Incentive day, Term 4

 Get ready room 12 if your making it to incentive day, Room 12 might be taking a trip to the swimming pools in Porirua for incentive day. Hopefully everyone earns the right to go to the pools so we can all have fun.

Be Good!

By Emily.

Spelling sentences.

In Room12 we have started writing spelling sentences.
Using 10 words from our list and writing five sentences with two spelling list words in every sentence
and highlight the two words we have used in every sentence.
For e.g.

The Assassin went to the Ceremonial dinner.

By Jordan and Emily (Rm12)

Buddhism in Room12

In Room12 we have finished buddhism. We have learnt that Buddha's real name is Sidharta Guatama and that he created the 4 noble truths. The 4 noble truths are The truth of suffering, truth of  stopping suffering, truth of understanding suffering and the origin of suffering.

We have also learnt that the eminent (Famous) buddhists are:

Keanu Reeves, Orlando Bloom, Tiger Woods, Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Oprah Winfrey and Lisa Simpson

And Heaps More
'Thankyou Mr Bamlett for teaching us about buddhism'

By Jordan

Fractions Test (In Room12)

In Room12 we will be starting our Fractions test.

We will be answering questions like 'write this fraction in words 1 1/10 or write this fraction in numbers one whole and four eighths'.

By Jordan and Emily

Music activities

This week we have started our music activities. For some the questions we have to perform or design a poster about something. We have been given different sheets to work on.We will be studying new music and new bands some of us haven't even heard of. We got three weeks to finish one activity sheet then the other sheet. This will be fun for some of us, some of us might even come as our favourite singer or band. To get a good score you will have to pass with a score of 35 or over.

By Maggie and Emily.

Term 4 science

In term 4 room 12 will be doing experiments. We will be using kitchen ingredients/ tools. We might even be doing most of the science experiments in term 4. Hopefully we will be able to experiment with ingredients/ tools to make wacky experiments. We have been planning this since term 1.
OMG its going to be so much FUN!

By Maggie and Emily.

Topics for term 4

At the start of term 4, room 12 will be getting ready for presenting speeches. Instead of wearable arts, we will be starting music. We will be making our own kind of music by using the play station 2 in our classroom. Most people in our classroom are looking forward to this new subject. We will be also doing kitchen chemistry for science. Mr Madge tells us there could be some big bangs!

By Maggie and Emily.

Welcome Back!!!

Welcome back to room12 everyone hope you have had a great holiday!!! :-)

Have a good term

Au Revoir

By Jordan

Term 3 Incentive Day

Yesterday in room 12 we had our incentive day. To be able to participate we have to earn the right to play. We have to work on our spelling, completing work on time, following instructions and being organised.
We had Nintendo Wii, Nintendo ds, singstar, connect four and much more
Here is a photo of our class Connect four Champion, Rachael. Our Singstar champion was a complete shock but not to the winner. Our champion is our teacher Mr Madge. He certainly sings flat but he sure knows how to hold a note.

The Connect four Champion

The (Greatest) Singstar Champion

Wearable arts

So far in wearable arts we have done four kinds of designs. They were called, Pla-it cool, that's a wrap, the simple sandwich and the twist and shout.
To make it to incentive day we have to make them to a high enough standard.
We had to make at least one of every sort. They were all pretty easy once you got the hang of it.

Kelly, Emily and Maggie

The new reading activites in room12.

In room12 we are going to make our own reading activities using  Blooms Taxonomy.
we will be sharing our work ideas to the class and might be blogging our ideas onto the class blog. The reading activities will be based on different reading genres that we have done throughout the term.
We'll keep you posted
Bye
The class Bloggers(Jordan,Maggie,Emily and Kelly)

Wearable Arts

In room12 we have started doing wearable arts. We have already done Pla-it kool bracelet making as shown in the picture. We plan to sell them and any profits will go towards our incentive day trip at the end of term 4.
 (Jordan)

Islam in Room12

In room 12 we have been studying Islam. So far we have learned:

• that Muslims believe in one god called Allah and that he is Eternal
• 124,000 prophets were sent to every country in the whole world to spread the word of Allah
• the last and most famous prophet was Muhammad,
• Muhammad wrote the Muslims holy book the Qu'ran and it took him 22years to write.

By Jordan Rm12 (blog writer)

Wearable Arts

In room 12 we have been collecting knitting wool to make our wearable arts, we are starting in Room12.
We are doing wearable arts to raise money for the trip in room 12, which will be for our incentive day to go to Porirua pools next term.
We are hoping to show our items in the assembly or somewhere else public for others to see.
Everybody in room 12 must have at least one ball of wool.
By Emily and Kelly

Report writing

In class we have recently explored how to write paragraphs, and now we have to use these skills to write reports. We brainstormed the question 'What is report writing?' Our current understandings are below:

Twitter

In room 12 we made a twitter account last week on Monday.
Izzy and Briar have been updating our class twitter account about once a day every week. On Twitter they have been posting text messages about what we have been doing in room 12.

By Maggie Xu (Blog writer)

What Now Slam

On Wednesday rm8-13 had the WhatNow slam!.
Unfortunately Tu A.K.A Tumehea Rongonui wasn't there so Aaron Clapham had to take over.
Paraparaumu will be on T.V this coming Sunday.
I'm sure all the parents had a hard time washing the Muddy,gungy and foamy clothes.
Congrarulations to Daniel and Nathan in rm11 who made it into the finals in Christurch go hard and do your best.

By Jordan(Blogwriter)

Room12's topic in Room13

Room12 have been doing topic in Room 13.
In Room 13 we are studying Jewish people and their Laws about Food etc.
We have been working very hard and Mr Chambers has a prize for the first person to find out why the Jewish New Year falls on the date of 5766.
The Jewish New Year celebrates the creation of the world in 2005.
The Jewish New Year is a Jewish festival.

Paragraph writing

After a recent assessment in room 12, we identified that we needed to learn about writing paragraph. We have started learning about writing in paragraphs. We have identified the following as being helpful to write paragraphs:

Informative writing

In room 12 we are learning about transactional writing, which is informative writing. We brainstormed what we thought was informative writing using the following method:

• By ourselves we brainstorm a topic for two minutes
• In pairs we share our ideas and understandings for three minutes
• In fours we share our ideas and understandings for four minutes.
• We then share back class-wide.

Below is our brainstorm for informative writing. To view it all adjust the magnification, or hold your mouse over it and drag the image around.