Skipping💪💧

 
In the afternoons Rooms 12 and 11 go outside for skipping sessions. We do all sorts of things, for example,  skipping forwards, backwards, side to side, practising a display and lastly a skip off.

 Everyone grabs a rope and lines up into three rows. Mr Reid stands in the  front giving us instructions while Mrs Golder is videoing us. 

In my skipping group there are Lupe, Mika, Pate, Saluselo, Dakbai and lastly me. We were not allowed to be in groups with all boys and all girls. 

🥛National Milk Day🥛

Today is National Milk Day. It is celebrated every year on June the first. It started in 2001.

Ruapotaka has been getting their milk from Fonterra. Rooms 11 and 12 drink their milk every week.

We drink milk every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Some schools don't have milk so we are lucky to be one of the Fonterra Milk schools.

Monitor Badges

On Monday afternoon it was assembly. We finally got this year's monitor's badge. As a monitor you have to make sure the kids listen and you have to make sure no one's doing the wrong thing. Rooms 11 and 12 went up and lined up to received the badges.  

Everyday Theatre

On Friday morning two visitors came into our rooms and started to entertain us with a play about family problems and how to deal with them. The characters were Dave, T, Maria, Becca and Brian.

The play was about T. who had lots of drama in his life. He was 12 years old when his parents Maria and Dave began to argue  a lot and then separated. T's. best friend was Jack who always tried his best to help him out with his problem.

Rooms 11 and 12 had to make a group so that we can make our own role play and actions that showed what had happened in the story so far.

In my group were Min Zin, Henry, Mika, Jack, Azahar and Lupe. Our action was Brain moving in to Maria's place. At the end of that entertainment we were given a small blue card and a badge that said, " Game Master."

Pest Information

For the past few weeks Rooms 12 and 11 worked together and studied pests. At first we didn't know what pests were so our teacher made us record our knowledge on the K.W.L chart. This is what I thought Pests were initially 
Pests are insects or animals that can destroy crops.
After some researching about pests my knowledge has increased by a lot. This is what I know about Pests.

The Destruction Of Pests

Pests are creatures that live in filthy areas, people’s homes, schools and other places. Pests are unwanted insects that carry germs can harm or kill humans. Pests bite, destroy foods, crops and make our lives difficult.

There are many types of pests like rats, ants, flies, fleas, wasps, cockroach, mosquito and many more. The most dangerous pest for houses and schools are termites, they have a good ability to chew through wood, flooring and even the wall unseen.

Rats carry many diseases that are called plague, leptospirosis, rat bite fever and many more. When rats bite humans their bite can give you headaches, fever, cause you to vomit, rashes and kidney damage.

     

Mosquito bites are very dangerous to humans because once they have bitten your skin they will start to suck your blood. It causes people to have a fever or itchy bites.This can lead humans to get malaria which can make you vomit, be sick, nausea and then eventually you will die.

Pest aren’t very kind to the environment because they overrun houses and destroy people's properties, and damage humans food supplies and farmers crops.        

Room 11 Assembly

On Monday Room 11 had to plan the  syndicate assembly. The hosts were Meafou, Isabell, Dakbai and Teremoana. Room 11 decided that they were going to do a singing competition. The singer from Room 12 was Vaimoana because Mika and Lupe left to do a job for Mrs Vickers. When her item was finished Room 11 had to pick the winner. A few minutes they chose the winner and it was Room 12.

P.A.T Test

On Wednesday I walked in class and saw Maths Test today. I was very scared about the Maths Test because I don't really like Maths.The year sevens lined up and got ready to go to Room 11 for the long Maths test. When we walked in Room 11, Mr Reid told us that the test was for 45 minutes.

Missing Teacher

It's the day of Halloween and Mrs Golder was missing. After fitness Mrs Vickers had to split us up. Room 12 were put in different classes and we had to take our bags and chromebooks to do our work.  When we arrived in Room 1 we were excited until we opened our chromebooks. They had low batterys . Mika and Lupe's chromebooks were also flat so we asked Mrs Pederson if we could  go and charge our chormebooks. We went to Room 11 and asked Mr Reid, "Could we use some of the students chargers for our chromebooks?" 

   

A Volcano Eruption

On Thursday afternoon Room 11 came into Room 12 for a science experiment. What we did was a volcano, in my team it was Meana, Mele, Teremoana, Sebastion, Pepe and me. What we had to do was write a hypothesis about what we thought was going to happen to the volcano. After that we went outside to get the ingredients to perform the experiment. When we mixed the ingredients it started to rise. I thought that it would go really high but it didn't.