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.