Collaborative Writing

Last week Rooms 11 and 12 did collaborative writing. We had to write a description about a picture of a chimpanzee with a mirror. At first it was easy until we got told to work in groups. Now that's when it got hard! Having to put everyone's ideas into one story was difficult especially when we all had totally opposite ideas! But we worked as a team to make our story good and at the end of the day it worked. It was hard working with Room 11 but we enjoyed it.

Touch Rugby

Straight after morning tea we had our final session of touch rugby with Trevor. We have had 3 sessions with him and they were just fabulous.

On the first week we learnt some drills and some of the drills that we learnt was how to plant the ball, what a dummy half is,  pass and scoop. The second week came and that was the week when we were starting to play against each other in two teams with girls and boys.  

At last week three came. When we got there the girls had to split into 2 even teams and the boys had to do that as well. When we we in 4 groups one group from the boys and girls had to put some red bibs on.  When they were on both boy teams were first and they played against each other.  My favourite part was today when we played the game and we won.

For the last three weeks I have had a lot of fun.

The Shake Out Drill.

Today all schools around New Zealand had a shakeout drill at approximately 9:15. When the bell rang three times we all  had to get under the desk. Then we sat there for about five minutes, then Mr Reid took photos of us under our desks. When we were sitting under the desks it was a bit sore, but it is better that getting very hurt if an earthquake really happened.

Room 11 Blog

Mercury

Mercury is one of the smallest planets in the solar system and it is the closest to the sun. The surface of Mercury is like the surface of the moon which has large holes all over it. The side of Mercury that is facing the sun is twice as hot as a kitchen oven which means that it is 800'F (427'C). The darker side is 3 times colder than Antarctica in winter which also means minus 297'F (183'C). It takes 87.66 days for Mercury to go around the sun once.
Mercury Planet  WP:CC BY-SA

Looking Forward To Cultural Groups

This term the thing that I am looking forward to is Cultural Groups. This year I will be participating in the Tongan group. We will start practicing a dance to perform to our school and our families. I am looking forward to Cultural Groups because we get to dance on stage with friends andbecause we will make our families proud.

Ruapotaka School Tongan Group Performance 2013

Quality bog comment

I am learning to write a quality blog comment. 

Mad Messenger

Yesterday we had two visitors come to our school. They were here to tell us that we are special and we change throughout our lives. We all had to say something nice about Sini and Mrs Golder. At the end we all enjoyed watching Petia draw one of his favourite superheroes.

At Badminton

Yesterday room 11 and I went to badminton in the multipurpose room. We got into groups of two then Danny put out the nets. We had to whack the shuttle over the net to each other without stopping. It was hard because our goal was to try reach 100 without the shuttle touching the floor. We put the equipment back and  said our goodbyes and left.