Tuesday 11th November

On Tuesday the 11th of November the Kapa Haka group performed to the war veterans by the war memorial to remember all the soldiers who fought and died in World War One. We remember the soldiers on this day because it was on this day the treaty to end the war was signed. It is called Armistice day. Our Kapa Haka group performed the haka and a prayer song, here they are:

Monday 20th October

Today Mr Chadwick is back! After a week of relievers teaching, Mr Chadwick is back from his trip. First, in the morning Mr Chadwick told us about his trip around Asia. Then we did the roll and then it was time for maths. After morning tea we did acrostic poems about Term 3. Then we went to the ICT lab and printed our acrostic poems off. After lunch we created Rube Goldberg machines. The idea of a Rube Goldberg machine is that you use a certain amount of items to create or make something happen. We had to make a piece of rubbish go into the rubbish bin. After that it was home time.

By Jazz and James

Some of the Rube Goldberg machines in action:

Trial and Error


Trial and Error 2


Success!!!

Tuesday 22 September

Today, in Room 21, after calling the roll we worked on our portfolios until 9:30, then we went for Maths. After morning tea, Ms Berry was taking us for Literacy to help us with our Shaun Tan statements. For a better understanding about our task, we were required to act a short scene based on a single picture from Shaun Tan's book The Arrival. Everyone had a fantastic act to preform after the 10 minutes we were given. Room 21 then re-worked and edited our statements, making them better every way possible. At 12:00 Mr Chadwick took us over to the library to issue some new books before luch at 12:30. Silent reading was after lunch before continuing with our Inquiry project: Innovation. Today we thought up some inquiry questions to investigate, such as "Why do people invent?" and "What would the world be like with no inventing?" And luckily, by the end of the lesson, it was time to go home!

Monday 22 September

For 3 action-packed nights the Muritai School stage was alive presenting our school production, The Lorax. Endless varities of costumes were sewn together and lines were repeated over and over for practice. The Year 7 & 8's played the Oncelers, the Thneed Machine dancers and some were our main characters. The Thneed machine dancers were great, and the drummers drummed away fantastically! Our Oncelers danced awesomely to the Industry dance, but the Grand Finale of Where's Your Head At blew the crowd away! Numerous comments from the parents and teachers said "That was amazing!" or "Incredible work guys!" We were absolutely exhausted by the end of the week, but we knew that the Year 7 & 8's dominated the stage!

Monday 1st September

This morning we paired up with a friend and practised our speeches. After that some of us went to the hall to practise production and some of us stayed over the road and played games and did stacking cups. Then we went to morning tea after that some of the class presented their speeches . Then we went to the I.C.T. lab and published our short stories. We had lunch then came into the class and silent read for 15 minutes. Then the rest of the class presented their speeches. At the end of the day Mr. C read us bootleg.

By Liam

Friday 29th August

Today we did diary writing, it was fun. Then we started cup stacking it was awesome. Then we had morning tea. After that we did literacy and some more cup stacking and then we had lunch. After lunch we silent read then some of us did the garden and after that we played a game. We played build up ball tag. Then we put the chairs away. While we did all that others were practicing the production.

Wednesday 27th August

Today Room 21 split into groups; The groups were kapa haka and the rest went to another class to muck around.

After morning tea we went to technicraft, in technicraft there are five groups sewing, cooking, art, ICT, and woodwork. We then came back to the senior side of school for lunch because it was wet and some of us went to the table tennis tournament in the hall.

After lunch we did some more work on the production and then went home for a fun filled afternoon.

Monday 25th August

Firstly Mr. Chadwick called the roll. After we then had a garden discussion about how we are going to make our path, then we walked over the road to the school hall where we did production practice on our school production ‘The Lorax’. Then it was interval.

After interval we did speech prep for our three week inquiry: ‘The Power Of One’. Soon after we went to the ICT lab. Then it was lunch and our first day with the new P.E. equipment. Straight after lunch we did silent reading and I wrote this. After we did inquiry for the last activity of the day. Finally it was home time.

By Tim McCafferty

Monday 18th August

Today in Room 21...
We started off by doing our class garden project. Next we went to maths, in Room 23s maths class we learnt about adding fractions and we all learnt a lot. Next we went off to a sunny but cold morning tea.

