High jump

Hi everyone! This term, room 12 has been learning how to successfully do high jump. First, you have to run up to the pole, and then you have to jump in such a way that your legs are like scissors. You also have to lift up your arms to boost the height of your jump. But the real aim is to see how high you can get. My friend Edward can go much higher than I can, though I think I can jump around a meter. Here are some photos for high jump all around this post.

Juggling

Hello everyone! Today I am doing a post a particular sport which requires a special type of movement to complete it. No looking at the top of this post as it will show the answer to my question that I have for you.

Now, my question is: What sport is this?

Clues:
1: You need to have the ability to quickly react to flying objects as you have to catch them.
2: To succeed in this sport, you have to throw the balls in such a way it makes an 8.
3: You can throw 2 or more to actually play the sport.

Now guess. If you guessed Juggling (Without looking at the title!), you are correct.

This term, we are doing athletics, and one of the sports we are doing is juggling. We have been practicing it, though I am not very good at it. I can attempt to do 2 juggling balls, but it will be uncommon if I can do it 3 or more times in a row.
Anyways, here is an Animoto for juggling.

Cross country

Remember to add the reaction comment if you don't have much time.

Hope you all enjoyed it!

Term 4

This term I am looking forward to:

• Athletics
• Dairy Farm Trip
• Waterworld
• And the end of year carol service.

As for me, I have already been to a dairy farm, or more known as the agrodome. It is a place in Rotorua where I learnt that dogs can be trained to rally ducks, how to shear a sheep, and that sheeps wool stinks real bad. (Look out  girls! Don't get your hands on it!)

I have also been to waterworld, dozens, and dozens of times. It is pretty cool with the hydroslides and the diving boards, and the rocket but, I have this thing for chlorine. To me, I just hate the smell, though I usually ignore it, or get used to it.

I'm not sure if I was part of the choir for last year's carol service, but I want to be this year.

Paired writing

This term room 12 has been doing paired writing. We were the first class in the school, so you could probably say we were more of trialing it.

First, I am going to tell you what paired writing is:

It is a special program that helps other kids who are not very skilled at writing and who get stuck and don't know what to do, Get some help or know what to do.

It is all very easy as all you need is a tutor and a tutee. The tutor is the person who is teaching and the tutee is the lesser skilled one, that oftenly doesn't like writing and will not really know what to do.

So, get a folder, fill it with all this special papers, and then you just do this:

• 5 minutes of planning for a random story-The tutor will write out the brainstorm and the tutee will come up with the ideas.
• 10 minutes of writing the story- The tutee writes out the story with the help of the tutor. Make sure the tutor doesn't just say what the answer is and just help them out!
• 5 minutes of proof reading- The tutor will scan over and check spelling and will talk about the goals set, then finally... Count out the words and follow the instructions on the word count sheet in the folder

Now, the three things I have learnt/improved on is to not to do the things people need help with, but tell them. Improving on my response to people when they need some help rather then saying: You should already know that, and just help them. And finally it has given me some ideas for stories if my classroom were to have freewriting again.

Two comments I would give to my tutee Nazaryth is that I believe he has improved on descriptive writing, as well as an amazing 318 words in one day!

One thing that has challenged me is that I wasn't allowed to tell the buddy how to spell it, as I was really used to doing that!

Cross country

Oh man...
So darn tired...
Cross country day was extremely long and completely irritating. I kept on stepping in mud and slipping up in it. My shoes were full of a bad, bad smell when I took them off. My age group had to run 1.5 kilometres or 1500 metres. We had to run all the way around Minogue Park (Or, well most of it.) It was very, very tiring.
Finally...
The finish.

