First Day of Term 3

On the First day of Term we have been doing a lot of things which made us very busy. When Mrs. Williams told us that we would do fun things, we were very determined to finish our work. Finally, after finishing on what we're were doing. It was time to do our moment in time writing, hearing this made us feel like not doing it (mostly me).

As we finished writing our stories Mr. Williams called out every one of the class to share their story with us, we'll of course some people didn't want to do it. At first, they seemed kind of nervous and some would say "OH!! WHAT", then people would laugh at their impressions. As they read their story, word by word, they grew somewhat confident. As they shared, they would sometimes act like they are remembering the event that happened in their lives. Their stories were Amazing!!!.The class enjoyed listening and sometimes laugh whenever it was funny or scrunch up their faces , if they hear something  disgusting!! The audience were very respectful and interested. They clapped loud and had smiles on their faces.

WHO?

-The whole Class! -Nicole, Jessa Del, Phoebe, Raziel, Byron, Levi, Cydrick, Robert, Jayda, Harikoa, Athashia, Angelo, Finn, Emily, Samuel, Mia, Aimee, Callum,  Bridget, Jacob ,Tyler, Angelina, Franco , Eugene, Callum, Sharai, and Mrs. Williams.

WHAT?

We were sharing our moment time writing, we went to the library to pick books, we made a cover for our new topic- Sound-. 

The Basketball 7/8 Girl have a game today on 5:30pm

S.H Celtics (Us) vs. Preb Pumas

WHEN? 

Monday, 21 July 2014

First day of Term 3

WHERE?

Sacred Heart School, Addington, Christchurch, New Zealand

-The library

-Classroom

WHY?

To share on what we were doing on the holidays, and get new books to read in the classroom.

HOW?

We wrote our story with lots of details and description.

Choosing either 2 or 1 books to keep in the desk.

This is the Roving Reporter from Room 6 - Nicole Uy

Naynay's adventures

Hello Mrs Williams

 

The last update I posted I was in Holland and I'm sorry for not updating you for the last three weeks.

 

In Holland I have been staying with a family ( they were Dutch ) with another girl from New Zealand but she is originally from Uzbekistan / Russia

 her name is Valintina  and the family who I'm staying with have an older daughter who is 14 and they have an older son who is 13.

I am good friends with them.

 

When I first went to their house they taught  me how to bike ( the bikes with no gear and the fancy handles and seats)

Then we went to Amstelveen city and looked around the city.

 

The people who I stay with have their own little boat and they took me on it and I got to drive it for a little bit. On the boat I

went around a big lake and got an ice cream, it was really fun.

 

The families grandma lives on a house boat ( a house on / in the water ), when you go to the bottom floor the water is up to the window, you can also feel the house swaying. Holland was so beautiful.

 

I know some words in Dutch as well

 

Nee pronounced nay: means no

Ya: means yes

hood a morha: means good morning

hood: means good

 

 

 When Valintina and I go to training we would go by bike everyday. I trained with the tennis New Zealand team with Valintina and a coach who's Dutch and also another coach from New Zealand. We also had a fitness coach. Every day Valintina and I would have breakfast with the family and lunch and dinner at the place where we train. We would train  4-5 hours of training and then a hour of fitness with the fitness coach.

 

After two weeks of training Valintina and I moved in with the tennis New Zealand team in a house and beside the house is a tennis venue where a tournament was held. In the house was Three boys and Three girls counting Valintina and I. Another two coaches came and stayed with us as well . I only stayed there for a week and then went to Germany with my family because the other tennis New Zealand people are older and they compete in stronger age groups. 

 

So I went to Germany with my family to play a 12s tournament in Germany. We drove to Germany and stayed in a very nice hotel that had a under ground swimming pool and sauna.

 

The facilities where I play are very nice.

 

Now I'm in Slovakia at my Grandmas house and today I went to a out door swimming pools and played there for a while.

 

 

I had three weeks of hard training and I didn't have the time to update you.

( I have been training in Holland )​

( I have been training in Germany )

DANCING LIKE THE STARS

Last night Room 6 certainly were stars. The children have spent the last 8 weeks (16 hours) learning contemporary dance from Fleur.

Last night they performed their dance in front of a packed Aurora Centre and were fantastic.

I was very proud of the children and have heard lots of positive comments since about the show.

Well done to all the class, you were fantastic.

Duffy Speaker - Dr Ben Carson

Yesterday the Senior Classes went to the CBS arena to hear Dr Ben Carson speak. Duffy books in homes organised the events. We were first entertained by Moorhouse. They sang 4 songs including their new song to be released on Friday.