After morning tea we had spelling testing. Next we had literacy which was interesting. We were looking at how to setting the scene for our writing. Next we had ICT and we published our 50 word story peer comments there. Then we had a fun filled lunch.

After that we worked and shared our peer pressure stories. Our story was about friendship groups and being peer pressured into certain ones. Finally we tidied up the class and left for home.

By Austin S

Thursday 14th August

Today our Kapa Haka group welcomed the teachers of Cowley Street school with a powhiri.
Lulu and Olivia who performed the karanga (call) sounded great! They had lots of fun and were very glad they did it. We then sang "He Honore". After that Mr Bird gave a welcoming speech. We supported Mr Birds speech with the Kapa Haka group singing "Kua Rongo Mai Koe" and "Toia Mai" with their awesome voices and actions. Cowley Street school were so impressed with us for the amazing performance! Finally a man from Cowley Street School spoke back to us. The girls in the front row were lucky enough to hongi with the Cowley Street school team!

Tuesday 12th August

Today we had the roll then we went straight on to our narratives. When we had written 50 words we wrote down our spelling words for this week, then we had maths. After morning tea we wrote comments about each others 50 word stories and discussed the writers next steps. We then went to our school library. After lunch we did silent reading and then Inquiry, where we worked on our support kits.

By James

Monday 11th August

Today Room 21 worked on the garden. We shifted rocks and raked weeds and the class discussed what will be happening next. Lulu's dad has kindly donated a boat, which will be a seating area, for the garden.
After morning tea we did Literacy. We wrote another, 50 word story. It had to be about the Olympics. Our aim is to get rid of all the waffle we write in our writing. We then went to the I.C.T Lab. We had to do Seb's survey for his Inquiry. Then we published our best 50 word story. If we had enough time, we could do some of our inquiry. After Lunch we discussed the video we had watched on Friday and then made a play about peer pressure.

By Kirsten

Thursday 7th August

Today room 21 started the day off with naratives. Next the syndicate swapped around for maths, our topics for maths is fractions, decimals and percentages.

After morning tea we had literacy, we are doing short stories and we had to write a fifty word shortv story. Soon after, our class went outside to play dodgeball with some room 22 members.

Right after lunch we had production. All the dancers went into the hall with Ms Berry and Mr Chadwick to work on the industry dance. Then we came back and showed the dance to the entire syndicate.

Tuesday 5th August

We started off the day with the roll. Then we did our inquiry surveys. Some people went to other classes to ask people from different classes. Then we did maths. In room 23's maths class we played loopy. After morning tea in literacy we discussed the success criteria for the conflict and resolution in short stories. After, we went to the Eastbourne library and got out some new books. After lunch we did silent reading then we agreed or dis-agreed with some things about bullying where we arranged ourselves along a continuum. Then we played build up ball tag with room 24. Then we left for home.

Monday 4th August

Today in room 21 we started the day off with accuracy. We each got a sheet, we had to underline the waffle in the sentences. Next we all went to maths, at the moment we're doing fractions, decimals and percentages. After that all the year 8s had a meeting in Room 23 about Abel Tasman.

After the bell rang we went inside, soon after it began to pitter patter with a light drizzle. We did literacy writing it was quite fun because they gave us the start of a story and we had to finish it. Then we checked out some blogs and a few quick games.

After lunch people carried on with their surveys and asking people questions with a variety of different topics such as bullying, drugs and peer pressure. We did the surveys for our help/support kit for the three week inquiry homework. Then we left for home.

Wednesday 11th June

Today in wonderful Room 21, we had the roll call then we did a bit of silent reading before the kapa-haka people left and the science-fair people went to Room 23. The remaining people were split into either Room 24 or Room 22 to do a quiet activity such as drawing. They, and the returned Kapa-Haka / Science fair children then went to morning tea.

After morning tea we all left for our techni-craft in Wainuiamata. The Arts group bus smelled horrible! This was our first session with our new craft classes and we all got introduced to the workshops. In art we did self portraits and quick drawing. Once we got back to Muritai we all enjoyed our lunch on the junior side of school. After lunch we went to our usual syndicate sports with Volleyball, Soccer, Rippa-rugby and Netball.

