Christmas Advent Calendar Online - How Christmas is celebrated in different countries

http://projectbritain.com/Xmas/calendar/

Athletics Day

Athletics Day

Last Tuesday Indigo and Room Three, went to athletics day.  They went to Lower Moutere school and lots of different schools like Parklands, Upper Moutere, Brookland school also went there. Other schools also got set up in groups of age 8, 9  and 10 year olds like ours.

By Rupert and Arjay

  

How Strong is Silk?

https://wonderopolis.org/wonder/how-strong-is-silk

The Kiwi Kids News

This term we have started to do a play and then we are sharing it with the class. We are also doing the zero waste lunch so keep it up.

Also we are doing the shot put, long jump, high jump and 100 metre distance every Wednesday for the competition we are having on the 21st for the 9 and 10 year olds and the 22nd for the 11 and 13 year olds week. The pool is hopefully going to open next week too.

Wonderopolis Wednesday - Financial Literacy

What is Compound Interest?
Are You In THe Red or Black?
Why Do You Have To Pay Taxes?
When Is A Sale A Bargain?
How Do You Bring Home The Bacon?
How Can You Use A Budget?
Are Debit Cards and Credit Cards the Same?

                                  Festival 2017

This years festival was a great  success.  The Indigo lollie stall made over 600 dollars! Over all, the school made $41, 000 with more costs to come in and costs to come out.
It was a great sunny day, perfect for the fair. The Ngatimoti stalls were lolly stall, sponge throw, coin toss, climbing wall, bungee run, as well as the silent action, white elephant, whitebait patties, plants, bbq, cafe, ice cream, juicies and juices and lucky dip.

By Louie

                                                                                                  

Wonderopolis Wednesday - Who Invented Money?

https://wonderopolis.org/wonder/who-invented-money

Whio Boot Camp Game - NZ Conservation Week

www.doc.govt.nz/whiobootcamp

indigo ski trip

                               Indigo Ski Trip 

On Thursday the Indigo Room is going to go on a ski trip to Rainbow Ski Field.
The Indigo Room has been raising money for this event .


The Indigo students needsto be at school at 6:30am and we leave at 7:00am to go to the ski field. 

We will all get a ski lesson each.

We are all looking forward to it and there will be good weather all day, (we hope!).

We will take a shuttle bus up to the ski field, because of the icey conditions.

By Freja and Damien.

School Disco!

On Friday the 1st of September Ngatimoti school had an amazing school disco that went from 6:30-9:00 there was lots of prises and everyone had fun it was held in the Ngatimoti hall.

                          Winter Tournament

The winter tournament was last Thursday. The sports were: hockey, football, netball and rugby. We had heaps of parent helpers which was very helpful. At netball they won 4 games and lost 4 games for football. We won 2 games and lost 2 games. For rugby they won 4 games and lost 5 and lastly for hockey they won 2 games and lost 2 and had drawn 1 game.                                                                                 By Isla    

                                                                                                                                                                           

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

shared lunch

International Languages Week School Shared Lunch

Last Friday, the 18th August, we had a whole school shared lunch to celebrate our International Languages week.
There was lots of yummy food from other countries. Lots of kids brought in food from other countries. There was foods like sushi, roti, bliss balls, chocolate cake,  chocolate croissants, coconuts, ika, tropical fruits, etc, etc.We all had heaps of fun trying lots of new food items.

By Hannah & Isla

This is a photo of some food being eaten.

Math Week

https://www.mathsweek.org.nz/

  *~New Entrance~*

This term, we have had a new entrance into school.

We have a new gate and fence.

It looks good and it will make our school look good too. We also have a new library and the year 1-2's have a new class room near the new entrance.

 By Lauren & Damien           

Can a Star Point The Way? Wonderopolis

Book Fair And Library Opening

Today the library was opened by our oldest and youngest students, Skyla and Ari. There is going to be an adjoining book fair from the 24th to the 28th of July.

This means that this week, nearly all the books in the library will be for sale, also there will be stationary and craft stuff.

The library is very well furnished and no one is allowed to touch the glass.

Room 4 have moved into Room 1, they were very excited.   

By Jacob & Sophie

Science Fair

For the past 2-3 weeks Indigo and Room 3 have been making marble runs for the science fair. it is due in by Thursday when we will be presenting our project to the community.
We have to include pulleys, ramps, screws and hydraulics, but we only have to choose one.
We need to be able to move a marble down a track.





by Jacob & Ara

Gymnastics

Gymnastics Festival

On Thursday 22 of June 2017 there was the year 5 & 6 gym festival. Everyone had heaps of fun.  The activities were skipping, long cross volt, long volt, individual floor, group floor and beam/strength . We all had a wonderful time looking at all of the cool routine that other kids made up.


By Hannah & Ara

Matariki - Mahi Whai - String Games

Diamonds
Matariki Stars

Marble runs.

                                                         Marble Runs 
For the last two weeks, we have been making marble runs and machines. We are trying to include simple machines as in; pulleys, levers, ramps, screws,   and many more. Most of us have almost finished and are collecting data now.  We will use this for the science fair. We can work with a younger buddy from Room three or on all own. We can have much as stuff as we want. We will be presenting these at science fair at the end of term. By Hannah  & Willow

Matariki Links

http://kcc.org.nz/portfolio/finding-matariki/
http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2015/06/06/ko-te-whanau-o-matariki-matariki-education-resource-2015/

Whai (String Games)
http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/39350/whai-string-games
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7fOXNfUOq4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcqW94EWClw

Legends of Matariki
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWfBSOvJA0Q  - lots of videos to look at too to the right of this, about Matariki!

