New Pool and Waterslide Pics

Some more pictures of the new pool opening ceremony and some fun on the new water-slide.

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New Pool Celebration

Yesterday we had a celebration for our new pool  We got to swim, go on the water slide, two bouncy castles, and we also got free sausages.

The new pool  has a spot for the little kids and touldlers. When we first got it we could hardly even breathe because it was that cold! We warmed up a bit after we swam.

swimming in the new pool

On Tuesday we had our opening of our new pool. It was so much fun we had a sausage two bouncy castles and a new water slide from the left over money from the pool.We also had a swim in the new pool. I ( Jamie h) got to jump in the pool first with 14 other people  from the school because early on in the year we did the swimmathon and did a lot of laps. Room ten got to go in the pool first out of all the classes in the school the next day. It was a bit chilly but we got used to it after a while.

Power animals

For about a week we have been learning about KIDS SKILL'S.We all have a skill to learn.Mine is to remember my opinion is different from others and Lily's is to let others have their way.We all have names for them.Mine is the Tiger skill Lily's is Shadow cat terra spin. We also have power animals. Mine is a black pegagus and Lily's is plusal and minal.They all have to be fantasy. We all have to think of our power animal when things are hard. When we think of our power animal  when things are tough we have little seenteces that they say to us. I would like mine to say ''I believe you can do it because I can see it in your eyes." Now you know all about Room10's power animals.

Kia Kaha

Kia Kaha Last Tuesday Constable Garland came to room 10 to teach us about bullying. First we looked at a photo and we had to think about there differences. It was quite challenging because Constable Garland told us that they all came from different countries so we couldn't say they came from the same place. That photo was in black and white then he gave us the same photo but in colour so that made it a bit more easy. After we did the photo stuff we started to talk about bullys. Then on Wednesday we did Kia Kaha with Mrs Coffey we drew pictures of what we thought a bully looked like. Most people drew pictures of big guys with bulkey strong muscles in a dark alley with dodgey tatoos and tatty clothes body armor and knocked out teeth(i did ) but we were the ones who were wrong.You don't get bullys like that at schools a bully could be a adorably cute little girl who if you tell on them they say "ME I would never ever do such a thing like that" and then put on a sweet smile for the teacher it could be anyone! But when we did our pictures about 65 or 70% of the people in our class did a boy/man I think they did because its normally the guy who get in the fights using violence and bad words, ending up geting black eyes, scody bruises and lots of blood dripping out of their mouth and nose but thats just in the movies (eg) Indiana Jones.Anyway back to the bullying.Mrs Coffey made this kia kaha box, if we see or get in a situation of bullying we get a special piece of paper and write what happened and it will help us not bottling up our feelings.What I meen by bottling up means when something happens and you don't tell anyone about it you will evnetually fell sick and explode like the fizzie in the bottle and everything will just come out of your mouth so when something happens you need to tell someone about it because you don't want to feel sick. We also learnt that there is always a bystander,a victim and a bully.For a bystander to help stop the bullying or sort it out they could start a conversation and say why? and how come?.With the bully they should take some timeout to feel angry and calm down because tough people are false.Then the last person on the list is the victim should be assertive and say something that will take the heat off.(maybe a fib).

Animoto

We have been learning to use Animoto, a Web 2 tool, to share some of our photos about our camp experience last term.

Jenifer's camp

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Frazer and Leos camp

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Juliet Awesome photos

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camp temeka

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happyfeets camp photos

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chicken little camp post

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Ryan and jacobs camp

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Callan! , Raki! , Jackson!

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Room 10 Camp Marahau

Here are some of our brief thoughts on the highlights and challenges for us on camp last week.

Room 10 Maths Group - Geometry

We have been learning about Geometry - Transformation, and using mathematical language such as reflect, translate, rotate, lines of symmetry and the order of rotation. We then made a modern twist on a tapa cloth design. We didn't use traditional pacifica designs, we could choose whatever designs we wanted, but we had to show rotation reflection and translation in our design. We were then starting to show some negative and positive space, but unfortunately we ran out of time to finish these this term.

Maths and Chocolate Cake

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At the start of this term, the Room 10 Maths Group was learning about measurement, capacity, volume, and mass. We were learning about non-standard units for measurement as well as standard units such as litres and millilitres, grams and kilograms. To put our knowledge into practical use, in small groups, we made some play-dough and also a chocolate cake. Here are some pictures of us making play-dough and chocolate cakes.

Mid Winter Swim

This happened a few months ago, but I have only just got around to embedding it into our blog!!! It looked like a great day and I wish I had been able to be there too. We are using Voicethread as a way of orally communicating our ideas, and we are learning to speak clearly so that we can easily be understood.

Genuis cafe

At the Genius Cafe there was two days on one of the days students taught students and on the second day students taught teachers.There were ipads with about nine or more pages of games there were ipad ones and ipad twos. There was Storybird I made a story called One Stormy Night where a polar lost his way to the fancy fish mongers restaurant. Then there was a video called saely or something like that where he was a robot and he had some cool as moves.

Room10's suter art gallery vist.

Yesterday 15 September.Room 10 went for a vist to the Suter Art Gallery to learn about the rugby world cup players.We played a game where you had to pick one of the players and look at it hard then turn around and your group that you were in had to ask you questions about that player, Like what team he was in what colour his top was and all sorts of things. We got to make rosettes and put them on players that had lost their game

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