Tidy Kiwis

These two were caught today caring for our environment by folding the milk cartons correctly so they can be recycled. Well done Jessica and Celine.

Classic Milkman Puzzle

Here's today's puzzle. Challenge your parents with this one!

The cricket carnival

On Thursday the 23rd of March, Syndicate 3 had the opportunity to compete in the cricket carnival at Brookside Park. This year we were determined to win.

On the day, everyone got to school early. Most people had zones shirts but I didn't have one because I wasn't at school the previous day. Before school started we had lots of fun playing dodgeball. Then the bell rang and we were about to go when Miss T (the sports teacher) found a spare zones shirt. It was too big for me but I wore it anyway. Then we were split into 3 teams. My team was called the Lincoln Wizards.

When we got to Brookside Park we took our bags off the bus and walked over to find a place to set up our blue mat.

We didn't have much time before the first cricket game started so we sat on the blue mat. We were told not to put our feet on it but most of us did anyway!

The first game started and we were fielding first. We all rushed onto the field and everyone wanted to bowl first. We were all spread out evenly around the field. The team we were playing against was the Tai Tapu Spinners. The game started and our team was excited. The positions rotated and soon it was my turn to bowl. My bowls were pretty good but they weren't that accurate. Wicket keeping was fun as well but bowling was everyone's favourite.

By halftime we had started pretty well.

Now we were batting I was batting first with Peter. I love batting because you get to hit the ball really far and it's exciting when the ball comes near you. Unfortunately in the end we lost.

After the game we had morning tea. There were two more games to go. We had to move all our stuff to other areas for the next games. Our team was now playing against the Lincoln Bears and at the end the score was 56 to 59. We lost.

After lunch it was our final game against the Lincoln Lions, who had beaten the Tai Tapu Spinners. Our team was batting first and we got some sixes. We did really well in the first half. In the second half when we were fielding we caught lots of people out. I almost caught the ball one time but it bounced out of my hands. When the game ended we had won by 12 points.

Overall my bowling improved lots and Mrs T was proud of us. We traveled back to school on the bus again and we arrived back at 2.00 pm.

By Fran

What snails do you eat?

Did you know that we eat a kind of snail in NZ? Can you tell me what snail we eat? You might have to think outside of the box to get this one right.

Comment and leave a link with your evidence below.

Maths Challenge

Here's this weeks maths challenge. See if you can answer the question at the bottom of the page (number 3)

Mouse in the house!

There was great excitement in Red Space on Thursday when a mouse was discovered in one of our breakout spaces. Tane devised a plan using his cardboard tube and went in to hunt for it. After a few minutes of turning the breakout space upside-down, the mouse was discovered playing dead under a stack of old canvases. Tane and Seamus bravely scraped it into their tube and carried it out of the classroom. Funny enough, Tiger (our local cat friend) turned up 30min later sniffing about.

Trust

Today the Adventure Based Learning group did an activity for trust. Here are some photos showing our activity.

Physical Activity Leaders

Daniel, Oliver, Addison, Kai, Dinah, Jazmine and Oliver were lucky Year 6 students to attend a leadership training on Thursday at the Lincoln Events centre.

They developed a school vision for PALs this year and it is;

We want to make sure people have an active activity to do during break times. And we want to make sure nobody is left out no matter the numbers.

Look out for these future leaders!

March Syndicate Communication

Dear Whanau,

It was great meeting you at the 3 way conferences last week. We were all so proud of how confidently our tamariki led the conferences. Goals have now been finalised and uploaded to USpace. Please feel free to log on and interact with the work samples that the children have already uploaded.

Our team blog is now up and running and can be found here. Our student reporters have loved having a vehicle for their writing.

We have created two team email address, one for Team Red and one for Team Green. If you use these email addresses the message will be received by all three collaborative teachers. This will ensure smooth communication between home and school, especially if for some reason your child’s whanau teacher is away.

team5-6green@lincolnprimary.ac.nz

team5-6red@lincolnprimary.ac.nz

This term is flying by with many different things happening. We have a number of students currently being trained up for Peer Mediator and Physical Activity Leader roles. It is great to see opportunities taken.

We have some children competing in the Duathlon and will have others competing in the Cricket Carnival at the end of March.

Look out for information regarding the Bio Blitz that your children have brought home.

We are having a team hui every odd week, on a Friday morning.  This starts just after 9am in our classroom spaces. If your child has achieved something awesome outside of school, please can you email us so we can celebrate their successes at these gatherings.

Thanks for your continued support, it is much appreciated.

Syndicate Three Teachers,

Chelsea, Leonie, Marie, Robyn, Rod and Sarsha

Assembly

Today we presented samples of our artwork.

Weetbix triathlon

Congratulations to these students for completing the Weetbix Triathlon recently.

Digital Citizenship

On the 6th of March 2017 year 5&6 students talked and learnt about Digital Citizenship. Digital Citizenship means you and others are being safe online.We then learnt about the five Ps, representing: Positive, Privacy, Protect, Permission and Profile. Positive means using a positive attitude on the internet by saying nice things about people's pictures,videos and posts. Permission means asking your parents and friends permission to post something online like a picture of your friend or family member. Privacy means not posting your house number or personal things/information on the internet. Protect means protecting yourself and your family by not answering any strange questions or saying any personal things like I'm going on holiday. And profile means to not put personal information on your profile like your phone number where you live your car number plate and mailbox number.

Then we learnt about our digital footprint.We watched a YouTube video about digital footprints. We also did a piece of artwork on our digital footprint. We drew around our foot on a piece of paper. Then we wrote our names inside our foot on the paper and then drew apps that they use at home and at school.

By Alix And‍‍ Ella