Sensational 6 Blogs Page 2011
Camp stuff and Turtles5/4/11Hello and welcome to Room 6's first blog for 2011.
The year started off great because we were happy and healthy after the holidays, but we were sticking with our friends from last year. After a fabulous camp at The Farm we merged together and became friends. At the farm we enjoyed the company of The Farm crew. They were great and enthusiastic. We also enjoyed N.Z first Gaga Pit, a game that is enjoyed by kids all over America.
Now that we are back from The Farm all is well and happy but on a sadder note, Room 6's turtle Muska died. He got a big shock when he was getting taken out of the freezer (hibernation), it was to light and it gave him a fright. But we now have a new turtle named Horris which is lucky for Myrtle (our other turtle) because she was so upset she wasn't eating. But now she is happy with her new turtle friend Horris.
By Vanessa and Skye
A Brave kid and other things3/5/2011Hello and welcome to Room 6's first blog for the new term.
Room 6 has just finished their Art and Music specialists. Our stripes winners for the year 8's where Su-Min, Tanika and Fraser congratulations you guys!. We are stating our new specialists Nutrition and Textiles.
Remember if you are doing the 40 Hour Famine we will be starting on the 27th of May and do as much fundraising as you can because the kids really need it.
We have a brave girl in our school by the name of Layla, so kind and generous, she shaved her hair off for cancer along with some teachers: Mr Witten, Mr Palmer and Mrs Gunson.
Other notices; we just had the Dawn Parade for ANZAC Day. Hope you remembered to collect your stripe for Participating in the Parade it was a sad but proud moment.
By Skye and Vanessa
Four Square and Science Fair :P17/5/2011
Hello and welcome to our third blog.
Room 6 has a new student teacher her name is Whaea Dee and she will be with us for the next 5 weeks. So far it has been great to have a new face in our class.
The Four Square game obsession has hit our school hard. If you look outside our class room window all you can see is people running around or lining up to play Four Square. The competition has just started and sadly Room Six hasn't done well,.
Along with the Four Square competition the goal shooting tournament is just starting up, i don't want to give the competition away but so far Matai is in pretty good shape.
The work for Science Fair is now under way and room 6 is also doing Science Inquiry's we're learning all about inventions.
And remember there's still time to bring in your 40 hour famine notices but the quicker the better because you will get more time to fundraise.
Thats all for now
By Vanessa and Skye
More Brave kids31-5-11Hello and welcome this is the forth blog this year.
We are well into the goal shooting competition now and although we aren't the top team we're not doing to bad. Today is actually the grand finals and Matai's own Room 7 are competing.
We also have another brave child in our school, Shenee from Room 9 has shaved her hair for cancer and has so far raised $1600!!! Nice one Shenee!.
On a different note I would like to send a shout out to all of the people who did the 40 or 20 hour famine, great job you guys.
Winter Sports day is this Thursday everybody, so remember your mouth guard,drink bottle and get ready to have some fun!
The last notice is ICAS exams! if your interested doing the test they cost $4.00 each and if you do 3 you get a stripe as well, the tests are english, science, computer and maths. Easy as.
Ok thats all for this time.
By Vanessa
School-ish Stuff21-6-11Hello and welcome to Room Sixes fifth blog of the year.
The Trivial Pursuit night is coming up soon, so if you want to have a fun night and possibly get some prizes then head on down to the kamo intermediate hall at 7:00 on the 9th of July. Its $90 for a team of 6.
The Stage Challenge is another up-coming event. Its where kids from our school go up against other schools in a dance, design and drama performance. It will be a really fun night. Its this Friday at 7:00.
On a different note Debating has been started up again and this time our moot (subject) is 'International sport is only for the wealthy' Matai and Tawa are affirmative and Kowhai and Nikau are negative.
Last but not least the Reading Comp is underway and the different syndicates are fighting it out for the points.
Thats all for now, I hope you enjoyed my blog.
By Vanessa
Reading comp and Debating4-7-11Welcome to Room Sixes sixth blog.
In recent news the Year 8 reading comp has been and gone with some great action packed stories, the first place getter was Matai's own Vanamali and in second place was Laura from Nikau.
Debating has started up with the first debate happening tomorrow its Kowhai vs Matai and Tawa vs Rimu. With the moot being "international sport is only for the wealthy".
The Trivial Pursuit night is coming up on Saturday, fundraising for the Pacific Island group. There will be drinks, prizes and an auction. It will be a fun night for all. Its at 7:00 and costs $90.00 for a table of six.
Last but not least the Science fair is coming up and everyone's hard at work completing their projects. It will be held in the first week of Term 3 so make sure your entries are ready by then.
