Jump For Heart 2011

SKIPPING FOR 2011 JUMP ROPE FOR HEART.

This term we are preparing for jump rope for heart by skipping every Friday and at fitness time. We also have a booklet with some basic skills that we are trying to get better at like basic and running step. These are some of the more difficult jumps: criss-cross, heel tap, double under and peek-a-boo.

Today we practised some long rope activities. It was fun running through the ropes and also doing 'Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear plus the birthday rhyme.

Waiouru Army Museum 2011

Welcome to Term Two

This Term we have been focusing again how we can CONTRIBUTE. We have taken this into our little businesses in a program called PrEP which stands for PRIMARY ENTERPRISE PROGRAM. Leading on from CONTRIBUTE is RISK TAKING which I am sure is going to happen in our businesses.

With this program we are making our own little businesses. For example some are 'Happy Sacks', Frost Bites, "King of Rock' and 'Movie World.'

We are learning how a business works and we have taken on roles to provide our products or services.

We are all trying to contribute to making a successful business.

We will finish off with a Market Day which will take place on the 9th of June 2011.

Our parents will be able to buy at the Market Day. They will exchange real money for LSS dollars.

Our second half of Term 2 will be based around the Marae. We will be going to visit Aorangi Marae and our focus will be Art.

Run Jump Throw - Term 1

Special Assembly - Mrs Waterland

Contributing in Room 15

Haere ra Mrs McCord

by Riley, Sam and Jasmine

PS Congratulations on your new job. We will miss you alot and you will miss us.

Farewell to Mrs Waterland

Wish you the best at your new school Mrs Waterland.

Farewell to Mrs Waterland

By Katie and Kiana

Hate to say good-bye. We will miss you. Hope you come back for a visit. You are an awesome teacher. GOODBYE.

Farewell to Mrs McCord

We will miss you Mrs McCord And we hope you enjoy your new school.

Made By Ethan & Jack for the wonderful Room 15.

Farewell to Mrs McCord

Written By Lachlan & Regan. Hope you have a great time next term.

Farewell to Mrs Waterland

Written by Andrew and Kaea

Have a good time at Whakarongo, we will miss you.

Pentathlon at Massey Athletics Track April 2011

Pentathlon 6 April 2011 on PhotoPeach



Ten children aged 7 years to 10 years were selected to attend Round 3 of a pentathlon held at the Massey Track and represent Lytton Street School. These children were picked from our LSS Standards and Championship days. They competed in five events: 60m, 400m, Long Jump, Shot Put and Discus.
We were fortunate enough to have 8 of the athletes receive a certificate for coming 1st, 2nd or 3rd overall in their age group. A real credit to the competitiveness in which they competed on the day.
The hardest event was the 400m as it was the last event and also it is not an event we do at our own athletics. It was a privlege to see none of our athletes give up when running the 400m. They definitely deserved their lunch after this.
A great day, lots of success and ten happy but tired athletes.

Duffy Book Presentations

Duffy Kids

Click on Duffy Kids to see our animoto.

LSS Fundraising disco for Christchurch

Room 15 learnt today how to produce an animoto

More Teamwork and Quality

LSS Swimming Sports 2011

Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.

LSS Fundraising disco for Christchurch

LSS Disco for Christchurch on PhotoPeach

Riro Wins Week 6

ROOM 15 RIRO members proudly holding up the house points board.
RIRO house wins Week 6 house points. RIRO have not done this for a long time. There was lots of cheering in the Senior Stars assembly when it was announced. RIRO coming first at the swimming sports contributed a lot to this. Congratulations to everyone who competed and helped RIRO to win. Go RIRO!!!!!!!!!

Red and black Balloons - Feilding's response to Christchurch

L.S.S Room 13's Kete: Gold for Red and Black - Feilding

Feildings Tribute for Christchurch - Lytton Street School Choir

L.S.S Room 13's Kete: Gold for Red and Black ' National Anthem'

Team work/Quality

We have brain stormed on what we hope to do with teamwork and quality. javascript:void(0)

Room 15 2011

Welcome to Room 15. We are an energetic bunch of children who are looking forward to a fun year with lots of learning. Teamwork and Quality are going to be words you will hear a lot from us.

