Room 8

Mythical creatures

2009-12-02T14:31:00.000-08:00

Mythical Creatures

Our art for term 4 was Mythical Creatures.We had so much fun doing this,We lernt how to do lots of new painting techniques number

1 was toenal modaling number 2 was tints of colours number 3 sgraffito number 4 shinnny coat.It was really fun we lernt lots of

things thanks miss rack for giving us this task.

By Paige and Emily

2009-12-02T14:21:00.001-08:00

Pt Erin pools

I am really looking forward to swimming and If there is a slide I am looking forward to that to.

I am also looking forward to playing with my friends in other pods and seeing some teachers and getting to know them better than I know them now.

I know it will be fun because my friends are going too,and because every thing is fun in summerland.

By Paige and Emily.

2009-11-19T14:59:00.000-08:00

Athletics day was so cool my favourite thing was 800 meters and shotput.

paige cameron

2009-11-19T14:52:00.000-08:00

The culture festival was really cool it was fun and really cool to see the other pods doing the stuff they have learned.I really liked the fan dance because the music was good and the dance went with the music.

PAIGE CAMERON

My goals for W.F.D

2009-08-26T16:31:00.000-07:00

My goals for W.F.D

1. My goal for W.F.D is to get 5 goals if i play GS or GA.

I will achive this by...

1. Getting better at GAand GS so i can play them at W.F.D

Paige.C

W.F.D

2009-08-23T19:28:00.000-07:00

I am so happy about W.F.D. I will be so cool. Paige.C's goal for for W.F.D is to use teamwork.

Paige.C

miss racks suprise bday!!!!!

2009-08-23T19:13:00.000-07:00

one normal day we were going to rock van when some people started sing happy birthday!!! we were soooo suprised to find it was MISS RACKS BIRTHDAY!!!!! But we were tooken by suprise so we had nothing to give her. After a day of cards and songs dylan sk said happy birthday to miss rack and so did paige c. Then at assemblery miss rack got a HUGE birthday cards followed by a BIG room 17 flow in of songs and cards. We were SOOO jealous!!!! so it was payback time!!! dun, dun duuun. After lunch we team rm 1 sang!! happy ending. huzza! huzza! rasbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrryyyyyyy

Wicked Winter Field Day.

2009-08-23T18:55:00.000-07:00

Hi,I'm Daniel and I'm playing hockey and katie is playing netball. We can't wait till winter field day because it's tomorrow.

Katie's goal for tomorrow is to encourage others because if we encourage them they will encourage others.

Daniel's goal for tomorrow at hockey is to hit the ball with the hockey stick really hard and fast because he can't hit hard and fast. The year 5 and 6's is leaving around 9am tomorrow morning.

By Katie And Daniel

Rockvan Practice

2009-08-20T16:47:00.001-07:00

WWWIIICCKKKEEDD rock van

2009-08-20T16:46:00.000-07:00

for a whole week we went to rock van. it is when you play instruments then you have a BIG concert with awesome clothes!!!! I think rock van is WWWIIICCKKKEEDD because you get to do music and learn new thing. I play the guitar and play ELEMENOP (LMNOP tee, hee) so rock on!

by Joey

PIHA ASSEMBLY

2009-08-20T16:45:00.000-07:00

2009-08-05T17:26:00.000-07:00

Miss Rack has blonde hair like the sun that is always in a ponytail. She wears earing in all colors most of the time. She wears pants and sometimes wears skirt's and short's. Miss Rack is nice,funny cool smart,awesome and she is the best teacher ever. She wears a beautiful golden heart necklace. I think Miss Rack is a good teacher that cares about the children in her classes and all the other teachers. Miss Rack favorite colors are blue and pink and her favorite place to go on holiday is Australia-gold coast. Miss Rack is a teacher at summerland primary school in room one. Miss Rack takes care of the sandpit and the sport bins. When room one is working Miss Rack says" tick if you're on task dot if you're not" Miss Rack loves to play soccer but she can't because, she had to have an operation just under her knee. When we started term one she was on cruthes for maybe about three weeks but then she got off so that she would walkon her leg to make it better. Miss Rack is awesome I'm so glad she is my teacher.

By Paige.C

2009-08-05T17:25:00.000-07:00

soccer training

2009-08-05T14:46:00.001-07:00

Yesterday a man who plays soccer for the U.K came to our school.He showed us some moves and told us some tips.We played some fun games one was called shark attack. His name was Sean.We tyred to do tricks and that was fun.We did exercises too.When we did a exercise he told us things like put you're hand on the ball or put you're nose on the ball. We played a game and we could not move when Sean was looking,it was like grandmas keys.
It was really cool I did NOT want to go back to class.

Soccer at school!!!

