My Narative

In room 13 we are writing narratives. Mine is about 2 video games beating each other up. For my orientation I wrote that a general was walking to his tent when a square ninja jumped from a tree holding another general and knocked out the other one general with knock out gas. In another dimension were red and blue blocks raining.They were used to build weapons tanks and all that kind of stuff. Once I finish my narrative I will publish it so you can read the whole story.


By Jeru.

My Special Weekend

On Sunday my grandma and grandad took me and my sister to Motat. At motat we went in the space ship and in the space ship you watch 5 minutes movies that are could Journey to the center of the earth. Then we went to the mirrors we had lots of fun in them. After that we went to the cafe to have some lunch. For lunch I had a ham,lettuce, and egg sandwich and a chocolate chip biscuit. Then we went on the tram and we had heaps of fun. Finally went home. BY Sydnie.

My Rugby League Game

On Saturday my team, named the Ponsonby Ponies, versed Marist Gold. Marist Gold is the hardest team ever. In the first half, Marist kicked off to Ponsonby. My friend named Boston caught the ball. He ran and got tackled then he got up and replayed the ball. Then my big strong, Kobe had his run. He stepped and ran. He jumped and scored. Our team went WILD. Marist tapped the ball. I ran up and tackled the biggest boy in Marist. I grabbed his arm and tripped him up.

In the first half the score was 20 - 0. In the second half my friend named Zen kicked the ball of to Marist. A Marist player ran and then I ran up and tackled him. They replayed the ball I ran up and spear tackled him. He got injured then it became a turn over. It was my run. I ran to the midle then stepped him then I RAN STRAIGHT AND JUMPED AND LANDED. I SCORED! Then we noticed we were in the lead, 25-10. PREEEEEEEP!!! The referee blew his whistle. They kicked the ball to us and we won, 45-25. It was a great win.

By Ethan

Youthtown

On Tuesday I go to Youthtown. At youthtown I play touch and do ball skills.On Wednesday I play computer games. On Thursday I play Monsters Inc buzz. On Friday we do free cooking. by ELIJAH

Moshi Monsters

On Sunday I went on Moshi Monsters. It was for free. I was excited but it was annoying because I had to do lots of annoying things like passwords and names. We also had to have our email checked. After all of that then you can play. It is a maths and writing game. You can buy food and seeds also decorate your virtual house.

By Hugo

On Saturday at 1.30pm at the church hall near school, I do Bollywood. I do Bollywood every Saturday. In Bollywood you have to keep in time to a beat like 1,2,3,4. Every time a beat goes you do actions to the music . It is very fun. It started last term. Anisah, from my class, started on the 31st July. Anisah is 1 of my friends that j ust came on 1 of the last practises. Lots of people were there like Madeline in Year 3, Zara, Lola and Anisah. we do lots of cool and interesting moves. Bollywood is interesting you should do it. Your mums and dads will like watching.

By Sophie

My Spectacular bedroom

Since I have moved house my room has been getting redone. Now it is light purple and sparkly.
I have just got a new chandelier,curtains and a new bedspread.My redone room is SPECTACULAR!
My room is the best room in the WORLD!

By Ruby

ACN

My mum and dad own a business. The business is called ACN. ACN stands for landlines,toll callings and more of where that came from. My mum and dad go to meetings of ACN and they have to collect people they know. The ACN business are only for parents. If they bring children in and both of the parents go in the other has to stay with them. My prediction of what ACN actually stands for is "Actually Concentrating Nicely". Sometimes we all go and dad looks after us and mum listens to it. Usually the 3 of us and I mean my sister Tes my baby brother William + big sister Jennifer always stay with our Aunty. Hopefully my mum and dad will keep up the good work.


By Jennifer.

Talofa !

Hi did you get three weeks of school holidays? Well I did because I went to Samoa. I went to coconut resort and drank coconut milk and I did spear fishing with my dad and dad got a pufferfish as big as a thumb. There is a myth about the coconut that the three circles on the bottom look like an eel face. Then I went on a ship to La lagoto where I saw lots of big fish when I went snorkeling. The food was really yum and we met some really nice people.

