Careers Education - Room 12

What a great day in Room today!  We have really enjoyed todays learning focus - Careers Education. Over the  next two days we and are working through a series of activities as we consider subject choices for High School, and career options based on our interests and personal qualities.   One of the learning experiences is for each student to visit the website and to independently complete the online survey: http://www.careers.govt.nz/tools/careerquest/questionnaire/#questionId=58 .  This is an  interactive tool which will generate a series of potential career options based on the students answers and preferences.  Tonights follow up task is to complete an two 'Interviews' with parents/whanau to help us with our Inquiry.  

National Young Leaders Day

Yesterday, Thursday the 23rd of May 2013, some students from our school went to the National Young Leader’s day held at the Vodafone Events Centre. These students were handpicked by teachers because they believed in their leadership abilities and potential, and think they can be young heroes. Maybe you’ve guessed that this year’s theme was superheroes.

To be a hero you don’t need to be born with superpowers even though that would be cool, you just need to put other people first, risk your life for theirs, take action, and do acts of bravery.

At this event there were some very special guests. Firstly was Dr. Sharad Paul. He told us all about the different types of heroes. He said don’t be afraid to fight a good fight and stand up for your rights. Also that we are candles and we can light up the path for others.

Second was David Accenson, an attitude instructor. He told us about all the different powers. For example; laughter, smarts, kindness and leadership. And that we all have a power.

Thirdly, Erin Simpson from The Erin Simpson show. She was funny and interesting. She told us about her life and her journey starting in The Arts. She told us to; “go with your gut, we all make mistakes, and if you get the opportunity take it.” She finished by saying that we are amazing and that we need to start showcasing New Zealand’s many talents.

Next was Juliette Haigh, NZ rower and London Olympic bronze medalist with her partner Rebecca. She shared her life and schedule. Juliette told us to take life as it comes, enjoy the fact that you tried your best and it’s not the big things, it’s all the little things. Juliette finished off by saying “Go for the gold!”

After that Josh Iosefo said is original “Brown Brother” speech.

Lastly, and definitely the most inspiring for most of us, was Cam Calkoen. He figured out what his name meant, crooked nose turkey.  Cam has a disability, which makes him even more inspiring. He told us many inspiring words like... build a dream and the dream will build you. When you know where you are going, the world will make way for you. Inspiration is what is all around us.

It was a long day but we had lots of breaks with music, movie clips and games. We all enjoyed it and learnt a lot. This day gave us an idea of the future.

Thunder and lightning!

                                                         Thunder and lightning

On Tuesday there was a huge storm. Some people were scared and some people just wanted to run outside in the rain.

Lighting and water spouts in Auckland!

Lighting and water spouts in Auckland! 

This week on the 21st of May we encounted thunder and lighting durning the hours of 4:00-6:00.

Some people in our class room were terrified like Jayda and Mackenzie.

Thunder Lightning bang

This week on Tuesday we had a major report. Thunder and Lightning were crashing down at Auckland airport rain coming down from the dark skies. Most people were screaming there heads off. Other people were thinking it was awesome!!! At Wattle Downs trees looked like they would fall down...

Art

On Wednesday Room 12 did some art. We did shapes on the piece of paper 5 times. It was cool then we had to colour them in, then mount them on a background.

Cross Country

Cross Country!!!

Last Tuesday some of our students went to compete in the MPSSA            Cross Country.

Some students came first, second and third, which were Johanri, Tyrone and also Andre. 

All the other students tried there best and no one got injured on the day.

There were people like Riley and BJ that came really close to the first three and others like Brooke and Jani that came under thirty.

CROSS COUNTRY KINGBALL

CROSSCOUNTRY

On Wednesday a lot of people from year 4, 5, 6 went to cross country. We were all pumped and ready for our races. For the Year 4 boys Tyrone Solley came 1st. Everyone was so happy for him. In the year 5 girls Johanri Fourie came 1st. Also in the Year 5 boys Andre Veitch came 2nd. In total our school came second and Hill park took the victory in first.

KINGBALL

Last week the Kereru team went to the hall to play king ball. To play you need 4 squares next to each other. One class goes in each square. Two people from each class go on the corner of the squares. They are called the queen and the king, they both get a ball. The aim of the game is to not be hit.

KINGBALL!

                                                     KINGBALL

For Kereru team sports we played king ball. Room 11 came 1st, Room 14 came 2nd and sadly our mix of room 12 and 13 people came last or 3rd to make it sound better. Everybody enjoyed themselves and we had so much fun. We cannot wait until the next game. And maybe we can take out first place.

