Showing posts with label Jacob. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jacob. Show all posts
Saturday, 31 October 2015
Thursday, 23 July 2015
Bamboozables
What are Bamboozables you ask? Bamboozables are a saying/phrase that is made up of a display of words, in an interesting way. The object is to figure out the meaning of the puzzle. here is an example:
Answers:
1. think twice about it
2. walk on water
3. space invaders
4. free your mind
5. keep on smiling
6. it doesn't add up
Click here to go to the Bamboozables web page!
By Jacob
1. think twice about it
2. walk on water
3. space invaders
4. free your mind
5. keep on smiling
6. it doesn't add up
Click here to go to the Bamboozables web page!
By Jacob
Tuesday, 2 June 2015
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
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
Monday, 18 May 2015
Stuff That People Do At Lunchtime
At lunchtimes, Room 8, and the rest of the school, are busy doing all sorts of interesting things;
- playing ball-tag, cheat and other playground games,
- manhunt, tag and other whole school games,
- playing fun mini games with juniors and middles in the sandpit,
- doing lunchtime activities like Kapahaka, Ukelele and Library duties,
- or walking aimlessly around with friends
We have been doing some pretty cool stuff at lunchtimes!
By Jacob
- playing ball-tag, cheat and other playground games,
- manhunt, tag and other whole school games,
- playing fun mini games with juniors and middles in the sandpit,
- doing lunchtime activities like Kapahaka, Ukelele and Library duties,
- or walking aimlessly around with friends
We have been doing some pretty cool stuff at lunchtimes!
By Jacob
Spelling to the MAX!
In Room 8 we have been working on the 'C', 'K' and 'CK' sounds in spelling. Here are some of our rules!
-use 'CK' after a short vowel: back, peck, thick, sock
-use 'K' after a consonant letter, long vowel or vowel pair: park, peek, cake
-if we use a 'K' we use 'I' or 'E' after it: kit, kill, ken
-if we use a 'C' we use 'A' 'O' or 'U' after it: cat, core, cut ( sometimes those last two rules don't apply but we haven't learnt about those. )
We use dictionaries to find 'C' 'K' and 'CK' words. We then use the words we've found and spell them. Hope you enjoyed reading about our spelling.
For our writing we have been writing ANZAC diaries by soldiers, or nurses, in The Gallipoli Campaign. We have been writing primarily about life in the trenches and battlefields. Some people chose to write about blood and gore, while others wrote about the hospitals This was mainly those writing as nurses. Some soldiers chose to opt out of the battle for a seemingly quieter life on beds in hospital tents with walls that blocked out the sound of deafening explosions and blood curdling screams of the battlefield.
These are some entries from various authors:
28th April 1915
It has been pouring with rain. We have been busy all night putting triage tags on wounded soldiers. We saved the red tagged soldiers immediately, but those with black tags sadly passed away. There was no way to move with all the dead bodies lying around in the hospital tent.
entry by Lily Hendriksen
1st June 1915
I have been awarded a medal! But I have been shot in the leg. It's just gutzer! I got the medal for bravery because when I got shot in the leg I just forgot about it and kept fighting on.
During the battle I remember a cricket ball sized grenade being thrown into our trench. Luckily for me, its fuse was burning slowly so I picked it up and threw it back into the turks trench before it exploded. I felt lucky because I didn't get blown to pieces but I feel sad for all the turks I must have killed.
I don't like war, it's terrible! All you do is shoot people. The trenches stink. I stink! I am always getting the Gallipoli Gallop. Trying to find a spot to go to the loo, sometimes I cant find anywhere to go and I end up having to pee my pants. I cant wash my clothes or myself because there is so little water and no bathroom facilities . I have to wait until I get down to the beach and wash myself in the sea.
entry by Kouta Roberts
Glossary of Kouta's entry
Gutzer: Horrible
Gallipoli Gallop: Trying to find a toilet in the trenches
Blog post by Jacob
-use 'CK' after a short vowel: back, peck, thick, sock
-use 'K' after a consonant letter, long vowel or vowel pair: park, peek, cake
-if we use a 'K' we use 'I' or 'E' after it: kit, kill, ken
-if we use a 'C' we use 'A' 'O' or 'U' after it: cat, core, cut ( sometimes those last two rules don't apply but we haven't learnt about those. )
We use dictionaries to find 'C' 'K' and 'CK' words. We then use the words we've found and spell them. Hope you enjoyed reading about our spelling.
