Terrific Team 24

Hi our names are Anna and Lucy and we are going to be your Blogger Loggers this week

First of all:

Supermarket visit

This term we had a supermarket visit to the New World in Belfast for our food for thought program.

Our guide was Rita.

First we did an activity about everyday food items and once in a while food items in each category.

Then we did another activity about rainbows of fruit.

Then we got together and got a $60 voucher to New World.

On our way out we each got a lunchbox.

Winter Sport Tournament Is Finished

In the end all the teams did extremely well,some teams even came in the top 10.

All the teams tried their hardest and gave it their all.

And they all did magnificently.

Kapa Haka Performance

Kapa Haka was a great success involving lots of talented Kapa Hakarians.

It was performed on a Monday night at HornCastle Arena.

"It was a lot of waiting around but it was worth it"said one of the Kapa Hakarians.

Lexi said"it was fun for my first time and I really enjoyed performing with everyone"

She also said"we practised for about 1 month and a half to 2 months every Friday"

Speech Competition

The year 5 & 6 speech Competition was a very high standard.

Estella, George & Lucy were the room 24 finalists,Lexi was the reserve.

George's speech was on why you shouldn't eat McDonalds,Estella's speech was on sign language and 

Lucy's speech was on why you should play a team sport.One of the things that Lucy said was"There

is no I in team."

The final places were:3rd for year 6 was Nisha Biswa 2nd for year 6 was Jake Goddard and finally 1st place was...BEN COX!!!!

for the year 5's 3rd was Alfie Anderson 2nd was Olivia(not sure of her last name)and finally first was...LUCY HALLER!!!!

Choir 

Even though the brutal,perfect King Williams forced the boys to go to choir they are surprisingly enjoying it.

They are doing practises for their big debut at HornCastle Arena. 

They are doing around 11 songs with around 100 to 150 other kids.

They are sounding superb.

Ms Emelous is our singing conductor who is conducting us to our singing limits.

Showcase

The whole school is doing a showcase with their year groups and they are working hard to make it just right.

The year 0's are doing one and the year 1's and 2's and the year 3's and 4's and the year 5's and 6's are doing them.

We interviewed Anna and she said"Its really fun,it takes a lot of practise and preparation,I find it helpful doing dance in our room and I like how it's not just us doing it.I like how it's the entire school  doing it and I think its good for our school to do it because not many schools are able to do it and I think it's going to be fantastic!"

We are all practising hard and the performance is next week on Thursday and we are going to ROCK!!!!

That's all for this week Blogger Logger fans see you later alligators.

Team 24 week 2 term 3

Hi and welcome to blogger loggers for week 2. Your blogger loggers today are Louie and Estella.

Last term we had Parent teacher interviews. Mr Williams was very impressed with what he heard from some of the parents. Mainly the children took over the interview show their parents the amazing work that they have done.

Upcoming is the year 5/6 speech competition in week 4. All of the children have to prepare a speech for their class competition. The top children go and compete in the finals. Remember you can do it about anything you want. No props. Mr Williams is looking for expression, clarity, if you have learnt it off by heart, eye contact, posture and if you are listening well.

On Thursday 23rd of July was the Heaton open night. The day before the principle of Heaton (Mrs Knight) came to talk to the years 6's about Heaton. The open night was awesome. There were performances from some of the Heaton groups, great displays of what they do at  Heaton and much more. Many people showed up. I bet that the years 6's who are going to Heaton cant wait!

Yesterday on the 27th of July the principle of Shirley intermediate came to talk to the year 6's. Their open night is on 30th of July.

In week 2 on Tuesday Anton did some magnificent maths when Mr Williams wanted his math class to make an equation  that =100 well everyone was doing 99+1 or 101-1 Anton did 3000-2900. Mr Williams was really impressed. Back in term two he answered 6x5 quicker than lighting. So it shows that Mr Williams is a great teacher and Anton is a maths expert for his stage.

