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Thank you for joining us for another blog update.
Hi and welcome to another exciting week in room 9.
This week we used balloons for our literacy. We described what they looked like, felt like and moved like. It was a wonderful experience with all the inspiring colours. We got some interesting describing words. It was a really fun and exciting way to learn!
Some of the words and phrases we came up with were: shockwave of colour, burst of colour, soft gliding, drifting, squishy, floating, transparent, pops of colour, puffed up raindrops of colour.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8NvWTYrQ6FeR2NBVmJwUTRBSVU/view?usp=sharing
As you can see on these videos we had lots of fun calling out descriptive words to describe the colourful balloons that we were punching all over the place!
First we are going to congratulate the people who placed in their swimming races and are now going through to inter school swimming next week, which is held at the Featherston pools. Room 9 was particularly successful and had 11 people qualify. Congratulations to Abigail, Pippa, Francesca, Jethro, Seb, Sam, Ribh, Imogen, Charlie, Evelyn and Annabelle.
An update to our Inter school swimming. Seb, Francesca, Pippa and Imogen have all made it through to Regional Swimming Sports which will be held in Masterton on Wednesday 15 March. A fantastic effort and great to have 4 students going up from room 9.
Moving March Is a fun and exciting way to get kids to do exercise. It can be quite challenging if you bus to school but walking to the pools and swimming is all exercise so it can count toward moving March. Every student has a moving March card and can get this stamped every day they do some form of exercise. Scootering, biking, walking to school all count toward a stamp on their card. We are aiming to fill the card with stamps and go into a draw for a prize. This is a way we can help kids to get fit and strong. It also cuts down on gases from cars and buses and improves our environment. Parents please encourage your child to exercise on their way to school.
from Ella and Evelyn :)*
