Sunnybrae Dodgeball Memories

Dodgeball Memories of Sunnybrae...

Long Jump Video

Here is our long jump video with some helpful tips. Enjoy!

Today in Māori - Nō hea ia? (Where is he/she from?)

This is what we worked on today in Māori .

Black Out Poems

Here is our video about Black Out Poems. Enjoy.

ROC Day Video

Here is our ROC Day video. Enjoy!

Room 13 Class Collaborative Poem

Here is our Collaborative Class Poem.

Today in Māori - Taku whānau (My family)

Today in Māori  we learnt about Taku whānau (My family). Click on the image below to help link with the terms we are learning.

Back to the Future - Today!

Today is the day in the Movie Back to the Future. This interesting video reviews what the movie got right!

Class Treaty - Term 4

Our class has been reviewing our Class Treaty and signed it again as we reviewed our personal and subject goals for the Term.

Tangrams in Maths

Today in Maths as part of our Geometry - Shape and Position unit we learnt about tangrams and had fun making images with this puzzle.  A tangram is a Chinese geometrical puzzle with seven pieces which can be arranged to make various other shapes. Here is a tangram weblink you might also like try.

Shake Out Drill - Wordle

Here is our Shake Out Drill Wordle.

My Ideal Holiday Recipe - Winnie

Ingredients

Breakfast

Friends

Movies

Netball

Computer

Books

Sunny Weather

Beach

Mall

Restaurant

Park

Brother

Drawing Competition

Method
1. Pour in a pinch of sunny weather on a day of your choice.
2. Stir in some time to have breakfast in bed and combine with movies.
3. Mix in a cup of time for my friends and go visit them.
4. Measure in a couple of walks to the beach or the mall.
5. Squeeze in a tablespoon of time for a drawing competition with my brother and try to win!
6. Grab a good book while waiting.
7. Add in an hour, for a great game of netball with friends.
8. Chill and go to the restaurant for lunch or dinner.
9. Whip up the computer and get playing!
10. Drizzle in time to go to the park and blend the mixture all together.
11. Refrigerate overnight and it’s ready!

  

   Enjoy and share with your friends and family!

My Ideal Holiday Recipe - Callum

Ingredients

Monster truck.

Skydiving.

Go karts.

Off roading.

Sky Tower bungee jumping.

Drift racing.

Megazone.

X-treme entertainment.

Theme Parks.

Sleepover.

Method

1) Firstly pour in two ounces of sky diving trips.

2) Then sprinkle in a few go-kart rides.  

3) After that grind in a monster truck show and try to get airborne.

4) Stir in an off roading trips and avoid any lumpy spots.

5) Pour in some time for Drift Racing.

6) Mix in a bungee jumping session at the Sky Tower.

7) Spread in some time at Megazone with some friends.

8) Toss in a day at  X-treme  entertainment.

9) Chop up a Theme Park ride.

10) Chill with a sleepover and have a friend stay overnight.

11) Blend some time playing video games.

12) Enjoy.

Earthquake Vocabulary Presentation

As we prepared for the Shake Out earthquake drill we explored some of the vocabulary related to earthquakes and made a presentation.

Soccer Fun - Week 1

We enjoyed our fun in the sun playing soccer on Wednesday of Week One!

Welcome Ms Brown to Room 13

We would like to welcome Ms Brown to Room 13 and hope you enjoy your 5 weeks working with us!

Our Holiday Wordle - Ingredients for and Ideal Holiday!

Below is our Wordle after we shared, reviewed and recorded our - Ingredients for an Ideal Holiday!

Bruce Potter visits Sunnybrae - Danika

This morning Bruce Potter visited Sunnybrae and he is going to visit us again as part of our Literacy Evening. He started his morning session by playing his guitar and singing “Penny the Prolific Pooing Cow”. I liked the stories he shared with us. My favourite story was The Remarkable Cake Shop. It’s very funny, especially when the Mayor took one of the white cakes that said “ Do not touch”. After he ate it the Mayor then started acting like a cat.

