Week 10 News @ Romahapa

Thanks to Kate, Nicole and Devin this week's News Reporters.
Happy Holidays . .  . see you next term!

This Week in News . . .

This Week

It has been a big few days learning how to post to our blog and how to comment on each other's blogs. We all have our own blogs to share so please visit them and even take the time to comment - this would be much appreciated. Our blogs should show just what each individual in the Middle Room has been up to.

Romahapa Middle's Video on Thursday, 10 September 2015

Romahapa Middle's Video on Thursday, 10 September 2015

Romahapa Middle's Post on Tuesday, 8 September 2015

Some touch drills action from our session with Rory this morning.

Google Slides

This week we have learning how to create a Google Slide presentation using our Google accounts. We have learned many, many things! This is our 'All About Me' Google slide presentation.

Some belated cross country action! Good luck to Katy, Kaia, Jethro and James P who are all competing in the Otago event tomorrow. Run hard kids!!!!

Rippa

Here are the Rhino's in action at the Rippa Rugby Tournament. What a great day it was!

Physical activity for our 'soldiers'

Here are a couple of fitness activities the soldiers would have done during their training.

We went to visit the WWI exhibition at the Otago Early Settlers Museum. We learnt about what Dunedin was like 100 years ago and of course what the war was like. It was great being able to see so much of the stuff we have been learning about.

Anzac Day Recounts

Today we finished re-crafting our Anzac Day Recounts. Some of us chose to recount our own Remembrance Service. Visit our writing page to read some of the fantastic finished products!

Kids Can Cook

We all had a great time in the Kids Can Cook kitchen with our head chef Chris Fortune and our awesome sous chef Katy. We made silverbeet and apple crepes which went down well with most of the taste testers! Have a go at making your own crepes with your own fillings - maybe for breakfast this weekend!

Gallipoli Writing

We put ourselves in the shoes of the soldiers on that fateful morning at Gallipoli. We had to write what we saw, heard, felt and what we wondered. Enjoy our wonderful stories and let us know what you think.

 

Online Cenotaph

Yesterday we researched a fallen soldier from World War One who is listed on the Romahapa Roll of Honour.
Lance Corporal Edgar James Burn was a school teacher.  He was the son of Edgar Huie Burn and Fanny Louisa Burn, of the School House, Romahapa, Otago, New Zealand. Edgar himself was a school teacher before setting off to war.
Edgar died of wounds on the 5th of October 1917 in Belgium. As a class we laid a poppy for Lance Corporal Edgar James Burn on the Auckland War Memorial Online Cenotaph.

http://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph

The link above will take you to the online cenotaph where you can search for a relative or known local soldier and lay a poppy in remembrance.

Anzac biscuits

As Anzac day is fast approaching we decided to make Anzac biscuits for maths. We learnt about the meaning of the Anzac biscuit and some fractions along the way! I think everyone would agree they were delicious!

Field of Remembrance Service

On Monday we laid our field of white crosses. We marked out our field in straight rows, the same way as the soldiers marched.

On Tuesday we held our Field of Remembrance Service. Thank you to the parents and friends of the school who attended. Thanks also to Mr Richardson who came along to play The Last Post on his cornet.

Here are a few snippets of the service and our tribute to those New Zealanders that fought during 1914-1918.

Tribute to the Anzacs

On Monday we will be preparing for our ANZAC Memorial Service.
The service will be held at school on Tuesday the 21st of April at 2.30pm. Parents and friends are most welcome.
We hope to pay a fitting tribute to our fallen soldiers.

Letters Home

Finally I have these finished to share.

After our visit a fortnight ago to the Creative Arts World War 1 Exhibition we returned to school and thought about what it would be like to have gone to the war. These are the letters that the Middle Room wrote to their loved ones putting themselves in the position of someone serving in WW1.

I am very proud of this fantastic writing! I am sure our readers will thoroughly enjoy reading our letters home!!!

Letters home

Mountainview Jazz Band

A future drummer in the making. Go Cooper!

Soccer Tournament 2015

Today we all took part in the Football Tournament. Check out some of the day's highlights!

Thank you to Mrs Anderson for managing The Rats. Well Done to The Rabbits who went on to win the Bowl Final! A big thank you to the organizers of the day and of course the referees!!!

