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Athletics

On the 8th of November it was the day of the athletics day where different schools all came together to enjoy,compete and socialize in many sporting activities with other schools. As always we were given a card that was for the scores we got for the activity we participated in, the highest score was three but it didn't matter what score you got as long as tried your best and thats all that counted. The day was a fabulous day to get out there and have fun while enjoying the great weather. Athletics turned out to be a great success with tonnes of fitness-filled activities like: high jump, long jump, distance run, sprints etc. It was a wonderful day to also spend some time with your families (and maybe the teachers!) Athletics is another memory to add to 2008!

Kiwi Golf

In Week 3 Chris Pugh (a golf player) came to teach us some golf skills. He taught us how to hit a ball properly and the technique for hitting a ball so it will travel straight and far. We all had a fantastic time with Chris. Check out the movie.

Science Roadshow

On the 14 October 2008, the whole of the Senior Syndicate gathered together at Motueka High School for the Science Roadshow. This was a great opportunity to experiment with objects and understand more about science.

As soon as we got there we gathered with the other schools visiting at the time. A show started and based on chemistry in the kitchen. They asked the audience if we helped out in the kitchen, and then asked if we thought we were scientists and nobody said yes. The answer should have been yes because science is used in the kitchen every day. Another part of the show was taking the purple juice from boiling a red cabbage and using different liquids to change the color of the cabbage juice. He used cooking oil, lemon juice and meths. With these additions, colors like: green, blue and pink formed from the different liquids he mixed in with the purple juice.

After the show was over we the got time to go around with our clipboards and gathered our information on the theme we were given.

Once we gathered the information we got spare time to browse around, learn and experiment with objects.

Then after some time there was another show ready for us to watch. This next show was on electricity and how it works. The most interesting part was when they stuck a gherkin onto a couple of metal sticks, they then switched a button on and it formed a little explosion inside the gherkin. It happened because of the salty water that helped the explosion form.

And with an ending of the show we headed back to school. Here were some comments on how the day went: Maddy said "I don't really like science but I thought it was interesting." Laura's comment was "The science roadshow this year was cool, there were loads of exhibits and fun stuff to do. My favorite was the wind machine."

Ski Day - YAY!

Ski Day dawned gray and wet! Oh no, please don't let it be cancelled! Everyone was dreading the phone call from the phone tree list. But the ski field was open and our worst fears were wiped away.
After the parent and student briefing at 7:20 am we embarked on our journey to the Rainbow Ski Field.
Once we got to the ski field we dumped our bags, listened to the instructor and then rushed out of the Day Room to get our hired gear. Level 1 and 2 had their lessons straight away while Level 3 - 5 were free to roam the ski field according to their level in groups of 2 or 3. Everyone was so hooked on skiing that hardly anyone remembered to stop for lunch. Some students were forced to leave the slopes because the teachers caught up with them and reminded them that they needed food and drink!

We think that ski day was the best day this Term. Check out our photos for some of the action.


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Learning about values

We have been checking out Voicethread as a learning tool. We are learning to share our ideas ensuring we speak clearly and expressively to make sure our listeners understand us and don't switch off.
We discussed what values are. We came up with a brief definition - values are things we think are special, things that we need for our well being and we believe they are important to us. What do you think? We would love to hear more about other people's ideas about values.

Vote on our poll - what do you think about the amount of money countries are spending to host the games? Is it money well spent or should it be spent on other things?
Listen to our Voicethread to find out about our values in regard to the Olympic games and sports and add your thoughts.

Mini Olympics

What a fantastic way to end the week. The House Leaders and Mrs Bibby-Smith spent time planning and organising a fun way to celebrate the Olympics. Check out our photos of the event.

Challenge on!

Today our timetable was rearranged so we could select two teams of 'McGivers' from our Intermediate classes. We needed 8 Year 7/8 students to represent us at the Motueka inter schools' BP Technology Challenge next week. We managed to choose four students from each class.

We were given a 2m space to work in, a bag of materials and a challenge. The challenge was to design and make a structure to guide a marble to hit a target 3m away. There were different scores for the speed, distance from the target and robustness of the structure. It was funny to see some of them fall over before they could be used.

The criteria to choose our 'McGivers' were well designed and successful structure plus ability to work cooperatively with others.

Congratulations to Laura, Adam, Kurtis and Ben E from Room 6, and Barbra, Libby, Haydn and George from Room 5, for their success in winning the McGiver challenge.

Cutest little bush in the school!

