The start of the Pecha Kucha presentations

Today we started the Pecha Kucha presentations on change. They were fantastic and I felt very proud of all the students hard work!

Sheamus and Thomas set a very high standard entertaining and informing us all about the changes in gaming, from Playstations to Wii.
Logan and Regan provided a lot of details about the changes to the telephone. Below is a little snip from Ben, Luke and Sam's presentation about the changes to portable music devices. Let us know what you think!

Some of the best cinquain poems!

Chores
Bordom, whining,
Aching, depressed, sore,
No one is helping,
Work.

By Ellie.

Tech,
Cooking,eating,
Painting, art, beautiful,
Soldering, creating, acrylic, hard,
Tech.

By Sheamus.


P.E,
Bats, balls,
Goals, hoops, try!
Never ending awesome fun,
Sport.

By Tori.


Tech,
Creating, thinking,
Learning,doing,enjoying,
Art,electronics,soft,food,
hard.

By Regan.

Try posting a voice thread

Cinquain Poems

This week we are practising different Cinquain poem patterns in class.
Below are the patterns we will be looking at:

Cinquain Pattern #1
Line1: One word
Line2: Two words
Line 3: Three words
Line 4: Four words
Line 5: One word

Cinquain Pattern #2
Line1: A noun
Line2: Two adjectives
Line 3: Three -ing words
Line 4: A phrase
Line 5: Another word for the noun

Cinquain Pattern #3
Line1: Two syllables
Line2: Four syllables
Line 3: Six syllables
Line 4: Eight syllables
Line 5: Two syllables

End Ball Vrs Room 8

The next challenge from Room 8 was to play End Ball. Three different teams took to the court. There was also another challenge made, to be the best supporting class on the side line. Room 2 took along some instruments from Brazil to help cheer our teams on. It was a fantastic afternoon challenge, alot of fun. Take a look...

Now we need to think of our next challenge.
How about a spelling bee or a maths challenge? What ideas do you have?

The most amazing voice in WIS is found in Room 2, here is our star singer Hana

Our own rock stars, Brandon and Adam. Playing The Lazy Song.

Meet Punda our new pet

Technology update

Some of the great work from Tech! ( Maddy's pillow and Ellie's clock )

An easy Riddle

They come out at night without being fetched and are lost by the morning without being stolen.What are they?
Logan And Regan!!

Riddles for pro's

It walks on all fours in the morning, two legs at noon and three legs in the evening. What is it?

Give this a go...

Acrostic poems | Free flash games with To14.com

Shape Poems

Last week we looked at Shape poems, which have lines arranged in a design or picture to add meaning to the poem. Shape poems are also are requirement in our poetry assignment. We practised writing some in class, take a look...

Thomas' shape poem about Cars



Kyle following the structure of our class poem about "Our Table"



Kieran's poem about Soccer.

Soccer clash with Room 8

On Tuesday the 17^th of May we challenged Room 8 to a competitive game of soccer. Mrs Lee thought her class was better at soccer than us, so we challenged them to a game. We invited them to a game by writing it on their blog page. We were split into A and B teams and played each other on the school fields. It was fast and exciting with a lot of skill on display. Team B was ahead by 2 goals, and in the final seconds, Room 8 scored. Team A also had a fast game, but scored 1 goal to win their game.

So on the day we proved that we were better than Room 8 while having fun too!
By: The Green reading group. Lucy, Ellie, Logan, Regan, Brandon, Tori, Natasha, Ben, Anna and Kendall

Two keen players battling for the ball.

Can you see the ball going into the goal?

Heading for the goal!

Players spread out ready for the ball!

End Ball

On Tueday the 17th of May Room 2 competed in the interclass competition of End Ball.
We played against Room 7, a team who had clearly had a lot of practise.
Our dream team started on the court, and the score rushed away on us, but we managed to score 3 goals in a row to bring the scores back to a draw of 14 all at full time.
The game went into extra time, the team that scored 2 goals ahead would be the winner.
Room 7 started with the ball, and unfortunately scored 2 quick goals.
We our now looking forward to the next interclass competition, which we think is Soccer.
Here are some shots from yesterday...


Amber looking for someone to pass



Ben about to take a great catch

Regan with his super passing.

Logan showing his fantastic defence.

Great defence from Room 7, but Amber was able to find the gap.

Super Simile Poems

A snake has beady eyes like a villain from a children’s book.

Its pointed nose is sharp like the beak of a chook.

A snake is as slimy as soap is when wet.

Its rattle is about as scary as they get.

A snake is as long as a rope.

Its smell is as good as a blood hound; you’d have no hope.

A snake is as scaly as a fish,

and as stealth as a hunters on a hunt for his dish.

By: Lucy

A dolphin is as playful as a child.

