Each day a child from Room 17 takes a photo and adds it to our blog. We hope you enjoy viewing them in the slideshow below.

Monday, September 21, 2009

Marcus in Vanuatu


Hi everyone,

It is very hot here. I have had lots of swims. We all went out on a catamaran yesterday and I had a turn driving it. We went to the kids club every day. In the kids club we do cool activities. Today we are going on a trip to Erakor Island. I'm having lots and lots of fun! On Thursday we are going to the rim of an erupting volcano!!! Tomorrow we will go and snorkel and see the underwater postbox.
Marcus

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Taking PRIDE in our Wetlands


Lucas's birthday party!!!

Sunday 13 September it was my birthday party !!!!

My party was at temping bowling.

I got 8 tech decks , 2 tennis racks.then my Dad gave us 5 tokens each to play games

My Mum made the cake it was cookies & cream!! YUM.

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Marcus's dinosaur


My two year old cousin Jessica is staying at my house and I made this out of Mega Blocks for her. It is a dinosaur. It took me about half an hour to make.

Jessica thought it was really cool.

Marcus

Dirty knees


On the 9 of September, Declan, Callahan, Thomas, Evan, David, Caleb, Dylan, Jacob, Martin, Leroy ,Jordan and Conner were playing a game that got us dirty. When we had finished the game Miss Hygate took a photo of our dirty knees.


The Switch



For writing on Wednesday of this week we watched a short animated film from YouTube called "The Switch". In this movie there is a man who discovers a strange box with a button on it. We watched the movie up until the point where the man found the button. Then the movie was stopped and we had to write about whether or not we would press the button AND what we thought would happen if we did. The link for the full YouTube clip is listed below. Below is Jordan's writing about "The Switch". (If you want to read the others we are in the process of publishing these on paper and they will be available in our class next week.)

Miss Hygate


"The Switch"

I was on the ground and then I looked up and there was a red button. Should I press the button our not? Then I pressed the button and the box disintegrated! Then my head blew up, but for some reason I was still alive. Then I tried to find a new head. I was running around screaming when I tripped up on a watermelon, ''Wohoo!'' I decided to use the watermelon as my new head! Once I did find my new head I ruled the world.

by Jordan

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

The trip up the mountain






On Tuesday 8 September we went to porter heights for skiing and snowboarding. Coming through the gate we saw a dead possum on rock with blood coming out of its mouth it was gross. When we got up to the snow we hired our gear. We got our gear on and then we had some lessons, we needed lessons so that we could learn the basics. We got morning tea for energy.

Someone almost killed Dylan by speeding on there skis. She was an idiot because she was speeding. We went on the slope where people were walking. We were snowboarding. There was a magic carpet, it was slow it took us around 3 minutes to get to the top! When we got off Dylan got abused because by someone. On the learner slope it was boring because it was small. Beside the magic carpet was fun because we went really fast. I know a tip when you are about to fall off put your hand on the snow it brings your balance back. It is really hard on your first go because you don't know how to do it.



Time for lunch. We ate lunch fast so we could get back up to the mountain. Oh no, time to go to the bus to go home.

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Leroy, Jacob and Lucas's Blingee

Today we learned how to use blingee. The funniest thing to do was give us the clothes. It was really hard to download the pictures to our blog but we kept trying and Adam finally helped us and we got it right. The problem was that Safari works better than Firefox.

Samantha, Ava and Olivia

Today we learnt what ICT means,I stands for information,C stands for communication and T stands for technology like phones, TV, play stations, xboxs, email and hundreds more technologies. 

pirateman

Today we learnt about i.c.t which stands for information communication technology. Stacey took a photo of me, and I got on Blingee. First I had to upload the image, and edit the photo. Some people in our class had to do it on Kidpix.

By David.

Hannah the glamour girl

This is Hannah's photo. Stacey and I uploaded it on to the Blingee website. First we had to choose the photo from I-Photo. Secondly we had to click on.... choose file... once we had chosen our photo. Thirdly we had to decorate Hannah on Blingee  -  this  is how she turned out. Fourthly we had to save this great artwork which was saved by me, Madison and also saved on my email account.







 

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Kiwi Of The Day - Nicole!

Today in Room17

Some days in Room 17 we finish our day by doing a PMI to reflect on what we have done, learned and/or experienced. PMI stands for "Plus, Minus & Interesting". We use this tool often to help us organise our thoughts:

PLUS:

  • That our reading group got to read what other classes were writing on their blogs (Jordan)
  • Bump tag was fun and exciting to play (Quinton)
  • We played Bump Tag in two groups (boys and girls) so the girls got more turns as the boys always pick other boys anyway (Madison)
  • Working out coded messages by learning about Pig Latin in reading (Samantha)
  • Our reading group got to go to the library and I'd finished my last library book so I got to choose a new one (Mathew)
MINUS:
  • Before school we were playing rugby and the little kids were cheating (Caleb)
  • We didn't get through all our lessons, not enough writing time (Connor)
  • It was quite easy to get the girls in Bump Tag (Livvy)
  • I broke my pen by snapping it (Jordan)
  • It wasn't that fun at Bump Tag because we didn't have that much space (Jacob)

INTERESTING:

  • That we didn't have to have the boys with us in Bump Tag (Nicolene)
  • Making the Te Reo movie and how people interrupted us filming (Dylan)
  • We played Bump Tag with boys and girls separate (Martin)

Our Jenga house



Hi we are Georgia & Hannah from Room 17 

We made a house out of Jenga and we did it with some people from Room 18 but 
they just made sure it didn't fall. We were in buddy reading and games time.  
We did it by working together to make the house. on the left is Emma & Katie then
on the right is Georgia & Hannah



 

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Windsor Kapa Haka

Last week our senior Kapa Haka group performed at the Cultural Festival in the Town Hall. Check out the video on YouTube:

YouTube Video of Cultural Festival 09