Museum Trip

Museum Trip

Two days ago Rooms 11,12 and 13 went to the Auckland Museum. We went to learn more about our topic this term - Earth Forces. When we got there we had morning tea, then put our bags into cages so we didn’t have to carry them around the museum. The gallery that we stayed in the most was the Volcano gallery because we had to find the answers to a really long quiz about volcanoes. The gallery we found most interesting was the Weird and Wonderful one because there were dead things everywhere and also some glass boxes that were filled with insects. The most creepy thing was the Egyptian gallery because it had a mummy in a glass cage.

By David and Sam

Reflections By Angus K

Reflections

My reflection of the week is that when I did my speech for the first time I found it really hard and the whole class seemed to be staring at me. When I did my speech the second time it wasn’t so bad. I think that I have learnt that once you try something when you are afraid the second time you do it it gets better without you really knowing it.

By Angus

Museum Trip

Museum Trip

On Wednesday all of the senior syndicate went to the Auckland Museum. At the start we had a little struggle to get enough adults to come with us but finally some generous and helpful parents came. We went to the Museum to learn more about our topic Earth Forces because in the Museum there is a volcano gallery. The Volcano gallery was very interesting and here are some things we learnt

*Volcanoes are not always fiery and hot because there are some ice volanoes that don’t blast out boiling hot lava but they shoot out freezing cold snow and icy slush.They are found on the moons of Neptune,Saturn and Jupiter.

*When you hear that a disaster is going to strike you need to know what to do and every family has to be prepared.

We really enjoyed being at the Museum on Wedneday and we learnt a lot of things about our wonderful topic Earth forces.

Production Update

We’ve been practising the songs and all our parts for the senior production of The Blue Crystal which is coming up at the end of term two. Every Friday we have been singing our production songs and several times a week we practise the parts on stage. We are trying hard to do our best for the production but all the practising has only just begun! Lots of people tried out for the main parts but not all of the people got the part they wanted because there are over ninety people in the senior syndicate and we do not have that many main parts. Mostly all of the people got a smaller part on stage. Mrs Pharo, Mr Malcolm, Mr Gordon and Mrs Parker are trying their best to get the production ready in time.

Speeches

Speeches

We were all feeling nervous about sharing our speeches - all except about one or two people in our class who said they were looking forward to it! Some speeches were very funny, there was lots of humour and quite a few of the speeches were personal. They were all very interesting speeches and every one was different. We each had to choose our five top speeches and write them down for the teacher. It was very hard because they were all wonderful. We are all wondering who will be in the top five .......

We really thought everyone had put lots of great effort into finding their information and they all tried hard to not look nervous and also remembered to keep the audience's attention.

By Juwon and Joy

Reflections

Lorna and Sian’s Reflections of our Week

This week and last week we have been practicing for our senior syndicate production, called The Blue Crystal. Some have been practicing for the major roles and some have just found out their minor roles. It’s so hard for us to remember our lines and the songs. Sian is a Scientist and Lorna is an instrumentalist.The major roles have been

working a lot this week. They have been going out in the mornings to run through the whole script. On Sunday July the 3rd will be our Dress Rehersal and the next week we will be performing 4 times. We are looking forward to it.

Cuboro Day

Cuboro

PLOP! went the marble. We were in Rm 5 (the spare room) with a guy called John. We were put into pairs and given some blocks and marbles. Cuburo is a marble course made by blocks which have holes and twists in them. You put the blocks together, depending on how you want the track to go. You need to have an ending and a beginning so you can put the marble in and have the marble coming out somewhere else.

There were different special pieces like a trampoline and a catapult which swings the marbles up four storeys.

I think it would be good for pet mice because there are tunnels and they could chase the marbles. We had great fun and we hope we can do it all again!

Written by Kasey and Angus

News pictures

Welcome to Term 2, Room 11.

There were lots of interesting news items over the holidays. There were also some important days to commemorate. See what you can find out about ANZAC Day, and Easter as well as seeing how many of these pictures you can recognise.