WEEK 11 CATCH UP.

Murals A.K.A Muriels

Yesterday at eleven thirty the whole senior school had a massive art exhibition, where  all the senior classes displayed their AMAZING artwork. Room twenty-four did impressive murals inspired by our walk through the city centre. Each of the murals had its own tour guide as well as a doorman(Thomas)

This is Tane presenting the
Antigua  street boat sheds

Here is Willow the tour guide showing us her groups mural, Our City Gone.

Here is their version of the Antigua Street boat sheds,
standing by it are two of its creators Teariki
and Kai.

Here is our doorman Thomas, smiling as you enter 

the room.

These are the girls who painted heart of Christchurch  

great job!!

your BLOG-ALOGGAS were THOMAS and HEATHCLIFF !!!!!

THANK YOU  for reading the room 24 blog come back after the  holidays to read the next entry so we will see you then.=D

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Hi, the bloggalogga's this week are Julius and Xavier, charming, and, not so charming. I mean, um... equal. Now, first of all, you know the phrase, "Yeah, and pigs can fly and John Key is a nice man.... Something along those lines. Anyway, for the first time, one pig did. Unfortunately Mr Williams didn't grow any hair.

Basically, what happened was: We were playing a game of "Kings and Queens" and Mr Williams put Emma's "Piglet" for Book Week on the bullet inside the gun and shot it. The weight of the pig made the bullet only fly three centimeters but we still cheered. On to something else.

As some of you might know, a girl in our class called Luseta comes from Tonga. So she brought along this type of art/dress that her grandmother made for her. It is called a tapa cloth. She wears it when she goes to funerals, birthdays and celebrations. We found this so interesting that we decided to do tapa cloth designs for our calendar art. It was very successful.

We have also started Athletics this term. Our first  two sports were High Jump and Sprint's. In Sprints we have been doing heats so that the people who struggle with running don't give up if they lose. There's heat 5, {super speedys}, heat 4, 3, 2, and 1. On to High Jump. Luseta was pretty nervous, but later on she found out that she excelled at it. Other things that we do for Athletics are Long Jump, Discus, Shotput, and Relays.

Recently, we have been painting murals. We were inspired to do this when we went to the CBD{central business district}, for a school trip. We decided to base our murals on the things we saw. Some of the paintings were of the Cardboard Cathedral, the Antigua Boatsheds and the River. They are so realistic!

For maths we have been using protractors and compasses. We were careful to not prick ourselves! We used the protractors for right angles. Some people struggled at this but quickly caught on. We used the compasses to draw circles.

We have just finished the current book we were reading, 2MUCH4U. We are now starting the sequel, SOMUCH2DO. It has the same cast of characters and unfortunately the same Holden! Davin got a dog called Wag for his birthday. Wag is a sheep dog and is black with white spots if you didn't know.

Today we had the heats for the talent quest. Everybody was wonderful! Willow, Ambyr and Lydia sang 1000 years and Julius sang his own made-up song called Moving on. Gyda sang and Brydie danced and we all thought they were wonderful. Unfortunately not everyone will make it to the final. Now like Julius' song said, moving on to the next subject .

Recently the class has been doing Haikus, about winter. These were about people in our class, and Mr Mckenzie and Mrs Warren. All of them were amazing! Sadly our trip to Malvern Park was cancelled because the grounds were double booked so we didn't get to do sports.

This week we saw a wonderful group of musicians called: STRIKE PERCUSSION, who played different pieces of music including drums. They used the marimba, and the drums. They made the drums sound like wind by quickly tapping the drums. And, they actually used fire{!} by spraying a liquid quickly to make the fire flicker. We all thought they were an amazing {and loud} group of percussionists.

Now that we have got a new camera we can show you some pictures of all the interesting events that have been taking place.

          

Goodbye for now, and don't forget to read the next blog update!

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Hello our blog followers today, it"s the 23.8.13. Our blogger loggers today are Ambyr and Tane!

                                                     GOAL SHEETS

At the start of term 3 we have been making some colourful goal sheets. We had to choose a sport that involved a ball. For example fabulous Yuki choose football. After that you had to choose your goal and decide your background . In the ball or the goal you put your goal.

                                                       HANDS 
In week 3 we had made 3D hands. We traced our hands and drew lines across the traced hand at least 1cm apart. Next we coloured the lines.  In dramatic colours like purple blue and red!      

                                                  MOSAICS
We got a piece of a4 paper. Then we got black paint and made patterns, we made sure that it was wide. We used primary colours and black.Everyone did really well.

                                  FINISH THE PICTURE                                                                                                               
Last week we finished off dog heads and car front.We discovered that we had a lot more fantastic artists in the class than we thought.The top three cars were Teariki,Michael and Tane. The top three dogs were Luseta, Samantha and Thomas.
                   

                      OUR CITY RE-DISCOVEREd
2 weeks ago the senior block went to the CBD and we had loads of fun .We did heaps of art in our topic book and they all put into a lot of work.It was a big walk but everyone was great except for some people no name mentioned.We all had favourites and that was the good thing.


                         WINTER HAIKU'S

Last week we started on our winter haiku's and some are being finished off .The best two were Yuki's and Luseta's .The first one is Yuki.
Weather is snow
Hot chocolate and hot milo
Time to play soccer

And Luseta's
Hot soup,cold mornings
Frosty, icy ,muddy fields
Goose bumps ,shivers, BURRR!!!

                                                 MATHS-A-THON

Last week we did a math test to raise money for math equipment ,for  math for the school. Ambyr raised the most out of the class with $160.Everyone got at least one sponsor which was great.


                                                    2MUCH4U

We have started a new story called 2much4u by Vince Ford and its about a boy who is like his father who past away and that explains everything because he's forgetful and careless.

                                               GEOMETRY


WE STARTED NEW MATH NOW with old but useful things called protractors and compasses but not north east south west kind of  things the ones that the perfect circles.so far we've done protractors and discovered they're quite easy.



Thats all for now make sure you're back next week with the next mystery writers. bye from Tane Ambyr and  help from Ashleigh while Ambyr was at choir .
                                bye bye bye see ya later

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Hi, it's been a long time since we have had our last blog update. A lot of fun and exciting things has happened for these last few weeks! Oh! We are Willow and Jake, your official bloggaloggas for this edition

SNOW! or was it??

There was a tiny bit of snow, that we were sure that it was going to get up to our noses.

So a lot of students didn't go to school, but it didn't evan get up to our ankles! Only 9 people 

from room 24 came to our came to our school and 2 had to leave that makes 7 in total.

Visit to Wigram 

About two weeks ago we went to the Wigram Airforce museum. We had a scavenger hunt, here are some objects we had to find: A yellow plane, a bent propeller,an blue tractor and a Teddy bear. We also

went upstairs to see the body parts of a airplane, and we also got some mini airplanes.

Luseta's birthday [YUM!]

On the 27th of June Luseta's birthday happened, since she is Tongan it was a Tongan tradition that 

every boy and girl got a piece of cake and a little tub of either strawberry or vanilla ice-cream, the

boys got vanilla ice-cream and the girls got strawberry ice-cream.I SCREAM YOU SCREAM WE ALL SCREAM FOR LUSTETA'S ICE-CREAM! + try and say that five times.

Owls [hoo hoo]

When Mr Williams was doing our reports, our teacher for the day was Miss Norton so for the afternoon we did some art and created some owls for our topic of flight. We all think they look ab fab! Here is how we did it, we did a draft copy first, then when Miss Norton thought we had done our best she told us to do the owl again but on the A4 piece of paper, when we had done our drawing on our paper we coloured in the owls with pastle. 

Reports!

On Monday, the 8th of June room 24 got our reports, we thought it was the end of the world! But things turned out alright, lots of people got rewarded with FOOD AND MONEY! Mr Williams thought he should get a percentage but we gave him nothing!

OH, NO Interviews!
A lot of people had interviews this week, we have found out that in room 24 Mums are more popular
than the very rare creature a Dad, but a few Dads did come. We hope that you had a good interview!

Inquiries
For the topic of flight a lot of the seniors had to do a poster, a question, or an electronic etc. Room 24 had mostly had done posters, and a few did an electronics. Most of these have been FABULOUS! But some of us had to try again because they hadn't prepared it.

The winning house groups!
Coming in 3rd place Kahurangi, in 2nd Kowhai and in 1st equal Kakariki and Whero! Well done all teams don't put your head down if you didn't come 1st, because there is always next term.

Sport Tournaments!
Since neither of us bloggaloggers went to the winter sports tournaments all we know is, the Rugby team got into the Canterburys, and the other teams weren't so lucky.

Big Sleep In!
Yesterday ,in our Big Sleep In, which was our big day in.  We watched a movie and we could bring a pillow, our PJS etc.
The movie was The Smurfs." Hey, Jake aren't we so lucky that we got popcorn and a crunchy bar!" said Willow
"Yeah, we're lucky!" replied Jake.

OH, NO ITS THE END OF SCHOOL!! As we all sob bitterly.
"Jake, what will we do?, sobbed Willow." I don't know",  Jake replied sadly, "We shall both miss school enormously!"

 This is Willow and Jake reporting room 24 news, bye!

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Kia ora and hello, today our bloggaloggas are Thomas and Ashleigh!

In week 4 the year 6's of room 24 started Cycle Safe,we learnt a lot from the teachers and most of us passed but some of us need supervision from an adult.Room 24 year 6's are now  super duper bikers.

Wet day monitors is great, we get to play with little cuties, a.k.a little screaming people.We have been coming up with some great ways to stop them from arguing and being quiet, and so so far this job has been quite easy.Some of our ways to stop them from being pesky are saying, "Hey look out the window" or "Hey there's someone else to go and play with".So as you can see we are very smart indeed.

In week five two people from Science Alive came to visit the seniors to teach them about different forces. It was great, we made cars that were made out of  plastic connecting rods. We made very interesting cars that moved using the force of wind.We also made air hockey type of discs. We used blue tack an old disc a sports bottle lid and a balloon.They were very successful.

