Garage band performances

Last week was our last music lesson for the term.  Here are the garageband creations that the students created then shared with the class. We hope you enjoy listening to them as much as they enjoyed making them.

Volume Investigation

Cuboid Construction

During this activity we were focusing on measuring the volume of rectangular prisms. We were asked to make a cuboid using 36 multi link cubes.  We then had to investigate how many different shapes of cuboids that we could make still using 36 cubes.  Here are some photographs of us doing this activity, we have also added some questions about our learning for you to check your own knowedge about volume.  Post your scores as a comment.

Amalia With Her Under 13 Rep Development Team Tournament

Last weekend Amalia went to Blenheim with her Rep's netball team.  Amalia's mum Bri reports that it was a very wet first game and they still won against Malborough 28/19, then they lost versing the Motueka A team by 2 points 24/26, for the last game they won by a very big margin against Golden Bay by 34/14. Well Done Amalia and Co you did extremely well.  Congratulations to all Waimea Intermediate girls who made both the Reps team (Ellie from room 8) and the development squad.

Have Your Say?

The kick off of the Crusaders and Sharks takes place on Saturday at 7.30 pm at Nelson's Trafalgar Park.  Will you be there, who will you going with, if not what will you be doing?  Who do you think will win, can you predict the score?  Post you answers as a comment.

Caption Competition

Can you think of a caption for the photo. It's just a bit of fun but the winning caption gets to choose a prize from the goodie box.  You can enter as many comments as you like.  The more captions you enter the better your chance of winning.

Play Word Whomp

Post your top score as a comment

Poem of the week.

Optical Illusion

What to pictures can you see?

Moviemaker Reading Activity

As part of our reading contracts we had to read about, listen to eye witness accounts and view news coverage about different disaster.  We then had to use Moviemaker to produce footage of our disasters. 

Zak's Moviemaker about the Japanese Tsunami.

India's Moviemaker about the Queensland floods

Oni and Cory on the smartboard

Oni is playing on the smartboard with Cory, he is improving his English.The game is called Let's Go.

Sports trip to Saxton Fields

On Friday Nikau syndicate visited Saxton's Fields to take part in a fundamental skills programme.  It was a great day for everyone.



Sports trip to Saxton's Fields on PhotoPeach

Fitness Pictures

These are some pictures of fitness on Wednesday.

Poem of the Week

Maggi Kitchen Showdown 2011

The 2011 Intermediate School Kitchen showdown is in full swing now with  30 schools currently being visited by the Maggi team.

The Maggi team (Ash and Ritchie) were filming at our Waimea Intermediate today.

Two of Room 8's fantastic students are member of WIS team, namely Jack and Shanee.

Middle Eastern Delight was the name of the team's culinary creation.  It consisted of;-

lamb kebabs,couscous, Greek salad, pita bread and tzatiki dip

On Monday 1st July all 30 school videos will be up on the following website and you can view and vote for your favourite, which of course will be Waimea Intermediate.
Click here to support Jack and Shanee and vote for Waimea Intermediate

Optical Illusion

There is something behind these lines. If you get it right you will get a prize from the goody box but be quick there will only be one winner.

The winner is Leah congratulations!!!!!!!

Room 8 TV day - The Results

 

This is the result of Room 8's first ever TV day, not bad results for our first attempt.

I have certainly learnt lots from the experience.  I would give you more planning time, a storyboard so that you can plan out your scenes and ask you you to write a script before you begin.  I also think I need to practise using the video camera.

Think and reflect about what you gained from the experience.  What would YOU do differently next time, what have you learnt from the experience. Post your answers as a comment.

To our wider audience what would you like to see next time, what feedback can you give us. I would be interested in your comments.  Denise Lee

Poem of the Week

Preparation for Room 8 TV day

The students were all busy today preparing for our TV day.  It was a fun and busy day.  Keep checking out our blog page for the full recording of this entertaining day.
Preparation for TV Day on PhotoPeach

Measurement

Today in maths we were carrying some practical measurement activities. Firstly we had to estimate how far we could duck walk, walk backwards and walk sidewards in 2 minutes. We then had to see if our estimates were acurate by carrying out the activitiies out and timing them. We could then choose our own activities to estimate and time.

News from Jonas

Jonas is in Denmark for his 3 months visit.  Today Room 8 received an email from him telling us his lastest news.  Jonas has just returned from a school trip to Bornholm, a small island in the middle of the Baltic ocean.  It sounds like he is having lots of fun, playing mini golf and getting the best score of 42 ( the next best score being 80).  He also played football (soccer) and his school team won by 9 - 1, Jonas scored all 9 goals.  Way to go Jonas!!!  We hope you enjoy the rest of your trip and  keep in touch. Room 8 is missing you.

Mrs Higgs

This is Mrs.Higgs, she is a student teacher who has been in our class room for 5 weeks. Mrs.Higgs has been learning from the expert teacher Mrs.Lee (NOT!).Sadly she is leaving us on Friday and we will all miss her.

Pacman

Pacman advanced | Flash games with Games68.com

Guess who???

Hey it's Ellie and Leah here this is a compettition for you, all you have to do is guess all these blurred out people( first and last name if they have one) and the winner gets 10 smiley faces and a lollypop.

Good luck and get guessing
Ellie and Leah