Dr Carson was a very motivational speaker who talked about his life, from growing up in extreme poverty to becoming an amazing neurosurgeon. He talked about saving a baby by operating on her while she was in her mothers womb.

Points we remember from the speech were:

• Your life isn't influenced by others but by yourself.
• THINK BIG
• If you're stuck on something in math go back to the last thing you knew and work from there. (Any subject this could  be)
• Everyone has a good brain, you just have to choose to do great things with it.
• Don't waste your time at school being cool.
• Keep on learning as it is impossible to fill up your brain!
• READ BOOKS
• Don't listen to peers influence - People who Encourage Errors and React to Stupidity.
• The cool dudes will always be flipping burgers!
• People will want to be your friend when you are popular and famous!

Sacred Hearts Got Talent

Finals day and the room 6 girls were awesome!! 

A Bookopoly Trailer

Angelina has enjoyed reading Lemony Snicket, a Series of Unfortunate Events. She has made a trailer with pictures from the internet related to the story. 

"I would recommend this book to other readers who like mysterious books."

Room 6 Prayer Service

Fabulous Work you guys! We were awesome Samaritans! RAISE YOUR VOICE FOR JUSTICE!! (We were moving so the photos aren't that good.)

Dancing like the Stars progress

Wow we have come so far!!! Performance is July 3rd at the Aurora Center. 

Hokey pokey

Today in kitchen chemistry ( Rm6 ) we made hokey pokey. First we put 5 tablespoons of sugar into the pot.Then we added 2 tablespoons of golden syrup, mixed together before we put it on the heat. Put stove on low and start to mix so it won't burn. Quickly add a teaspoon of baking soda. Mix quickly so it won't burn on the pot. When all mixed place on baking paper to set. When set break up and enjoy. :)

Bookopoly

Last week Mrs Williams made a board game for a reading activity. I have finished two books so far and  one of them was called Geronimo Stilton ( cavemice ) the stone of fire. The book was about...

The stone of fire got stolen by the new mouse city's worst enemy, a cat.  So Geronimo Stilton had to find the cat and get the stone of fire back to new mouse city's museum.  Geronimo had to travel to the island where the cats were and he had to somehow try to steal it. But one of the cats army trapped Geronimo in a box and took him to the king (of the cats) to have him for lunch.  But one of Geronimo's friends came to the rescue and tricked the cats and he also stole the stone of fire. 

The book was alright it wasn't the best but I enjoyed reading it. 

I would rate it 7-10 

Tom Gates A Tiny Bit Lucky

Bookopoly

Last week we started a reading game called Bookopoly. Our class let out a deafening cheer and we all took turns rolling the dice.
The book I am reading  is by. L. Pichon,  A Tiny Bit Lucky Narrated by Tom Gates. It had some beguiling jokes in it and I had to refrain myself from chuckling at silent reading time. 

It's about this little boy, Tom, who was on his way to the audition for the Band Battle competition He was trying to lead his band, The Dogzombies, to Victory. But he had a Mum bugging him for new 'sensible' shoes, he had his Oh-So-Annoying Sister (Delia), he had June's cat scuttling around and Parents stopping him to watch his favourite TV show, The Crazy Fruit Bunch. There was also a School Inspector and he had caught Tom doodling with string. But, the School Inspector was also a Judge in the Band Battle. In the end, they didn't get to compete but it was still quite an experience for 12 year old children.

I think the Author has made the story quite detailed and fairly simple enough to understand. He also put enough diagrams and Illustration in the story. The Author ended it with Joe making his Mum proud by completing his Reading diary (But tom signs it). It was a good story and it had a few lessons about Luck.

Lollie cake

Goal : Mix liquid and solid to make a cake.

Ingredients:                      Utensils

1packet malt biscuits.       Bowl

1/2 tin condensed milk.     Pot

1packet Eskimos.              Knife

90 grams butter

Method

1. Cush in the bowl.

2. Slice the Eskimos into small pieces then put in bowl.

3.Melt butter in pot.

4.Add condensed milk to butter.

5.Stir until all liquid or melted.

6.Pour all Ingredients into the bowl with crushed biscuits .

7.Mix until thick.

8.Lay on tin foil .

9.Place in fridge to set.

Test It should be hard and yummy .

                  

Drama scenes

Today in drama we had to rewind into a scene, freeze frame and then say what our thought was. Check out out thoughts attached to our picture.

Popping popcorn

Today we experienced the delights of making popcorn it was really fun and delicious the best part of making it was popping it on the element. Popcorn was really nice and fun making we mixed it with butter and oil.