At Mapua school on Tuesday the 26, every class planted a tree at the back of the field. The PTA has been working on tidying up the boundary area at the bottom of the field. They purchased a selection of native bushes and trees to be planted in this area to make it more attractive for humans and birds.
Room 6 picked the Hedycarya Arborea plant. So what is a Hedycarya Arborea you may be thinking - well, the Maori name for it is Porokaiwhiri, or pigeon wood, because the plant has little berries that the pigeons love to eat.
Mr Chalmers told us to come back and see it sometime.
Then we measured the bush against ourselves. For most of us the bush was about up to our hips. We will be able to tell if the bush has grown by checking it against ourselves again.

Learning Spanish

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Originally uploaded by To be all I can

We are having fun learning Spanish. In this activity we were trying to find our partners by greeting one another and introducing ourselves. We had cards with the names of famous partnerships such as Minnie and Mickey Mouse, Asterix and Obelisk on them.

Takaka Sports

What an exciting day! Thanks Mr Taylor, the shield is awesome. Shame we couldn't keep it here at Mapua. Well done though Takaka. You were good to play against.

Starting the term right

WOW what a way to start the term by going to the movies to see Prince Caspian.
It was a very good movie full of action and some scary scenes the movie was awesome. The film was shot in the Coromandel, Canterbury, the West Coast forests and Queenstown. When they first appeared in Narnia they appeared in what was really Cathedral Cove on the Coromandel Peninsula. We read that it is hard to find old forests to film in in Europe but the West Coast of the South Island has lots of really old forests that haven't been felled or changed in some way. The scenes in the forest were magical.

Mrs Hosie asked us to look out for examples of humour and irony, times that children showed courage or made wise decisions and techniques the film maker used to to convince us that some characters were bad and others were heroes. We discussed it in groups and came up with lots of interesting things. The scene where the soldiers threw the dwarf into the water showed the children were brave because they stood up to people older and stronger than themselves.. It also showed they operated as a team. Quite often sarcasm was used as humour. Irony was also a technique used to show humour.
The movie is two and a half hours - thats longer than the first one...I think. This movie is a must see and if YOU don't...you will regret it.

mihi mihi

Last week we had our mihimihi for our new Principal, Mr Chalmers.
We had been practicing so hard for the last few weeks and all our hard work paid off because it was the best it ever could have been. We sang Mapua e, Ko toku kura tenei and It Couldn't Be Done. Jade, Willow and Bailey called the visitors into our school grounds and the boys called the chant. Keiran was the first speaker followed by one of hte visitors. Each time someone spoke they were supported by their people singing a waitata (song). After the speeches there was the hongi. Mr Chalmers spoke to us after that ad said he was looking forward to coming to our school but he was also sad to be leaving Tua Marina.
Mr Hepburn said a prayer before we all went to share some kai (food) with our visitors. We had a good time playing with the students from Tua Marina.
Mr Chalmers will be here with us at the beginning of Term 3.

For our Science topic, Changes, we have been learning about viscosity. We have learned that high viscosity is when a liquid does not pour very fast because it is thick. Low viscosity is like our fizzy drinks and water, they pour easily.
For Oobleck it can be both high and low viscosity. It was high when you hit it hard or squeezed it. It returned to a low viscosity when you left it or stirred it slowly.
Playing around with Oobleck was a fun way to find out about high and low viscosity.

Maths

Maths in Room 6 people might say is boring but the truth is it is quite challenging and kind of fun at the same time. So far we are learning about measurement. We are learning how to calculate the volume of objects and so far it has been highly challenging, mind blowing and it is like a puzzle trying to put all the pieces together.
Recently we started a maths interchange.Some Room 5 students come to Room 6 and some of Room 6 go to Room 5 . We do have been learning how to play a new game called Quick thinking multiplication and division. It's where somebody rolls the dice and he or she calls out the number that was thrown and then the rest of the class has to place that number into a column on the Quick Thinking sheet.

News Reports

"My news report was on........" Those are the five words that start us off for the morning. Room 6 has entered the adult world by watching the news every night, listening to the radio or going onto the internet and choosing what news item we are going to talk about the following morning. We are given a sheet for the activity, on that sheet it has different questions that you will answer by watching, listening or going on the internet. The questions were: What was the event? Where was the event? Who was involved? Why was it news worthy?

Spanish

Hola!
In Room 6 the whole class has been learning a new language. Can you guess what it is? If you said it was Spanish you are correct!

Mrs Hosie gave us a folder in which we will put activity sheets that we have completed. We have been learning the alphabet in Spanish. We would write it like this: El Alfabeto. We have learnt different ways to greet each other in Spanish as well.

For one of our home work activities we were given a sheet called a K.W.H.L and a little map of the Spanish speaking world. We had to label the countries where Spanish was spoken. For instance: Mexico, the Philippines and so on. Then we had to choose what country we wanted to find information about. The sheet had four categories. The first category was what you knew already about the country that you had chosen. The second category was what you want to know about the country. The third category is how would you find out the information that you needed, and the fourth category is to show what you have learnt about that country at the end of your research.
So far learning Spanish has been a great opportunity for us and it has been fun as well!