KING-BALL

During the week rooms 11-14 go to the hall to play king-ball.
When we go there, there are 4 big squares.
We pick kings and queens.
Then we start to throw balls at each other.

Miss Salt's last day at school

                                                      Miss Salt's last day at school.

On Monday the 27th it is going to be Miss Salts last day at Reremoana school. We all are going to
miss her and to say good bye we are going to have a shared lunch with Room 13. We are going to have Mrs Fourie before Mrs Bailey comes to be our teacher.
   

miss salt leaving

                                          MISS SALT LEAVING !!!

This Monday Miss Salt is going to leave our school to have her baby. We're going to miss her so much. We're going to have a shared lunch to wish her good bye...

Swimming

On Tuesday we went to the field of dreams swimming. There were three groups. The groups were first second and third. It was  fun because we got to learn some new skills that we haven't learnt before. Cant wait for next week.

THUNDER AND LIGHTNING!!!

THUNDER AND LIGHTNING!

On Tuesday a big lightning storm struck Auckland city.

It was huge BANG! BOOM!! KAPOW!! 

I had lots of fun watching them hit the ground and stay up high.

As time goes past the storm stopped a lot slower than it started.

Water spouts were also reported.

Signs Of Storms

Thunder and lightning has been heard and seen lately now that winter is nearing. The weather has been stormy lately and a lot of rain has been falling. There have also been water spouts, around the harbor and the air port. Soon it will be Winter and the weather will be worse. Some times its a nice day but not all the time. A killer tornado struck America killing A LOT of people. It also hit a school. It was about 40 metres wide. It spun at around 200-300 km per hour. It was very bad.

THUNDER/ LIGHTNING/ WATER SPOUTS

On  Tuesday 21.05.13 there was very dangerous fork lightning and thunder.  At the Auckland airport there were two massive water spouts in the water. Luckily the water spouts did not sweep up to shore and cause any trouble.

TERRIBLE WEATHER

THE TERRIBLE WEATHER

In USA there were tornados. The news says there were 24 killed and a dozen people badly injured. a lot of people are in hospital. It hit a school and left no... not one wall standing.

Also in NZ there were tornados and water spouts. Luckly none hit the ground. There were huge thunderstorms. It's been a long time since lightning has came. It was around 4:46 yesterday when it started. In the weather , it said the huge cloud was doing a 360 degree so we will be having thunder storms again.

THE END 

Michael's Writing

The Mercury-Redstone Rocket

It used to be a space fight rocket. Until lots of rockets passed the Saturn-v rocket started to take over. It was used for the Apollo missions and maybe other things that I don't know. But now we just launch space shuttles to sent people to the international space station. Now they plan to send people to Mars and astroids and research them and I like the idea of making tractor beams. Back to the redstone rockets the capsule had a tiny inside, one man obviously, It can get into orbit and do other stuff. It also had tiny rockets on the bottom of the fuel tank witch are powerful. It has a lot of switched and fuses it even has an gyroscope! and other cameras on the capsule. That all that I can remember learning. 

CROSS COUNTRY

On Tuesday the 21 of May a few people from our school went to Mountford park.

The only people who were allowed to go were the people who came 1st to 8th got to go to the MPSSA.
MPSSA stands for Manurewa primary school association. Some of the people who came in the top 30 were Tyrone, Daniel, BJ, Daneka, Jani, Riley, Chloe and Katie. 

At the end of the day every one was tired but it all payed of because our school came second out of 18 schools.

Cross country

On Tuesday people went to cross country.

They had to pay money and come at least 8th or under to make it through .

Our school came second because we had some very fast people.

Everybody tried there best to come 1st.

MPSSA Cross Country Competition

On Tuesday, 21st of May, a team of very keen Y5 and 6 runners attended the MPSSA Cross Country Competition. Our school did exceptionally well, coming 2nd overall out of all of the schools there!!

Congratulations to all of the runners who competed on the day.

Week 3: Room 12's 80 minute writing challenge

On Monday we had 5 students from Room 11 spend the day with us while their teacher was away at Orienteering. These 5 students, Lucy, April, Kaitlyn, Blake and Ben, became the leaders of the five teams that took part in the 80 minute writing challenge. Together with their teams of Room 12 students they had to brainstorm, draft and re-craft a narrative story in just 80 minutes. It was quite the challenge! Read below to see what they came up with...

Room 12's 80 minute writing challenge!!

The haunted campsite!

Orientation:

It was the year 2013. Max, Veronica, Bob, Steve and Hollie were taking a vacation to a campsite in New Zealand.Hollies best friend max has decided to come on a holiday with them since he was really part of the family.