Tofa Soifua, Otto

My Uncle Kamal

My uncle travels around the world . Right now he is in Dubai. It is summer over there and he said it is almost 50 degrees!. He came to visit on the 24th of July . He came at night and he went at 2 pm. He works on the plane and gives out food and stuff. He said lots of the people are poor and want to take the food. My Auntie does the same job. When he was on the plane and was on his way to Dubai I did not get to say good bye. When I am older I am going to Malaysia.

By Anisah

My holiday

In the holidays I went to Gisborne.It took quite a while to get there but it was ok.When we got to my grandparents house, I unpacked my things just before my mum poked her head round the door and said "get your shoes on because were going to our cousins!" Well to be exact my uncle Chris'. When we got there I was really excited because I had a new baby cousin. When we went inside one of my cousins [Tui] ran over to me and gave me a hug because she had not seen me in ages. My baby cousin was so cute.I had an awesome time in Gisborne.
By Celia

Hot wheels cars.

Hi I am going to talk about my hot wheels cars.
I've got 206 cars and have got the NEW hot wheels track. It's got a loop the loop and a huge spider.
Also my favourite car is a gold car with a special thing - nitros and 22 inch wheels at the back.
My cars that are not hot wheels cars they are for sale at $1 dollar each car and a poster is $4 dollars and a book for $2 dollars.
The car I don't like is this classic car. It looks fast but it is not fast and it's pretty ugly.
Thank you. I hope you enjoy my hot wheels story and the sale stuff. By Te Ua.

The Kereru

Yesterday afternoon I saw a kereru in the backyard up in a tree. I followed it when it flew from tree to tree. My dad and sister did too .My sister got really close to it. I did too but I had to climb a tree. Then I looked up. It was above my head - wow! "Look at its beautiful colours," i said. I felt good to see kereru up close. by Acacia.

Do you like the real picture of the kereru and my picture too?

A Proud Teacher

I am at home after the first week of school. By this time I am usually talking about how many weeks until the next set of holidays but this week I went home a happy, happy teacher. I went home full of pride. My kiddies in Room 13 made me so proud today the way they showcased their learning with their parents. Then they performed in their Kapa Haka group and made a lot of people cry from joy. Then I had to announce the speech winners which is aways a hard job as a teacher because it means there were students who didn't qualify for the finals, and I saw another great thing. A boy from my class who didn't make it went up to one of the boys who made it and gave him the biggest hug. If only the mega powers who run this world of ours could be so kind and thoughtful.

I just want it out there that I LOVE my class and all 29 of you make coming to school fun for me. I just had the best first week back. Let's keep it up !

Much adoration from your very proud teacher,
Andrea

My Clay

In the holidays my sister, mum and I went to Warehouse Stationary and got color clay. I always make little things for people like for my friends,mum,dad,my sister and for more of my family. I love making things I made cakes, little people,computers. I also made cup cakes and necklaces. Its so fun making things out of clay. You could get some if your allowed. by Phoenix

My Family

My family is me,my mum Rachel, my step dad Rob, and my sister Nadia. We also have two cats , and 1 rabbit .We have to travel quite far in the morning to come to school. We travel on the motorway but we pass a pony club and see the we see every morning.


by Caitlin and her mum

The Soccer World Cup

Every four years there is a soccer world cup. I supported Holland! Hy mum was born in Holland and that's why I supported the Dutch team. I got to have bets on the dutch scores at my dutch school.
Holland did really well to Spain, but they lost.

By Max and his Mum

going to Fiji

On Tuesday our family is going to Fiji for 8 days. The 2 resorts we are going to are called Sonasali Resort and Sofitel Hotel. We are looking forward to going in the pool every day and playing soccer on the beach. We are also looking forward to playing volleyball and water volleyball. By Robbie and Rachel

Dad and Me making humus

First we drain a can of chick peas.
Then we pour them into the blender and turn it on to cut them up.
We put in three tablespoons of tahini (sesame seed paste).
We put in a quarter of a cup of lemon juice.
We put in three cloves of garlic (because we really like it garlicy).
We like it spicey so we put in a pinch of cayene pepper.
Then we blend it so its like paste.
While its mixing we slowly pour in a quarter of a cup of sunflower oil until its smooth enough for us
finally we eat it
YUM!!!!!!

By Olivia and Dad

Circus Kumarani's 5th Birthday Show

Hugo and Mum

My favourite show I remember was a Circus Kumarani Show with Unicycle Tony jumping over three people on stage. He was a dangerman and tried to jump on to the big walking globe. My friends Danny, Daniel, Reagan and Jason performed 'The Boys are Back' and ran up a ramp and leapt off the stage into the audience. I had candyfloss. I was 6 years old.