2009-08-05T14:46:00.000-07:00

Yesterday at school Sean a soccer player was at our school he came from the U.K . He showed us moves for soccer and We played games.It was awesome.

My favourite activity was to roll the ball forward and flick it up with your foot and grab it.

The thing I found funny was when we played a game when Sean looked at you can't move and when he looks away you run with the ball.If looks at you again and your moving ,back to the mouse house he says.

Half an hour was gone we had to go back to class I did not want to end . It fun anyway.

2009-08-04T17:31:00.000-07:00

The one and only dad

My dad has brown eyes that twinkle when he blinks. He has short black hair that is sharp like thorns on a roses stem.

My dad is the best dad in the whole wide world. He wears a T-shirt and track pants and sometimes wears shorts when he’s mowing the lawns.

Whenever I can’t find him he is on his quest hunting on the farm getting meat from sheep and lamb and even sometimes he cooks dinner.

Sometimes he can be embarrassing because he kisses me in public at school but at least he loves me. He is nice and calm when he is on his own playing with my baby brother. He gets really angry when I don’t want to eat my vegetables. One thing thats common between me and him is that we get angry very quickly. Which is a sad thing.

When my mum says “have you had a shower yet?

My dad says “I will have it later on”. I think of my dad as an awesome and funny dad. He has a caring and soft heart. I love my dad. by Moonisah

My brother vue

2009-08-04T17:24:00.000-07:00

My brother is 16 years old .He is as tall as Miss Rack. He has got a rash on his face be cause he touches plants that make him itchy. He has got black hair and has dark brown eyes like dark chocolate.

Vue is very sporty. He runs as fast as the fastest person on earth. sometimes he acts like an artist because he draws pictures from books and they look fantastic. He is responsible and trustworthy.

My brother is a student at liston college. He is form 5. He plays soccer Liston and he is like a football star.

Vue is a funny,cool and trustful brother. Imagine having a brother like that. He doesn’t bother you at all.

Even though he is better than me at somethings. I still love him and he is alway there for me.

Sometimes he says absolutely no talking. because I always talk too much.

I’m so lucky to have a brother like that because he is my one and only Brother.

by Cebile

The slide of doom

2009-05-07T17:18:00.000-07:00

Splash!!! I slid into the water It was the coldest water ever.

As I walked up the hill for the 2nd time to the slide of darkness I realised I had mud rapped around my leg.

The water slide looked like it was 15 meters long.

As the water got poured on me,I shouted all the way down and raced like a bullet,and yes I hit the freezing like ice water It was a pool of ice.

When I got out I remembered we don’t bring our towels With us down to the stream so I had to stand there waiting for everyone to finish. “I hate this slide”

Survival day!Jordan

2009-05-07T17:08:00.000-07:00

The 23rd of march, the day I,ve been waiting for! 3 senior classes went onto he field for the day. My favourite activity was making emergency protection from the rain. First we had to design it. We had 2 giant trees, 2 tarpaulins, 4 long round green sticks and lots of string.First we tied the bamboo sticks at the top, then we wrapped the tarpaulins around it. Then we went inside the construction to see if we could all fit, we did. So we went to the parent and told her that we were ready to get water chucked on us from a bucket. I crawled back into the hut and suddenly SPLASH!! The water poured through the top like a water fall!! We got soaked! We all quickly climbed of the wet grass. We were then told to take it apart. It took awhile because there were some tricky knots to untie. In the end we did it, but lost. The other team won, they stayed dry, (unbelievable!!).

Jordan.

2009-05-07T16:58:00.000-07:00

Super Scary Slide

Whoosh the water went banging agents the rock’s.

I was walking on the rocks at Carey park trying to get over the rushing river to the bush slide “yes I made it.”I said to my self, “come this way please said an Adult.So my team and I followed the adult to one part of the bush slide and the adult asked “Who wants to go first?”

Ruby & Dariha,girls in my group wonted to go,so they climbed up the stairs to the top of the slide.

Two minutes later, ‘Whoosh!’ Dariha came blasting past and then SPLASH in to the freezing lake.

When she got out she said it was freezing coldI put my hand on her back,yes she was freezing.

Next another brave personin my group went down and made a huge splash!

After that about two other people went down,then I said I would go.

So up I went up he wooden stairs with my heavy bucket of freezing water.

up the top I saw the slide then I did’nt want do it any more but a lady talked me through it.

I did want to do it.I sat down on the slide shacking.The man up the top counted two three and then Whoosh.He pored the bucket of water behide me and then I screamed I was zooming down at top speed All of a sudden I was in the middle of the freezing lake shaking and swimming at the same time.

I got out I was as cold as an ice cube at the same time I was really proud of myself I thought “Im so glad I did that.” and then I said “can I do do it again?”

