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!

ANZAC day

ANZAC Day is linked to the landing of the Australian and New Zealand soldiers at Gallipoli in Turkey in 1915.  It was first celebrated in 1916 with memorial services and in the the early 1920s became a national holiday in Australia and New Zealand.

Tomorrow is ANZAC day and many people will be attending Dawn Parades and memorial services all over NZ and in other places in the world.  In Room 26 we made Poppies for our classroom wall display as an introduction to our Unit Study on ANZAC day.

Did You Know? The red poppy is a symbol of war remembrance.  People wear the poppy to remember those who died in war or who still serve.  The red poppies are also a symbol of the poppies that grew on Flanders Field, a battlefield in France during World War I.


An instructional video on how to make these awesome poppies will be posted soon!

The CHALLENGE

The time limit for 1 suicide/shuttle is all students to get back over the line within 30sec.  SO Tommy decided he wanted to find out how fast he could do it, and then we were all pretty interested to find out who was the fastest in our class.

 

Can you beat it? post a video on your class blog and leave a link below to show us!

CLASS CONSEQUENCES

At the beginning of the year, we co-constructed a Class Treaty and explored possible options for what type of consequences students would have for not respecting and following the treaty.  

Traditional consequences such as keeping the whole class in at lunch, or writing lines didn't really appeal to us, with majority agreeing that fitness was a consequence that students would benefit from , even if it was a 'punishment'.

We do burpees, press-ups, sit-ups, bridges/planks, suicides/shuttles, laps around the field, starjumps and more recently running up and down stairs...

TECHNOLOGY (part 1)

 

Today I was lucky enough to get the time to visit students in their Tech classes.   The Tech classes we have here in Yr8 are Music, Art, Hard Tech, Food Tech, Dance & Drama, Science, and ICT.

This is the second session of their new Tech rotation, and they are already doing some pretty fun and interesting things, so I will definitely be visiting them next term to see what they have learnt.  

Here is some video footage of what they have done so far: Can you guess what song they are playing?

 

Waterpolo

 
Every Tuesday for the last term the Otumoetai Intermediate B Waterpolo team have played against all the other B grade teams around Tauranga.  We came out of the first round unbeaten.  And the next week it was time for us to play Te Puke.  It was a very close game, but we came out with a win 4-3.  This meant that we had won the 2012 Term 1 B grade trophy!!

By Shaleah



At Otumoetai Intermediate,  colours are awarded to acknowledge students for different achievements.  They are badges that students can stitch onto their jerseys, similar to a certificate... but better! :)

Chess HOMEWORK wk9

Rm26 HOMEWORK wk6

Over the past few weeks part of your mahi kainga has been to leave a comment on our class blog.  This week you need to leave a comment on a blog from another school.

Homework task:

1. On the top right of the page there are some links to other classroom blogs.  Click on Room 8 @ Melville Int School.
2. There are a number of posts on their page this year already about basketball, their recent talent quest, hard materials technology... You need to leave a comment on their class blog.   

Your comment must include:

• Something positive about what they have posted. 
• A question about that topic for them to answer. 

You will need to write your name and in brackets put Rm26@OiS 

e.g.  I think it is cool that you are already training for AIMS.  Our school competes at AIMS also.  How many teams do you send to the AIMS tournament? Mrs Bassett (Rm26@OiS)

FREAKY FRIDAY MATHS!

Today we had our first session of Freaky Friday Maths! Students had to complete an obstacle course and work in teams to complete mathematical equations.  This week we revised addition/subtraction and multiplication/division using BEDMAS.

more BEAUTIFUL portraits!

The Rm26 students are really proud of the work they have produced and wanted me to take photos of ALL the portraits that are around our room (unfortunately there are a few missing because we didn't have a ladder today) but in saying that... 

Do you recognise which students are missing?
If you know the answer, leave a comment with their names below and you will receive a nice little bonus! :)

Toku Whanau

We have been doing some Art and Te Reo Maori in the classroom.  Students practiced saying some basic words and writing basic sentences.  Last week we worked on introducing some of the members of our whanau and ourselves.  We then created some koru art to dispaly with our sentences.

Rm26 HOMEWORK wk4

Part of your mahi kainga is to post some comments on our class blog.  This will soon lead into leaving comments on other class blogs we visit.

Homework tasks:

1. Post a comment under Day1 at Otumoetai Intermediate about one of the most memorable things about your first day as a Yr8, or what you are looking forward to as a Yr8 this year.
2. Post a comment under Rm26 ART! and STARS! about one of the things you found challenging about these tasks, or something you are proud of.

Our BEAUTIFUL portraits!

Here are some of our finished products.  I am extremely proud of the art work that the students in Rm26 have produced, and they now line our classroom walls :)

Rm26 ART! and STARS!

We have been learning how to blend pastel to find a match for the colour of our skin, lips, eyes and hair.  We have been practicing and practicing and are working on our published versions at the moment... keep an eye out for our finished products!

We have also been making 3D stars in the classroom for our STARS wall display.  In Room26, STARS are students who understand and display Otumoetai Intermediate's 5 core values: Respect, Integrity, Excellence, Diversity, and Creativity.

  

Day 1 @ Otumoetai Int.

WOW what a day! Excited students (and some nervous teachers) filled the basketball court this morning waiting to meet the people they were going to be spending the rest of 2012 with...

Room 26 is an awesome class and I look forward to getting photos and videos of all the amazing work they are doing up on the blog very shortly.  Until then feel free to check the panui/notices and mahi kainga/homework pages to keep up to date on some of the things that are happening in Room 26  :)