Hugo and Mum

Me!

My favourite memory was when I went to Rainbows End.
My favourite song is called Grace Kelly by Mika.
My favourite shows are Spongebob Squarepants and Tom and Jerry.
I like pancakes - they are made of eggs, flour and milk.
My handy hint is if you want to cook your pancakes fast, use two frying pans.
My goals for the future are to be able to type fast, go to the South Island, see the World cup live and to have another cat.

By Jaime.

My New Pet

Last term l got a rabbit. It's name is Chloe. It is a girl. Everyday I give her a cuddle. She is cheeky. Chloe is only young. The roof of her hutch is not put on properly because I haven't finished it yet. She keeps on getting out because she is only little and we have to put heavy things on top to keep her in. My dad is silly because he lets the rabbit out and then he spends ages trying to catch it.
By Milla

My Favourite Show

Do you know what my favourite show is? If you guessed, Ben10 Ultimate Alien. you're right. Ben is now 16 years old .He owns a new device called the Ultimatrix .It turns Ben into the original and ultimate aliens. I recommend that you should watch this show because the settings and aliens look pretty cool.

By Matt

My pets.

'Hi i'm Isla and i'm blogging about my pets'

Well I have 3 cats 3 fish and 5 sea snails.I have only named 2 snails because they all look the same.One is called Swimmy because he always floats and the other is called spiral because she has a perfect spiral on her. Moving on to the fish 1 is called Itsy Bitsy the other ones called teeny weeny and third is Hubba Bubba. Itsy bitsy is called Itsy Bitsy because well who knows why Teeny Weeny is called teeny weeny because he is so small an Hubba Bubba is called Hubba Bubba because he has a red dot on his head that looks strawberry Hubba Bubba. My cats are called Jimmy Piper and Tashi. Tashi was a stray but now every night she curls up on your lap.Jimmy andPiper are brothers they are british blue cross tabby . Jimmy is dark grey with a white chest and a white mustache. Piper mostly a tabby so he is light grey with white circles around his eyes also white dots and a white chest.One day I want to get a rabbit because their soft small and they do cute little hops.
This was all about my pets.

by Isla

My new Living Room

In the holidays we moved the living room around. First we fixed and moved the couches then we...

1.moved the art cupboard

2.we moved the TV

3.we moved the tables

4.finally we decorated it with a pot of flowers.

I really like my living room now. It's like I have a brand new living room.

By Jack

When my Dad was Little

When my dad was a kid he used to play games that not many of use to play.My dad did wrestling. He did it when the man had done the grass clippings. They got the clippings of grass and made a wrestling mat. Everyone of his friends tried to beat him but he always won.
By Willow

Butterfly Creek

Last Saturday I went to Butterfly Creek with Celia. First we picked up Celia then we were off to butterfly creek.When we got there we found a park and went in. It was really busy but we got in. When we got in we went through the butterfly area. One went on Celia's head and one went on my finger. Next we went to the Crocodiles. There names are Scar and Goldie. They didn't do much.After that we fed the animals and held baby rabbits. Then me, Ce and Mum went to get lunch and had one last look at the butterfly's and crocodiles and went home. I would love to go back one day!

By Amy

My 100 word story

In the holiday I went to Wellington to see my family. Both my aunts cousins and uncles were there! It was crowded. We went to Toy-Story 3. It rocked. A good part was when the aliens said,” the claw.” After that we went home and had a delicious dinner. That night I dreamed of that movie. The next day we had a look around town. I did not look at any shops because they were all girl shops. Then we got the bus home. When we got home we played and had diner then I went to bed. They were two cool days .

By Jack

Syd

Once my sister saw a little cat on our fence.Then she said hear "pussy pussy pussy" and it didn't work. FInally it jumped down. She called us to come and look and we started patting it. We decided to call it Syd. Now it is our pet cat.

By Olivia

Robbie's guide of what to do in the hollidays

Hi. My name is Robbie and I'm going to suggest 10 things that you could do in the holidays!


