Student of the Week - Rubie

Super well done to Rubie for the greatest progress for the class during our latest Statistics maths unit.  This is what we LOVE to see Rubie - it doesn't matter where you begin your learning journey, it's how much progress you make along the way.  Top job!

Holidays Challenge

 Room 4 students love a challenge, and what better time to sink their teeth into something fun than in the school holidays. These holidays they were given a number of options to choose from, and they could do as many of them as they chose, or they could choose not to do any of them.

 Toby chose to create a fantastic board game called 'Lawrence Cup'. It was based on the America's Cup racing. If you rolled the dice and landed on a picture you had to pick up a card and do what the card said. Some of the examples were, 'You have capsized, go back 4 spaces.' 'Racing is cancelled, everyone must go back to the start'. 'Great racing, go forward 2 spaces.' It is a terrific game with easy rules and everyone enjoyed playing it today when it was raining at lunch time.

 Jessica completed two of the challenges. She created a board game called 'Question Climbing.' You had to correctly answer a question based on TV programmes to progress to the next sqaure. The person who answered the questions the fastest and climbed to the top was the winner. This was a cool game. Jessica also completed the matchbox challenge, and she had filled her match box to bursting point. Her match box was filled with things starting with the letter P. It contained - passport photo, plaster, postage stamp, paprika, pepper, putty, purple order stamp, picture, purple lollie, pink hairclip, picture hook, pie wrapper, paper tape measure, plastic bread tie, panadol, pink eartag, peg, pink pom-pom, purple nail polish, purple mini drop, peppermint, purple plastic, pink highlighter, pumpkin seed, penny, plastic fuse, pink paper clip, pink magnet, plumbers wire, purple pansy, pea, pink bead, plastic aeroplane, purple hair tie, pencil, pen, purple DNA sampler, potatoes picture, pink sticker, purple ribbon, plastic sleeve, polish, purple glitter, pin, pink piece of lego, pink paper, pasta, pink nail polish, picture, purple bandage, purple key, purple earring, pipe cleaner, pop timer, plastic tie.  

 Abby completed the Matchbox challenge, she chose to fill hers with things beginning with the letter C. It contained - cracker, card, cup, lolly crumb, candle, crown, cotton, coin, copper, clasp, clip, paperclip, charm, clutch purse, corn, chewing gum, chocolate chip.

 Lucie completed the Matchbox challenge, she chose the letter M. It contained - magnet, movie ticket, money, match. Lucie also completed the blogging challenge, commenting on our class blog and others as well.

 Alesana completed the Matchbox challenge, he chose the letter P. It contained - pea, person, pencil, playdough, paperclip, pear stalk, pin, purple playdough, pip, piece pf paper.

He also made a fabulous musical instrument. He created a drum out of a plastic baby wipes container. He filled it with letters from 'Letto-gram', so it rattles when you drum on it. It can also be used as a shaker. Great job Alesana!

Josie completed the Matchbox challenge, she chose the letter P. It contained a post stamp, pasta, pink popcorn, pip, paper, paper clip, pink paper, pin

Josies also created a drum set for the musical instrument challenge, and she completed the blogging challenge, commenting on our blog and other blogs too!! Great work Josie, glad to see that blue cast didn't stop you from doing lots of homework!!!!

 Lanie completed the Matchbox challenge, she chose the letter L It contained - Lollipop, lolly, lettuce, ladybirds, letter, leaf.

Lanie also made a set of musical shakers. She made these instruments using drink botlles and rice. Well done Lanie!!!

Samara created a fabulous wordfind about dinosaurs. She had hidden the name of 12 dinosaurs in a massive grid of letters for others to solve. Terrific effort Samara!!

 Lucy completed the Matchbox challenge, she chose the letter P - her matchbox contained -

pipi, peel (mandarin), pin, pencil, petal, pip, plastic, pea, pasta, paper, pink and purple

Lucy also made a musical instrument - It was a shaker, made from juice bottle and rice.