This week on Monday at assembly we had the certificates handed out. Our winners were:
Our heart of achievement went to Lucy Haller for being Lucy Haller
Academic went to Lexi Cummings
Our last award the Values went to Arozo Rafyee

On Wednesday the 22nd of July Lexi, Aliana and Estella went to the dance workshop to learn about interperaitive dancing because our topic this term is about dancing. All the senior classes have to make up a mini dance that describes Christchurch. We described Christchurch ending with ing  like rolling or streaming we also got to make up words like towering or hilling.

The festival choir is underway with all of the members starting to learn the songs. The theme is RING OF FIRE! Loads of boys were forced into it but ended up enjoying it. Some of those boys are Sithum, Mac, Max and Tom.

Thats all for this week so until next time see you later
 
                                                    A few prepared talks from the term

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Blogger Loggers.

Good morning everyone Tom, Olivia and Olly here. We're going to be you're blogger loggers for today.

On Thursday the 7th of May Room 24 went to Halswell Quarry.

We learnt about how volcanos were made , how all the rock got to where they are,

and all the different types of rocks. 

Hamish the park ranger showed us the different themed gardens like the Korean, Chinese and the Japanese garden. We had a fabulous time, and we hope that could go again some time soon.

Now we're going to report on Hagley sport 

The rugby team played Fendalton A team. It was a close game and was a game of two halves. It was a draw at halftime. The second half we had good attack and defence and in the end we won by 1 try. We had a few injuries. the score was 6-5 to us and Tom Irving got player of the day for outstanding playing.Well done Tom! report by Fynn Marshall.

Now we're going to talk about the special choir auditions.

The auditions were for children who wanted to be in the special choir. The children do the auditions one at a time and the sing the nation anthem to a piano.                           

Today we are going to tell you something funny and it is a Mr Williams photo from long ago. He is really handsome, here is his photo. I hope you had a great laugh at that. 

 

MR.WILLIAMS AT THE AGE OF 20...

Last Friday afternoon the children that stayed at school all went to English Park for a football tournament. We all got free t shirts and water. We were put in teams and played about 4 games each. It was really great.

We have started writing persuasive letters. The first letter we wrote was to a classmate. The next one is going to be to Mr.Williams then your parents, then Mrs Warren.

This is a picture of the class in the crater of the Quarry.

This is a photo of the class inside the Bird Reserve which is in

the Halswell Quarry.

This is a pic of one of the activities we did.

Hamish teaching us how Banks Peninsula was made.

The Mum and Dad statues that welcome people to Halswell Quarry.

This is in the Korean Garden

Inside the Chinese Garden

That's all for this week folks, Olivia and Tom out. !!!!!!!

The last 3 weeks of school

Good morning every one we are your blogga loggas Sithum and Jordyn. Welcome to term 2!
First of all we will be talking about the forty hour famine.

Yesterday during year 5 and 6 team assembly a lovely lady called Laura, came in to talk about poor people and how they live and survive in Bangladesh and how we could help them by doing the 40 hour famine.

The 40 hour famine is a fundraiser for people that can't afford to live healthy like us . So we would like you to give up something in your life such as furniture , speaking , eating , technology all for 20 to 40 hours. You get sponsored for every hour you give something up and the money raised is for the children that need the help from us so they can live like us

Our next topic will be on the big Easter Egg hunt. We paired up with our buddy class, we made some paper baskets a few days before the hunt . We each got handed a printed picture of Easter eggs. Each clue we found had a coulor on it after we had found all the clues we ran back to our buddy's class and coloured the picture .When the last one was finished  we got to go back to our buddy class . We had to find our easter baskets, we were surprised when we found our Easter baskets full of Easter eggs after all I had a tummy ache.


Up next is A.V.A.I.L.L.L.

Availll is a type of reading where you watch a movie with subtitles on, your teacher pauses the movie and you write the subtitle that it last said.We are very excited for this activity we hope you are too.