E.O.T.C CAREY PARK!!!

2009-05-05T13:51:00.000-07:00

Oh my gosh I'm so not going on that rope of death.''You have to go down there or else miss davis will make you go on it forcefully''Atara whispered.I took the most frightful steps from the courts towards the changing rooms to get ready to go to the ROPE SWING!!!!! then I went into one of the rooms and got changed into my wetsuit. I walked outside,the bell had rang my lungs was getting sore I was breathing so hard.I really wanted run away from this frightful nightmare. It was no use being this scared I will have to go on the rope of the death miss Rack told the groups where they were going. Yikes that was our group we went to the rope swing. My heart was pounding so hard I thought it was going to come out! yes I'm going to do it no I'm not yes i am AGGGGGGH!! I screamed splash I felt the bottom of the river yuck it was like an eel raped around my leg. I swam across the river the man helped me up. After we all finish we went to the changing rooms i never thought I'd ever go on it again.

PIHA ASSEMBLY

2009-05-04T14:40:00.000-07:00

Hi it's Moonisah here. Today is our Piha POD assembly. What we are doing is performing a dance and showing our sketches . Our dance is 5678 we are doing this because these numbers are our class numbers. I am feeling nervous and excited because I have never done a dance in front of the whole school before. We also are showing our sketches. We were sketching shoes and we had to think about light and dark areas of the shoe to match the sketch.

by moonisah

cross country

2009-05-03T18:53:00.000-07:00

Our school did cross country. I did 3 laps and I versed all the ten and 11 year old girls and if you came 1 2 or 3 you go in the inter schools. Firstly I went past the field up the hill past the community house past the school office through the car park down and do the whole thing three times. My goal was to not stop for 3 laps and I did achieved my goal. Secondly I achieved it by jogging and whenever I puffed out I jogged 3 steps breathed through my nose out through my mouth. We did cross country at our school my thoughts and feelings were embarrassed and worried because I didn't want to get any stitches and embarrassed because i didn't want to come last but i didn't.

by moonisah

Cross country

2009-05-03T18:49:00.000-07:00

Our school did Cross Country. I did three laps against all the ten and elven year old girls up the hill and down past the community house and in the car park and back on the field 3 times then I came to the finish line and I came 1 and if you come the top 12 you go to inter schools and go against all the other schools in my age. We do Cross Country to do some fitness .My goal was to run the whole three laps without stopping. How I achieved by not sprinting at the start to save my energy for the finish. My thoughts and feelings were that I am going to finish this be cause I usually stop when I am so tired and people go past me.

By Cebile

Cross Country Day

2009-05-03T18:48:00.000-07:00

last Thursday was cross country day you can tell that absolutely everyone was excited, we are all ready to run the only annoying thing is that our race isn't until about... 11:15 we will be waiting a couple of hours. "AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH THIS IS MIND NUMBING'"I screamed in my head "ALL THIS YELLING IS SO LOUD... oh its just me". Finally the time to race has come I was ready I was expected to do great I had been bracing myself the entire time for this moment (since 9:10!!) The race was going to start soon we got sent in to a little area were a teacher warmed us up "jog at the start Michael" I heard someone say I kept that in mind but that was probably the reason why this was the worst cross country I have ever had (When I am ahead I can stay ahead but I'm not very good at overtaking people) ... CLAP!! and the race began just like that boooom went all of the other racers
slooow was the speed I went big mistake I was about 27 I over took people till I was about 11Th place and jogged the entire rest of the way by the time I was done I was in 9Th... I was on the last corner that leads to the field for the final run to the end I jogged round the first corner and I was tired I sped up a bit to the second corner I couldn't breath I ran 3/4 pace round the third corner I felt... nothing, absolutely nothing I sprinted SO HARD THAT... I COULDN'T BREATH, I COULDN'T SEE I COULDN'T HEAR I COULDN'T FEEL but I ran... HARD I over took one person and came ninth This was the worst cross country I have ever had BUT I MADE IT INTO INTER SCHOOL (I guess its not that bad I guess).

The frozen lake By lily

2009-04-08T14:43:00.000-07:00

At Carey Park, our second activity was the rope swing. There I was, standing before icy water in my togs, on the board of doom. Rope in hand, ready to jump. "Come on you can do it, " I chanted over and over in my head. When you see someone on the board, it cracks you up - but when you're up there, it's like standing at the edge of a cliff. "Here I goooo!!" Splash! As soon as I came up I swam to the side like a hungry mako and hauled myself up. "Oh man I missed it, go up and do it again Lily," shouted Miss Davies. But I didn't. I just sat there like I was being brainwashed, watching Braden have around about nine turns. After ten minutes I was back up there holding the rope.

