Our Visitors - Week 5

Next week Whaea Haylee and some students from Waipipi School are going to be coming to Mt Maunganui for their camp.  They will be participating in a lot of fun activities as well as visiting our school.  They come from a school that is MUCH smaller than ours, so this is a fantastic opportunity to show them our amazing facilities and tell them a bit about the awesome programmes we have running at Otumoetai Intermediate School.

You will be giving our guests a guided tour around the school.   

Below, you need to comment on:
1. what you would show/tell them about our school
2. advise fun places they could go if they came back to Tauranga/Mt Maunganui again.

Maths Revision

With our tests coming up very shortly, I thought it may be useful to give you a website to revise concepts that we haven't covered for a while. Click here to practice a wide range of Mathematics strands.



Write a comment below answering these questions:

- What did you practice?
- How well did you do?
- What is something you still need to learn?

ATHLETICS

This term we are preparing for our school Athletics! Here are some videos for inspiration:

Jacko Gill, 15yrs old - Shot put, 20.76m

Ashton Allen, 10 yrs old - 200m, 26.33sec

Standing Long Jump - an exercise used by everyone from track and field athletes to football players trying out for the NFL. Coaches use Standing Long Jumps to build leg strength in their athletes.

TERM 3 - RECAP

SO MUCH happened over Term 3, we had Yujin (an international student from Korea) join our class, GANGNAM STYLE! We had a class trip to the Hamilton Zoo, almost half our class competed at the NZ AIMS tournament and a few even performed in the Opening Ceremony.  All of this was on top of our normal everyday learning programme so we were VERY busy!

Below are pictures and videos of Term 3 for Room 26:


Our Hamilton Zoo Trip:

(pictures courtesy of room 26 students)

We were learning about Animal Welfare, and were lucky enough to visit the Hamilton Zoo and attend a seminar run by one of the staff.  This trip was also used as a motivator for our persuasive writing topic "Zoos - are they good or bad?"


Yujin - Our new korean student:

Yujin joined us for the last 4 weeks of Term 3.  She performed Gangnam Style on stage in front of the whole school in Assembly! She was also a superstar for the night at our School Disco.

Yujin's last day

Gangnam Style!

NZ AIMS Games:

(photos taken by Shaleah)

Otumoetai Intermediate had a successful year at NZ AIMS this year - and half our class were involved! Students in our class competed in sports such as Netball, Sevens Rugby, Swimming, Hip-Hop, Bowls, Badminton, Tennis, Girls Rugby, Water Polo, Cross Country, Rugby League, Multi-sport...we have a seriously talented class!

GRANDPARENTS DAY (morning tea)

Just to give you an idea of how many grandparents attended, here is a 3D picture of the hall at morning tea time (and there were still some people waiting outside!)  Click on the image below and use your mouse to move around the hall...

GRANDPARENTS DAY

What an AWESOME day we had on Friday!  Hundreds of grandparents joined our classrooms at Otumoetai Intermediate School, participating in a wide range of learning activities both indoor and outdoors.  Our class demonstrated how Freaky Friday Maths works in Rm26 and we began our Chees Tournament.  

During Block 2, Grandparents were taken around our BEAUTIFUL school and got to see how TALENTED our students are.  There were perfomances put on by our school Kapahaka group and our Arts Academy and all the technology classes were open for visitors.  Here are some photos of our day:

Our visitors in Assembly

Today we had a dance/performance group join us in assembly today.  They were a group from Auckland and we were the first school they visited on their tour.  Room26 was one of the two lucky classes in the whole school to get a photo with them! To find out more about them, visit their facebook page.

Can you remember what they were called?  What was your favourite part? And what was one of the main messages you got from their performance?

HOW TO: make a poppy

Thank you to Ali and Liam for explaining how to make poppies like the fantastic ones we have in our classroom.  And to Angus, for doing a great job filming.  Be sure to show us how yours turn out if you use this instructional video to help your class make yours! :)

Karakia Kai

As part of learning Te Reo Maori in our classroom, students learnt some basic karakia for different times of the day.  This is karakia kai and we say this before lunch each day.

Last Term we did a unit study on Communities and researched some community organisations. Below is a glog, with links to some of the published glogs from students in our class.

Glog of the Term!

Congratulations to Patricia and Bianca for making the Class Glog of the Term for Term 1! You used your time wisely and found information from a range of resources and have designed a glog that looks great, using space, graphics and font effectively!