We are all running every day to get fit for the Angry Nation(aka Cross Country). It's on next week and Estella and Fintan seem to be the speedy ones at this stage, Everyone is improving.

We are learning about Anzac Day, and some children have brought along information about family members who were in one of the world wars.

Yesterday was Anna's birthday, Sithum's is soon, he is very excited, and promises to bring Mr Williams a big piece of birthday cake!

That's all for this week,

Sithum and Jordyn.

Blog-Log

Greetings everybody your blogger loggers today are George and Kane.

Prepared Talks and Book Reviews.

One of the talks was about Rats. Olly's Dad brought his two rats along in their large cage. Olly told us what his Rats could eat and information about how they behaved. For example did you know that rats can swim two miles? Rats are about as long as your hand!

Thomas talked about the nasty disease called Ebola 

Lucy talked about yummy, tasty Chocolate

Tom talked about adorable Dogs, and brought his dog to show us.It's chocolate labrador.

Anna talked about Rabbits, and brought them to show us. Our classroom has been like a zoo!!

Here are some books that some students have used for Book Reviews:

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

The BFG, and other Roald Dahl books

The 13 Story Tree House

At the Swimming Sports at Jelley Park, our class was in the swimming Relay Team and guess what we came? 2nd place! Yay! Estella and Louie went to the Zones, and Estella is going to the Canterbury's. Congratulations!!

And now our favourite part that we are going to talk about is BLUE SKIES!!!

We got to Blue Skies by bus. At Blue Skies we started off with a fitness track. Then we did some challenges, a confidence course and some fitness activities There was an amazing flying fox, a Tarzan rope, and heaps more! After that we tried some initiatives. They were really hard!

All in all, I think Blue Sky's was a great field trip!

Acrostic Poems have now been finished

Acrostic poems were really fun and really creative.

Maths Interchange is zooming along and is lots of fun.

We are just starting to sketch our self portraits, and we have already discovered that Thomas is a talented artist.

That's all for this week.
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Read this First

Hello and welcome, this is Aliana and Thomas your blogger loggers for this week. Here are some things that have happened the past weeks.

1. Treaties

Last week we did treaties between people in our families. One of the common agreements involved bedtimes. They were all ripped up, stained, and burnt which made them look magnificent.

2. Media Super Stars

Four of the children from RM 24 were invited to sing in the Cricket World Cup Opening Ceremony with Hayley Westenra in the children's special choir of 100 children from around Christchurch! The first practise was on Saturday and the last practise was on Wednesday. Did you see any of us on TV?

3. P.T and B.R

Mr Williams chooses people to do Prepared Talks and Book Reviews each day. One of the best so far is Estella. The goal for P.T and B.R is to be confident in front of an audience. For Book Reviews we bring a book to school to review. For Prepared Talks we bring something in to talk about.

4. Estella's Clarinet

For Prepared Talks Estella Wallace decided to talk about her Clarinet. We learned that the Clarinet is a very mind-blowingly complicated instrument. Her prepared talk went for 6 min and 46 secs. Wow OMG.

5. Aquagym Swimming

"Uhhhh ohhh uhhh ohhh uhhh ohhh" drip drip drip drip. Hi blog readers I just came out of the pool. This week we are doing Aquagym swimming. There is 2 pools, the BIG pool and the little pool. We go to Aquagym at 9:00 am.

6. School Councillors

On Monday 16th of February we choose our school councillors. The winning candidates is Estella and Finn. The reserve school councillor is Aliana ( AKA blogger logger.)

Mmmm.... fizzy.Hello Shayan and Lachlan here we are your blogga loggas today.On Wednesday the 22nd of October was a bottle mufti day   lots of people brought Fizzy! Mr Williams showed us how to look for the sugar content on the side of the bottle and we were horrified to find out how much sugar Fizzy has in it. The bottles we brought are for the Fair. People brought fizzy, shampoo,soy sauce .

