The Maritime Museum

Wow! What a fantastic day :) Highlights of the trip according to the children were:
- the cabin as we got to experience what it would have been like for the early immigrants - sharing small bunks; a bucket for a toilet (and for spewing in); no privacy; putting up with snorers; and doing all this for 6 months!
- the Peter Blake exhibition - what an inspirational NZer with his lucky red socks. Also the grinding/steering a yacht team game. Move over Team NZ, room 7 is here to take over!
Thanks to the parents who helped out today. Sleep well everyone!

Room 7 on Cultural Day :)

Thanks to all our parents for helping us look so good and for all the yummy food. Top marks to everyone!

Immigration

Today we started our immigration topic. Here we are brainstorming all the reasons we can think of for why people might move countries

Learning to use SRA

We are going to be using the SRA programme to help us improve our reading skills. First we are working together to learn how to work through the process. Then we get to work through the process by ourselves. Mrs Milne remembers doing SRA when she was at school. Funny!

Room 7's assembly :)

This is our fantastic assembly item. We did an educational quiz show based on geometry. Enjoy!

Invitation to Room 7's assembly: Tuesday 23 October 1:30pm

All Room 7 parents are welcome :)

Cross country news

Today at Pinehill our cluster cross country team won! We are so proud of our R7 runners who tried extremely hard. Ben and Jess both got second. Hannah and Connor were both 4th and Sakalia was placed 17th. The rest of R7 got first prize for cheering the loudest!

Using protractors

Today in Room 7 some of our protractor experts taught others how to use a protractor to measure the angles of 2-d shapes. They taught us to always look at an angle first to see if it is acute (less than 90 degrees) or obtuse. This is important so we read the right numbers on the protractor.

Good morning and welcome to Olympic news! Some of New Zealand’s most fantastic past medalists are Ian Ferguson and Paul Macdonald. Ian Ferguson has got 4 golds and 1 silver. Paul Macdonald has got 3 golds, 1 silver and 1 bronze.  They are both kayakers. Peter Snell has got 3 golds. He was a famous New Zealand middle distance runner. We ave a block named after Snell at Pinehill. That's famous! By B.D and C.M

GO NEW ZEALAND! :]

Room 7's Olympic News

Hello, everyone. Today we are talking about the Olympics! When the Olympic starts (which is in less than one day) most of us will be watching it on television, unless you’re lucky enough to be in London, watching it live! But did you know that the Berlin Olympics (held in 1936) were the first Olympic games to ever be broadcast on television?
Did you know that no married women were allowed to watch the Ancient Olympics? That is because all the male athletes were expected to participate naked. But ‘certain bits’ could be covered up by a leather string.
Have you ever been to the Olympics? Well, if you have you should consider yourself lucky because only 9.6 million tickets are for sale (8 million for the Olympics and 1.6 million for the Para-olympics). You may say that’s a lot but actually there are millions and millions and MILLIONS of people in the world. So to be able to watch it live you should be grateful.
Have you ever seen the Olympic torch? If you have then, have you ever wondered what it represents? The sacred Olympic Torch represents the three Olympic values:
Respect, Excellence and Friendship.
It also stands for the three Olympic Words:
Faster, Higher, Stronger.
The five Olympic rings represent the five major regions of the world:
Asia, America, Europe, Africa and Oceania.
Every national flag in the world includes at least one of the six colours (which include yellow, blue, green, black, red and  white) in their flag.
See you next time at Room 7, Pinehill School News.

Another Olympic update by our fabulous Room 7 reporters

Hello there! Welcome to Room 7 news. Here you will find some amazing Olympic Facts.
In 1916, 1940, and in 1944, the Olympic Games were cancelled due to World War 1 and World War 2.
Another awesome fact is that women were allowed to participate in the Olympics at the 1900 Games.
Did you know? Olympic gold medals haven’t been real gold since the 1912. They were silver with gold plating.
Surprising, right?
What’s more, today’s athletes follow a strict rule of following a nutritional plan and they carefully watch what they eat. Before the Olympics in ancient Greece, athletes mostly ate cheese. (Apparently cheese is one of our reporter’s favourite foods. Who is drooling right now?
You can guess who it is, right?) Well anyway, that’s it for now! Be ready to come back to our spectacular blog to read the latest information about the 2012 London Olympics.