"Five, four, three, two, one... ahhhhhhh!" Uh oh I forgot to let go and BAM I hit the board. "Owwww!" then plop into the water. I felt something slimy climbing my leg like a staircase "Ewwww, an eel" I screamed but only bubbles came out. I swam up frightened but never told anyone about it until now. So the moment I made it to the side I got up on the grass and just watched Braden for the 50th time.

First he went up and did Tarzan and next thing you know he was screaming like a hungry hyena.

"Is that a gir?l" thought Miss Davies. She turns around and......

Braden flies out of the water like a shark was chasing him out

"I thought that you were a girl Braden"exclaimed Miss Davies I was laughing I almost fell into the lake it was so funny even the bush slide people were laughing almost every one in my group were laughing so after we recoverd we moved on to the more enjoyable activities such as problem solving & orienteering they are much more enjoyable because we diddn't freeze to death!

Lily

EOTC-action day

2009-03-30T15:41:00.000-07:00

On the 23 of march 2009 4 of the senior classes from summerland primary school went down to the field to have EOTC survival day there were six activities and six groups the activities were tent building, emergency shelter, emergency alarm, emergency stretcher, cooking and first aid my group (group 3) did first aid first that was about teaching us how to make slings and bandages and things like that. Tent building is making tents in groups of four. Emergency shelter is making a shelter that will protect you from the rain(buckets of water). Emergency alarm is bandaging your hurt crew, making a display that lasts 30 seconds only one of your crew can talk. Emergency stretcher is you are given some materials to make a stretcher on of the people carrying the stretcher is blinded. Cooking is you have tiny tin foil barbecue, sausages and damper (bread and water cooked to make bread). after they were done we got to eat them, yuuuuummmm! I hope you get to experience what I did that day!

EOTC big day adventure

2009-03-30T15:32:00.000-07:00

For big day adventure on the 25th of March Room 8 and some other rooms went on a Big Day adventure. We got a list of tasks and had to finish them. We got split to groups each group has a parent helper to help and look after the group. Our first task was to catch a train to New Lynn, on the train we had a bunch of other tasks. At New Lynn we had to find a Summerland teacher to get our next list of tasks. We searched for ages! Then we found her Miss Cheeseman hiding behind a bunch of news papers! We asked for the next list of tasks we rushed to finish the task some were hard and we took quite long but we managed to finish them. Now we have to head back to the Henderson mall we ran to the bus station there was another group there so we waited with them. After a while the bus came we all got on we payed our fee. We waited to get to Henderson and get our next list of tasks. At Henderson mall we searched for the next teacher I wondered who the teacher was... Catch up on the latest update next week!

EOTC - Big Day Adventure

2009-03-30T15:30:00.000-07:00

Hello there my name is michael and I am going to tell you about E.O.T.C.. E.O.T.C. stands for education outside the classroom, in my opinion it absolutely rocks. My favorite thing was the big day adventure mainly because we got to go ALL the way around West Auckland first of all we went to catch a train at 9.31 A.M... we missed it!! so we had to catch the 10.01 train AAAAHH oh well nobody else got it so were fine. we then we went to new lynn we had a list of questions which we answered on the train the last thing on the list was to find the teacher aaaaahhh!!! the teachers just had to be coming on the trip with s didn't they if having to be followed by an adult but teachers to! Oh well but the main annoying thing is they hide I mean come on. It took us an estimate of 12,64,235,562 years in all but we did eventually we got the sheet and we finished it before you could say wakatahimia I think that that was very very cool so we went and caught the first bus back to auckland, West field the first thing on the list was to have lunch we got 6 dollars each and still had spare we then went through the list like a rocket we went so fast that we had already finished while some people were still eating, the next place we went to was the Waitakere library and we got some rest time as we were allot faster than the teacher at getting to the library. But eventually she got here the teacher was Miss Cheeseman who as usual was fashionably late.

stay tuned for the next update

E.O.T.C. week

2009-03-15T18:21:00.000-07:00

E.O.T.C stands for Educatoin Outside The Class.

On monday, it will be the first E.O.T.C. day.It will be fun.We all will spread out to do E.O.T.C. everyday.I will feel sad if me and my friends will not be together for E.O.T.C.

On Wednesday it will be survivor day.

I think I will be good at Carey park Extreme day.

I really want to know what day am I going to carey park, because I love the rock climbing.

What is "Down the Drain"

2008-10-22T15:40:00.000-07:00

Our topic this term is Down the Drain. I think the people in Waitakere City waste too much water and throw rubbish in the streams because they don't care about our environment or our underwater life.

People put down poisonous thing that are harmful to the fish. The things people put down are thing like, blobs of paint, nail polish remover, petrol, dish washing chemicals and anything else that is poisonous to the fish. The water that goes down the drain, goes to the streams and can kill lots and lots of fish at once.

