Ratu 16 Pipiri (Tuesday, 16th of June)

Last week Georgia and Giorgia went to the boiler room to ask Mr Andrews, the school caretaker about how our school is heated in the winter time.

We talked to Mr Andrews about coal, the heating of the school and how he likes working with the boilers.
Giorgia took some photos of the boiler room and me trying to lift the the coal and I took one of her.The coal is very heavy and the cheapest way of heating the school.
Greytown school buys Pea coal because its the cheapest.
We asked Mr Andrews what is it like to work in the boiler room?
He said"it is cool but you have to be careful in there.

Weekend sports

Over the weekend many of us were involved with sports, here are some results.

Saturday Greytown strikers played Martinbourgh in soccer. Greytown won 5-0. Jordan scored 4 of the goals.

Around the same time, Greytown Fireball (Hockey) faced Hadlow and won 4-1.
Greytown (Netball) won 12-2 with DPS Tactics at Kurinui and Greytown played rugby at the Greytown rugby club.

Rahina 15 o Pipiri (Monday 15th of june)

This term our focus is on Electricity. We have been making circuits and learning about the different sources of energy generation.

Over the last few week, students' have been making new discoveries around the topic of electricity, and have come up with questions about the topic.

They are now currently researching their questions, and finding out new information in their area of interest.

We have groups working on "Which electricity is the best in terms of cost and environmental impact" to "How much electricity is the school using and areas where we can save on power".

In week 10, the students will be sharing their keynote presentation on their findings to the Karaka Syndicate.

Room 11 will also be recording the progress of our inquries and other events happening in our classroom while reflecting on their new learning, daily on our class blog site.

Week 8 is Teacher-Student-Parent conferences, where the students will be able to discuss and showcase their learning from the last two terms.

An email from Adam

Hi Everyone,

We are having a great time. We stayed with Mum's friend for 3 nights and
saw lots of animals. Mums' friends house had an outside shower & toilet.
Jacob got bitten by a jumping ant and had 2 leeches on his feet. We saw
heaps of wallabies in the backyard and Mum saw 2 tawny frogmouth owls on
the ledge of the toilet!!

Today we are going to Dreamworld & White Water world. When we went to the
beach the waves were huge but the water was warm.

The weather here is beautiful and warm - going to be 29 degrees today saw
on tv that Mstn is going to be wet & cold.

Jacob & I have emailed you last week but not sure if you got them as the
internet was a bit slow at Mum's friends house.

Hope you aren't working too hard. Off to catch the bus now.

From Adam & Jacob

Ramare 20 o Poutu-te-rangi

This week we did Jump Jam and we are learning about diasters and sign language. Today we have golden time. For golden time we are going to play pass the parcel.

Rapare 19 o Poutu-te-rangi

Welcome to Room 11' s blog site. Over the year students will be recording their thoughts, reflections on their learning and special events happening. We also have students who travel around New Zealand and the world, they too will be able to add to this blog.
We hope that you will enjoy reading our blogs.