1.Movies

2.Party all night

3.Zoo

4.Kely Tarltons

5.Go to the park

6.Play electronics

7.MOTAT

8.Play board games

9.Museum

10.Sleep in

by Robbie

PS.don't use these ideas just kidding! ha ha ha!

My second cousin Kaiden

Last weekend I went to my Nana and Poppas house because my cousin Letitia came and she had a baby.His name is Kaiden .Kaiden was a really Smiley baby but when he first saw me and my brother Oscar he would not stop staring at us and the only time he blinked was close to a couple minutes! The next day Kaiden woke us up at about 4 o,clock so we got up and watched TV. After a couple of hours my brother and Nana got up and made breakfast. A little wile later I played with Kaiden then I got dressed. WhenI came to see Kaiden he was in his jolly jumper swing so I stood in front of him and jumped with him. I got really tired but when I was about to stop he started to smile and then he opened his mouth as wide as he could! It looked so funny. When he is older I'm going to tell him that story.

by Emily

EOTC Week Movie

Jeru and Robbie

EOTC Week Newspaper

By Elijah

EOTC Week Fun

The EOTC Weekly News

By Willie, Ethan, Te Ua

The Dino EOTC Stars

By Otto and Matt

EOTC Week

By Isla and Mia V

EOTC Week Rocks

By Milla and Mia

The Amazing Outdoors !

By Acacia and Jennifer

An Entire Week of EOTC

By Max and Jack

The Activity Week

By Jaime and Hugo

The Most Exciting Week for Year 4s.

By Celia and Phoenix

Funny Honey EOTC Week

By Olivia and Anisah

Awesome EOTC Week

By Amy and Caitlin

EOTC Week Reflections

The class got to choose how they were going to reflect on their week. Some made movies and slideshows, while a few of students made a newspaper and magazine. Willow and Sydnie made a poster.

Please enjoy the following creations and leave comments. Our students LOVE COMMENTS!!

Room 13

My Trophy

A couple of weeks ago I brought my player of the year trophy into share with the class .

My trophy was little bit broken.I got my trophy in 2009 .My prize giving was at Westwave Swimming Pools.
My trophy was solid silver. I earned my trophy by getting the most tackles. I got 50 tackles in one season. Our team name is called Ponsonby Ponies. Ponsonby ponies usually first place in our tournaments.

By Ethan

Hugo's Weekend

On Saturday after soccer I went to Kaikohe for a fire show. I stayed on a farm with the unicycle world champion. His name is Chris . He has a PlayStation 2. The show was cancelled because it was raining. So on Sunday there was hot chips and powerade and food and drinks like that. The two French boys, Matt and Joe did fire breathing. by Hugo

My Grading

I do karate twice a week and I have been doing it since I was 5. The order of the belts go: white, yellow, orange, green, brown, purple and black . I am going to talk about when I got my green belt. When you get a colored belt that is called a grading. That happened just a week a go and I was so excited. First I had to show my teacher what a green strip should be able to do .Lots of other people did it at the same time as me. After that I got reminded about a few tips then the judge shook my hand and told me I got a green belt .

By Anisah

EOTC Memories

On Monday we made damper. They were really yummy. The ingredients were:
.flour
.water
.treacle syrup
.a bowl
.something to cook it
.a spoon
.kebab stick
We put in the flour and the water and mixed it all up. Then we wrapped the dough around the kebab stick. After that we cooked it. Then finally we put on the treacle syrup. They were YUM!!

By Jack

My favourite EOTC Activities

On Monday I made damper. It is made with flour and water and baking soDa. WE used a camp stove to cook the damper. we pUt golden syrup on it. It was yummy and tasty. On Thursday we made Quesadilla with ham, cheese and spinach.I liked it. l made a sword by sawing wood and using a hot glue gun. EOTC week was fun.

by ELIJAH.

Art Exhibition

Last week my art went to the art exhibition at Pasadena Intermediate. I saw Isla & Jack & Ethan & Lukas who is in my rugby team, the Ponsonby Ponies. I liked the rest of the art that had great ideas - especially Pasadena's art.

By Max.

Our plants

On the 31st of May Room 13 planted peas.The next day our maths groups each invented a watering can.After the weekend we checked up on our plants and they were sprouting. We all love our plants. We water them and we put them outside for sun.We have learnt lots of things about plants. Plants need water and sun also oxygen.
by Isla.

