Survival Challenges

Room 2 Survival Challenges. Each team created a physical and mentally challenging activity that every other team participated in to try win points. These are the pictures from the challenges.

Brook Sanctuary Video

The students in Room 2 have shared their learning from their trip to the Brook Sanctuary by making this video. Thanks to Jaeger for linking the voice recordings to the photos! Check out this video and let us know what you think!! I hope it makes you want to donate some $ to the 
 Brook Sanctuary.


Thank you to all the students who recorded some information on this video!

Brook Trip

What did you enjoy or learn during our trip to the Brook Sanctuary???

 

Gangnam on Richmond Hills

 We are now entered in THE EDGE competition to WIN!!

Caught on camera!!

Your challenge this week is to do something small and kind for someone in our class and do not tell them. Then share as a comment what special thing you did!!

Biosecurity

What does this word even mean?

Who is involved??

What do they do to help???

Why is it important????

What do these signs have to do with biosecurity?????

Info here on this DOC site 

Hoiho Help

How does Mainland help the survival and sustainability of Hoiho in New Zealand???

WHO WILL GET THIS QUESTION CORRECT???

Post answers as a comment first person correct will get a prize.

Does the animal on this note look familiar?

What else do you know about the Hoiho?

Athletics Day

Jordy, Caleb.Y, Mitchell and Jaeger competing in the 60m final.

On the 13^th of November it was a scorching hot day, Waimea Intermediate had their legendary Athletics Day.

Room 2 had a lot of successes. Tori, Madi, Jordy, Caleb Y and Mitchell were all in the track finals. A big congratulations to our very own Jaeger who won the 60 meter track event. Even though some of us didn’t make it into grandstand we all tried our hardest just like our relay team that came 4^th. All in all, we were all happy about our performances. The whole of room 2 felt like winners by home time.
Written as a class.

Athletics

Athletics day is next Tuesday.
Good luck, I hope you all try your hardest!!

What is your goal for Athletics day???

What is your favourite event??

I wish they had hurdles!!

Pests

No, I am not talking about your brother or sister, I want to know what you think a pest is???

The ones like this, that are found in New Zealand..

List the pests you know here, and say why you think they are a pest.

Adaptation Games

Test your knowledge on adaptation, give these games a go.

The first is a ADAPTATION game, time yourself to see how fast you are!!

The next game is a Quiz on arctic adaptation how much do you know when you feel cold??

Topic Blog

The link to our topic blog is on the side bar of our class blog!! USE IT!!

Remember to check out our Topic Blog and 

add comments there. 

There are sites you can click on for more information and tasks to do there if you are an active learner and want to find out more!!

Giraffe Adaptation

What is the Giraffe's habitat?

How has it changed to adapt to its habitat?

What else do you know about Giraffes?

What are you curious to find out about Giraffes?

Build the food chain

Try this GAME about building a food chain.
It will test your knowledge about food webs, which we have been learning in class this week!!

Wearable Arts

The winning outfit

The wearable arts fashion show was on during this weeks assembly. The students had made an outfit out of recyclable material. The winning dress was made out of lots of different coloured milk bottle tops, made into a funky pattern of flowers.

We now have the chance to vote on our favourite outfit, fill in an entry form in the library this week!

Which outfit will you vote for??

The Kakapo

The kākāpō (night parrot) is one of New Zealand’s unique ‘treasures’ and with only 125 known surviving birds - including 11 new chicks born in 2011 - it is listed internationally as a critically endangered species.

This week we are looking at the Kakapo in reading.
What do you know about the Kakapo?
What do you want to find out?
 

Netiquette

This week we learnt a new word NETIQUETTE.
What does this word mean to you???

What things SHOULD we be doing on the internet?
What things SHOULDN'T we be doing??

Post your answer as a comment, try not repeat what others had said

Energy Sources

We worked in groups researching different energy sources on a google doc presentation.
They worked together to explain how it works, the positive and negative effects, and examples of where this is in New Zealand or overseas.

Here is there finished product (some pages a missing due to absent students)

Energy Sources

More PowerPoint presentations from hannah

Email from Free the Children Fund

We received an email from Free the children Find, thank us for supporting them and spreading the word on stopping Child Labour!! Well done Room 2, I am very proud of what you all did, you worked very hard for such a great cause!!
Here is the email...

Hi Hannah!

Thank you SO much for sharing the incredible story of passionate young students creating awareness and collecting donations towards stopping child labor! My name is April and I am the International Coordinator at Free The Children and as such I have the privilege of working with incredible students like yours from all around the world! It is truly the dedication of students just like those at Waimea Intermediate that inspire us every day and create the change we all want to see in the world! I was so happy to share the video with my colleagues in Toronto, Canada, who were all equally inspired!

On behalf of the entire organization and Free The Children team, I want to send a sincere thank you to all of the students who participated in this day of action! Congratulations on such a successful day and for spreading the word of child labor and the conditions of children from all around the world!

I wish you all the best in all of your future actions to change the world!

Keep in touch!

April

 

How is your holiday going??

I hope you have all been relaxing and enjoying sleeping in, I have been!!!
What have you all been doing???

The best thing I have done so far is taking my niece, Ruby, Ten-Pin Bowling.

Let every know what you have been up to here...

