Cross Country

Congratulations to all those who represented the school at this event today. Special mention to Max who improved his placing from last year and also to Perry who did the same. Excellent effort boys.

Inter schools for x-country

On the 23rd of November  the inter schools x-country run is at Poroutawhao school.Only selected runners will attend it,they are the top 4 finished in their race.

Cross Country

On Monday the 14 of November we had our anule Cross Country It started at 12:30 and ended at 2:25

The boys race was number 4 and the girls race was number 14

The placing for the boys were....
1st:Alex
2nd:Sam
3rd:Morgan
4th:Declan


And the placing for the girls was....

1st:Jenna
2nd:Dannielle
3rd:Nikia
4th:Pagie

All of us are going to inter schools cross country. I am very proud of my achievement.

our wonder of the word.

Declan and I have done our wonder of the world. We worked hard and long on it. We are proud of it.

Agriculture day

On friday the 7th of november we had agriculture day what me and my had to do was

Peper mint creams
Fruit jelly
Wall hangings
Calenders
hats for the races
boot or shoe

It was really cool because I came 2nd in my fruit jelly and my peper mint creams.
And Nikia came first in both of them too!
And Brock came first overall

so i hope you liked it BYE

Hannahs term

This new term is so fun we are doing:....

Maths (TOP 20, Algabra)
Reading (Reciprocal)
Writing (Narratives)
Spelling (Spelling under scrutiny)
Technolgy (Art,Cooking,Wood work,Sewing) Year 7 & 8's only!

And all of these things are so so fun!!!! 
But...............
Morning tea time and Lunch is the best thing!!

Best term ever!!!!!
Dont forget...
Kia Kaha -  Be strong,Dont give up,Keep going!!!

Caitlin's 1st ag day!

Yesterday was my first ag day. It was so much fun! I liked all the animals that came and all the food displayed in the learning center. We had to make Egg-free peppermint creams and Fruit jelly. The jelly was super hard to get out the mould! I loved ag day yesterday and can't wait for next years one!

agriculture day

agriculture day in room 7 we had hats for the races,calendar,hessian wall hangings,decorated boots,peppermint cremes,fruit jelly.and the placing for me in the hats for the races i got 1st and in the calendar i got 1st and in the decorated a boots i got 1st and after i went on the gladiator and gumboot throwing and wasting money on raffle tickets and at the prizegiveing i won the over all ponts for room 7 and got a $15 paper plus gift card the end by brock

Windows

Windows are so cool. They keep the cold breeze off you. And like glases there little windows that protect your precious eyes from the sun.Windows also keep bad people jumping thew them .. So be smart and get windows, well every house and car should have some anyway.So you're watching tv and then you see this man walking past in the corner of your eye. Then he stops and turns around looking directly glancing at you .. You turn quickly ..Theres this weird old man looking at you .You get the shivers whats her looking at hes thinking in his head ..The man started walking closer.A shiver dashed down my spine naturally he was still walking towards me .I didn't know what to do. What do I do ??.Do I start talking to him ?Do I chuck stuff at him ? Oh man as he was using his mind to think he quickly the window he said the man charged at him ..He smashed the window shut. The sound of the window smashing against the wood the dog jumped up and saw the man, the man saw the dog. As he started slowly walking back the dog charged at him he gapped it. The dog chased him down the road. Since then I never seen my dog and the man ever again ..I got a new dog anyway . And I got new window's that can never break ...

reciprocal reading

This term we are learning about reciprocal reading. We will be using prior knowledge thats what you already know or have experienced. We are looking at being able to evaluate and make a judgement about what we have read.we are also looking at Determine importance and decide whats is important in a text.and we are using Summarise retell thats what you have read.And also we are asking questions about before during and after reading the text.

Koputaroa School Cross Country

On Monday the 14th of November the cross-country is on. Which is in 10 days

The First 3 or 4 people make into the inter-schools

camp

on the 5th of the 12th, Room 6 and 7 are going to Hawke's bay for 4 days we are going to do laser force, mini golf, national aquarium, splash planet, gannets and kiwi adventure company.

Technology

every thursday we have tech what we do in tech is....

