Carina wrote a fabulous story today about her time in Australia.  It is really well written and well worth reading.  Click on this link to get to it.
http://2014toscar6.blogspot.co.nz/2014/09/australia.html?showComment=1411344001041#c8895879273089853874

Room 6's blog has reached a new milestone - we have now exceeded 3000 hits from all around the world.  A lot of the hits are using the class website as a gateway to children's blogs.  Dylan has nearly reached his goal of 1000 hits on his personal learning blog.  Some children have really interesting hits from places like Cyprus, Croatia, and Russia.  It is fun to discover where these countries are!

Monday 11th August 2014

Waikanae School Room 6 students were among the 87 students from the Te Aramoana syndicate who went to assist with planting over 1000 native plants at the Waimea Lagoon, at Waikanae Beach. 

It was a lovely day with the weather and everyone worked together to complete the task.  

The Waimea Lagoon Restoration group has been going for 15 years and this is the first time that Waikanae school has been involved.  The current work is being done in conjunction with the Kapiti Coast District Council. 

There were around 6 or 7 varieties of native NZ plants including toi-tois, swamp caprosma, flax  and mahoi. "Plants are the seed for [the children] for the future - it gives them the an appreciation for the hard work the KCDC does." said Dan Green from the KCDC.  

Anya and Molly  click their orienteering map at one of the checkpoints.  The fastest children were Alfie and Isaac who completed the course in 29 minutes.

Scott checks out our story map for our orienteering narratives.  We based our narratives on our experiences, using what we knew to form new made-up stories.

 A couple of weeks ago we learnt about the biggest snakes in the world.  We read about them in a school journal.  They were prehistoric and the information was gathered from fossil records.  It was so big the height of it would have come up to a man's waist.

Jasmine made a model snake - the bulge in the middle is where her snake ate a soft toy animal!!  Good one Jasmine!

 Some of the girls in Room 6 play netball on a Saturday morning.  Our house is near the courts and I hear the noise from the courts when they start playing - shouts of encouragement and cheers when a goal is scored.  If I look out the window I can see some of the courts.  We wish them well for their games during the netball season - especially those wet, or cold frosty mornings when I am at home and it is warm and comfortable..

Laura G had her birthday.  Her mum turned up at school with two large cakes, one banana and one chocolate.  Laura had to figure out how to cut it so there would be enough for everyone.    I had the chocolate and mint flavoured cake.  It went really well with my lunch.  Thank you Laura and Mrs G.

Dylan with his cup of delicious vegetable soup.  On a cold day it was much appreciated by lots of Rm 6-7 children.

Last week was a cold week with frosty mornings and some wet days as well.  Laura G's mum kindly made a large pot of soup - with veges and pasta.  It was hot and really delicious.  Thank you Mrs G.

She is going to come to class and teach some children how to make soup and the class might get taste some more.  These practical skills may help develop and interest in cooking and the ability to cook for their own family.

Some of the Room 7 children also enjoyed the soup.

NEWSFLASH!!!!

Next week I hope to have the real Patches McPatches come and visit Room 6!  He is due back from PNG at the end of the week but will need a couple of days to get over jetlag.

Due to the rising popularity of Henry as a travelling companion, and the range of exciting and dangerous undertakings Henry has with his adventures, we have had to make the unprecedented decision to hire a stunt double. Fortunately we have located an excellent look-alike who has morphed into the familiar Henry 1 appearance.  Jasmine has kindly allowed her bear, who we will call Henry 2, to also participate in some adventures - today he was off to gymnastics.  Can't wait for the photos. 

Meanwhile Henry 1 is off to on a separate adventure.

Tonight he has gone with James B and Quacky (Read James individual blog to find out about Quacky's adventures) for the night.  I get the feeling Quacky and Henry will have a fabulous time - but I hope they don't get into too much mischief when James isn't looking.

Check back tomorrow to find out more about what Henry has been doing.

Been wondering about Henry - He has certainly had an exciting adventure.  He had a big day out with Ben's mum who is a vet.  Watch and see the mischief he got into ..... and how he ended up getting a check-up and more.

