Survival Challenge Group C

Here are the photos from Group C for their Survival Challenge, made by Lucy and Maria

Survival Challenge Group B

Here is the photo's from Group B's Survival Challenge... Made by Georgia and Jordana

Survival Challenge Group A

Over the past few weeks, groups have been working together to make a survival challenge that is both physically and mentally challenging. The focus was on team work, participation and having fun. Here is Group A's challenge photos made by Hayley.

Mick and Wez come to visit

On Tuesday, Emily's dad came into talk to us. His name is Mick and he's a policeman. Our  topic at the moment is survival and sustainability. Mick talked to us about how the police dogs track people, how they train the dogs, what equipment he has and how you can get into the job. Mick also brought a friend along with him. His friend was a German Shepard police dog named Wez. Wez is almost retired, he has been doing his duty as a police dog for 7 years. We all really enjoyed having Mick and Wez into talk to us. Thanks heaps.
By Hayley

Police visit

Glen to Cable Bay Walk

On Friday, Tamanui te Ra syndicate went on their Term 4 walk from the Glen to Cable Bay. Georgia and Maggie took photos along the way. Georgia has made this short video on the walk.
We hope you enjoy it.

Social Action - Salvation Army

Last term, the students in room two from Waimea Intermediate learnt about poverty throughout and around the world, we were all appalled at how they had to live and what they had to go through. But what really shocked us was the fact that one in four people in New Zealand live in poverty.

We were all deeply saddened with the factual information we found during our learning so we decided to take social action and do something to help the people in our community that need it most. We brainstormed ideas of how we could help and came to the conclusion to gather things from home to put together some decorated boxes to donate to the Salvation Army.

Each student in our class contributed to the box by donating food, clothes, toys etc. Room 2 hope that these boxes, filled with some of the necessities for families living in poverty, benefit many people and their families to help to brighten their situation and put a smile on their face .

We really appreciate all of the help that the Salvation Army provide towards the community and making it a better place with lesser poverty. We hope people do realize what a big difference the Salvation Army are making and the benefits that are happening throughout New Zealand.

The Salvation Army need our help to prevent poverty, everybody’s help counts. If you would like to help out the Salvation army it would be much appreciated if you could donate something too, or go to the toy run on the 30th of November to help support our local community. Every little thing can make a HUGE difference.

By Jordana Arnold, Maggie McLean and Lauren Chaney.

Surviving Antarctica

This term we are looking at Surviving in the Antarctica.
We will be looking at how animals and humans,
adapt to survive in this ecosystem and
what they do to sustain this environment.
What do you already know?
OR
Want to know?

What does this picture have to do with Antarctica?

Speech finalists

Well done to Philip, Lauren, Jordana, Maggie and Hannah for getting into the syndicate finals for their fantastic speeches!! A big congratulations to Philip and Maggie for begin chosen to represent our syndicate in the school finals next Wednesday. The level on speeches this year was outstanding! I was so proud of everyone in the class, for writing and presenting your speech to the class!!

Philip, Lauren, Jordana, Maggie and Hannah

Solar Ovens

We found out that 1 in 6 people did not have access to electricity.
Then we decided to try design and build a solar oven, only using, a pizza box, tinfoil, gladwrap and tape.
After watching several clips on solar energy, we found out that we need something to reflect the heat, some thing to absorb the heat and something to trap the heat inside.

Here is our journey to design, make and test our solar ovens.

We had to try melt a marshmellow and some chocolate thins to make a smore.
See how we went..

Child Labour poems

Persuasive techniques have been the focus for our writing sessions. 

After learning about child labour, we decided to use our persuasive techniques in writing a poem to either make the reader aware of the horrors of child labour, or try persuade them to help stop.

Here are some examples, let us know what you think..

I hope you could find examples of either, emotive language, repetition, rhetorical questions, facts or statistics, groups of 3 or exaggeration. 

Who helps?

We have been learning about people whose rights are not been met!

All of the world, over 250 million children are forced into child labour. Working over 16 hours a day, beaten if they are not working hard enough, and all for about 45 cents a day.

Even here in New Zealand we have 1 in 4 children living in poverty. Many children that do not start their day with breakfast or have a school lunch.They do not have proper footwear or warm clothing.

So what groups help people that do not have their rights being met?
What do they do to help?
What can we do to help

Term 4 Ideas??

Before we start planning next term, we would like to know what you are curious to learn about.
Here are some of the key questions we have to cover (they are a bit teacher language not kid talk):

1.How does the survival and sustainability of living things depend on the interaction with each other?
2.How do all living things evolve and adapt to their environment?
3.What systems and processes support sustainability?

But remember the topic is SURVIVAL and SUSTAINABILITY, so if we can make it fit these concepts!! 
Put an idea down, as this is your chance to have a say on what we are going to learn next term. Even some questions would be good!! 

Guilt or Not??

Grandma escaping the attack from the wolf

Today we watched a short clip on the story of Little Red Riding Hood. We then got into groups, selected the characters and acted out the story. Some groups presented them to class, there was some awesome acting that left the audience in tears of laughter!!

Awesome acting action

Little Red Riding Hood Show

                                               
Now we must put the Wolf before the jury and decided if he is guilt of foul play or not!!!
What is your opinion??
What do you think??

Water simulation

Water is something we take for granted, we turn on the tap and clean water appears.
 Many families around the world do not have access to clean water, and sometimes have to walk long distances to collect and carry water back, every day!!
 They have much bigger containers than a bucket, and often carry it on top of their heads (like the character, Mariatu, in our class book).
 It is suppose to be our right to have access to clean water, but many are not having this right being met!
We experienced what it would be like to carry water over difficult terrain.
 We were competing to have the most water remaining in our buckets,check out our video to see how we did... Imagine if we had to live a life like Mariatu, collecting water daily?