Art
Fabric
Hard Materials
Food

first we had to go to hard materials it was boring but we made something than we went to art that was fun and we went to cooking yum yum and now we are in sewing this is the most hardest.

thank you for reading my story
BYE

agriculture day

Next week is agriculture day. There will be many things happening including the lamb, calf, and kid competition, the pet parade, food and drink stand, a raffel, and much more.Everyone is welcome and the classrooms will be open so feel free to take a look.

back at school

This is the frist week back to term 4 week 1

At Koputaroa school in room seven for:
Reading we are doing reciprocal reading my groups book called living to tell the tale.
Spelling we are doing bits and pice we are all doing different things.
Maths we are doing algebra.
and for writing we are doing narratives

megacities

This tearm my grop has been reading megacities it's about growing cities,mega-mess,air pollution,Weather problems,waste,natural disasters and population. New york city alone produces nearly 10 million tonnes of waste every day!!!!!

Te Reo

In room 7 we have a Te Reo Mode wool e.g: kei te ngenge. is tired. kei te pehea koe? is how are you and you say ka pai. We have a hole wool of it come and see. Kia Ora! is Hallo,Hi-Thank You.

sewing

Hello again its maree here now we are in term 4 week 2 and we are still working on our sewing but most of us are finished!they all look AWSOME!!! All you people should come to ag day to see our schools AWSOME work!!

BP Challenge Hot Learning

The last few weeks we have been split up into groups these are the groups.

BP challenge
fashion design
photograhpy
machnical group

so from there mrs phillips gave us a new task which was we had to make a tower made out of marshmallows and pasta sticks, it was very hard because it keeped on buckling and falling down,and we really wanted to eat it because it looked so yummy. And dont tell mrs phillips that we sneaked some.

Thank you for your time and i hope you liked it ohh yeah i almost forgot the people that are in our group are?
Alex
Alicia
Morgan
Sophie
And Me!

maths

Today in room 7 we did maths in the morning we did top 20,8 questions and then think tank i today am very happy now because I myself got all of it right so that made me very happy with that so to keep doing that ill will have to keep trying really hard. for the whole morning i had a big smille
and still do. :) :) :) :)

Mrs Phillips

In room7 Mrs Phillips is my teacher we do writihg, spelling, reading and hot learning. In the morning at 9.30 we have fiut brack that is when we breing fiut in to the class room to eat at 9.30.

Room 5 Visit

At the

moment we have Room 5 in our class. We have been sharing our different types of advertising. We have looked at what our success criteria has been and the process we have been through to come up with our end products.

SEWING

In sewing this term we've made hesin wall hangings they look great here's some pics heris Morgans

hot lerning

this year term for hot learning we have been studing moters. we have lernt about internal combustion is.we have got an old moter. we have took it apart and fixed it to make it go.we are now puting the moter back togerther.

Rugby world cup 2011

For the rugby world cup All Blacks have played:
NZ V Tonga 41-10
NZ V Japan 83-7
NZ V France 37-17

On Sunday this weekend All Blacks are playing Canada at 3:30 on Sunday in Wellington

Alex watched Australia V USA in Wellington
This Sunday Morgan is watching Argentina V Georgia In Palmerston North at 1:00

avertising

In room 7 we have been doing advertising i have done RJS licorice i made a new flavour
multi coloured twirly licorice dipped in chocolate rolled in hudreads and thousands (sherbert filled)
mmmmmmm yummy only $2:99:)

Riverside Park

In room7 we have been lorning about Riverside Park here's a pice of my writing.
The park's lake used to be a beautiful blue lake but now it's dangoursly dirty. There used to be fish in the lake but now there not! You see i'm very good a writing i'm not the only noe in the grop these Nikia,Sam.P,Amy,sam.I,Maree,Paige,Declan,Poebe,Adana and me by.

dance

This trem we have been doing dancing the them is grease in room 7 we have being dancing to grease the dance we have been doing we have done it with room 5 the song is you the one i want. on the night girls have to be in pink and boys need to be in black tee with jeans

Talent quest

Last friday mrs robinson has held a talent show and heaps have ented it, for singing leah won and hayley and amy did too! and for dancing abbey and josh won also for drama decland won and last but not lest curtis won for the instrumental and also did finn, finn was so good on the drums and leah was so good at singing and the overall winners wre leah and finn.

thanks for your time and i hope you liked it and please leave a comment

photography

We have group in inquiry, it is the photography group.
We have a wall to put what we have learn't.