Streams are homes for fish like, Eels, Banded Kokopu, Red-fin bully and a lot more. So we should look after their homes and not throw rubbish in the streams.

Down the drain

2008-10-22T15:35:00.000-07:00

Our topic this term is Down the Drain. I think Down the Drain is about water, animals and people mistreating our streams and ocean. A few people don't know that they are ruining our environment by throwing rubbish down drains. People don't think about our environment all they care is about themselves. Don't they know that the streams are fish home? They can't breathe normally with pollution around the water. How would you feel if you were surrounded by rubbish,germs, bacteria and sour milk? That would be DISGUSTING! I bet that's how a fishes' life would be if we don't change this disgustingness!We really need to change our environment for the sake of our peoples health and the fishes!

'Down The Drain' Courtenay-Firdaus

2008-10-22T15:32:00.000-07:00

Well....... I think that our water goes down to the ocean.

Some people put harmful liquids down the taps and all the taps lead to the ocean so the poison in those liquids will poison the fish and they will die.

The poison that goes down the drains are things like nail polish remover, dish washing chemicals, petrol and much more.

But not everything that pollutes the water goes down the drain its also at beaches and rivers that can harm our marine life.

Lots of people don't realise what they are doing when they are leaving rubbish on the beaches.

The waves come in and pick up the rubbish the rubbish gets carried out to sea and the fish die.

Kelly Tarltons sleep over by josiah

2008-10-16T17:50:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone thanks for reading this blog, well yesterday the 16th & today the 17th of october 2008 I went to Kelly Tarltons for a sleepover.

The first thing we did was to go and look at the penguins and we saw a lot of penguins with them on top of there eggs and they were really hairy and there was a lot of hair in the pool.

Then we went to scotts hut the man who was the first man to walk to the bottom of the earth, the South Pole and when we got inside his hut, it was pretty creepy and our tour guide was talking about how scary it looked and he said, even look at that bed and suddenly someone poped out with a mask on his face and all the girls just screamed and screamed and I was frightened, really frightened. After we had a little look around and it was really interesting because we got to see what they got to wear back then.

Back From Kelly Tarltons

2008-10-16T17:45:00.000-07:00

Hey everybody reading this blog we just got back from Kelly Tarltons it was a blast well everybody that I know had a blast so our journey began by hearing about Captain Scott and his friends that went to Antartica then we went off to see the penguins at first I felt a bit bored but then I saw what the penguins were doing it was sort of intresting they were in a pose and some of them were even some of them were pregent. We went to Captain Scotts hut in Antartica not exactly they made a exact copy of it in Kelly Tarlton the instructor was our guide he was telling us about how they used to live a hundred years back then out of the blue he was like "okay everybody I went you guys to look at the top bunk" when we did this guy popped out of know where and he was wearing a mask which made it more scary and the most scary part was that I was right in front i freaked out I jumped up while I was jumping up I let a massive scream but come on I bet if you were down there you'd scream as well... Well those must have been the most exciting things that happened this is the end of my blog remember to comment it

Catch you later...

From:Firdaus

After the trip to Kelly Tarlton's-Ann

2008-10-16T17:43:00.001-07:00

Yesterday, the 16th of October, we went to Kelly Tarlton's. I was so excited. We first met in the Education Room. Then one of the helpers, Steve, told us a bit about our topic, Down the Drain. After the talk we went to have a look at the penguins. They were fabulous! Steve also told a bit about Antarctica. I leant that Antarctica is a amazing place.

Soon we got to see the Stingrays and the Turtles. I loved the way how Stingrays swim smoothly through the water. Darren one of the other helper, went in the water to feed the Stingrays, the Turtles and some of fish.

It was game time. It was a challenge. I really wanted to do it. The challenge was to put your hand into a bucket of FREEZING ice water. I thought it wouldn't be that cold It was girls VS boys. 6 people were in each team. You had to put it right in up to your wrist for 30 seconds. The game began. It was absolutely COLD!!!!!!!! As time went on and on, one by one, people started to take their hand out of the bucket. It ended up as the girl winning.

Time went past really quickly. It was night time, it was time for bed. Before the lights were out, Darren told us where we can sleep, where the alarms are set, and lots more. We also went to the tunnel with our torches to decided where we are going to sleep if you were going to sleep in the tunnel. Well I found a perfect spot to sleep. I think it was a great experience.

back from kelly tarltons-monish

2008-10-16T17:43:00.000-07:00

kelly tarltons was off the hook. it was so fun i never had so much fun before,the best thing was the tunnel because the fish is all over the place but best of all the sharks where there. supper was juice and cookies. Then the lights when off and we started to use our torches then it was bed time. The next day we went on the snow cats after it was time to go back to school by bus.

