Tough Kids Challange Video

Below is a video highlight and some pictures of the Tough Kids challenge – Enjoy!

http://youtu.be/GfdPG7-Gxzc

http://www.sporttaranaki.org.nz/photogallery_d.aspx?photocate_id=79

Touch Rugby - 15.12.14

How to Paper Mache Successfully

We have started some paper mache creations in room 9. Come and check them out.

Multiplication and Addition Fun

Room 9 played a game that involved addition and multiplication today. Here are the photos of us playing the game. Please come to room 9 for a board and the instructions if you'd like to play at home.

 

Coconut Ice Making

 

On Monday, Room 9 made coconut ice mice. They were really easy to make and didn't take that long. We had to measure out the right amount of sugar, condensed milk, coconut shavings, and after it was mixed. food colouring was incorporated as well. After we had made the mice, they looked like their body was made of play-dough with little candies for their eyes, ears, and noses. When the time finally came to take them home, the mice tasted really good.

Written by Abi

How to make a paper box

 

We're going to be creating some treats to put in paper boxes tomorrow. You can use the video or the instructions below to help you create your box. 

http://www.creativebug.com/blog/how-to-fold-a-paper-box/

Althletics - High Jump

A visit from a Taranaki Rugby player

More Tough Kids Photos

Click on the link below to see more photos of the Tough Kids Challenge.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/kd_image_plaza/sets

Tough Kids Photographs 2

On Friday 28 November Room 9 went on a bus trip to Yarrow Stadium for an event called Tough Kids Tag Oil competition. Lots of other schools attended as well. Despite the horrible weather the course was fantastic. We climbed over hay bales, through tunnels and down a bubbly water slide not to mention all the other obstacles! After the individual race we had to do the team challenge to carry a hoop back through the course again. It was so amazing, awesome, incredible and fantastic!!

Written by Bella and Nani

Here are some more great photographs of our time at the tough kids challenge on Friday. 

Thank you to Julie Salisbury for the great pictures!

Speech Presentations - 27.11.14

On 27 November the school held a speech presentation in the PC (pohutukawa centre.

It started with a real best friends,then grown ups and my favorite HOW TO GET OUT OF GOING TO THE SHOPS WITH YOUR MUM !

Personally my favourite was HOW TO GET OUT OF GOING TO THE SHOPS WITH YOUR MUM !

Written by Josh.B

2nd December 2014

Long Jump - 27.11.14

On Thursday 27 November room 9 did long jump training.

First room 9 got 2 skipping ropes and placed them on the ground.

Then we jumped over the rope taking off with one foot and landing on 2 two feet.

Then we placed hurdles in the middle and kept jumping.  

Personally I really liked it when we put hurdles in the middle of the

ropes.

Written by Josh.B  

1st December 2014

Tough Kids Challenge - 28.11.14

A Taste of Home - 26.11.14

A Taste Of Home

On Wednesday 26 November Oakura School had the taste of home activities. There were lots to choose from. There was a session 1 and a session 2 (session 2 had the most activities). I chose America for session 1 and England for session 2. It went from the start of the day to morning tea. America was fun. One of the things we had to do was line dancing. This was fun, hard and very funny. The two leaders were the judges. If you won you got some American candy. They talked a lot about holidays and asked a lot of hard questions. At the England there were only about 4 or 5 people but it was fun we played a game called the London bridge is falling down it was a fun game. We were asked some easy questions,  watched a slideshow and a video.

Written by Dylan.

Climbing Wall - 24.11.14

Climbing wall at school on Monday!

We have a climbing wall at school on Monday. We'll be participating whatever the weather, so bring some spare clothing!

SURF by Louis

surfing is a fun and entertaining sport.

u feel as free as a bird.

racing as fast as you can to shore.

feeling the cool breeze in your hair.

SPRING writen by Ed

SPRING by Ed

Supreme fun

Playing out doors

Running around like headless chickens

Incredible fun

Never a drop of rain

Get lots of fun in spring

Hobbies by Nani

Horse riding is a great idea for a hot summer day on the beach.