MCU-Medium Close Up
WS-Wide Shot
ELS-Extreme Long Shot
ECU-Extreme Close Up
EWS-Extreme Wide Shot
CU-Close Up
MS-Mide Shot
LS-Long Shot

They are the different ways of camera shot.
WHAT A LOT!!!!!

Rugby world cup

The opening of rugby world cup 2011 has been do watch the game New zealand vs tonga the score was
new zealand 41 and tonga 10 sorry tonga about the lost and all black im happy go hard

GO ALL BLACKS

rugby

In room 7 we have been watching the opening of the rugby we have watched parts of it and at lunch times so far we have gat in half way thought the game we are doing a grate jod i hope we got win the cup about the opening i thinks it was so cool my dad thinks it was awesome my little sister likes rugby to.

Fashion design

Amy has been working on making rugby world cup shoes. Here they are!

They are awesome! We designed them for the lady who sings the national anthem for us! But we won't actually be sending them to her!

Spelling

For the last couple of days the Editormanicas have been working out of spelling books Example:Homework book 1 and others copying it as a google doc .
The topic we have done are verbs and are currently doing conjunctions .
We have a week to work through about 5 activities and have to share the books.
The people in the group are: Alicia, Jenna,Alex ,Caitlin and Me .

2 days to world cup

wow wold cup has came qick. toga vs all blacks friday night.(8:30) gotta be there.

all blacks have to win

Hello Joy Cowley

We have been reading this book called hello Joy Cowley it's really cool because i dont really get to read books of her so what we really have been doing is making a poster with the rest of our group, which is.......

Morgan
Paige
Sam
Maree
and me

On the poster it has responsibility and cooperation, we put that on there because our teacher told us to because in the book it shows cooperative member ship cause they all agreed together.

Thank you for your time hope you liked it.

A Seriously Twisted Tale

A group in Reading have been doing a play and it is called A Seriously Twisted Tale.
The people in the play are:
Hannah-Frog.

Phoebe- The little pig that survived the big bad wolf.

Nikia- Lilith.

Samuel- Dragon.

Declan- Sir Colin.

Amy- Storyteller.

We are going to present this play in Assembly.
The Assembly is 9TH of september if u want to come see it.
It will be the best thing you have ever seen

Time in room seven

I have been in room 7 from term 2

I like the school Teachers. i also have some new friends like Hannah, Amy, Adana, Jenna and Caitlin

hot learning

For hot learning me and my group got to make a dress i am making the hat i will be doing a lot to make it i will need to find the right die for the hat it's going to be fun it will take a long time to do wen it's finish it will be the best dress every.

H.O.T Learning, Fashion design

Today Mrs Phillips gave us some High heels that we could design however we wanted. First we cut off the tip of a shoe to see what it looked like. We all liked it so we are going to do that to the other shoe! We are going to make the shoes and the dress black. The dress will be a halter neck and have a pashmina scarf wrapped around it! We are designing the dress based on the rugby world cup. It will be worn by the lady that sings the national anthem.

Kapiti Island

we were given a task to make a fact file ,we have made a kapiti island wall display to put our fact file on.On our wall display we have some q's and a's some facts, a giant kiwi,and even some fish and jellyfish that we made from the outlines of our hands.

Rugby world cup

Rugby world cup kicking off in 3 days. This friday the All Blacks vs Tonga at Eden Park and on the 16.9.11 in Hamilton All Blacks vs Japan and on 24.9.11 at Eden Park All Blacks vs France and on the 2.10.11 in Wellington All Blacks vs Canada.

Seriously Twisted Tale

This is a seriously twisted tale, every one is sapost to be in the tale, but the qween lilith dos'nt want to be the qween, she wants to be in the circus, and the pig wants to be a knighf thrower, but sir colin says no!
"this is not the way the story goes" and thats when the dragon comes in and say "I'm resigning my post as the evil dragon"so he join them to be a ringmaster so all was left was sir colin and the storyteller lilith said "why don't you join us, you once told me  you wanted to be a lion trainer" thats when he fround and said yes and so did the storyteller she was a sewer and thy all said yahoo! THE END.                

maths

This week we have been lerning about fractions.We have lernt how add fractions.Eg 1/4 + 6/4 =7/4.
After that we wached that we wached a video. that told us how add fractions.It made it mauch ezeyer to add fractions we lernt the the denominator has to stay the same.

