Home challenges, Week 5

Here are some home challenges for this week (9-12 November)...

• Play ukulele chords C, F & G, plus A7 and Dm in songs like "Dad I Want to be a Camel", and "She'll be Right"
• Maths sheet - Rotation; see also transformation game here
• Tables challenge...get 20/20 in under a minute for 4x, 8x & 9x
• Gardening…sow seeds, transplant seedlings, weed, water… keep record/ photos/diagrams in Science book  
• Fitness...run 1km as fast as you can; How long can you do a plank or "invisible chair" for?
• Spelling challenge…Word Wall list:
  achievement, definition, government, miniature, practically, severely  
   
• Camp follow-up…finish planning your digital presentation. What key messages, information and feelings do you want to share? Can you find powerful images to match?

Home challenges, Week 4

Here are some home challenges for this week (2-6 November)...

• Play ukulele chords C, F & G, plus A7 and Dm in songs like "Dad I Want to be a Camel", and "She'll be Right"
• Maths sheet - Symmetry & reflection
• Tables challenge...get 20/20 in under a minute for 6x, 7x & 8x
• Gardening…sow seeds, transplant seedlings, weed, water… keep record/ photos/diagrams in Science book  
• Fitness...run 1-1.5km as fast as you can...record your time from Sports Day.
• Athletics sports: Give it your best shot! 

        Remember this inspiring effort which we saw at assembly...

        Record your best results; comment on how you feel about them

• Learn the 5 "tricky" spelling words  

( definitely; genius; millionaire; possibility; sergeant )

• Camp follow-up activities... making a valuable memento of a great camp!

Athletics Day on Wednesday

2 more days till Ouruhia School's Athletics Day. Keep practising your running and fitness, Room 5.

A busy term...

Week 3 already of Term 4! 

We have had a great camp at Hanmer Springs (see School Facebook page ), the choir is performing at Horncastle Arena this week, we are preparing for the Athletics Sports, have auditioned for our end of year concert (Ashton's Boot ... based on the Cinderella story), have a Pet Day planned, and swimming lessons at Kaiapoi Aquatic Centre. Busy, busy, busy!

Here are some home challenges for this week...

• Play ukulele chords C, F & G, in songs like "Dad I Want to be a Camel", and "She'll be Right"
• Fitness...run 1-1.5km as fast as you can
• Learn the 6 "tricky" spelling words (accommodation, deceive, generally, medicine, potatoes, secretary)
• Maths sheet - Prime numbers; Order of Operations... (choose one, or do both)
• Camp follow-up activities... making a valuable memento of a great camp!

Room 5 Maintenance Men

Jasper, Vinny and Luke have been repairing some of the lunch seats at school. Some tricky measuring and drilling to make sure the planks were lined up correctly...great job guys!

Aidan also showed initiative by repairing the broken uni-hoc sticks. We needed to work out a way of strengthening the joint between the handle and the blade...or be more gentle with them!

Water Activities Day

Room 5 visited Lake Rua, just off Johns Rd, today for a Water Activities day involving kayaking, raft-building and river crossing.

We look forward to getting back on the water early next term to learn to sail. Thanks to the team from KORE.

Swimming and physical activity

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Our swimming sports were a great success, and Aidan and Hannah from our class went on to represent the school at the Pegasus zone champs in Rangiora on March 5th.

Now we are working towards our triathlon and cross country.

How fit are you, and how fit can you get? Some of you are biking to school, which is great for building up strength and stamina.

Here's something to begin this week:
Record how fit and strong you are (same as last year). This will be baseline data to see if you improve in your fitness by the end of the term. To do this, there are two parts...

• See how far and how fast you can run non-stop (up to 3km).  Can you run for 5 minutes? 8 minutes? 12 minutes? More? How far do you go in that time? (Our running track at school is about 180m, or 3 laps of the school are about 1km.)
• How many of the fitness circuit activities can you do? Keep a log each day, including how many times you repeat, and how long it takes you. e.g.
• 20 step - ups (each side)
• Planks (prone hold) front, side, front, side ...20 seconds each
•  10 squats (3 seconds down, 3 seconds up)
• 10 push ups
• 10 knee-touches with elbow (like a sit-up)
• 20 calf-raises
• 20 leg lifts each side (kneeling position, one leg extended, raised & lowered)
• 2 lap run
• REPEAT 2-3 times

 By keeping a log, it will help to remind you to actually do it, rather than just want to get fit.

Let's see how much progress you can make.