Weekly quiz

Every Monday in room 5 we do the weekly quiz in groups of around 3-5. We answer a series of current event questions and then get them marked. We get a score out of 20. Then every week we add our scores to the last weeks ones to get a total score. after 2 terms the team with the highest score wins a prize from Mrs Goldfinch. At the moment my team(Jenna, Liv and I) are in the lead with 111 points! We are also winning by a big margin! So bring it on!

Playing ki-o-rahi

Taekwon-do

Across Huia and a couple of other syndicates, we have had the opportunity to learn Taekwon-do on days Monday and Friday. This is going to be a great experience for all of us learning a martial art which originated in Korea. I'm sure everyone is urging to learn it.

By Jenna

Ki O Rahi

Our 5 week course of Ki O Rahi has come to an end, but that doesn't mean we will stop playing this awesome game. I'm sure everyone enjoyed learning it. We are also hoping that we could start up a Ki O Rahi tournament for the classes that learnt it.

My thoughts on Ki O Rahi-

I think Ki O Rahi was a great experience and I am so glad we got the opportunity to learn and play it.
Ki O Rahi is not like any other game I've ever played before so that makes it extra awesome.

By Jenna

Room 5's Virtual Class Pets

Our awesome class pets!!

(Thanks Room 10!)

Trash art

Blog changes

We are currently making some changes to our blog so don't be alarmed if it looks a bit bad or you can't read it. Trust us to get it stuck on something that looks awful! Thanks for bearing with us!

Juicy writing

A long time ago there was a Hot Dog Factory. Kids went there and helped make hot dogs. The kids earned free hot dogs for working. Once, there was a kid who hated hot dogs that went there. He was getting paid to sabotage the hot dog-making machines. He was also promised a bonus if he messed up the already-made hot dogs. He sneaked some Chilli Sauce in the hot dogs, and sabotaged the machines by cooking pieces of metal in them. Mr O'William, the owner of the factory, had to close it down. The kid's employer paid well. Mr O'William is currently working on fixing the machines so he can reopen the factory.

By David.

Self defence

For the last two Mondays a group of the year 8 girls from room 5 went to self defence with another group of girls from across the school. The course was taken by a nice lady called Jan Beth. She was an amazing teacher helping us learn cool self defence techniques while having loads of fun! She taught us all about attackers and their weak points and how to carry out punches and kicks effectively. We even read some really sad stories from news papers about attacks. She even had punch mitts which we could kick and punch for practise! We all had lots of fun and I would like to say a big thanks to Jan!

Emily, rm 5

Updating the timeline in the studio

Room 5 has the big job of updating the timeline in the TIS studio. As you may know it is very out of date the timeline was for 2010 and part of 2011. So we sarted to take down the 2010 photos and titles so new ones could be put up. This required a lot of pulling down photos and pulling out staples. we then had to choose new photos to put up there were many of them to choose from. We then had to print them, cut them, laminate them, then cut them again. It is a lot of effort for us but we know it will be worth it in the end because it will make the studio look amazing.

Here are some photos of us working hard at this task -

By Jenna

TIS Olympics

As you may already know TIS is holding its own Olympic games. Each class is a country and we got the privilege of being Portugal the flag is shown above. As you can see the colours of our flag is red and green so when the TIS Olympics are held on Friday the 10th August we will be wearing red and green. There are ten events in total so 3 people per class compete in each event. 

Here is the events and who is competing in what -

Horizontal diving - Kelvin, Eden and Chris

Triathalon - Becca, Josef and Christian

Balloon catching - Logan, Jenna and Antonia

Noodle fencing - Elson, Nasan and Tyreek

Tug of war - Justin, Gavin and Imogen

Scooter relay - Scott, David and Nathan H

Grand slalom - Hannah, Roshani and Cassie

Comando race - Emma, Kate and Sefh

Chariot race - Nathan W, Liv and Anna

4 legged race - Jesse, Bernice and Emily

We are all very excited and pumped for the Olympics on Friday.

David's Juicy Writing

There were 4 people, having afternoon tea. Just getting on with their daily lives. Then all of a sudden, they were grabbed by a massive, 4-armed giant! The giant took the people to his farm in the sky. It was huge! The giant put the people into a giant frying pan and cooked them. They made a delicious dinner for the giant.

By David

Arohatia Te Reo Resource - Loop Box

For our Arohatia Te Reo Resource we created a Loop Box. For those of you that don't know what a loop box is it is a box which uses sets of cards that have a English word on one side and the Maori version on the other side. You put the card with the English side facing up into the top slot of the box. Inside the box is a slide like passage in which the card slides down, it flips the card around revealing the Maori word. We also made many different topics of cards like sports, food, animals, days of the week, everyday sayings, months, colours and places. We think the Loop box is a great way to teach people basic Maori words.

Here are some pictures of our creation -

By Jenna

Ki O Rahi

Ki O Rahi is a Maori game that was played by some tribes as a competition instead of fighting and losing lots of their warriors. We are lucky enough to be being taught the game by some push play people who are very friendly. The game seemed very complected at first but after learning about it some more it started to make a lot more sense. Now we have played it we have found out how fun it could be. We will continue to learn and play the game until we get very good at it! Thank you to our push play helpers for teaching us this awesome game!

Emily, rm5