Bob is the Dad of the Smith family. Bob is intelligent and likes to read books that are 300-400 pages long. Bobs favourite colour is blue.He wears a blue t-shirt, red three quarter pants and black pointy dress shoes.MOST of the time Bob is happy and sometimes he is in a very bad mood.He is 42 years old and he has a kidney disease.

Complication:   

Lake wood lodge camper van site is far away from home. We had our little white and red camper van on the back of our Holden rodeo.

We left home at 9.00 am and arrived at the camp site at the camp site about 1.00 pm. It looked empty.It was very dark,dull and a little bit spooky. It was 1pm and it was dark it was a little bit odd! As soon as we got there we were all very tired and we decided to have a little sleep.

I heard foot steeps tip toeing across the camper van floor. I rolled around to see what it was but is was just.... my little brother Steve sleep walking.

In between the complication and the climax:

The next morning I woke up to see that Steve was missing he was not in his bed. I ran to mum and dad's room to wake them up and help me find Steve. We tipped the camper van upside down to try to find him but he was nowhere to be seen. I walked outside and found an abandoned tent sitting in the middle of nowhere.

Climax:

Max walks over to the tent. He finds Steve's Converse shoes. He looks around the tent for a little while and he finds human foot prints he follows them down to the river and finds Steve swimming. He tells Steve to go back to the camper van.

Max was helping Steve up from the river when suddenly Max falls in the water and hits his head on a rock and gets knocked out he starts to float down the river. Steve was freaking out because he saw blood in the water. He didnt want to tell his mum or dad what happened so he just said"Max is dead".

Resolution:

The family ran down to the river and saw the blood so they believed Steve.The family decided to end their holiday so they packed up stuff and tried to get out the gate but then they saw the sign.The sign said you have to stay forever the family could not believe it.

15 YEARS LATER.... 

My family has been missing for 15 years and I am the only one that survived.

                              HOLLIE xx  

By Kaitlyn, marianne, Mac, Griffin and Michael :) :) :) 

  

Room12s 80 Minute Writing Challenge!

Candy Land

As the plane slowly drifts towards America, The wind starts pushing the private plane. Mary-Jane and Jonathan start to freak out and panic.

Mary-Jane also known as MJ has red,wavy hair that is as bright as a rose. Blue eyes like the sea at night. MJ loves animals and education but she dislikes sports and especially running because it's so hard and boring.

While MJ was panicing, the plane was slowly heading toward the water. Over the speaker the pilot yelled "We're about to crash!" 

Then suddenly the plane filled up with cold sea water  and MJ started swimming to the nearest island with Jonathan. The two of them couldn't believe their eyes! It was candy land! As they got closer they saw life size gumdrops dancing on the beach made out of sherbet.

MJ and Jonathan ran to the forest made out of peppermint trees and chocolate coconuts. Mj walked over to the trees and picked on one of the coconuts and ate the little piece. She tells Jonathan about the place and they both started eating all of the candy around them.

Jonathan went to the massive chocolate fountain and drank all of the chocolate that he was addicted to the chocolate and wanted more!MJ was at the mountains and ate all the cherries and all the candy she could possibly see. The both ate so much that the ate the island and died of hunger and dehydration.

By April, Jani, Jayda, Tyler and Calix :-)     

Banana island

Once upon an island, there lived a monkey called Steve. He longed to be a ninja. He created his own banana boomerangs and nun chucks. He was forever replacing his banana sword. Steve couldn't help himself from eating them. To help him practise, Steve had a very small(but feisty) friend,Mr. Cuddles. He was a mere cat.


That night, Steve and Mr Cuddles were searching for their old friend, sensei tree, He was 6,000,000 years old,deaf,blind,mental but somehow powerful. Later, he found him sleeping. ''Sensei tree! We found you!" Steve screamed.
 ''Oh right,your deaf. LET'S MEDITATE."
 Without another word,they are both meditating silently.


The next morning when he woke up. It was a very big storm! Steve ran up Sensei tree and hung on for dear life, literally. The tsunami was growing and rising. Steve ran and grabbed Mr. Cuddles. He saw a giant coconut. He bounced on a spider web and landed safely into the coconut. But  to his surprise, there was coconut milk inside! So they swam to the bottom and found a big trunk. He balanced it up and saw the island long gone. Steve used the trunk to look every-where. When he looked through, there was a big spider butt.''Ah'' he shook the trunk and it plopped into the water.