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Thank you Mrs V for taking such good care of Henry. :-)

The Adventures Of Henry the Travelling Bear.

26 March 2014, Waikanae - Wellington

I'm going on my first trip today and I'm very excited. I have to wake up early at 5.30am. We leave Waikanae by car at 6am and it’s still dark outside. I know that Wellington is the capital of New Zealand and it must be a big city. It’s almost an hour to drive into Wellington, and I’m getting a little bit bored so I play “sweet and sour”.  I waved to the other cars out the back window and some drivers smiled and waved back at me, they were sweet J

It’s still dark when we arrive in Wellington at 7am. Here’s a photo of me as I get out of the car in Willis Street.

I’m quite hungry now and as a special treat we go and have a breakfast at a café.

Then it’s got light outside and it’s a clear autumn day today. There is no wind – I don’t know why people say “Windy Wellington” at all. As I walked out of the café I saw this red phone booth in “Post Office Square”. I tried to phone Waikanae School but they told me that there was no one in room 6 just yet. I might sent you a postcard instead. 

We went to a street called “The Terrace” where a lot of tall office buildings are. We parked the car under one of the buildings in an underground car park. Then we went up in a lift to the 7^th floor and I liked how shiny and silver it was and I got to press the buttons. I asked whether we could go all the way to the top floor. I was allowed to go to the 12^th floor three times – yayyyy! Then I thought I'd better let other people use the lift too and I went to start work.

I needed to be very quiet at work. People  looked very busy and serious but everyone is very friendly and said “Good morning” to me. I was allowed to sit on the desk and watch everyone all day. I got a bit bored so I was allowed to draw pictures with highlighter pens on white printer paper.

At lunchtime we walked down the road to “Lambton Quay” which had a lot of shops on it. We had sandwiches for lunch and we sat on the grass in front of the parliament buildings. Parliament is where the people from the government meet up and talk about the laws of New Zealand. The main parliament building is called the Beehive. I bought a postcard on the way back to work and mailed it to Room 6 at Waikanae School – did you get it??

In the afternoon I was allowed to go to a meeting where everyone was sitting in a big meeting room at a round table. Sometimes everyone talked at once, but there was a person at the head of the table who was chairing the meeting. The chairperson decided whose turn it was to say something. Another person was the minute-taker and wrote down notes about who said what and also wrote down all decisions that were made in the meeting. When someone was given a task then this is called an action. At the next meeting everyone who was given an action had to say whether they had finished and what the outcome was.

After work we went outside and it was a lovely sunny afternoon. We walked along Lambton Quay again to the “Cable Car”. The Cable Car goes from the centre of the city all the way up a big hill to where the university is. I looked down on the rails of the Cable Car and I could see that there was one thick cable in the middle of the rails that was attached to two carriages.

So one carriage is pulled upwards the track while the other one is going down.

When the Cable Car moves there is no engine noise so it’s not very noisy but it does rattle a bit like it does on a train, but it goes a lot slower than a train.

On the way back to Waikanae I was a bit tired and I had a sleep all the way back to Waikanae. I can’t wait to get back to school and show you all my photos from today.

                HENRY

NEWSFLASH

An update on Henry – our class Bear.  Inspired by the adventures Patches McPatches in PNG, Henry decided it was time for him to go on an adventure too.... although not feeling so brave he decided his first trip wouldn't be overseas.

Henry hitches a ride with Jill – off on his big adventure!

We have had a card from him too.  He even got to go to Parliament!

Henry writes

“Dear Children of Room 6 and Mr Corlett

I’m on a trip to wellington today and I am having such an awesome day J.  I will tell you all about it soon when I get back to class.

Thinking of you.

See you soon,

Henry

Term 1 Week 7  The Yr 6 children went on camp to Palm Grove.  It was a fabulous camp - great parent helpers, awesome kids, well organised (thanks Michelle), and a camp site which gave children a great number of fun but challenging activities, which we share with you through this video.

Check out the Year 6 children's individual blogs for their views of the camp.