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!