Skipping

This term we are skipping for Team Woodend Workout. We have been skipping in pairs and with the long ropes and single ropes. We have been learning new skills and tricks.

Novel Term 4

We are reading this book Lucy Bee and The Secret Gene!!!!

Lovely Miss Caygill reading to us :]

                          

TODAY'S HALLOWEEN

I hope I see a lot of skulls and zombies. I'm going as a clown with a fake chainsaw. I want to get a lot of lollies and see some pumpkins with some ghosts I hope you go or went. By Nathaniel and Jacob.

Year 8 Dinner

On the 9th of December the Year 8 students are having the Year 8 Dinner. This will be very exciting as this is their last year. They are all super excited for this fantastic event and can't wait! We hope all students attend!

A.V.A.I.L.L.L

These are some DVDs we are watching in AVAILLL and we just finished watching Hook. Now we are watching the March of the Penguins.

Athletics

Last week on Friday we had athletics day and we had heaps of fun and 

It was really cold but it was great. On the day we held long jump, high jump,

Sprints, discus, shot put,long distances and relays just for fun.

Here are some photos that Mitch and Alex made on a different day lol

That is Mitch doing long jump

This is Alex doing sprints

Diwali Art

This term we are learning about different festivals. Right now we are learning about Diwali. This is a Indian tradition to welcome dead lords and goddesses into their homes. The festival lasts for 5 days from October to November. Currently we are making Rangolis which is a beautiful patern that is created by laying delicate powder on the floor. On the nights you set off fireworks into the sky and light candles in the home.

This whole festival is to show awareness of the good light.

Athletics coming up!!:)

At the end of term three we started getting prepared for athletics day which is on the 24th of October. We have been training hard. So far this term we have been rotating at different events such as discus, sprints, long distance, etc. for practice. 

We are all looking forward to this day, it's better than work lol. 

We have been getting our sport coaches to teach us some techniques for athletics, today we did high jump and long jump with them which was really fun. :) For long jump we got told to use not only our legs but to use our arms to help us jump further. We all improved with their help. 

For high jump we use what everyone calls the scissor kick, which is throwing your legs over the bar in a scissor formation, this way is the best/easiest. 

Athletics is great. 

This photo is of the class getting taught some skills,from a distance.

Science with Dr Libby

We did some science with Dr Libby on Friday at 9:30 in the morning, but at Dr Libby's house in Cambridge, UK it was 10:30 at night. We face-timed her with Miss Caygill's i-phone on to the board  and we all asked her questions like can flies get obesity?!! Or if a fly can have 3 wings and the answer was no but there is a 4-winged fly.

                Then Room 17 talked to Libby and we went to the library and we have learnt so much. Now we know what cells are, and that atoms are everywhere and the smallest thing in the world it is an atom split In half.

Science, Obesity. By Caitlin

This term in science, one of the things we have learnt about is Obesity. Here are some interesting facts about Obesity.

Rachel Taylor is a Diabetic and Obesity researcher at University of Otago, trying to prevent children from being overweight and getting different ways to helping to reduce weight in appropriate ways.

Obesity has serious implications for mental and physical health such as: high cholesterol, high blood pressure and heart disease. Some people find it harder to lose weight than others.

Obesity is simply defined as having too much body fat for your particular weight or height. It is usually measured by an internationally recognised system known as body mass index also known as BMI. BMI is calculated by comparing your height to weight. It's quite simple in adults, but in children, the measurement is commonly adjusted depending on age and sex.

Rachel is one of the investigators of a several large projects aimed at determining different ways to effectively preventing children becoming overweight or helping them to reduce thier weight in appropriate way.

There are many different factors that contribute obesity, an average figure from research studies estamiate obesity is 40% genetic and 60% due to environmental factors but there is a lot of variation in the scienentific literature

For some people the most effective technique to prevent or reduce obesity might be to reduce food size portions.

Rain to Snow poem. By James

Poem: Here comes the rain / going down the long drain /drip,drop it goes / And now comes the snow / snow slowly coming down / everyone is happy in the town / with the kids having snow ball fights acting like such brave knights.

Thursday morning art

On a Thursday morning when others are at kapahaka we have been doing water colour artworks. These are some of our examples. 