Water cycle

As well as the experiments we have been investigating the water cycle. We have had to draw and explain how the water cycle works. First we had to watch a movie about the water cycle then we got some information about each part.then we put the information on to paper then we add did pitchers and this is what some turned out like.

Reading

In Room 6 we have been doing and learning new ways to record our reading.We have been given a chart full with different ways to use our reading skills and we use our information report books to help us get the information that we need.The chart is called Blooms on one side it has the activities and on the other we have to write the assignment tasks that we have chosen once we have done an activity we will get a point as a reward for completing a task.Here are how much points we get according to blooms: For Remembering=1 point,Understanding=1 point, Applying=2 points, Analysing=2 points, Creating=4 points and Evaluating=4 points as well.So far reading has been great and I'm sure that this reading has and will give us more knowledge to help us through the future.

Mad Scientists at Mapua

This term we are learning about Changes as part of our Science topic. On Monday the 19th we were given a candle, two cups with water in them and two small nails. First we had to measure to find the half way point on the candle. Mrs H drilled one hole on opposite sides of the halfway point. Then we were given two nails which we put in where Mrs H had drilled the holes. Next we put the cups with water in them beside each other far enough apart to allow the candle to be suspended on the nails, without touching the cups. When we had made sure that both sides were level we were able to light both ends of the candle. If the candle did not balance, we cut some wax off until it was right. We had a piece of paper with questions on it that we had to answer.
Below is a movie of what happened.



What we found out: That you have to level it to keep it straight. That as the wax melts at one end it goes up because it is lighter, the end that is down then melts the wax faster than the other ed and so eventually it gets lighter due to losing the wax and so it swings down, now the other end melts more wax until it becomes lighter and swings bak up. This seesaw motion keeps going as the candle burns. It stops when all the candle has been burnt.
The candle wax changed from solid to liquid to solid again.

(Hope you liked the movie's background music. It was created by some of our boys last year.)

Room 6 camp Hanmer 2008

Room 6 camp was challenging,exhilarating and so exciting! The best parts of the whole camp were tree climbing, going to the thermal pools and getting to know each other including the teacher.

Top 5 qualities of a good learner

In our recent poll (or study) about what qualities make a good learner, we found that most of the people who voted thought that the best qualities for being a good learner were being focussed, followed closely by a good sense of humour, third equal were co-operation, good attitude and listening carefully.

We discussed the results and could understand why most people thought being focussed was important because if you are focussed you get all tasks completed and learn more.
We think that people voted for sense of humour because you have to try and make learning fun and enjoyable. We learn best when we are happy. We agree with all the other qualities too.

We would like to thank the people who took the time to vote and make comments.

mapua swimming sports

On the 28th of February we went to Riwaka School for our swimming sports. We had to go to Riwaka because our pool is not big enough for holding competitive events.

When we got there we got into our togs and got ready for the first race. The fist race was the open championship where the competitors had to swim three lengths. "On your marks, get set GO!"yelled our principal, Mr Wemyss,and off they went. Then Mr Hepburn called out the next event, "8 year old boys, freestyle". and it went on like this all day(with a few bumps and bruises).
The races were freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly.

At the end of the competition, they announced the winning house (this is based on points for place getters and number of entries for each House."In 4th is Red, in 3rd is Yellow,in 2nd is Green..." (At this stage the cries and shouts from blue were huge because they got the message that they had won;YIPPEE!)"and in 1st is blue" (the message just got clearer and the shouts got louder).
All in all it was a great day - plenty of sunshine, great effort by the swimmers and fantastic support from each house group.

Thinking about it some more ...

When Mrs Hosie called the roll this morning she asked us what we thought was important in our class. This is what we thought: friendship, teamwork, co-operation, trying hard at everything, A1 quality, communicating clearly, setting and achieving goals, encouraging others.
What do you think is important in a classroom? Please let us know, especially if we have missed something out.

What's important in Room 6

Hey, we're back after our great summer holiday.

We are learning to get to know one another and to make our classroom a positive place to be. So far we have learned that making new friends is fun. Communicating clearly and positively with everyone is very important. Our school motto is 'To Be All I Can'. We are going to aim to work in a way that helps us live out that motto.

Today we had a special parade and celebration to launch our new motto. We dressed up and paraded around as someone that we admire, would like to be like or see as a hero. Mr Wemyss gave a speech and then we launched our helium balloons with our dreams and goals cards attached. Wow, they looked great floating into the blue.