Love Soccer

Hello my name is Otto and I am crazy about soccer. I play in the 8th grade for the Western Spring Association Football Club. I am in the development squad and I played my first tournament in the weekend. It was absolutely awesome. We won the plate tournament which was pretty good for our first time playing together. I can't wait for the 2010 Soccer World Cup. I want to hear about your soccer stories as well!

By Otto

Changing how we look...

Over the next few weeks we will be experimenting with the iMacs to manipulate our ordinary digital photo of ourselves.
WALT out how we can use the software programmes to turn the ordinary into the extraordinary.


See if you can guess who is who from our photos.

We used Picnik - http://www.picnik.com - to change our photos into neon versions. The graphics are very cool.

Feel free to leave us some comments.

Room13

All About Me

Hi my name is Celia. I'm 8 years old and I go to Grey Lynn school. I have 5 people in my family,. My mum is called Annabel and my dad is called Guy, my older brother is Edward, and my little sister Rita. I have 4 goldfish Speedy, Lava girl, Lava boy and Comet. Now I'm going to be to be talking about me. My favourite colour is blue and my favourite subject at school is art and reading. My besties are Amy, Caitlin and Sammantha.

Please leave me some comments all about you !

By Celia.

Mia's Grampa blogs during Grandparents Day

What a great parade. A lot of effort went into making all your costumes.

Thanks Grampa.

By Mia and her Grampa

Netball

Netball is my favourite sport because it is fun and challenging. Here are some netball skills. Bounce pass, chest pass, and lob pass. Netball courts have four positions. Circle, two half circles, goals and the rest of court. The netball team I am on has won three games and I have scored two goals. I really love netball.

Leave me some comments about your favourite sport.

By Acacia

My Family

My family is fun. They are kind and cool and most of all they are loving.
I have a great sister. Her name is Savannah and she is fun to play with and a nice family member. My mum and dad are very nice and fun to be with and cool to have as a family. I have a lot of people in my family most of them are on my dad's side and not as many on my mums side because my uncle on my mum's side died when he was four months old - way before I was born but it was very sad for everyone in my family. I love my family so much.

Leave a comment and tell me all about your family !

By Phoenix

My holiday.

In the holidays I'm going to go to Nelson(by myself) and Rotorua.
I am very excited. In Nelson I'm going to meet Zoe. We will draw, play, eat, sleep. In Rotorua my family and me will go on the luge. This time I'm going by myself. I am excited to go to Nelson. In Rotorua my family will go to hot pools.
I am very exited.
Leave me a comment about your holiday plans !

by Jaime.

The awesome event

On Saturday 15th of May at Eden Park, me and my family went to see the Blues rugby team VS the Chiefs. When we got there my mum got me a free Blues flag and then I got my face painted in blue and white quarters. Then the game started. It wasn't cold because we were dressed in warm clothes. The score was 20 / 30 to the Blues. It was a great day of rugby because the team I play for Ponsonby won in the morning and the team I support the Blues won their game at night.





GO THE BLUES

By Matt

Nachos

Nachos are my favourite. The ingredients are corn chips, mince, spicy beans and melted cheese. When mum asks "What do you want for dinner?" I say, "Nachos, nachos, my favourite, my favourite, yummy!" On my birthday I get to choose our dinner and mum asks "What do you want for dinner?" and you know what I said!
By Milla

Greetings

Welcome back to Term 2. It was our turn to showcase at our School Assembly so we put together a movie about our Term 1 greetings. We were learning to say hello in our own and other languages.

Enjoy !

Room 13

The Weirdest Place I would ever Live

We, the Tiki reading group read the journal story, Living in a Shipwreck by Anne Young. We did a fact finding report on the shipwreck story. We wanted to write a blog about it but when we conferenced with Andrea, we decided we would like to write about The Weirdest place they would ever live.

The responses were amazingly creative and quirky. We practised their scripts with each other. We made them into an iMovie which we recorded themselves. There were a lot of funny takes and we learned about the meaning of practise makes perfect. We are still practising.

Here is the result of our hard work and our first movie.

We would love comments so please leave them a message after the movie !

Adios !
The Tiki Reading Group
Room 13

Room 13's Homemade Sports Pie(graph)

This morning Andrea decided that we would do PE and Maths together. We were completely confused beciase we had never done Maths and sports together at the same time.
Our PE Monitors got out some equipment: tennis balls, 2 basketballs and skipping ropes.
We got into groups of three and we listened to the instructions.