K E Anderson

To start the year for reading we have been learning about K E Anderson and reading her stories.
She writes about her experiences as a teacher. Most of her stories are funny.
Karen Anderson used to teach at our school. The room she taught in is now part of the library.
Karen then went to North Street school to teach and the caretaker then was Mr Ellen who is now a wonderful cleaner at our school.


When I was reading a K E Anderson book called "The Game" I felt like I was where she was writing the story. Her story had so much detail. K E Anderson has gone so far, she is such a great author. - Riley

My favourite story so far is "The Game" because its hillarious because the kids were playing indoor basketball - Sam

I love The Pump House Crocs. It makes me laugh because Karen made it so convincing. - Jack

The thing I like about K.E Anderson is that her stories are true. - Andrew

I like Super Toy Makers because they make moving toys. -Ethan

My favourite so far is Boom laka laka, its funny because it was embarrassing for the Mum. -Flynn

My Favourite is Tusk the Cat, because when Tusk left they missed her/him.-Iri

I like Tusk the cat because they find Tusk.-Jolene

I like The Game,because it is true . -Gaby

I liked the story Boom laka laka because it was funny. It would be a very funny noise for a car to make.- Laura .

I liked The Game because it was a true story- Jasmine
I liked Tusk the Cat because it was funny and because Tusk kept scratching people and tipping thing over. by Regan

I like Pump-House Crocs because she played pranks and it was a weird story. -Lachlan

I liked the story Wolf in Trouble because it a bit funny when the wolf ran away with the person in the red jacket- Quentin.

I liked the story The Game because it was true. -Tommy

I liked the story Boom laka laka because of the ending. -Tom

I liked the story The Game because it is true and she used good describing words. -Kiana

I liked the story The Game because it leaves you up in the clouds thinking what the teacher would have said. - Kaea

I think The Game is really funny because she says it's absolutely true. - Barrie

I really liked The Game I thought that it was very funny how the teacher reacted. - Katie


I liked Mum Goes on Strike because mum reacted and its good and its true. by Joel.

Final Prizegiving 2010

Prizegiving 2010 on PhotoPeach

Starry Starry Night

Van Gogh Art by Room 15 Budding Artists on PhotoPeach

Year 5/6 at ICA Palmerston North

Year 5/6 Sports at ICA on PhotoPeach

Memories 2010 - Room 15 signing off

Hi I'm Bethany I really enjoyed being in the chior, and I'm looking forward to Mrs Pearce teaching me next yeat at Intermediate. By Bethany.

Hi I have enjoyed being a part of the Maori performance group this year, and I'm looking forward to being part of Nga Toi next year as a Year 7. By Alexa.

My best memory of Year 6 is camp because I had awesome fun, especially the night time activity. By BaileyI

Hi this year I was in the choir and I loved every minute of it and next I will be at Intermedite with my new teacher Mr Allen. By Anya.

This year I have enjoyed maths especially the games. I'm off to Intermediate next year and I will miss Mrs Trembath and Mrs Bowater. By Dylan

Hi I'm Rosie, my favourite thing this year was Forest Lakes camp. The thing I'm looking forward to next year is wearable arts and I will really miss Mrs T and Mrs B.

Hi this year I loved camp best of all. At Forest Lakes I especially liked the water slide. Next year I hope to go on another camp like Forest Lakes. By Logan.

Hi I have enjoyed being in the choir and I hope to be in the choir next year. By Natalie

Hi I have really enjoyed my time at LSS especially being a school councillor and I'm looking forward to next year at Intermediate but I will miss this school. By Natasha

Hello I have really enjoyed being in the Maori Performance group this year because I have learnt heaps while I have been doing it. I can't wait until we go to the Forest for camp at Intermediate. From Gage

My best memory of this year is helping Mrs T around the class and with the PE gear, and I'm looking forward to year 7 next year. From Micheala.

My favourite thing that I have done this year has been the hip-hop, because we have been all over the place performing it was cool especially being on the float in the Xmas parade. By Iri

My favourite thing this year has been bing a part of the choir and singing my favourite songs. By Jack.
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The best thing that I have done this year has been Mrs Bebbington's music group, because I get to play all types of instruments. By Andrew.

