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.