A dolphins eyes are as bright and shiny as jewels.

A dolphins tail is as strong as a elephant in the wild.

A dolphins teeth are as white and perfect as pearls.

A dolphins snout is like a beer bottle.

A dolphins is as streamlined as an Olympic swimmer.

A dolphin is as fast as a boat on full throttle.

A dolphin is grey like the sky on a rainy day.

By: Anna

My bird

Her feathers are yellow like the sun bright.

Her eyes are as dark as the moon light.

Her tail is as long as a snails trail.

Her claws are as sharp as a nail.

She sits on her perch all day, like a bat.

Like a peacock she fluffs up her feathers, which make her look fat.

Her beak is long and sharp, like rabbits teeth.

She is similar to a chicken, but she is my bird Bella.

By: Kalyssa.

Room 2's Mascot

Room 2 Pet

What am I?

Have a look at this close up picture and have a go at guessing what it is then post your answer as a comment.

Caption Competition

Who can come up with the most creative comment/caption?
 It can be anything just make sure it is appropriate. Post your answer as a comment. Good Luck. By Logan and Regan.

Technology update

In Hard Tech we had to come up with a design for a clock, I chose a badminton design, with an I-pod touch holder. Then in Electronics, we had to make a circuit for the lights to be added to our clock. Once we had put the lights on, we made the clock face. Here is my finished design.
By: Thomas

Thomas with his clock he made in Technology

Music

Yesterday we had our first music session for the term, and it was awesome!
This term our class has been split into two groups.
One group is learning how to play the Ukelele, while the other group is learning how to make music using Garage Band on the apple computers.
Even Miss Bibby is learning how to play the Ukelele, and the first song we learnt to play was El Condor Pasa by Paul Simon. We learnt how to play three chords, A minor, C and F.
We can't wait till we have music again.

Learning how to make music with garage band.

Learning the Ukelele

Here are some students writing about their holiday.

Go Carting

“Yes! I beat you William!”, I said after our game of minigolf. I had beaten him by one point. Finally it was time to go on the go carts.

 I had not been on them before and neither had William so it was a new experience for us. We lined up at the gate nervously, ready for our go. After some waiting, we got our helmets and got into our carts. I choose number seven cart for Cristiano Ronaldo. The man started my cart and off I sped. The day was cold and I had the freezing cold wind blowing in my face. I skidded and swerved around the corners. Suddenly the joy of not crashing had come to a horrible end…I had smashed straight into the tyre barriers. I got back onto the track with the assistance of the man. Once our turn was finished I had crashed about ten times. William laughed because he did not crash once. I told him that it was beginners luck and that I had not been lucky that time around because we still had another go left.

 Time passed as we waited for our next turn. I got number ten for Lionel Messi. I started with a roar and continued that speed the whole time. I had a lot less crashes that time around because I had got used to them on the first go we had. Once our turn was over we checked our times. I had done the fasted lap around the course and it was only 22.8 seconds. I was really pleased with my time and that I had beaten William that time. The tide had turned and it was my turn to laugh at William. We left Tahunanui and dropped William off at his house and then we went home.

By:Logan

Fishing with my Uncle 

On Monday first week of the holidays my uncle and I went fishing we went and stayed in an old hut.

 We unpacked our food and clothes got the rods out and went surfcasting. I caught 3 undersized snapper but I put them back in the sea.

 My Uncle caught a Carpet shark and 2 parrot fish that we used for bait. The next day we went out on the boat we put down a berly bomb, which is a bag full of fish guts to attract bigger fish we caught 9 snapper that day.

  We put out a net for the night and in the morning when we pulled it in we had got 2 Rig and 2 Flounders. There were lots of Swans and Canadian geese it was the best holiday ever.

By Luke

                                              My holiday

In the holidays on Saturday my grandma my brother and I went to the wave pool in the car. When we got there we got changed. Then we went to the wave pool and played with a ball when we got bored we went to the other pools. Next we went and got lunch. For lunch we hade fish ‘n’ chips it was good! After that we went to pick my mum up from work. Next we went home.

By Lance Connolly.  

This weeks Poem Flanders Field Video clip

Watch this video to see this weeks Poem in Flanders Field by John McCrae

"Lest we forget"

Letter from Saskia, back in Christchurch.

Hi Miss Bibby,

I am having a great time in Christchurch so far, but I still miss all of my friends (and teachers!) up in Nelson. Our class is now down to 14 people, three people have left and aren't coming back so the classroom's feeling pretty empty. The school is combining Year 7 and 8 which will raise our numbers up to about 28. Still pretty small compared to Room 2! We're also starting at 9 instead of 8:30 in the mornings. I hope you're enjoying the holidays and having a good time. Now you know my e-mail I hope to hear from you soon!

Saskia