Backstroke

I went to swim against Hangatiki, Maihiihi, Otewa and St Mary's.  I did backstroke and I was in the first race.  That was one width and I won.  In the next race I had to do 2 widths.  I did the first width and when I came back someone bumped into me with their head.  You got a red cube if you came first, a yellow cube if you came second and I green cube meant that you were third.  I got a green cube for that race.

Almost Drowning

I went to swimming sports today.  I was really excited until I saw all the other children there.  I came last because I got tired feet.  The other swimmers were in front of me and they were kicking really hard and they made me slow down.  When I turned around for my second width the flutterboard slipped out of my hands.  I nearly drowned.  So I got out of the pool and got changed.

Our Day Out

I went with the Year 4s to the Otorohanga town pools for the small schools swimming sports today.  We were swimming against Otewa, St Mary's, Maihiihi and Hangatiki.  There are some good swimmers out there.  I liked cheering for the other swimmers, especially the children from my school.  I was so excited and really hot.  I was a little bit confused too because I thought I would be swimming by myself and some of the Room 6 children swam with me.  It was fun and St Mary's had a sausage sizzle there.  It smelt yummy.

Small Schools Swimming Sports

Today I went to the Small Schools Swimming Sports.  We swam against Otewa, Hangatiki, St Mary and Maihiihi.  I was bored waiting so next year I want to be in more races.  The water was not that cold but it was kind of deep.  I thought it was much deeper on the other side and didn't want to sink so I was a little scared.  It was really exciting lining up for my race.  It was so hot though.  I was extremely thirsty by the time I finished because I was huffing and puffing across the pool.

Changing Our Blog Background

Each week we will be choosing one of the students in our classroom to change the background of our blog. We are hoping this will enhance our blog and let the children take more ownership of it.


This week we chose Taipari.
I choose this background because it was money and it was about rich people. I want to be a rich person when I grow up. I want a good job that gives me lots of money.

Pictures about our trip.

Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.

We are still writing but thought you might like a bit of a sneak preview of some of the things we did there.

Our Weekend Recounts

Every Monday we share what we enjoyed doing with the class.  After deciding what we want to tell each other about we create and title and then write our recount.  Some of the children thought that you might be interested in what they did during the weekend.

We are planning to start putting our stories onto our class wikispace.  If you want to check out some of the things we do in class then click on the link below.

http://room7-ops.wikispaces.com/

Keep a look out.  We are hoping that everyone will have something to share with the world over the next few weeks.

Do you have a class wikispace or website?  If you know of any really cool websites that our class could visit, please let us know.

What do we want to be when we grow up?

What a strange topic of conversation, but that was what our class spent an hour talking about today.  What would we like to be when we grow up.  It seems like it's going to be ages until we get old enough to do anything exciting.  But we learnt today that there are short term goals and long term goals.  Most of us had short term goals such as wanting to be able to do a backwards flip on the trampoline, or wanting to read a chapter book, or even wanting to learn how to ride our scooter properly.

These were our long term goals.  They are going to take us a very long time to achieve but our class is the ACHIEVING kind.  Just wait and see.

Kymba (Year 4)
I want to be a vet so I must learn to look after animals and then I will be able to own a farm.

Shayna-Grace (Year 4)

When I grow up I want to learn how to ride my bike safely.  I will need to learn to ride carefully.

Justus (Year 2)

When I grow up I want to be an inventor.  I need to go to school and learn everything.

Freddy (Year 2)

When I grow up I want to be a banker.  I have to learn lots of maths.

Matauri (Year 4)

When I grow up I want to play rugby league for the Warriors or the Kiwis.  I have to learn to be like G. M.  I have to learn to tackle properly and not do head high tackles.

Taipari (Year 3)

When I grow up I want to be in the All Blacks.  I have to learn to kick the ball really hard and I need to be really fast at running.

Daniel (Year 3)

When I grow up I want to drive a car.  I need to get my driver's  license so I will need to learn to read and write.

Brody (Year 3)

When I grow up I want to be a TNT tester.  I will need to learn to read so that I can know about all the TNT safety rules.

Tiana (Year 4)

When I grow up I want to work at Warehouse in the book part.  i will need to learn to read so that I can tell people what the books are about.

Tana (Year 3)

When I grow up I want to buy a big motorbike.  I will have to learn where the gears are.  I have to get a helmet and a jacket to keep me safe.

Quintyn (Year 4)

When I grow up I want to be the Warriors.  I will have to learn to pass the ball and not to be scared of bigger people.  I have to be brave.

Luce (Year 3)

When I grow up I want to be a clothes designer.  i will have to learn to sew and look in magazines at people's clothes.

Jessie (Year 5)

When I grow up I want to stunts, like learning how to do a flip over 9 people lying on the ground.  I have to learn how to do a flip first.

Stella (Year 4)

When I grow up I want to be a head chef.  I must learn to cook and stay in school so that I can learn to read cook books.

Sid (Year 3)

When I grow up I want to be able to fly a plane.  i have to ask someone to help me learn to fly a plane.  I have to learn to steer the plane.  I must learn how to take off in a plane and land a plane.

Kristen (Year 4)

When I grow up I want to work at the meat works in Te Kuiti.  I'll have to learn to chop meat.  I'll have to learn what type of meats that you can eat.  I will have to get a car so that I can drive to work.

