Recording our height and weight (All about me)

As part of learning about ourselves, we integrated maths into our learning by measuring our height and weight. It was tricky getting our weight because we had to make sure the scale was on zero first and we had to stand still on the scale. We took the reading in kilograms, then converted it into grams.
To get our height we had to stand straight against the wall and a second person had to record our height. We then had a very challenging exercise to convert centimetres into metres as well as millimetres.

Should the New Zealand summer holiday be shortened?

We heard some people say that the summer holidays should be shortened. I am not sure where these people are getting those weird ideas from because the six weeks holiday is great to go away  overseas for a long holiday. Even if you just spend time locally with your family at the beach and the parks, its good to be able to have a long holiday to get a good rest so that we can be ready for the new year at school. If you have a good reason why the New Zealand  summer holiday should be shorter, Room 11 would love to hear about it.