Swimming with Room 14

We were lucky enough to go swimming with Rm 14 again. Here are some of our action shots.

Senior School Swimming Sports

On a hot Tuesday afternoon the Senior School went to W.I.S to have our swimming sports. We needed to find our fastest swimmers to go to interschool swimming.

Before we took our long and hot walk to WIS we got organised. We ate our lunch. We munched and crunched our food down. When we were finished eating our snacks, we got changed in the class, we shut the curtains so we could get dressed. We got changed as fast as the speed of a shooting star because Room 7 was coming to use our computers. After we got dressed we were allowed to have a 10-15 minutes of play time before we left.

When the Senior School finished getting organised we lined up, we had to go on the long and tiring walk to WIS. Some parents even came with us. They had to hurry us up because we were walking so slow.. I think everyone in our class was sensible and behaved. All you could hear on the way was kids talking, if you wanted some piece of quiet you were in the wrong place.

Once our foot touched the W.I.S grounds we all sat down into our age groups, then Mrs Larsen came around and gave sun block out to some people. Mr Waite welcomed us to the swimming sports and explained how the day was going to go. He told us who the lifeguard was, Mr Sager and if you get a coloured stick after that race that means you came 1st, 2nd or 3rd.

We were doing the length’s races first before the widths races. The people doing length races got prepared to get in the freezing, cold pool.

The first event I was in was a length freestyle. When Mr Watie called my name out I jumped up and down like I was Hong Kong and ran to Ms Bennett. We lined up at the end of the pool ready to take off. Ms Bennett banged the blocks together, it was like a bomb, then we were off. I dived in. The water felt as cold as frozen ice. I swam as fast as I could. I was nearly at the finish then I slowed down. I couldn't hold on anymore. I came second. I was proud I came second. At least I tried my hardest.

My second event was backstroke. That was hard. I almost came 3rd but one of the other racers got in my way so I didn't end up getting a placing. I almost hit my head on the concrete wall at the end too. Luckily there were people their to protect our heads. During my race my mum was cheering me on. That made me feel good and try even harder.

My final race was breaststroke length. I won before we even started because no one in my age group for boys was in breaststroke length, it was stink because I had no competition. That meant I had to face the 10 year old girls. I still won!

After we had finished all the events we got changed into our clothes. We had to wait a long time for some people to get ready. Finally when everyone was ready we were off again. We had to make that long walk again, all the way back to Carlton School. Everyone was really tired. We were all extremely happy when we arrived back at the school.

Even though it was a long, hot, exhausting day I had fun because I love swimming.

Written by the boys of Room 15

Room 15's Swimming Sports

Last week we had our own class swimming sports. We raced in lots of different events, flutter board, freestyle, backstroke and breastroke. We had heats and finals. We even had a house relay. Puriri won.

Mrs Larsen gave house points to everyone who placed in their event. Overall the winning house was...

               

Minecraft

Today I told the boys they had an opportunity to play Minecraft. They all thought I was nuts allowing them to do this. However, there was a catch. As they were playing the game they had to think... is this game educational? What are they learning to do? If they can prove to me that it is, we will play it some more in class. I can't wait to see if they can come up with some great ideas. Watch this space and I will let you know what they think.

Here is the trailer for the game. Can you think of any ideas just by watching the trailer?



Click on the link to have a go yourself. Minecraft

Striving for Accuracy

Well done Joshua. You worked extremely hard on planning out your art work. You used lots of great landmarks to show you were born in Wanganui. Well done.

King of the Den

You are a real asset to the class! Keep it up.

Assembly Item

On Friday it was our assembly item. We presented a play "The Gingerbread Girl". We practiced our lines over and over and finally we got there. It was a great play. Well done boys!

Strike Performance

On Monday afternoon was really fun because Strike Percussion came and performed for the school. They had really huge drum sets and Polynesian log drums. They were EXTREMELY good just like Mrs Larsen said.
When we entered the hall they played quite loud but it wasn't too loud for me.
After introducing themselves Tom said Tuk was going to perform a rain song but Tuk said he could only perform it if it was raining. So we made it sound like it was raining inside.
Mr Waite and Mrs Larsen played as well, they had a competition, whoever got the most applause won. Mr Waite won and his prize was a weird Chinese drink.
Some lucky people got to go up and play the log drums, the audience clapped whenever Tim hit his drum.
At the end they played us a beat using fire.
What a great show!

