Trip to the Recycling Centre

As part of our topic "Why waste: Is that rubbish?" the Junior Middles visited the Masterton Recycling centre. We got to see heaps of neat stuff, and even sort out some recycling ourselves. Here are some photos:

These are hundreds of aluminium cans crushed up into blocks. We saw them crush one.


Before they are crushed, a special magnet picks out any tin cans that have been mixed in with the aluminuium ones.

Cans going into the crusher.


This huge truck arrived and dumped all its cardboard for recycling!

Room 9 enjoying Golden Time

Kadin and Hari played on the computer.


Some people went outside and skipped in the sunshine.


Tyreece chose to play on a mini laptop. Hi Tyreece!


Tai helped Duncan with his laptop.


Laptops are a popular choice - here are Kelan and Matthew.


Sheldon and Elyse are making fresh orange juice! Sara is helping by holding the jug.


Sara uses her muscles to get every last drop!!



Yummy!!! Elyse enjoyed her juice :)

Rippa Rugby

We had an awesome time at rippa rugby today. A big thank you to Jarrod, Jono and Tipi for taking all of the rippa sessions!

Term 2

Welcome to Term 2! We have got off to a great start. This term we are learning about space and the planets as part of our topic "Reach for the Stars, A Journey into Space". We are also going to learn about Matariki as part of this topic.

Yesterday we were really lucky to have the Duffy Book Show come to our school. It was really funny and entertaining - we love being a Duffy School! The show was about how some libraries are getting shut down because not enough people go. So we are going to go to the Masterton Public Library for a visit tomorrow. Duffy books also gave us some reward cards for the Library. If you visit 5 times and get a stamp on your card each visit you will get a FREE book! We will all get our first stamps tomorrow.

Have a great week!

Healthy Lunch!

On Thursday Room 9 made healthy wraps and sandwiches in class. We all paid $2 and Miss Chapman bought all the food - meats, salads, eggs, cheese, bread, rolls, wraps - even pickled onions and sun dried tomato hummus! We all helped to cut up and prepare the ingredients. Then we all lined up and made our lunch. It was so yummy! Even Mr H came along and made a sandwich too!

Halfway

Wow we are now into the second half of term 1. Room 9 has started some new topics. For maths we are learning about addition and subtraction, and for our topic is called Healthy Inside Out. It is all about being healthy by eating the right things, exercising and keeping ourselves clean. We will be doing lots of neat activities in this unit. Swimming is not finished until term 4 but we are doing daily fitness drills with small balls, and weekly games like longball, tee ball, cricket and patter tennis.

Finally, a big thanks to the Room 9 parent helpers at the gala on Friday. It was great to see so many of you and we couldn't have done it without you. Have a great week :)

Swimming Sports

We had a great time showing off our swimming skills on Thursday!
Here are some pictures of Room 9 and the rest of the Junior Middles in action!






On Friday we had a mufti day where we dressed in red and black to raise money for the Christchurch Earthquake. Here is a photo of us:



Here are some photos of us enjoying Golden Time today:














Have a great weekend!