Treading Tuesday

Today Room 16 and Room 4 were invited to a Treading Tuesday feast. This was because we are the class that had the most people walk to school on Tuesdays during Term Three. We had morning tea, quizzes, games like traffic light and a certificate plus heaps of pens and rubbers. We had awesome fun!

By Daniel and Christopher

The Story of Our Igloo

The Igloo Grows!

Botany Light Festival

Room 16 worked with Ashley and Raewyn from Uxbridge Arts, to make lanterns. We had to bend and tape the wood into circles and then cover the whole thing with plastic. Inside are two little lights that keep changing colour when you turn them on.

Last night we paraded with six other schools at the Botany Light Festival. The parade was a bit shorter than it was supposed to be, because it was raining. We didn't mind though, because it was still a lot of fun! We hope you enjoy these photos of us making and parading our lanterns.



If you'd like to know how to make a lantern, then read the instructions below.

Making Lanterns
By Kevin

If you follow these steps you will make a beautiful lantern.

You will need:

• Cable tie
• Six thin strips of wood
• Scissors
• Tape
• Bamboo stick
• Strong glad wrap
• Two finger lights
• Hook


1. Make the thin strips of wood into circles the same size using the tape to hold them.
2. Tape three circles together to make a ball shape. Do this with the other three circles.
3. Join the ball shapes together with the tape.
4. Tape the finger lights onto the inside.
5. Make the cable tie into a circle and tape it to the top.
6. Wrap it with glad wrap.
7. Cut a hole in the lantern.
8. Tape a hook onto the end of the bamboo stick and hook it onto the cable tie inside the lantern.

Now turn the lights on!

Run Room 16, Run!

Today was Point View School's cross country. The Year 3 boys ran first and then the Year 3 girls. Daniel came third in the boys race. Room 16 did really well in the girls race. Armani was second, Jarnah was third, Brooklyn was sixth and Selena came tenth. It started raining while the Year 4s were running, so we were lucky not to get too wet! We are really proud of ourselves, and especially proud of our place getters.

The Wonderful Zoo Trip

Yesterday Room 16 visited Auckland Zoo. We went there to learn about animal patterns for our work for the art exhibition next term.
We split into groups and walked around looking at the animals. The weather was mostly fine, which meant that most of the animals were active. We thought the otters were cute and crazy, because they were showing off in the water. The spider monkeys were cuddled up in their hut when it was raining.
At 12 o'clock we went into the Kahurangi room. Helene talked to us about why animals have different patterns on their fur. One of the reasons is so that you can tell which animal is which. They also have these patterns to camouflage them, so they can hunt for food without being seen, or so that they can hide from their predators. Each animal's pattern is unique.
The zoo trip was really interesting and we learnt an awful lot!