We have started to write our own stories. The title is called "Getting Lost".You could also call it Getting Lost, the story of whatever you want. First we had to make a plan so we don't forget what the plot of our story. The results were great and Mr Williams and Mrs Bateman  were very impressed

Yay....It's Athletics day next week. We are practicing our high jump ,sprints,long jump,shot put ,relay,and discus. The days we practise  are Tuesdays and Fridays. Noooo!! The tests  are starting soon today or next week I hope its next week on Friday.We do the P.A.T test and a math test ,and the worst off all the I KAN test which goes really fast, and the PAT reading test.

 Some people are so happy that Hagley sport is starting today the people that are going are Jake, Beau, Will, Archie, George, Nikau and Jamie. Oh no, seat shifting might start for the people that are talking like the giggly girls that  giggle and talk too much and  Quillan ,Nikau and Kegan.

 Room 24 are doing the stall for the sausage sizzle for the fair we hope that more parents can help because we only have 2 people so far that can help run the stall. Agggghhhh... the Dental truck is here I hope it's not our turn today or tomorrow most people have gone but they didn't won't to go ever  there becuase you get this yuky thing in your mouth.

 This week Shayan got the heart of achievement and Kegan got the values award and George got the Academic award. Sorry but that's  all the time we've got for today see you next time.

Hi I'm Koby and I'm Casey we are your bloggerloggers for this week and we are going to tell you the exciting things that have happened recently starting with  the runathon. The aim was to raise money for camp. We had to run around a course in the playground for 20 mins, it was tiring but on the other hand it was very fun. Owen managed to do 26 laps which is amazing, the highest in year 5 and 6. Most people  did more laps than expected. We have raised $310 so far, but most people have not brought back their money. Mr Williams is counting all our money and we hope to raise $1,000. Most people got between 16-19laps, Casey did 14 and Koby did 20. Beau raised the most money in our class Kegan did the most laps in our class with 22 laps .Anton did really well with 8 laps and Mr Williams was very proud of all of us.

We have finished the reading programme called AVAILLL, and we are having a test next week to see how much progress we have made. We all loved watching the movies, and we hope that most of our reading skills have improved.

Athletics has started and we have been practicing on Tuesdays and Fridays. We are doing discus, shot put, relays, high jump, long jump and sprints. In sprints we have handicap races to make it fair for everyone and make the results a lot closer and more even. Koby seems to be the fastest at the moment!

We did some Spring paintings during the week and Will  Emma and George have discovered chess, which Mr Williams is helping them with.

That's all for this week, only one week until the holidays!!

This is Charles, sometimes known as Chas or King Charles, with all his soccer/football awards

Week 7

Hi I'm Quillan and I'm Archie and we are your blogga logas for this week.
Now for what's happened for the last 2 weeks.                                                                                                                                                                                        Last Friday,sports teams had their last game, good results for some teams, bad for other teams.The teams that competed follow  . Soccer A, Soccer B, Netball A, Netball B, Hockey A, Hockey B, Rugby, they all played their last game on Friday.                                                                                                 On Monday Quillan Dextar, Jake Dickey and Joshua Kitchingham did kapahaka at the cultural festival. We had practiced all Friday morning and all Monday.Now it was time to go home for 2 hours.When we came back to school at 5 'O' Clock we came inside to get in our Kapahaka uniform, the boys had to wear skirts (well that's what it looked like to me)and ear rings and the girls wore dress's, 2 ear rings feathers and belts. I had a late but great night.We watched" Bridge to Terebithia" for A.V.A.I.L.L.L. and we have just finished it . Hi I'm Kevin and I'm the new pupil.I arrived here last Friday from Blenheim it rhymes with lemon are so so sour, let's get to the point. Kevin's  already made 2 friends and he's already been  on a trip Ice skating. Talking about Ice skating that's next.

