Top Team at Burnham

On Thursday 29th November, the children from Years 5 - 8 braved the cloudy conditions to take part in the Top Team competition hosted by Burnham School. Our two schools were split into teams of 8 and they had to take part in 9 different stations. At each station two teams competed in a range of fun activities that required the teams to work together in order to be successful. Each team were awarded with points at each station and these were accumulated at the end of the day to find the overall winners.

Congratulations to Scott, Callum S, Taylah, Alice M, Chrissy, Brooke, Georgia G and Jackson P who earned the most points out of the 18 teams.

Senior Athletics

We will begin senior athletics at 11am today.

Year 7 Camp

I created our awesome camp slide show. My favourite part of camp was the ice skating becuase it was fun and funny to watch people fall over. Hope you enjoy.

Jackson - Room 7

Olympics Movie

We created a movie to show the Olympic Values. Enjoy!!

Home work collage

I created this collage out of different pictures I found in magazines for my home work - Hannah

Tanna and Hannah's dance.

The other week Hannah and I were testing a program 

on the ipad that made us look in the olden day.

The program is called film director.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid - Rodrick Rules

Check out Harriet's Fotobabble of her favourite book.

Personification Poetry

Check out this fantastic e-book of poetry that the students of Room 7 created by simply choosing a simple object from around the classroom then giving it human like characteristics. They were published using Comic Life.
Click on the image to read:

Personification

Team Electrify have done some amazing poetry using personification. We will be publishing these and putting them on the blog when they are finished. We started with an object (e.g. pencil) and then gave it some human like qualities.
Annabelle sent me a challenge: to guess what two objects she used for her poems.

He grows in the sun and shelters me in rain.
I climb through his tangle of arms while he protects me.
He sways to the breeze rocking me to sleep and moans to be free in storms.
He sees me protecting me in every type of weather.
What am I?

She listens to what I do and is never faulty.

She says, "use me, use me. No one else."

She runs across the ground as though she is being chased.

She sees the world I imagine and puts it in words for me.

What am I?

What do you think she is writing about

Writing Seeds

Over the holidays the children have been gathering 'treasures' to put into a "Writing Seeds" book. A seed is something that may be special to them and it will be used to give them ideas for their writing this term. We held a competition over the holidays for the best seed book cover and congratulations to Alice T and Haidee who won this.

Haidee

Alice T

Keep an eye on the blog for some of the fantastic writing that this will lead to.

Want to know how a geyser works?

Tanna has created a diagram about how geysers work and she did a Fotobabble to help explain it.

Cryogenic Catastrophe

Oliver and Jake have created an "I Can Animate" about the possibility of preserving life using cryogenics.

Alice Loves Learning at Springston

Animated Polltuion

Jasmine and Freddie have been learning how to use "I Can Animate" on the iPads. They have created a movie about polluting our environment. Our Inquiry is all about preserving life for the future and it is important for us to look after the environment.

Our Long Awaited Onomatopoeia Movie

At the beginning of the year we were looking at how to draw the reader in to our writing by using onomatopoeia. We looked at a classic Batman episode and decided to attempt our own movie.

A special thank you to Jake for his work on the movie. Enjoy...

Cleaning up the Liffey

Hannah and Jesse decided to do their part of looking after our environment by cleaning up the Liffey in Lincoln. They were surprised to find how much rubbish was left there. Make sure you do your part by picking up any rubbish you find even if it doesn't belong to you!

Asian cooking with Oliver

As part of his Pathways Award, Oliver made his family a three course meal based on Asian flavours.

A+ Certificates

This is an eBook of the A+ Certificates that have been presented so far this year. These certificates include comments from their peers about how they show our A+ Characteristics.

Click on the picture to look at the whole eBook.

 

Matariki

This is an exciting time of the year as the shortest day passes us by and it is even more relevant for Māori as they celebrate Matariki.
Click on the link below to take part in the Matiriki Quiz and I challenge you to find the constellation in the night sky.

http://christchurchcitylibraries.com/Maori/Heritage/Matariki/Quiz2/

School open - no buses

School will be open at 10.30am today (Thursday 7th June)

Buses will NOT be running this morning - please deliver your children to school.  
We expect them to be running  at 3pm.

School open 10.30am tomorrow

School will be open at 10.30am tomorrow (Thursday 7th June)

The buses will run an hour and a half later then usual.

School closed - snow

School is closed due to snow.
Parent puberty meeting not on tonight!

Duck Hunting

Leave a note on our wallwisher to tell us whether or not you agree with duck hunting

Animal Conservation at Tairua School

Have a look at the efforts of Tairua School. They put together an action plan for raising funds to help proserve particular native species.

SKATE SCHOOL!!

We were very lucky to have Luke from Cheapskates come and teach us some basic skateboard and rollerblading skills.
The students put up with a cold wind and some sore bottoms and knees but a lot of laughs were had. Congratulations to Alice Thorp for getting the prize at the end. She was awarded this because she had quite a lot of big spills but kept getting up.


Skate School Action!! on PhotoPeach

Terrific Technology

Team Electrify students have been working hard at Technology this year. Watch the video below to see what they are capable of.

Make your own slideshow at Animoto.

The Masks Created in Term 1

The students worked very hard in term 1 to create some unique masks to represent themselves.

Room 7's Back Wall

We have given a piece of our back wall to each student from our class. This is a place where students can demonstrate their learning and put up their achievements.

ANZAC DAY

What memories do you have of ANZAC Day?
Do you know anyone who has fought for New Zealand?

Team Electrify have been looking at what ANZAC Day means to different people and what it must have been like to go to war.

We came up with some words that might describe people's feelings before they went off to war:

Reading

Structures - Taj Mahal

Take a virtual tour around the Taj Mahal and answer these questions:

1. What do you notice about the shapes that have been used?
2. What structural features can you identify?
3. What materials have been used and why do you think they chose those materials?
4. What problems do you think they may have encountered when building the Taj Mahal
5. Why do you think it was designed like this?
   
   
   Taj Mahal Virtue Tour

Structures - Taj Mahal

Take a virtual tour through the Taj Mahal.
Why do you think it was designed like this?
What structural features can you identify?
What materials have been used?
What problems do you think they may have encountered when designing and building the Taj Mahal?

Taj Mahal virtue tour

Intellectual Property

Team Electrify have been looking at what is meant by 'Intellectual Property' and the laws and moral issues around it.

A recent example is Levi Hawkin who came up with the catch phrase : "Nek Minit"

A  T-shirt company is now making these: 

Do you think the T-shirt company should be giving some of the money to Levi Hawkin?

Crash!!! KAZAAM!! Bang!!

Team Electrify have been learning how using onomatopeia can help to hook the reader in to our autobiographies.

We looked at a classic batman episode then we made up our own movie using onomatopeia.

Watch the video and then leave us your favourite onomatopeia: