Athletics Day

Athletics Day - slideshow maker with music

Counting in Maori with Katelyn and CamC

Josh - Be Funky

Well done Josh - first one finished our new challenge!

Liam A's Report of Freyberg Band Visit

Yesterday Freyberg Y9 music class came to school. It was funny because a RSS girl conducted the band. They played music of movies like Shrek and The Simpsons. My favourite instrument is the tuba.

Ben's Report of Freyberg Band Visit

On Tuesday the Freyberg band Y9 students came to RSS to present their music. Some instruments looked funny but they sounded nice. The Freyberg band was awesome and the conductor was too. Two girls were singing. It sounded beautiful.

Bookshelf - Arlo

My favourite book is - A Good Idea. I like it because there's a shady tree. The rhino made lots of shade for all of the animals. This book is in my browsing box.

Fraction Flags

Practise your fraction skills by creating your own flags.

Arlo and Zac count in Spanish

Freyberg Year 9 Band Comes to RSS

How many instruments can you name from these photos? What did you like best about the concert?

Clifford Wins Another Round!

Winnie the Pooh in the middle of 4 Red Trees! Or is that Clifford?

Counting in Japanese with Kai and Olivia

Home Challenge!

See if you can beat Mum or Dad answering these basic facts. Practise so you can recall them instantly.Click on the "pull" button.

Bookapedia Book Battles

Our book character, Clifford won the first round against Scarface Claw but now he is having a battle for votes in the 2nd round against Winnie the Pooh.
Clifford needs your vote. Click on the photo of Clifford and vote now. He is such a kind and considerate character!
Once you are on the bookapedia website -
Click on Picture Books
Click Battles
Click Clifford v Winnie the Pooh - read and vote

Rocket with Cam C

Cam and Rocket - how to create a free slideshow

Counting in Maori by Georgia and Jade

Grace is learning the Guitar!

Grace has started her guitar lessons - she has now had five lessons and proudly showed her beautiful guitar to Rocket.I bet Rocket enjoyed your playing, Grace.
We would like to hear you too.
Are you learning an instrument? Tell us what you can play.

Jacob's story about Rocket!

Jacob's story about Rocket - slideshow dvd

Count in French with Ben and Thomas

Our Trip to the Airport

New Challenge!

Orkut Scrap Toys

Bookshelf - Regan

The name of the book is "Captain Wag and the Big Blue Whale." My Favourite part is the boat falling over. Where you can find this book will be at my home.

At Dave's Hangar

How do planes and helicopters fly? Can you tell Mum or Dad what you learned on our trip.

Rocket has fun with Dean

Counting in Spanish with Michael and Liam A

Bookshelf - Ben

I like this book because it has good ilustrations. You can find this book at my house.

Raffle for a Ride

Raffle For a Ride - Slideshow Creator

Congratulations to Grace, Ben and Ana who won rides to school this week.
Here are some of the ways the children came to school today. Which vehicle would you like to have a ride in? Why?

Bookshelf - Michael

Stanley is funny and he gets in trouble when he does bad things. You can get this book out of our school library.

Count in Spanish with Jacob

Count in Spanish by Michael and Liam A

Count in Spanish with Olly and Cam R

Count in Maori with Ana and Bella

Unusual Bike!

Today Phil brought to school the bike that he made himself out of lots of other recycled bikes. It was amazing. He said it was relaxing riding it because you are lying down when you pedal. Josh decided that Phil was an inventor - Good thinking, Josh. Do you know anybody else who has invented something?

10,000 Hits Party!

10.000 Hits Party - slide show

Time to celebrate the sharing of our learning with lots of people. A BIG thanks to Olly's dad for making the yummy chocolate cake!

Learn to count in Spanish with Hunter and Dean

Hunter reads to Rocket

Rocket loves stories and being read to. Who do you read to at home?

Making a Cog

We looked at the way a bike moves using the pedals. Then we made our own cogs.
How do you get one cog to move another?

Rocket learns about phonographs

Rocket went to Regan's house and was very interested in the old phonographs. Many are over 100 years old. Do you know what a phongraph is? What can it do?

Rocket learns the Alphabet with Georgia

Georgia helped Rocket find pictures of each letter of the alphabet on our new mural. Rocket could not find a picture of something that started with "i" Can you help him?
Make a comment and let us know.

Count in Spanish with Josh

Milo Cricket

Today Ben from Sport Manawatu came to school and taught us some cricket skills. We had a lot of fun and now know things we can practise. What do you need to get better at?

We are trying to use friction to slow ourselves down on the slide. Do you know how we did it?

Time to Celebrate!

Wow! Thank you all for visiting our blog and letting us share our learning with you.
We love it when you give us feedback and make comments on our learning and activities we have participated in.
On Friday we are going to have a party to celebrate and Olly's dad has very kindly offered to make us a cake. We look forward to our party and of course sharing more of our learning with you too!

Looking at Grip on PhotoPeach



We learned about grip this afternoon. We looked at Arlo's bike to show how grip can help something move and help something stop. Do you know how Arlo's bike goes and stops?

Rocket gets sporty with Cam C

Rocket gets Sporty with Cam - Slideshow Creator

After a busy day Rocket is really hungry. What other sports do you think Rocket would enjoy? Why?