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Woop woop! Welcome to the awesomeness that is ROOM 4, YEAR 6, WELLSFORD SCHOOL 2012!  __**Week 8, Term 4**__ - Wow, tell me where 2012 went? This year has flown by but, in true Room 4 style, you have all managed to achieve a lot and have a heap of fun along the way! This year has been one of the best, and our trips to Rainbows End and Waiwera Hot Pools really topped it off! Now as we finish the year off with formal prize givings, cleaning the class, and finishing off those last little bits and pieces, I hope you all take a moment to reflect on how far YOU have come this year. I know that 2013 will be a great year again at Wellsford School because we are going to have fabulous Year 7 role models to lead the rest of the school! Thank you all so much for making my 2012 AMAZING, and I look forward to seeing you all next year! Keep updating your Wiki's over the holidays, I will be sure to check in! SKUXX 6'S - YOU ARE THE BEST! MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAVE A SAFE AND HAPPY HOLIDAY! x  __**Week 6, Term 4**__ - Oopsy! So it has been a while since my last update and soooooooooo much has happened since then! We have had our annual Calf and Lamb Day (which was great fun!), Athletics day (no word on which house won yet!) and we have started our class yearbook for 2012. Oh, did I mention our awesome cupcake decorating that raised us $566.40? AND the fact that we have already got our class points target which means... RAINBOWS END HERE WE COME! Yes, the end of the year is fast approaching and although I am looking forward to two great trips, I am NOT looking forward to saying goodbye to the Skuxx 6's! Let's make these last few weeks count guys and girls! __**Week 1, Term 4**__ - We got straight into Geometry by using the ActivBoard tools to help us transform patterns using reflection on the X and Y axis. They are going to look FAB when they are done! __**Still holidays**__ - Wooo look who I saw!! Total holiday highlight! What was yours? Tell me on your Wiki page! __**Term 3-4 Holidays**__ - I hope you are all having a great holiday! I am in Auckland City learning LOTS of cool new ways to teach using I.C.T! I hope to share some of these ideas with you all when I get back! Apart from all of the learning I also saw Richard Kahui yesterday! And guess what? Mrs Ketter didn't even know who he was! Haha! I am staying in a cool hotel with Mrs Ketter, Mrs Crawford, and Miss Tindle. Check the pic of us having mexican for dinner! Tonight we have a fancy dinner with a 'disco' theme - I will try post some pix if I can! Miss you all lots and can't wait to get back to school! P.S: I hope you had a great trip George! And I hope your knee is better Porter! :) __**Week 10, Term 3**__ - What a FULL ON week! Our Year 5/6 Rippa team (including Room 4 members Julie, Sahrai, Toria, Tamara. Georgia, Javarne, Aiden & Jordan) travelled down to Wellington with Mr Lees and Mrs Dewes to compete in the National Rippa Rugby tournament. They had a great time meeting Black Ferns and All Blacks, visiting Te Papa, and of course playing some great rippa! The team finished 10th out of 20 teams, but more importantly they showed NZRU bosses how respectful and grateful they were by being the best behaved kids out! We are all proud of you guys! In other sporting news, Wellsford took on Mangawhai in the Winter Sports Exchange... who won the trophy? WELLSFORD! Well done to all who participated in the sports of netball, basketball, rugby, and soccer! You are AWESOME! Next week is the last week of Term 3 - Mrs Dewes is feeling a bit tired, how about you guys and girls?! **__Week 9, Term 3__ - BREAKING NEWS!! ROOM 4 WIN WELLSFORDS GOT T****ALENT!