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).