Senior Show

The senior show was really cool. It was scary before we went on stage. Everybody loved it and is still talking about it. We has lots of practices. We had dress rehearsals and rehearsals with lights. We practised with props. The best part was hair and make up.

Zoo trip

On Thursday the 4th of December our whole school went on our reading reward trip. That was for getting 5000.000 minutes in our reading challenge. For our trip we went to Hamilton Zoo for the day. Everybody had a working group and a transport. It was an awesome day out!

The year in room 4

if you would like to see a video of some of the key events in room 4 this year go to this link

http://animoto.com/play/TeLex4jVrfhhuHhFcGSiAg?autostart=true

hope you enjoy it!

TRISERIES

On the 5th of December some of our year 7’s and 8’s went to Pukeatua to play waterpolo and try to win the tri-series trophy. There were two other teams and they were from Pukeatua school and St Mary’s school. Waterpolo was the last game of the year and we had a good chance of winning. In one game we faced Pukeatua, we came a tie. We played St Mary’s and we won. This meant we won the triseries!!!

Cross country

On Wednesday the 10th of September 5 students from the year 7 and 8 went to the interschool cross country that was held at pirate stadium in Hamilton. They did very well because most of them got into the top 50 out of 100. Robyn got 5th place, Jonathan got 34th, Hannah go 31st, Jessica got 53rd, and Cody got 63rd place. The feedback they gave was that it was very muddy and slippery. There were not many hills and they were not very steep. The course wasn’t as big and hard as they had expected. They had to run in hail and big showers. But it was worth it.

by Grace

Speeches again

On Wednesday the 10th of September at St Patricks hall in Putaruru, the lion’s speech finals were held. The contest started at 6:30 and ended at about 9:30. There were about 13 contestants including the intermediate section. Megan Hemming, Blayne Hughes and Chloe Belfield participated in this event.
First everyone said their prepared speech and then later on came the impromptu speeches. I enjoyed the prepared speeches the most because I got to hear all of them. The impromptu speech was the hardest because you only get about ten seconds to prepare for that speech. The contestants were given a topic and had to talk for only one minute. It was a great experience to be able to participate in the contest. I was really nervous but as I said my speech it felt just like I was doing it in front of the school again. Blayne competed in the intermediate section (the year 7 and 8’s) and Megan and Chloe competed in the primary section (year 5 and 6’s).
The competition went well for Blayne who was placed in first place. Megan and Chloe also did very well being placed 3rd equal.
It was a great experience and I hope to go again.
By Chloe

Hi room 4

I have found an interesting site on the interent where you can play with words and create images with words. i have created one with some of the words from our blogs. You can find it here, go and have a look it looks really cool!
http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/170730/tew
Mrs D

Speeches

On Thursday we had a speech day and it was fantastic. All the year three to eight students went to different class with different teachers. Year sixes went to room 4, year sevens went to room 9 and the year eights went to the hall. There were three finalist from each year level. Year six finalist were Megan, Chloe and Jasmine. Year sevens were Robyn, Emily and Sam. Year eights were Gabe, Blayne and Georgia. They are in the finals on Monday so all I can say now is good luck in the finals and I can’t wait to see who is going to the finals. Remember all the things you have to do when you're doing your speech!
GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!

By Mikayla

Another busy week

SPORTS DAY
On Wednesday year four, five and sixes went to Putaruru to play netball, rugby and soccer.
Some of the year eights went as well to referee the soccer games. The refs that went were Maitreya, Jessica, Kelsi, Maxine, Ryan, Gabe, Blayne and Brak. I played soccer. I hade a lot of fun. My grandma took her car.
Te Waotu 5 won in the senior soccer team. Te Waotu 6 came 5th in soccer.
The netball and rugby were put into teams with players from other schools.
It was a great day.

By Erica

Art Week

We have just finished art week. It was so much fun. Each day we went to a different class and did art to do with the Waikato river.
Some of the year 7 and 8 students did wearable art in Room 1. They are going to enter the competition run by St Mary’s school. I hope one of them wins! They should do because the costumes look fantastic.
This week we have the speech class competition. We have been practising hard for these. You can read some of our speeches in our writing blog!

Another week gone by

These are some of the things happening in our class at the moment.
We have a current events quiz every Thursday. That’s when we have ten questions about the news we have to answer.
We met a Japanese university student named Kazuyo. She visited our class and she taught us how to make a heart from origami; she had a Japanese fan and chopsticks.
We are also working on our speeches. We have some very interesting topics in our class. Go to our writing blog next week and you will be able to read some of them.



Steve and Brandon

Maths Week

This week is Te Waotu School’s annual Maths Week. Every day of the week, we are given an estimating sheet to take home. On the paper is an activity that either the whole school or the staff are going to complete. Each member of the family writes their name and estimate on the sheet, then the sheet is put in the office box every morning.
Monday’s activity was how many smarties can the staff transfer from one bucket to another ten metres away in two minutes in relay form? The staff managed to get 17 smarties in the time given. On Tuesday our estimate was how many children from different ages could fit in the school sand pit. It turns out we could fit 196 children in our sand pit. We ran out of children so we just filled up half of the sand pit and then doubled it.
Other than Math’s Week our class has been learning a bit about the Beijing Olympics and China. We have an information sheet to complete in our co-operative groups with timelines and basic facts about China’s history. I learnt that the ancient Chinese used abacuses to calculate numbers, and that the Mongols invaded China and set up the Yuan Dynasty between 1279 and 1368 AD.

by Kelsi ans Megan

museum trip

On Tuesday July 22, 2008 our class along with two other classes went to the museum in Hamilton for the Rivers and Us trip.

We learnt a lot of things like dragonflies spend most of their life underwater!

Also have you ever wondered how old an eel is well you’ll be able to find out, all you have to do is kill an eel and cut its eardrum out and count how many rings are there? Would you ever do that? I don’t think I would!!

We learnt all about the water cycle, and that bats fly across the river at night catching insects. Freaky I wouldn’t want to be out kayaking at that time of the night.

We also learnt about the Waikato River and how it generates power for Hamilton and many other places.

We got to go on heaps of activities at the museum like the earthquake house, which was freaky but really cool. We also did heaps more.

We got given a sheet of questions, and had to answer them by looking around the museum for the answers. We choose a partner to work with.

After, we got some free time to explore the museum by ourselves until time was up.

Shyanne and I think that the rivers and us trip was an awesome trip and we learnt a lot of things in just one day, and everything that we learnt was interesting also the activities were very fun to play with!

By Tessa and Shyanne