Mr Geoff Jukes

This week our main focus is too work on our speeches and try to get our draft done.On Friday we have got our Olympic day for the whole school, that means we have a country that we will dress up as and we are in groups and we vs other countries and get points, we have also got our school disco on Friday. Today we had Mr Geoff Jukes which has been in the Olympics for Clay target shooting team in 2000 in Sydney to get into the final he had to shot 125 targets but he missed two targets from going into the final.On Thursday we are having anther lesson for volleyball with Troy to teach us more skills.

Ok I have NEARLY got it sorted to upload a VIMEO video to our/your blog! We will discuss this in class. Miss Brown

TERM 3 Week 3

- Olympic Day on Friday - remember to bring your country colours to wear!

- Good luck to our BP Tech teams competing on Tuesday

- PE gear on Thursday for Volleyball

Activity 1: Reading

- You are expected to read for at least 10 mins each night.
- Record your nightly reading in the back of your book.
- Remember to read a variety of genre (novels, newspapers, newsletters, internet articles etc)

Activity 2: Spelling

- Learn your words for Friday's test

- Practice them each night for success!

Activity 3: Dragon Maths

Book 4 - 100 Line Graphs

Book 5 - 97 Median and Mode

Activity 4: Olympic Athlete Profile

- Complete your profile sheet 

- As well as including a photo - illustrate/decorate your sheet to reflect your athlete. We will present these in class on Friday (do not glue into your book)

Activity 5: Speeches

- Continue working on your speech at home.

- You should have at least your first draft done by Friday

- Get an adult at home to help you with the structure of your writing so it flows.

Friday , last day of week two.On Thursday we had volley-ball and we learnt all the basics of volley-ball , we also had the Stags come on tuesday , only I wasn't here that day so I can't tell you anything about it , only that it sounded AWESOME!!!we have been working on speeches nearly all week we are writing persuasive arguments for our speeches , we found that they are harder to write than normal speeches , well for me anyway.Oh before I forget it was maori language week but not much maori was spoken in our class this week.
By Andrew Jopson-Reeves.

Volleyball

Today we had a lesson with Troy from volleyball Southland he taught us some important skills for how to play volleyball. Here are some athletic photos from our lesson!

By Damen Axtens & Abby lee Cooney

Miss Brown is teaching us how to put links and videos in our blogs http://www.olympic.org.nz/

Last week everyone has been working hard to start their own blog. We made these blogs so we can put posts on about what we have been doing in class time. This week we are still working on them and putting more posts on about what we are doing.

This is Abbylee's blog

By Chloe Scurr

TERM 3 Week 2
- If you are the Country Cruiser of the week - you MUST still do Reading, Spelling and Dragon Maths.
- Keep working away on your Speeches!
Activity 1: Reading
- You are expected to read for at least 10 mins each night.
- Record your nightly reading in the back of your book.
- Remember to read a variety of genre (novels, newspapers, newsletters, internet articles etc)

Activity 2: Spelling
- Learn your words for Friday's test
- Practice them each night for success!

Activity 3: Dragon Maths
Book 4 - 98 'Mean and Range'
Book 5 - 96 'Mean and Range'


Activity 4: Speeches
As well as working on your speech in class, you need to be working on it at home.
Go through your plan with an adult and get them to assist you with some ideas.


Activity 5: Personal Blogs
Your blog must have the following by Friday:
- An introduction/welcome post at the top about you and why your blog is set up
- At LEAST 2 posts about your current learning. 1 post must have a photo or an internet link or a video attached to it.
- An adult comment from home on one of your posts.
- You can add ONLY 1 fun gadget (fish, world map, dogs etc)

                                                             Country Cruiser

This week Room 10 have started a new homework activity called Country Cruiser. Country Cruiser is when two people each week get assigned a letter from A-Z and they have to pick any country from around the world starting with the letter that was chosen for them. They will then make a poster as part of their homework with facts about their chosen country and five questions to ask the class about the facts they have told the class about their country when they present their poster on Friday.

Callum with his Country Cruiser.

By Meg Johnstone.

Click on this link to see an awesome Olympic Ring spectacle:

Olympic Rings on the Thames

Year 7 & 8 Possible Speech Topics:

· Text bullying: Make Cell phones R16.

·     Sport for life – why everyone should play a sport

·     Homework: Should it stay or should it go?

·     The best, worst and most interesting jobs.

·     My Mum or Dad: Contender for Parent of the Year.

·     If I could I would…

·     Why Southland is the best place to live.

·     Why New Zealand is the best country in the world to live.

·     Why boys shouldn’t cry

·     Green (or any colour you choose)

·     The best pet in the world is…

·     How to become fabulously wealthy

·     Boys are cooler than girls and vice versa

·     Parents are aliens

·     Why we should use manners

·     Never judge a book by it’s cover (why face value can be misleading)

James Bond visited Mexico and climbed a Mayan pyramid.

He rested at five-eighths of the way up. Then he climbed another 9 steps and rested again this time he was three-quarters of the way up.

How many steps where there in total???

By Adam Hillis

9X8=Answer

TERM 3 Week 1
- Welcome back to Term 3! 
- We introduce the 'Country Cruiser' (CC) activity to our weekly Homework. If you are the CC of the week - you MUST still do Reading, Spelling and Dragon Maths.
Activity 1: Reading
- You are expected to read for at least 10 mins each night.
- Record your nightly reading in the back of your book.
- Remember to read a variety of genre (novels, newspapers, newsletters, internet articles etc)

Activity 2: Dragon Maths
Book 4 - page 97 and 100
Book 5 - page 99 and 100


Activity 3: Spelling
- You will have spelling words after our Essential List test on Monday. Some of you may only have a few words to learn...depending on how many you get correct in the test! 


Activity 4: Speeches
- You need to have your Speech topic chosen by Friday. It needs to be a PERSUASIVE ARGUMENT where you have to argue your point and persuade the audience of your view point.
- Create a MindMap of your topic in the middle and the main ideas, facts and information you can include around the outside.
- Start finding out facts and information for your speech.


Activity 5: Touch Typing Skills
Check out the cool new gadget added to our blog to improve your touch typing skills. Try and achieve Level 1 this week. The challenge is to keep your fingers on the CORRECT keys!