Turbos game

Yesterday i went to the Turbos game in Parmston north and the FMG Stadom.We were right by the side line.When the Turbos got a try Mr Turbo went up to the Hawk for Hawks bay and was being smart.At half time there was a sack race and the kids had to hop to there dads and feed them a 2 cream dounuts and then the dads  had to run to the end of the fireld the first dad there got to kick a ball over the the post and if they got it they go $500 dollars for there rugby club.After half time the Hawks were winning but we got trys and we got close to beating them at the end of the game but they won 35 30.After the game me and connor went to get our posters signed and connor asked Aaron Cruden for his kicking boot and he gave it to connor!!!!!!!

hot learning:)

This team for hot learning we have five groups im doing fashion for this we have planed on making and dress. to do this we have planed it we are thhinking about doing a rugby world cup dress with the new zealand flag and the silver fren.

in my group there is
Jenna
Morgan
Caitlin
Amy
and me
  this is one of the dress we have been looking at

hot learning:)

In room 7 we are doing creativity for our  hot learning,there are
BP challenge
wonders of the world
photography
mechanics
fashion desin
I'm in photography i have leart SO MUCH than before than just pushing a button
i've learnt how to put on a flash
the rule of thirds
way more but i have to go see ya

by maree:)

Fishler and Gizmo

This year we have class pets caled Fishler and Gizmo.
They are marvolous pets and they are goldfish.
we have monitors that feed them at the moment they are Dannielle Phoebe.
They are not eating us like dogs would.
And not scratching us like cats would.
Also they are portable and don't poop on the floor (WITCH IS VERY GROSS).
The girls named Gizmo and the boys named Fishler.
Some of us had these fish last year but this year we all earned them.
But the main thing is that they are AWSOME!!!


By the most awesome person in the universe:
Hannah :) :) :) :)

Modules

Last 2 weeks ago we had a program, and we went over to mrs youngs class to do modules and what we were doing was art we learnt how to use colours that blend well together. And how to draw animals through shapes it was realling fun because iam not a good drawer, im not good at art so it would be a good exsperience.

Thank you for your time!

bp challenge

For hot learning, our class had a huge brainstorm for what we would do for our inquiry.We all gave the teacher our ideas and mrs phillips took all the ideas that we could have and we voted for the ones that we wanted,in the end, mrs phillips split all of us into the groups that we wanted to be in.There were many things to choose from, including photography,wonders of the world and much more.Alex, Morgan, Sophie, Adana and I chose to be in the bp challenge group.This includes doing many bp challenges an also researching about flight.We are working on a bp challenge at the moment
that will allow us to compete with other schools. this is what we have to do. Our task is to design an aeroplane from any materials we like but there is a catch!
it must use a propeller and wheels that the teacher has provided and it it must use a/some rubber bands to power the propeller.

The things we are going to use are:

Balsa wood
some rubber bands
the wheels
the propeller
some polystyrene
toothpicks
and maybe even a parachute!!

This is going to be an awesome experience.

H.O.T Learning

For H.O.T Learning we got to suggest ideas that might be good for creativity. Creativity is our concept this term.. Catilin, Morgan RB, Amy, Phoebe and I chose to do fashion designing. We need to design a dress for the Rugby World Cup 2011. One of our W.A.L.T's is to evaluate a pattern using the De Bono's thinking hats.
Mrs. Phillips showed us some of her dresses for us to look at. Here are some for you to look at.

Our new math program!

In our class we now have a new math program. Now we all do group maths first then have a sharing session, In the sharing session Mrs Phillips pulls three names out of a bag and those three people have to share a math question they found hard and strategie they used to fix it. After that we do the top 20 which is 20 basic fact questions that people try and do as FAST as they can!
I'm in the top 60 club which means I have to do 80 masic fact questions in the same time people do 20 basic fact questions! Oh every time people complete 20 questions and stand up before everyone is finished and got them all correct. They would get a tick by their name, If they did the same thing the next day they would get another tick beside there name and they would be in the top 20 club! Which means they would now have to do 40 questions in the time people do 20!
Its kinda confusing but its REALLY fun! :)

Koputaroa and Poroutawhao sports exchange

On wednesday we had a sports exchange with Poroutawhao ,we played soccer, rugby & Netball
the scores where

5/6 netball: Koputaroa-0 10-Poroutawhao
7/8 netball: Koputaroa-9 9-Poroutawhao
Soccer: Koputaroa-6 0-Poroutawhao
Rugby: Koputaroa-39 47-Poroutawhao

Think Tank.