A few days later, the lady spider returned with an angry look on her face ''Ah! Do not eat me! You are fat enough already! You don't need the calories!'' Steve screamed fearfully.
'' I am PREGNANT!'' The spider shouted.
 ''My name is Rose. I am truly sorry'' Steve said
''really?'' Rose said hopefully.
 ''Of course not lady! What the heck do you think this is? Titanic!'' Steve said!
The next thing you know,crabs came,opened up roses stomach and out popped the 8 babies. Roses husband Jack came, and told Steve to cover his eyes. ''Spider marriage is complicated''.


In the end, the coconut crashed into an iceberg. Jack screamed, ''hang on rose!'' And rose shouted back '' it matters if i die, but if you die, i was gonna eat you any way.''

But they were never found. Steve, and Mr. Cuddles found a land of gummy bears. Guess who they found? Sensei tree. But that is another story.

TBC

BY Ben, Katie, Gabe, Jared.b, Meggan and Tristan

THE CREEPER

It was a dark and misty December night, the last day of the year. The sky was pitch black almost blank but a few stars twinkling. Anna and Jason walked into the haunted movie theatre slowly looking around the small and ancient theatre seeing teared red velvet seats, cobwebs in every corner and blood stains all over the walls.

They sat down and the movie started playing...
Big holes started appearing in the wall and
a gust of wind blew them out of their seats and they started hearing echoes in the distance. "ringa, ringa, rosy. A pocket full of posy. A tissue, a tissue we all fall down." All of a sudden the lights went dim and the doors slammed shut. An old man in a black coat with a knife in his hand grabbed them by the throat and pulled them in one by one. "Ahhhhhhh!" they both screamed.

"Leave us alone" Anna squealed.
"No one leaves my movie alive!" The Creeper replied.
The Creeper started attacking them, chasing them around an old house with a dripping red knife but he didn't get to them quick enough. He slipped on a puddle of sea monkeys and his knife was catapulted into the air. Quickly Anna grabbed the knife and sewered it into the Creepers heart. Suddenly Anna, Jason and the Creeper were transported onto the patch of grass outside the theatre. With his dying breath the Creeper bite into Jason's arm before the he burned into ash. Slowly Jason started to roll around disparately trying to fight back the pain. Anna sprinted all the way home frightened from the series of events that'll forever change her life. Eventually Jason settled down but he started to change into a creature of horror and nightmare. He had become THE CREEPER...

Room 12s 80 minute writing challenge

Past midnight at School

It was a dark, stormy night at Reremoana school. The fog was blocking Lucy's eyesight. The rain was  pouring down on the roof of the school hall. Lucy, Emma and Luke were running around and playing games when lightning struck the roof.

Lucy is a 13 year old, blonde haired, green eyed girl. She enjoys drawing, playing all kinds of kinds of sports, having sleep overs with her friends and much more. Her nicknames are dumb blonde and pineapple lump.

They were playing monopoly when they heard knocking at the door. Emma went to the door to check but a few minutes later she still didn't return, they waited a few minutes when they heard a loud scream, Luke ran outside to find a path of blood leading to room 12. Luke called out Emma's name 20 times but heard no answer in return. Lucy came out to help find Emma.

They found out that Emma was  a zombie when she said "hello friends" then Luke Screamed like a little girl. Lucy slapped him in the face and said "be a man!"

After about a couple of minutes dark figures started coming closer through the fog. Luke and Lucy started backing away but reached a dead end. They started shaking and calling for help but no one answered.

They were in a dark place when the room was lighting up. "The sun!" they screamed. They saw the zombies running for the darkness. All the zombies died but Emma turned back to a human. They all went home wondering if what just happened was real or a dream.

The end

                          Room 12's new teacher                                          

Miss Salt is leaving Room 12 so  we will have  a new teacher. Our new teacher's name is Mrs Bailey . On Monday the 12 of May we met our new teacher and got to ask her some questions, and found out she likes maths, sports and music, we also found out that she speaks some different languages. Room 12 can't wait till we have our new teacher, but it is going to be sad seeing Miss Salt leave.

Math test

On Wednesday we did some math tests. The names were e-asttle and basic facts.

Kingball

                                                             KING BALL

On Tuesday we played a game called king ball. Everybody loved it. The whole kereru team participated and enjoyed it. The winner was room 11 second place was us room 12 and third place was room 14, sadly room 13 came last but they still had fun. 

KING BALL

                                                             King ball!!!

On Tuesday we usually do some sports but it was canceled so instead the whole Kereru team went to the hall and played some King ball!! King ball is a game when there is Four big squares and each class has a one boy and one girl that means that they are a king and queen. 

Orienteering

Last thursday a few students went down to totura park to do a walk through of the corse. the next day we had to do the proper thing. when we did that it started to poor down with rain.

e-asttle disaster

 In room12 we have been doing some e-asttle. every one has to be at 3a at the end of the year. it is much more challenging then you might think it is. 

