New Blog

Please go to www.greenpark13.blogspot.com to follow Miss Linds new class and their blog. Room 17's blog ran for the year 2007 and will no longer be adding new posts. Please feel free to still look around the page and see what happened in Room 17 throughout their 2007 school year. Thank you to all those people that looked at our blog and left comments. Miss Lind looks forward to seeing you all on her new class blog!

Merry Christmas

The school year has now come to an end. It was very sad to say goodbye to all the children in my class this year, but I look forward to seeing them next year when they come and tell me all about their holiday adventures. Thank you to all the parents that have helped out in Room 17 this year. I hope you all have a merry christmas and a wonderful break. Take care. Miss Lind.

Junior Prizegiving

On Friday we had our Mauao and Tongariro Syndicates Prizegiving. Each class had 5 awards to give out for Outstanding Progress, Outstanding Citizen, Outstanding Sports Person, Outstanding Effort in all areas and Outstanding Arts. It was hard for Miss Lind to choose people for each award because all of Room 17 have tried hard all year!!! Well done to James, Julia, Logan, Aaliyah and Sean who all recieved an award. Well done also to the Kapa Haka who performed for us. It was great.

Constable Todd

Today at school our class had a visit from Constable Todd at the Greerton Police Station. He came in to show us his equipment and car. He turned the siren and lights on for us too. The siren was really loud so some of us had to block our ears! Then Miss Lind and Mrs McEvoy got handcuffed together! It was heaps of fun trying on all of Constable Todd's jackets. Thank you for coming in Constable Todd!

Octopus

When we were learning about the letter O we got to make our own Octopus. They looked neat hanging from the roof of the classroom.

Bird art and stories

We have been making some cool bird pictures. We had to paint a piece of paper with different colours and then when it was dry we had to rip it up. Then we had to glue the ripped pieces of paper onto our picture of a bird. It looks really cool. We had also been writing about birds for the week about if we were birds. We got to publish our stories when we were finished and they are being displayed with our pictures. We think they look cool!

Athletics Day

Today we had our Junior Athletics day. It was such a fun day with all of the junior children being put into different teams to go around the different events. We had sprints, high jump, long jump, discus, shot put, javelin and hurdles. All of the teams were made up of children from each class and we got points for our achievement, effort and behaviour at each event. We will find out on Monday at assembly what teams won our Athletics day. We wonder who it was?!?!

Our trip to the rock pools and Mauao

On Wednesday we went to Mauao and had a look in the rock pools. It was such a great day. Here is a photo story to tell you about the day. Have fun looking at it.

Summer Soccer

At school on a Wednesday we have a summer soccer competition. It is for 5-7 year olds. We have lots of fun playing in a team. Here are some photos from our summer soccer today.

Our Photo Stories

Miss Lind went to a conference in the school holidays and found out about a programme called 'Photo Story'. We have been working on making our own photo stories. We had to choose 5 photos of different teachers from our school and and use the different tools to change the look of the pictures, have transitions between the photos and add music. We loved adding our voices to too! This is one photo story made by Sean and Kerralin in our class.