Maori language week

Last week was Maori language week. Room 12 learnt lots of things from Maori language week like:

1. Mahunga- Head
2. Pakihiwi- Shoulders
3. Poku- Stomach
4. Wae wae- Legs

Then for the facials:

1. Taringa- Ears
2. Karu- Eyes
3. Ihu- Nose
4. Waha- Mouth

Now, in case you haven't noticed, these are actually the lyrics to a Maori body song. It goes like this:

Mahunga, Paikihiwi, Poku, Hope Wae wae
Mahunga, Paikihiwi, Poku, Hope Wae wae

Mahunga, Paikihiwi, Poku, Hope Wae wae

Taringa, Karu, Ihu, Waha e

(Note: Point to the body parts as you say the words)

 In these photos, you can see we are teaching

Room 5 the body song. The name of the student I am teaching with 'Charlene' is long lost in my mind but I do know that we taught this class as well as Room 4. We had lots of fun and in the end me and Kayla ended up teaching the children again!

Maths work and spelling work

Room 12 has been doing some math and spelling work. Here are some photos of what we have been learning:

 On this photo, is some plural activities we have been doing. We had to change the word into a plural. In case you don't know what they are, here are the spelling rules:

• You add 's' to the word.
• You add 'es' to words that end in x, z, s, ss, ch, sh, and sometimes even o.
• You change 'f' to 'v' on words that end with an f sound.
• You changing the 'y' in words ending in 'y' to and 'i' and adding es
• By changing the word completely
• By leaving the word the same for both singular and plural

 It wasn't easy, though. Some of the words were trick words like 'myself', 'salmon', and 'trout'. I got all but one wrong which was 'echo'.

Here is the maths work. It is decimals, so it was exclusive for the 'Tapawha' group. (Tapawha is the Maori

word for square. Tapa meaning sides and wha meaning 4.)

I am going well, but I have my weak points.

My goal is to fix them.

Assembly

In week 5, team 12 had their assembly. It was based on war time and remembrance for the soldiers that fought at Gallipoli. The story goes that it is ANZAC day, and some kids here about some mad scientists that have created a time machine [which is really just some steps that lead you into backstage] and they get a ride with them back into WWII (World War 2). It becomes the year 1944 and they slowly look around at:

1.Morse Code

2. Sergeants and Soldiers

Then we had a song called 'The sandfly song' By C. Smith

3. Gallipoli landing

4. Memorial service

They were all little skits by the members of our class, 100% made by us. I was in the Morse Code skit. There were three of us (Desmond, Brenna and Me) and Desmond and I were sending a message to Brenna and she was trying to guess what it was. Both teams had their own cardboard box, which was meant to be a radio. Our skit was short, but kind-of-difficult, because we had forgot our scripts! Luckily, Brenna and I remembered it and helped Desmond remember it too.

The assembly was really fun, and exciting. My favourite part was when Corban was yelling at all the soldiers in the 'Sargeants and soldiers' skit. We had negative parts like my script and the door wouldn't open when the time travellers were trying to get through, but in the end, we did it. It was so fun!

Speeches

Hi there! It's me again! Today I am writing a post on our syndicate speeches.
For the past 2 weeks, the senior syndicate has been working on our speeches. The topic is discovery, so it has to be about a discovery, or a famous person. My speech, is about Thomas Alva Edison. He was born in Milan Ohio, USA on February 11, 1847. He had some peculiar times, and some good times, like this little story:

When Thomas Alva Edison was just a little boy, he asked his mother:
"Why mom, why do geese sit on their eggs?"
She replied: "So they will be kept warm."
"Why?"
"So they will hatch."
Ed had no idea of what hatch could mean so he asked what it meant. His mother answered that it means the baby goose can come out of the eggs, and come into this world.
The following day, Ed was nowhere to be found. Like Jesus and his parents, cried out and wondered where he was. They found him in their neighbours barn. There, he was sitting on some goose eggs. He said he was trying to see if they would hatch. After a few long minutes, he got bored and became disappointed that they wouldn't hatch. He left.

That was a very odd day for Edison, and he went home to get a spanking on the legs. I'm lucky I know better then sit on some eggs and wait to see if they will hatch.

ANZAC

ANZAC
Remembrance:
For the past weeks, we have been learning about the Anzac's at war. We studied things like, wreathes, Morse code, and even diaries. I would like to write about the diaries.
We could make our own diary entry, it could be whenever, whatever, and however. It was fun. When I finished my diary entry, it was about my trench being under attack by Germans! The Sargeant becomes furious! We invade, but everyone including him gets killed. So me and some other survivors run away, back into our trench, grab everything and chuck it on one of the boats. We get set, for a long trip back to NZ.

