A Good Friend Is...
In Integrated Studies we have been learning about friends and friendship, specifically what a good friend is. This is what we believe a good friend is...
WALT: Explain what the qualities of a good friend are.
Watch Out Picasso... Here Comes Room 4!
Art Attack this term focused on turning our mihis into a visual representation scroll. This meant we had to draw our mountain, river, flower or tree and or an icon from the region we come from. We planned and then designed what our scrolls would look like on draft paper before beginning on our good piece of cartridge. The Art medium we used was water colour paints. These paints enabled us to play around with colour and combinations of these. This is what we came up with...
Top Team 2014
We were excited about participating in the first Oaklands School Top Team event being run by Sport Canterbury. We got to do a variety of activities, some of which involved a lot of water! This was probably the part of the event that students enjoyed the most, getting wet! We worked together in teams to win points. Below are Room 4's highlights of the event.
I enjoyed the Burst Pipe because you got wet! And I love to get
wet. By Jade
I
enjoyed the awesome obstacle course with the bucket full of water and the game
where you had to float the ping pong
ball out of the pipe with holes. By Taylah
I loved all of the exciting and awesome fun water games. By Emily
I really enjoyed the water pipe activity because you got really wet.
They were all fun!! By Isaac
My favourite thing about the Top Team events was the obstacle
course. By Ashton
I enjoyed the balance a bucket full of water on a stick game!!! By JACK
I enjoyed the obstacle when you had to get the ball out of the pipe.
By Lindsay
My favourite thing at Top Team was the water game when we had to
put the water in the hole. By Hailey
The New Zealand puzzle. By Josh
I enjoyed getting wet because it was nice and cold. I liked the
challenge because it was frustrating sometimes. By Jakob
My favourite thing was winning. By Savannah
My favourite thing at Top Team was the obstacle course one. By Alissa
I loved the pipe game
because of getting soaked. By Nicholas
Getting wet. By Rewi
I enjoyed getting wet. By Melahkye
I loved getting wet when we had to try to get the ball out of the
pipe. By Candice
The Top Team was fun because I got wet and the House of Cards was
fun. By Holly
What I enjoyed about Top Team
was the bucket on the stick because we got wet. By Charlotte
My favourite thing about Top Team was the puzzle one where you had to
build New Zealand. By Lily
I enjoyed the burst pipe because you got wet. I love to get wet. By Brook
I enjoyed the bucket game. By
Phoebe
I enjoyed doing the water activities. I liked the Lily Pad Game. By Lachlan
Water games and Map Game with Miss B. By Sasha
I enjoyed getting wet, trying new experiences and having fun. I had
an awesome time! By Wariesha
Our Camp Highlights!
WHAT I ENJOYED ABOUT CAMP!
Rope swing,
the camp fire songs, it was fun, happy, funny, exciting, scary, weird, lovely
meals, colourful, challenging, the waterslide, the bouldering wall, archery, low
ropes, swimming, the monorail and the trampolines.
BY HAILEY
WHAT I ENJOYED ABOUT CAMP!
My
favourite thing at camp was the bouldering wall and my favourite thing at the
bouldering wall was around the world. I loved the monorail. The waterslide made
my shorts dirty! Though everything was fun!
BY
SAVANNNAH
At camp my
favourite thing was feeding and patting the animals they were cute. I felt
spoilt by them. I also enjoyed archery and air rifles because I got huge
targets. I felt amazing it was awesome! I also liked the bouldering wall it was
challenging and exciting! I also loved the campfire because we sang super silly
songs [a chiki chiki chumba!] [A maso maso maso! and you can’t ride in my
little red wagon the fronts seat’s broken and the axels dragon] yes that was
super too! I loved swimming too! But the walking wasn’t so good or the sleeping
[it was to noisy!]
BY JADE
I Enjoyed Camp
We sang
funny songs at the campfire, did archery, climbed the bouldering wall, went on
the swing, rode the monorail, did the initiatives and slid down the mudslide.
BY PHOEBE
I enjoyed
camp. I liked the bouldering wall because it was challenging and fun at the
same time. The campfire because we got to sing silly songs and eat smores. The
monorail because on one of the corners it felt like you were going to fall off.
The Initiatives course because it was fun with the swing rope. I felt great!
BY ALISSA
Camp was…
nerve racking, funny, fun, exciting, interesting, scary, challenging, soared
across the top of hills, snuck up hills, scrambled… I enjoyed the campfire and
smores, silly songs, looking after friends that were sad, milking cows, riding
horses, feeding animals, swimming, the monorail, the colours game and the farm.
BY AMELIA
I enjoyed it
at camp, especially the rifles and archery. The food and the games, swimming,
trampolines, animals, songs, campfire, friends and bugs too!
BY LINDSAY
Camp
My
Experiences… learning about the rocks and the fact that we were walking inside
a volcano and farm, the monorail, pool, walking inside the shearing shed, rope
swing, flying fox, funny, excited, long walk up and down, the colour game,
feeding the animals, the campfire, campfire songs, archery and the air rifles,
the big wall, sleeping, low ropes, food, seeing onga onga, bouldering wall,
tractor ride, milking a cow, the trampoline, initiatives, balance bikes, water
slide and learning about the beach.
BY ASHTON
Bouldering
wall: Fun! Awesome! Sweaty, slippery, around the world: challenging.
BY ISAAC
I enjoyed
the campfire because we got to have some smores and sing silly songs. We also
got to a frog song and I didn’t laugh so I got a treat. Then when we got back
we got to have supper. We had biscuits with chocolate on the bottom of them.
BY CANDICE
I liked
camp because it was fun and cool. We did archery and slept in bunkrooms.
BY CALEB
I enjoyed the camp songs,
campfire, go-carts, colour game and swimming.
BY MELAHKYE
At camp I
enjoyed… the campfire, rifles, archery, hanging out with friends, the
bouldering wall, waterslide, low ropes, swimming, the monorail, the
trampolines, smores, meals, funny songs… Camp was funny, fun, spectacular,
awesome, great, about taking risks, amazing, scary, cool, nerve racking,
exciting, happy, sad, tired, sleepy, challenging, game on, tricky, colourful,
and PERFECT!
BY SASHA
Camp was…
fun, exciting, the campfire because of the funny songs, archery and rifles, learning
about the beach, memorable, sleeping, pool, cows, waterslide, tired, low ropes,
food, long walk, flying fox, colour game, rope swing, bouldering wall, the farm
and initiatives.
BY JAKOB
I enjoyed
the mudslide and swimming and the bouldering wall. I also got to ride a horse
and milk a cow.
BY HOLLY
Camp
I enjoyed
the campfire because of the silly songs and smores and I also got candy because
I didn’t laugh at the frog dance or song. PS we also still got supper. PSS When
we got back to camp we played outside. I LOVE SMORES!
BY JOSH
At camp I
most enjoyed rifles and archery because I got 4/4 for rifles and 4 blue, 4
yellow, 1 deer and 1 gulls eye target.
BY PORTIA
My Camp Experiences
Awesome, a
bit homesick, a bit sleepy, smiles, exciting, lots of jokes, wet and rides.
BY REWI
Camp
Something
hard for me was walking up to get to Living Springs and walking down to get to
the farm.
I enjoyed
the initiatives because you had to problem solve things like getting the tyre
over the top of a pole. I also enjoyed the low ropes, bouldering wall,
campfire, recreation and swimming, monorail, air rifles, archery, riding horses
at the farm and walking back from the campfire.
BY LILY
I enjoyed
doing rifles and archery because I got 4 turns. I enjoyed archery because I got
to go out on the archery field where you shoot the arrows. I loved camp!
BY
CHARLOTTE
On Wednesday
we went to camp. I most enjoyed doing all the fun activities and eating. I felt
really excited. But I didn’t like it when we had to go to bed because at about
midnight Rewi had to look out the window.
BY LACHLAN
My Feelings…
Saturated,
delicious, exciting, boiling, wild, amazing, fun, stupendous, awesome,
wonderful, fabulous, soaking, freezing, cool, sensational, scintillating,
tasty, nerve racking, drenched, hilarious and warm.
My Thoughts…
Campfire,
shearing sheep, initiatives, silly songs, waterslide, animal feeding, swimming,
milking cows, big walks, air rifles, bouldering wall, cart rideing, horse
riding, colour game, archery, teamwork building, bunks, farm, nature walks…
wish it was longer!
BY TAYLAH
My
favourite part of camp was the campfire because we sang silly songs and the
funniest part of camp was someone who played a joke on me. At the campfire we
also made yummy smores. It was fun!
BY EMILY
My
favourite thing about camp – Living Springs was Beau at night being silly and
funny.
BY JACOB
My
favourite thing about camp was Beau being silly at night and archery and air
rifles. Camp was the best school trip ever!
BY SAM
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