Helping with Huff and Puff!

Yesterday some senior students helped the Juniors run their Huff and Puff Race. Here is Derek helping out some little ones. Well done for helping out the Juniors!

Solar Eclipse By Adam

Today is a special day for it is the day of a solar eclipse. An eclipse is when the moon passes in front of the sun causing the sky to go dark. You need special glasses to look straight  at the eclipse otherwise you could go partially blind. In the North island the moon will cover 87% of the sun but in the South Island it is only covering 57% of the sun. The best place is the Northland East coast where the moon will cover the best part of 90% of the sun! In ancient times people thought that an eclipse meant the end of the world, so they sacrificed things ranging from chickens to humans! The next solar eclipse seen in New Zealand will be in 2028 but the next really good one will be in 2035!

By Adam

Solar Eclipse report by Ethan

Solar Eclipse

Today might look like your ordinary Wednesday but no, your wrong. Until 9.18 to 10.30 am it is solar eclipse. This happens when the moon covers  the sun and it goes dark. We have been warned NOT TO LOOK DIRECTLY AT THE SUN!. You need special glasses to see the sun and they sell them at the Stardome. We are about to do live streaming on the web to see what shocking effect it is going to have. It may not look very dark because our eyes can adapt to the change. Mr Whiting arrived with these strange but interesting glasses that kind of looked like 3-D glasses. It was dark looking through the glasses until we looked up. It looked like a quarter moon but it was like a quarter sun. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. I was amazed. It was a great experience watching the solar eclipse and I hope it comes again but better which will be on 2028

By Ethan 

Solar Eclipse by Jamie

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Solar Eclipse

Today is not your usual Wednesday. Today is a day when the moon will cover the sun but something else that happens in the process is darkness and you won’t want to look at the sun directly its very dangerous. You'll need special glasses that help block out the light. Thankfully Mr Whiting brought in solar glasses to school and we got to see the bright eclipse. It looked like an orange banana.

by Jamie            

Solar Eclipse by Tyler

Solar Eclipse

Wednesday the 14 of November was a special day because that was the day of the Solar Eclipse.From 9:18 to 10:30 the moon covered the sun 87%.The next Solar Eclipse will be on 2028.

If you look at the sun directly you might get blind. So if you don’t want to get blind, you need to wear special glasses. That was really cool to watch because everything around me was pitch black but you could see a banana shape right in the sky.

By Tyler.

Jump off !

Who will win in the jump off? Or will the wind have a part to play?

Derek and AFL Drill

Derek is having fun completing the AFL drill! Did you get dizzy?

Zane and AFL

Today we had some fun on the field doing some AFL drills. Go Zane go!

Current Events Term 3 Week 7

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Sunnybrae Olympic Review

On Friday 10th August Sunnybrae Normal School had a school Olympics.  Some of the teams were Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Egypt, France, Great Britain, India, Japan, Korea, New Zealand and Tonga (in alphabetical order), that’s all I could remember but how does the Olympics work? You'll see in about 5 seconds. 

First all the students got in to countries (they didn’t get to choose what country they got in) and some of the year 6s got to become one of the officials, one of them was a male named Campbell Jin. Next the countries sat on the netball court in alphabetical order, then the team leaders of each counties got their paper torches and put them on the big Olympic torch while the officials got to their stations.
 
 

Then the activity started, each "country" got told which station they're going to. So they went. Each station had a different sport for example high jump, obstacle course and running...for high jump and the other sports similar to it, the juniors jumped a lower height than the middles and seniors. After about 15 minutes the bell rang and then the officials marked the team points and the team/country went off to another station while another team came. So this would be happened 4 times. Next all the teams/countries went back to the netball court while the officials packed up and went back to the netball court too.

Now the teachers announced the team/country that had the most, second most and third most points, every member of those teams got a medal.

Australia got gold, Tonga got silver and Japan got bronze.

 Then the people that were spotted showing R.I.C.E. (Respect, Independence, Cooperation, Excellence) also received a gold medal. Soon after that the children of Sunnybrae went back to their homes.

By: Campbell

Classroom Speeches

On Monday 20 August, we had to do class speeches. To decide who went first, we drew out of a box. First up ...  Julius. Julius talked about cartoons. Next... Simon, he did his on the Amazon Rainforest, Tariq was drawn out but he wasn't ready yet [sorry I can't remember the order from thereon any more] . My favourite one was...[I liked them all], my least favourite one was my own. Some of the other speeches were about game addicts, animal abuse, basketball, sports , games , t.v. programmes, myths and much, much, more. At the end of the day we had a vote for Students' Choice award and who will go into the senior finals. Tyler came 1st, Paul took 2nd place and it was a 3 way tie between Nathan, Derek and Liam for the bronze. Mr Gordon has picked some too for the finals.

By Jordan    

Current Events - Jamie

The three New Zealand soldiers killed by a bomb in Afghanistan on Sunday have started their journey home.