My favourite thing this year has been being in the choir and getting the best maths result in the class. BY Lachlan.

Flynns favourite thing this year has been mediator training and the production because I didnt have to be a tree. From Flynn.

My favourite thing this year has been being in the best class in the world ROOM 15. By Ethan.

Camp was the best thing that I did this year, it was really really cool. By Sam.

The best thing I have done this year was going to camp because it was full of new challenges. By Barrie

My best thing this year at LSS has been spending time with my best mates and also the jump jam team I'm in getting first place at the national champs. By Phoenix.

Hi the best thing at LSS this year has been camp because it pushed me do things that I have never done before like abseiling because I'mI really afraid of heights. By Riley.

I enjoyed camp best of all because of all the activities that we got to do. By Joel

This year the best thing I have done was to go horse riding every Wednesday, it has been good. By Grace

I have loved going horse riding as well. It has been good fun. By Hamish

My favourite thing was camp and at camp I loved the horse riding. - Katie

Year 6 Graduation Social

Year 6 Graduation Social - Friday 10th December on PhotoPeach

House Relays and Fun Races on Thursday 9th December

House Relays and Fun Races on PhotoPeach

Check out this blog

Class blog voted the country's best
MARIKA HILL - Manawatu Standard Last updated 12:00 20/11/2010
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MURRAY WILSON/Manawatu Standard RELUCTANT BLOGGER: Russell Street School teacher Stephen Baker helps his "Digiridoos'' class update their award-winning blog
The buzz of creative learning has transformed a Palmerston North teacher from IT-illiterate to the country's top classroom blogger.

Stephen Baker and his Russell Street School class, the Digiridoos, won Best Class Blog at the Interface magazine awards recently.

Mr Baker admitted to being a "reluctant blogger" three years ago, but the tech bug took hold, inspiring him to use a blog to capture children's attention.

The students post videos, photos, games and daily lesson updates on theinsandouts.co.nz, drawing about 100 viewers per day.

Mr Baker said children learn more when they're having fun and interacting.

"The blog makes our class open 24/7. The kids don't realise they're learning things.

"It's visual, it's their language – games, videos, iTouches – that's what kids know. They're only nine- or 10-years-old but they've grown up with it."

The blog has attracted viewers from the United States, Europe and Asia, including expat grandparents interested in their grandchildren's learning.

Children publish their work online and write personal blogs that are linked into the main page.

"It's communicating to the world. That's what the blog does, it brings everyone to you," Mr Baker said.

The children's IT knowledge would baffle most adults – a position Mr Baker was in when he began teaching nine years ago.

The buzz of being creative online spurred him to learn about making the most of technology.

Something must have clicked, as his former class at Hokowhitu School came runner-up in the blog competition last year.

The Russell Street School pupils are thrilled by the win.

"The children are stoked because it's like our little baby."

The school benefited too, winning a laptop valued at $1500.

GO TO 'WHAT'S HAPPENING IN OTHER BLOGS' for the address - a blog well worth looking at

Gravity Experiments

Room 15 have been working on things to do with space and gravity. We have done 3 experiments with paper and a shoe. The first experiment was with a flat piece of paper and a shoe to see which one would land first. The second experiment was with a piece of paper folded twice then third it was a screwed up piece of paper. The results are in the videos above. After this we had to write our results in our books. It was fun learning too.

Young Cyclists

Hi my name is Jack
At the Young Cyclist event we started off with a practise of the course, then we headed to the middle of the fire station to do the written test. We had 20 minutes to do it then we headed over to the course. We formed a line, I was 7th. This is the skills course - we had to start with the 10 second course then the u-turn, then we had to ride through half tennis balls then the road course. We started with a swerve, then we turned right, swerved through some cones turned left, over the bumps, turned right and over the fire hose.
After that we had a sausage sizzle then the prizes were given out.
I felt nervous at the start but came through and was not so afraid. Being a part of the Feilding finals was big for me.