For our writing we have been writing ANZAC diaries by soldiers, or nurses, in The Gallipoli Campaign. We have been writing primarily about life in the trenches and battlefields. Some people chose to write about blood and gore, while others wrote about the hospitals This was mainly those writing as nurses. Some soldiers chose to opt out of the battle for a seemingly quieter life on beds in hospital tents with walls that blocked out the sound of deafening explosions and blood curdling screams of the battlefield.
These are some entries from various authors:
28th April 1915
It has been pouring with rain. We have been busy all night putting triage tags on wounded soldiers. We saved the red tagged soldiers immediately, but those with black tags sadly passed away. There was no way to move with all the dead bodies lying around in the hospital tent.
entry by Lily Hendriksen
1st June 1915
I have been awarded a medal! But I have been shot in the leg. It's just gutzer! I got the medal for bravery because when I got shot in the leg I just forgot about it and kept fighting on.
During the battle I remember a cricket ball sized grenade being thrown into our trench. Luckily for me, its fuse was burning slowly so I picked it up and threw it back into the turks trench before it exploded. I felt lucky because I didn't get blown to pieces but I feel sad for all the turks I must have killed.
I don't like war, it's terrible! All you do is shoot people. The trenches stink. I stink! I am always getting the Gallipoli Gallop. Trying to find a spot to go to the loo, sometimes I cant find anywhere to go and I end up having to pee my pants. I cant wash my clothes or myself because there is so little water and no bathroom facilities . I have to wait until I get down to the beach and wash myself in the sea.
entry by Kouta Roberts
Glossary of Kouta's entry
Gutzer: Horrible
Gallipoli Gallop: Trying to find a toilet in the trenches
Blog post by Jacob
Sunday, 3 May 2015
The Scale Of The Universe
This website is a great way to get the feel of how amazingly massive the universe really is. It goes both ways though, as the minuscule things are the most important of all! It goes all the way down to a tiny 0.0000000001 yocto-metres! From the whopping known universe to the space-time fabric of everything, this is a truly awesome website. Click on the link at the 'websites to check out' down at your left.
Tuesday, 21 April 2015
Cross Country training
Lately, Room Eight has been doing a run every day. We also do three songs of Jump Jam with the rest of the school in the morning. The run takes us from the school all the way to the beach and back then once around the bund. Some people zoom right to the front and some people stay behind and pace themselves by running ten or twenty posts and then walking five. The run is 1.35 kilometers long and is very fast (most of the time).
The Jump Jam songs are a fun thing to do every morning (before the run in the afternoon) and often warm people up quite a lot! So far the songs have been very ‘feel good’ sort of songs and everyone often sings along to the songs that they know. Some year 7 and 8 students are up the front helping all the little kids along, while the rest of the school stay back and dance their hearts out!
When we do our fitness activities we all give it a go and do our best at everything, as well as getting ready for the Mapua School Cross Country event on the 8th of May 2015. We are taking this event very seriously and we have all set our own personal goals and we are all trying hard to achieve them in a set time frame (before the cross country). We also have been filling in a run log by entering the date, where we go to, distance today and the total distance we have run.
Our class is now impervious to the endless fear and tiredness of the cross country!
By Jacob
Tuesday, 17 February 2015
Room 8 Wonders!
On the last day of the holidays we were all thinking about what tomorrow would bring.
When the Room 8 students arrived at school the next day, they all saw what was going to be their classroom for the next year. It was the same Room 8 as last year on the outside, but the inside was amazing!
There was a bookshelf bulging with books on every subject possible! There was music blasting from the awesome interactive whiteboard. We all started dancing when we heard the awesome song. There was welcome to Room Eight 2015 written neatly across the normal whiteboard!
After our awe had passed on, the bell rang and we all sat down at our neat, tidy desks. The music stopped and our new teacher emerged from behind her desk. Mrs Hosie walked swiftly to the front of the class and introduced herself by telling us her Mihi (a Mihi is a Maori introduction).
Two minutes later we were all settling down to learn how to create quick, eye-catching title pages. They looked awesome! At the end of the day we all went home to our parents and told them of the wonders of Room 8.
By Jacob
There was a bookshelf bulging with books on every subject possible! There was music blasting from the awesome interactive whiteboard. We all started dancing when we heard the awesome song. There was welcome to Room Eight 2015 written neatly across the normal whiteboard!
After our awe had passed on, the bell rang and we all sat down at our neat, tidy desks. The music stopped and our new teacher emerged from behind her desk. Mrs Hosie walked swiftly to the front of the class and introduced herself by telling us her Mihi (a Mihi is a Maori introduction).
Two minutes later we were all settling down to learn how to create quick, eye-catching title pages. They looked awesome! At the end of the day we all went home to our parents and told them of the wonders of Room 8.
By Jacob
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