Rimu House Social Wednesday 5th October

CAMP

On Monday the 5th of September we went to camp Ngamuwahine. When we got up there we unpacked and went to listen to Mr Hart he told us about the camp and what the rules were. When he was finished we went on a tramp it took 4 hours to do. When we all finished the tramp we had free time for about half a hour. Then we got called in. Room 30 had to get ready to cook there own meals my group and I cooked chicken on rice with spiders for dessert. My group was really excited to cook our own meals. We got marked for the taste, organisation, presentation, clean up and many more. My group came second we lost by one point.

On Tuesday when we all got up we had breakfast and then it was teachers choice day we did a lot of things like Fire Lighting was really interesting because my group learnt how to start a fire how to keep a fire going. The loop track was really fun we learnt all about native leaves and trees. Adventure Based Learning was fun because we played all sorts of games which I think was really cool and so did my group. Art was cool because we all had good fun but all of our hands got sore. When we finished that we had free time then had dinner. The Burma trail was next I was really excited and scared. I went with my Britney, Chontelle, Shelby and me  we all got really scared but we loved it! After that we went to bed. 

On Wednesday when we all got up we were very excited because it was the activity days there were 8 activities altogether. (Archery, Mountain Biking, Kayaking, Raft Making, Orienteering, Abseiling, Rock Climbing, Low Ropes). We had to get into our activity groups in my group there was Kimberly, Tyce, Dave, Olivia, Zac, Jarrod and me. our first activity was Orienteering I got the fastest time it was 19 minuets and got 27 out of 30. then we went to Kayaking in the time trail my group was really good we all got a good time. Our fastest time was 1min and 17sec. Then Raft Making my group really like this one because we worked really well as a team. Lastly we did Low Ropes I didn't like this activity because I thought it was boring but it was funny when people were falling off!


On Thursday it was another activity day when we had finished our breakfast we got into our activity groups today we did first the Climbing Wall I got up to the top it was really fun then we did abseiling I went first that was really scary! Then My group and group 6 went on the flying fox it was awesome! It was so high I thought that I was going to fall off the platform. Then we went onto Archery I really sucked because on the first 3 rounds I only got the ground but I thought it was really fun! Lastly we were at Mountain Biking that was cool as but not when I nearly fell off. when we were finished those activities we went back and had free time.


On Friday it was a really cool but sad day because it was the last day. After we had breakfast we had to do a Scavenger hunt we had to find a Rimu leaf, Possum fur, a dead insect, a skeleton of a Mahoe leaf, a piece of rubbish, a weird shaped rock and lastly we had to build a team pyramid I n this activity we came last we didn't really like it. When we done that we did Clash Of The Camp the things you had to do were egg and spoon race, Kayak, a long run I did that and I came third, Climbing wall, lunch,bucket shots and finally team bonding we came first we really liked this activity because we worked really well together and had a heap of FUN!!!

HEAR ARE SOME PHOTOS OF US AT CAMP.

ON THE TRAMP.

 RAFT MAKING.

 ABSEILING.

BY TAYLAH MURRAY.

13/9/11 Learning French

Today we had Jannis, a french and german teacher come into our class and teach us some french. We learnt how to say some words that we all use everyday in our conversations. Jannis is coming in again in two weeks to teach us a bit more french. We all look forward to seeing him again soon! The highlight for a lot of people today was learning how to say ' I love you" in french, and everyone had a big laugh at that.
Here are some examples of what Jannis taught us today:
Hello - Bonjour / Salut
Yes - Oui ( pronounced wee)
No - Non
Thanks - Merci
Please - S ' il vous plaît

Camp Cooking

Room 30 are heading off to Ngamuwahine Camp soon and today we organised ourselves into cooking groups because on the first night we will be cooking our own dinner. We had to plan a nutritious meal that is high in energy but would also be easy for us to cook on a camp cooker. We decided on a menu that included an entree, a main and a dessert. We will be getting marked on our meal and the best meal will win a prize up at camp. We had a lot of fun planning our meal and look forward to eating it!!!
Here are some pictures of each group planning their meal

Friday 12 August 2011

Today we had doge ball trials, every one was all excited and wondering who would get in. For the ones who rant that flash on doge ball we played some cool games like seaweed, stuck in the mud and line tag.
We all had a awesome sport session.