Hello everyone. It is only 2 days before the grand opening of the 2012 London Olympics. The atmosphere here in London is amazing!
This is the third time London has hosted the Olympics. The first was in 1908 and the second time was in 1948. And now it is 2012!
Just for your information, there are 35 sports in this Olympics, with 400 different events. That’s an extraordinary amount of sports watching!
The opening ceremony is top secret and under wraps but we do know that people had to audition for a role in this spectacular opening show.
The two mascots for the London Olympics are Wenlock and Mandeville. They are in for a busy time.
Tune in later for another Olympic update from Room 7, Pinehill School.

These are the seedlings that rm 7 have planted.
These are recently planted seedlings for the next trees for survival. Trees for survival is about saving native trees.Pinehill School has been involved with this programme for nearly 13 years.


These have successfully grown into a larger flax bush that we planted some time ago.These plants have grown from a little teeny ball into a giant flax bush.

posted By A.C and J.C

                                                                                      

On Wednesday 13 June a couple of people from room 7 went to cluster netball. We came 3rd place out of 4 teams. We played 3 games and we only won 1 game JW played as WA and HW played as GA.  The hardest team was Browns Bay.8)

Posted by HW and JW.

Challenge: Design a way to move a rock from one end of a table to the other using a magnet and other equipment to demonstrate knowledge of how magnets work.

Criteria:
1. The rock must be moved by only the magnetic force of a magnet.
2. Only one material can touch the rock.
3. The only piece of equipment to be held in a person’s hand is a magnet.

Watch the clip and see all the different ways Room 7 has come up with!

Cluster football

Some people tried out for the cluster football teams. There is an A-team and a B-team and also a girls’ team. The people that made the 3 teams are going to Pinehurst tomorrow to compete in the big football competition. We hope that the weather will be sunny and dry this time!

Posted by B.D and S.R 

Fact wall

In reading time we have been reading about different animals. Some groups have started to make our fact wall. When we have enough facts it should be complete. The fact wall looks like a brick wall but its colourful. The facts we have at the moment are facts about the giant squid, the colossal squid and tigers.

By M.L and J.L

Animal Reports

In Room 7 we are doing information reports about an animal that we are interested in.
Our homework was to collect data about our chosen animal and bring it to school. We are currently practising how to write a report properly together with the class. We learnt how to take keywords out of other texts, from books or out of the internet using this really amazing search engine called google. But in order to create an awesome animal report, we will need to plan our work wisely. Wish us good luck!

By J & Z

At trees for survival we will plant these baby trees. Trees for Survival is a day when we plants some trees on a farm. The ones in the black bag are baby totara trees. These trees can grow up to the size of this tree! Look at the size of this tree compared to the babies! We are all really excited to go and plant these trees. There are nearly a thousand trees that we have to plant!! We will be very busy.
Posted by JR and WT

In art we have been learning how to draw dragons and how to sketch them as well.
We have also been learning how to illustrate more detailed parts of the dragon. After we have learned to do that well we are going to draw a good copy of one of our dragons and Indian ink them. Here is an example.

By N.L and D.F

TENNIS
Every Monday afternoon and Thursday morning Room 7MM are taking tennis lessons.
A trained professional called Vicki teaches us some tennis skills. This is part of our P.E programme for term 2. Room 7 finds tennis enjoyable and challenging at the same time. We look forward to seeing the improvement that spreads throughout our class.

By
CY and GM

How to use cm and mm

In our class some of the people did some maths about how to use cm and mm.
First we learn cm. When its 2.8cm it is difficult to get answer with a ruler so we learnt about rounding to the nearest whole number to 2.8cm. So answer is 3cm because 2.8cm is nearest to 3cm.

Some of the people did a mm maths programme.
mm is little bit more difficult than cm because it is thinner to measure but we learnt about how to use mm. Now we are going to  do a question. What is 2.6cm in mm? Easy! First we have to times 10 to move the decimal point to the right. So the answer is 26mm.


Posted by D.K. and S.N.

                         Tigers
   For our reading we are reading about tigers. We chose a fact that we learnt and we chose what a tiger can grow up to. And it can grow up to 4 metres!!!!! What  we had to do was chalk it on the concrete and compare it to something. We chose to compare it to us lying next to it and here are some photos of us. 
Posted by JW and SD

Anzac Day Memories

  

Anzac Day is celebrated in 25th of April with poppies.
We celebrate Anzac Day to acknowledge the death of the soldiers.
People sell poppies to memorize the sacrifices of the soldiers.
Poppies are red flowers that celebrate the soldiers that sacrificed themselves at war.
The red poppy is linked to the battlefield deaths.
Here is a Anzac Day Poem:
 

A Poem for Remembrance Day
 

"The inquisitive mind of a child"
 

Why are they selling poppies, Mummy?


