Interschools

On Thursday the 21st of May, children all over Mapua woke up with either a feeling of dread or excitement. Interschools day! After a about 40 minutes in their classroom with their stomachs in a knot of nerves, they headed down to the big tree for a quick briefing before hopping into their cars and driving down to Rabbit Island picnic area. Everyone rushed over to walk the course before their race and came back even more nervous than before. When it came to a new race, a flood of children rushed over to the start line, being careful not to get their spikes stuck in rope. Ready, steady, GO! The children surged forward, running hard for the lead.


ROOM EIGHTS CROSS COUNTRY WINNERS.
There was only one Year 5 girl from Room 8 in the Year 5 girls race: Cassie, who came 11th the Year 5 boys, Charlie and Liam came in at 6th and 7th with Bo and Luca not far behind. Kaze placed 8th in the Year 6 boys and Macy placed 10th in the Year 6 girls.

The people that got through to the next round are very excited and are training as often as they can. Even if you didn't get through to the next round, everyone tried their best and had lots of fun climbing the steep banks, sprinting down the other side and jogging through the grass.

by Macy Morgan

Funny Faces

If you had walked into Room 8 while we were drawing cartoons, you would hear laughter and see 23 smiling faces. After quickly arranging ourselves into our art table groups, we got to work practicing drawing cartoon eyes, noses, mouths and ears. Once we had perfected our techniques we grabbed a piece of good paper and lightly drew our faces on the paper in pencil before going over our designs in sharpie or vivid. Finally, the fun part! Using a straw and coloured dye we blew our choice of colour onto our piece of paper to make hair or a beard on our drawings. Carefully we carried them to a safe place to dry before they were put up on the window, where we can see them every day when we come into our colourful classroom.

By Macy Morgan

DEAR, DEAW, DEAD

In room 8, after morning tea, we have been doing something called 'DEAR DEAW OR DEAD'. This is an activity that we have to participate in. 'DEA' means Drop Everything And. Then 'R' 'W' 'D' means Read, Write and Draw.

 Some people do quick, simple drawings while others go into detail. Some people write short stories, while others spread the story over many days. Some people read short books, while others read long novels.

We all enjoy this amazing activity!

By Jacob