Lastly we did our class duties and left to go home!

By Austin Sutherland.

Tuesday 10th June

Today room 21 started off the day with talking about the day because today was going to be a mucky day all the maths class were jumbled up because there were not enough teachers. But the main aspect of the day was that a few year eights chose some year sevens and went down to the Eastbourne dunes and planted about 50 odd plants and we all thought it would of taken 2 hours but we managed to complete it in half a hour which blow away the adult helpers who started this thing up it was a great experience for the enviro- schools we learnt how to plant plants for a good cause and learnt about the blue penguins that the planting was for and luckily we got to see two in the rocks a bit earlier then usual and they were beautiful. Then it was interval.

After interval we again talked about our machines that can do homework and spent a little time on our next paragraph the parts. Then after doing that we went to the school library and brought our work if not finished which was most people. Then it was time for lunch time.

We did silent reading for a long time. Then the class had a chose if they could read there book or listen to Mr Chadwick read the current book its called “Bootleg” its about chocolate being band from the world by the “Good for you party”. Then we had a game we started off playing a game that room23 taught us then room22 came out for a game we played “King dodge ball” after awhile of playing that room23 came out and because room21 was winning of course the whole of room23 got sent into room22’s side and in the end room23 and 22 won because they hit the bin! Then it was time to go home and before we did finish of the day with our class duties.

By Harriet Walton

Tuesday 3rd June

Today in the morning we did the spelling test. After that we did our accuracy check, which is where we choose 50 words from our narrative book (which we did on Thursday) and check for any mistakes, grammatical errors or spelling errors. We then fill in the bar graph in the back of our literacy book. The aim of this is to see our progress and help us improve our accuracy. This has helped me because now I know what I’m getting wrong and how to fix it.

We then went to maths and room 23 had to stay in for a while because we were too noisy! The current subject is geometry/measurement

After morning tea we finished off our homework cheating drawings and now we’re nearly ready to write our explanation on it. We then went to the library and the librarian talked to us about constellations.

After Lunch (and we had 10 minutes extra) we looked at the three states of matter and what the changes have to do with energy. Then we did all our duties and went home!! Today was a day full of new and interesting facts and learning.
by Rupert O'Brien

Wednesday 28th May

Today room 21 did Kapa Haka and then we had morning tea. After that we got on the bus and went to technicraft in Wainuiomata. There we had sewing, woodwork, computers, cooking and art.

We went across the road for lunch but it was raining so we stayed on our side of the school and had lunch, we played pirates in the hall. After this we had silent reading for ten minutes and then we did our term 2 cover pages for our portfolio.

- Ben Hollands

Tuesday 27th May

Today in room 21 we did the roll first and soon after we did accuracy. Next we swapped classes for maths where we focused on how to measure the area of a triangle. After that we warmed up for cross-country practice and ran the practise track once. After morning tea we did a handwriting sample and then we walked to the library. Next it was lunchtime. After lunch we did 30mins of silent reading then we did an energy quiz for inquiry. It was finally home time.

- Tim McCafferty

Monday 26th May

Today room 21 had accuracy, we wrote 50 words and then we spell checked them. Then we swapped our books with a partner and they checked our work for any spelling and grammar mistakes. We then swapped it with another partner to make sure that the first partner didn’t leave anything else out. After accuracy we had to split up into our maths groups. In room 21 we did the Quick 24 clock and we made some houses out of paper (using lots of cm2 and stuff.)

After morning tea we had literacy for the whole of the morning, in literacy we had to write out our spelling words and then we drew or read for 20 mins.

After lunch we had inquiry, in inquiry we had to go to room 22 where we shared our sheets on energy.

