Congratulations Emily!

A sprint finish saw Emily pip Claudia to take out the year 8 girls event in our school cross country on Friday afternoon.

Great room 5 results all round, with Harry and Matt our best boy finishes. 

Well done to Emily for coming 1st and Claudia for taking out 2nd place, in convincing fashion too!

ISS Presentations - Day 1

Room 5 have been working on paired inquiries over the last week.
ISS means - 'Inquiring about Space Stuff'.
Today was the first day of the student presentations showing what they've found. The goal is to share the information in an interesting way.

Day 1 - Here's the good stuff!

Cara, Tai-iba and Nikhil - The Solar System

Matt, Harry, Joseph - How The Moon Was Formed

Alex R and Sarah - Black Holes

Jacqui and Claudia - Gleise 581C

Emma and Alice - The Solar System

Happy Birthday Claudia!

Melting Crayons

I had an idea for my Casebrook Challenge to do something creative. I searched on the internet creative ideas and I saw this picture of crayons at the top of a canvas. I clicked on it and wasn't really sure how to do it at first. I got my canvas and stuck all the difference colour crayons on it and got something hot to melt the wax. I used a hair dryer to melt them, but first I had to actually set up so I put newspaper all over the ground, not sure if the colours would flick off everywhere. I started to melt the crayons and of course they ended up getting all over the ground and the cupboards. At last I finished and I thought it turned out better than I expected :)

By Claudia

Sumdog Daily Champions!

Congratulations to us as we have earned our first ever daily champion prize on Sumdog. And congrats to Sarah who was the lead student in the competition for 3 days.

Now we can also congratulate Jacqui who is the new leader!
Plus Sarah, Claudia and Nikhil are in the top 5. Outstanding work Room 5!

Sumdog Comp 1 for 2014

We have entered into our first Sumdog competition for the year…all going well so far for Sarah and Claudia! Go Room 5!

Ashburton Athletics

On the 29th of November there was Athletics on at Ashburton. Everyone had to get to school by 7:00 in the morning and meet in Mr. Russell's room (room 13). At 7:15 we got onto the bus to start our long journey to Ashburton. We had a bit of a restless bus ride but we got there eventually. Most of the time Izzi was playing on her phone because she can be anti-social at times. 

More Outsiders Stop Motion Action

 Made by Isabella, Alice, Claudia, Emma and Georgia.

Relay Teams Success

Our class relay teams had excellent results in our school relay competition this week.

Our girls team were victorious and our boys team came a really close second. 

Great work teams.

Claudia's Tree

For my Casebrook Challenge one of the Challenges was to build a model of something awesome. I really wanted to do that one. I couldn't decide what I wanted to do so I tried to do something simple and not complicated.
I was looking outside at this tree that had no leaves on it and I decided to myself that I wanted to do a tree. My sister had to make up cardboard boxes and she had these little circles that just went to waste. I gathered all of them up and started to make the bottom of the tree and working my way up. I started to get more closer to doing the branches so I made the circles go to the side.
It was really hard to do and it took me ages like over two weeks. But after those two weeks I finally finished my awesome tree! I then realised that I couldn't just bring it in like that. My tree wouldn't stand up straight so I had to wrap a wire around it but it still couldn't stand. I needed to put a base so it would stand up so I got a massive bit of cardboard. It looked so plain and boring so I decided to liven it up a bit. I painted lines all around it in three different colours.

Claudia

Cross Country Race

Claudia's Race

It was Wednesday 3rd July and it was the day of the cross country finals. I had got through past the Canterbury's race. It was the top 20 and I had just got through because I came 20th. I got picked up from school by my dad and went to leave. I wasn't really sure where it was because I had never been here before but it wasn't far from Casebrook. We were finding a park and I realised that there was so many rocks around everywhere. 

We were walking up and there were tons of people there. They were all getting ready for their race like stretching and going for light jogs. I found my friend Harry Scott there and he walked with me around the track because I didn't really know where to go. He was giving me a few tips on what to do when you go up hills and how to get past a lot of people by sprinting and not wasting energy. Well we had to go back because my race was first and I had to start stretching to get ready. The lady called all the year 7 girls up and we had to line up at the start. The man that was starting the race rung the siren for us to go. It was hard to run at first but then I got the hang of it.

 There were so many hills that you had to go up and not many downhill parts. There was one really muddy bit that we all had to run through. I slipped there but I didn't fall over so that was lucky. It was a 1kilometre race so we had to run around it three times. I was coming down at the end of the race and I started to sprint. I crossed the finish line to find that there were quite a lot of people behind me. I knew that I hadn't made the top 10 but at least I got this far and tried my hardest. I had left because I didn't need to stay so I came back to school.

 I had come into the office and saw one of my best friend, Izzi. She asked me where I came and I said I didn't know because, well, I didn't know exactly what I came. 

I had to sign in to say that I had come back from school. We went into the classroom and I saw my other best friend Emma. All my other best friends (I have quite a few best friends) asked me what I came and again I said that I didn't know. I just carried on the rest of my day like a normal day. It was an awesome day for me!!!

Room 5 at Cross Country

Thanks Mrs Page for taking the photos.