http://omokoroa.school.nz/room4 OUR JOURNEY THROUGH 2010 Fri, 13 Aug 2010 01:43:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We are having a go at painting using our mouths only, to try and get an idea of what it must be like to not have the use of hands or feet. This is part of our "World of the Disabled" mini-topic. Comments from the children include: "It's hard!", "I ... http://omokoroa.school.nz/room4/2010/08/11/painting-with-the-mouth/ It was a fantastic learning experience designing our own jandals to meet criteria we wrote. We ended up with so many different designs! Then we looked back at what we had done and thought about what we did well, what didn't go so great, and what ideas we had to ... http://omokoroa.school.nz/room4/2010/07/27/jandal-tech/ Room 4 Newsletter Term 2, 2010 What’s Happening in Room 4??? Welcome back to Term 2.  I hope you all had an excellent holiday and are feeling refreshed again. I want to thank those of you who helped out in so many ways last term.  Parent help is very much appreciated by myself ... http://omokoroa.school.nz/room4/2010/04/27/155/ We had a great visit by a person from the Blind Foundation of NZ. She brought Gill, a trainee guide dog, with her. We learnt about how the dogs are trained, what they do to help their new blind owners, and how much it costs to train a ... http://omokoroa.school.nz/room4/2010/04/20/guide-dog-visit/ Our North Cluster Swimming Sports were a great success, with a number of students going through to the WBOP competition. It was very impressive to see so many of Room 4 having a go at events that challenged them and to observe their support of each other and their ... http://omokoroa.school.nz/room4/2010/04/20/swim-sports-at-katikati/ We had a great time at our Year 5-6 camp at Lake Whakamaru. It was a great time of challenge, getting to know new friends, and having a whole heap of fun, fun, fun!  Many thanks to all the parents and teachers who helped out.  Check out our photos below... ... http://omokoroa.school.nz/room4/2010/03/23/lake-whakamaru-camp/