Cooper shares his writing

listen to ‘Cooper's Writing Through the Eyes of a Soldier’ on audioBoom

Listen to Cooper's creative writing!

Kate shares her writing

listen to ‘Kate's Writing Through the Eyes of a Soldier’ on audioBoom

Listen to Kate share her very clever writing

Sophie shares her writing

listen to ‘Sophie reads Through the Eyes of a Soldier’ on audioBoom

Sophie shares her sensational writing titled Through the Eyes of a Soldier

Enjoy our wonderful Bio Poems from the start of the year. Thanks to Miss Cowie for showing me the very cool FlipSnack tool!

Through the Eyes of a Soldier . . .

Our man Jethro received an impromptu applause from his teacher and classmates today for his piece of writing. Check this out!!!

I was advancing towards the German trenches in 1915. I heard shells cracking like party poppers in all directions. I saw machine guns blasting bullets from the trenches. I wondered if I was going to get shot by a sniper . . .  Then at that exact moment I felt a shell make a massive explosion right in front of me. I was so frightened that I fainted and was carried away by a stretcher bearer to a nearby medic.

The One and Only Ivan

We began the year with a wonderful read aloud story - The One and Only Ivan, written by Katherine Applegate. Watch the book trailer below and read our story retells.

 I am Ivan. I am a gorilla.

It's not as easy as it looks.

Ivan was a Silverback and he threw dung balls. Ivan lived in smelly sawdust. He painted himself and he drank poo tasting water. He ended up in  a zoo with other gorillas. He loved it.

- James -

Once there was a mighty Silverback. His name was Ivan. He was an artist. Mack, Ivan’s owner, put a piece of paper in his enclosure. Ivan was a gorilla. He had a teddy gorilla too. He called it Not Tag because he had a sister called Tag. Ivan’s parents had their heads and arms cut off. Ivan had been at the Big Top Mall enclosure for 27 years. Ivan had three friends. One had died so I should not say her name. He did have Bob and Ruby. Bob was a dog and Ruby was an elephant. Ivan had to protect Ruby. Ivan had a dream and his dream came true.

- Katy -

Ivan was clever because he was good at painting. He lived in a cage for twenty seven years. He has a girlfriend from the zoo.

- Nga -

Ivan was a gorilla, a mighty Silverback. Ivan made friends and they were Stella, Bob, Julia, Mack, Not Tag, Ruby and George. Ivan lived at the Big Top Mall Game Arcade with poo water and a poor diet for 27 years. He was an artist. Ivan was smart and clever and he made a plan. Ivan went to the zoo and he made new friends.

- Kate -

Ivan is a gorilla, a mighty Silverback. He lived in his cage for 27 years. His family were killed. He had friends. He had dirty water to drink. He was an artist. He ended up in the zoo. He saw Ruby on TV. He threw dung balls. Ivan had a girlfriend.

- Cassie -

Ivan is a mighty Silverback who lived in the mall. He is really good at painting pictures. He threw yucky dung balls. He went to the zoo. He loved it.

- Cooper -

On the days Ivan made friends he chucked dung balls. He was a Mighty Silverback. Ivan was a good artist and they sold his pictures at the Big Top Mall. People brought them. Ivan now lives at a zoo with other gorillas.

- Chris -

The One and Only Ivan the Mighty Silverback is a really good artist. He threw dung balls at people passing by. At the Big Top Mall he was in an enclosure but he is now with other gorillas. Now he is happy.

- Hunter -

Ivan was a mighty Silverback. He lived in the Big Top Mall and Video Arcade for 27 years. In his 27th year at the Mall he came up with a plan to make a gigantic picture for his friends  Julia and her Dad to put on a sign to turn people against the mall. It worked because a news video man came to interview the mall and got the claw stick in it. The mall was shut down and all of the animals were transported to a zoo.

- Jethro -

Ivan is a Mighty Silverback. He threw dung balls at people. He was a good artist. He lived in a zoo and in an enclosure. He put on shows at the Big Top Mall.

- Max -

Ivan is a gorilla. He is a mighty Silverback. He lived in a dirty 27 year old enclosure. He used to throw dung balls at people. He made a teddy called Not Tag because his sister died and her name was Tag. He had cotton candy and ice cream in the old enclosure. Ivan had the dirtiest water to drink. Ivan was really smart. Ivan made loads of friends. Ivan was a really poor pet.

- Nicole -