In groups we had to count how many catches, skips and baskets we got altogether and record them on a tally chart.

We really enjoyed it. The basketball was hard to get into the hoop because it was high. Some people caught ore balls than others. We all discovered which of the three things we were better at.

When we came back to class we had to add up all the tally marks in each column and the numbers were surprising.
We had 426 tennis ball catches, 20 basketball baskets and 484 skipping rope jumps.

We had to decide what type of graph to use. We put our data into a pie graph and made it colourful.

We really liked PE today.

Room 13

A peek into our classroom !

Term 1 has been super busy. Here is a movie about what we have been doing. We had the Auckland Art Gallery in showing us their road trip, Art in a Suitcase, where artists turned a suitcase into a work of art with symbols and pieces that are special to them or represent something about them. We also had a Wheels Day and we got to ride our bikes and scooters at school and we got our helmets checked for safety. There are also some clips of everyday learning and of us hard at work.

Enjoy the view and keep checking back !

Adios !

Room13

Everything is Real !

I wish the end of the rainbow would land in Siberia and then I could get a pot of gold. Ha ha! Another thing is I wish I could go into the staffroom. I also want Anisah as Teacher Day and a jelly bean swimming pool !

Anisah Room 13

P.S. For our audience outside of Grey Lynn School, Siberia is our name for the play area at the back of our school that has our gardens and magical places to play.

Changes !

Our big idea this term is Changes. Room 13 is looking at personal change and changes around us.

In order for us to get excited about the topic, Andrea, our teacher, let us write about what changes we would make to Grey Lynn School since our school is turning 100 years old this year. We used the immersion step of our learning mode to really get an understanding of what change is and how it occurs around us.

We hope you enjoy reading all the changes we "plan" to make - some make sense, some are for fun, and some are just plain CRAZY!


A change that Andrea thought of was she wishes the school grounds had built in sprinklers so we could run through them and cool down on these hot days!

Enjoy !

Andrea and Room 13

The Power of One

WALT use past tense and time connectives when writing recounts.


Power of One - a blog entry written by the whole class during guided reading time.

Yesterday we went to the Puriri Tree and watched the Power of One - a show about bullying.
Firstly the actors introduced themselves. They told us the rules and started the first scene. Next the actors acted out all the different types of bullying . After that the actors asked people from the audience to act out a scene about bullying.
Finally Filo got dressed up as a super hero and he revealed the Power of One Box.
We learned that there are lots of types of bullying and the power of one starts with us when we tell our parents or teacher if we are being bullied. We really enjoyed the show.

Please comment on our writing. We would love your feedback.

Room 13's Class Treaty

A treaty is an agreement that two people or countries sign. In New Zealand the Maori and the Crown signed the Treaty of Waitangi so they could agree to live together and not have wars.

In our class we also have a treaty. Our treaty tells us what we should do in the classroom. Room 13 put their own rules on our treaty so no one will fight in our classroom. We all signed the treaty and put a picture of ourselves around the outside of it.

The treaty is a reminder for us to be nice to each other.

Room 13

We're back.....

Well Room 13 was lovely and quiet and then today rolled around....the day the kids came back ! I must say I was getting used to having the space to myself but now that I have met my new Year 4 Totara Stars I think I'll let them stay. They are such a cute bunch of students - all with unique talents and interests.

We are looking forward to exploring our topic of CHANGE and how we deal with personal changes and then growing that to the community and the world.

I cannot wait to see what the year brings and all the fun in learning we will have together.

Bring on 2010 and let's all reach for the stars !

Andrea

Name change

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year !

I hope all of Room 8 have had a great break. I am blogging to you from Vancouver, British Columbia in Canada. I am looking at Grouse Mountain and can see the Olympic Village from my brothers apartment. This is my Christmas holiday ! FUN!!!!

I have changed the blog name as we are no longer Room 8 and you will all be in new classes next year and a new exciting team - The Totara team.

So enjoy 2010 and keep that old Kauri spirit an apply it in your new class !

Joyeux Noel and Bonne Chance pour 2010 and Year 5 !