What I am looking forward in the term

Making posters

For the past few days, a group called the Porohita's have been making posters about either: Roman numerals, Maori numerals or our numbers, and we had to create a poster about it. We were taken into groups. I went with Caleb. We had to do a draft in either our or our buddies math's book. It went in my one. Finally, when we were finished, we had to do the real copy. It took forever. And me and Caleb weren't having much luck. But we managed somehow... And when we finished, we had to do a short review on what we had made. Here is a photo of our poster, and a video of when me and Caleb shared:

Some Roman Numerals:

I: 1

V:5 Trick:

X:10 Did you know?
L: 50
c:100
D: 500
M:1000

Some things we learnt was:
Roman numerals are actually our numbers!
You will usually add when doing roman numerals.
If you put the lowest number first, you subtract.

Senior swimming sports

Last Thursday, the seniors had one so much of an AWESOME DAY!!!
It all started at school. We had had a normal morning, a normal morning tea, and a normal walk-in-and-line-up. But after we did come in, it all changed. We were told to sit down on the mat. Mrs Parkinson started to announce: "Now as everybody should know we are going to have swimming sports! So! I would like you all to tidy up the classroom, do your home learning, duties, and bins. GO!" And amok hit our classroom like a beam from space from a UFO. Kids started to run around saying: "Hurry up _____!" and "Mrs Parkinson, _____ did _____ to ___!"

By the time we had finished, it had taken us about 10 minutes!

But we managed anyways...

We then proceeded to take all of our needed gear and to line outside with the rest of the senior syndicate. Mr Maquad started to talk. "Okay, we are going to go inside the bus, but before we do, let's go through some rules." That was when he started to ask us what we thought could be some good rules. Some were: "Stick together, have fun, don't give up..." And you said it.

We walked onto the bus classes by classes. There was only 1 bus so far, so room 14 and 15 hopped on, and that bus left. The other 2 classes (Rooms 12 and 13) had to hop on the next bus. We walked onto the bus, sat down, and waited to enjoy the ride. Some of us started to sing, others doing finger signs to by passers that were walking past on the footpath. We passed the museum, shops, Garden place, and other places, like the casino, and BTNZ. After about 15 minutes of singing, shouting, screaming, yelling, annoying, and listening to boys yelling the names of the finger signs they were doing, we reached the town pool.

I cannot say it's true name, so I'm just going to call it that. We walked out of the bus, and room 14 and room 15 were already there. Their bus was picking up the previous school, that was before us. We walked towards the entrance gate... And went straight past it! "Where are we going?!" Some of the children started to yell. "You'll see." Said one of the teachers. We were headed to a hill, which was our designation to eat out lunch.

We then started to settle down, and enjoy our lunch. There was noises of munching, and chewing, going all around, and rubbish being thrown all around. When some of us were finished eating, we started to roll down the hill, like little armadillo's. The teachers didn't fancy it though! "Stop!" They yelled. And we were silenced, and frozen. But not for long. We started running down the hill, causing more trouble. "Oi! Stop!" They said. But they kept going. Then they started to just run down the hill.

When we finally finished, we had a short walk back up, and started to settle in. We had to get changed if needed, and sit in our house groups. There were different areas for our house groups, and all my friends were in the same house group as me, and that was awesome.

Warm and cool colours

In team 12, we have been studying the WARM and COOL colours.

We learnt that the warm colours are:

• Pink





• Red





• Orange





• Yellow





• Brown

Are the different WARM colours. And the COOL colours are:

• Blue





• Purple





• Green
  

Then, we made deskmats. By using the knowledge of the WARM and COOL colours, we were allowed to choose three pastels from the one of the colour groups. I chose warm. I then decided I would use, red,yellow and orange. Then with the opposite colour group, we had to choose one colour and do the border.

It was fun!!! And guess what?

Our quadblogging buddies used the idea!!!