. I am leaving Australia to head to Mexico tomorrow morning. I will let you know how I am going on my travel blog. You can read that by clicking here or using the link in the side bar of our blog. I am not sure how good the interent will be, so hopefully I will be able to blog. If you don't hear from me then perhaps there is not internet available!
From Mrs. Ohlrich

Blog: www.petrastraveladventures.blogspot.com

District 12 News

Listen to this episode as group 3 experiment with interesting voice recordings! Enjoy.

What's been happening today?

This is a picture of sophie in a sari. It was confusing at first but we got it right in the end.

India unit

Room 12 have been learning about India for the past week.

Two girl's brought saris to school to show as Indin culture.
It's very different to us.
Today we are learning to  do bolliwood dance with room 16.

Reporter: Brynn
Photographer: Portia

Sports Day

Sadly due to all the rain we've been having, sports day has been postponed. It will be held early next term.

Sports Day

This Thursday is School Sports Day. Remember to wear your running shoes and your comfortable sports clothes to school. Make sure you bring a warm jacket and lots of water. You also need to bring a packed lunch - lots of food to give you energy!

Good luck Room 12 for your events and we'll be cheering on the class relay team for a win!

District 12 News

We have been busy producing another news show for you to enjoy. This week is presented by Group 4.

Kapa Haka

Each year a Kapa Haka group from GSNS perform at the Maori and Pacifica Festival. We just watched their dress rehearsal. It was amazing because they used clear singing voices and lovely actions.


Photographer: Hahna
Reporter: Milly

Story of the term

After finally finishing James and the Giant Peach, we are reading a new story: Roahl Dahl's Enormous Crocodile.

Mad Hatter's Hat

Today we were told that everyday while Miss Thompson is teaching we are going to have a different mad hatter. When the mystery mad hatter gets five ticks on the board they get three priveleges. These are to choose the fitness activity, choose a story to read and to have a friend to sit on the couch with them for 2 lessons.
They also have the special mad hatters hat on their desk for the day.
Today's was Qaswar.

Photographer: Hahna
Reporter: Milly

Speeches

Everyone should have taken their speeches home today and have started to practise this. Remember these golden tips so you can deliver a successful speech:

1. Use a clear and expressive voice
2. Stand confidently and look at the audience
3. Get to know your speech - try not to read it.
4. Not to slow, not to fast. Read your speech at a good pace

Good luck! Remember that it just about having a go and I can't wait to hear your fantastic speeches!

New Pets

We would like to welcome our new fish friends 'Comet' and 'Camouflage' to Room 12. We will try our best to look after these little fish!

District 12 News

This episode of District 12 News is proudly brought to you by the Group 6 reading group. They have planned, scripted, recorded and even edited this all by themselves. All I had to do was a little bit of editing at the end to get things in the right order. Amazing effort team!

What do you think of this episode? Let us know by adding a comment to this blog post.

Gingerbread haka

Tainui found this interesting version of a haka on youtube. We watched it and thought it was worth sharing with our blog viewers!

Can you guess?

Can you guess what Room 12 are doing here?

Cross Country

Cross country stars

8 children from Room 12 went to the next level of the cross country today. They had to race against year 5 and 6 children and they all did very well. Congratulations team!

Latest Radio Episode

Last week we made another episode of District 12 News. I was very pleased with how well the children in these groups worked together to put this show together. Great job Sam for using the portable microphone and recording all the parts. This certainly has cut out all the background noise.

Teddy Bear's Picnic

Today we had a teddy bear's picnic. We brought along our bears and dolls to have lunch with us. This was a reward for our class as we've been working on being a team and helping each other to get our work done.

Wonderful writing

Room 12 have been learning to write narratives. We have been learning to add interesting describing words and descriptive language like similies and metaphors. Check out some of this amazing writing on our writing blog...

http://gsns-team12writers.blogspot.com/

Egg Adventures

Wow! These eggs have just hit Room 12. Our mission is to keep them safe for the whole week without them cracking. We are doing this because we are learning to be responsible for things and to keep ourselves safe and others safe.