Thank you for reading my blog I hope you enjoyed it.
By Vanessa
Class things22-8-2011Hello and welcome to Room Six's 7th blog of the year.
In classroom news, James entered the Bernina Fashion Awards and came first in his category! well done James. Also Duncan in our class came first in the year 8 Technology section in the science fair with his project Waste Wood Warmer, he will be participating in the Regional Science Fair next Monday at Forum North.
Room Six has just started our latest specialist class' we are now doing Design Tech and Hard Materials.
The Info Tech stripes were just given out for last term, the year sevens who got them were Soktaera, Connor and Quinn and our year eights who got them were, Devon and Vanessa.
We are very busy in our class with topic work we are each studying a different country that is participating in the World Cup and giving a speech on that country we are also doing Elite Athletes. We have also started speeches there are three that we have to do, our Rugby World Cup Country speech, our formal speech and our pechakucha speech.
Last but not least, the Cross Country is on Friday so be prepared.
That's all for today.
By Vanessa
Class money and Speeches12-9-11Hello and welcome to Room 6's 8th blog of the year.
As most of us will know the Rugby World Cup started on Friday and in light of this we were given countries. Room 6 drew out Wales, who by the way SHOULD have won their game against South Africa, but didn't.
Speeches have started up and from today we have finished our country speeches (we all had to draw one of the countries in the Rugby World Cup out of a hat then do a speech on that country). The year 8's have their formal speeches tomorrow so don't forget!!!!.
In other class news Ms Arms has started giving out 'classroom money'. The way it works is, every time we get our homework finished or help someone out or stuff like that, Ms Arms will give us 'classroom money'. We get money deducted from our funds if we do something bad. Then at the end of the term Ms Arms will buy some things to auction off (with her own money might I add) as a reward for our good behavior.
Debating has just started in our class there are 6 teams all fighting to win their arguments. The moots are 'whaling should be banned', 'some types of drugs should be allowed in professional sports' and 'it shouldn't be mandatory to wear uniforms in school'. Good luck guys!.
That's all for now.
By Vanessa
26-9-11Lots of good stuff in the classHello and welcome to the 9th blog of the year.
Athletics are coming and all of Matai are preparing for it. Matai's looking pretty good so far, all the other syndicates better watch their points.
Roadshow is starting tommorow and there are LOTS of kids in our class in it. So good luck to Finn, Tanika, Quinn, Fraser and Troy.
In other news, as EVERYONE will know the All Blacks have won ALL of their games. YAY the All Blacks!!!!!!!!
Along with the Rugby World Cup, the Turbo Touch World Cup (among our school) is well underway. Room Six was doing pretty well, then we played Russia (Nikau B) and we …… well we didn't win to put it lightly.
In class related news Tayla from our class came 6th in the School Cross Country, 8th in Barge Park, then 8th in the Northland Cross Country. WAIT A GO TAYLA!. Also Soktaera from our class has won a Golf Tournament. GREAT JOB SOKTAERA.
Next term intensives is coming up. It should be great, But I'm doing something even BETTER, I'm going to SAMOA. On that note, the Vanautu people are back, with some funky hairdos might I add.
See you later
by Vanessa
The Final blog :(29-11-11Hello and welcome to room 6's 10th and sadly last blog of the year.
This is the first blog I've had to do in a long time and in that time ALOT has happened.
Well in the first week of this term I was of in Samoa on the beach with the turtles while everyone else in my class was back in New Zealand doing maths :D.
It was very hot in Samoa, thats the basic way of describing the weather. It was really a great trip.
When I came back I found out that our OTHER original turtle (original meaning from last year) had died, because he had eaten a prawn tail, gotten sick, and… well died. So now Horris the turtle is all on his lonesome in the big world of the turtle tank.
We also have just recently had the X-factor Talent Quest which I ALSO missed as I was in Wellington. By the sounds of it there were LOTS of different winners from different categories so i won't name them all, we only had one child from our class who made it to the finals in our class which was Tanika who did some singing, AND came first in her category.
It also looks like our school has a new fad, with seemingly EVERYONE playing gutterball. I personally have no idea how to play so i wont try to explain it to you.
Another thing I missed was the Matapihi exhibition, which was a shame as i wanted to see that. Lots of kids from Room 6 had bits and bobs in this and i really cant name them all. But along with the exhibition came the Guest Speakers, which was heaps of people from different areas of the working field coming in to talk to kids about their professions.
In up-coming news the Social is on this Thursday so if you people want to have a good time be sure to pay the money in on time.
Well that is all for my final blog, thank you for reading.
By Vanessa
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