Current Events Quiz - T4 Week 7

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Current Events Quiz - T4 Week 6

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Current Events Quiz - T4 Week 5

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Athletics Day Today!

Oow my legs. I was so sleepy and sore after school yesterday because of athletics.

I was in tabloids yesterday and I was controlling the sack race. It was really fun and hard at the same time because I had to run back and forth getting everything and setting it up.

I liked it better when it was the seniors turn because each group only had two people in it and everyone knew what to do. But in the middles there where heaps of them and some need extra reminders how to move to their next activity. I really enjoyed Athletics especially the chance to organise and run a tabloid activity. The ice cream I had at lunch was wonderful!

Oh no Athletics Day cancelled

Yahhh! The sound of me waking up opening my eyes to a... oh no its raining!!! The sun has been buried behind the clouds. The sky was like a recently turned off tap. The dark clouds made everything freeze up like a fridge. I was so annoyed. Athletics Day, cancelled! The reason I was annoyed was because I qualified for the field events of Athletics Day. I was basically praying for the sun to come out and and the wind to pick up to blow the water off the slippery and wet grass. But now we can only wait.

YAY! Athletics Day!.....NO!

I woke up ready for the Athletics. Then suddenly a car drove past our house and I heard the unmistakable sound of a layer of water on the road. NOOO!! IT WAS RAINING! Wait, raining=wet grass=cant run=No Athletics!! I had missed school because of my sore throat and had eagerly waited for this day. While I was eating breakfast /listening to the radio I heard that the rain might clear up! Maybe there's still hope......

Athletics Day - Not!

"Oh yeah, no Athletics Day! Yay!"

Mum opened my curtains to wake me up and I immediately saw the rain pouring down my window. "Victory", I thought to myself. NO ATHLETICS DAY. But when I walked into Room 13 I found out that it will be held tomorrow so all of my rain dancing was wasted. So I guess I'll try the rain dance again tonight!

No Athletics Day - Oh no!

Oh stink ... its raining! I have been so excited from last night, packing my clean sports uniform and even getting my $1 for an iceblock! All for nothing? No Way, this can't be happening! I was so disappointed this morning when mum came into my room and said, "Rosa, it's raining this morning. Do you think athletics is still on? Half asleep I replied "No". But when I was fully awake. I knew what it meant. It meant there was a high possibility of athletics being postponed until tomorrow! I felt my heart sink. But... just in case, I brought my P.E uniform anyway. When I got to school, sure enough Mr Gordon said "Even if it gets sunny, the ground will be too wet so we can't do it today.". I was expecting this but once again I felt let down. All I could think was "If only I could change the weather from the beginning!". SO ...I'm really hoping we can have athletics tomorrow.

Current Events - Term 4 Week 4

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Current Events Quiz - T4 Week 3

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Current Events - Term 4 Week2

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Current Events - Week 1 Term 4

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Art Exhibit

“Wow! Look at all the colours and different styles, we are so creative!” This morning our class went to the art exhibit to look at all the art work that Sunnybrae has created this year. It was amazing to see how talented our school is. There was a range of different media used to make the art work, some people used paper mache to make masks and others used paint. It was really good seeing our puppets on the stands, it looked like a real live rugby match! Overall I think the exhibit was a great success and we should all be proud of ourselves.

New All Blacks Symbol

Today we made a new All Blacks symbol. First we had to fold the paper into four, make four designs and then choose our best, but I ruled heaps of rectangles and did nine designs. My final one I thought was really good. After we did that we had to colour it in we were only allowed to use black and white but that was pretty easy. What I did was I incorperated the rugby ball into the A and B, put silver ferns on the rugby balls and a black line in the middle. The letters were black and the background white.

Samoa vs Fiji

Yay we're going to Samoa vs Fiji. When we left it took about 40 min to get there. When we got to the stadium it was so high. It looked like half of the Sky Tower. We started to go up the stairs it was was so high, I was holding the rail going step by step finally we got to the top. We were so high we could see the whole game. There was still half an hour until the game started so I had to resort to counting the number of people in the stadium 1 2 3...2408 2409... Yay! The game is starting. Samoa won the coin toss and decided to kick off. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Samoa kicked it with a huge boot. In the end Samoa won 27-7 when we left there was so much people traffic it took ten minutes to get out of the stadium alone, and it took an hour to drive home so I had to resort to counting cars on the way home.
1 2 3...zzzzz!

By Leo

Cricket for PE

On Monday 26th September 2011 we had cricket for P.E. and do you want to know how it was? It was magnificent!

So I went out to P.E. but I had no idea what we were doing. After I was waiting in line I soon knew what we were doing. Now I'm in front with the cricket bat, 3 tennis balls, focused.

PATONK! PATONK! PATONK!!!!!!! Went the ball and the cricket bat clashing against each tennis ball. Whirl, Whirl, Whirl, as the ball was flying away but I heard "HURRY UP CHRIS RUN!!!!" I thought to myself "What the...RUN... is there like a monster behind me or monster something? I had to run back and fourth and tap our bat on or over the line "Whoa, That's why I had to run, it was a tremendous session of cricket.

