Survivor Winners

Six challenges have been done and one survivor meal has made. Points have been awarded for winning teams, some teams have been awarded extra points for positive team work.
The winning team, on 23 points is the HIPPOS.
Well done to Anna, Natasha, Xaylan, Brandon.M and Mardi!!!!

A fantastic effort to second place winners Snakes on 21 points, in third place Bears on 19, fourth place Rhinos on 17, fifth place Tigers on 15 and in sixth place the Pandas with 14 points.

A very fun and exciting competition, well done for all the positive team work!! All challenges were mentally and physically challenging. A great way to end a fantastic year!!

Survival Meals

Each group had to decide on a meal they could easily cook if they had to spend the night on the track while doing the Cable Bay walk. The ingredients had to be light and easy to carry in their pack, hadto have the least amount of rubbish, be cooked on a gas cooker and give you enough energy to walk out the next day.

Snakes ingredients weighed the less.
Rhinos had the least amount of rubbish.
The Bears meal was the most realistic and easy to make during a tramp.
The Pandas meal was very nutritional and had the most ingredients.
The Snakes had the tasty meal that gave you alot of energy.

Well done to all groups for planning, cooking and eating their own meal.

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Final challenges from the Pandas and Tigers

Today we finished the last survivor challenges. Apple bobbing, ice crunching and eating, finding hidden people, making puzzles and solving word clues was all part of both these challenges. Awesome challenges, well done to both teams. Do not forget your ingredients for the last challenge tomorrow.
Here are some shots from today:

Tigers and Pandas Challenges on PhotoPeach

Survival Challenges from the Bears and Snakes

On Friday Room 2 particpated in competed in the Bears and Snakes groups Survival Challenges. We had some exciting and fun activities, including trying to eat a chocolate fish with no hands in the Bears challenges. In the Snakes challenge we had to walk around blind folded and joined as group to find clues that had puzzle pieces, they found 24 different clues around the school and put them together to make a puzzle. We can not wait for the last 2 challenges!!

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Survivor Challenges

Last Friday we started the first of 6 survivor challenges that we will take part in.

Each group has created a challenged that is physical and mentally challenging.
The Bears team won the first challenge.

Students had to catch water balloons in a bucket, then run it through an obstacle course, pour the water into a milk container, untill the clue floated to the top. Then students could pull out the clue with 2 fingers, then use all the letters inside to create the secret word.
It was an exciting and fun first challenge and I can not wait for the next challenges we will do on Wednesday!

Below are some photos for the challenge, comment on what you thought about this challenge.

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Cockroaches are Survivors!!

This week we are looking at a true survivor the Cockroach, who can live without food for a month, but will only survive a week without water.
Check out these websites and write any facts you know or find out about the Cockroach.

Roach Facts
madagascar-hissing-cockroach
Pest world for kids

Thorny Devil

This week we are looking at the Thorny Devil. For poetry we are re-writing our poem to create a picture book. Click on this link to take the quiz I created, and get your name added to the score board! Use the webiste link if you do not know the answer.
You will be creating your own quiz later, for your endangered animal

Click to do Quiz  (use your school email, and add your name)
Thorny Devil info

Athletics day

On Tuesday we had our schools athletics day. The events were shot put, discuss, long jump, high jump, 60 metres and 100 metres sprints. The 200 and 400 metre finals were also on the day; we had two class representatives, Lucy and Kirsten, who ran really well. We all tried our hardest in the events and luckily we had a great day for it. At the end of the day we had the class relays, running for our class was Brandon.M, Regan, Logan, Kyle, Kalyssa, Kirsten, Lucy and Amber. Kyle got us out to a good lead and we kept that going, Amber ended up running our class into SECOND place, well done!

Let us know if you scored any 4’s on the day, and in which event, or if you beat your previous record!

Here are some pictures Hana took, while she was helping at shotput with Miss B.

Regan getting ready!

Ben gearing up for a great distance!

Syndicate Sports Afternoon

Last Friday we had the year 8 syndicate sports afternoon. We played the three sports, ultimate frisbee, fippa rugby and capture the flag. Everyone put lots of effort into wearing their syndicate colours; ours was yellow! It was a hot day but we all tried really hard to win the title. In the end we came out on top by just under 10 points, we were only one off have the most points possible! Sadly we only had time for two games out of the three, so we were hoping for some ideas for the next Friday where we will battle it out again. Can’t wait to hear your creative ideas! Post as a comment which sport you would like to have in the next sports afternoon.

Here is a short video of some of the teams playing Ultimate Frisbee

Trainee Briar works with Kakapo birds on Codfish Island

Miss Bibby plays futsal with Briar, and heard that she was doing her ranger training on Codfish Island, an island that is a special reserve to look after the near endangered Kakapo. Fantastic because we have been lresearching information about the Kakapo!Today we read her blog story about her adventure on Codfish island. We brainstormed lots of question that we to ask her.
This is what Miss B sent her:
The kids read your story and have made some questions for you


1. Why can't the Kakapo fly? didn't it used to?
2. Are there other birds on Codfish Island, or only the Kakapo?
3. What do you think is the most interesting thing about a kakapo?
4. How often do you find a Kakapo on the island?
5. Why did you want to do this job?
6. Are the eyes of the Kakapo small because it is nocturnal?
7. What is the chances of you going to their burrow and finding an egg?
8. Do you track the Kakapo there? If you track them wear do you put the tag?

If you answered any of these they would be stoked!!! room2wis@gmail.com

or check your self out on our blog http://www.room2wis.blogspot.com/

We are looking forward to hear back from her!

This is a picture of Briar holding a Kakapo on Codfish Island.