- Stacey Dalziel

Tuesday 13th May

Today room 21 started the day off with accuracy. We all had to write out the sentences of a full paragraph and we took out the words we didn't need. After that we all separated into our math classes. In maths we did area, volume and perimeter of all the differant shapes, then room 21 maths class did a quick 10.After maths we all did cross country practice, we have started to do two laps, we are making sure that the year 7 and 8's are prepared for the zone so we can win that. Then after morning tea we had inquiry, we got into groups of three and desinged a poster for how energy is made. We all had a topic and we had to find information and pictures on the topic that we had. Next we went to the school library and we worked on the inquirys while also getting books out. Then a while after lunch after silent reading we continued on our inquirys and started to make the final product. We then went over the road to play a game with our buddies from room 8. then we packed up the class and went home.

Monday 12th May

This morning room 21 started the morning off with accuracy, we got into groups of three, each group got a paragraph and we had to sort out where the commas went. After that we split into our maths classes, we had to find the perimeter, area and volume of certain shapes. We also had to find the radius of circuls, which was a little bit harder. Then we had to do our usual thing of 100 questions of basic facts.The the syndicate set out to do our cross country training, this time we all did two laps and on wednesday we will be running the actual cross country track.

Next after morning tea we had literacy, we all continued from our exlpanations last week, we all made it better and shared them to the class. Then we went to the i.c.t lab to finish off our class wikis.

Then after lunch we had silent reading. Then we had inquriy, for this term we are concentrating on take action for energy, so we determined what we could do to save energy and how it's used. Then the class packed up the class and left school for a fun filled afternoon.

By Stacey Dalziel and Kate Robinson

Friday 9th May

Today room 21 started the day with narratives. We each started to write one, on what ever we wanted to. After that we had maths everyone is concentrating on perimeters and areas. We have all been doing sheets on perimeters, we had to then work out the area of shapes. Next the whole syndicate went out for our daily run. We have started to do runs up Rona street practicing for the cross country. Then after morning tea we had our weekly spelling which we did in buddy partners. A while after that we had literacy and we had to write an exlpanantion on a picture we saw, discribing what it was and how it worked. Next after lunch we had silent reading then we went out for a game with Mr Skilton. After that we packed up the class and left school for a fun filled weekend.

Tuesday 6th May

Today room 21 started off the morning with accuracy. We were learning how to put commas in the right place and what to use them for. We got into groups and each had a sheet of paper, we had to edit the paper together and put the commas in the right place and take out the unwanted words. Then we had maths, in maths we are learning perimeters, areas and volume.

After morning tea we started to do literacy, in this term for literacy we are learning how to right an explanation. We looked at two samples of writing and looked at what the good points were and what the bad points were of an explanation, then we had to rate that peice if work from one to five.

Next we had inquiry after lunch. In this term we are learing about take action for energy. We are learning about how it's used, what it's used for, how its made and the qualitys about it. As a class we started to group ideas about where energy was used in the classroom and what it was used for.Then the class grouped ideas about what we had just said and thought what was powered by other things, other than electricity. After that we looked round the school for items that used power and how often they were used. We had to go round and take pictures of the things. After, we packed up the class, did our duties and went home.

Tuesday 8th April

Today we shared some of our diversity inquires and they were really good. Then we did our self assessments and then started sharing again. That took ages, but it was entertaining and then we all had maths I had to learn about exponents and square roots and I did, and after we did some fast facts and then had morning tea.

After morning tea we went and saw our buddies and we had a maori lesson with our buddies and then went to lunch.

After lunch we went out for a game with room22 and room23 it was a really great game. Then we did our duties, handed out the care certificates and went home.

Monday 7th April

Today many of room 21's students were out of the class, along with other Muritai year 7 and 8 students at the Zone Swimming Sports held at Naenae Pools. The standard of swimmers this year was very high and we are all waiting for confirmation of the final results of how we swam. It was a fantastic day as it was great to see so many students achieving, even if they had to be pushed a little. All students who participated should be proud of their efforts. ~ Mr Chadwick

Monday 9th March


Today we started of with some accuracy, we learnt about past, present and future tenses. As a class we had to decide whether the words displayed were past, present and future tense. We then had to copy out a paragraph about the rugby, which we had to change to past tense. I think it has helped a lot of us realize were we’re making our mistakes and how to fix them, it has helped me a lot because I often make the same mistake.

We then had maths. I am in Mr. Chadwick’s math’s class were we are learning about the perimeters, areas, radiuses and diameters of a circle. Today we had a particularly hard sheet, but in the end I think all of us understood it. I used to not understand measuring a circle but after today I learnt lots about it.