By Chris

RWC- France vs All Blacks

Dunff, as Dan Carter starts the game with a kick that flew like an eagle. Now France has the ball and its in the hands of their star player Imanol Harinordoquy and he side steps the forwards he's in panic he doesn't know what he should do there's no one for him to pass to he's on his own.
Offh, one of the All Blacks hits him hard and brings him to the ground . . . . . he doesn't know what hit him he got up and realized - All Blacks got a try but missed the conversion so the score was 5-0.
At half time the score was 29-3 to the All Black. I feel sorry for French supporters because France had no chance against the All Blacks.
The bell rang for the game to end and the final score was 49-10 and I'm so happy they didn't win because they have kick us out of the competition before.

By Matthew

Current Events Quiz - T3 Week 9

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Gumboots and Umbrellas Walk

I simply walked out of my driveway to see a swarm of happy walkers racing towards me.
I ran to the crossing praying not to get caught by them. I frantically pushed the button hoping that it would let me get across before I got caught. The green man flashed.
Yes, I had escaped.

Gumboots and Umbrellas day had arrived. Each and every class had been assigned a country to represent. Room 13 had been chosen to have Canada and Japan.
Trust me, Mr Gordon went over the moon when heard that he could wear Canada's colours!

When I went for a walk around the school, I saw so many people wearing their country colours and waving their flags.
Someone had even come up with a special dance to go with with their outfit.

In the end I think that Gumboots and Umbrellas day was a big success and it encouraged people to walk to school.

By: Isobel

There I was standing there with a bunch of other people from school.They were wearing beautiful bright colours,wait there's more ,they had gumboots and had a umbrella.

Then I thought quietly to myself OH MY GOSH I forgot to bring my umbrella and gumboots.

When we all gathered to start walking I saw a lot of people in different colours representing countries.
I saw Tonga,USA, South Africa,Australia,New Zealand,England and other more.

When we started started walking I saw people wearing black gumboots that said All Blacks it was awesome.

When we were walking the line got bigger and bigger with people wearing colourful gumboots and beautiful umbrellas.

By: Winnie

Red and White

Which country would you support?
Would you support a country you are from or would you support a country you like?

Well on Thursday the 22nd of September our class walked to school in red and white for Japan's rugby team the competitive Cherry Blossoms and Canada! In the morning we had fun waving little flags around and wearing Mr Gordon's Canadian hats while taking funky photos! Other classes dressed in different colours to represent the other countries. Room 8 wore French colours which are blue, white and red. After that it was back to serious school work and then it was the end of another fun and exciting day of supporting the Rugby World Cup!
By: Nina

Current Events Quiz - T3 Week 8

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Rugby World Cup - Puppets

Ooh, its all sticky! Caleb,George and I were sticking little bits of ripped up pieces of paper and sticking it on our puppets polystyrene heads with pva glue and it was all sticky. It took while before I finished it but I finished 1st or 2nd I can't exactly remember.

The next time my class had Mrs Smith (our art teacher). We painted the faces of our puppets. We had paint our puppets faces the flag of the team we were supporting for the RWC. We had to wait for our faces to dry before we got to put our hair on it. We had to go through another sticky situation when I put my hair on my puppet and it took a while again but i managed it. I made my hair like Ma'Nonu because it is interesting and he is one of my favourite players.

The next time my class had art we had to cut out material the shape of a T-shirt for our puppets. Mrs Smith's sister Mrs Barlow came into sew our T-shirts for our puppets so they were made quickly. We got to choose what colour we wanted our T-shirts to be as well. That's all we had to do so now my class and I are all close to being finished and we had lots of fun doing it!

By: Hayden

RWC - Fireworks!

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Current Events Quiz - T3 Week 7

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Cross Country - Rm 13 Finalists

Congratulations to our cross country finalists! Good Luck at the Inter-school Competition!

Current Events Quiz - T3 Week 6

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Current Events Quiz - T3 Week 5

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Find-out-athon Research and Review!

Today we have been researching and reviewing some of the Find-out-athon questions. In particular we were using the atlas to help us find out where places in New Zealand are located. We need to be ready for the test this Wednesday!

Current Events Quiz - T3 Week 4

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Multicultural Parade

After all our hard work making the flags we felt very proud seeing them being used for the Multicultural Parade! Well Done Room 13!

Multicultural Classroom

It was wonderful to see the students arrive to class in their cultural clothing! It allows us to see what makes us unique and New Zealand so special!

Maths Games

As part of our writing and maths programme we have been creating multiplication maths games. It has been and interesting process designing the game, creating instructions and reviewing the game with our family and classmates. The final stage is to get it laminated for all to use and borrow for homework revision of basic facts.

Maths Week!

Last week we enjoyed the online Maths Week Challenge. We we surprised to see that some of the games were still up and running!