Oragami is a fun activity to do on a wet, cold winters day.

Biking with my dad is great fun if you want to be fit in the thighs.

Brylie, Graham and I love to play soccer.

Inside I like to build Lego houses with my bros.

Excellent, hot days are perfect for surfing.

Swimming is a great way to keep fit, strong and healthy.

By: Nani

The Girl Who Loved To Dance by Miya

The girl who loved to dance

There once lived a young girl who loved to dance.

She danced all day and she danced all night.

She danced everywhere she went. She jumped

and she leaped she spun and she sway,

so delicately she danced with no sound at her feet.

By Miya:)

Winter poem by Olivia

WINTER

Whisper it and your heart freezes

I sit inside,alone,looking outside,thinking

Not breathing, but inhaling the freezing oxygen

Talking about the cold makes me tense

Every day is getting colder and colder

Right now, it's here, WINTER

BY OLIVIA

Athletics - Discus - 20.11.14

 

AWE Swim safety - 20.11.14

AWE Swim Safety

Over the past few days Room 9 have been going to the aquatic centre doing the AWE swim safety program. We have been learning how to save people without endangering ourselves, learning how to pull someone onto a lifeboat, how to jump safely into the water (safety jump) and doing normal swimming strokes. The lessons have been very fun and could be useful in the future.

Photos taken by Miss Bain.

Written by Jack.

AWE Swimming

Since the 18th of November until the 21st of November we have been going to the aquatic center to learn about swimming. We have practiced floating , safety diving into the pool , freestyle , backstroke and life saving. It has been so fun and on the 21st we will be having a exam to see how much we have improved!

Written by Alex

Mapping My Place maps and presentations 19.11.14

As Oakura School are thinking of becoming an enviro school, our class have mapped and labeled our school with a buddy. The labels had personal feelings like quiet and joyful on them. We also had to label the can do’s and cant do’s of the school, e.g Library: Can discuss and read books quietly. Can’t shout and run around. Some groups used satellite images and some just knew the school well. But one thing we all had in common was that we all had fun. 

Written by Robbie

AWE Swim Safety 19.11.14

The year sixes have been going to the aquatic  centre to do a swimming program called AWE. We learn floating and sculling, saving people with a rope and other equipment and we do backstroke and freestyle as well. It’s really fun and we have been going all week apart from Monday. The swimming lesson is fun and will be useful if we are in trouble in the sea.

Written by Rosie.

AWE swimming

This week the year sixes have been learning to swim at the aquatic centre. We get to wear a fluro green rash tops so we can easily be seen in the water. Each day we get put into 3 different groups of eight then we go to our activity and to the next and the next. We have learnt freestyle and back stroke. Room 9 is filled with very talented swimmers and we have had so much fun swimming this week.

Written by:Charlotte☺

AWE SWIM SAFETY  

This week room nine and eight have been taking part in the AWE swim safety program.

We have been learning a lot of different techniques and styles. The main things  we have been working on are FLOATING,FREESTYLE and BACKSTROKE. I’m sure that the whole class have really enjoyed AWE and has learnt lots.

Written by Aiden   

SPRING by Charlie Bridges

SPRING

Written by Charlie Bridges

Super fun times for little lambs.

Plants blooming all there flowers.

Running like the wind at the beach.

In the tents like little moals.

No snow on the mountain.

Going to the beach.

My Lamb written by Abi.

Adorable! Athena is just about the cutest lamb you've ever met!

Time-consuming. Athena is really cute, but her HUMONGOUS appetite is hard to appease!

Hot-headed. If Athena is hungry and you don't feed her ASAP she'll get infuriated and start bleating.

Entertaining. When you run down a hill with Athena in tow, she'll leap, bleat, and toss her head.

Not easily fooled! Athena really lives up to her name by following you no matter where you go.

A complete lamb. Athena isn't the only one! She lives a happy life with her BLFF, (Best Lamb Friends Forever) Aslan.

Below: Athena and Aslan. Athena in front, Aslan in the back. Pictures to come.