A special ceremony was held at Bagram Air Base where the bodies of Corporal Luke Tamatea, Lance Corporal Jacinda Baker and Private Richard Harris were carried onto an Australian Air Force aircraft.

They were killed when an IED bomb with 20 kilograms of explosives blew up the Humvee they were travelling in.

The three soldiers will be transferred onto a New Zealand Hercules plane in Australia and is expected to arrive in Christchurch tomorrow. 

By: Jamie

The three caskets are carried to the Royal Australian Air Force C-130 by members of the NZ Provincial Reconstruction Team.

Class Speeches

I was so nervous before the speeches. I thought that I was going to die. Today was the last day of doing the speeches so that means that whoever hasn't done their speech they have to do it. I was doing my speech on basketball. When I got to school, a really funny thing happened! But it wasn't funny for me because I pulled out my own name from the speech box. But I did kind of like it because I was 5th to do my speech which meant that I had a lot of time to practice and get ready. It was finally time for me to go and share my speech. While I was doing my speech I was shivering. I wish I could go back to my desk. 3 minutes later I could finally stop my time was a little too short but I really hope that I don't have to do my speech again.

By: Ahsan

Class Speeches

On Monday [20^th of August] and Tuesday [21^st of August] my class [Room 13] shared our speeches. We shared them after morning tea, the first person who shared his speech was Julius, and his speech was about cartoons. Jamie’s speech was about basketball, Simon shared his speech about the Amazon Rainforest. Adam’s topic was about international basketball players. Nathan talked about Minecraft, his speech was the longest with 4:48 seconds. The shortest speech was Enoch’s one, his time was 2:18 and talked about Hitler. I really wanted to share my speech on the first day but you have to get your name picked out of a box. Unfortunately my name didn’t get picked out of the box on the first day, fortunately the next day my name got picked out of the box. My speech was about sports and my time was 2:43. I enjoyed listening to everyone’s speech.

From Tyler

Sunnybrae Olympics

I was watching the London Olympics on tv and then I heard there was going to be a Sunnybrae Olympics. On the day we had to have flags of a country , my country was France. There was sports like potato race and mini athletics none of the sports in the Sunnybrae Olympics were in the London Olympics, but it was still Ok. I think the juniors should have been separate to the middles and seniors because we had to help them all the time. Each time the bell rang we had to change sporting event. There were sports all over the school I was in the seniors, at the beginning our leader had a Olympic torch made of paper. The sports were pretty good, we did the Sunnybrae Olympics until the bell rang. It was a fair Olympics the teachers picked the best team, but it was not all about winning. You still had a chance of winning a gold medal, if the teachers saw you working hard or helping others. After the Sunnybrae Olympics I went home and started the Luke Olympics, it was supposed to be with my family but they would not join in. I did two sports high jump  and long jump.

By Luke

Speeches

Today (Monday 20^TH August) we had speeches in Room 13. It was the first time we did speeches but over half the class had spoken by the end of the day. The first six people to speak were (in this order) Julius, Tariq, Leo, Simon, Adam (me) and Jamie. Julius’ speech was about cartoons, Tariq  hadn’t completed his yet. Leo’s was about Adventure Time, Simon’s was about the Amazon Rainforest . Mine was about international NBA players and Jamie’s was about basketball. People ranked mine, Jamie’s and Simon’s the best out of the first six speeches but there were a lot of other interesting speeches too. Chris did his about online game addicts, Gabriel did his about aliens, Manik shared facts about smoking and Nathan spoke about a game called Minecraft (which was the longest speech). I’m looking forward to all of the other speeches throughout the week.

By Adam.                               

            

                

Current Events Term 3 Week 6

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Current Events T3 Wk5

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Malawi report

When Mr Gordon gave us this "assignment" I thought instantly I'd do my mums home country, Malawi. So here i am & here it is. In Malawi they are not the sportiest of countries but they have their strengths like... did you know that Malawi are ranked 5th in the world at Netball? In the 1800s Malawi was known as Nyasaland but they renamed their country Malawi in 1964. The Malawi flag consists of a green and red stripe with a red sun on top. The president of Malawi is Joyce Banda, she only became president when the former president died this year. My mum was born there in 1970, six years before thy changed the name to Malawi. Malawi is making there paralympic debut this year and are hoping to finally win an olympic medal. The capital of this fine country is Lilongwe and their main language is Chichewa but they speak over 100 different language is Their currency is Kwacha and there are 14,901,000 people living there and thy probably all go swimming in lake Malawi.(which by the way is way bigger than lake Taupo.) I feel proud that my mums from Malawi because even though they have never won an Olympic they have persistence and they are going for gold!

Olympic Country Report

United States of America

. The capital of the USA is Washington D.C

. The population of USA is 312.8 million or exactly 312,780,968 people.

. The official language of the USA is English.

. The most famous foods in the USA are Hamburgers, Apple pies and Potato chips.

. The most famous athlete in the 2012 Olympics for USA is Michael Phelps.

