Fitness Fun

In Room 16 at St Albans School for fitness, the children are in groups and do different activities. Each group wrote some goals for each activity. The activities are; monkey bars to increase upper body strength, running and skipping for making hearts beat faster and crazy catch for hand-eye coordination. Monkey bars are the most popular and running is not very popular.

by Kayla

A Great Website

Paige from Room Sixteen says children must go on the www.city.lego.com website. It has the coolest games ever!

Click here to go there now

by Paige

The New Building Site

At St Albans School there is another building site. Rooms 1,2,3 and 4 will be knocked down, then children and teachers from those rooms will be moving into the new classrooms.
There will then be more room for two new playgrounds. That is very good because the children will have enough space to play in.

Story and photo by Michael

Soggy St Albans

This week St Albans School kids were delighted to go outside and play at morning tea and lunch. But the big field remained closed because it has been raining over night. The puddles have been turned to ice.
There are a lot less cars due to the fine weather too. St Albans pupils think that's very good.

by Heathcliff

A Just Reward

At assembly on Tuesday, Room Sixteen was impatient because of the Heather Trophy.
Finally we got to the end of assembly when the Heather Trophy was going to be presented. Guess who it got presented to?...Room Sixteen!
When Ms Ashby said Room Sixteen had won, Room Sixteen cheered with excitement and threw their hands in the air.

Writing and photo by Jaeda

An A-Z of the Room Sixteen Children’s Holiday

What busy holidays the children in Room 16 and their families and friends have had. We have collated this reference list of holiday happenings and events. Their young memories are something to admire and envy. I just needed to call out a reference and they could tell me the full story and to whom it happened!

A Australia, Auckland, Abel Tasman Walkway, Anchorage
B Bike riding, Binoculars, Broken Hill Ski Field, Bats, Blenheim, Birthdays, Buzz Bar, Bugs Bunny, Butterfly house, Blue Morpho, Black hydroslide, Baby brother born, Brother’s birthday, Beach, Broken legs and plate, Beauty and the Beast, Bark Bay
C Colourful parrots, Castle Hill, Cuddles , Craft book, Creek, Candy floss, Citizen 1, Cousins, Coins, Crane, Clip’n’climb, Chipmunks
D Dolphins, Dunedin, Dancing competitions, Driveways, Dress-up stickers
E Elephants
F Family, Friends, Fast skating, Fairy tales at the museum, Free face painting, Frogs, Fudge Cottage, Fish pie. Flying father, figurines
G Giraffes, George the frog, Giant Lego, Grandparents, Goblin glitter globe, Gingerbread man
H Huge garden, Hide and seek, Hanmer Springs, Hot pools, Hydroslides, Hotel helper, Higgs, Hot chocolates, Horse diary
I Ice skating, Ice pack
J Jetstar, Jellybeans, Jaw bones
K Koala, Knitting, Kelly Tarlton’s Underwater World, Karate Kid, Kaiteriteri, Kaikoura
L Lego, Lego cake, Large bedroom, Late planes, Long days, Lollies, Learning to do laces, Library
M Movie World, Mini figures, Mini golf, Matiu, Moving house, Maps, McLeans Island, Mix-up body stickers, Marahau, Melted MP3, Meerkats, Moving panda
N Nappy changing, Nets, Night at the museum, New shoes, Nipper, Nibbs, N.Z. penny, Night vision, Nature Discovery, New teeth
O Ohoka, Ornaments
P Postcard, Pools, Plywood weapons, Packing up toys and books, Penguins, Pony riding club, Pompoms
Q QEII, Queensland
R Riding dolphins, Ropes, Rainbows End, Red ripstick, Room 421, Rock formations
S Snakes, Sea World, Sunny warm weather, Space guy, Steepest street, Scarf, Sauce covered chips, Sleep overs, Sprite 3, Sky, Sticker book, Smiggle, Sky Tower, Stolen burnt-out car, Surfers Paradise, Skiing, Stoney sandy beach, Sheep skeleton,
Skipping ropes
T Tweety Bird, Takaka, Tops with skeletons, Takapuna
Holiday Park, Tiger cubs, Teeth falling out, Tramping, Treasure chest, Toboggan, Theatre star, Ten pin bowling
U,V Underground observation tunnels
W,X Wild baby peeing, Wet slippers and trackies, Wild waterfall rides, Wining pony races, Wooden flute, Whacked head, West Coast, Westport
Y,Z Zoo, Zoozoo pets

Skipping

I have resisted an alliterative title for this post, but please feel free to send any scintillating skipping suggestions this way!
The children approach skipping with such enthusiasm and excitement. Imagine begging someone to let you go out and do high intensity cardiovascular exercise every day!
The video below captures just a taste of the range of skills and talents evident in the class.

Fun with Fabric and Fibre

We've had Fabulous Fun with Fabric and Fibre this term.
After making the spoon dolls the children had a lovely time creating environments for them and taking photos. I'm sure you'll admire the creativity the dolls and their environments display.
The "Bad Hair Day" faces were tricky but the children persevered and helped one another.
My sons reckon the Bad Hair Day Class Photo at the end of this clip looks like something from Doctor Who!