Looks like most of us have had some pretty busy holidays.  Congratulations to Krystal who took her dog “Diesal” to the Nationals and finished a very commendable fourth in New Zealand.  Also great to see Taranaki soccer rep Ezekiel have success in their national tournament, finishing 3rd out of around 20 teams entered.  Unfortunately I do not have a photo of him in his kit.

It has been a long two weeks without postings, especially considering the Matapu staff have been in Christchurch looking at some really neat technology.  Some evidence is shown in the photo of me next to my “double”.  I think that we could almost pass as twins!  Some other teachers also got tested to see who they look like, don’t forget to ask Mr Whalley who his double was! We are also going to be closing the polls earlier in the blog on what you eat for breakfast and dinner, so make sure you get your votes in. Remember that you can vote on each poll once a day.

I will start this term with another little puzzle for you all, see who is the quickest to get it right.  In fact, the first one is so easy I am going to give you two to think about.  Look forward to a great term to end this year everyone.

12 M in a Y                                   13=UFS

Time: Lunchtime     Place: Matapu School Room 1   

Not many teachers have the good fortune to work in a place where the students are as hard working as this!  Great focus this week everyone, amazing to see people spending their lunchtime volunteering to get their work completed, and those E-portfolios look stupendous!!  Can’t wait for you to take them home and show your family what you have been doing in Room 1 this year.  Just a couple more days at school until you all get a well deserved holiday. 

Really impressed with some of your handwriting today everyone.  I decided to not just reward one person for your efforts, see if you can pick who’s writing made it to the blog.  For some of you who think you cannot write neatly, this proves that if you take the time you can do it!!

It’s back and it’s better than ever!! It’s been a while since we have had a WIZ challenge, and I have added a twist. If you think you know what is behind the WIZ, post your answers on this post.

Since you solved the problem solving question so quickly, I am going to give you another, that means two problem solver winners this week. Good luck with this one!

11 P in a F (S) T

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Well done room 1 for another great week in term 3.  Looking forward to our Life Education time with Harold next week as well as Mr Saywell coming in on Thursday afternoon to create some fantastic cheese with the school.  Looking forward to treating our taste buds!

One great thing I love doing on this blog is celebrating some excellent work.  I have linked two fantastic projects done recently by Logan, Quintin and Jordan on our Olympics theme topic.  Students were to research an olympic sport and chart a timeline based on the changes in technology in that sport over the past century.  Some great research skills have been put into action in these projects and they are both well worth a look. 

Just a reminder to get those CO2 cars buffed and ready for action.  The national competition is on the 20th of September and we will want to have a pre-run before then for the cars at Matapu hopefully at least a week before that date, which means time is running out! 

Have a great weekend everyone and I’ll see you all on Monday.

As my phone is STILL down and I can’t get hold of WIZ to get him to give you all a clue where abouts he is, I’ll post a clue for you here.  Yes, that is the Crusty Demon’s ramps in the picture, so it’s a place where they have toured.  It is in a place that is famous for something that WIZ owns.  There you go, first correct answer wins, and I need the name of the STADIUM, not the town or city.  Good luck!

Congratulations everyone on a fantastic enviroday on Friday!  We managed to nearly create a mud oven, plant a fejoa hedge, plant our boxed gardens, replant our flax shelters, create a lizard habitat, build 3 frog ponds, create mulch, play enviro games, make paper and plant some herb gardens.  That’s a crazy amount of work done in just one day!!!  Well done to all those involved and our gracious thanks to all the helpers on the day.

As I said earlier today, I would post the winning group tonight for our Kiwi Quiz.  I have decided to call it a draw, so both Phillip and Karina’s group will win.

Well done to those who are solving those problems extremely quickly, but I have a different one for you this time.  Also, I know that the WIZ’s voice hasn’t changed with the new location but I haven’t been able to connect to the internet because of the storm we have had recently, that voice message will change as soon as I can get online and I will give you a clue.  POST YOUR WIZ ANSWERS ON THIS THREAD!!  Also don’t forget to get your entries in for our classroom currency.  Remember we need a design of the dollars and a name for the currency.  Both need to be on the computer.  This doesn’t mean you have to design your money on the computer, but you will have to scan your design and save it on there.  All entries have to be in by FRIDAY.

Your problem this week ties into the maths we are doing.  I want you to explain to me, using the same evidence we have been using in maths at the moment, why 7 is the number that wipes out everyone’s score in Greedy Pigs.  Good luck and keep blogging!

On Monday the Year 6 students went for a visit to Puke Ariki to discuss how we are going to produce a lizard habitat at our school for our big Enviro Day project coming up on Friday.  We learnt heaps about the different types of lizards, their environment and how to trap them and handle them.  Congratulations on a fantastic trip year sixes.  We also happened to have a look at the resident dinosaur “Sue” while we were there and were amazed at the size of this creature, as you can see by the photos.

For our Enviro day we are also in need of a few supplies, so if you have any…small plastic buckets (with lids), see-through jars, bamboo, cardboard, large rocks, corrugated iron…can you please drop them off at the school.  THANKYOU!!

Very impressed with your problem solving everyone, here are some more of the same problems for you to figure out.  First person to post all the answers correctly gets their name on the Award page.  Well done for solving the Where in the World is WIZ, stay posted for a new challenge!  Good luck everyone and keep blogging!!!

5T on a F       90D in a R A       3 B M (S H T R)    

Hi everyone and welcome back.  I would firstly like to congratulate everyone on a great first week back, good to see you all focussed in class and ready to get learning.  Also well done in solving the problems in the problem page (which I am about to move to this part of the blog), but there is one left that no one seems to be able to solve.  A clue to the top question posted below is that the answer has to do with religion.  Here are four more questions to see if you can solve…

66B of the B

52C in a P (WJs)      13S in the USF       18H on a GC       39B of the OT