After morning tea we had literacy were we did another sheet on accuracy were we had to circle the present tenses and fill in the gaps by changing the words from present to past. We then had to think about the start of our latest explanation about a machine that does our homework for us. We then got into groups to do a many inquiry on energy. We went to the lab to research our topic. The point of this activity is to give us an awareness on our three week inquiry think this was a very good idea because almost everyone is having trouble with their inquiry.

After lunch we had to do silent reading. After that we had to discuss our inquiry and how to gain levels. It has helped lots of people get a better understanding of what they have to do and how to do it.

We then went out for a game of dodge ball with room 22 and 23we played year 8s vs. year 7s. this taught us many things including sportsmanship and ball skills.

Finally we did our duties and went home.

Tuesday 1st April

Today after the roll we did a writing sample about what we did before school from the moment we woke up to when we started writing. The catch was we only had five minutes. Then after maths and morning tea we got into groups of three and started writing a report about our Swimming Sports. After that we went to the Eastbourne library. After lunch We finished watching Bend it like Beckham. Fantastic day!
Rupert

Monday 31st March

Today we finished off some work in the morning. Then after maths and morning tea we finished off our crime scene reports, then we went to the lab to continue work on our Wikis. after lunch we watched Bend it like Beckham because it relates to our current topic 'diversity'. Today was fantastic and the movie was great.

Thursday 27th March

Today before maths we worked some more on the class garden. Then after morning tea we found out more about our crime scene report. After lunch we looked at our inquiry and when we had to hand it in. Today was a great day and the garden is looking better already despite the "enthusiasim" yesterday

Wednesday 26 March

After a fantastic easter weekend the years 5 to 8 went to swimming sports and had a great time. We all tried our best, Room 21 won the class relay, graciously beating the other year 7 and 8 classes. After the swimming sports our class started to design and clear out the space that we will be using for our classroom garden project. We wanted to create a space behind the school where we can have quiet spaces where we can go to reflect.

Thursday 20th March

Today we watched a movie about a burglar who stole two Maori clubs. We searched the museum, asked witnesses questions and saw clues. We then wrote an introduction and a short paragraph to begin with. We were supposed to pretend we were writing for a news paper. After lunch we did our arts rotation. It was a fun day.

Nana and Kirsten.

Wednesday 19th March

Today we did Kapa Haka in the hall and practised for the upcoming Kapa Haka festival. Straight after morning tea we went to technicraft, we had lots of fun. Then we came back and played a game of capture the flag at Bishops park, today was awesome!!!!

Tuesday 18th March

Today has been very full, we have had lots of fun though. We started off in the morning by writing our Harris Burdick narratives. We had lots of great descriptive ones and a few of the students in the class shared their stories. Afterwards we had maths. We had morning tea, then when we got back in the class we read silently for about 10 to 15 minutes. We then did literacy, Mr Chadwick gave us a story written by a boy called Robert. It was about Wood Pigeons. We highlighted the bits we liked and then wrote them down on a mini whiteboard. Then the whole class, including Mr Chadwick wrote a criteria for success for our reports. After that we went to the library to return books and get new ones out. There we met with our buddy class and played a game. After lunch we did inquiry and then played a game against Room 22.

Nana and Kirsten.

Monday 17th March

This afternoon we went on two websites. One was about a Victorian robot invented in 1893, it was a site written by Paul Guinan. We went on another website which was a website that asked a question, Was there really a Holocaust?. It was written by Dr. E.R. Fields. We explored both websites and tried to find out four questions about the websites. The questions were,
What is the message of these sites?
Who is the author? Does the knowledge of who the author is change your perception about the website?
Is there any new learning? What are your first impressions of the sites?
We then watched a video about Year nines in London going on these websites and getting information and learning about these sites. Then a computer expert came and talked to them, and explained how the website is not safe, they were told to take a deeper look at these websites and they found out who wrote these sites. They found that a few of the sites that they had been looking at weren't true, and one of them was a racist site. The message of this was that not all sites are what they say, and before you go on a site take a deeper look at it, who it is written by, what it is about and if it's safe.