Wednesday 10th August

Today we had our second social dance lesson. The first Dance we did was the cha cha and then we did the bunny dance which everyone enjoyed. Most of Rimu enjoyed the social dancing and learnt some more moves to the cha cha.

By Dave & Dallas

Friday 5th August

In block one we did the IKAN maths test instead of fractions because our teacher wanted to see if we would go up a level with the work of our fractions from the last couple of days. In block two we finished off our next learning steps for our interviews.

In block three we have the school assembly that goes for the whole block, In the assembly come of the steamers are going to be coming and talking to us for a little bit.

Thursday 4th August

Today in block one we had our first session of Life Education, the session was about making decisions. We played a few games and watched a little video about peer pressure. In block two we did maths, we learnt what equivalent fractions and learnt about simplifying fractions.
In block three we had technology and our two groups went to soft and hard materials.

August 3rd

Today we did maths, writing, sport and inquiry. For sport we did some soccer skills like dribbling the ball and weaving. Then we had a game of two ball soccer.
For inquiry we did some work on decision making for Life Education and Drugs it was slightly funny at the start however we knew that we should not have been kidding around because it was a serious topic.
Maths we did how to get a fraction out of a whole number we also did some book work which some of us found easy.

The writing that we did was our next steps in our writing and maths. This is for our learning interviews.

Tuesday 2nd August

Today, we did maths and writing. For maths our class solves some problems like 1/3 of a number, equals ÷ by 3. In writing we learnt how to use personal pronouns in our descriptive writing. We have an international student from Japan come into our class for 1 month. Her name is Riko. Which is exciting because we get to learn some Japanese and we might get to do origami and learning how to write our names in Japanese.
Here are some pictures of our exciting day-

                                                   This is our Japanese student Riko

Written by Abbey H & Abbey C

Term Three

We are now fully up and running with our class blog and student's will be updating this in the future. It may be on a daily or a weekly basis depending on what we are doing!

We have a very busy term with AIMS week, Camp and our House Social Dance night.

We are fortunate enough to have an exchange student from Japan in our class for the next month and today the class enjoyed getting to know her and learning some Japanese language.

Week 3 - Instructional writing

Room 30 wrote some instructions on how to Brush our teeth. We then followed our buddy's instructions and realised how specific we need to be with writing instructions or else we can't follow them clearly!! Below are some photos of the children using their laptops in class.

Week 2

                                          Room 30 showing off their new Red PE uniforms.

Today Room 30 began using our laptops to publish our Bio Poems on Keynote. We learnt how to take a photo of ourselves using Quicktime and then import that photo into our Keynote Document. Your child can show you how they did this at home!!

Welcome to Room 30

Dear Parents and Students of Room 30 2011.

We have made a great start to the year and lots of your children have made new friends which is really exciting for them. We have spent the first 3 days getting to know each other, creating personal profiles, doing some art work and learning all about our STARS at school. Ask your children to tell you all about the STARS and see if they can remember what the 5 letters stand for!
Once the children are up and running with their laptops this blog will be regularly updated by them to let you know what they are doing in class each day.
Please click on the follow button so that you can easily link into the blog. You will have to set up a gmail account but this is very simple. If you have any problems see me or I'm sure your child can help you!
Thank you for returning the multimedia contracts and giving me all your email addresses. If you have not yet done so please return them by Monday.
I can be contacted every day via email jonellec@tauranga-int.school.nz
I look forward to meeting you all on Thursday at meet the teacher evening.