Vignettes

Writing vignettes - what are they, you may say. Some new learning for Room 15 on what a vignette is and also how to say the word (especially for the teacher). Thanks Andrew - can't do without you.

Read these vignettes on our thoughts of cross country training.

Energized is what we feel, running non-stop, making us have an adrenaline rush, our heart beat is pounding. Trying to make it to the end. Yes I make it, new record for training. Great practice for Cross Country.
Written by Bailey and Barrie


“Run, run, run,” says the teacher. I’m exhausted and my legs are killing me as I run the cross country track. I’m so puffed and my heart is pounding like waves crashing against lumpy rocks. Oh how we love cross country so so so very much... NOT!
By Alexa & Rosie


Boom, boom, boom! Our hearts feel like they’re going to pop out of our chests. Well, we have only done half the course and it feels like it gets bigger every time! We feel tired, but we get fitter every time!
Written by Lachlan and Flynn.


Exhausted is how we feel when we are running around the training track for cross country. My legs feel like rubber and my lungs are about to explode, my head is getting dizzy.
Oh, how do I do all this cross country training!!!
By Bethany and Grace

We like running like an athlete running fast. My lungs felt like they were going to explode. My legs were burning like fire on our legs.
By Andrew and Hamish.

Exhausted is what we feel after the cross country training every day at school. After the training our lungs are on fire and our legs feel like they’re broken. Cross country training is not our favourite activity but we are training for the real cross country.
by Katie and Gage

Exhausted as I was running, I was huffing and puffing tiredly. I felt fit, proud and energised.
I felt excited like I was waiting for my birthday. It felt like my legs were going to explode like a volcano. My heart was pounding like a boy drumming.
by: Michaela and Irihapiti

Ba boom, Ba boom my heart pumps as we race around the cross country training track. My lungs are searching for air, my brain is telling me to continue but my lungs are telling me to stop. Man cross country makes me exhausted but I'm still excited.
by Natasha and Jack

As proud as a happy puppy, everybody got ready for the training. Our hearts were pounding like thunder and lightning. Our legs were burning like fire. Glad was how we felt after the training.
BY PHOENIX AND NATALIE.

Tired, thats what we feel like when we are running the Cross Country training course for the real Cross Country at Timona Park held in Feilding. Our heads feel like they are bouncing up and down on a trampoline while we are running the course. We are feeling exhausted as well as tired.
Written By Logan & Ethan

Creativity Term 3

Term 3 was all about creativity. We have looked at the different areas we felt we were creative in and have completed a snapshot of how we felt we did.

Duffy's Big OE

The whole school went into the hall to watch the show Duffy's Big OE. (Overseas Exploration) There were three people who guided us as to what happens in Duffy's Big OE. They came up with some very interesting words that would help us in our reading. After the show every body asked some very interesting questions and then they came up with some just as interesting answers about their job of taking the show around to lots of schools in New Zealand. We sang a cool song at the end of the show.
Always remember to read was what we took from the show.

Creativity making Dioramas

In term 3 We made Dioramas. We had to choose 1 out of 6 Aesop's fables we read,to choose for our Dioramas. We made some wonderful scenes for them.Here are a couple of Aesop's Fables our classmates used for their Dioramas. The Lion & the Mouse,Big Fish & Little Fish and one you will all know,The Tortoise and the Hare and much,much more.

Aesop's Fables

Room 15 have been doing art work on Aesop's fables and have been blending colours and using our crayons in different ways for different effects. We have also been using black colour flow which is a P.V.A glue based substance that dries to make our picture stand out and we have been working on doing a back ground that would make our picture look amazing.The type of colours we use to blend is EG red and white = pink
Take a look at some of the brilliant artists doing their pictures and the finished products.

Horse Riding-by NATASHA

Flying Fox-by Joel

Water Slide-by Riley

Water Slide-by Alexa

Term 2 Evaluation by Bailey,Dylan and Lachlan

Term 2 Evaluation by Jack Andrew and Sam

TERM 2 evaluation barrie Ethan Joel

Term 2 Evaluation by Bethany Anya Natasha.

Term 2 Evaluation

The class has looked at this term and evaluated different curriculum areas in which we have worked. Watch out for the different comments they are going to be making.