In room 7 we have been doing think tank sheet it's math. It can help as with math & fraction it's good.In the think tank box's is maen careds they are all math careds.

Rugby world cup 2011

For the rugby world cup all the year 6 had to adopted a country that zis going to the world cup i got fiji we have to get all the info about our country.

Koputaroa and Porotawhao sports exchance

Every year we have a sports exchance with Porotawhao. We play Rugby, Netball and soccer.

Draw:

Netball-5/6 12:10pm
Netball-7/8 1:pm
Soccer-12:10pm
Rugby-1:00pm

GO KOPUTAROA!!!!!!

Maori Language

Kia Ora!

Ko Adana taku ingoa
No Koputaroa School ahau


Hello
my name is Adana
I am from Kopuptaroa School

Caitlin's advert

netball

hello its maree, at koputaroa school we have a netball team
(our team)
maree
melissa
sophie.s
sophie.p
grace
oliva
phoebe
kristina
katarina
we LOVE NETBALL its fun,you get exersize,you should come and watch. This week we have no game but come next week your welcome check out our blog and find out what time.

Advertising

This is my Ad.
I am Advertising Colgate.
It took Awhile to do this
1.We had to finish the posters first.
2.Then we got to do record our voices.
3.Then we put the picture on www.fotobabble.com
4.Then we uploaded the photo to our blog and did this blog post.

ADVERTISING

For writing mrs phillips gave as all a item to advertise i got smiggle and for this you could have made a new item or just advertise it so i advertise smiggle it looks like this.

Alicia's Vodafone advertisment

Snowy fractions!

Today maths was a bit different, Because of all the snow we decided we would do fractions outside! So we all had groups of three and got a couple of sponges, a syringe and a cup of food colouring. Mrs Phillips would yell out a fraction and one person from each group would have to either use the syringe or sponge to draw one way of showing it! After that we had to make a snow pile, half it then quarter one of the halfs, Then we had to make a snow stucture with those fractions and mark which fraction it was!
It was so cold but so much fun!

Radio Jingle

This term we have been making radio jingles as part of our advertising. I made one for Colgate toothpaste. Check it out hope you like!

modules

This term we have learnt how to get the red ink, coffee, vivid and tomato sauce stains off the carpet and lino.
We made our own cleaners, which was made up with white wine, orange and baking soda.
We tested it against jiff. We left it on the carpet and lino over night to see what would happen, it was dried when we looked at it the next day, we washed it off with 2mls of water, a dry cloth and toilet paper.
Our cleaner did'nt work on any of the stains, the jiff took the coffee and red ink off the lino only.

Run Jump Throw

On every day this and next week we are doing Run Jump Throw .
A proggamme where we are learning skills and ways of doing P.E inculdes Javelion,Shotput,hand and ball skills and lots more.
Each class will have 5 or 6 days of Run Jump Throw to learn different skills.
A range of skills also easier for younger students and harder for the older students.

Hannah's learning in room 7

Im Hannah Lacey,This is me

This Term with have been doing Factions for Maths,Reading,Spelling,Modules,and Writing.

The one i like best is Maths because i'm very good at Fractions,

Modules is when when go to a different class and we do different things like Art,Te Reo Moari,And Science.
It is all a bunch of fun!!!!!!!!!!!

We also have been doing run,jump,and throw.
A man called mark teachers us throwing,Hurdles,vortex,Shotput,And lots of other skills.

And thats what i have been learning this term.

Modules

For modules we have do some thinking about cleaning products. So now we got to make one we all got into group of four andtorked about what should be in it.

New Television

Over the last month or two, the school purchased brand-new televisions for all the classrooms. Now that we have the tv's we use it for maths, slideshows, reading the news and lots more, i love this brand new resource it helps us heaps.

Welcome Back

Welcome back to Term time has really flown by this year!
This term we will be given our homework by email. We are all excited that we can use our new email accounts for this purpose.
We hope you keep checking in to see what we are up to!

