Stained glass designs

                                                  Stained glass designs 
In Room 6 for the past 2 days we have been doing stained glass art.  We started doing a draft and then when the draft was finished we started the real one.  The theme was something based around Christmas, for example, the Grinch, candy cane, a reindeer and more.  They have been placed on the front windows of Room 6.  Here are some cool examples.



↓ Paige's





















↓ Alaska's

↓ Cornelius's





















↓ Jack's




















↓ Eli's

↓ Charlize's

Kiwi sport

Kiwi Sport

On Tuesday week two some very nice people from James Hargest Senior came to Windsor North School to take us for  Kiwi sport. 

The sports were cricket, basketball, tee ball, netball, football, touch rugby and athletics.  They taught us the rules and skills to play these games.  Most of the days were wet but some days we got lucky.  Kiwi sport ran for two weeks on Tuesdays and Thursdays. 

We all really enjoyed having them come to our school to teach us new skills.  We look forward to them coming again.                            

 

                                                                           By Liam Calder

Power of the dream

On Wednesday the 19th of October Windsor North School put on a great production called Power of the dream. The theme of the production was a mix of the Olympics and cultural dances. There were six main characters in the production played by Meadow Bodkin-Allen, Eli Zysmyle, Samuel Collins, Mia Switala, Amanda Polfrey and Sophie Byrne. Each scene was set at an airport where the athletes waited to get on board there flight. While they waited they remembered the places they had been and the cultural dance. Each class preformed a cultural dance from places such as India and Russia. Room 6 performed a cultural Russian dance with a mix of  folk dancing and Cossack dancing. The script was full of humor and fun thanks to Mrs Fitzgerald and Mrs Flaus who made the production possible. Windsor North's school production was to show everybody that dreams can come true if you keep believing.   

By Sophie Byrne

Mini Olympics

On Wednesday the 17th of August Windsor North students were full of energy. Students were dressed up to support a country for Windsor Norths Mini Olympics 2016. A group of students relayed the Olympic torch down to the stadium. There was an awesome opening ceremony full of epic chants made by each country. After the opening ceremony 15 sports such as sack racing, archery, javelin, table tennis and hurdles were set up by the teachers. The groups went around 7 of the activity's being judged on the teams cooperation, respect and excellence. At the end there was a three way tie between Samoa, Canada and Brazil. To declare a winner they had a chant off. Canada's unique chant wowed the judges which meant that they got gold, with Samoa in second and Brazil in third. Everyone enjoyed the day.

By Sophie Byrne

Trip to Harold

In week five, on the 2nd and 3rd of June, we went to Harold. Teresa and Harold talked to us about empathy and self control. When Teresa talked about self control she mentioned about good leaders and bad leaders. Then our time was up. The next day we went back to watch a video clip. In-between scenes she stopped it to talk about the mistake. We got the stars turned on at one point.  The stars came on when the lights were completely turned off. Finally we looked at Tam to learn where different body parts are in our body.

The stars came on while Harold was singing.

By Ryan

School Disco!

On Thursday, the 2nd of June 2016, Windsor North School had a disco in the school hall. At the disco the P.T.A. supplied food, drinks and glow sticks that students could purchase. At the disco there was music. Some of the songs were, Watch me (Whip/Nae Nae), Stressed Out and No Money. We all jammed out to the music in style, and even dragged up some of our teachers (Mr Barnett) to dance!

 By Jack

Space - What's out there?

This Term at W.N.S we have been learning about our Solar System and Space. Some things we have been learning about are planets, stars and galaxies. We have learnt about some planets. Some of these planets are Saturn, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Mercury and Neptune. We have got a wonder wall in the class and every student has written a question to try and find the answer to during research time.

Our Room 6 wonder wall

We have watched this video about our solar system on YouTube. This link will show you the video.

Introduction to our solar system

A picture of the planets

By Jack

The Star Dome

On Monday RM 6 went to the Awesome Star Dome in the school hall. We lined up and walked in and talked lots. We meet RM 12 in the Star Dome and then learned about our Solar System. Some planets are Saturn, Mars, Jupiter & lots more. We met the owner of the huge dome, his name is Richard. He taught us that dwarf stars exist and the milky way is made from over 1.5 million stars. WOW that's a LOT!! We learnt more but I won't tell as I have too much to share.We had a question session and the students all had good ones. My eyes got sore because of the sun that was on the dome.

                                                                       

                                                                    BY CAMRON R

New Zealand Sign Language Week

This week has been New Zealand Sign Language Week. Throughout the week Room 6 students have had the opportunity to learn some of New Zealand's third official language - sign language.

We started off by learning how to fingerspell our names, using the following poster.

Students also spent time learning other words interactively using Sign Ninja. Follow the link to start learning.

NZSL Sign Ninja

Lastly, we are learning the sign language that accompanies the New Zealand national anthem, to enable us to use all three official languages when we perform it. The YouTube video is linked below.

New Zealand National Anthem in NZSL, Maori & English

Stop Motion Animation

This is the year five's work creating Stop Motion Animation. We have been working hard to reach this level. It is really hard because you have to take one picture per movement, otherwise it will be a bit glichy! The app we used is I Can Animate. Hopefully you like our videos and that this will interest you into making one yourself.

(Please click on the link to view these)

Year 5 Animations

By Charlize

Name tangles

Friday  week 1 we got ready to do name tangles. Mr Barnett joined Zentangle with  name which makes you know. This is the 1st room 6 review. Well back to name tangle. We all finished 19/2/16. First we wrote our names big and BOLD. They had to make it stick to the side. Next we made little decorations. There were lots to choose. We looked on Chrome. Last we went over with a vivid. There were 30 names.

By CAMRON

Statistics

Room 6 are investigating what is in a packet of Pascall Lolly Scramble. We are using statistics to work out how many of each type of lollies there are in a packet. This was completed in groups and we are using graphs to present the data that we have collected.