Underway for 2013

We have had a fabulous start to the year in Room 19. What a great group of learners! This week we have been making bonus coupons on the computer, learning how to create block letters in boxes, writing some holiday poetry, creating 3D cartoons of ourselves, and finding out about each other. We've done a few more things too!

Thanks for all of the fabulous letters, I am enjoying reading about you all.

Top Team

What a fabulous afternoon everyone has had at Top Team. They'll be tired tonight! Great teamwork, persistence and an apparent love of water from Room 19ers...

What we got up to today...

Well done to everyone who competed at Zone Athletics today. Even if your placing was not quite what you wished for, giving it your best shot was the most important thing. Congratulations if you were one of the 32 people who qualified for the Canterbury Tournament to be held in Ashburton on Wednesday December 5th.

Those of us who remained at school worked on a cartoon enlargement project, using a grid. Precision and accuracy lead to impressive results for many.

Joe's finished result. He started with a small 5cm square cartoon from the paper.

One of the Family

Yesterday the RSPCA and Norm Hewitt brought their One of the Family presentation to school. The presentation shared Norm's journey through life and how he overcame adversity when he was young to achieve success. There was a strong message of breaking the cycle of domestic violence. Along the way we laughed, we cried and we laughed some more ... for 90 minutes! He even managed to teach Mr Rodger and Mrs Inwood some snazzy dance moves! Check them out on You Tube.

Athletics

We had a fabulous athletics day, lots of wonderful performances. Have just looked through the videos of sprint finals, technology is a wonderful thing; a number of the places have now been corrected! Photos below of Room 19 in action at high jump and sprints.

Grace takes flight

12 years girls sprint start.

12 year old boys take off.

Go Sam!

Latham powers towards the finish line.

Arms give extra lift.

Thomas takes off in the staff / student relay, won by the student teachers. Beckenham staff came 4th!

Sabine clears another jump.

Impressive style Jess.

Latham flies!

And the front on view.

Robotics

Today we started our science interchange programme. First up robotics. Mission 1 was to design a robot to carry Woof through a minefield, following the mine-free path, until he was safely home. We used remote control to manoeuvre our robots. We learnt a lot about putting a robot together, some still need fine tuning ... then it's Mission 2; 'Put on at brakes!'

Woof makes it safely through the minefield thanks to the great robot design and control of his engineers.





Nearly there!
 

Concept designs for our clocks.

This term we are making papier mache clocks. Today we started the process by coming up with some concepts. Creativity was bouncing around the room. There is a week to mull over and keep dreaming up design ideas. Next Wednesday we'll be finalising our designs.

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