Mrs P

Hello, Hello,Hello

Hi Room 7
It's so great to see you have been keeping up with our blog!!! I hear you have been awesome while I have been sick. Am really looking forward to being back at school and hearing about what you have been up to.

See you soon
Mrs P

Pom-Pom creatures

We have been working on somethings called pom-pom creatures.
Our first step was:
1. Cut out 2 cardboard circles with holes in the middle that were the right size we needed.
2. Second we got the colour wool that we wanted and we put the 2 pieces of cardboard together then started winding the wool around the cardboard circles-this took a while!
3.After we had wound the wool around 14-15 times we cut between the middle of the 2 circles and tied it tightly with a piece of string
4. DECORATION TIME!!!,we decorated the creature so it looked like an animal of our choice.

                          

Caitlin's advertising

In the class at the moment we are working on advertising, We all got given a product or a company, Now we have to re-create the logo, slogan, jingle and if it's a drink or food flavour! I got given 'Powerade' and have to create a new flavour. I have decided to call it 'Imortal force' it will be a toxic green colour and taste like sour melon, (Don't worry it's already a flavour in Australia so it won't taste as bad as it sounds)

sewing, making a hesian wall hanging.

We are doing sewing for art this term.

We are sewing felt on to hesian, I am making a brown horse rearing on orange hesian.
Here are the steps of making a hesian wall hanging.
1. first decide what you want to make on google images and print it.
2. cut out all of the pieces the image and pin to baking paper and cut out around the image.
3. pin the baking to felt and cut around baking paper.
4. pin to hesian and start sewing to hesian.

you can add things to it if you want to.

Gymnastics

We are doing Gymnastics most Fridays after Morning Tea in the middle block.
So far we have learnt forward rolls , backward rolls , on the box, bridges ,on the beam and lots
more.It teaches us about Gymnastics and how to do Gymnastics.
I am enjoying Gymnastics and my favourite things so far have been backward rolls ,bridges ,the beam and on the box.
We do Gymnastics in the Learning Centre and Mrs Phillips takes it.

Novel Cover

I have been designing a new novel cover
for Mondays are Murder.
On it has pictures tying in with
the story e.g.
shower ... hot steaming jungle
wine ... poison snakes
freezer ... snow
both ropes have been cut with knifes

Mondays are murder, reading

My group is reading a book called mondays are murder the main characters are Poppy Fields and Bruce Dundee. This is what it's about: Poppy Fields goes to a remote island cut off from civilization by a big storm, three of the instructors on the island got murdered, first Poppy Fields thinks that a ghost is murdering the instructors soon she finds out that Bruce Dundee is murdering the instructors for revenge.

Planet Earth Quiz

Have a go at our quiz. It has some questions that we have been answering in our HOT learning.

Earthquakes and Planet Earth

Have a go at our Earthquake and Planet Earth quiz to see how much you know about our world.

1. What is an earthquake?

shaking of the ground because of tectonic plate movement
the ground moving normally


2. How many tectonic plates are there?

1-9
10-15


3. What is the name of the plate/s New Zealand sits on?

Eurasian and Pacific
Australian and Pacific


4. Name the types of plate boundaries.

convergent, divergent, subduction, transformation
converent, subduction, transformation


5. Name the plates Japan sits on.

North American,Pacific Plate, Eurasian Plate,Philippine Plate
Pacific Plate, Arctic Plate, Eurasian Plate,


6. What is the fastest rate that a tectonic plate moves at per year?

15cm/year
2.5cm per year


7. What scales can be used to measure earthquakes?

Richter and Mercalli
Richter and Mitchell


8. What is a tsunami?

a tidal wave
a series of waves caused by displacement of water


9. what causes tsunamis?

volcanic eruption, earthquakes, glacier slides
icebergs breaking, an earthquake on land


10. How big was the largest tsunami recorded?

345m tall
516m tall

We hope you learn something by taking our quiz.

ADVERTISING

This term we have been learning about Advertising. There are many tapes of advertising like a snappy slogan , Exaggeration ,intriguing questions , Appealing adjectives and a tempting description of benefits . a snappy slogan is a catchy phrase that company use to advert there product for example have a break, have a kitkat.

