Windsor School Yearbook 2013!

The Yearbook Team from Room 25 have collated photos and information from the whole of Windsor School and created our very own yearbook for 2013! To download your very own copy of our yearbook please click on the image below. (Please be aware that due to the large number of images this is a large file, approximately 173MB). 

We hope that you enjoy our yearbook....

Matthews tasty food

My PRIDE challenge was to make 3 three course meals for my family. My first meal was: Entree: Garlic dread home made. Main: Homemade pizza to order : Ham,pineapple, salami,cheerio and cheese.                                                                                                                                                        Tomato, mushroom and cheese,  Ham, cheese and cheerio,  And for desert Fruit salad and ice cream        MY second meal was: For the entree: side salad. For the main: Pasta bolognese. And for desert chocolate chip cookies and milk.                                                                                                               And for my third meal was: Entree: Fruit smoothies/ I never did finish mine                                           For the main it was a cooked breakfast: Bacon, scrambled eggs, hash browns, grilled tomatoes, sausages and toast.                                                                                                                                     And for desert: Pancakes/ My brother was trying to get more but when he didn't he just whined and whined and whined. The end. By Matthew Room 25                                                                                                                                                           

Matthews key design

My key design was made at my grandads home. I had to go to his house after school and he has a lot of old keys, wood, and spray paint. so I asked "Hay grandad, can I use some keys wood and spray paint?" Then I told him why and he let me do it. Step 1 : put keys on wood in a design you want. Step 2: spray paint over design in a colour you like. Step 3: leave to dry. Step 4: Once dry tip keys off and examine your design and see what it looks like. The end. By Matthew Room 25 OH and step 5: KEEP IT OUT OF THE HOUSE, IT STINKS!!!!!!!   

Matthews 20 hour famine no talking

My 20 hour famine no talking was horrible. My brother was hitting and pinching,scratching and punching me the hole time. I felt helpless not being able to speak. So I didn't, I used writing to talk. I couldn't wait till it finished. And when it did I was running around saying "Yay I can talk again!" It was so good to talk again, but still, MY BROTHER WAS STILL HITTING ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!            The end. By Matthew Room 25 

Matthews Solar Windpowered Machine

It started in term1 after Christmas. I got a present that was about how you could make 6 solar powered machine in one. One of them was a wind turbine. So I decided to make that one with the help of my dad, but it wasn't hard until my dad broke the stand right when we were in the middle of making it. but in the end it ended out great, a complete success. The end. By Matthew room 25

Matthew's Chess Tournament

My first chess tournament. It was my first year playing chess. I was third on the leader board and was in the A team for chess. It was held at Russley School and there were teams from everywhere, luckily I didn't have to play them all. I was in a team with Oliver, Adin, Ryan, we all played well and we won! It was my first chess tournament and we won. I felt proud of myself and the team. But I didn't realize I had to play at two more tournaments! The end. By Matthew Room 25.                                                                                                  

Matthew's 1000 Metre Swim

My 1000 metre swim took place at Graham Condon. It was tiring, doing free style 40 lengths of the 25 metre pool. I did it on the exact day as my brother did the Weet-bix tryathlon. And on my last lap the most unusual thing happened, I found a set of keys on the bottom of the pool. So I took them to my dad after I did my last lap. "I found a set of keys, what do I do?" I asked "See if it is that mans," I quickly glanced over to see a old man putting his head under the water looking for something. I dive into the pool with the keys and say "Are these yours?" I asked holding up the keys. "Oh thank you young man!" he said and then I hoped out of the pool and went to get changed. The end. By Matthew room 25  

Author Visit for Book Week!

Today we had a visit from Heather McQuillan to help us celebrate our Book Week. Heather is a published author and she came to talk to us about the writing process, and what it's actually like when you get to publish a book. 

We found out that it took Heather 4 years to write her first novel, and then she had to wait another whole year for it to be published!!! Heather also told us about how she has had to be determined with her writing and not give up, even when she received rejection letters from some publishers.

Mo Willems Week at Windsor!

Mo Willems is an American author who wrote 'Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus' and this week we are celebrating him at Windsor School. In honour of Mo Willems week, Room 25 have made their own book inspired by Mo. We hope you enjoy it!

We Have Been Creating Things in Room 25...

One of our technology groups has come up with a design for a T-Shirt to commemorate Windsor School. This is our proposed design. Please let us know what you think!!!

"The One and Only Ivan"

One of our reading groups, 'The Banana Brains', are reading a novel called The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate. Click on the link below to see the trailer for this novel and to learn about the real Ivan.

CLICK HERE

To read an interview with Katherine Applegate (the author), and to learn more about how she became inspired to write The One and Only Ivan follow the link below.