 

Bailey's New Puppy

Bailey has a new puppy 'Thor'. We were really lucky last Friday. His dad brought him in to show the class. How cute!

Community Picnic

Last Thursday we had the Community Picnic. Everyone came together, had tea, played games and chatted with the classroom teachers. It was a great night.

School Leaders

I cant believe I haven't put this on before now. Well done Kahu, VJ and TePaerangi. I am so proud of you. You will all make great school leaders.

Spelling - Week 7

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King of the Den

I just realised I never posted last weeks King of the Den and Striving for Accuarcy so here they are.

Striving for Accuracy

Way to Costello for all your hard work. You created an amazing main idea ship. Keep it up!

Our Avatars

The boys have been working hard taking part in the student blogging challenge. As part of the challenge we all created an avatar. I think they have done a great job! Check out their blogs to see what else we have been up to. You can find links to their blogs down the left hand side.

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Spelling - Week 5

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Striving for Accuracy

Over the past couple of weeks we have been working hard creating quilts about ourselves. We drew pictures to show our family, culture, favourite subject, favourite holiday etc. Tomairangi worked really hard and created one that looks fantastic.

King of the Den

Graphs in Excel

Today for maths we made a graph in Microsoft Excel. Our graph is based on our basic facts results. Here are some of the graphs we made.

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 Joshua

Our Guests!

Today our special guests (ERO) arrived. The seniors all performed an amazing Haka Powhiri to welcome them into the school. We can't wait for them to come into our room to see all the clever work we are doing.

Spelling - Week 4

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Our Continuous Line Drawings

This weeks Story

This week at school we did writing with Ms McAvoy and then we played a game with Mr Sager. I like this week because we got to do heaps of fun things like playing line tag with the class and doing Kapa Haka practice with the school.This week when we did our listening test it was pretty tricky but the best story and the funniest story was called beans because the nextdoor-neighbour said "Your boy is full of beans, that boy is full of beans".

By Zhyon

Week 3 Reflection

WHAT: This week was fun because we got to go swimming in the school pool, we did relays with Mr Sager both of our teams had a draw. I had a fun week because we got to put our time capsule letters in a bucket then we put it in the hole that we dug up.This week we did a listening test.

SO WHAT: This week I learnt about HANDS ON LEARNING that we always have to focus on our learning and also focus on the teacher. 

NOW WHAT: My learning goal for next week is to get my work finished in time.   

By Zhyon

Window Display

Mrs Larsen has been busy turning our window into a jungle. What do you think?

Our Waka

After creating our class rules and warm fuzzy's we started to make our waka. Our waka represents us on our learning journey. We are all on a journey together. To keep moving in the right direction we need to work together and display qualities that make our class a great place to be. Everyone in our class coloured in a person and wrote on a paddle a quality we need to display. I hope we keep paddling in the right direction all year!

Our Warm Fuzzy's

At the start of the term we discussed some class rules. We came up with some great ideas. To show that we agree to the class rules we created a warm fuzzy. We are going to try and be warm fuzzy's by following the rules. Here is the display we made with our rules and warm fuzzy's.

Spelling - Week 3

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Name Monsters

We have been busy creating name monsters. We needed to fold our piece of paper in half and then link our name, we then put it up against the window to trace it to create a mirror image. Next we coloured in the inside of our name with bright colours. We went over the outline of our name with a black crayon. Lastly we dyed our artwork a nice bright colour. Mrs Larsen has put them up in our clock bay. It brightens it up a lot. I think they look great! What do you think?

Swimming with Our Buddies

On Thursday we invited our buddies to have a swim with us. We really enjoyed splashing around having fun with them. We spend a whole hour in the pool! It was great fun.