When we got back from Kelly Tarltons

2008-10-16T17:36:00.000-07:00

Wow, Kelly Tarltons was just how I expected it to be.
Fishes,sharks,turtles,turtles and more.
I had so much fun and guess what...................

WE GOT TO SLEEP IN THE TUNNEL.
I had so much fun even though we didn't have a shower.
Eh, doesn't mean we stink.
Anyway we also learnt a lot, and by a lot I mean a lot.
Example, we learnt that male penguins have longer beaks than female penguins and more.

We also learnt that Mr Kelly Tarltons dream was to build Kelly Tarltons underwater world and he fulfilled his dream.

Unfortunately two months after Kelly Tarltons underwater world opened Mr kelly Tarltons had a heart attack and died.

Sad eh.

Moving on ,we also got to feed the fishes. I got a fish head.It was disgusting.

At least I had lots of fun and enjoyed myself.
I hope I get to go again someday.
Hopefully lots of things have changed or maybe improved.

After the trip to Kelly Tarltons

2008-10-16T17:33:00.000-07:00

It was better than I expected!
There were HUGE stingrays and even bigger sharks,
And I had NO idea that Kelly Tarlton died 2 months later when Kelly Tarltons opened for the first time! I really enjoyed the Snowcat, especially when
the whale suddenly popped out of nowhere!
I didn't know that sharks have a strong sense of smell!
So I really enjoyed it because every room has a watery scene,
so I really enjoyed it!

After Going to Kelly Tarltons-Courtenay

2008-10-16T17:27:00.000-07:00

Well going to Kelly Tarltons was as fun as I thought it would be. We got to Kelly Tarltons and we had to put our bags in big piles. After that we went into the education room as soon as I walked in I felt excitement and happiness. My heart was pounding I saw my friends sitting there calling me over I walked over and we played hand games until everyone was there. When everyone had arrived we had a little lesson on 'Down The Drain' we learnt lots. He told us a bit about Scott Hutt and his crew. We fed the fish and I got one of the teachers soaking wet. We had our torch light expedition and we saw some amazing things eels, fish, stingrays, sharks and so many more.

We set up our beds and went to bed at 11:00. I slept in the tunnel with my friends.

We woke up at 7:00 and everyone was talking we had breakfast and then we went on the snowcat. The snowcat was so fun I loved looking at the penguins. I saw some of their eggs they are like big white balls.

We put our bags in the bus and drove back to school.

The whole experience was exciting and awesome so many feelings that I can't fit them in a sentence.

Feelings for Kelly Tarltons

2008-10-14T15:57:00.000-07:00

Oh my gosh, I don't know what to expect!

Jellyfishes, Stingrays...

I went there before but just can't remember what else is there!

But THE biggest moment is... *drum roll* HAVING A SLEEPOVER!

I mean, imagine sleeping with the sharks... :)

MAYBE just MAYBE, that the sharks will break the glass and eat the WHOLE CLASS!

Everyone knows that THE best part is the TUNNEL!

Looking through it is AMAZING! It feels like that we're actually underwater!

REALLY COOL!

I expect to see some improvements like weird looking fishes that sleep upside down!

I'm just so relieved that I'm going back there again!

There is no life WITHOUT Kelly Tarltons

Bye!

My first time at Kelly Tarltons

2008-10-14T15:40:00.000-07:00

Wow for the first in my life I'm going to Kelly Tarltons.
If you're someone like me who has probably never heard of Kelly Tarltons before then you'll be tremendously excited.
I'm not really sure what to expect, fishes, penguins, stingrays and sharks I guess.
Is it gonna be scary, is it gonna be fun? I DON'T KNOW?
A lot of thoughts and emotions are running through my head.
Am I excited, anxious, nervous, curious or what!?
If you've been there before, you would know that there is a travellator.
Luckily we get to sleep underneath it.
Imagine having a delightful dream and then you wake up and see a shark swimming on top of you, wouldn't you nearly pee in your pants.
I hope that doesn't happen to me.

I'm really really looking forward to it.

Information about Kelly Tarlton's-Ann

2008-10-14T15:24:00.000-07:00

On Thursday the 16th of October 2008, Room 8 and Room 7 are going on a sleep-over to Kelly Tarlton's. Here is some information about Kelly Tarlton's and a bit about what we are going to be doing there.

Kelly Tarlton's was opened in 1985, it is a wonderland of snow, ice and amazing underwater sights. In Kelly Tarlton's there are many different kinds of animals. For example, there are a lot of underwater sea creatures like Fish, Turtles, Sharks, Penguins and much more of ocean life.