Selling poppies in town today.


The poppies, child, are flowers of love.


For the men who marched away.
 

But why have they chosen a poppy, Mummy?


Why not a beautiful rose?


Because my child, men fought and died


In the fields where the poppies grow.
 

But why are the poppies so red, Mummy?


Why are the poppies so red?


Red is the colour of blood, my child.


The blood that our soldiers shed.
 

The heart of the poppy is black, Mummy.


Why does it have to be black?


Black, my child, is the symbol of grief.


For the men who never came back.
 

But why, Mummy are you crying so?


Your tears are giving you pain.


My tears are my fears for you my child.


For the world is forgetting again.
(Unnamed author)
 

By Julia L & Julia K

Luke's day at the Memorial Service in Browns Bay.

Last term in room 7 we were learning to sketch for art. First we had to choose 3-5 objects that are special to us and bring it to school. We also had a booklet to learn different techniques such us stippling, hatching, shading and lots more. Next we drafted our special objects in our booklets and published it onto a larger piece of paper for our good copy.

This is one of our student’s sketch of a splendid lego car by Matthew Lai.

By Zei and Calum.

Construction
Our school is constructing a new block because it is leaking and rotting because it was constructed wrong.

The building is going to be two stories high with two classrooms downstairs and and two classrooms up stairs.

Because of the construction the top playground is off limits :(
There is so much noise from the construction of the classes and there are a lot of trucks and cranes moving in.

Posted by Connor and Sam

Camp Memories

After room 7, 5, and 12 came back from camp, room 7 and room 5 have been making spectacular thank you cards for the parents and teachers who came to camp with us. We also put some sentences to thank them for what they did for us at camp and we also drew a picture on each card. Once we had finished the picture we outlined it with Indian ink, coloured it and then we sent the cards to the parents and teachers. Here are some of the finished products!

- Matthew and Ben from room 7

IKAN practice


Room 7 has been practising for our maths IKAN test. We are going to do the test on Thursday 22 March. This is the number knowledge we’ve been trying to learn.
Wish us good luck:)

By
Caitlin, Julia L and Jasmin

Jess and Caitlin decided to help out with the drain painting.
They were painting the drain as a dolphin.

step 1; First they had to draw the design with chalk.
step 2: Then they started to paint the outline.
step 3: They began to paint the inside of the dolphin.
step 4: Now they need to paint the waves.

posted by Jess, Zei and Darcie

 Yesterday room 7 learnt how to do fotobabble and audioboo with Mr Kinane.  Fotobabble is when you take a photo and record your voice with the photo on the screen. Audioboo is when you can record your voice for 3 minutes and you can put both on a blog or wiki or a website.

By William, Adam and Sam

Room 7’s challenge!!!

Our goal is to finish all the following activities by the end of next week.
We think that finishing these activities is quite challenging.
Our job is to tick the boxes that we have completed.
If we concentrate then it will be easy to complete.

Posted by Julia K, Zei and Julia L

Yesterday the builders were starting to putting the floor in place for the rooms 17, 18 ,19 and 20. They are using a crane to lift the heavy concrete slabs. I think the crane is impressive that it can lift very heavy things like concrete slabs. Posted by Jakob, Jack and Harry.

This is a photo of the drain that had an octopus over the drain and because the building sight covered most of it, we need to repaint it. Hannah, Caitlin, Sophia and Jess and some more people are repainting the drains. We need to make our own design. On Thursdays we plan and paint the drains.


Hannah Jess Mitchell

This is about handball.
This picture is a match between four people to get to King and the King says the rules and some rules are high mountain, dragon, drag and skim.

By Daniel, Sakalia and Jackie

This is about handball.
This picture is a match between four people to get to King and the King says the rules and some rules are high mountain, dragon, drag and skim.

By Daniel, Sakalia and Jackie

Cyber Safety


This morning Mrs Wansink came in to talk to us about cyber safety. We learnt about how someone could get bullied over the internet. Sometimes physical bullying starts cyber bullying. If we see someone being bullied or we are being bullied ourselves, we need to be part of the solution and not part of the problem. Telling an adult who we trust is one way to solve the bullying problem.

By 
Caitlin, Sophia and Erin

Invitation to Room 7’s assembly

Come to the best performance of a life time to learn an important lesson about rights and responsibilities. 1:30pm, Pinehill School hall, Tuesday 28 February.
posted by Guinevere, Jasmin and Darcie