Hot Air Balloon

A Hot air balloon is coming to our school MilCoo and RonDar are getting interviewed by  the pilot and are working extremely hard on the many answers and questions,they will ask them. They are learning all about the hot air balloons functions.  

posted by GorCol  and MilCoo

Great Achievments

Today's great achiever is..................... TheDev because he had his first go at proper paragraphs today and did an absolutely amazing job of it to. So well done TheDev.

Posted by GorCol

Disasters

We have been studying New Zealand disasters we finished some extraordinary posters about New Zealand disasters. They are the World Wars an estimated 2000 New Zealanders died, the Erebus disaster every one of the 257 died, the Wahine disaster had 51 fatalities, the Napier earthquake 256 people died , the Tangiwai disaster had 151 fatalities and the Christchurch earthquake 166-182 confirmed dead.

Posted by GorCol

Cyclone Yasi

Cyclone Yasi went to our neighbors Australia and each of room 4s table groups made a survival kit and we are now wondering would this help for any other disasters? We all thought different some thought yes others thought no many thought you would have to add a few more things according to the disaster and 1 or 2 thought if it was a plane or boat disaster then not much could help you survive.   
posted by GorCol

Great Achievments

Today's great achiever is........................... TepSat because she had excellent descriptive writing about her full page photo from the arrival.

posted by GorCol, MayAla, MilCoo and RoyShe

Great Achievments

Today's great achiever  is ....................... MilCoo because he is showing BOB and HERE in every task and area of work he creates great work from all the focus he puts into all work he creates the working glow and atmosphere. He is an encouraging boy and is always a great friend to be around.

Posted by GorCol 

Character Descriptions

Room4 has been working on character descriptions here are some examples
__________________________________________________________________

My man has brown hair. He has a very wrinkly face, and green eyes and he is looking intense and very lonely he has a black shirt and and white shorts. I think he has done something wrong or did something dangerous. his face tells me he is not rich he is poor. Maybe he came from a place having a war.

he is very sad on the inside because his wife had died. He looks really scared. One person in his family died. I think he lives in England his name is Daniel and he was a thief.

Daniel is so angry that people are hurting him and and picking on him, that's making him angry all the time. He keeps on stealing. One day he got caught stealing and he never stole again. Daniel moved to New Zealand, and he lived a happy life in New Zealand.

By HarGeo

________________________________________________________________   
  My character looks like he comes from India or maybe he is from Africa. He looks like he might a bit old maybe about 60 to 65. His clothes are shabby so he could be a bit poor. He has a white hat on his head and he has a mustache and a big bushy beard.

This man might feel sad because he is moving to a different country that is why he is so sad also he is depressed and he is really angry to. I think my character is frightened about moving.

By SizEmm
_________________________________________________________________

Sports season

The sports season is coming and with it brings two great sports Soccer and Rugby. Soccer has been named the number 1 most popular sport with rugby close  behind. Many room4 kids play these sports many soccer and rugby teams have gained extremely good players if a child from room4 joins their team as room4 are all team players and great at supporting team members.


Posted by GorCol  

Great Achievments

We will hope to add a post under the name "great achievements" every day  today's great achiever is................. EllLog because he is taking on board the learning and he is using every thing he has been taught to create excellent work. He is engaging in absolutely everything MooDeb throws at him and also keeps on top of the massive amount of work.   

Great job EllLog 


posted by GorCol

Many people in shock

Japan is facing their biggest hardship since world war 2 when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima known to some as the Hiroshima bomb. People are fleeing the country as the death toll has risen to a massive more than 20,000 fatalities have been confirmed and many are still missing and many are seriously injured.

Posted by GorCol                                                                                                                                  

Visit our blog

What do you do when your bored? VISIT OUR BLOG.
What do you do when your angry? VISIT OUR BLOG.
What do you do when your friends dont know about our blog? TELL THEM AND THEN VISIT OUR BLOG. 
What do you do when your Grandma does not know about our blog? TELL HER AND THEN VISIT OUR BLOG.
What do you do with a burger and fries? EAT THEM AND THEN VISIT OUR BLOG


posted by GorCol

What learning is

Remember learning is like a shoe if it is to small then you wont learn to your ability because it will be to easy. If the shoe is to big the learning is to hard therefore it will be no use to you. But a shoe that fits will help you learn to your ability and that is exactly how MooDeb teaches with room 4 and for many people this system is working superbly and many are rocketing ahead with their learning especially in the area of maths and writing. the secret missions the newtons are doing is making maths fun and they are raising the bar for all the other mathematicians in room4 and many are finding it a bit of a struggle to reach it.   

Swimming Sports

Room 4 has competed against 8 classrooms and as always had a blast. But they all tried their absolute best and some like BarAsh made it to inter schools and we won as usual but the 7 other classrooms put up a huge fight and won some races also. First was freestyle IsaAnd put in a great fight GorCol also did well. NobJam , MayAla and BarAsh did extremely well also. Backstroke was next many people were nervous but everyone brought BOB so it didn't matter whether you came 1st or last all that mattered was you did your best. All the Glenview kids showed that quality and were all proud of themselves. Breath stroke was a great race many were so tight it was almost to close to call if it was a tie or not.   

posted by GorCol and ReySou 

Swimming sports

Swimming sports is almost here we are all training to get a strong kicks, arm strokes correct and the push off crisp we all know what events we are entering we are all psyched for winning and doing our best / BOB although we might not win we all know we will be doing our best so GO ROOM4!!!!! BarAsh, MayAla and NobJam are all extremely good swimmers and all cannot wait for swimming sports to start. Although they are all great friends they aren't in the water though they are all equals but it will come down to the final stroke.