At Kelly Tarlton's we are going to do a lot of fun activities like going on a tour through the Antarctic Encounter, to Stingray Bay to see their biggest Stingray, Phoebe having her supper. We will also have a glance behind the scenes tour and going above the tunnel to feed the fish. We are going to go on the 'Snow Cat ride'. We will get the opportunity to choose where we want to sleep. I'll probably sleep under the tunnel. I can't wait till then.

Ann

kelly Tarlton's adventure-monish

2008-10-14T15:22:00.000-07:00

I'm very excited about going to Kelly Tarltons because we get to feed the fish but the most exciting thing is we get to sleep there!!!!!{yay}. After all that commotion we get to explore the night by torch light{or camera}. At 10:00pm we will be eating supper. then we will be doing night time exploring with our torches.

My Predictions of Staying at Kelly Tartons-Courtenay

2008-10-14T15:21:00.000-07:00

On Thursday 16th Room 8 and 7 are going to Kelly Tarltons for a sleepover. We will be going to learn a bit about our topic for this term Down The Drain. I am feeling amazingly excited about staying the night at Kelly Tarltons. I am looking forward to feeding the Stingrays and roaming free around the place in the dark with only a torch. The last time I went to Kelly Tarltons it was awesome and I am having no regrets of going again tomorrow.

The things I am looking forward to the most are going on an expedition through Kelly Tarltons with a torch. Feeding the Stingrays and going to bed in the travellator.

Going to Kelly Tarltons is something that I am looking forward to so much and I can't wait to go.

winter field day

2008-08-25T16:56:00.000-07:00

winter sport is a sport that you do in the winter. Its all about having fun and having physical fitness. The sport are rugby,soccer,netball,kiwi sport,hockey. plus you have to have sports man ship. our motto is its not about winning its about trying your best and no-matter how the score come out you will be a winner. Our thoughts about thursday are to try your best at everything (and give it everything you've got.)and well like to meet new people and playing the game we both love.

my thoughts and feelings about winter field day

2008-08-25T16:44:00.001-07:00

On Thursday lots of people are going to winter field day. Winter field day is when lots of schools in Auckland get into teams of soccer,rugby,netball,hockey and kiwi sports. My sport is soccer. I feel really excited that I am going to a soccer tournament on Thursday. Because we get to play spots for the whole day and we don't have to do work. I think the A team for soccer is going to do really good on Thursday.

My THoughts and Feelings about Winter Field Day!!

2008-08-25T16:44:00.000-07:00

On Thursday it is Winter Field Day. Winter Field Day is a day when lots of schools in Auckland come together and play a different varieties of sport and games. The sport are Kiwi Sport, Rugby, Netball, Soccer and Hockey. The sport that I am playing is Kiwi Sport. I am really really nervous and excited for Thursday because we haven't had much practices. I am not that confident for Thursday because I have never tried playing Kiwi Sport at Summerland before. On Thursday if my team does not win the games it won't matter because everything isn't about winning it is about being the best you can be!!!!

Winter Field Day

2008-08-24T19:18:00.000-07:00

Hey our names are Firdaus and Sophia, and we're going to tell you about the thoughts that are going through our minds on Winter Field day.

Okay you'll probably be thinking what is winter field day.

Winter Field Day is a day you play one of your favourite sport

choosing one of the following: Netball, Rugby, Hockey, Kiwi sport, Soccer.

Well me as in Firdaus, I'm playing Kiwi sport and Sophia is playing Netball.

You have to train at least a month for your sport.

At Winter Field Day you play against other schools and you get a

closer chance of winning a 1st place trophy.

Tomorrow, is Winter Field Day and we are feeling nervous

and excited at the same time. We never know what's going to happen!

Hopefully Summerland Primary gets rated out of 1,2,3 places!

Me, Sophia is feeling butterflies in my stomach meaning that

I'm nervous and feeling if I ever catch the ball! Since there is a ball in

this sport I am playing Netball!

Me, Firdaus is feeling alright but a bit nervous for some of the games because some people

from other schools can get a little too violent and take the games too serious and they start calling you names and putting you down.

Anyway, all we need is your luck to us on Thursday. Oh, did we mention that the games got postponed till Thursday? Because we had bad weather on Tuesday in Auckland. Anyway, just need your luck to us!

Friday

2008-08-24T15:04:00.000-07:00

Today for fitness we played a game called 'Bump Tag'. After we went inside to do Ann's favorite subject 'Basic Facts'. This term we are doing Multiplication and Division. There are 60 questions and we get timed. The year 5's have 3 minutes and the year 6's have 2 and a half minutes (2:30).

When its over we swap our sheets and mark them. After that, we fill out our portfolio graphs. This is a great way to see if we're making progress or not!