Nana and Kirsten.

Tuesday 11th March

Today has been a very productive day. First thing in the morning we edited, finshed or started our amazing world record stories. This is fantastic bit of Kaio's story.

"Kaio Malama Going For Fame

Kaio Malama ten time Iron Man Champion of the world is participating in a extremely challenging event. Running through the Amazon for seven days. Then swimming through shark and piranha infested waters to Australia, and then biking around Australia twice".

While some of the children in the class stayed, about five of them left to go to the year three and four swimming sports, these were the House Captains and School Leaders.

After Morning Tea we changed classes for Maths, then we went to the library. Afterwards we played a game out side Room One. We played Bang and the winner was Kirsten. After lunch we did some silent reading, then we completed our flowers and vases of flowers. It was a very fun day today.

Friday 7th march

Yesterday we had our first art rotation. The things people did are as follows: dance, drama, song making, instrument making and clown school. These sessions happen around 1:30 to 2:45 and are great fun. We are going to have one activity for three weeks and then swap over to another arts group for the next three weeks and so on... We also started on our "record breaking attempts" where we have to write a report on something that we did that was amazing( made up of course). We will be working on these for the next week or so. We also had practice with patter tennis it was all great fun.

Friday 7th March

Yesterday the students of room 21's maths class participated in World Maths Day (www.worldmathsday.com) It was great to see so many enthusiastic students involved in challenging other students from around the world at basic facts. "It makes maths fun", "It's cool, fun, educational and addictive", "It's lots of fun challenging people from other countries" were some of the comments that I heard from students. Although the competition to reach 26 million right answers in 48 hours is over students can still access the site and compete against others till Sunday 16th March. ~ Mr Chadwick

Tuesday 4th March

Today in room 21 we started off the day with an asTLe writing test. Today we also found out that our girls cricket team lost 75 to 143, bad luck girls. We also found out our scores for our maths P.A.T test. After interval we went to our maths classes. For the first time this term we went down to the Eastbourne library to get two new books to last us for the rest of the month. Every two weeks we do a book review about the latest book we have read. We also went out for a game of Pirates but no one won because Mr Chadwick called out an instrution that none of us did properly so we all got out,which was a laugh. At lunchtime we also had a underwater hockey meeting, we had about a dozen people join for the great sport. Tomorrow is going to be another great day with technicraft and kapahaka.

Monday 3rd March

Today most of our girls went out to Bishops Park to play another game in the Milo cricket tournament. Last time they didn't come back with a win but they had fun, this time we are hoping for a win. Today we have also done some swimming. We found out our new maths groups and have done one lesson. After that we went to the ICT lab and we have worked on our class wiki. At two o'clock the people who had signed up for the great opportunity of helping out Muritai's Enviroschools are going to Mr Eames' class to get roles for enviroschools. Throughout the past week we have started on a piece of art work. We have drawn a variety of flowers and painted a background with a vase and painted our flowers then we cut them out and arranged them on to our background then put a glue type substance that makes our flowers look alive.

Thursday 28th February

Today we did some more art. We are now starting to put the flowers that we have drawn and painted on our background. We also had to paint our vase on to the background. It was great fun. Then we also went out for a game of King Dodge ball with room 22, unfortunately nobody could tell who won becuase the teams were mixed, but we all knew that room 21 won. This week has been a real blast doing art all day. The results are also really amazing.

Wednesday 27th February

Today most of room 21's girls were out of the classroom with me and some others participating in our first Milo Shield cricket game of the year. We played Hutt Intermediate at Te Whiti park and had a blast! The final score was 121/3 of 20 overs to Hutt Intermediate, while the Muritai girls achieved 103/7. For many, today was only their second or third official game so it was great to see the confidence and enjoyment had by all. Congratulations girls you gave it your best and that was all that I could ask. ~ Mr Chadwick

Below is a slideshow of some of the events.

Tuesday 26th February

Today we did some more art, this time we had to use charcoal, to create a side on portrait of the person next to us. We had to show the light and the dark, while also showing depth, which was hard. Then we had to choose two colours to create the background colour. We had to blend and mix colours.

