MKK X Factor

The Rockets and the Junior Syndicate were thoroughly entertained by the participants in the first round of the MKK "X Factor" competition. 

In this competition individual or group entries sing or dance. Sometimes, if they are particularly clever, they are able to do both at the same time! There have even been performances by Rock Bands this year in the Senior competition. They are very inspirational to us.

We are so looking forward to the final tomorrow. Watch this space for results! :)

Marvin's Motorbike Mayhem

Marvin enjoyed staying with Giulietta recently. Look what he got up to...


Have you ever been on a motorbike?

Cora's Writing

The Hawkes Bay Show

The crowd goes wild at the Hawke’s Bay show! I saw the spooky ghost train. It had vampires and monsters. It was scary. Then I went on the clown circus, it had rolling barrels and there was a big slide at the end. It was awesome.

After that, I went on the merry-go-round. I went on the pony that went up and down. Then I went on the big slides, they were bumpy and I went by myself. It was fantastic. 


Next I had lunch and I had a hot dog, coloured pop corn and candy floss. It was delicious. After that we went to the petting zoo. There was a 5 legged lamb, a calf and goats. 

By Cora
4.11.11

Smartie Statistics

In the last two weeks we have been learning about Statistics. We have collected lots of different data. We have tallied what our favourite ice cream flavours are, and where we like to go on holiday. Most of the Rockets prefer to go on holiday to the city! It's exciting for country kids!

We were very excited on Thursday, when we all got our our mini packet of Smarties. It was hard work Managing our Impulsivity. We had to collect and share our data. We put the information that we collected on to a tally chart, and then a bar graph. The best part came at the end, however, when we got to eat our Smarties!

What is your favourite ice cream flavour?

Pet Day 2011

Wow! So exciting. Pet day was held yesterday, Friday, November 4th. 

We all brought an exceptional array of pets. There were rabbits, chooks, cats, dogs, lambs, goats and ponies. Turtles and snails arrived too! It was an outstanding day in the spring sunshine. Thanks to all our parents for the transportation of animals and their support. A popular category was the best dressed pet. We had dogs that were Super Heroes, Zumba champions, Cowboys, Fairies and Rugby stars!

Thanks to the National bank for their support, and for lending us one of their busy Rural Managers, Marcus Bousfield for the afternoon. There were some tricky decisions for him to make in the judging!

Excellent organisation from Ms White, Mrs Potter, Mrs MacPhee and Mrs Byers made the day a huge success. Great effort team! We can't wait for next year.

The Rockets made Sand Saucers in class on Thursday with Mrs O'Dowda. 

These were judged on Pet Day. Take a look!

Do you have a pet at home?
How do you care for it?

Writing Wall Updated!

Come in and have a look... our writing wall has been updated to display our published Holiday exploits.

We are learning to entertain our audience. We know that we can do this when we do things like using adjectives to describe things and making our beginnings interesting. We are able to use sequencing words like then, next and after that.

We would love you to give us some feedback.

What do you like to write about?

Halloween Happiness

Hello Miss Revell

Here are some photos from my spooky Halloween Party.  We bobbed for apples and ate bleeding fingers.

From Ethan

Did you go Trick or Treating?

Term 4 - Blast off!

Welcome to Term Four, 2011. Do you think that we have grown since our Term 1 photo?

The Rockets hope that you have all had a refreshing holiday filled with friends, family and lots of celebration! This term is short, but very busy.  First up, we have Pet Day on Friday 4th November.  

We are so looking forward to making sand saucers and bringing our pets. We have Athletics later this term, so we can't wait to get out on the field and get into that! There is also MKK Factor to look forward to, where we will get to show off our dancing and singing talent. So exciting!

Thank you for coming to visit our blog. We love sharing our learning with you.

What do you have planned for this term?

Congratulations All Blacks

The Rockets are so proud of our national heroes, the All Blacks for winning the Rugby World Cup 2011. Congratulations Richie and the team! You are superstars.

Ethan's Holiday

Dear Miss Revell

We went to the Coromandel and stayed in Whitianga. We watched the All Blacks game against Argentina. We went out on a really big boat and caught three fish. I let them go. We went to the beach and made sandcastles and I buried my Dad. We went on a ferry. We had a train ride in native bush and learnt about the man who made it all by himself. It was fun. On the way home we stopped and stayed with friends and got to have lots of hot swims.

From Ethan

Emer's Holiday

Dear Miss Revell 

In the holidays I went to Auckland and we went inside The Cloud. We saw the The Giant Rugby Ball but we didn't go in because the queue was so long we would have had to wait an hour and a half! 

We went to the Tank Farm Park and we climbed The Gantry. Here are my photos. 

Bye Miss Revell 

from Emer

Let's go All Blacks!

This is so exciting! The All Blacks are playing in the final of the Rugby World Cup 2011 on Sunday night. Marvin is SO looking forward to it. He has a few butterflies in his tummy, but he is ready to cheer the AB's on with gusto! Bring it on!