Forde (Year 3)

When I grow up I want to learn to do a big flip over 10 people on my bike.  I will have to practice a lot.

Let us know what you want to be when you get older.

Rights and Responsibilities

We are learning about our rights and responsibilities to help us with our Topic Study this term.  Our big question is "What are our rights and responsibilities to ensure endangered species survive?"  It seems like a really big and really long question but Room 7 is up for the challenge.  This is what we discovered....

What are our rights?

Our rights are the things that help us live in this world, they are the things we need to live in a fair world.

Everyone has the right to have:

• safety
• education
• shelter (somewhere to live)    
• warmth           
• food   
• clothing          
• personal space            
• to be different

Of course since these rights are for everybody, that means we all have to take on responsibility too.

What is a responsibility?

A responsibility is something that is your job to do something about, or to think about. 

Some of our responsibilities:

• to follow the Golden Rules
• to be the best person that we can be  
• to take care of our own bodies   
• to respect the rights of others
• to look after our own belongings and respect the belongings of others
• to listen to the teacher so that we can learn better
• to care about my family

You might want to watch this movie.  It's about a little boy called Andy and how he learnt to be responsible.  It was made a long time ago and so it is in black and white (that means there is no colour pictures).

We are learning more each day but we wanted to know whether you have any responsibilities at your school. Some of the senior students at school get to be librarians at lunchtime or first aid monitors.  What sort of responsibilities do the children at your school have?

Adding Widgets

After looking at some of the other blogs in the blog challenge we have added some widgets to our blog so that people from other countries can learn about us.
We added a translator so people who do not speak English can read our blog.
We really like the visitor counter because we check everyday how many more people have visited our blog.
We are going to continue looking for some more interesting widgets to put on our blog.

Maybe you can suggest some widgets that you have found to be good?

Cow comes to School for part of the Day

Maybe you are thinking that in this little article that we had a Calf Club Day or an Agricultural Day, but you would be mistaken.

Today at lunchtime we had a cow come running through our playground and then it raced out the school gate and onto the road.  Two brave teachers went out onto the road to try to get it to go into the paddock next to the school but the cow just ran across the road again. Luckily as the cow went up the road some of the parents that live close to the school zoomed out and helped steer it towards another paddock.

We wanted to get it off the road just incase there was an accident.  You can see us cheering everyone when they got the cow into the paddock.

It was such a weird thing to happen that some of the children wanted to share a few cow knock knock jokes with you....

Knock Knock

Who's there?

Cow..

Cow who?

No, cow don't go who, they go moo!

Knock Knock

Who's there?

Annoying cow..

Annoying cow who?

MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Back at School and ready for the Challenge

This post is for Challenge 1 in the September 2010 challenge.

We know that we were meant to do this challenge at the end of Term 3 (NZ time) but we slowly ran out of time trying to get all our work finished.  I'm sure you all understand.  We are so looking forward to exploring other blogs.  We like getting to look at where everyone comes from.  Our teacher uses Google Earth to have a look at where people who visit our blog come from.  It feels like flying.

We can't believe it's the last term already.  What a wonderful start to a new term.  Our new Year 2 students started with us today, and the children have loved having them as part of the class.  We have already chosen names for our groups.  We get points for our groups by doing all our homework, keeping our desks tidy, trying really hard to get all our work finished and correct, and by following the golden rules.  This term we are learning about rights and responsibilities, as well as visualizing (that means making pictures in our heads) and endangered species.

We look forward to sharing everything that we learn with children from all over the world.  So we hope you will check out our blog.

Duffy Books in Homes - Role Model Assembly

Mary Kippenberger and Peter Charlton-Jones

Mary is a storyteller and children’s writer who lives in the Hawke’s Bay with her husband and co-performer Peter Charlton-Jones. They hold an annual music festival, record music, hold workshops and performances at their property, Te Rangi.

You tube – Mary and Peter




Mary and Peter came to our school for our Duffy Role Model Assembly. As part of the assembly we got given two free books. The Alan Duff Charitable Foundation, better known as Duffy Books in Homes, is proud to provide free books to over 100,000 New Zealand children, three times a year. If you would like to know more about this programme click on the website below:

http://www.booksinhomes.org.nz/Home.aspx

After working for a week on our Viking Helmets

Are we there yet? is the question from most of the students in Room 7.  The real answer no, not yet... but we are getting closer....

Ruben the Road Safety Bear

Hi everyone!

This morning we were lucky enough to have a visit from Ruben the Road Safety Bear.  Ruben helps all Waikato children learn to stay safe on and around the road. Ruben comes from the Waikato district and lives in Hamilton East.

His key messages:

• Stop, look, listen and link!
• Look out for sneaky driveways!
• Seat yourself right, buckle in tight!
• Be bright, dress bright!
• Helmet on right and tight
• Look about before stepping out

 

Ruben is part of the Environment Waikato Young Road User Safety Programme. He teaches children aged between three and seven years old about road safety. The Programme is supported by NZ Police and Land Transport NZ.

 

To find out more about the Ruben The Road Safety Bear programme email: ruben@ew.govt.nz or telephone the Environment Waikato Freephone on 0800 800 401    

 

You can check out Ruben the Bear by going to...

http://www.ruben.govt.nz/