Miniball

Today Caspian, Devon, Adam and Annie went to a miniball tournament. It was really cool because you got to compete with year 5 and 6’s… except for the part where I hit my head.

Reporter: Devon.

Cross Country

Wow! I saw some amazing running today at cross country. I was very impressed with everyone's efforts. A special congratulations to the children that came in the top 3 - Year 3: Adam (2nd), Qaswar (3rd), Rebecca (2nd), Year 4: Liam (2nd), Cailin (3rd). Room 12 are full of talented runners!

Book Week - reading fun

We were so luck last week to have lots of stories read to us. Mr. Vinicombe came to our class and read a story. He read Bad Jelly the Witch.


We also had Mayor Peter. Chin come and read us the middle team some stories. How lucky are we?

Roald Dahl

As part of book week we are learning about Roald Dahl. He was a fabulous writer who used amazing words to describe the characters and what is happening in the story. We have been having a little look around his website. Check it out:

http://www.roalddahl.com/

Keep reading and reading and collecting your sponsors for the read-a-thon.

Keep Dunedin Beautiful

Today we went to a show called Keep Dunedin Beautiful. The message of the show was even though you can't see rubbish, doesn't mean its disappeared. So put your rubbish in the bin. It was a clever play because they were entertaining but they taught us something. We learnt that tidying up now will help our future otherwise we will end up with no fish and chips!

Book Week

Welcome back to term 3!
Book week has begun. Room 12 are reading to lots of books, sharing books and listening to audio stories. The theme this year is BLAST OFF WITH BOOKS!

Don't forget to collect some sponsors for the read-a-thon so that we can buy new books for reading groups.

Holidays

Term 2 has come to has come to an end. It has been a very busy 11 weeks and we have learnt a lot and had fun!

Term 3 starts Monday, July 19th.

Have a fun break and keep safe.
From Mrs. Ohlrich

Science Rapper

Today we saw a science rapper who was quite funny and taught us about water and energy by singing rap songs. We also got to rap a little bit. We learnt that there are little molecules in water and when water is ice the molecules move very slowly. When the water turns into vapour the molecules move very quickly.

"He was very good at singing and explaining science to us" (Milly)

The main message of the show was to ask questions and be a curious person because then you will learn new things.

District 12 News

It's been a long time coming, but here is the latest episode of District 12 News. This week's episode is brought to you by the Group 5 Reading Group. Enjoy and remember to let us know what you think of this episode...

District 12 News - Episode 3

gsnsroom11's Podcast

Science Night

Tuesday 29th June
5.30pm - 7.00pm

This Tuesday night is the Science Open Night. Come along with your family and see what all the classes have been doing this term in our science units.

Room 12's animal party with the bag pipes

In room 12 lately there have been lots of animals that have came and visted room 12 and Mr furry, including 5 koals and 3 lions and a loch ness monster and a kiwi.



Photographer: George
Reporter: Sam

Bugs!

Hi Room 12! Sadly I have had today at home sick and won't be at school tomorow as I have caught a yucky tummy bug. I hope that you are all having a great time with Miss. Firmin.

Don't forget to wash your hands to stop all these germs spreading!

From Mrs. Ohlrich

What's been happening today?

• I enjoyed maths groups (Hahna)
  
• I found it challenging to finish my bee poster (Brynn - but she did a fabulous job!)
• I was excited to go to the dental clinic (Qaswar)
• I enjoyed working on my bee project (Tainui)
  

Introducing our new friend

This is Mr Furry. He is an extreme koala. Sam and George and Liam made him this hand glider. All we did was strap a paper plane to his back.We would like to thank 5D for sending us Mr Furry.

Photographer: Sam
Reporter: Stella and Sam

Mmm!

What are we doing here?