Observational Drawing with Room 14

On Tuesday Room 14 came to do art with us. Our focus was continuous line drawing.We each got an art pencil, a mirror and found our buddy. We got our books and started drawing our eyes. Mrs Larsen showed us how to draw them the correct shape. After that we tried drawing our mouth. Lastly Mrs Larsen showed us where to draw all of the features on our face. We had a go at drawing our whole face. Watch the space to see how they turn out once we add some colour.

Meeting our Buddy Class

On the very first day of school we got up to something already, we went to Room 14 and helped them make fish hand-prints. We painted their hand the colour they chose and made either a fish or an octopus. For an octopus they placed their hand twice, palm in the same place but fingers in a different place. For a fish they put their hand down once with the thumb sticking out. After we finished painting we read some books with them. Here's some pictures.

Art with Room 7

On Friday Mrs Larsen took us to see our art class Room 7. We helped them make hand pirates. First we got our buddies and an art shirt. Next we painted their hand red on the bottom of their palm, skin colour in the middle of their palm and back on the top of their palm and fingers. We we finished we read a story with them. They are going to add eyes and detail when they are dry. I cant wait to see how they turn out.

Snowball Fight

On Thursday Room 15 had a snowball fight. We each got a bit of paper and wrote 3 things about ourselves that no one would know about us. After we finished writing on the paper we screwed it up into a shape of a ball. When Mrs Larsen said go we had a snow ball fight. At the end of the fight we read out what it said on the snowball. We tried to figure out who it belonged to. It was lots of fun.

Introducing

Camp - Friday

Written by Keylen When I woke from my deep sleep I got up, got my gear ready and pack it into the bus. We were off again. Today was our last day on camp. As I was getting onto the bus I thought to myself "Mmmmmmm! Today at the prawn farm I'm hopefully going to catch a prawn at the prawn fishing area." When we arrived at the prawn farm a tour guy showed us around. He showed us where they put the different prawn pools. Some of the prawns were 3 quarters the size of my arm. Next prawn fishing. Yay! I said to myself as we were going to get our gear for prawn fishing. I caught quite a lot of prawn at the prawn farm a few years ago, I was hoping to do the same again this year. We had to use a bamboo stick, good tight string and a hook. We also got a cup of prawn food. We were starting to throw our hooks out I looked over and saw Cole had already put his in and Bam, he had caught a prawn that was about half of the size my arm. About two minutes later I got a bite and Ka Pow! I pulled and pulled but rod but it flung out of the water. The prawn took my food and got away, I was so disappointed. After about 25 minutes of fishing it was time to put our gear away and head to Turangi. At Turangi we went to the Trout Centre. The trout centre had thousands of trout in their pools and ponds. There was a guy that told us how different breeds of trout, what they eat, and how many they breed. It was amazing how many trout they have. We got to feed the trout and where ever you put the food they all come rushing to you. After that we started to head back to Wanganui. On the way we stopped off at Raukawa Falls to have lunch. Raukawa Falls was way different to Huka Falls because Huka falls is much bigger. We started to head home after that. The ride back was so fun because me and Cole were just talking and making up jokes. What a great camp!

Camp - Thursday

Written by (Isaiah)

Woohoo! Today was the most exciting day of all, we were going to the new camp in Taupo but first came all of the most painstakingly boring cleaning jobs ever. After a long and painful experience, it was time to pack up and leave.

First up on the list was Redwood Forest. Once we arrived we were blown away by how ginormous the trees were. It took 10 people to wrap right around the whole trunk of the tree. Afterwards we went on a scavenger hunt and had an explore around. 

Next on the list was the Lava Glass Studio. The vases were amazing. We even got to go in and watch the artist make the ornaments and glasses. The artist was awesome at making vases especially when it comes to adding details. He was making them in less than ten minutes!

Finally it was lunch time so we stopped off at Huka Falls. The first thing I did was shove the delicious bread roll into my mouth. It was so juicy and delicious. Afterwards we had a quick look at the falls and hit the road again.

Next was the Honey Hive. We arrived and had quick lesson about bees and how they work. Then we headed off to explore the place. The first thing that came to my eyes was the film that was playing. So I sat down and watched it.

