Jump Off!

On Friday morning we had the Junior School Jump Off. Each class went around 6 different skipping activities. This was excellent fitness and a great chance to show off the skipping skills we have been developing this Term. Many children achieved the skipping goals they had set for themselves. Here are some photos of Room 5 doing the 'non-stop' skipping activity. How long can you skip without stopping?

Gymnastics

Over the first four weeks of Term 3, Room 5 developed their skills in Gymnastics. Here are some photos of us doing warm ups. The warm ups helped us to develop our balance, coordination and teamwork. Here we are practicing....
-  different ways to balance
- catching feathers on different parts of our bodies
- making symmetrical body shapes with a buddy
- making alphabet letters in small groups



Here are some of the skills we learned over the four weeks:
- jumps off the vault, springboard and trampoline
- walking across the beam
- swinging and climbing the ropes

Pyjama Day!

Another great fundraiser for KidsCan. You looked fantastic in your pyjamas Room 5 and great effort skipping in your PJs!

100 Days at School

We celebrated 100 days of being at school this year so far. Here is a photo of our fabulous 100 Day Glasses. There is also a slideshow of some of our 100 Day activities.

Brainy Room 5!

Last Friday, our buddies helped us put together our brain caps. This morning they came back again to help 'fine-tune' them. We love wearing our brain caps - thank you big buddies!

Here is a slideshow of our buddies helping us last Friday:

Brain Gym

This week is Brain Week at Muritai School. In Room 5 we have been learning about the different parts of the brain. We have also been learning some 'brain gym' exercises to help our brains with new learning. These exercises include crossing our arms and legs over to the other side of our bodies and writing with our non-dominant hands. We also had a go at the 'double doodle', where both hands draw at the same time, to form a symmetrical picture. Here are some examples of the double doodle:

Carter Observatory

This week we visited the Carter Observatory in Wellington. The Year 1s went on Tuesday and the Year 2s went on Thursday. It was a great chance for us to put into practice some of the things we had already learned about space, and also to learn some new things!

Here we are at the human sundial. It uses our shadows to tell the time:

The people who work at the Observatory taught us some new things about day and night and the solar system:

We had a go being the sun with a flashlight. We shone the sun (flashlight) on the moon to show the different phases of the moon:

We had time to explore the galleries and also watched a movie called, "Tycho in Space". We really enjoyed our visits to the Observatory!