Earthquake Videos

Today we have been learning about fault lines, what an earthquake is, how big earthquakes can be, why there are aftershocks from earthquakes.
Check out these videos

Today I have learnt...

We talked in pairs with the person next to us, we had a discussion about what is an area.  Two groups joined up and shared their sentences . Then each group told the teacher their sentences,  she wrote it on the t.v. . Then we found out what area is by going to www.amathsdictionaryforkids.com  . It told us area is the size a surface takes up.we found out that its measured in square units.

Room 7 sewing

In Room 7 we've been working on hessian wall hangings.Hessian wall hangings are when you get a piece of hessian and sew it to the size you want it to be.You decide on a pattern to cut out of felt then sew around it  so that there is about 1/4 of unsewed  felt.Stuff between the felt and the hessian and add any extra things like:eyes,buttons etc.Now your done!!! 

Hot learning

Hot learning is fun because we are learning Japanese stuff, like Japanese writing and what food they eat. The Japanese eat alot of rice and drink water. On Friday we are going to be making a 3 course Japanese meal.

Sports

Our Sports at school are going great  we have are Hockey,Netball and Mini Ball.
In hockey there are 4 grades 1 2 ,3 4,5 6 and 7 8. The senior  grads are going great  year 7 and 8 have only lost 2 games and the year 5 and 6 have lost no games.Year 5 and 6 have lost all games and drew  ones in netball. and the year 7 and  8 have won 4 games.

Top 20

In Room 7 we have a program called the Top 20 club. Each morning we do the Top 20, the teacher hands out a strip of paper and a list of Times tables,division, subtraction and Addition. Then she writes on the board numbers from one to ten. The teacher will give us a letter from the list above on the sheet and then we make a start,when we finish it we stand up and the teacher puts our name on the list,so if we got 20/20 we get our name on Top 20 list.


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Room Seven's Fish

In Room 7 we have two fish, their names are Fishler and Gizmo,they are part of our class.
In term one, our fish went on holiday because their filter broke and it was really noisy!
We missed our fish.But now we have them back we feed them every day at 2:18pm.


WE LOVE OUR FISH!!!!

ICAS EXAMS

Over the next couple of weeks some students will be doing spelling, writing,and maths exams.
People have paid to do the exams and children year 4-13 around New Zealand and Australia are doing them . We are one of hundreds of schools in New Zealand doing the exams.
I have done the writing exam and after morning tea I will be doing the spelling exam.
You get between 20 and 30 minutes to do the exams and we will do them in Mr Orr's office.

BIG ADVENTURE

At the end of the term Kaleb & I are going to India. It's going to be AWESOME.
We are going to be skyping Room 7 so they can keep up with our adventures.

Year5/6 Netball Saturday 26th

Game is now at 9AM you will need to be at the game at 8.30am

Mr Gum and the Cherry Tree

This term I have been reading Mr Gum and the Cherry Tree. It has awesome vocabulary, such as ' Old Hoof-Features', and a cool story line. My favourite Character is Alan Taylor, who is a gingerbread man, and he is the school headmaster with a silver whistle. He is my favourite because he is amusing and a talking gingerbread man!

Mondays are murder

Mondays are murder is a book about when some kids going to an activity centre and they are going to test it out.So on one Monday they went rock climbing and one instructor ends up dying because he falls by mistake.
The main character is a girl called Poppy Fields,she narrates the story.This book has won a red house children's book award for 2010.This a GREAT book and i recommend it to you.This is a Tanya Landman book.
some of her other books are:


1.Dead funny.
2.Dying to be famous.
3.The head is dead.

Themes for the 'Ogre of Oglefort'.

Our reading group is reading a book called 'The Ogre of Oglefort'. We are trying to find out what themes are and which themes are included in our story. Some of the themes we think are in our book are Acceptance, courage, cooperation, and Identity.
I think the book is exciting and adventurous, At the start i thought it was hard to get into until i read more and more and started to get the whole theme of the book!