Winter Tournament

Rimu syndicate are doing Winter Tournament this term. We have been split up into four different groups. Hockey, Netball, Soccer, and Rugby. We verse other schools on Fridays and we practice with our coaches on Wednesdays. A big thanks to our Kaiapoi high school coaches and everyone who helped us have our winter tournament.

Science

For the remaining 7 weeks of term 3 ,Rimu are focusing on science for topic.

Our unit is called uniquely me and we are learning about DNA and what makes us different from our class mates. 

Some questions we asked were, 

What does DNA stand for?

Why are we the way we are?

How does it all happen?

And why is DNA so important?

A Day Of Winter Tornament!

 On Friday the 1st August Rimu Syndicate went to Rangiora to participate and represent Woodend  school in a tornament of sports.  Our school participated and represented Woodend in the Winter Tournament. We played in these games: Hockey, Soccor, Netball and Rugby. All of our teams played very well not to mention the rugby team winning the final with a score of 5-0 !!!!

It was a fun day but very tiring when we got on the bus to leave everybody looked like they were going to fall asleep! 

Over term 3 we will continue to play on Friday each week. We can't wait till we play again!!!! Thank you so much to the Kaipoi High School students for coaching our teams! 

By India and Tayla:)

Intelligent Behaviours

This term our intelligent behaviour is logical thinkers...

Art

Over term 3 our class is focusing on watercolours. We have been looking at different ways to paint  and how to create different textures. We have learnt how to get different effects with the paint for example using a dry paintbrush on dry paper with a tiny bit of paint, and painting a square and dropping a different colour on to the paper.

Our talented teacher Miss Caygill has organised all of our art supplies and has been teaching room 16 our art. Thank you so much for all your help room 16 just loves learning art with you!! 

By India and Tayla 

Back 2 School

It's now term 3 already and we have lots of exciting things coming up. Today we have the NED show for example. The NED show is about important things to help you in life and is made exciting by the man who does everything with yo-yos. Also coming up on Friday is our first day of winter tournament after last week was canceled due to rain. We have the whole morning playing other schools in our sport with no school work! After this week, we will have every Friday afternoon for a few more weeks playing that sport. That's all we have for now, but we'll try to keep you posted with photos.

Kaleb and Lachlan.

Trash

I am looking forward to Room 16's new book for the term. And it is called Trash and the main person is Raphael and his friend is called Garde and they are going to see someone called Rat. And Raphael has found a bag with a wallet and it had 1000 pesos. And the police were looking for the wallet so Raphael and Garde went to hide it in the rubbish...

Music festival and the last week of term.

During book week the Woodend School Choir, consisting of fifteen or more students went to the Kaiapoi Borough Music Festival containing five different schools. During the process we sang our hearts out and tried our hardest. It was a great achievement for most as to the fact there were only four people here from the start of term one, and the rest joined either later that term or at the start of term two. 

Last week of term so exciting, half way through the year already. During the busy week the kapahaka students went to Willowbank as a reward, choir students got to go to the Rangiora orchestra also as a reward, last but not least, the hard work from the Road Patrollers has paid off because they're now having a fish and chip lunch. 

Thanks for reading Rm 16's blog and have a great holiday!

Art Gallery Trip in to Town

Rm 16 had a lovely trip into town to have a look at some wonderful New Zealand and Australian art work at the Christchurch Art Gallery Art Box.

Book week!!!

This week we have a book week and on Friday we have to dress up in our favourite book character 

And we think it's going to be really really really fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hunter is reading a Random book :) he likes it. We also have the first Hunger Games book

  for $5 :)

Pj and onsies

On 20th of June we had a pjs and onsies day and heaps of people came in awesome onsies and pjs.

The school also made a giant word made out of money that said pj day, and each class put there money on the word it looked really cool

Sam was not happy about the photos we not sure why 

Technology Baking

Sneaky Mitch inhales the scent of his meatlovers muffins.

Hannah at Technology showcasing her wooden box she has made.

A few photos from the past few weeks!

Sian shaves her head for charity!

Treaty of Waitangi

Rm 16 wrote letters from the perspective of a Maori King or an English settler living in New Zealand during the 1840's. Look authentic, don't they?

Kia ora Tatou!

This is the blog for Room 16 in 2014. We've been buried in lots of testing and dodgeball, but watch this space for more entries on the goings on in 16 and Rimu.

Term one has, swimming, bowls, the tactix Netball training and year 7/8 camp coming up. Here is to an exciting term ahead!

Room 16 pre Dodgeball!