Our letter to the Waimea Weekly

W.I.S. students make a difference

Today, students from Room 2, Waimea Intermediate went to the Richmond Mall at lunch time, to raise awareness and gather donations to help fight child labour. They had been studying children’s rights in class this term, and noticed that children involved in child labour are having their rights taken away from them. Children in child labour have no chance of an education, they are beaten and forced to work in factories often to pay off their families’ debts. Everyday a lot of children’s lives are at risk because of the harmful and dangerous jobs they have to do. Just recently, they read about a fireworks factory explosion in India, which killed lots of children working there. In order to stop this happening again, Room 2 decided to take action and try to help those 250 million kids involved in child labour. They made wallets from juice boxes, and sold them for $3 as well as having a coin trail for donations. They raised $176 and they will donate it to www.freethechildren.org which is a website started by a 12-year-old boy who also wanted to break the cycle of child labour. Room 2 students would like to thank all of the people who donated.

Written by Room 2 Students

Check out the photos from our day.

Write a comment about your reaction to our Social Action Trip to the Mall

I was so proud of how well you all did spreading the word!!

 

Juice Boxes Needed

We need as many of these juice boxes as we can get our hands on!! We will turn these juice boxes into something amazing that we can then sell to people. All the profits will go to help prevent children from working in dangerous and hazardous conditions, something they call Child Labour.



 We can make a difference with recycling these boxes.

Bring then to class Monday!!!

Social Action for Child Labour

We have learnt about our rights, and how some children are not having their rights met, like the 250 million children involved in child labour. We know how they get involved in child labour, not by choice but because there in no other option. Now we are planning to put our knowledge into action.

We want to think of a way we can help these poor children. It could be a way to educate people and spread the word, it could be encouraging people to buy free trade products, or fundraising some money to help them. We need your ideas to work out the best way we can MAKE A DIFFERENCE!!!


Write down some fantastic ideas that we could use, but be realistic!!

These websites could help:
Free the children
Global Poverty

Child Labour Poems

We wrote poems about child labour, trying to use emotive language to make people realise how hard, dangerous and sad childrens lives can be when they are involved in child labour.

Here are a few examples, let us know what you thought as you read it.

Written by Greer

Written by Sam

Emotive Language for Child Labour

We wrote sentences that would make people feel sorry for children working in child labour. Then we tried to find an image that matched what we were trying to say.
Here are a few examples

By Ella

By Caleb.F

 

 

 

We other emotive sentences could we use to describe 

Child Labour?

Fairtrade

Do you know what this label means??

Go home and look in your kitchen, and see if you have any products with this label, write here what you have. If you can take a photo and send it to me.

Paper Bag Simulation

 Today we had our second experience of being children involved in child labour. We had to make as many paper bags as we could within 10 minutes. If our bags were not made correctly we would have been beaten, we had to make 10 bags if we wanted a meal that night. It was a scary experience as we were worried about being beaten as we made them (even though we knew this would not REALLY happen to us, but it does for them) and no one was able to make 10, the closest was Tori with 7.

Image if this was real. How would you feel doing this every day, from 4am to 8pm and only making$1.25?

Winter Tournament in Christchurch

Here is a photo from Christchurch of all the students representing Waimea Intermediate, well done Anna from our class who played well for the Netball B team. Waimea had a successful tournament coming 3rd in Football, Netball and Hockey. 

Water Simulation

Today we experienced what it would be like to collect and carry our own water. We carried our buckets full of water carefully as we knew this would be the only water we would have for our day. There are lots of difference uses for this water, and not only to drink, but to clean, wash and cook with it. We made it a bit of a competition to see which group had the most water in their buckets by the end.  Click on this album to look at some of the photos from our day.



What did this exercise make you think about children living like this everyday?

Guess the job

Click on this link to make the PUZZLE then write in the comment box what job you think this is, and what hazards would there be if you worked there.

WONDERS about Child Labour

Today we started looking at the difference between children at work and child labour. We watched a video about some children that were involved in child labour. We found out that over 250 million children are in danger as they work in harsh conditions in child labour. It was really sad to watch and made us realise how lucky we are.





What questions do you have as we start this topic?
What do you want to find out by the end of this topic?
What do you WONDER about child labour?

Should P.J's be banned in public

What is your opinion?
Do you agree or disagree?
Justify your reasons and add a comment to our debate.

Add your comment to this debate

Dogs are better pets than cats

I agree because cats dont do much they just sit,eat, sleep and leave the house. But dogs on the other hand play, help are your best friend, and most of all are loyal.
By Jordy

I disgree and agree because dogs do more stuff, but some people love cats because cats are soft and cuddly.
By Matt

I disagree because they are mostly the same.
By Jade

I disagree that dosg make better pets than cats becasue some people want an easier pt to look after but on the other hand some people might want an energetic pet for their kids.
By Ella

I disagree because it depends on who you are. If you are a person who likes to go for walks, then have a dog. If you just want something that sits on your lap and purrs, then have a cat. But if I had to decide I would pick a dog because I am allergic to cats.
By Caleb.F

What is your opinion, do you think dogs make better pets than cats?

Naughty children should be punished by smacking

I disgree that you should be smacked for punishment because there is an anti smacking law in New Zealand and it is abuse. If you smack your child when you're angry, what is that, encouraging your kids to do when they are angry? That's right, smack! Family voilence is not ok and the best solution is to talk about the problem. Put yourself into the smacked persons shoes, would you like to be smacked?
By Caleb.F

I disagee that children should be puniched by smacking because what does that teach them? To hit when someone annoys them? To hit when someone annoys them? What if you loose your temper and hit too hard? Babies can be killed by being shaken. Do you want to be know as a baby murderer?
By Greer

What is your opinion, do you agree or disagree? Do you have any evidence?