Tennis

On Wednesday Room 19 had a tennis session with Nick from Auckland Tennis. Nick went through some warm up drills and then taught the class a few skills. One of the fun activities was when the students paired up and had to hit a ball over the arms (one arm of the student were linked together to form a net). The students got a chance to play doubles and practice hitting the ball to their partner. We took pictures and made a video of the session. Click on the video to watch.

Scooter Safety

Today Steve from Scooter Safety came to teach the Year 3's how to be safe on scooters.

We put on helmets and elbow pads to protect us in case we fall over.  Next Steve showed us how to safely come off a scooter after riding and how to slow down and use the brakes.

Watch our video of our scooter session with Steve.

Message in a Bottle

On Wednesday Matua Martin and the team from 'The Roots' brought in the bottles for our messages.  We went into the school hall and two year 2 classes joined us.  Next they introduced themselves and explained what we had to do to put the messages in the bottle.  They split us in half and took photos of our messages.  After we went down on to the mat we had to roll the pictures and put them in the bottle.  We put lids on the bottles and we used plastic ties to join them to make a triangle shape.  We had buddies to help put our messages inside the bottles.

Last we put our triangles on to the stage with the other bottles. The bottles will be taken down to the 'Gantry' ready to be assembled.

Room 19 had lots of fun making the bottle wave!

By Room 19

 

The Roots comes to talk with Meadowbank School!

You are all probably thinking 'Who are the Roots?' They are a company that helps save the enviromment. They are all from New Zealand.

What they are trying to do is that instead of recycling bottles, they are using them to make a bottle wave. Here is a picture of a bottle wave:



Over 4,500 students are participating in this event. 

Matua Martin who is part of the The Roots came to talk to the school about their project.  They are getting together with many schools around the Auckland to create a eco friendly community art work made of recyclable material with each child writing a message of hope for the upcoming season and festivities.

In each individual bottle will be a message of hope from a student.  They will be assembled together and made in to wave that will e installed at Auckland waterfront’s ‘Gantry’ viewing platform.

What a wonderful project to be apart of.  We are looking forward to putting our messages in a bottle.

 

Instructions on how to play Freakout

                                                               Freakout
How to play a game called freakout.
Instructions 
You will need to get into a circle.
One person goes in the middle and acts somthing out.
One person comes into the circle and says what are you doing?
But you don't say the thing that you are doing, you say something like "I  am dancing".
And that person goes in the middle.
And that is how you play freakout.                                 

                                              By Mojdeh!!!             
                                                            

The magical Big Ben

                                              Big Ben

You will need: pens, cardboard, scissors, cellotape, a vivid, some colouring paper, glitter glue and not last but least staples.


1. Find some cardboard and bend it into a shape that looks like a rectangle.

2. Staple the cardboard together and it will look like a rectangle.

3. I got some paper and wrapped it arond the cardboard.

4. I cut out a circle so I can make the clock of  Big Ben.

5.I drew the numbers to make it into a clock.

6. I drew some lines to make it a little bit fancy.

7. I coloured in the lines to make it look colourful because at night time Big Ben is colourful.




                                                               By Astoria

big ben

 You will need : pencil,  vivid,  cardbord,  ruler, double sided tape, paper.

Step1 Get your cardbord box.

Step 2 Then you cut out a piece of cardbord.

Step 3 Get your piece of paper and work out so the sides  are the same length.

Step 4 Get your double sided tape.

Step 5 Fold the sides together.

Step 6 With double sided tape you join the sides together.
                                         


                                       by Lucy

Galloping stallions and white pearly ponys

                                 I am crazy about galloping black stallions dazling in the sun.

                                 I am addicted to white pearly ponys rolling in the grass.
                                
                                 I never tire of jumping caramel horses on winter stormy days.

                                 I can consume a can of bubbling clear sprite fizzing on my tongue.

                                 I wear peachy plain orangey jodphers to wear on a trotting horse in Automn.

                                 I love to eat golden chewey hard toffee that makes your baby teeth fall out.

                                 I like to smooch my soft grey burmes cat to death.

                                 I like pransing kittens dazling in the zizzling hot sun.



                                                                    By Rachael

The school Athletics day

Yesterday I went to the school Athletics day.
I did the running race. I couldn't run very fast.
I like the gumboot throw because it was fun.

by Zoe