Room 4's Poems

Happiness by Fleur

Happiness
Joyful, Fun
Laughhing, Giggling, Smiling
Happiness is yellow like the sun.
Bliss

Sadness by Libby

Sadness is blue like the endless sea,
It tastes like rice bland and tasteless,
It smells like sewage pungent and disgusting,
It looks like a never ending pit,
It sounds like the echo in a dark tunnel,
It feels cold and relentless.

BP Water Tower Tech Challenge

On Friday we did another BP Tech Challenge. This time it was alot harder because it had to hold a 750ml bottle. We could only use Newspapers, sellotape and string. The winners were: Michael, Edward and Elson that managed to hold 1.5l.

Well done Guys.

By Fleur

Limerick By Libby

There once was a woman named Kim
Who previously lost her limb
She developed a hop
She started, she couldn't stop
Her life was since reasonably dim

Thailand Prezi

Thailand on Prezi

Enterprise Poem

Edmund Hillary, a New Zealand hero.


New ideas are always needed.


Trains. From Steam trains to the Maitangi train.


Entrepreneur


Relating ideas to others


Projects are made and changed to satisfaction


Risks are a big part of Enterprise


I is for ideas that are always needed


Selling is also quite a big part of Enterprise


E is for Enterprise





By Fleur

BP Tower Tech Challenge

As part of our Enterprise unit we have been constructing towers, only able to use a small roll of sellotape, 10 pieces of newspaper and our mind. The tallest in our class was approximately 3.5 metres made by Pererika, William, Justin and Ryan.

Congratulations to Nasan from our class for making the team to represent our school along with 3 others. These four will be entering their own ginger beer in the Wellington competition made entirely by themselves!

By Fleur and Libby

Creative Strategies in P.E

Our recent topic for P.E has been creative strategies, which means making up games for the rest of the syndicate to play. Here are some of the games.





Paper, Scissors, Run - By Emily rm 4





Streetrug - By Damon, Michael, Ash, Edward and Elson rm 4





Manball - By Mike rm 6





Barscer - By Erin rm 6





Tenniball - By Gabi rm 4

Speeches

In room 4 we have been doing speeches and the following finalists to the whole school is.....(drum roll please) Jenna Gotlieb - Seagulls Nasan Jenkin - Nanotechnology, and at last Me! Bailey Fantham - Bullying. These excellent speakers have won the hearts of our syndicate judges.






Written by Bailey Fantham :D-Room 4 blog administrator
Jenna Gotlieb :)-Room 4 student/speech finalist

MALAYSIA

This is some traditional Malaysian clothing:

These are some Malaysian kebabs:

Kazakhstan by Ash

1. Kazakhstan changed their flag 4 times.

2. They have a cup of tea with every meal.

3. One of their national sports is called Kakpor.

4. Kazakhstan take up 45 percent of the population in their country.

5. The rain drops in Kazakhstan can go up to fourty centre-meters!.

India

This is the Taj Mahal it is a ancient temple.

The Taj Mahal looks pink in the morning, white in the day and changes its color to golden in the moon light.
2. The pillars surrounding Taj Mahal are slightly tilted outwards so that in the event of an earthquake they will fall away from the tomb.
3. An identical Taj Mahal was supposed to be built in black marble instead of white. The base of it can still be seen across the river.
4. Over 1,000 elephant were used to transport building materials during the construction.
5. In all, 28 types of precious and semi-precious stones were inlaid into the white marble.

Soccer Tournament

Recently we have had The finals to the Tawa Intermediate soccer tournament 2011. In the finals the classes were RM 5 vs RM 8. All of Huia Syndicate got into the semis but unfortunately only RM 5 got through to the finals. It was an intense finals but sadly Rm 5 Lost which obviously means Rm 8 won.

Dogdeball Tournament 2011 Starts next week.

Thanks
Fleur, Sabina and Bailey

Govenor grey

+For Govenor Grey it was worth fighting for

Te Rangiheata Men

+They choose not to fight at he park but at battle hill
+It was Te Rangiheata land in the first place

Te Rangiheata

+He started the land battles at battle hill against
the british
+From his point of view it was worth fighting for
but it was rubbish that they lost

Te Rauparaha

+It was'nt Te Rauparaha folt that battle hill went on but he got
put into jail for it.
+All he wanted to do is keep his Men, Women and childern safe.
+From Te Rauparaha point of veiw he did'nt think it was worth fighting for.

Once by Morris Gleitzman

Now we have finished Once, what would you say is your favourite part and why?

Term 2

Kia Ora

Term 2 has started off great, and we hope to go on as we have started for the rest of the term.

We'll keep updating you when we get time to.



Fleur and Bailey :)
blog administrators

Royal Wedding Similes

Add a simile as a comment to this post describing something to do with the royal wedding.

Explain how your simile works, what is it doing? Does it create an image in the reader's head? How? Does it add more description? How?

E.g.

The Queen looked as fresh and pretty as a daffodil on a spring day.

My simile compares the queen to a daffodil as this is similar to the colour she was wearing. She also looked fresh and new like a spring day.

