Mathletics Update Day 4 16.00hrs

Today Room 11 has been distracted with practising for the school's dance show tomorrow night, but even so, we have managed to come 2nd in the world and 1st in New Zealand!

Here are our current rankings:

Ben 4th in the world and 1st in New Zealand

Anthony 35th in the world and 6th in New Zealand

Maddy 41st in the world and 7th in New Zealand

Charis 44th in the world and 8th in New Zeland

Sharon 68th in the world and 12th in New Zealand

Jamie 13th in New Zealand

Jack 24th in New Zealand

Samsara 25th in New Zealand

Katiana 28th in New Zealand

Jayden 66th in New Zealand

Sian 69th in New Zealand

1st in the WORLD!

At 3.30pm today, Room 11 was 1st in the world and 1st in New Zealand in Mathletics, so we achieved our goal of beating the world in only 3 days!

Congratulations Room 11!

Here are our curent rankings:

Maddy 1st in the world and 1st in New Zealand

Ben 4th in the world and 2nd in New Zealand

Jamie 6th in the world and 3rd in New Zealand

Niwa 7th in the world and 4th in New Zealand

Anthony 8th in the world and 5th in New Zealand

Sharon 20th in the world and 7th in New Zealand

Natasha 33rd in the world and 12th in New Zealand

Porsha 38th in the world and 13th in New Zealand

Jayden 65th in the world and 18th in New Zealand

Samsara 68th in the world and 20th in New Zealand

Ashlee 69th in the world and 21st in New Zealand

Aidan 75th in the world

Finn 33rd in New Zealand

Jack 38th in New Zealand

Nadia 64th in New Zealand

Mathletics Update Day 3 09:00

Jack, our Mathletics captain reports:
Room 11 is 2nd in New Zealand and 9th in the world! with 88,748 points total!
Maddy is 5th in New Zealand, and 58th in the world.
Ben is 7th in New Zealand
Jamie is 36th in New Zealand
Finn is 44th in New Zealand
Jayden is 46th in New Zealand
We are very close to becoming number one class in the world and everybody has been working very hard.
Follow our progress on the Mathletics website:
http://www.mathletics.co.nz

Mathletics Update Day 4 15:24

Room 11 had a nail-breaking day, as Mrs Kendall's Year 8 class pushed us off our first place in New Zealand in Mathletics ranking at lunchtime today!

We worked hard and came back snatching the first place ranking off the Year 8's and are now first in New Zealand again! Our competition closes tomorrow at 11am, so go Room 11!

World Rankings:

Ben 8th

Jack 13th

Natalie 18th

Jamie 23rd

Aidan 37th

Maddy 57th

New Zealand Rankings:

Ben 5th

Jack 8th

Natalie 10th

Jamie 13th

Aidan 19th

Maddy 23rd

Jayden 46th

Finn 53rd

Porsha 82nd

Abbi 93rd

Katiana 99th

Maddy's cute baby bunny rabbits:

Today Graham brought in four of our baby rabbits. When the baby bunnies were first born, it was amazing to see them grow every day, because in two weeks they had some fur. Everyone loved the baby rabbits and wanted to hold them, because they are so cute and snuggly.

In two weeks, we will have to sell them, because if we don't, we'll have too many rabbits. I don't want to let them go, as I like to go out every afternoon and hold them. My favourite is Ginger, the one with the little ginger spots.

100%'ers:

Today was the first day that Niwa and Tuko scored 100% in the Five Minute Frenzy (C)!  Niwa feels happy, because it's her first time to score 100%, and she only scored 46% in her first test.  Tuko feels proud that he scored his first 100% as he only scored 27% in his first test. Their goal was to achieve 100% and get a good time under 5 minutes.  The whole class is proud of Tuko and Niwa's success.

We had an astonishing 17 people achieve 100% in this morning's Five Minute Frenzy:

Tuko, Niwa, Jamie, Abbi, Ben, Shontelle, Sian, Jayden, Phoebe, Briana, Ashlee, Finn, Aidan, Sharon, Charis, Katiana and Maddy.  Only 5 people scored 100% - Jamie, Natasha, Abbi, Sharon and Jack - when we first started doing Five Minute Frenzies.  Natasha would probably have scored 100% too, if she hadn't been at music.

Fantastic learning Room 11!

Maddy's Fabulous Netball Year:

Last Sunday at the Waiuku Primary Netball prizegiving, when our team was up on stage, there were two people who were being presented with trophies and Maddy was one of them. She was happy, because she was given the trophy for the most improved player and she also got the certificate to go with it. When Maddy first started playing netball, she was stepping all the time and when it was the last game, she didn't step once!
Mrs South, Maddy's coach, was very proud of her!

Netball mania:

Last Saturday, Maddy and Nadia played in the netball finals at the Waiuku Netball Courts. There were heaps of people there, but not many teams, because it was the finals.
They played only one game and did their hardest to beat Pukeoware. They were so happy because they came second!!!

Homework Rulz!

Room 11 are super students!

Most of the students in Room 11 have been working on our maths, spelling and reading at home every night, because you know what they say...practise makes perfect!

And that's what we are aiming for!

Ms Clydesdale doesn't make us do homework, we don't have to do it, but we want to get better. Samsara has moved up from 56% to 96% in her basic facts!

Maddy has moved up from Level 25 to Level 35 in her spelling.

Sage does her timestables every night.

Katiana does her basic facts and five minute frenzies every night, and she has improved on her basic facts from 39% to 59%.

Sian does her basic facts and spelling every night. Her basic facts facts have gone from 50% to 70%, and she is becoming very successful in learning her spelling words.

Ben does his timestables every night, and his spelling on Tuesdays and Thursdays. He has improved 23% in spelling and in multiplication he has improved 43%, and in basic facts, he has improved 12%. He is focussing on his speed in his multiplication timestables.

Ms Clydesdale is blown away with all this homework happening at home every night, and especially on the massive improvements that the class is making!

Go Room 11!

World Famous in Waiuku!

Maddy's photograph was in the Franklin County News last night. A reporter came over to her house and asked all of her family why they liked Waiuku. They also asked us what activities they do, and Maddy said that she played netball every Saturday, and her brother said that he liked going fishing just up the road from her house. She was the only person in her house who said that she would move away from Waiuku when she was older, but they didn't print that in the article. Maddy felt happy that she was in the paper.

Successful Speech Competition!

The final session of Room 11's speech competition was held this morning after morning tea, with our special adjudicators, Rose and Arabella.

Maddy, Sage and Samuel were the top Year 5 speeches, with Ben as reserve. The Year 6 competition was very tough, with Jayden, Phoebe, Briana and Sharon being choosen, and Maygan is the reserve.

We were also lucky that three parents came and enjoyed our speeches. Hopefully, we will have more parents watching next Friday, when we compete against the other Year 5 and Year 6 students .

Water Safety Week

This week we are learning how to stop us from drowning and try to get the drowning statistics down by keeping us safe in, on and around the water.
Today is surf lifesaving, tomorrow we are going to the Massey Park Pools to learn water rescue activities and Friday is Coastguard at the Waiuku pools.

Maddy wins Gold!

Maddy won gold this weekend at the Weetbix Tryathlon! Maddy competed in a team with her brother, Joshua and sister, Dani. Dani swam first, and Joshua biked second, and Maddy ran all the way to the finish line. After she finished, Maddy felt proud and tired, and she was given her gold medal when she crossed the finishing line. Maddy said that the Weetbix Tryathlon was hard and she had to wait alot because people were put into groups with different coloured caps. If Maddy does it again, she will do it on her own and not do it in a team, because it will be more of a challenge for her. Go Maddy!