Bruce Potter also drew a doodle bug and a dragon on his tablet computer and I liked his drawing. I think Bruce Potter is a very clever artist.

Later back in class we were asked to draw our own doodle bug on a blank piece of paper. My made up doodle bug has eight legs like a spider, wings like butterfly, a ladybug body with black spots and a caterpillar bottom. I also drew pictures of an ice-cream, a netball player, a guitar, and a panda. I haven’t finished my sketch yet because I’m trying to fill up the whole page like Bruce Potter does. It takes a lot of time to do this!

Production T-Shirts

We still have some Production T-Shirts for sale. So if you haven't purchased your t-shirt yet bring in your money and take home a great t-shirt and memento of our latest Production.

My Sketches by Catherine

These are my sketches. I drew these at art class.  The first thing I drew was the bird. When the teacher gave me the photo of a bird that she drew she asked me if can I draw this. At first I thought no way, but I had to try.

Move It Production - Thank You!

I just wanted to say a big THANK YOU to all those who helped with our Senior Syndicate Production of Move It. Your efforts have ensured that it was a successful and memorable experience!

The Final Show - Winnie

The Final Show!

I can't believe it is almost over! The singing, dancing, acting had finally finished. There was no more! Well that's what I believed...I still had tunes buzzing around in my head from our production called Move It!

Last night I felt I did better than Wednesday night. It went well. The crowd was clapping loudly and after the production I slept well after a good book (of course!) I think the choir did the best that night. I was proud of the choir (I was in the choir), I think we looked great. The dance group danced in time really well together.

I think the senior syndicate put on a great show. It was the first production with so many people on the stage dancing. I also really liked the songs they danced to. This was a great last production for me at Sunnybrae.

The next morning was very strange because we only had 11 people in our class as the rest had a sleep in! Lucky! I didn't sleep in because my parents had to go to work. Our hard work paid off in the end because the production nights turned out really well.

Production Poems By: Jae Won

Production Poems

By: Jae Won

I’m in the choir.

The music was so awesome.

No more lipstick please!

The scaffolding was so big.

The Hypnotiks won!

Sam’s upset.

The dancing was cool.

The sound was so amazing.

Super Production!

Traffic Survey - Dairy Side

Here is some of our Traffic Survey Results and group work.

Production Preparations Have Started - Move It!

Production Preparations Have Started!

The Senior Syndicate have already started their preparations for the School Production - Move It. While the production will be presented next term cast members are already reviewing their lines, dancers practising their moves, and choir learning the songs! We have also selected the colours we want for the t-shirts and getting our props organised. Make sure we get some rest during the holidays because it is going to be a busy and exciting Term 3!

Farewell Mr Elder

Today we farewelled Mr Elder who was our Student Teacher and part of our class during the last 5 weeks. We hope you enjoyed your time with us and thank you for being part of Room 13. Best wishes for the rest of your studies and training.

Science Roadshow Review By: Michael

“YAY! Were going to the Science Roadshow” I said. Today we are going on a trip to a Science Roadshow which is happening at Wairau Intermediate. I really hope they make it exciting for us! They said at first when we got there “Please get in the hall line by line” Shane said. We all did as instructed. We then sat down and listened to his exciting water show. After a couple of minutes we got to try out the experiments that they put out. We had some extras for experts cards and you had to answer 2 or more questions to enter the competition box. I answered all of them correctly and put my entry the box and waited…and hoped mine would get selected.

Later we went and sat down and listened to another  show which was about electricity and was very interesting and my favourite show. We encountered a tesla invention which is big but not too big. It conducted electricity. We heard and watched the cool loud purple lighting that made different patterns like the ones you see in lightning photos but no thunder. Plus a unplugged lightbulb lit up from the electricity! Soon after that we had to leave. The next day we talked about our favourite parts of the Science Roadshow. My favourite part was the water gun spaying me and others around me. Next time I hope they have a hover car to show us, but the 3-D printer was pretty cool.

