Farewell Room22

Thank you Room 22 for a wonderful year! You are amazing children.
Thank you for the very thoughtful gifts and kind cards. I appreciated them all.
Have a super Christmas and fun filled holidays!!
 With my very very best wishes to you all.
Mrs Legarth

Candy cane science

Room 22 have made little statues and have put candy canes with them. We can't wait until we can eat the candy canes!

Powhiri

A very proud day for Room 22 and the Year Six Team. Well done to all!

Another Busy Week Ahead!

Two big events this week.
Our powhiri is on Tuesday. Remember to bring a small plate of food please, and Thursday is our Seek the Heights walk. Thank you to those parents who have offered to help. 


Enjoy your 2nd to last week at Te Mata!

EOTC Golf and Orienteering

A huge thank you to Fiona Goff for her marvelous golf lessons and to Natalie de Burgh for her great introduction to orienteering. What fun we had!

EOTC Fun!

Thank you to all the wonderful wonderful parents who helped us last week. We appreciated your help and had a fantastic time. 

Here are a few photos - more to follow. If you would like a copy of these we can put them on pen drive for you.

EOTC Timetable

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EOTC Optimist Training Video

http://vimeo.com/98299657

Lady Bug Note Generators

Radio Kidnappers Photos

Sorry to our Announcers - I have finally managed to get these pjotos on our blog. Remember everyone -check out Radio Kidnappers -Te Mata School and listen to our summary and our wonderful class song! You are very clever children!

Maths - Hard at Work!

One Maths group worked with Mrs Wilkie and prepared the throwing standards for the Athletic Sports. Here we are putting our data on to Excel spreadsheets.

Red Cross People Saver Course

Today Lia from Red Cross taught us some basic first aid.
Would you know what to do? Explain
DRSABC to your family?



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Radio Kidnappers: Have a Listen!

This is the link to our radio programme. Our class song recording is in the middle of the presentation. Thank you to Joe, Holly, Finley and Keely.

http://www.radiokidnappers.org.nz/search_air_db.php


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Location:Maths in action today

The Hawke's Bay Chess Competition

On Friday 17th October, Finley, Cormac, Ben, George and I (Joe),went to the H.B.C.C, (Hawke's Bay Chess Competition), with one goal: become the best chess player in Hawke's Bay. After 6 hours of tough competition, nail-biting anticipation and high tension games, the winners were announced. In first place in the Yr6 division, was Finley, in 20th, Cormac, in 22nd George, in 24th me and in 28th was Ben.



After a successful day of chess, we headed home, (mentally exhausted).

AMP with Mrs Wilkie and Mrs Rickman

Room 22 are very glad to be participating in AMP (Accelerated Maths Program) with Mrs Wilkie and Mrs Rickman. For this the class splits in four groups, each with a teacher helping them (our student teacher Miss Bassett and Mrs Legarth included). We are the last Senior Class to have this.
Having a teacher with each group speeds up our maths and we learn a lot more. Thanks Mrs Wilkie and Mrs Rickman!

Ciao Ms Bassett

Room 22 is very lucky this term, as we have the wonderful student teacher, Ms Bassett, with us for 4 weeks this term.



She has planned a skipping fitness programme, which we are enjoying, and she has planned argument writing with us. We are also learning italian, with our " Pasta or Pavlova" inquiry.
Here are some Italian words

Ciao (chow) -hello
Come Stai (com e sti) -how are you?
Bene ( Ben e) -good
Male (ma le) -bad
Molto Bene (mol to ben e) -very good
Molto Male( mol to ma le) -very bad
Belisima( bel I is ma) -fantastic
La mia nome è -my name is ( for girls)
il mio nome è -my name is ( for boys)
Io sono( I o sono) -I am


- by Holly.

Book Reviews

More great books to read. Thank you boys.

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Chess Champion

Congratulations Finley!
We are so proud of you!

Finley won the Year Six Division of the Hawke's Bay Chess Tournament on Friday. Finley won all five games. Great effort!
Ten players from Te Mata entered the competition and they played extremely well - all winning at least three games.

Thank you to Mr Duncan, Mrs Turley, and Mrs Speers for their help.


Our Champion - Finley.

Unisons Greatest Supporter

Siobhan in our class is Unisons greatest supporter for September. For this she has to complete three tasks. Task One was to draw a picture about the dangers of power lines and power boxes. Task Two was to play the What Numbers game on the Unison website. Task Three was to hand out as many Unison magnets as she can. She has given a magnet to everyone in our class, and people in our class have heard her Unisons greatest supporters ad on four different radio stations.
Well done Siobhan !
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Open Day Sharing

These are some of the suggestions we have researched. We shared our ideas with Mr Bain and he took the ideas to the Board Of Trustees.
Thank you to all the parents who came to our Open Day. It was lovely to see you all and thank you for letting us share our learning with you.

Congratulations to Ben, Tom Siobhan and Phoebe for getting chosen to run at the Hastings District Inter-Cross Country last Tuesday. Tom, Siobhan and Phoebe are now going to run at the Hawke's Bay inter-school Cross Country.
Phoebe came 15th, Siobhan came 5th, Tom came 1st and Ben cam 48th in their age groups.

Congrats Tom for coming 1st in your race.nGood luck for the Hawke's Bay Cross Country
Congratulations Siobhan for coming 5th. It's an amazing position to get in such a big competition. Run hard at the Hawke's Bay cross Country. Best of luck to all of you.


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Tom and Finley have worked very hard to make this master piece during a long seven weeks of learning and researching about parks, reserves and a little bit about gardens. They both put in a lot of collaboration, critical thinking and they also communicated with their ideas. Well done.

The Ranfurly shield

Te Mata School were really lucky to have one of the magpie players bring the Ranfurly Shield to our school. Lots of people came with their iPads to have their photo taken. Some people were saying ' we touched victory' I agree with that.









Phoebe


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Read-a-Thon Winners

Read-a-Thon Winners.

Holly and Finley were the champion readers for this Read-a-Thon, Finley for both runner up for the write your own book award and he was the senior boy that read the most minutes. For that he was awarded a book called Timmy Failure, Now What Have You Done and an I Pod shuffle! Holly was the champion for the write your own book award for her wonderful story Fire.
Well done both of you!





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Adele Broadbent

Our class book at the moment is "Just Jack" by Adele Broadbent. Keely went to the book launch of her new children's novel, "Trouble in Time".

By Keely and Emily

Google Docs Room 22

We are currently really enjoying writing on google docs



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Epic Citadel character profile

On the 1st of September we were doing a medieval theme on a character
profile and we used Epic Citadel to look at the setting of the citadel and create
our own character in a story.















By Matthew and Bronson