Monday, March 21, 2011

Last week's news pictures

How many of these images can you and your family identify?

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Music Comic Life


Mr Ramsays Music time


Every week on monday morning room 11 goes to the music room to have a musical and fun time with Mr. Ramsay.

Usually we play on the Bass Bars, Bass Xylaphone, Metalapones, Xylaphones, Glokinspiels and Chime Bars. When we play all these intruments, we are called an orchestra.




Sunday, March 13, 2011

News pictures



Last week's news was still full of earthquakes. How many of these images do you and your family recognise from the news?

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Jock Dog

JOCK DOG

When we came back from the school holidays there were three ice cream containers full of different coloured tennis balls sitting on the bench. We were all wondering what they were for. It became a Room 11 mystery...

Finally Mrs Parker told us about them and this is what she said. There is a dog named Jock Dog who lives just across the road from Sunnybrae. He found 36 balls and his owner gave them to Mrs Parker who divided them up for us and also for Room 12 and 13.


This is one of our letters to Jock Dog


Dear Jock Dog


WOOF! WOOF! Hi I am from Room 11 at Sunnybrae Normal School. I always wanted a dog like you because I like doing sports like you. I have only a pet cat named Tom.


On the first day of school I wondered about the tennis balls on the bench that had been dyed. Mrs Parker, our teacher kept it a mystery until Friday.


I really want to know the answers to these questions.

What type of dog are you? What happened to the other balls that you collected? How do you know where the sneaky balls are hiding? When did you start to collect balls and what is the number of balls that you’ve collected in your entire life?

Can you please answer them as I am very curious and I want to know more about you. Also did your master (owner) ask you to collect those tennis balls and have you made a collection of them in your house?


Thank you so much for all the tennis balls you and your master (owner) gave to our school. Those balls you gave us are awesome to play with. I wish you could collect more balls for other classes in our school. I think you are a very smart dog and that’s the reason I would like you as my pet dog. You can come and visit our classroom if you wish. I hope you have a happy time with your owner.


From your Room11 fan


Juwon



Swimming Sports Comic Life


Please view my comic life to see how well Room 11 did at the swimming sports!!!!


Swimming Sports


Bye Birkenhead (till next time)

Mariah finishes her race!


On Friday last week all of the senior syndicate children and selected middle syndicate children went to Birkenhead Leisure Centre for swimming sports. All of the children had to compete in either a width or length race.We did the width races first then the length races. Room 11 was cheering for their classmates! Here are some feelings of people before and after their races.......

*I was nervous and scared being called to the finals and it made me have the butterflies but at the end I was proud of myself and what I had achieved. I felt like a lock in me had unlocked and I wasn't afraid anymore!
Jude

*I felt pretty nervous but when I got in the water I felt excited!
Kasey

*I was scared and nervous at the beginning but I was very proud at the end because I had tried my hardest and did my best!
Liam

*I felt tired and proud of myself at the end.
Angus A

*I felt hungry!!! Tired and happy in myself.
Annie

*I had the butterflies before the race.
Risheeka

I was so scared at the start of the race!
Keanu

I think everyone that did a race should feel proud and happy
with themselves.
At the end of the day everyone got to have free time in the pool. We all did a whirlpool that was really fun! Room 11 all had fun and did a great job swimming!



Swimming Sports

Monday, March 7, 2011

Current Events Week 6


Click on the image to make it larger and see who can be first to answer all the questions. You may ask your family to help you!

Sunday, March 6, 2011

Cheralyn's Comic Life

On Thursday Mrs O'Hanlon brought some honeycomb and dead bee larvae into our classroom to show us. She showed us the clever way that bees tesselate the comb in a hexagonal shape. The honeycomb was from a totara tree down on the bottom field. Mr Barnes found it and called someone to come in and kill the bees because they were inside the tree and he couldn't reach them. Mr Barnes was sad because he didn't want to kill the bees but also he didn't want children to get stung because some of the children might be allergic to their stings. Mr Barnes showed us the tree and how he used tongs to get the honeycomb out because the entrance the bees used was so small. Inside the tree the hole was huge. I found the queen bee but I dropped it. It was amazing to see how much honey and honeycomb the bees produced.