Science Roadshow Review By: Leo L

Science Roadshow
 By Leo
 It’s the Science Roadshow at Wairau Intermediate. It was held on Wednesday afternoon,and guess what it was AWESOME ! Now I’m going to tell you all about it!
 The first experiment was the one which was a cup of warm water and ice. You put a cup of ice into the warm cup of water and they reviewed the world's water supply. One person was a giant, he was even much taller than Mr Gordon! Then after the experiments we got to stand up and test some experiments for ourselves. One of the experiment stations was the plazma ball and if you touched the plazma and the metal it gave you a little electric shock. Then the Science Roadshow came to an end. We went back to our buses and they drove back to school. It was so cool. I hope I can go again next year and  that they bring back some of the experiments.

Young Leaders Presentation - Winnie

Today Winnie shared her presentation about Young Leaders Day.

Sunnybrae Senior Syndicate visits the Science Roadshow

This week we were fortunate to visit the Science Roadshow. We enjoyed the demonstrations and the range of 'hands on' experiments. Below are some pictures from our visit. Science Roadshow - Sunnybrae on PhotoPeach

Cluster Sports Exchange

Fortunately there was a break in the rain this week and we were able to have the Cluster Sports Exchange. Students completed in a range of sport including netball, hockey, rippa rugby, soccer and even table tennis at various venues. Below is the Rippa Rugby teams after a great day of competition at St. Mary's School.

Young Leaders Day

Today a selected group of students attended the Young Leaders Day in Auckland. They will be reporting back to us about the presenters and the key messages.

What a Feijoa!

Today Daniel brought in a massive feijoa! We were thinking it could be a world record, but we need to do some research to see how close he was. Here is a link about some interesting feijoa facts .

Sumdog NZ Challenge - Room 13 9th!

Sumdog Challenge Blog Entry

By Winnie

Wow! What a great result! Out of 82 classes all over New Zealand,our class came 9th overall. We were versing colleges,intermediates and primary schools.1451 students played Sumdog for the maths competition.

Out of all the 1451 students that played,1 person in our class got into the top 10 which was Jae Won. He was 5th but actually 4th equal! 2 people in our class came in the top 50 ( Me and Jae Won ). 8 people in our class came in the top 100. It was also impressive that Marco answered 1000 questions in one day.

I was ranked 24th which meant I got into the top 50. My favourite game in Sumdog is probably Dance because it has music with the game. The most challenging game for me is Junk Pile because sometimes the items you place fall down. Next time I would try get into the top 10.

I think it is great Sumdog hosts these competitions because more people will play it and challenge themselves. I can’t wait for the next challenge!

Science and Technology Week - Flying Skills!

We had some fun during Science and Technology Week as we played with our motorised toys during lunchtime. Interesting skills with flying the helicopter Watalu. Watch your landing!

Inspiring Talk from Mr Pike

Earlier in the week we had an inspiring talk from Mr William Pike about the challenges he faced and using the phrase -All Passion, No Limits  - to help reach your goals. Here are some links about Mr Pike:

https://www.doyourthing.co.nz/find-your-thing/get-inspired/william-pike
http://www.williampike.co.nz/

We also completed Thank You Letters for Mr Pike and have included some in this blog post (see below).

Sunnybrae ANZAC Ceremony

This morning we held our ANZAC ceremony and parade to our Field of Remembrance. Thank you to our Guest Speaker Juliana Austen from the Fields of Remembrance Project and to the student presenters. Well done, it was a very special event for all.

ANZAC Wreaths with Room 4 Buddies

Today we worked with our little buddies in Room 4 making ANZAC wreaths to be placed at the Sunnybrae Field of Remembrance. Everyone worked very hard to complete wreaths and demonstrated great cooperation and respect. Great teamwork, the wreaths look wonderful and everyone had a part in making them.

Sunnybrae Field of Remembrance

Today we worked together to setup the Sunnybrae Field of Remembrance. We were pleased with how we worked together and they way students and parents enjoyed looking at it after we had finished. On Friday we are having an ANZAC ceremony and part of this will involved students and the wider community walking past this special Field of Remembrance.