Week 8 - South America - Amazing Race Roadblock

Most of South America is fanatical about Football than us Kiwi's are about Rugby! So this week you'll need to practise those football skills. The Road Block will take place during the 2nd Block on Friday. Make sure you bring your team colours and mascots along on Friday and really get behind your team!
On the field you will be required to only speak in Spanish! Get learning!
Hola! Areeba areeba!

Hanna's Last Email from her travels

Dear room 13,
Lights twinkled at us as we blundered around the stalls. The smell of honey roasted almonds reached my nose, mixed with the scent of toffee apples. We bought 7 packets of Christmas biscuits from a stall selling the most delicious kinds: chocolate coated spice cakes, sugar glazed biscuits, and almond decorated ones. We came to a huge Christmas tree with a train going round it for little kids to ride on, and soon we reached a stall selling fairy lights and remembered that mum had asked us to buy one with fake candles. After a short discussion on the cellphone about how many candles should be on it we bought one. Grandpa then invited grandma and me to a ride on the Ferris wheel, but grandma didn’t want to. I did, though. Up we went, farther and farther. It got colder and windier the higher we went, but suddenly we went down again. The night air whipped my face and I saw the lights of the German Christmas market down below. I’m looking forward to being home in NZ again!
Yours truly,
Hanna Ott(er).

Chinese Gardens Visit

Below are a few pics Mrs Q snapped at the Chinese Gardens 2 weeks ago when we were visiting/studying China on our 'Amazing Race'

Our Class Story Time Performance

Well we are well under way planning our class 'Arts Performance' we are basing our theme around the story of "The Lion and the Mouse" below is a video of the story we are busy creating our drama/dance/music performance around! 2 weeks until show time!

Art Gallery Visit Friday 20th November

On Friday Room 13 spent the morning at the the Art Gallery, we looked at all sorts of differnt art work and learnt a bit about what the artist was thinking and trying to achieve. After looking around we spent time in the classroom there and did some fun team challenges using art, below are some of our group work creations.

Snow Mail

Dear room 13,
A large snowflake landed on my nose as we returned from the mares' paddock. The bulk of the Lipizzaner stable loomed ahead of us, and we heard the whinnying of the white horses. The old king's stud bred these elegant horses for the royal riding school in Vienna. We had just had a guided tour together with 2 other people. The black foals had kept trying to bite one girl's jersey and nuzzle her hand.
The snow began to fall more thickly, coating everything in a blanket as white as, well, snow. Snow isn't rare in Austria around this time of year. However, it was the first time for me here that it fell in big, feathery flakes, because we came from 30 degrees C in Spain down to around 2 degrees here! My mum had snow in her hair and as I shook my head large clumps of it fell to the ground. In the end, we decided to warm up in a restaurant.
Yours sincerely,
Hanna.

Class Speeches

Well it is great to get back to school and see everyone working on putting their speech together. Some people are still struggling with the concept of time management and seem to be a little behind on the speech writing....... By now all students should have completed a planning page brainstorming what they could inform, persuade or entertain their audience with and be well underway with the writing of their speech body. We have had a few good sessions in class on this, but the key to students coming up with some good speeches and deliveries of these does involve practise at home, so if you haven't seen or heard your child talking about their speech with you yet, ask them for a preview on what they are writing and planning to deliver their speech to the class on!! We will be presenting speeches to the class starting next Wednesday 18th November and will have chosen our class reps to go to the year 7 semi finals on Monday 23rd November.

Oscar James Sloan

Hi there, well things are pretty busy and amazing here this week at home with our new baby boy - Oscar James Sloan, he arrived on Saturday afternoon at 3:14pm and I was able to bring him and Cherie home on Tuesday afternoon. A couple of photos above.... more pictures when i'm back at school - he is a pretty cool we guy and such an amazing time for Cherie & I as first time parents