Room8+Diary


 * __Room 8 Diary__**

13/10/08

Mr.Simpson told us about our new topic,LET'S Innovate,how we were going to make a market and sell our own products! Then we went to the computer suite and used Pivot,Freerice and Powerpoint.He also told us how he rescued a shy puppy called Sam.After that we did relay runs.Room 8 won the syndicate shield and room 9 won the golden baton.After lunch we did drama,miming the weather at a bus stop. Then everyone lay in a circle and someone said a word,then the next person to make a silly story.We had a fun day today.

By Lauren & Matt R. 14/10/08

At 10:00 we went to the hall to watch short video's about markets showing how markets work and what different product's that are sold. After morning tea we had a great maths interchange and had relay's room six earned the golden baton and room seven won the syndicate shield. Then we worked on our topic LET'S Innovate and filled in a sheet which you needed to put three item's that started with a certain letter of the alphabet then finally we had library to get some interesting books out. It was a enjoyable first Tuesday back.

By Bradley and Keisha.

15/10/08

Yesterday morrning some people went to the computer room when others had to go to cricket and others kapa haka.Then we finished our alphbet of things that you find in a market .After morring tea we had maths inter change we went outside for relay races room 10 won the relay races and also won the behavor sheild. After lunch we did topic and we did our title pages and we also finnished off our market work then the people in chior went to pratice and the rest of us went outside and played a game. Wednesday turned out to be a great day. By Brittany and Brandon

Yesterday morrning some people to the computer room again but some people went to choir .So when we got to the computer room we played free rice some people donated 10.000 grains of rice. Then we came back and did instrution writing then we had playlanuch. we had maths then we went out for relays room 9 win the golden baton and we had launch after we came back in and we did or topic work. Then we played a game.of petaque. thursday was a really good day for everyone by hoani and abby 22.10.08

The first thing we did today was reading, then some of us went to kapa haka, after that we wrote proceders for fairy cakes then we had yummy yum yum morning tea. 30 minutes later we had maths .When maths was over we went out for relays and won the golden batton. While we were celerbrating our victory we ate our lunch ,after lunch we had sexuality education and then we went out for more realys blue won green came 2nd gold came 3rd and red came 4th winning the golden batton was a great victory for room 8.

26.10.08 By Matthew and Reva

Today in class we had a vote about what we are going to do with our market money. We also had book character day. People came dressed as Doctor who, Spongebob, Alice from Alice in Wonderland and many other characters. We had to choose 2 people for the winners. We chose a girl and a boy. They were named Keisha and Joel. We did our instuction writing it was fun, It was about FairyCakes,"Mmm!" Then we marked our homework. After that we Had Electives, Matthew went to computer programming elective. We drew pic's of houses with chimneys using Drape 2.0, //It was very hard because we dont know how to use it!// After we had Play lunch. After that we did art.

Today, firstly we went to the computer room,we made presantations of what we/ve done this year.We went back to class to eat fruit break,then we went back to the computer room to continue working.Then we stopped for morning tea.Next we had maths interchange(thats when we go to other classes to do maths depending on our maths level.)for about half an hour.soon afterwards we had relays, room 10 won the golden batton and room 5 got given the behaviour shield.Next it was lunch.After that then we went to the library.Then we did writing, at the moment we are doing instruction writing.Now it is time to go home. By Chris and Chantal 28-10-2008

3/11/08 Today we went to the hall to watch Harewood school perform some Kapa Haka. The first song and dance was quite unique to Harewood.They did some more 'till ten o' clock.Then we went to electives.In the programming elective we did drape where you tell the computer what to do.After that we had a play with the robot car then it was morning tea time.After morning tea we did instruction writing. We made boxes. Some of us used our imagination to figure out other ways to make the box.After lunch we had had house relays.Gold house won but red won the behavior section. Then we went home to relax. By Sam and Jessica

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3/11/08

This morning we did instruction writing about things to make outside etc: a swing. Some people went to high jump trials for the zones.Later we had maths interchange and we played P'tonk for fitness, some people went to discuss trials for the zones.In the afternoon we starting posters to advertise market day.Some people went round doing surveys to see how much to sell their products for. by Tom and Lauren.

4/11/08

This morning we went to the computer suite to work on our power point all about our year in room 8 we work really hard putting all that work onto 1 small power point. Then we had maths interchange we worked on birdie buying by mixing adding multipling and subtracting to figure out how much money was left over. Then we played dogdeball I came secound but then Ryan hit me with some clever passing. We continued on our market day posters and went to the library By Bradley and Matt.

5/11/08 This morning we did the roll we had a few people away. Then after the roll we went to the computer suite and the kupa huka people went to kupa huka then at 10 o'clock we all came back to the class. After we came back to the class we had fruit break then after that we went back to the computer suite and then w the buddy readers went to buddy reading and the rest of the people went to morninng tea and then after morning tea we didnt have maths then after we found out that we didnt have maths on having everyone was like "yeah" but then some of the people where like ohhhh then after that we had some free time for about 40 minns then we had lunch time then after that we did bike saftey and we did quite a lot of bike riding in that and that was our day we really really enjoyed it!!! By Abby and Brandon