Camp Photos

Wow, what a thrilling camp last week! Here are some photos. Room 6 children are working on their camp recounts this week. I am excited to see the effort they are putting in to have 'sticky' words and clever phrases throughout their recounts.

 Silly group photo with some of Room 6!

 We walked the Wairakau Stream Track like real hikers. Should have taken a class photo...

 Chilling out at Lanes Cove Cottage after a few hours hiking. Some of us went for a dip with Tilly and Mr Prickett. A kayaking crew were staying the night at the DOC hut.

 Team Too Much! We hiked that bit extra to get the unbeatable view of the Whangaroa Harbour. Dukes Nose is the name of the peak and you must be a confident climber to summit it!

Mr Prickett making his way up the treacherous track!

 Taking a short rest in between games of spotlight.

 Wonderful family helpers keeping everyone safe and well supervised during the swims at Cooper's Beach.

 We went looking for seeds with Jackie. We want to learn how to germinate native seeds.

Kiriana made the most of the waterslide. 

 Way too much fun.

Some of the girls

 

Another group photo

 Kayden on his way down the humongous waterslide.

 Spirit enjoying the moment. 

 Three's a crowd... 

 Lenore is focused on the obstacle course competition. Who can get a point at each station?

 Some of the boys

Taking on the challenge. 

Sticky Icky Wicky Words!

We have been learning to build our vocabulary by thinking about an object in many different ways. Such as adjectives (describing words), verbs (actions related to the object), synonyms, feelings associated with the object even thinking about the kind of holiday, job or history of an object!

One word we are using a lot to describe our great words is the word 'sticky'.

Yes, STICKY!
Why?
Because some words just stick out. They are interesting and new. They have a great sound or help us to imagine something better.

Some students have written sensational short poems (like my sticky word there?) about random objects. The creativity has been flowing in Room 6. Enjoy the following photos. I hope to have some children reading their poems aloud soon.

 Kash and Tai filling in and decorating our 'About Us' chart

 Here we are building our word list. We used a thesaurus to help us learn new sticky words

 Crystal publishing her poem and Sarn photo bombing

 Ahi, Hunia and Sophya working on their draft poem

Sonny taking time to work on the presentation of his exceptional poem. He really put in top effort with his word choice.