H.O.M.E.W.O.R.K. Week 5!

Wow Week 5 - hard to believe we are almost halfway through Term 1 already! This week we have our last swimming session as a class (on Thursday afternoon as usual). Please make sure you are organised with swimming and PE gear.

Homework - Homework this week is spelling as usual (List 3 words) as well as the following Rocky Shore activity. This week is Seaweek which ties in perfectly with our Rocky Shore topic. If you come across any articles/photos/letters etc to do with Seaweek (from the newspaper, internet...) please bring those along on Friday. Your task for homework this week is the following: click on the following link: http://www.otago.ac.nz/marinestudies/database/home.htm

Click on movies - you will see there are 6 movies to choose from. You can watch as many movies as you like but your task is to summarise one of the movies and post it in a comment on the blog. I would expect your summary of the movie to be about a paragraph long. It is important that you check your work for spelling and grammar - use a dictionary if you need to!!
If you are having any trouble please come and see me and I can help you out :)

Good Luck!

Week 4 at a Glance...

Week 4 was another busy week in Room 9! On Tuesday we went to the Art Gallery where we worked with John Neumegen for the afternoon. The rocky shore creatures we created using cut out prints now look fantastic on our classroom wall!
On Friday we had our Kiwi Golf session with golf pro Melanie Harper...check out some of the photos below!

S C H O O L P O W H I R I !

On Friday we had our school powhiri - it went really well and all of the Year 8's sounded great and looked awesome doing the haka!

An extra well done to those from Room 9 who were part of the girls Karanga group or were leaders of the boys haka...Ka Pai!

Week 3 Reminders

Hi Room 9ers! Hope you are all having a fab week :) Just a couple of reminders for you:

- Mufti Day tomorrow! Don't forget your $2 - fundraising for the Balmacewen Staff team at Relay for Life!
- Last day for music notices to be handed in tomorrow
- Swimming lesson #2 - Thursday afternoon. Please remember your signed note if you're wanting to leave from the pool or stay there for waterpolo.
- School Powhiri on Friday, followed by House Meetings where we will be having House Captain speeches. Looking forward to lots of Room 9 representatives putting themselves forward!

And last but not least homework is due on Friday - please come and see me if you are having any problems with it.

Ka kite ano

H.O.M.E.W.O.R.K.

Hi team!

Don't forget to bring your homework in tomorrow! Looking forward to reading them all, and checking out the brilliant presentation skills! Well done to Charlotte J and Taylor who have already handed their homework in...Tino Pai girls!

C O N G R A T S ! !

A huge Room 9 congrats to everyone who got up in front of the class yesterday and spoke to the class about why you should be class councilor! Never an easy thing to do, but you were all awesome! It's a shame we can only have 2 reps on the school council, Room 9 definitely has lots of worthy representatives. In the end Charlotte B-R and Henri were selected as the Room 9 representatives, and I know they will do a brilliant job!

Lola, Bruno and Josh are our class librarians and Ben, Sam D and Mamea are our sports monitors :) Great work team! Hopefully next week we will have some Room 9 names to add to house captains and leaders lists...

Week 1 Done!

Well done Room 9 on a great first (short) week! It has been great meeting you all and I am really looking forward to the year ahead.

During the week we have been discussing the following:
What makes a great classroom?
What makes a great student?
What makes a great teacher?

Below you can see a selection of some of the adjectives we came up with as a class...

Day 1 Over....Phew!!

Well done Room 9...you have made it through your first day as a Year 8 at Balmacewen :)

It was great to see you all today, and a special welcome to Will and Ebony who have joined us at Balmac for the first time.

What I would like you to do tonight is make your first comment on the blog, and become a follower (like we talked about in class). How did you feel this morning when you arrived in the hall? What are your thoughts on Day 1? What are you looking forward to in Term 1?
Remember you won't see your comment straight away as they come to my email and then I publish them. Please make sure you have your name at the bottom of your comment as well.

A number of notices went home with you today - hopefully these have made it out of your bag now!

I'm really looking forward to getting to know you all over the next few weeks, we have a lot to look forward to this term!

See you tomorrow! Miss Roney