Posted by GorCol and ReySou

A new death toll

The death toll in Japan Has now risen to a monstrous 2,800 or more deaths and many more are dying right now this is a widespread disaster there are houses on fire, many are surrounded by flood and sewage water, aftershocks are continuous and are not stopping any time soon and a power plant is on melt down in Japan this is a very serious situation a mixture of all this is a massive tragedy for many places in the world and also many people as immigrants to Japan have family in many other countries. As in the last post We encourage you all to make a donation if you ever get the chance and try to make fundraising events for both Christchurch and Japan. Here are some ideas you could host a sausage sizzle, dress up in book characters since its book month this month, red and black day (for Canterbury), dressing in blue and white (for Japan), Donate food and clean purified water in coolers, make 1000 cranes and get fundraisers while you do so (you might need some mates to assist you) (for Japan) and you could think up tons more. 
Posted by GorCol

Japan in shock

Japan has been hit with a completely enormous earthquake an 8.9 this has triggered tsunamis as high as 10 meters this is the average height of three stories high. Eyes have suddenly turned from the Canterbury region to Japan. Many countries have tsunami warnings and are on high alert. So many families are affected by this devastating aspect of mother nature. Although the houses are surrounded by water some are on fire. people are losing many things more important than just photos and other possessions they are losing family members. Many are panicked if you ever get the chance to donate something never hesitate it might help save someones life this is the 5th biggest earthquake ever recorded. The death toll is confirmed to be 1,300 and many more are missing and some presumed dead.We hope people will come out of this with most of their family members.


Pray for all whom are affected by this.
Posted by GorCol 

Ready for another week

Room 4 is now ready for another week of learning after a weekend of fun and catching up on sleep. Now everyone is bright eyed and bushy tailed we are all looking forward to another week of learning from maths to our NZ disaster studies right now we are looking at what our main question should be but right now we are looking at what is a disaster.

The big quake

As most of you  know Christchurch has been hit with another big earthquake, 6.3 magnitude but caused more damage than the original 7.1 magnitude earthquake. This is because of the depth of the earthquake the 6.3 was about 5 kilometers deep where as the original 7.1 was about 11 kilometers deep. The 6.3 has taken lives from their family members. Many people are working together to bring the Canterbury community back together. We encourage you to make a donation to Canterbury Just three dollars could help save somebody's life from the rubble of many destroyed buildings. Many names of the victims of the quake have been released to the public family's are extremely saddened by this event lots of  people have not heard from their loved ones since the quake struck many are losing faith that their family members only their body's will be recovered and not their lives as well. But we encourage everyone to have faith. Many volunteer workers have dedicated their time to help save many peoples lives I would like to thank all of you on behalf of all the country for all the hardship you all must be going through to help the community. I hope the 2 minutes silence made you realize the devastation of this earthquake. Many historic buildings it has been decided they will be torn down......... 

Pray for all those whom are still in hope for more to survive..............


Posted by GorCol               

CAMP!

Camp is this week we are all getting the things on our gear list ready and packed into our bag there is nothing more exciting for Room4. Sunday is when we are going to camp and we are finishing off the book called woodsmoke in which Alice a 10 year old and her family go through lots of  hardship like losing there Mother while giving birth to the youngest child Lizzy and their house burning down. But Alice has faith and believes that good fortune is close by.We are also finishing off other work like practicing writing a letter because the year 6s are writing a letter home while they are at camp.

Also because MooDeb might let us make her wash her clothes and make the mud puddle....
Posted by GorCol

1 Week to go

Camp is just around the corner we are all so excited about it. MooDeb has told us about the activities the activities are. Making bread, soup, darning socks (fixing the holes in socks), olden day photos, washing clothes the olden day way with a mangle and a wash board and making butter.
We all love the idea of all the activities that MooDeb has set up for us.Unfortunately some of us don't like our photo being taken though.

Posted by GorCol

A blast from the past

Room4 has just found about the study they will be studying it is a blast from the past. In which we will be studying how they lived 100 years ago and gold mining will be our base study's and we hope to do some back in time activities at camp. MooDeb has thought about these activities we all know that they will be fantastic.
Posted by GorCol

Camp coming closer

Year 5-6 camp is coming closer we are all so excited. Some year 5s are nervous but the year 6s are sure they'll have a blast. The year 6s are itching to get back to camp Waitawheta where they will have more and more difficult challenges. But they are all sure they will have a  SUPER time at camp. They know about the abseiling and the over nighter.

But not the other activities....
 Posted by GorCol

1st week

The first week of school this year. We are all getting to know each other we are all turning into great friends.We went on a tree tour in which we were trying to identify the native trees at our school we also found RoyShes signature tree rimu.We were doing this because we are going to camp.....very soon.
Posted by GorCol 

Maths

Many year 5s find maths hard but they are getting more confident by the maths session. In which we are studying number the year 6s are encouraging the year 5s because most of the year 6s were in the same position when they were year 5s. Now they are so confident, they have learnt so much since the beginning of last year and are all sure the year 5s will have the same amount of success. most of them have already started to grab the learning instead of having it settle like a fog in their head and they suddenly get it.

So we think they will go far in their learning

Especially if MooDeb is teaching them
Posted by GorCol

Welcome Back

Welcome back to our blog the year 6s from last year have left it was a bad blow. But we've gained some SUPERB year 5s. We are all so excited about learning. We are all being 
Being 
Our
Best
(BOB)
Honesty 
Effort
Respect
Engagement
(HERE)



So where is BOB HERE of course
Posted by GorCol