Interview with Katherine Applegate

Making Paper Lanterns for KidsFest

Test your knowledge of adverbs....

Click on the picture to test yourself and see how many adverbs you can recognise!

Here are two other grammar games for you to try...

Some Custom T Shirt Design Sites...

These sites have parts where you can go in and design your own t-shirt. Just remember to make sure that you do NOT order your t-shirt or it will cost real money!!!

http://www.zazzle.co.nz/custom/tshirts/kids

http://www.printmighty.co.nz/designer/?url=/designer

http://www.printpoppa.co.nz/designer/customize/730393?bc[c]=41903&bt=3&dpid=1

Year 5 & 6 Cross Country

A huge CONGRATULATIONS to all those students who participated in this year's Year 5 and 6 Windsor Cross Country!!!!  

Your determination was very clear and you should all feel very proud of your efforts! 

Kite Day Pictures and Reflections....

How Good Are We at Writing Descriptions?

Room 25 have been writing descriptions about a blue monster that Miss Hygate showed us in a picture. Today we read our descriptions to our Room 12 buddies to see if they could draw the monster based on our writing. We found out that a lot of us need to improve our descriptive writing as we left out important things like how many arms or legs the monster had!

Preparing for Kite Day Tomorrow

Making

Testing

More Testing

Getting expert Advice from Jim "the Kite Guy"

Isaac Newton's Third Law of Motion

Isaac Newton's third law of motion helps us understand how kites fly. To learn more about this law click HERE.

Still confused? That's ok, read more here!

Some Sites about Kites...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0FeNdB2GDY&safe=active

http://www.origami-resource-center.com/kite-shop.htmlhttp://www.origami-resource-center.com/kite-shop.html

http://www.my-best-kite.com/kite-making-for-child.html

http://www.my-best-kite.com/kite-for-kids.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjtUJik7lTQ&safe=active

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2J05SPJDCc&safe=active

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPnOYzaa2e4&safe=active


Sites for kite designs and instructions:

Easy kite instructions

How to make a Delta Kite

How to make 'Adams' Kite

http://www.squawkfox.com/2009/07/06/kite-designs-how-to-make-a-kite/

http://people.exeter.ac.uk/jastaple/kites/projects/sled/sled.html


http://www.bigwindkites.com/20kids/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79G9Btw_C7I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2QLdTiOU3c&safe=active

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0FeNdB2GDY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk4dYvitmg8&safe=active

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqsmCsXwJqE&safe=active

Charis' On The Job Writing

This is my story

Danielle's On The Job Writing

This is my story

Sam Mc On The Job Writing

This is my story

Research on kites

Jonathan's On The Job Writing

This is my story

Our Music Recital Today

Our Amazing Playgrounds!!!

Logan's On The Job Writing

Lily's On The Job Writing

Kali's On The Job Writing (2)

Zane's On The Job Writing

Kali's On The Job Writing

Jack's On The Job Writing

Trying Out Some Chromatography

Our Amazing Playgrounds!

We have been following the design process to come up with some amazing designs for Christchurch's Amazing Playground competition. Check out these pictures..

Our Science Experiment 26 Days On!

On the 21st of February we set up an experiment to see what would happen to a 10c coin when we left it in a glass of Coke, a glass of Sprite, a glass of V-energy Drink and a glass of plain old water.

We had heard rumours that the 10c piece would dissolve in the Coke and we wanted to see if this was true. This is day 26 of our experiment and so far all of the 10c pieces are still in one piece, so much for that rumour!

Although our experiment didn't do what we thought it would, we have made some interesting observations about the changes that have happened over the past 26 days:

• All the liquids in the glasses have gone down and therefore the glasses are less full. This is because the liquids have evapourated.
• All the coins are the same size and shape, even after being in the liquid for more than 3 weeks!
• The Sprite has turned from clear to blue??!!
• The V-energy drink has turned dark brown (ewwwwww)
• A dead fly was floating in the Coke (double ewwwwwwwwww!!!)

SUMDOG is Back & The Challenge Is On!!!

Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, o get you Sumdog login from Miss Hygate and have a go at....

Room 25's March Maths Challenge!

At the moment the leaderboard is clear - to get ahead all you have to do is to be the first in our class to play and complete 20 games in the challenge. You have a choice of playing either single player games OR going up against another player from Windsor School. Make your name top on the leaderboard and just so you know this challenge will end at 10pm on 30 March. Good luck and play hard!

My Amazing Place

Follow the link below to help with your research about playgrounds....

Link to 10 Unusual Playgrounds

The Eagles Reading Activity - Monday 4 March

On Tuesday our country will be taking part in a Census. To learn more about what a Census is, and why we have one, click on the link below and read the article. Then complete the current events summary sheet to show what you have learned and remember to glue it into your reading book!  

Census Article Click Here