Alyssa completed the Matchbox challenge, she chose the letter P - her matchbox contained - pencil, pink paper, letter p, pink paper clip, pin, pink pyjama button, pebble

 

Rubie also completed the blogging challenge, leaving comments on our blog and other blogs as well.

 

This was such a terrific effort and we really enjoyed seeing all of your presentation this morning. Great work everyone, and good luck to Mrs O as she chooses who gets the prizes!!!!!

Shining Star - Rubie

Congratulations to Rubie who was awarded the Shining Star award for her courageous efforts at South Otago Cross Country in Clinton yesterday. Rubie had a bad fall near the start of the course but picked herself up and completed the course. Terrific attitude and effort Rubie. Room 4 are all super proud of you!!!!

South Otago Cross Country Team

The annual South Otago Cross Country was held at Clinton today and ten students from Room 4 were selected to represent Lawrence.They all ran their very best race, including poor Rubie who fell at the beginning and continued to run the entire race despite have a very sore ankle. Competition was tough, between schools and rivals....and between cousins!

We are very proud of you all for your amazing efforts and we love seeing you all as you 'Strive to Excel'.

Special congratulations to Blake who won his race and retains his title as South Otago Champion for the second year in a row.

Ski trip

On Friday and Saturday several Room 4 students (and their teachers) were lucky enough to take part in Lawrence Area School's annual ski trip to Cardrona ski field. The weather was not so kind to us but we all made the most of our time up the mountain and had a fabulous time skiing. A special thank you to Mrs Benington for a great job in organising the trip. 

We all began Friday with a lesson before heading off to explore the mountain with friends and family. 

Unfortunately it was VERY foggy on both days which made it difficult to see where we were skiing for much of the time. This certainly proved a challenge as we tried to explore new places to ski. 

These two epitomise the smiles that were evident during both days skiing. 

Apologies from Mrs O for the lack of photos. She's blaming her phone battery for dying on both days before getting snaps of all of Room 4 skiers. 

We look forward to more fun skiing adventures next year!!!

Fonterra Milk For Schools

 We are lucky enough to be part of the 'Fonterra Milk For Schools' programme where each Y1-6 student is given a carton of milk daily to drink.  Thankfully it is not like the olden days where kids had to drink warm milk - ours is stored in a fridge outside Room 6!  After morning tea the class messengers go and collect Room 4's milk and we have from 11am-12.30pm to drink our milk.  The only rule is that it has to stay on our desks.  This is so that nobody gets their milk cartons mixed up.  

 Some people like to drink theirs all at once, while others drink some during reading and some during writing.  After we are finished we have to follow the instructions carefully to fold the carton up for recycling.  It is VERY important to make sure that there is no milk left in the carton (as we have discovered!).  It makes a bit of a mess on our desks otherwise.

The last step is to put it into the blue recycling bin outside Room 1 when we go for lunch.  

It has been great to see students enthusiastic about the milk and also those who were a little bit hesitant, persevering and trying to finish their milk each day.

What healthy kids we are in Room 4!

Student of the week - Rubie

Congratulations to our first student of the week for Term 2 - Rubie.  Rubie made outstanding progress in writing during Term One, developing her character descriptions, including beginning to paragraph her writing.  Top work Rubie and we look forward to reading more of your awesome writing this term.

Happy birthday Rubie and Lucie

 

Room 4 enjoyed celebrating Rubie and Lucie's 9th birthday with them.  Their mum brought in some goodies which we all got to share for morning tea.  Room 4 all hope that you girls have had a fantastic day!

South Otago swimming representatives

Alyssa, Lucie, Jenaya and Rubie

Congratulations to Alyssa, Lucie, Jenaya and Rubie from Room 4 who represented Lawrence Area School at the South Otago Swimming Sports this week.  The girls all swam their hearts out with very pleasing results.  Way to go girls - great to see you all 'Striving to Excel'.