Blood diamonds

A big thank you to Reon and Findlay from Room 8, who came and shared their slide show project
on a protest song about Blood Diamonds by Kanye West. We learned that this song is based on the people who are not having their rights met!! Instead they are being beaten as they work, and being paid little money to find these diamond, just so they have enough money to by food to live.
What message or facts did you find out today??

Here is the song they show us



What other songs do you know that try share a message about peoples rights not being met??

Good Luck

We wish all those students participating in the Winter Sports Tournament good luck for their games!!
Play fair but play hard and of course have fun!!
A special good luck to all the students in
Room 2 taking part; Philip, Josh.N, Jimmy, Lauren,Josh.B, Maggie, Hayley, Zane, Xavier and Georgia. We can not wait to here how you went! Also a big thank you to all the students taking billets from Bohally Intermediate.

Put a comment of good luck here!
Think of a good comment like Mr Tyers favourite:
 "If you lose say nothing, if you win say even less!"

What are our rights?

We have started looking at human rights, particularly children's rights. This great video gave us a look at how our rights were formed. Do you now know some of our rights? With rights comes responsibilities too!! Do you know of any cases where peoples rights are not being met, locally? nationally? globally?

Opening ceremony

Here is our opening ceremony for the Tamanui Te Ra's winter sports challenge.

Teams chant off

Today the groups presented their chants.

Bhutan

1. How well they presented it as a team

2. The chant reflected their country

3. It was a positive team challenge

Cambodia and Burma were tied at 8 out of 10,

while Bhutan scored 6 and Vietnam got 4.

I hope you are learning your chants for 

tomorrows opening ceremony!!

Cambodia

Vietnam

Burma

Preparing for the opening ceremony

This term we are having a syndicate Winter Sports Challenge. Classes are put into 4 teams and have adopted a developing country. In Room 2 we have Cambodia, Bhutan, Burma and Vietnam.
Here is a look into their preparation, as they make banners and flags to represent their countries.
I can not wait to see what they look like in the opening ceremony!

What interesting information have you found out about your country???

Term 2 Holidays

How are you holidays going? Did you feel the earthquake?

Imagine after learning about natural processes that can happen, we experience an earthquake!!
I hope you have been finding out all about it! It shows us just how much it can impact the land and people, as we experienced it first hand. Enjoy the rest of your holiday, keep safe.

The cracks along the port roads in Wellington.

Human impact posters

Thanks Lauren for your poster about the impact of rubbish!!

Human impact

This term we have found out that lots of natural processes have, and continue, to change our Earth.

But what impact do we as humans have on changing our planet???

See if you can think of some ways we create change and what consequences does
this have on the earth??

Another riddle

1. In a one-story pink house, there was a pink person, a pink cat, a pink fish, a pink computer, a pink chair, a pink table, a pink telephone, a pink shower– everything was pink!
What colour were the stairs?

2. What is at the end of a rainbow?


3. How do you make the number one disappear?

Guess them all correct and you might win the prize.
By Philip and Maria

Limerick Voki's

By Josh By Maria

Aerobics!

On Tuesday Hayley, Maria and Lucy took aerobics for 
 fitness.

Guess the riddle!! -__-

There are thirty white horses on a red hill first they stamp than the clamp then they stand still? Whats the answer?

Onomatopoeia

Last week we were looking at onomatopoeia in poetry.We then watched a Batman fight scene (shown below) that used onomatopoeia and saw lots of different examples



We chose one word and tried to make it look like the words.

Here are some examples of our work:

By Jordana and Georgia

By Emily and Tahlia

By Philip and Luke

Tell us what you think, and can you think of any other words they could have used???

Puberty changes

Today we watched this quick video as an introduction to puberty changes. Think about all the changes people go through when they go through puberty.

Blu Guru Performance!

Josh is playing an instrument called the Satar

On Wednesday a musical, dance group called Blu Guru came to Waimea Intermediate to perform and get us all involved and interested in what they had to say!
We all had a great time and learnt lots about Indian culture and their types of dance and music!!!

Posted by Emily and Lauren :)

Getting our groove on!

Maggie and Tahlia getting up on stage to help

Personification sentences

Today we looked at different pictures and wrote sentences using personification.
Check out some of their writing.

The pecky seagulls searched for an afternoon snack in the glistening sunset. -Josh.B
The beautiful orange sun dimmed over the calm water. -Shaun
The tiny birds invaded the peoples privacy. -Shevana
The deep blue waves softly crashed down with caution on the grainy sand. - Taine
The lit up sun walked to its next destination. - Lauren
The yellow sun reflects on the water. - William

The furious violet clouds let out murderous sparks of rage across the night sky. - Jordana
The bright lightening stroked the tips of the building. - Lucy
The lightening bolts danced over the city. - Caleb.M
The blistering lightening crept from the colourful sky. - Caleb.O

Her long hair danced in the strong wind. - Maria
The lightening sprang from the clouds as fast as a tiger on steroids. - Georgia
The colourful leaves were dancing in the wind. - Laura
The dark, fragile leaves darted in the wind. - Tahlia
Her hair snaked away. - Philip

The house raged with exploding heat. - Derek
The flames flew up at 100km per hour. - Daniel
The vibrant orange flames licked every part of the building. -Maggie
The horrifying fire danced on the burning house. - Emily
The house slowly died as the flames consumed it bit by bit. - Hayley
The fire spread as quick as a cheetah.- Xavier
The angry blistering fire swallowed the entire house. - Chayden




Can you spot the personification words???

Guess the object competition

This weeks competition is to try and guess these five objects. If you get all five correct first you will receive a prize!! Good luck! From Hayley & Jordana.

A

B

C

                          

D                                                                                        E