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Monday 25th February

Today we began Arts Week. First we went to the hall with all of the syndicate and talked about Van Gough who we will be studying for art week. We also saw a really interesting doccumentary on him. HOW COOL! We then began our art, by drawing patterns and shading shapes, then we chose a 3D object and had to shade it, with depth and show where the darkness and the light is.

Friday 22nd February

Today we had Mr. Skilton teaching us. Narrative writing was first on the timetable with swimming afterwards. We also had buddy testing with our homework spelling words. Shortly after morning tea we had a reeeaaally long spelling test with 280 words!

Yet again Room 21 snatched victory in another game of rounders after the test challenging Room 22, but this time it was a very close game with the score 15 - 12.

Thursday 21st February

Yesterday we had to go over to the other side of the road because the trucks were bringing in the new Room 24. After that we went to Techni-craft. Straight after that we went out for a competition of rounders competing against the other classrooms.

Today Room 21 started off with narratives, then a Basic Facts test. We also did some statistical investigation questions, like " Whats your favourite breed of dog?" and "What's your favourite skateboard brand?". After interval, we completed a Star reading test. Room 21 whipped Room 24 today in Chinese Walls. I mean, we massacred them with a whole 8:00 minutes, beating their score of 3:30! Next time Room 24 will be ready. Room 21 is on a winning streak with it's victory of yesterdays rounders competition against the other classrooms.

Jack and Holly

Tuesday 19th February

Today in Room 21 we did 2 tests. One was the PRETOS spelling test, and the other a listening comprehension test. The listening test was VERY long and boring! We went over to Room 8, our buddy class, to finish off our name tags. Room 21 also did narratives, maths, library, and inquiry!

Monday 18th February

Today to start the day off we went down to the pool and practiced our diving technique. When we got back we told the class about our book reviews. The class had to complete a Maths PAT test, one for the year 7's and one for the year 8's. Room 21 also learnt how to play a game called The Captains Ship. In the ICT lab today we updated our class wiki, and our personalized one's too! Some of us are currently learning how to use CoolText on our pages to add cool titles!

Today was a busy day with swimming, spelling, assembly, narratives, relating to others and heaps more! We did a big segment on relating to others in different ways like how we relate during I.T.C, between men, in Music etc. We did this to help us relate to others in the future.

Yesterday we went to an excelent show called 'Paua'. It was about a serial killer who goes round and KILLS the people poaching paua. And the weirdest thing was that the police had no leads. This turned out to be because someone in the police force was helping the killer and clearing the evidence before the police arrived. It was a great show with only 7 actors!! The sound effects were perfectly timed and the lighting was to die for.

A great thriller ~ Jack Crawford, Muritai School Critic

Awesome show with fantastic quick changes. I was constantly on the edge of my seat with fear. I would highly recommend this!!! ~ Lulu Carter, Muritai School Critic

Today was a bit of a hectic day of finishing tasks but we managed to squeeze in a visit to the library and a short but sweet visit with our buddies in Room 8!

We also did narrative writing about some illustrations and captions in a book we read part of. This book was created by a man named Harris Burdick who dropped off some pictures to a publisher and then was never seen again.


Lulu and Jack

Today was a very quiet day but in a good way.
We did ICT and updated our wiki's.
It was cool! We also did a spelling test!!
All of us did great.
We re-invented the narrative (the island)

WE ALSO PLAYED BANG OR BUZZ!

Kirsten and Sam took the victory's! It was lots of fun!

We also had a discussion on diversity and each did a small play on one conflict which we chose. There were some great plays. Check out the photos:

By Jack and Lulu

Today we had a very very good day and a very suprising day too. We did handwriting, created our duty character and finished our CARE and 4 C's displays this morning but this afternoon Mr Chadwick had a surprise in store for us..... Corn-flour filled stress balls!!! We all got covered in flour. Check out our snaps.

By Lulu and Jack

Welcome back to Muritai School.

Today we made personal flags that represented ourselves, We used colour constrast and interesting shapes and pictures!! Today we also met our buddy class (room 8) and learned about them. They were so CUTE!! We played a fun game of dogeball. So overall it was a great first day!!

Blog to you next time,
Jack and Lulu