Foaming yeast

Today we learnt that yeast is a rising agent. We put hydrogen peroxide and detergent into a coke zero bottle and added some food colouring. Then we added yeast and felt the bottle get warmer. The yeast started to bubble up. When we shock the bottle it foamed up quickly. We decided to add extra hydrogen peroxide to see what would happen. It made the green colour turn white.

The popcorn blast

We started off with 537 popcorn kernels. 60 popcorn kernels didn't pop on the oil. We turned the element on medium heat and added our kernels in. We also added some oil and watched patiently as our kernels popped. It took about 5 minutes for it to start popping though.

We learnt that inside the hull of the kernel, there is some starch and a droplet of water. Nevertheless, we carried on with our procedure. The pot started vibrating, indicating that the popping was off to a good start. We moved the pot around eagerly waiting for all of the kernels to pop. After around 2-3 minutes, we turned off the heat and took the pot off the element. It was served on some paper towels. It was fun doing this with Finn, Mya, Harikoa and Tyler. 

CATS

The Cats show was packed with a lot of people, there were a few schools and teachers. A few students from Sacred Heart watched it too. As the Show started the lights dimmed. Cats came jumping and leaping everywhere. The orchestra started with a loud boom. Many people were surprised, their music was magnificent and very lively. They were singing so beautifully and they didn't seem nervous. They were confident and had a lot spirit. 

Everywhere people were loud clapping and cheering for them. It was a special moment for everyone who was watching. Then the Jellicle Song was sung and it was very loud and clear. During the song different kinds of cats were singing deeply and clearly. The glamour cats came their costumes was very diva like, it made people have butterflies in their stomachs.

Then Grizzabella walked through the stage. She looked very lonely, her voice was the most beautiful voice in the whole cast. She bragged about how she was used to be beautiful, but many cats didn't believe her. Judging by the tone of her voice, I believed her. Everytime she had a part to sing her expression felt lonelier. All because she was getting very old and wrinkly. Everyone crowded around Grizzebella, she felt so glad to have people like her. But she was too old and she died. In the ending all the cats that performed walked in a line and bowed to the audience. Everyone clapped and clapped until the lights came back.

I enjoyed every part and every song they sang, it was a such a great performance.

Cats

A few students from Scared Heart earned the opportunity to watch a musical theatre, called 'Cats'. The play was full of cats and cats and more cats! The play started off with a cheerful song with cats dancing and leaping around. Throughout the play, all the cats were singing. One of the cats narrated the story by singing. A few cats were quite acrobatic and they told us more about cats. Jellicle cats, Curious cats, Glamour cats, and much more.

Since it was a musical, there were tons of singing. It was a remarkable play, and I didn't imagine high school students performing a hard play.  It looks like the students practised a lot of gymnastics and they obviously put a lot of hard work in to this theatre. They probably practised so much, they weren't afraid of anything going wrong. The cats were energetic and there were a few surprising notes in the composed music. It made some people smile and flinch. 

I would thank the kind people who gave us these tickets a million times over. There were some cats that sang like people in an opera. They hit the high pitch notes beautifully. They proved that the saying 'practice makes perfect' is right. The spotlights were at people who are doing solos. They did a few tricks. Overall, the musical theatre was fantastic and breathtaking.

Square number 2 completed

Jayda has completed our second square and others are frantically knitting!

Drama lesson

I was so thrilled my heart was pounding so fast I couldn't control it, it was drama and we were already inside the hall waiting for them. When I see both of them I knew the very minute they were great teachers. The first topic was about learning more about my classmates than what we already know about them, it was more like musical chairs but without the music, our class each got fruit names like apple, strawberry, blueberry or banana, when our fruit names were called out we had to find another chair that wasn't the chair we were sitting on before. After the game we learnt how to breathe quietly to calm our hearts when we're scared, worried, shocked or even humiliated, it wasn't that hard to do but you needed to be very cooperative and silent to ease your pressure. When we all got the hang of it we all did a play about a cavemen being closely captured by a saber-toothed tiger/bear. Unfortunately some were't able to perform it in front of the class like me and Phoebe, but at least we could still do it next week with the others. I had a fantastic and awesome time there I didn't even feel worried about attending there anymore

Jessa Del

Dance alarm

This term we have changed our morning routine, from running to Jump Jam.

We follow the instructions from the interactive white board and dance to various songs. 

 I think everyone in the class enjoys the fitness from Jump Jam each day we try to do our best at it.

Some people would be stoping from embarrassment and some would be rocking it.  As we continue our Jump Jam we hope to get better at the songs, memorise the moves and improve  our fitness.

Everyone seems to be enjoying it, though some may think its troublesome. But some day they will think that it's fun.