Choir

                                                                          CHOIR                                                


On Wednesday the 15th we had a meeting about the senior choir. Mrs Fourie  told us they can only take 30 people with them. Some people came through but not everyone most boys didn't want to go.

Student leader election

In week one room 12 had their student leader elections  first we had to do a speech saying why we should  be student leader then we had to vote for 2 people then we found out the results .


The student leaders for RM12 are ..............

chloe's

                                                                         CHOIR

On wednesday mrs Fourie had a meeting with all the people that wonted to do the choir. She had to organized the people that made it throw it was hard but she did it. Only 30 people get to go   

Jrock

                                
                      

                                                                          Jrock!!! 

            Every Wednesday and Thursday we practice Jrock in the hall. Jrock is a dance/drama stage                          performance, which happens every year to year 5-8 students. This years theme is animal cruelty (animals getting capture to be in the circus).

Jrock

      

                                                                    Jrock!!!

Every Wednesday and Thursday we practice Jrock in the hall.                   Jrock is a drama/dance stage performance, which year 5-8 students    

join each year.                                           

This years theme at your school is about animal cruelty (animals     getting capture to be in the circus).                                                          

There are 2 students who is the main characters, Eden and Zion.   

Zion is the ringmaster and Eden is the girl who sets all the animals free from the circus!                                      

oreintering

on friday the 10th of may some students from reremoana school students went to the counties Manakua  orienteering  day at totrapark. There where 11 schools on that day.Year 6 team A came first out of reremoana school.We left at 11am and came back at 2pm we got all our papers back when we got our papers back we where aloud to go back to our classes and continue with our work that we started in the morning

KING BALL!!!

KING BALL!!!

On Tuesday the 14 of May the Kereu team played a game called King ball.

It is a game when you chose a king and a queen and you give each one a ball.

Then you get the teams to stand up and blow the whistle to tell them when to start.

The aim of the game is to not be hit by a ball you must go out of the square and hit another team.

The winning class was Rm12 and Rm11 with the total of 96 points.In one round there was  jackpot of 50 .

points and we one. Also there was a round where you would lose all of your points and Rm14 lots all 

their points.

E-asTTle Changes Writing Results!

News From Room12: E-asTTle Changes Writing Results

E-asTTle changes the results for the writing test! D:<  Everyone got a slightly bad mark from -2B-3A. We need to be at 3A by the end of the year but only a few people made it. Most people were in -2B, 2P and 2A.

Everyone had unwanted marks because of this affect even us, so we want to and we hate the new way they mark the test .

The reason our marks went lower with the new way they mark it is because its harder. 

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KINGBALL

On Tuesday 14.05.13 the Kereru team played a game of kingball . In king ball there are 4 big squares in one giant square. Rm 11 came first at the start then Rm12 took over and then towards the end of the game Rm11 beat us by 2 points

Mrs Bailey coming to school

In Room12 we meet our new teacher Mrs Bailey on Monday 13 May 2013 she is nice and very funny she is coming in week 7 and she is a perfect fit for us

Mrs Bailey

On monday 13.05.13 Room 12s new teacher Mrs Bailey.She will start teaching Room 12 in week 7 term 2.We had her tell us her life story and asked some questions.Some were very very weird questions.

Week 11 - Kereru team's Working Bee.

As part of our science rotation this term, when classes visited Mr Fourie they undertook an inquiry into how to improve the school planter boxes. Lots of research and planning went into how this could best be done. At the end of the term, students split into teams to focus on four main aspects; compost bins, worm farms, irrigation and soil quality.
On Wednesday and Thursday we had two working bees where all of that great work was put into place. All of the gardens were moved, the poor soil was taken away, irrigation systems were laid down, the boxes were replaced, new soil was added and some funky class labels were added, (thanks Mrs Notley!) The gardens are looking great now. I can't wait to see how well the new plants will grow!

Week 11 - The Nukes came to rock and to roll!

We had some special visitors this week, The Nukes! A trio of very clever ukulele players. They could strum, they could sing and they could entertain! My favourite song was "Worms". What was yours?

Y6 Technology - Week 11

This week the Year 7 and 8's had their termly technology days. Mrs Notley and I didn't want the Year 6's to miss out so we spent time on Monday and Tuesday learning how to handsew.
Room 12 and 13 students learnt how to do straight, back, zigzag, chain and blanket stitches. They also learnt how to thread a needle and tie a knot.
Once they had mastered these skills they were able to choose an animal to make. It was an eventful few days! But the animals all looked so cute in the end.