Alofa, Mrs Fale

http://www.glsfale.blogspot.com

Room 8's question day

Today in room 8 we were writing questions to room 11. First we got a person's name from room 11 and then we wrote to them. We had to ask questions like, " what do you like to eat? " and " Do you like school... what do you do at home? " Then we did it on a good copy. We will send them to Room 11 and wait for a reply. by Kiamana

ROBOT MANIA

Last thursday we made some incredible robots.
Most of us had done 2 but I did 3.
Therw were robots - big and small
Everyone had a lot of fun.
My dad came in and helped whith some gluing.
Lots of people spray painted theirs.
I had loads of pieces - it was realy tricky planing it.




by
jasper

Robot Day

Well the "ro-bags" and "ro-boxes" are finally unpacked and robot day was here.

We had two wonderful dads, Chris and Dermott, volunteer to help us make our robots. Mrs Fale was on the hot glue gun station and we set off to make our robots.

There were washers flying this way and rubber bands flying that way! "Who has an extra eye?" ....I found someones nose !" were the sounds we could hear.

We could also smell the burning smell of the hot glue gun hard at work. " Oh, that's why it is called hot glue!" said Sam.

Dermott was busy helping his line of students turn old vacuum cleaner bits and empty milk cartons into robots with smiles and quirky looks.

Chris was rivalling Mrs Fale for the title of HOT GLUE MASTER as he carefully assembled springs and washers into body parts and made these bits of metal come to life.

Mrs Fale thought today would give her a headache but at the end of the day she was so proud of us and our robots that we had three cheers for ourselves. She couldn't clap as her fingers were sporting a few hot glue gun mishaps !

Tomorrow some of us are spray painting ours while others are leaving theirs for the more rustic look.

Martin Horspool was our inspiration but he better watch out because I think we are after his job !

Thanks for showing us the beauty in a broken telephone and the potential a tangled mess of wire has. You were truly inspirational.

We will post more pictures tomorrow of the final products once the glue and paint have dried.

Room 8

Martin Horspool Robots

The Kauri Team loved their visit from Martin Horspool. He showed us all his robots and gave us advice about how to build our robots. He stressed to us that we need to stop being a throw away society and look at our broken things as something else - not just recycled rubbish. Perhaps it can be a robot with it's own personality that looks like Grampa and then we make it and have our own piece of art.

Thanks Martin for the great advice and the cool post cards and showing us your family of robots.

Room 8

Martin Horspool Robots

Yesterday we saw some of Martin Horspools metal robots that he makes from recycling other people's junk.
All of his robots have their own personality.
He started making robots 2 years ago and before making robots he made metal bugs.
When he's not making he works at a printing press.
Martin Horspool has just started making necklaces with robots on them as well as well making a Brobot for King Kapisi.

A big thanks to Chris Elliot for getting us in touch with Martin. Jasper's dad rocks !

Sofia and Jasper

THE ROBOT MAN

Yesterday Martin Horspool, a.k.a the robot man, came into our class and showed us some of his robots. He also answered some of our questions as well. It was amazing to see what he had done with all this rubbish he finds around the streets - but like some say, " one man's junk is another man's treasure. I hope my robot looks as good as his do !
Thanks for reading THE ROBOT MAN.
by Pipi

My robot

Today at free time I made a robot to put on this blog you are reading right now. I made a robot because we are making robot models out of recycled ingredients. Please comment on my story and robot picture.



by Sam

My Dr Pepper Robot

We are making robots in Room 8 from recycled materials. Mrs Fale's favourite drink is Dr Pepper so she is making a Dr Pepper robot that can drink . Here is the sketch.

Bees Knees

My sister and my dad found the swarm of bees from Grey Lynn School and caught them.
At first they looked like a nest but they were all of them squashed together.
It was very freaky.
My dad found one of my old lego boxes and got one of his old boxes and put my lid on top. Then he brushed the bees into the box and took them home and put them next to my other bee hive.
In order to get the honey, my dad needs to use his bee smoker. Once my dad got stung from using it.
It took about 20 minutes to catch the bees.
It took more than 24 hours to make a bit of honey.
They make the honeycomb in their hive.
The honeycomb is made out of bees wax.

By Jasper

Our class trip to Waitakere Gym

LAst term we went on a class trip to the Waitakere Gym and also did a sculpture walk. WE had heaps of fun and learned how to do gymnastics where real gymnasts practice. Enjoy our movie, Room 8.