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