Writing

We have been learning to create a good piece of persuasive writing.We need to persuade the reader to come to our Japanese cultural exchange and join in with the things they will be doing with us. It will be really cool because we will be having Japanese food, see Japanese clothing and so much more. Here are a couple of letters.
https://docs.google.com/a/koputaroa.school.nz/document/d/1Z9pHaufH9agsOLR2mSAYgn-yOXGz4YKrkw_6FdFciy4/edit?ndplr=1

Results Saturday 18th

ALL GAMES CANCELLED

Things we learned this week

Brock: How to write a formal letter
Phoebe: How to use my gmail account
Kaleb: How to put a voki on our blog
Declan: Some more division facts
Alicia: How to use gmail and google docs
Hannah: What the Japanese flag looks like
Paige: That Mt Fuji is the tallest mountain in Japan
Max: I never knew that mount Fuji is a volcano
Adana: How to put a voki on the blog
Sam P: How to use BEDMAS to follow steps in maths
Jemma: I found a great language translator website for my HOT learning tasks.
Nikia: I learnt what the perimeter of an object is.
Maree: I learnt how to do double digit multiplication
Sam I: I learnt how to do Top 20 maths.
Dannielle: What goes in a good letter.

Our Word Wall

We use our wall to give us ideas to use in our writing.


Our word wall has Nouns,Verbs,Adverbs and Adjectives.
If you find a word that you think is great like colossal then find the definition for colossal. Next you write the definition  on a pink star and staple it on the word wall.Once it is on the wall we can go and see how to spell it and use it for making our writing sound interesting.





         

Gymnastics

Morgan H performing a forward roll

 Today we went to the learning center for PE.
We learnt how to do a forward roll. We also learnt how to balance on the beam and do a bridge.

Declan jumping over the beam.

imovie

We are learning to make an Imovie this term.

An Imovie is a movie that you can create 

by getting lots of different videos that we

recorded and putting them together to

make one. Here are the steps to make an Imovie.

1.Take video

2.Upload video

3. Create movie

written by Kaleb and Morgan

Japanese

This term for Hot Learning Room 7 has been learning about Japan. I am in the language group.
We have done the major imports and exports. We have found lots of info. For this we used

computers, maps, comic life and pages. It was pretty cool doing this. I have learnt so many more things about the world and some things about Japan.

Jenna's Accident!

I was on the slide at the Esplinade in Palmerston North. A little kid came up from underneath me and knocked me off. I had to walk all the way back to the hockey turf to find my mum because I was with a friend. I was really brave and I didn't even cry.
I have snapped my raduis bone and cracked my ulna bone. It hurts a bit.
Hopefully I haven't started the Room 7 curse again!

Mr Gum and the Cherry Tree- an analysis by Declan

Good evening and welcome to a tale of forests! Of legendary beasts! Of dreadful villains! Of caterpillars called Graham! And of a great big BEEFER of a cherry tree! But what dark secrets are hidden in that tree, where the leaves grow thick and green? Polly intends to find out by finding out.What will she find out? Find out by reading this book and you'll find out!

It started off in a town called Lamonic Bibber,it was all quiet until old granny came shouting down the street "THE OLD WAYS ARE BACK!"
Every body gathered around Old Granny and she shouted again "THE OLD WAYS ARE BACK!" Suddenly she said, "FOLLOW ME AND I WILL SHOW YOU, COME ON LETS GO"
And so they did chanting all the way "THE OLD WAYS ARE BACK,THE OLD WAYS ARE BACK,THE OLD WAYS ARE BACK."

I think that this piece of writing shows that the townsfolk believed and trusted Old Granny even though she appears to be a bit crazy or drunk!
So far I have found this book to be a bit out of control because there is a lot going on. The townsfolk appear to be a bit dumb and I am not sure if Runtus is real!

How to write a proper letter by Brock

In Room 7 we are learning to write proper letters. Later this week we are interviewing Mrs Keenan, she writes the letters for Koputaroa school . So far we have learnt to send out and end our letter .

Alex's Ramblings

This term for HOT learning I have been learning about the Geography of Japan.
These are some of the things I've learnt

1) Japan is a Archipelago (this means a string of islands surrounded by water).
2) There are over 300 Islands that make up Japan.
3) There are 108 active Volcanoes.
4) Japan is in Asia, which is in the Northern Hemisphere.
5) There are 127,967,000 people in Japan.

Check out our sewing skills!

These are our Hessian Wall-hangings that we have been making during art time.  Also pictured are some of our pompom animals in various stages of production.

Kia Ora, Talofa, Bonjour, Namaste, !

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