Life cycle of an axalotyl

We are learning about life cycles this term. We have some axalotyl eggs that we are going to watch grow. 

Basketball

This term we are learning the skills to play basketball.

We had lots of fun learning how to dribble, pass and defend. 

Ball tags lots of fun. 

Year Six Visual Arts

Check out Ahna, Bond, Abby and Jessica's Blog pages and have a look at their art pieces from the visual arts workshops, they are great.

Reduce Reuse Recycle

Today we looked at our rubbish that we have accumulated over the last 2 days. We had a lot of non recyclable rubbish that goes to the dump. 

Who can remember how long plastics takes to breakdown to dust? Put you answer in comments below. 

LMV Athletics Day 2014

On Wednesday it was LMV Athletics day.Glenham, Tuturau, Edendale and Wyndham were competing.


My first event was long jump, my best jump was 2 meters 45cm.  Then we went to 200m, in the heats I came 3 and in the final I came 4th.  Then we were going to discus and I was atually surprised that I got it in the fan!!!  After that we had high jump, I got up to 1 meter and some others got up to 1 meter 10cm.  Then I did 100 meters and in the heats I came 3rd and in the finals I came 5th.  Then it was the relays 'oh no' I was so nervous, Holly was the first runner, then me, then Chloe then Grace.  After lunch we did shot put and I came about 6th or 5th.

After all my events I was puffed and I couldn't wait to go home to my cozy warm bed.  



By Ahna

Monarch Butterfly

A monarch butterfly has two pairs of wings, each pair has two wings. On the butterfly's head it has two antenea. Under the dark colours they are lighter.  The caterpillar is 55mm long.  A monarch butterfly has a middle bit, they have 3 segments. On the monarch butterfly it has white dots and orange in the back round but it does have black lines and it has 1 black dot on each side. Before the caterpillar turns into a butterfly it has to turn into a chrysalis.

By Lucy.

Sun Smart

Some people like to get tans from the sun. If you’re not careful enough you can get life threatening disease from it too.

The sun can cause all sorts of things like melanomas or skin cancer.  In the future you might have to get melanomas cut out of your skin and the cancer can get into your blood stream and can spread it and also kill you. The operation to get the melanomas and the cancer out of you is not always nice and cannot always get it out of your system.

Sun screen screens the sun from your body in and out of water only if its water proof.

To protect your head from the sun you can wear a sun hat and it will stop your head from getting burnt and your hair won’t get sun bleached.

Everybody on earth should be sun smart so keep yourself safe when you’re in the sun.

 

By Ahna

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Be Sun Smart

Be as safe as you can in the sun because you don’t want to get skin cancer also known as melanoma.

 

 If you wear sunscreen you won’t get sunburnt or melanoma. Sunscreen is a thick protective layer from the sun. If you wear sunscreen regularly you won’t get sunburnt and make sure you put water proof sunscreen on when you’re swimming.

 

If you stay in the shade more than the sun you won’t get sun stroke. Sun stroke is when you get sick and vomit. If you drink lots of water you won’t get dehydrated. Remember the sun can’t give you shade it can only make you overheat.

 

If you wear a hat in the sun that covers your ears and neck you won’t get sunburnt. If you have clothes that can cover your legs and arms I would recommend wearing them because you need to cover as much as you can of your body so that your skin won’t get sunburnt.

 

So now you know about skin cancer/ Melanomas you will hopefully be sun smart.

 

 

By Victoria

Market Day

On Saturday 16^th November the leadership group had a community/family fun day

because we wanted to raise money for the garden area.

We sold things like kindling, baking, toffee apples plus more, and we even had a sausage

sizzle and a  thrift shop.

 

It was good because we made a lot of money and got good comments about us

Working.

 

We all had fun,(the waterslide was fun as).

We learnt how to get the right change and about selling people items.

 

We had fun throwing sponges at people at the face splash.

 

Ashton, Stirling and Bond

Be smarter than the sun

We need to protect our wonderful skin from life threatening diseases caused by the sun.

If you don’t protect your skin you might get skin cancer or malenoma, making you very sick and sometimes ending in death.

To protect ourselves from getting burnt use sun screen at least twice a day if it is sunny.

 Too much time in the sun can be very harmful. Too much time can get yourself sun burnt. You can get sun stroke too, it is very harmful.

 Make sure you are smart around the sun.

 

By Grace

 

  

 

   

Market Day

On Saturday the 16^th we had had our Family/community market fun day at Glenham School.  In term 1 the leadership group decided to have a Market day at the end of the year to raise money to upgrade our Garden area.

There were six stalls selling different stuff.  Some of the activities were a Bouncy Castle, waterslide and Face Splash.  There were lots of food such as, Sausages, American Hot Dogs and baking and lots of drinks.

It took about a month and a half to organize the day.  It turned out great despite the weather. 

A big thank you to everyone who helped out, without your support the day wouldn’t of happened.

We really enjoyed the day because it was very successful.

 

By: Abby, Rhylee, Jessica and Victoria.

The adventures of Flat Bond

Be Smarter Than The Sun

We need to protect our wonderful skin from life threatening disease caused by the sun.

 

If you don’t protect your skin you might get skin cancer or melanoma, making you very sick and sometimes ending in death.

 

To protect ourselves from getting burnt use sun screen at least twice a day if it is sunny.

 

Too much time in the sun can be very harmful. Too much time can get yourself sun burnt. You can get sun stroke, it is very harmful.

 

Make sure you are smart around the sun.



Persuasive writing by Grace

 

Leadership Day

Leadership day!

 

On Tuesday 17^th of September the year five & six’s had their leadership day.  We were building compost bins.

