Soccer Triumph

Seems like the All Whites glory has caught on here in Room 7. Today we faced the strong Room 10 team in our first round of the Inter class football competition. There are three rounds, one round is for boys, another girls and the last one is a combination team. After a spine tingling first round from the boys who drew we had to watch the nerve wrenching girls game. We managed to draw with them too thanks to some handy footwork by Steph Blackford!

Crunch time came, the last round. With two draws whoever won this round would make it through to the next stage. We played really well and ended up scoring the first goal. The rest of the game saw a lot of close calls from Room 10 attack but we held them off to win 1-0.

CONGRATULATIONS, what a cool class room 7 is!

We face our neighbours Room 8 in the next round next week!

Aliysha Visits the Gold Coast

Aliysha was lucky enough to take some time off school to visit the Gold Coast.
Have a look at some of the things she got to do!

Disco Fever!

Last Thursday evening the Tawa Intermediate Hall hosted the Syndicate Pride Disco. Those who attended dressed in their syndicate colours and danced the night away.
George and Dominic proved quite the Shufflers by showing the whole school their moves. Dominic and Kerstin also won prizes for best dressed.
Here is some evidence of the night, turns out dancing can win hearts! :P

George and Jenna

Kerstin, Grace and Olivia

Mr V and Andy's Friends (Andy at the end)

George and Charlie Shuffling up a Storm

Wild Self

In Room 7 for writing we have been focusing on using descriptive language. To help us to remember to use lots of adjectives we were asked to create our wild self. We used a website called

www.buildyourwildself.com

Once we had created our wild self we used the picture to create a fake dating profile for wild crazy people. Here is what we had to include on our profile page

-Personal Info (age, sex, weight height, disfigurements etc)

-Hobbies

-Create a name for the website

-A description on what type of person they are looking for.

-Description of their looks

-Reason as to how they became deformed.

-Written description of their Ideal first date.

Here are some examples of what some of our stars have achieved! Click on the image to enlarge it! Check out Amy as her wild self.

Continent Goal

Our new goal is to get a view from every single continent!
It is up to our family and friends to help us with this goal. If you know anybody who lives in
South America and Asia please get them to view our blog! It will be awesome if someone knew anyone in Antarctica.

It is also a bit of a competition between classes so lets get promoting. First one to get someone to view our blog from Andorra wins a prize!

Cross Country-Descriptive Writing

In room 7 Mr V has given us a special writing task. He has told us to write a description of the cross country from our point of view.
What we HAD to include:

-Show don’t tell -Descriptive language e.g. adverbs, adjectives, similes, metaphors etc -Correct Capital Letters and Full stops. -Try to include a conversation with speech marks.

This is a little bit of what I wrote.

My heart was pounding as we, the year 8 girls, lined up to tackle the Tawa Intermediate School cross country. I knew that no matter how hard I tried I would not be 1st. “Jess Kerr is just too fast” was all that was going through my head while Mr O’ C’ was telling us the instructions.
Mr O C’s yelling cut through my thoughts. “You have to remember that the first few seconds aren’t going to win you the honor of first place, so don’t trample anyone trying to get to the front of the pack. Ready, GOOOO!!!” He yelled.

We were off! As I ran past Mr V he yelled “C’mon Grace! Every person you pass is another point for rm7!” Round the block we went before running the actual course. I ran past at least 3 people on the block run. “I’ve made it past the block run, now for the big one” was all that was going through my head at the time. Up the hill and down the other side and again over the next hill. My breath was going in and out in big whooshing gasps.

My chest was on fire (or at least it seemed that it was) as I turned the corner to go back through the tunnel to school. “I hope I’m in the top 10. I hope I’m in the top 10”. My thoughts were muddling up in my mind.
Concentrating on the path, I ran my last few metres, passing someone as I went. By then my legs were numb so I couldn’t stop them from going faster than I ever have before. In through the channel I went. Finally I came to a stop right in front of Mrs Stewart. I took the ticket politely from her hand and looked at it. “7th Place! Last year I only got 14th!” I was so excited. I sat down in the middle of the courts and sighed. I had worked hard and got the result I was looking for, and only 1 other thought passed through my head that day; “I’m DONE!!!”
By Grace Burt



Overall our class did awesome, we came 6th in the class competition and our syndicate came 2nd in the syndicate competition! We had lots of people finish in the top 20!
Well Done!

Cool Brain Test

1- Find the C below...do not use any cursor help.

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2- If you already found the C, now find the 6 below.

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3 - Now find the N below. It's a little more difficult.

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMNMM
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
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MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

This is NOT a joke. If you were able to pass these three tests, you can cancel your annual visit to your neurologist. Your brain is great!

Joe's awesome achievement!

Jody Van Straaten has just won an award for model making. Here is what he wrote.

One of my hobbies is modeling. Modeling is building a replica of a vehicle/person/object etc... You can buy a kit that contains plastic pieces that you have to glue together then paint. My Dad and I usually do this when my Dad gets home from work and my little brother and sister are asleep. I entered my LAV 150 in a contest and won 1st place. This is what I won and below is what I built.

CONGRATULATIONS JOE! It is awesome to see what we achieve outside the classroom as well. If you would like your achievements shown email me some pictures and I will post them up!