. The US currency is the US dollar $.

. The first US capita was New York city.

. California once had no rain for 2 years!

. USA sent 529 athletes, 261 men,268 women to compete in 25 sports.

. The oldest team member in the US team in 2012 is a 54 year-old Equestrian Kearen o’Conner and the youngest is 15 year-old swimmer Katie Ledecky.

. Handball is the only sport for which the USA has no representation in these Olympic games.

By Tyler 

NZ Olympic Hockey

                                                            Olympic Hockey

Have you watched the NZ Olympic  hockey? Well we have and it was awesome. At the start it was a little boring but at the end NZ beat Australia in women's hockey which is weird because Australia usually beat us. The score was 1-0.  The men's black sticks came 9th and they beat Argentina 3-0 the Black Sticks used to be really good but now they are not as good as before. The women are playing for 3rd and 4th soon.  We hope they bring home the bronze.

Olympic Bloggers: Ahsan and Leo

Current Events - T3 Wk 4

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Olympic Sport Review

I enjoyed watching the soccer at the 2012 London Olympics. I especially enjoyed watching soccer because I play soccer and my dream is to be a soccer player and represent NZ
 when I grow up.

By: Enoch

My favourite sport in the London 2012 Olympic games is Basketball. My favourite teams in the Olympics are NZ and USA. If I was at the Olympics I would play basketball because I'm better at that sport out of the other sports.

By; Ashane

Olympics Have Begun!

The Olympic games have begun in London on the 27th of July.The opening ceremony has been finally released to show the world. Make the most of watching the games because they will soon be over. One of the scenes of the opening ceremony is when Daniel Craig (007) and Queen Elizabeth jumps off the helicopter with a parachute and landed safely. Crazy isn't it! Well Mr Bean was on there too and what a laugh. Come on New Zealand 10 more medals to go. New Zealand are aiming to win 100 and we got 90 so close. I think that the best scene was when they tried to build London in a small version.

Classroom Bloggers Jamie  and Jerome

Current Events T3 Wk3

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Welcome Back To School!

Welcome back to school!

 Today is Monday and the beginning of the the school term has started and we should be ready to learn lots of awesome things and get prepared for the speeches! Remember we're having the mathathon and you should be fundraising for the school so you can win lots of prizes like badges etc. Every 6 sponsors and the PTA will come to your class every Friday to reward you.

Have a good term!
 Remember to be a good student and learn hard!

By Chris and Nathan!  Class Bloggers :)

Current Events T2 Wk8

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Current Events T2 Wk7

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Current Events Term 2 Wk6

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Current Events Quiz T2 Wk4

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Current Events Quiz T2 Wk3

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Current Events Term 2 Wk2

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Current Events T2 Wk1

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Current Events Quiz - T1 Wk10

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Shore to Shore Fun Run 2012

Well done to those who came out and supported the run/walk today. We certainly had lots of fun!

More Soap Box Derby Video

Here is some more video of our efforts at the Soap Box Derby. Thanks Mr Salmon for the video!

Soap Box Derby Video

Enjoy some video that has just come in about our Soap Box Derby efforts! Thank you Mr Salmon for the video.

Current Events Quiz - T1 Wk9

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Library Slogan Contest

Today we have been busy making slogans in Comic Life for signs to be used the new area for boys in library. I wonder who will win the contest? Here is one of our entries from Leo.

Current Events Quiz - T1 Wk8

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Soap Box Derby Car - Test Drive

This afternoon Room 13 students had a go test driving the Soap Box Derby car. We had some bloopers! See the video below.

Soap Box Derby Car - Sharing

Today we took our Soap Box Derby Car to our buddy class. Our little buddies enjoyed getting a chance to test drive the car.

Sponsorship Found!

We had some wonderful news today. Room 13 has sponsorship for our Soap Box Derby car from the Wilco Racing Team! The boys are very excited and we would like to say thank you for your support!

Soap Box Derby Car - Sponsorhip Needed!

Are you interested in helping us with our Soap Box Derby Car - we need sponsorship. The previous school to use this car was sponsored by Albany Toyota. If you are interested in sponsoring our car please email our teacher Mr Gordon at sgordon@sunnybrae.school.nz . We are looking at painting our car the school colours - yellow and black.

Current Events Quiz - T1 Wk4

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Special Delivery - Soap Box Car!

Today was a special day for Room 13 - we had a special delivery. The special delivery was a SOAP BOX CAR! We enjoyed looking at the parts, putting it away and deciding on our next steps, as we prepare for the upcoming Soap Box Derby.

Current Events Quiz - 2012

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Well Done Zane!

Zane worked hard and enjoyed making his cartoon during his first day back to school. Can you figure out what he enjoys doing?

Room 13 Timetable

Just a reminder about our class timetable.

Swimming - Monday, Wednesday, Thursday
PE. - Monday
Library - Monday
GATE - Tuesday

Make sure you are prepared!