WOW...it's the WOW Awards!

Look at these creative Room 10 people who entered the first CCS WOW Awards.  We are so proud of your amazing designs and clever ability to turn your ideas into real costumes!

Meet Hamish - 'Toothless' from the movie How to Train Your Dragon.

Next we have Grace - 'Queen of Recycling'.

Here's John - 'Bumblebee'.

Now we have Lily - 'Flower Girl'.

...and lastly, Anya - 'From Bags to Riches' (Cinderella).

Excellent illustrators strike again!

It has been a while since we had excellent illustrators on our blog but this week's poem was a great one to think about as a picture:

The Wild Wolf Cry

Late at night,
when it's quiet and still,
the grey wolf stands
on the shadowy hill,
and he lifts his head
to the black night sky,
and he makes the sound
of a wild wolf cry.

And if, at night,
when it's quiet and still,
you hear that wolf
on the shadowy hill,
if you hear the sound
of his wild wolf cry,
just know he is talking
to the sky.

Here are our 3 favourite Room 10 illustrators:

Joel T terrific thinking

John's awesome art

Martha's masterpiece

Super Star!

Way to go, Caragh!  You rock!

It was Girls Brigade awards night.  I wanted to get an award and everyone thought I was going to get the creative award but... I got the top award for all the juniors!  They said I always have a smile even on a dark evening :-)

Mosese the champion!

We are all proud of you too Mosese!

Yesterday at Athletics I got a medal for coming first out of all the year 3 boys at school.  I came first at shot put and hurdles and I got some second places too.  I felt fantastic!  My brother Vernon and my sister Taufa came first too and got medals too.  My mum and dad were very proud of us.

Space discovery...

Awesome creating, Luke!

Luke made an amazing space station in Room 10 one day.  It looks like a real one!  Luke says "It can be used for discovering things that everyone has not seen in space.  It can be used for spying too!"

Amazing Gardeners!

One day some Room 10 girls were walking around the junior area when they saw a plain, old, boring planter box.  They decided to plant some flowers for the school.

Martha, Petra, Lily and Anya planting beautiful flowers.

Martha, Petra, Lily and Grace caring for their special planter box garden.

Meet our newest Kiwi!

We have a new Kiwi in Room 10 - and it isn't the fluffy bird in the photo...it is John!

John and our Room 10 ambassador, Spike the Kiwi!

Yesterday John went to a citizenship ceremony to become a New Zealander.  He told us that the Mayor, Mr Jono Naylor, was there.  He had to sing the National anthem and they told him about our special New Zealand rules.  There were police and army men there and lots of people becoming New Zealanders.  He met some Filipinos there and the Philippines is the country John's family came from.  John's Dad had to put his hand on the Bible when Mr Naylor was talking about being a New Zealander and then they had a YUMMY afternoon tea!

Marvellous Martha!

We have an incredible artist in our class...Martha!  She entered a competition for Newspapers In Education and won!  Her prize was a beautiful book and a certificate.  Here is a photo of Martha with her prize and Lily holding the newspaper with Martha's amazing collage picture in it (it is the one in the middle of the page).

Well done, Martha!

Special visitor!

Mosese had a special visitor...at his house!  It was Ngani Laumape from the NZ Warriors rugby league team.  Ngani knows Mosese's aunty.  Mosese had a white cap and Ngani signed it.  Awesome!

You look so happy, Mosese!

Mixed up stories..yahoo!

Joel W and some friends were making mixed up stories in reading today.  Here is the one he shared with us:

Then we got to thinking...
We have been learning about making our stories better ALL YEAR!  Could we change the mixed up story to make it even better?  We decided to have a go! 

Here is the first 'new' story:

Overrated R2-D2 the unit droid
bathed in the squishy gooey mud
and fell instantly in love and ended up kissing
a fierce fiery dragon.

Here is the second one:

Shocking R2-D2 the unit droid
dived in the squishy gooey mud
and instantly fell in love with
a fierce fiery dragon.

We only changed a few words but we liked these stories better!

Athletes in Action!

We are having a lot of fun at the moment practising for athletics.  We go out twice a week and work through the 6 events that we will have to do on Athletics Day.  Here are a couple of super athletes in action!

Caragh and Namitha showing great style on the high jump.

Joshua's awesome gift

Joshua is in the team that won the Division 5 trophy in hockey this year.  He came to school last week with something special to show us.  Here is his story:

Sarah Naylor works with my Dad at the Eye Clinic.  He told her about my hockey team and that we won the Division 5 trophy this year.  She has a daughter who plays for the New Zealand Hockey "Black Sticks" - EMILY NAYLOR!!
Sarah said to my Dad that she would get her daughter to sign a small t-shirt and give it to me as a gift.

Here is a photo of Joshua and his very special t-shirt:

Awesome Joshua!  Maybe one day you could play hockey for New Zealand too!!

Super Spring Art!

We had the lovely Mrs Ayers teaching in Room 10 the other week.  One of the activities we did with her was some Spring art.  We used paint and pastels to make the pictures then cut out a black shape for the tree.  We also added a sun made out of orange and yellow paper.  Lastly we scrunched up some tissue paper to make the blossoms on the tree.  Here are a couple of our pictures: