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