Kevin

ICE SKATING!                                      ICE SKATING!                                            ICE SKATING!       On Thursday we went to Alpine Ice,  when we got there it took ages to get our ice skates on and skate because there were two other schools there too. During the 2 hours we played 2 games one was spin the bottle and the other one was a dance party that was fun .One helper gave out free b's so you collected  a small coke.  The parents who helped are Marina's daddy, Archie's mummy, Will's mummy Eden's mummy and Max's mummy. Casey,   Elena and Harry all skated really well and showed lots of skills. Quillan fell over the most.  What a hero!!           

Welcome to room 24 I'm Beau and this is Elena we are your bloggerloggers.  Congrats to all the people who took part in the poetry finals  which are Will, Quillan ,George, Marina and Jake. And We all wish them good luck. ;)  

 We've been doing our post cards for report writing, some of them are looking fantastic. Some people did post cards from faraway like Mexico, Russia, South Africa,  South pole and London. First we needed to write where we are, who to  and 5 thing about the place. Then draw an amazing picture to make it look nice.

 Then we give it to fabulous Mr Williams and he does his magic  but we have to do FIFTY-FIVE of them .Each person does two but Nikau did three ;)                                                                                                                                

We even started our innovation. Our topic is what people made that changed the way people did things, we had four things to choose out of diorama,computer,posters and booklet. Wonderful  Marina and Leia finished theirs, their topic was cameras.They put a lot of effort in it 

We had finished the movie HOLES it was funny :) and sad :(  its about Stanlay Yelnats getting sent to Camp Green Lake but he meets a boy called ZERO actual name (Hector Zeroni ) and that's all we're going to tell you, don't wanna be SPOILER.

On 21st of August  the year 4 had a bake sale in the  U. There were lot of thing to choose from like sushi, cake, cup cakes, muffins etc.  Some classes went with their cute buddies, room 24 helped them with change and some buddies  bought lots and lots of treats, hope your teeth are not rotten ;)

On Tuesday Elena and Shayan did a play on Antarctica with the other ESOL children. It was excellent it must have been hard to memorise all the words. It was about a group of people going to Scott Base  in Antarctica and Shayan got charged at  by a group of  penguins and knocked him self out! That's all for today, BYE!!! 

Week 3, Term Three

Hello there I am Josh and I am Leia.And we are this weeks Blogga loggas. our first topic is VERY SAD !!!
Mr Williams did NOT come to school for about ONE AND A HALF WEEKS!! There was water up to our knees with tears. And screaming children bouncing wall to wall. Well it wasn't too bad because we had Mrs Glasson for about a week,because he couldn't find his voice. It seems to be back to full strength now!!


Next we will talk about the Winter Tournament. Well the netball A&B team went,the B team wasn't too bad and the A team was AWESOME !! Because they are going to the Canterbury's for the netball tournament . Now for the soccer A&B team. Congratulations on the A team for also going to Canterbury's . However the soccer B team did not do so well. They had to play some A teams and which was difficult, so they didn't win many games and they came 7th out of 8th. The rugby team  tried hard and came 4th in their grade. The hockey team were fabulous and won so they are going to the Canterbury's too.

Last Friday the soccer B team played Cotswold B. We had 3 players away and 3 who forgot thier gear, so we weren't feeling very confident! Beau, our regular goalie was away, so although Josh said to put Shayan in goal, Mr W tried Quillan. He did his best , but Cotswold were really skilled, and by half time it was 5 - 2. Gulp. Thankfuly Mr W put Shayan in goal.And their best player broke through our defence and took a high powered shot and Shayan jumped up high, and flicked it over the bar. He was diving, kicking and jumping on the ball and was brilliant! They only scored one more goal. Josh scored both our goals but  Shayan got player of the day.And there is a picter of shayan at the bottom.

Our next topic is poetry competition.We still have about 2weeks. And we will just tell you that Leia is doing one called Cat and Josh is doing one called, I think I'm related to Big Foot. We are practising lots and lots. Some of us already memorised our poem!! Emma, Isaac, Marina, Will has and a few more people have. They have to be 12 lines long, and the class competition is in week 5.