After Morning tea we did S.S.R. for a while. Then Miss Rack told us that the Apple Bus tour people will be coming on Monday, so our principal, Mr Sumich would like each pod to clean up around their area. Miss Rack told us some of the places we could clean up, then she chose some people for each of the places. She gave us a big plastic bag to put leaves, twigs, etc. in and if we needed, a spade or a dustpan. When most of the groups were finished, Miss Rack came inside and asked us to do some 'free writing'. Free writing is where we can write about anything we want. But if we needed to, we could finish publishing our explanations on why we chose certain things for our 'Colour my World Art'. 'Colour my World Art' is a crayon and dye piece of artwork representing some of the things in New Zealand. The colours we used had to be complementary colours. Complementary colours are that make each others stand out. Such as green and red, purple and yellow, blue and orange etc.

After Lunch, we did S.S.R. then watched SPSTV. SPSTV stands for Summerland Primary School TV (if you didn't know). Its comes on every 2nd Friday. It is made by Kids (the SPSTV crew) filmed by kids (once again the SPSTV crew) with help from Miss Cheeseman! Another teacher at Summerland! When SPSTV finished, Miss Rack put us into groups according to the sport you are playing on 'Winter Field Day'. (See 'My thoughts and feelings on winter field day' for more info.) We brainstormed some ideas, great ideas, on what we need on the day.

We finished Friday, by singing Happy Birthday to some people in our class that have had their birthdays this month.

A day in Room 8

2008-08-24T14:05:00.000-07:00

Our group worked with Miss Rack today for reading. We talked about what a good reader does. Then Miss Rack told us to do a brainstorm or a list of things you think a good reader does. She gave us 3 minutes to do it. After everybody finished, we put a little asterisk next to the one you think was the most important. I chose 'they get ideas from the pictures' (they get clues and can predict what's going to happen next). While other people were sharing their ideas, you could add the ideas to your list if you liked it, thought it was vital and of course if you didn't have it. I love it when we can all share ideas and piggyback off each other! When everybody had a go at sharing their idea/s, we drew up a little 'Strategy Toolbox' for reading. We wrote the things inside, that you think you are already doing in reading. Then we thought about what we need to put in our toolbox (what we need to work on). The most popular ones were, making connections and adjusting reading.

A day in Room 8!

2008-08-21T18:53:00.000-07:00

Today for fitness we ran around the whole school. But before we started running, we did a lap around the courts then did some stretches. We were ready to start running! Miss Rack, our teacher chose 2 leaders to lead the line. We started in front of the playground, then passed the library, around the hall etc. until we finished at the courts again. Its was very, VERY, tiring but it was also fun!

At maths time we played mathletics. Mathletics is a maths programme where you have to solve all types of maths questions. There are many different levels. You can even verse other people live! You earn points, certificates, and credits. With credits you can buy lots of things such as, hair shades, hairstyles, backgrounds and accessories for your Mathlete (Character). I think Mathletics is a great educational programme as you are having lots of fun while you're learning (but of course we have fun anyway!). Every school should have Mathletics or at least have a look at it. Because it increases your knowledge of Maths!

After morning tea and lunch we do S.S.R. S.S.R stands for Sustained Silent Reading. For S.S.R, we use 3 bookmarks. They are called, 'read now', 'next' and 'free pick'. We had to choose 3 books from the school library or the class library. Then we chose which book you are going to read now, read after you've finished with the book you're reading and a book you read anytime but only once a week. We put the 'read now' bookmark into the book you chose to read now, then the 'next' into the book you are reading after you've finished and the 'free pick' into the book you can read anytime you want but only once a week. I think this idea is brilliant and I hope we will keep on doing this S.S.R! Also this stops us from getting up from a chair and trying to decide what book to read, for the whole time!

Starting from this week, for 5 weeks on a Thursday in the middle block, our class and Room 20, are going to be doing Gymnastics in the hall. When we got there, Miss Rack put us into 5 groups of 4 or 5 people. Soon Room 20 arrived. The people in Room 20 joined our groups and so then we had 10 or 11 people in our each group. Miss Rack told us some of the rules and how to use each of the apparatus (equipment). Then we rotated through the apparatus in our groups. There was the vault, a mini tramp, the bar (eek!), beam (which the girls had more privileges on!) etc. Some of the gear seemed quite tricky, but when we got the hang of it, they were easy and super fun. Gymnastics is an exciting and powerful sport. Its great to have fun!

A few weeks ago, we started to read a book called 'Holes'. Today our student teacher Miss Sterling, read a bit more of it. Everybody loves listening to 'Holes'. As it is a book that has a little bit of everything! Its about a boy called Stanley Yelnats (see if you can see the connection!) who gets accused of a crime he didn't commit! So he gets sent to a camp where he has to dig a hole everyday. I think listening to stories is a good time to have a little rest!