In the morning we were either digging holes, prying wood apart with the crowbar or cleaning the worm farm.  All the girls apart from Gabrielle and I were cleaning the worm farm.  Hayden, Ashton and Ezekiel were digging the holes.  Ted, Stirling and Bond were using the crowbar.  Gabrielle and I were pulling out nails.  Mr Avery was helping us build the compost bins. 

After morning tea we were setting up putting the pellets where they were going to go and we started nailing everything together.  All of us put the compost bins together.  It was about one o’clock when we were finished. They look awesome.

 

By Rhylee

Football Tournament

On the 18th of September the senior class went to a football tournament at West Gore school.

We had two teams, the Glenham Rockets and the Glenham Strikers. The Glenham Rockets won 2 and lost 2 and the Glenham Strikers won 3 and lost 1. We played four games of 20 minutes each.

Both teams foot tripped people a lot (it was fun!) We used the soccer skills we have learnt all term and the competition was tough.

At the end we had to have our picture taken. The hardest team was Te tipua, they had year 7&8,s in it.

I think we all did well.

By Ashton

Visit to Observatory

Visit to the Observatory

On the 18^th of September some of Room Nui and some of Room Iti went to the Observatory in Invercargill to look at some planets.

When we got there we had to wait for a while for the man to get there so he could let us into it. When we got into the observatory the man told us about some of the planets that we could see tonight. He told us it was too cloudy so we would have to wait for a while for it to clear up.

While we were waiting we took a look outside, we all started to panic “there are people in the gardens AHHH!” shouted some people, while some others shouted “show your faces and I’ve got a gun so beware.”  In the end it was our shadows on the trees.

Right back to the story, we ended up seeing Venus and the moon. I saw mountains on the moon and some craters.  

By the time we got home it was almost 9:00 and I was so sleepy.

Overall I had a great time and I loved seeing the moon and Venus.

   By Ahna

Room Nui's Rockets

Room Nui's Rockets on PhotoPeach

Skiing

School started, morning tea, lunch, so long, why can't it be 3.30?

After school, OK 40 minutes to go.  Yes it's 3.30, off we go up the road to Wanaka for our annual skiing trip with the school.  I'm in a vehicle with Abby, Gabby, Andy and Jeff.

It was a long trip to Wanaka but we eventually got there.  We stayed at the Wanaka Lakeview Holiday Park.

Tea was all ready because Karen had gone up earlier to cook tea, it was yummy.  I liked the lasagne best.

We had gone to the cabins and got to choose who we were going to room with.  I roomed with Gabrielle.

The next morning we got up at 6.00, had breakfast then we left for the Cardrona ski field.  When we got there it was snowing.

We got our ski boots and skis and were all ready to head out.  We were with our instructor on the chair lift.  When we got to the top and started skiing.  It was freezing cold but we were strong.  When we finished out lesson we all went inside to warm-up.  Half an hour later we went back outside to ski.

It was lunch and we had to stop because it was like a blizzard.  It was a long travel home and we were the only car who stopped for fish and chips.

We finally got home.  It was so much fun and I hope we go skiing at Menzies.

By Rhylee

Ski Time

The time has come, the bell just rang. Ye ha! In half an hours time we are off to Wanaka Lakeview Holiday Park. 

Wahoo we are off to Wanaka.  When we got to Wanaka we got our stuff and claimed our rooms.  I was rooming with Ashton, Zekey and Jimmy.  We went back to the living room, tea smelled tasty.  We played a game that I did not understand then I heard "tea time", I was first to the bench.  For dinner I had lasagne, bacon and egg pie and sausages.  When I had finished tea we had to get our day pack.  I forgot to bring a day pack.  I had to bring my big bag.

Oh, the time has come.  We go to bed.  For some reason I could not go to sleep that night. 

Yes, its morning, I'm hungry, breakfast time.  For breakfast I had cornflakes and toast.  After that we packed up our stuff and headed to the mountain.  We got up the mountain and claimed our space.  We went and fitted our gear and we headed for the tough blizardy snow.

For a start we had our lesson.  It was tough because the magic carpet was not working ,so we went up the chair lift.  That was hard because I can not ski very well.

At lunch time it was getting bad so we left.  When we got to Lumsden the fish and chip shop was closed so we had Mac'ers and it was yummy.  Then we went back to school to unpack our stuff and left to go home.  I can't wait until next year.

By Stirling

Ski Trip

On Thursday the 4th I was waiting anxiously for 2:00 to go to Wanaka for Glenham school ski trip.

 

2:00 came and Mum and I set off to Wanaka to start cooking tea at the lodge at Lake View Holiday Park.

After 3 long hours of driving we were at the lodge and went to the reception to get the keys for the rooms. So the tea was cooking and mum was watching the news so I decided to check out the rooms. There were 4,4 bed rooms and 9,2 bed rooms.

2 hours later everybody arrived and they were starving. Tea got dished up and it was so yummy, more like scrumscious especially the lasagne. After that we played a few games and then we went to bed.  

At 5:10 in the morning we got up and got ready to go skiing. Although the weather is very windy and could be cancelled, but it’s not thank goodness. So we all set off to Cardrona ski field and got all our gear and boots and went to our lesson.

First we put our skis on and learnt to ski and then we went to the magic carpet. Now it's lunch time. After Lunch Grace , Guy and I went to the chair lift and the conditions were terrible, so anyway I was helping Grace up then ahhhhhhhh I fell down some of the mountain and found Ashton and Stirling, then the wind blue me down. Then I found Peter and skied down with him. So then by 1-2 o'clock we were on our way home but not me, I got to stay till Saturday at my friends YEAH.

I really enjoyed skiing and hope it will be better conditions next year.

By Ahna