Room 23 have talked about our year. Here are some of our favourite memories...
* Swimming in Term 1 in the school pool and at Aquagym. Some of us were surprised at our results and how much we improved. We also learnt new skills like floating on our back.
* Blue Skies at Kaiapoi. We went as a whole senior team which was really cool and we worked in teams. Some of the best activities were: the flying fox, balancing on the big wooden platform, swinging off the platform and holding onto the net, climbing over the big wall and getting over the barrel all together.
* AVAILLL: We loved this! It was our Term 2 reading programme where we read subtitles of movies and did activities to help our comprehension. The Year 5s and Year 6s did different programmes. We learnt skills like how to write short sentences down fast, to remember what we had seen on the screen; to be able to skim read more quickly; getting better at remembering things; it made us notice exactly what the characters were saying.
* Miss Barker our student teacher was in our class in Term 2. She is AWESOME at football so she taught us a bit about that. She also did some stuff with us about the land that changes like techtonic plates.
* Halswell Quarry: As part of our learning for 'The Land that Changes' we did a trip to Halswell Quarry. We saw the different layers of rocks on the hillside and all about different types of rocks; we learnt about the history of the quarry and the wetlands like how there were 12 men that lived in one cottage and they all had to share the same bath water; we saw the house of the man who first owned the quarry, he was really wealthy and had the first car in Christchurch.
* Showcase: We used our learning about the land that changes to inspire our senior dance pieces about the past, present and future of Christchurch. Our class did the future. Our favourite parts of the showcase was turning around at the end to show our message 'We are the future of CHCH'; how we could tell a story through dance; how everyone joined in; making up the different moves; watching all of the other classes.
* Speeches: we all enjoyed doing the speech competition. There were lots of cool topics.
* Food for Thought: we did an awesome learning programme about the food we eat. We learnt so much about what is in our food, how to read food labels, how much sugar is in different food and drinks, the food pyramid, we found out about the food that we do eat and whether it is healthy or not.
* Beach Ed and Sailing: Year 5 and Year 6 did these separate programmes in Term 4 as part of Education outside the classroom.
* CAMP! We've just got back from camp. We did these activities: Kayaking, coasteering, archery, colour game, low ropes, orienteering, sports games, tribal wars.
Overall, we have had a great year. The best thing about being in Room 23 has been...
* Mrs Hanson
* Having good friends in the class
* Having different cultures in our class
* Being surprised by the friends that we have made when we thought we didn't really know anyone in the class.
* A mixture of Year 5s and Year 6s
* Everyone cares about each other and gives each other second chances
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