Puss In Boots - The Story

http://www.shortkidstories.com/story/puss-boots/

Maori Number Challenges

Work out the following sums and answer them in te reo -

14 + 19 =                                          71-16=
6x7=                                                  60 divided by 3=
tekau ma wha + rua tekau ma iwa =
wha tekau ma tahi - tekau ma ono =
tekau x rua tekau =
kotahi rau divided by rima tekau =
Now do 5 of your own for a friend to solve and write in te reo!

hydrolics and science fair

HYDRAULICS
in the Indigo Room, we have been learning about Hydraulics and science. Last week and the week before we have been making Lifting Jacks. Indigo Room and Room three made them in buddies, not many of people have finished yet but we will finish them. 

SCIENCE FAIR
Last week and this week we have also been designing our science fair  project. Indigo Room and Room three are making marble tracks or making a simple machine that can move a marble. We also need to make a board about all the data that we collected. All of us are coming up with amazing designs and they are all going to look really cool when they are finished.

By Cayla and Willow

Rippa Tournament (yr 5-6)

On Tuesday the 6th of June 2017, the year 5-6 girls and boys that play rippa went to a rippa tournament.

The people that went were Mila, Tawn, Lauren, Hannah, Riley, Henry H, Jordan, Liam, Pipiri and Louie, and the subs were Isla and Jacob. We all hope that they do really well and represent our school.

It would be really cool if they won, but they still would have tried really hard if they didn’t win. They trained lots and did lots of hard work to be a good team and work together as a good team.

We all wish them the best. Ngatimoti won the social rippa tournament.

By Mila and Cayla

Class Trip To Museum And Virtual Limits

   Class Trip To Museum And Virtual Limits

On Wednesday the Indigo room and room three kids went to the museum and Virtual Limits Wall in Nelson. We where split into two groups, one group went to the museum first and the other group went to Virtual Limits, it was a really fun class trip.

On the way into town the bus broke down and one of the revision mirrors broke off, so the bus was 30 minutes late. One of  the activities at the museum was to build a small, wooden bridge, every group completed it.

By Henry L, Lexus and Pipiri

Harold.

                      Life Education Truck

As you might know, the Life Education Bus came. This week Harold came in and stayed while we talked about the body. Harold is staying for three days, so make him feel welcome. 
Indigo Room got learning books called Brainy Bunch, that help us learn about the body. We also got stickers from Harold. We got to see Harold and he is just a puppet. He tells us jokes to us every time. 

By Rupert & Henry L
  

ANZAC DAY

Anzac Day

Anzac Day was on Tuesday 25th April this year. Anzac Day is a commemoration about the people that went to war. ANZAC stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps.

 Every year Ngatimoti School along with lots of other schools and community's lay a wreath in remembrance of the people that died in war, mainly WORLD WAR TWO and WORLD WAR TWO, because they were the biggest wars that have ever happened in the world.

Ninety one countries fought in WORLD WAR ONE and 101 countries fought in WORLD WAR TWO.

Bibliography: Wikipedia 

By Jacob and Pipiri

24 hour time activities

Follow these links:
https://www.studyladder.co.nz/teacher/resources/activity?activity_id=21373
https://www.studyladder.co.nz/teacher/resources/activity?activity_id=22939
Good luck!

Easter Holidays

On Friday the 14th the Easter holidays will begin. The holidays will last for more than two weeks and will end on May 1st. 

The News says that it will be fairly rainy on Easter day, but the rain will clear on Monday, but the rain will start and stop again throughout the holidays. 

Easter day will be rainy so most houses will be Easter hunting inside.

Easter is a Christian festival that is celebrated for the day Jesus Christ rose from the dead.  Easter is celebrated in most countries all over the world. 

 Easter eggs

By Louie & Piri

                         Car Stopping Demo

On Monday, Ngatimoti School had some special people come in to tech us about what will happen if a car is coming at three different speeds. One is 20kph, one at 50kph, and one at 60kph. The first one went three meters over, the second went eight meters over and the third one flattened plastic high school student!

The older kids went into Mot to do the same thing, but with different 
schools there as well.

They told us that any car passing a school bus must go 20kph.

ARE YOU GOING OVER THIS SPEED?

IF SO SLOW DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!! 
  
By Jordan and Louie

wha - adding lists of numbers

https://www.studyladder.co.nz/teacher/resources/activity?activity_id=30313
https://www.studyladder.co.nz/teacher/resources/activity?activity_id=30214

On Friday the 24th of March, the school council thought of having a school triathlon.
There were options to do individual or in a group of three. You also got more points for doing it individually, for your house. Blue team ended up winning, but all the other teams did really well and it was a close score between all the teams.
The house colours were red, blue, green and yellow.
Not everyone did it, some people were away.
Student council got to choose what house colours people were in.
Everyone was in their house colours to show what team they were in.



Big thanks to the student council for making this possible and thanks to the teachers.
by Lexus and Jordan

                          Happy Birthday to Lauren and Mila!

                                      Happy birthday, Indigo room wishes you a very good birthday this week.
                                       Wow! Lauren is turning 10! That is as old as my grandma! Tell us what you                                                 wished for! 

                                                                             
                                      Last week Lexus' Dad came in to talk about gold mining. He mined gold for four years on the West Coast and brought  in photos and little gold nuggets to show us.

                                      Indigo Rooms Trip To                                        White Rock

                         

       On Wednesday the 8th of March Indigo Room walked up to        White Rock. Some people thought it was hard, but we made it.
Some people were troopers and carried peoples bags!......
Thanks to all of the people for coming on the trip, you made everything fun and awesome. On the trip we saw cicadas, cicada shells, butterflies and wild strawberries.

Here is a picture of the view Henry took of the Kahurangi National Park.                                                                                                                              

  by Henry  and Freja