We've been making our mark three darts with heavier paper.We found out that heavier paper flies better.But this this time we threw the planes a longer distance and some of them actually did make the whole distance.Teariki, Kai and Luseta's planes were probably the most successful and right now were making our mark four darts.

 "IT'S REPORT WEEK AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Mr Williams is doing reports but luckily he is open to bribing but we're trying to do well in some of  the tests. He said he's open to bribery of chocolate e'clairs . We are doing lots of tests to see if we have actually learnt anything!! In Probes tests we have all really improved, Mr Williams is very pleased.

SLURP SLURP SLURP SLURP SLURP!!!!! Today we started the Fonterra milk for schools process. It's been easy so far but I must say the folds are difficult because you have to flatten the carton right down. Everyone had milk, so we will all have healthy bones !!!!

Hockey,Soccer,Rugby,Netball are the winter sports for this term. But not everyone  makes the team.
Each Friday the sport people get on the bus and leave to Hagley park.But the rest still have fun.At Friday sport where we practice the different sports and hope we get into a team next term.

We have recently started reading a new book called" Public Enemy Number Two" written by Anthony Horowitz.We've all been enjoying it a lot. It's an interesting narrative about  a boy who gets framed and is stuck in prison on purpose. This is a funny book and also quite serious at the same time.Will Nick get out of jail?

Now we all know that math is sometimes boring but it helps you when you grow up.
For maths we have started multiplication and division its going to be a challenging time because some of us need to learn them.So I recommend that the adults help the children learn the multiplication and division.We've got lots of very brainy people in our class and hopefully at the end of the year or term
all of us can be very very brainy.So get cracking with those tables and have fun.

That's our weekly catch up, make sure you come back to see our next catch up with some other people.
We're out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!=)

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Welcome back to term 2. Your two  bloggaloggas  are Emma and Emily. Congrats to the winners
of the truck pulling and the awesome tug of war comp last week, to start our Forces work. We came second =  with room 25 and room 27 came 1st. In room 24 we are making paper darts, some people's
darts went to the end of the room, others found out they had made an acrobatic dart! It's all to do with trying to work out what makes things fly

Remember  that Ab Fab show? ( team assembly ). It turns out that we have the famous presenters
weather girl Emma , sports reporter Ashleigh , roaming reporter Thomas and the two presenters Luseta and Samantha . They were the super stars who organised Team assembly in week1

Congrats to the people who got a place in Cross Country from 1st - 7th , they will be going to the Zones! They are Teariki, Kai, Tane , Julius, Brydie,  Jade, Zavier and Jack. Thanks for trying your hardest everybody .  A special thanks to the school  councillors and Luseta, who was assistant starter.

We have the best book in the world .... THE BEATLES BOOK !!!!!!!! Mr Williams "borrowed" it from
Ms Ashby but hopefully he will give it back.


Congrats to all the people who got into a Friday sports team.


DO the boogie at the Friday Disco. Did you know that at Disco all the boys run around like 3
year old screaming babies while the girls stay calm and do the boogie at the Friday Disco!  

We have just started a reading programme called A.V.A.I.L.L. It is basically 
a reading programme where you watch movies with subtitles it rocks !!!!!!!!


The School now  has a assembly each Monday , so remember to come and go out of the hall quietly to impress Mrs Warren !

Well that's all we've got for this week so bye from the 2 E's! Check back next week for the weekly catch up 7! Have a great time at the Disco!!

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Hi everyone this week our bloggaloggas are Anastasia and Sam.
Over the last couple of weeks we have been training for the Cross Country AKA angry (cross) nation (country). We have 3 groups for training they are the Sloths, the Giraffes and the Cheetahs. We are given an amount of laps to do. When we are finished we yell done and Mr Williams gives us our time and our goal is to beat the time before. Mr Williams also encourages us to choose another person in our group and aim to beat them!! Everyone is improving. YAY!!
On Monday the senior team went to Hagley golf course to practice their golf skills on a real course. Everybody had a lot of fun at the golf course. Many of us were brilliant at golf and are destined to be golfing stars.
Last week we started on our egg diaries. They have mostly been written in first person. They are very funny and we are enjoying writing them. Here are some opening sentences of our egg diaries!

Anastasia's opening sentence: Hi, i'm Shelly and I'm going to talk to you about my spectacular adventures with my mum.

Thomas's opening sentence: "yaaay" I just got my new diary. But "boo" my best friend just died, he was killed in action. But we have have to over come our weaknesses.

Sam's opening sentence: Hi Nacho - Libre here. I'm going to talk to you about my ab fab, exciting , fun and sometimes sad life! Well it all started at birth ( of course) !!

On Monday the first sports trial was held and it was Netball. All of the other sports are going to have their trials next term.
On Tuesday we went to the Blue Skies outdoor activity centre we had lots of fun doing the initative, orienteering and confidence courses.

Yesterday was a mufti day so we could raise money for the returned and services association. We also had a A.N.Z.A.C cerimony in the hall. Mr W told us all the details about A.N.Z.A.C  day.

Today is the last day of term wich means 2 weeks off school! ( yay). But sadly Miss Dunbar left the school at lunch to head to Aussie ( mate mate mate).

Make sure you check back next term for the weekly catch up 6!