** That's right folks - Nicholas on piano, Abbey and Tayla on guitars, Nature, Ebony and Michael singing, a bit of ballet and a whole lot of swagg-filled dancing earned Room 4 the title of 'Overall First Place' (and a $100 cash prize!) at the school talent show. Well done! Room 4 also enjoyed watching all of the other talented students and we would like to congratulate everyone who participated. We would also like to thank the Year 7/8 teachers for organising such a great event! DVD's can be purchased from Mr L for $10.00. __**Week 8, Term 3**__ - We welcome ETHAN to Room 4. Ethan already has lots of friends in the class and it is cool to have another boy to join the Room 4 ranks! We hope you enjoyed your first week in our awesome class Ethan! __**Week 7, Term 3**__ - Well, the disco has been and gone! No, Mr Lees didn't get best dressed but everyone had a great time! Since the disco we farewelled Mrs Rawlinson by having a cool game of 'Survivor' with real food and fizzy (shhhh! Don't tell the dental nurses!) and we had an-cream party. It was cool! We had fun with Mrs Rawlinson and we will miss her! Now we are practicing for the talent show. We are doing an awesome dance remix (with some added surprises) and Mrs Dewes keeps telling us how awesome we are at it! It would be great if we won but it's OK if we don't, we just want to have FUN! Also, our Y5/6 Rippa team are off to Nationals next weekend. We hope they do well and enjoy this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! __**Week 5, Term 3**__ - Oh it has been a while since I updated and A LOT has happened since Week 1! Sadly, we farewelled three of our superstars - Leon, Aaria, and Kathleen. They have all moved to parts of Northland and we still miss them heaps! In other news, we enjoyed Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori... "we'll have a Maori haaaangi, toniiiiight!" The haka competition was also awesome! The percussion workshops in Week 4 and 5 were good fun and we played our little hearts out with our cool school instruments. Now we are getting ready for our last school disco of the year. The theme is 'Sportastic' - I wonder who will win best-dressed? Perhaps Mr Lees? I'll keep you posted! __**Week 1, Term 3**__ - Welcome back to Term 3 in Room 4 at Wellsford School! I hope you have all had a fun-filled holiday! The Blues have won their last two matches so this teacher is pretty happy! Well, an overview of what's in store for Term 3 will be out this week but let me sum it up for you. We will be charging ahead in maths with Number and Algebra (don't be scared guys, algebra is cool!!), Mrs Rawlinson will be covering your writing and inquiry/topic with some awesome Olympic Games activities, we will finish our AVAILLL programe and move into our 'Under the Mountain' novel study for reading and visual language, and with fitness continuing every morning we will be ready to conquer Mangawhai in the Winter Sports Exchange later this term! Also, our Year 5/6 Rippa team will be busy fundraising for Nationals at the end of the term so expect a few cool raffles and another disco too! Now that we have our own class iPad, Mrs Dewes will also be making sure that we are becoming totally ICT savvy and smart! Oh yes Room 4, this term is going to be great! I'm ready...are you?! __**Week 10, Term 2**__ - We welcomed Mrs Rawlinson (our student teacher) back for another 7 weeks - yay! We also had an awesome progressive dinner for reaching our 16,000 points target for Term 2. We ate lots of food, played spotlight and Dance Central, and then shared some of our work with our parents/caregivers. It was such a fun night! On the last day of term Nicholas and Javarne led assembly - they did a fantastic job! We also did our 'Azonto' dance with Room 13. Mrs Dewes gave us an 11 out of 10 for our performance! Now it's holidays - time to recharge and get ready for another exciting term in Room 4! __**Week 8, Term 2**__ - We celebrate the victory of our Year 5/6 Rippa Rugby team who won a close final against Kaeo (going into overtime!) at the Northland Rippa Comp! This means that they are off to WELLINGTON to represent Northland! Wahoooo! Congrats also to the Year 3/4 team and the Year 7/8 team who will play their Northland finals at Toll Stadium later on this year. In other exciting Week 8 news, the girls go craaaaaazy as we welcome MICHAEL back to Wellsford School! Another Skuxx 6 to add to the mix, and HOORAY, another boy! :)  __**Week 7, Term 2**__ - We experienced a once in a lifetime opportunity on Wednesday 6 June 2012... The Transit Of Venus! Using our super special viewfinders we were able to look directly at the sun and see Venus hovering at the bottom of the sun. This wont happen for another 105 years! AMAZING!   __**Week 6, Term 2**__ - We had an awesome Science Fair on Friday where we got the chance to show the school everything we have been learning about the amazing, the fantastical...MILK! We also got to see what everyone else in the school has been learning - it was awesome! Congratulations to Bella and Tamara who led the Room 4 presentation, and to our Mad Milk Scientists - Javarne, Jordan, Aiden, Nicholas, and Victoria who made A LOT of ice cream! Also well done to the rest of Room 4 for completing outstanding science boards AND scientific investigations!  __** Week **__ __**5, Term 2**__ - Room 4 ran a HOUSE COLOURS themed disco on behalf of the Year 4-6 team, to raise money for our snorkelling trip. Everyone had a great time! Congratulations to those who won Best Dressed. We are also pleased to report that Master Porter still has both arms after a few intense rounds of Drop the Hat! :)  **__Week 4 Term 2__** - Room 4 OWNED the cross country course with some excellent displays of perseverance and effort! Mrs Dewes was SUPER PROUD!  __**Week 2, Term 2**__ - Check out our awesome superhero writing using interesting adjectives!  __**Week 1, Term 2**__ - We will remember the ANZACs (Australia and New Zealand Army Corps).  __** Week 10, Term 1 **__ OK, it must be done... a MASSIVE congratulations to Team Smarties who took out the Room 4 2012 Amazing Race! Mr Jansen sure whipped his team into shape as they ran their way around Wellsford completing various tasks! A big shout out to the other teams - Tumeke Taniwhaz, The Pretzels, The Champions, and Skuxxinators (my personal favourites!) - for showing that team work can be a lot of fun regardless of whether you win or lose! Also a HUGE thank you to all the parents who joined in - we couldn't of done it without you! In other news, the end of Term 1 has been and gone - where did those 10 weeks go?! Term 2 proves to be just as busy though with a Milk unit for our Science Fair (fitting seen as we are the best Milk Monitors EVER!), more narrative writing to show off our creativity, cross-country practice, team fitness, more AVAILLL Reading, Measurement and Number maths (where I am sure we will continue to improve!) and not to mention A WHOLE LOT MORE FUN! This teacher is super excited! Finally, WELL DONE to Jemma, Georgia, Abbey, Mya, Bella, Nicholas and Gem Gemz who have all updated their Wiki page from home. Keep up the great work you lot! __** Week 2, Term 1 **__ This is our awesome Wiki - a place for us to celebrate and share all of the awesomeness that we own!Term 1 has kicked off and already our Skuxx Year 6's are impressing the teacher with their enthusiasm, manners, effort and teamwork! They are quickly becoming the ULTIMATE DREAM TEAM!This term in Room 4 we will spend a great deal of our time learning the rules and routines necessary in order to make us outstanding students! We will also be engaging in a lot of cooperative learning activities to help us function together as a true team! Room 4 students are already working hard to get group points to contribute to a class points target. 7000 points = a possible Mini Amazing Race around Wellsford! Fingers crossed!Of course, there will be A LOT of learning in maths (number and statistics), writing (narrative), reading (AVAILLL programme), PE (swimming and summer sports), and an inquiry topic based around the Rocky Shore (building up to a Goat Island snorkel day!). This is just the tip of the iceberg as Mrs Dewes has lots of other activities up her sleeve to keep Room 4 students challenged and keen!2012 is going to be a great year! Bring it on!!! __**Week 8, Term 1**__ - DO THE JOHN WALL DANCE (coz' we got swagg like that :) __**Week 1, Term 5**__ - FLURO DISCO 2012. Mrs Dewes hated missing out on the fluro disco so next one...IT'S ON! Thanks to Mr Moore, Mrs Crawford and Miss Tindle for organising such a great night out! ** "Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm!" **