AWE Swim Safety 18.11.14

AWE SWIM SAFETY

This week room 9 and 8 have been taking part in the AWE swim safe. It’s been a real fun time working with lots of real good swimmers! Every time you get put into a new group with new people. Our main coach was Ollie, he has been teaching us how to float and how to keep safe in the water and how to swim properly. Over the past week we have made lots of progress in our swimming!

Written by Tayla!!!!

Fun Run!

On friday the 14th of November, the whole of Oakura School participated in the awesome fun run. There were dressup themes for the day so everyone came in costumes which made it very interesting.  There were LOTS of games, like: passing and catching water balloons, obstacle courses, waterslide, and other very exciting activities to experience. It was such a hot day, everybody especially enjoyed going on the waterslide. We were given a refreshing ice-block at the end, which was very nice. Everyone had a great day, and can’t wait until next year!

written by:

ARIZONA

Diabetes Day

 

 

Today was Diabetes Day at Oakura School. We dressed in blue to show our support for those who have Diabetes. Ed did some research at home and told us lots of interesting information he had found it. We then watched the video clip above to learn even more about Diabetes.
If you want to learn even more about Diabetes click on the link - Diabetes NZ website

Kapa haka performance 12.11.14

On Wednesday last week Oakura School was lucky enough to get a performance from their school Kapa haka group that performed in the Taranaki Puanga Festival 3 weeks earlier.

The group were amazing and children are waiting excitedly for the Puanga Festival Idol contestants that are performing sometimes soon. Written by Katelyn.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Music performance - 10.11.14

On Monday the 10th of November Oakura School had a music assembly. Oakura school have been learning their pieces of music this term ready for the assembly.

A huge thank you to Mrs Aiello for teaching us how to use  these wonderful instruments. Above is Room 9’s piece of music. 
Written by Katelyn

Fraction Frenzy

We have been learning more about fractions. 

We've been having fun playing card games where we comparing different fractions.

Road Patrol Training

On Thursday the year 6 pupils trained for road patrol with Anna and Tony from the New Zealand Police. I enjoy putting the signs out and stopping the traffic! Hopefully we will be able to do road patrol this term.

Written by Oliver.

It's a Book by Lane Smith

Room 9 read this book in the library a while ago. Take a look at the video.

Sparky visited Oakura School

Sparky, from Powerco visited our assembly today with a very important message. To watch the Sparky video and find out more about his message click here.

Name the surf education mascot

Enter the competition to name the new surf education mascot and be in the chance to win prizes!

Click here to find more details.

Sustainability acrostic poems

Room 9 have been learning about sustainability. We wrote some acrostic poems to share our understanding.

A poem of destiny by Theo Cook

Save our planet!

Use less energy.

Superman saves the world by being sustainable.

Try to limit use of plastic.

Apple cores are sustainable.

It means to go on forever.

No plastic! Try to recycle! 

Live sustainably by Oliver

 

Stop driving because it uses fossil fuels.

Use less fossil fuels.

Slow the printer so we save paper and trees.

Take your rubbish home.

Act with the environment not without.

If you give back as much trees as you take the world will survive.

No smoking because it harms the Ozone layer.

Sustainability by Theo.K

Stop driving because it uses up gas and fossils fuels.

Use less paper and stop laminating.

Slow the printer.

Take your rubbish home and leave it there.

Act environmental.

If you give back trees as much as you take, there will never be no trees.

No smoking because it releases chemicals that break the ozone layer.
Sustainability by Seton

SAVE OUR WORLD.

UNNECESSARY NEEDS ARE NOT NEEDS.

SOLAR POWER IS BETTER THAN COAL OR GAS.

TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE.

ANIMALS NEED FOOD, FOOD CAN’T GROW WITHOUT THE ENVIRONMENT.

IF WE ARE NOT KIND TO THE WORLD IT WILL NOT BE KIND TO US.

NEEDS ARE NEEDS, THINK NEXT TIME YOU BUY SOMETHING. DO I WANT IT OR DO I NEED IT?