100WC - Eric's Entry

He was shocked to find....there was a gleaming explosion. A unicorn blasted out, but the bloody guards ripped her to shreds. The blood squirted. Just then the blood touched the ground and there was a pulse of magic spreading across the world. One by one the animals escaped the curse, fighting for freedom. There was war but darkness took over. All of a sudden...a giant flying potato crushed the guards and smashed the Lord of Nulth's head off. Everyone cheered for the potato (who was named Bob) when he exploded into light. The world was finally restored, everything was back to normal now.

By Eric

Minecraft Treasure Hunt

Today we did a treasure hunt as our reward for remembering our homework books last term. We were in 4 teams and we had to look around the school for hidden 'treasure chests' that were full of ingredients. We had to use the ingredients to make recipes from Minecraft. We had 45 minutes to complete as many recipes as possible, and each completed recipe was worth points. Congratulations to Zachary, Eric, Sienna, Jordan, Renee and Layla who were the winners, with 2200 points! The rest of the class were rewarded for their team efforts with gold treasure aka chocolate coins =)

Finding out about NZ coins and notes

It's NZ Money week this week and we've been finding out lots about our coins and notes. We worked in groups to research who was on each bank note and why they were there! We also learnt about what the images are on our coins and learnt a bit more about them.  Here are some facts we learnt.

Jordan - On the front of the 20c coin there is a carving of a Maori chief

Zachary - Sir Apriana Ngata played a significant role in the revival of maori people and culture. He's on the front of the $50 note

Hugh - I was wondering what was on the back of the $20 note and when I found it was the NZ falcon, I learnt it's one of NZ's biggest bird.

Yuna - Ernest, Lord Rutherford of Nelson is on the front of the $100 note and he was known as the father of atoms.

Layla - At first I thought it was a tiki on the front of the 10c coin but then I learnt it was a carved head called koruru

Jake B - A $1 coin has a kiwi and a silver fern. I didn't know there was a silver fern too

Eric - I've found out all the animals on the notes and coins

Joshua - A $2 coin has a big bird on it

Levi - Sir Edmund Hillary in 1953 became the first man to climb Mt Everest and to drive overland to the South Pole. He is on the $5 note

Olivia - A long, long time ago only men could vote and not ladies but Kate Shepard said it was not fair and she helped NZ become the first country to let everyone join the vote. She's on the front of the $10 note

Zoe - I learnt that Queen Elizabeth was on the back of every coin

Josie - I learnt that the Yellow-Eyed is the one of the rarest penguins in the world

Renee - On the 50c coin there is a big boat, Captain Cook was on it

Grace - The portrait of the Queen on the $20 note was taken at Government House

Jake S - I learnt the name of the bird on the $50 note. It's a Kokako

Dinosaur Home Learning

For our last week of Term 3, Room 17 had a special home learning challenge to complete. They were given a sheet with different types of activities to do, all about dinosaurs. Some students chose to make dinosaur cages, others made dinosaur food and designed new types of dinosaurs. It was great to see all the different creations!

100WC - Eric's Entry

The UFO!

Kablam! "Ahhh!" I shouted. "Awww come on, I was just having a sweet dream about candy!" I strolled to the window, I was shocked and I was extremely surprised! I saw a gleaming light from the sky but it was yellow. A UFO looked like it was going to crash in my backyard and guess what? It did! Followed by a nova blast. Luckily it didn't cause any damage. Wait, it blew up my tree. The UFO quickly recovered and blasted out of my backyard with a giant deafening voop sound. Well back to my sleep then. It was awesome but very, very unusual. 

Hands-on Homework and Maths Week!

Last week was Maths week and we had great fun estimating how some of our teachers would get on with their lunchtime challenges. Two days in a row Josie guessed the exact time down to the second! That's pretty awesome estimating. We also had the Maths Wizard visit us on Friday and he asked us some tricky questions but they certainly weren't too tricky for the speedy students in Room 17. Our hands-on homework was to have fun with maths. Some students created games and we played Renee's game on Friday. Keep up the great math's work Room 17!

El Presidentes Week 4 Term 3

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Teach Me Tuesday Week 1 Term 3

It was all about paper folding for this weeks Teach Me Tuesday. Eric taught us how to fold plain paper to make a stand up monster.  Neive bought in colourful stacks of crepe paper and string and had us all making paper roses. Fantastic teaching guys!

Popplet Challenge

It's time for another Digi Challenge.  This time we used Popplet to organise our ideas.  We had to invent something that would help us be sustainable in the future. The Room 17 students all did an AMAZING job but I could only pick 4 to share. Here are inventions from Eric, Zander, Hugh, Josie and Neive.  Can you spot Digi?

Comic Genius!

What great fun we had on Friday reading the comics some Room 17 students did.  Some students drew their own and some used websites like Make Belief Comix. All in all we had a good giggle reading the different stories each comic told. 

Who got all their spelling right in Week 2?

5 Sentence Challenge #13 - Eric

Our 5 Sentence Challenge prompt this week was 'In the tunnel...' Eric and Josie were voted favourites by the class (you can only get voted for is you write 5 sentences! We had 11 out of 23 manage to write 5 sentences this week) and Joshua was picked for teachers choice.

Here's Eric's

I was screaming for my life.  I was in my rusty, old mine cart zooming away from the giant boulder behind me.  Sparks of light were flying out of my cart's squeaking wheels.  I saw a light in the distance and I immediately knew all this horror would be over.  Finally I was free of the creepy, haunted tunnel.

By Eric

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My favourite part of Friday

I love looking at homework books on a Friday and seeing what everyone's done for their hands-on homework, it's my favourite part of Friday!! Check out all the different ways the Room 17 learners found out about the birds that live in their backyard.

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Safe Walking

Today Room 17 had a walk around the neighbourhood with Constable Bluemel.  These are the things we learnt about how to cross the road and driveways safely.
- Look out for sneaky driveways (Yuna)
- Stop, look and listen (Layla)
- Listen for cars (Renee)
- Listen for garage doors opening (Zachary)
- Always look to see if there are cars or not (Grace)
- Don't dilly dally across the road (Josh)
- Look left and right and then cross (Josie)
- Listen out for engines starting (Hugh)
- Keep looking left and right as you cross (Zander)
- Walk on the side of the footpath that's closest to the houses (Olivia)
- Watching out for signs a car is about to move e.g. lights on (Scarlett)
- Don't walk on the grass closest to the road (Sienna)
- Stop, look, listen and think, then cross (Jordan)
- If you live on Kyle Rd you leave through the stairs by the junior playground and cross with the flags (Levi)
- If you live in Greenhithe or Fernbank you need to walk through the court gates (Eric)
- If you're walking up to Schnapper Rock you leave through the nature trail (Yuna)