YAHO!!!! Casey & Elena are back in our class for maths again. they are using a red text book which is a stage 5. Eden, Beau still goes to Ms Wakefeild. Also Shayan started to go. I (Leia) think Elena & Casey are great at maths.


 Our next topic is about the postcards that Rm 24 is writing.We had to do a draft in our draft writing book.We had to make it up all by yourself . You had to choose where your'e going to send it from and where your going to send it to. It could be from Japan to China or France to Canada it could be anywhere you want.I (Leia) enjoy making the postcards so I think everybody else does too.



Our next topic is AVAILLL.It is sort of like a movie but with subtitles on. The movie was  "Hook"The first time that we did is surprise subtitles, the second was another word hunt and the 3rd was take a dictionary to the movies.
For the surprise subtitles while we watch the movie Mr W will stop the movie and we have to write
 the last subtitle we read.The next word hunt is where there is a word and ours was with and every time you see the word with on the subtitles you have to see what the word after it and write it down.Now for take a dictionary to the movies it is where Mr W puts us into groups of 3 or 4 and numbered us off  and gave us dictionary. He stopped the movie on a really hard word and we would have a competition to see what page in the dictionary it was on. Great fun! The next movie will be tomorrow, we can't wait!

That's all we have time for today, next week we will include a photo of world famous goalie Shayan. Bye for now.  Leia and Josh, (with help from strong silent Will).

Good morning St Albans School. We are your blogger loggers for this week. I'm Kegan and I'm Nikau.  and that fellow over there is Will. Recently room 24 have had their P.A.T. tests. Jake and Catherine got the highest marks in the class. Good job you two. The tests were on Maths and Reading. Mr Williams was very pleased.


As usual in the morning room 24 have been doing their probes. Lots of peoples results have improved,their times have gotten faster and most people are getting 20/20. Mr Williams has been very impressed  with our results.


A couple of weeks ago room 24 had their IKAN tests. Some people were afraid of the speed that the questions were going at and got some of the questions wrong!


On Monday room 24 went to the Water Treatment Station. Thank you all the parents who took us in their fabulous cars. When we got there we met Chris and he taught us about water. It was very fascinating . Chris told us about stuff like the Aquifers that were under ground. Then we all got into groups and did a group activity. In a day our family would use over 4120 litres and Ethiopia could only use 40 litres a day.



Recently room 24 has had a desk swap and most people have enjoyed the swap . We were allowed to pick who we sat next to and we had a vote about how we organised the desks. We decided we wanted rows! Just like the old days! Mr Williams was very amused. Kegan is sitting next to motor mouth Quillan and I'm sitting next to giggly gurgly Josh.



On Monday our school had a book parade . It was such a colourful day and there were book characters everywhere. Mr Bump AKA George Allen, Enderman AKA Archie Simpson, Thing1 and Thing2 AKA Elena Krauze/Eden Hailemichael were the people with the best costumes in our class.


On Wednesday Kegan and Jake went to the X country. They did very well.  Jake came 83rd and Kegan  came 89th.  Good job you two.The X country was held at Halswell Quary.There were 200 children in the year 5 boys race!
 

Every morning room 24 has at least 1 person to do a prepared talk and 1 person to do a book review. A prepared talk is when someone talks about a topic for 3 minutes and the audience must comment on it at the end. A book review is when someone gets up and talks about a certain book and tells us the plot, the author and other things.


One of the best bits of Book Week was when Craig Smith, the author of Wonkey Donkey came to school to entertain us. He sang and played and told us all about being an author. Another great part of Book Week was the Book Olympics. We had to answer questions about books, and then rush back to the hall with the answers. All the classes took part, we were part of the Y 5 and 6 competition. The questions were really tricky but lots of fun.

Thats all for now folks.Here are some photos from Will.