crack the code

Caleb's mum comes in every monday to teach Religious Instruction. We had to crack a code. We had to figure it out because we had to count up and then write the letter we landed on under the number. There was a secret message!

Reporters: William and Joseph 

Room 13 Little Theatre Company - In Training



Blue 1 did a play.Called in training it was fun Joseph was the coach.We had to do five sit ups and five push ups and ten star jumps.It was fun and hard and we shared it to the class they liked it. 

We have been thinking about 'Where in the World ...?' we would like to visit or even live. We looked through lots of travel brochures and chose some special activities. We then had to work out which continent our chosen holiday place was in. There weren't any holidays in Africa. We wondered why?

Room 13 Little Theatre Company - The Bushwalk

Sarah and India did a play called the bushwalk. It was about two girls walking in the bush. There names were Mele and Rosie. Sarah was Mele and India was Rosie. It was about when Mele wanted to get home because she could not see any nature and she was tired. But Rosie said to sit down if she was tired but she said NO! We had to write it from a book ourselfs. The audience was very good. At the end of the play we asked the audience some questions.

Players: Sarah and India.

How to make a porotaka

Blue1 reading group had to make a porotaka. First we had to go and get some flax. Then we had to follow the instuctions. We had to do a lot of folding. It was really hard, Joseph was done first and then helped everyone else. We took a long time.

In Blue1 are Joseph, Ryan, Tom, Arwen, Kyle, Ryan N 

Laelani shares some special flags

My dad was born in Scotland. So he had two Scottish flags. Dad let me bring them to school to show them

By Laelani
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Room 13's favorite games.

It was a wet afternoon and we played some games. We played Winking Murderer and Band Leader. Someone goes out in the hallway and then comes in. The band leader does actions and everyone copies them. The person who's it has to guess the bandleader.

Report and pictures: Ryan and Caleb

Room 13 Little Theatre Company

The play was about salesmen trying to sell mum things. They ended up buying stuff from mum instead. We asked the audience some questions too.

Players: Mackenzie, Lewis, Josh and Laelani

A little late....

I found a picture of one of the Mothers Day cards that the Brainiest 24 hand crafted for their special mums. I was amazed at how carefully you guys worked with finger-painting, and not, hopefully, all over each other! Some very thoughtful and touching poetry too, Well done Room 13.

Our class computers

Room 13 can use the computers for ICT learning and golden time on Friday. There is Miner Max and  Diamond Drop on 101 Kids Brainy Games.
There is a maths one and a spelling one. They are fun to use.

Report and photos by Kyle and AJ

Practising our speeches

We have been writing our speeches on our writing books.Then we went to the ict room with a buddy. When we got to the net book we had to go to movie maker.Then we had to get the webcam ready then unplug our netbooks. We had to practise our speech 2 times. We made a movie of our speech. We played it to the class and we thought about what we did well.

Report and Pictures by Josh V and Jack

Friday's Super Spellers

These people worked really hard to learn their spellings. They got nearly every single spelling right. Well done Super Spellers.

Maths People

We have been doing maths today. There were some tricky questions and some easy ones too. It's fun to check our work, if we get it right we get ticks and a stamp. Sometimes if we finish we can do some more, it's harder each time.

Reporter Mackenzie
Pictures: Lewis

Reading Box Blue

Our class Room13 does the reading box blue. There are 14 levels in colours. Lots of people are on Turquoise. There are cards we pick one each, Then we read the sentences.

After that we answer some questions. Then we get the answer card and check them. We also have a progress chart. If we colour it red it means we got less than 10 or if we get it between 10 and 14 we would colour it orange. Or if we got 15 or more we colour it green.
Reporter:Sarah
Pictures by Bailey

First day on the job

We were the first people to take pictures. We took lots of pictures and thought about our story. We had to put a picture on and write about it.
It's good to show other people our work.

Reporter: India
Photographer: Sam

The Iron Man - coming to a classroom near you.

Over the last few weeks we have been working on a movie of The Iron Man based on the novel by Ted Hughes. We worked in groups to storyboard main events, dialogue and sound effects. Mr Grant kindly let us borrow his new Flip camera. We thought about how to film the parts to be really powerful. Mr A used Windows Moviemaker to put the film together but we will all have a go at putting our parts together to try it out. Any Windows PC has Moviemaker installed, Macs can use iMovie so have a go at home and bring one in to share!

Sea shore drama

Mrs Allerston was the Queen Mermaid in the Sea. We had to choose a sea creature and think of it's actions. There were squid, starfish, anemone, killer whales, crabs, jellysish and other creatures in the Queen's Court.

New Sports Tops

Our awesome Home and School Group bought us some fantastic new sports tops. Now our tops will be as smart as our sports skills.

Hera sings for us

Term 1 Week 10 - Hera visited our school. She shared some songs with us and answered heaps of questions. She was born in Iceland and sang a song in Icelandic which sounded very different. She has a beautiful voice and plays the guitar really well. Click the link below to hear her sing or visit her website here.

Harold visits Twizel

Term 1 Week 9 - One of our favorite visitors turned up this week, Harold. We learnt all about what was in the food we eat and how our body uses the food. We even got to learn some songs and what was inside our bodies, thanks to Tam!

New Zealand Ballet Workshop

Term 1 Week 8 - we had a visitor from the New Zealand Royal ballet Company who did a great dance workshop with us. We learnt how they do shows and dances and all of the different parts to it. We made up a performance for Pinocchio.

Sea Week fun with Ursula

Term 1 Week 7 - it was Sea Week and Ursula from DOC came to share some great activities with us about the animals that live in the braided rivers and migrate to the sea.

Seniors Sports Day

 Term 1 Week 6 - the year 4's had an all day athletics tournament in our house groups. The sun shone hard and they had to be Sunsmart. The year 3's went along to cheer on their friends and support their house. We had a new house called Tekapo, they were all our new friends from Christchurch.

Zak's yummy birthday cake

It was Zak's Birthday and he brought a yummy chocolate cake to share, nice one Zak and Happy Birthday !

Our Precious Box poetry

We tried to imagine that we had to collect up some precious things to keep. The box is very small so we could only take the essence of the precious things with us. We had to unpack our ideas until we got to the essence. We used Voicethread to upload our published poems and are working on presenting our poetry to the world! This became quite topical when many families in Christchurch lost family, friends their homes and belongings.

Welcome back to school and I hope you have enjoyed the summer break.

Our first couple of weeks back are very much filled with getting settled into our routines and finding out about our new class-mates. We also have swimming lessons every day while the sunshine lasts. We had a swimming gala to show our new swimming skills.