Testing by Mrs Goldfinch

mlkkljljkllklklk

Term 1 Reflection

Kia Ora its me Fleur.

Term 1 in room 4 has gone great. I would like to say congrats to our teacher Miss Goldfinch as she is getting married these holidays. On Friday we gave her a surprise shared lunch and she was really pleased by what we had managed and how we managed to keep it a secret as it is quiet hard for some students in our class.

Thanks for reading

Fleur :)

Japanese Exchange and mufti day

Kia Ora Koutou. Its Me again Fleur. At Tawa Intermediate We are doing a Japanese Exchange. There are students throughout the school that are providing home stays at their homes. They need to include at least 1 New Zealand Experience for them. Those students today got to go to STAGLANDS as a Thank You for having them. They obviously went with their Japanese Students. On Friday the 25th of march 2011 we had a mufti day to bring in money for the disastrous Japanese Earthquake, so that it could be sent back with the Japanese Students.

FOOD SPEC

Hi I'm Fleur and I'm in Food SPEC for Term 1. Today in food spec we made Cinnamon Pinwheels. They were very hard to make but tasted delicous.

If you would like to try and make them yourself go on to :

www.tawaint.school.nz and the recipe should be on there.

Thanks For Reading

FLEUR

Blog Administrators

Hi Blog Followers I'm Fleur and I'm one of 3 Blog Administrators in RM 4. The Other Blog Administrators are called :Bailey and of course Miss Goldfinch. We will be adding stuff to our Blog every week to keep you updated.

Hope you enjoy reading our Blog

Fleur and Bailey :)

New Learning Intention

Hello followers We Are happy to say we have finally a new learning intention! :).

Using our blog 2

Ok, so we are starting to put details about what we have been up to on our blog, thank you to Bailey and Fleur for taking charge of this :)

Now I would like you to think about the layout of our blog.

1. I have changed the goldfinch picture to a huia - should we leave the huia there or put a class photo or even something else?
2. Is there anything we should change about the layout? Do you want/like the counters showing who has visited?
3. Yr 8's last year we put a quote up every couple of weeks. Shall we keep this part or change it for something else?

Please reply to these questions by adding a comment with your name :)

Making pancakes

Today in room 4 we made pancakes because yesterday was international pancake day.

Here are some of our ideas from making pancakes. These ideas are to do with our KEY COMPETENCIES

USING LANGUAGE,SYMBOLS AND TEXT

Communicating with others - Damon

PARTICIPATING AND CONTRIBUTING

Helped Cleaning up - Arthi
Helped with cooking - Michael
Helped change the tinfoil on the stoves - Emily

RELATING TO OTHERS

Working with a buddy - Arthi

MANAGING SELF

When i wasn't doing anything, i offered to do jobs. - Sabina

Global Event Homework - Fleur

In huia (my syndicate) we have to post a blog about a recent global event as home work so im blogging about the 6.3 magnatude earthquake in canterbury yesterday (22.2.11). it has affected lots of families from our school because most students and teachers have relatives down there.tomorrow we are having a mufti day to help get our storage levels back up because we are giving our storage emergency food to the cantabrians. we wish them all the luck finding people.

Fleur

Learning statements

In Room 4 we have been discussing about what our learning statement would be for 2011

here are some of our ideas

· Learning is a door, the more you learn…..
· Learning is like a swing you have your ups and downs but you’ll be fine.
· Learning is like surfing because it’s hard at the start but when you get better it’s worth it.
· The way to expand
· A key to life it unlocks any doors
· Like petrol for your car
· Your playground so have fun.
· Like a never ending ladder, it just keeps on going
· A shooting star
· Like a circle it never stops
· Like space it never ends
· Like a chest, you have to open it
· Like driving a car you go faster and faster but you need to slow down to turn corners
· Like Edward, it never stops talking
· Like a never ending water bottle, it just keeps giving you stuff
· Like fuel for your mind
· Like a board game going up ladders and down snakes.

By Fleur and Bailey

Using our blog 1

This year we will be using our blog a bit differently to how it was used before. It is going to become a virtual window into our classroom. This means that we will need to regularly update the blog with what we have been up to.

So what I want to find out is: What types of things do you think we should be putting on our blog?

Please use the comment button below this post to add your ideas, make sure you leave your name as well.

Welcome to room four's blog 2011 by Bailey, Ryan and Roshani

Hi!

We're Bailey, Ryan and Roshani, three students from room 4 2011. For the past few weeks we have been doing maths assesments, basic facts tests, group activities, art and P.E. Our main topic for this term is globalisation.


One of the random sorting activities we did was to line up in alphabetical order according to the future careers we would like to have. These are the future careers we choose:



Cassie- Dancer

Imogen- Hockey player

Antonia- Hair Dresser

Roshani- Runner & a sientist

Logan- Astronaut

William- Sound track designer

Nasan- Animator

Gavin- Pilot

Nathan- Graphic designer

Arthi- Actress

Skyla- Doctor

Fleur- A person who looks after animals(not a vet)

Gabi- Hair cutter

Ryan- Policeman

Edward- Rugby player

Josh- Musician