 Oh yeah next on the list was the Volcanic Activity Centre. This was the most interesting place because we were watching a screen which showed where earthquakes were happening and it showed the scale of them too. After that I headed to the earthquake simulator. It shook us so badly that I fell of my seat. Finally it was film time so we went into another room and watched a film about the earthquake in Christchurch and the Mt Ruapehu blowing its top.

Last but not least we went to our new camp. It turned out to be quite a cool camp. By then it was dinner time so we headed and had a beautiful BBQ for dinner. But desert topped everything we had a giant ball of candy floss bigger than our heads! Afterwards we played board games then went to bed.   

Camp - Wednesday

Written by Tarron

Yawn! At 7am in the morning we all climbed out of bed and slowly dressed and packed our day packs and headed off to breakfast.  For breakfast we had a choice of crunchy toast, cornflakes, flaky Weet-bix and Rices with a milo. My group had to do our duty. It was mopping and sweeping up the floors after breakfast. Once we finally finished our duty we made lunch for the day it looked yum.

When we were all ready we hopped on the bus and left to go to smelly Kuirau Geothermal Park. Kuirau Park had a lot of mud pools and boiling hot water, it was smelly. After we looked at the mud pools and boiling water we went over a bridge, it took us across very hot steaming water. It was awesome.

Everyone was really excited because when we left Kuirau Park we arrived at the gondola/luge. I think it was the highlight of my camp. First we went up the gondola and had morning tea. What a sight it was looking over Rotorua. After morning tea we all got our helmets and headed to the luge. First we all did the really slow beginners track. Nick my group leader and I were the first to cross the line. After the beginners track I went on the advanced track, it was so fast. I felt like a Cheetah. There was one part where I crashed, it was on a sand barrier because I did a jump and forgot I had to slow down.

After the Luge the class went back down the gondola and left for Paradise Valley Springs Lion Park. When we arrived at the Lion park we had lunch and went in and had a look in the shop. As soon as we walked in we saw a fluffy soft giant stuffed Kiwi. The first thing my group did was look at the young lion cubs. We even got to pat the lion cubs, it was awesome as. After the cubs we went and met the donkey, we named it John key the donkey. We carried on walking until we came to the trout feeding area and fed the trout. After that we looked at all the other animals. After that we all had an ice block each. Finally it was time to see the lion feeding, there was a really greedy lion king called Max. He kept on eating all the other lion’s meat. It was funny. 

YAY! It was time to have a swim we all got out of the bus and rushed to the changing rooms. When we got changed we all ran to the pool and dived in. It was funny because Wiremu did a funky bomb into the pool and we all laughed.

After the swim we all got dressed and jumped back in the bus and left to the camp grounds. When we all arrived at the camp grounds we had a fun as game of tackle bullrush. It was funny because the smallest person in our class, Kahu played it. Kahu got passed around 10 people and we all cheered for him, it was amazing. After bullrush we had dinner watched another movie, the Muppets then went to bed. My cabin didn't go to sleep straight away because we kept on talking, it was funny. What a great day!

Camp - Tuesday

Written by Kahu

My eyes burst open on Tuesday, I leapt out of bed and splashed sub-zero cold water onto my face and packed all of my stuff, double checking that I had everything and I went straight to school. I packed my stuff into the bus and we left for camp.

The bus trip seemed never-ending until finally we arrived in Raetihi for morning tea. We had a play on the playground and then left for Taupo. When we got there we had lunch at a playground. After a good stretch and run-around we headed on another long trip to Rotorua.  

In Rotorua the first thing we did was the duck tour. That took us around Rotorua, it was REALLY smelly. We went into Blue Lake, it was also called lake Tiki Tapu because a maori woman lost a sacred tribal necklace in it. The driver told us about each place we saw.

After the duck tour we headed for Keswick Camp. When we arrived we unpacked the bus and set up our gear. Once we set up we could go and play. After we had a play we went into the dining hall for dinner. After a delicious dinner of roast beef and veges we brushed our teeth, got into our pyjamas and headed over to a room with our sleeping bags and watched a movie, School of Rock. It was LOL funny. After the movie we all went to bed and got a good night’s sleep.