Technology

At technology term 1 room 30 made dragons with Mr Rankin. We had so much fun!
Room 30 could bring empty toilet rolls from home to make the head of the dragon.
The body of the dragon is made out of material and the tail is made out of felt.
1.We first cut a little bit of material then we started to rip the rest apart.
2.We got our body and had our dragons background as white.
3.Room 30 used special glue to make it stay there.
4.Then we had to iron it so it won't come of.
5.Then room 30 filled it with stuffing.
6.After that we cut out the toilet rolls into some teeth for the head.We cut out half of another toilet roll.
7.Then room 30 pocked a pin thru to make a hole so a skewer can fit thru the holes so you can holed it.
8.After that room 30 had to stitch on some botton's.
9.If you had time you were aloud to colour in the heads of our dragon's.
10.Then the next morning Miss Lankow had out the hot glue-gun to stick on the eyes.In side the eyes were a black dot that could move around.

By Lauren

How we tried to crash Google Apps!

Today we tried to crash Google Apps!  It didn't work!

Miss L gave us a challenge.  We had a document to fill in with our ideas about how to connect with each other.  Everybody was typing at the same time and you could see it all happening on the activboard.  We could also see it happening on our laptops.

We had a few stuff ups when people accidentally deleted other people's ideas, but it all worked out in the end.

From this we have learnt...

• don't try to crash Google Apps - it doesn't work!
• some more ideas for connecting with each other
• patience - we had to wait when somebody else was typing in the box we wanted to type in
• how to use a document when others are also using it

By the end of the year we will be experts!

Room 30's Day Out in Birkenhead

Dear Room 30

Once again you have made me proud.

Today we went to the Birkenhead Leisure Centre where we all enjoyed team building, kayaking and archery.  Although I didn't get to participate in the activities - and believe me, I wanted to, it looked like so much fun - I had a great day watching you all.

Standing down by the pool I saw some of you conquering your fears.  I know that for a few of you, the thought of getting into the kayak and being pushed out into the pool was terrifying.  But every single one of you overcame that fear and I have photos of the smiles on your faces to prove it!

It was wonderful to see you working together in the team building activities.  It must have been tricky running around when you were attached to somebody else during chain tag.  I really like the way you helped each other so that everybody succeeded.

Watching the archery, I saw perseverance.  For most of you it was the first time you had held a bow and arrow.  I saw arrows that kept falling off and others that were firing in the wrong direction.  (Thank you for not hitting me!)  But nobody gave up and that makes me proud.

I had a fabulous day.  I know you did too.  Enjoy these photos that I took and we'll talk about all your experiences on Monday!

Your teacher,
Miss L

Oral language

In Room 30, we have been doing oral language and today Sienna was doing her presentation.  She talked about her family, her house and her ballet.

Everybody needs to have a turn at oral language.  This means they create a poster or slideshow to share with us.

All About Maths

Room 30 is crazy about maths. Do you know that we are so crazy that at math today we did math in the hall.It was all about measuring people jumping. Before we went in the hall we glued in a worksheet then we went in the hall and started measuring.

We worked in a group of four to estimate and measure each other's jumps.  There were two different jumps.  One was feet together, so you had to jump with two feet glued together.  The other one you had to run and jump.

We hope to do more fun stuff like measuring in the year.

Environment Duty Is Fun!

Environment duty is helping our world, saving nature and to keep us healthy. Even though most people, (children,) don't like tidying or picking up rubbish, it can be fun. Picking up rubbish can be like an adventure. You could pretend to be a rubbish aircraft, soaring across the sky, picking up nothing  but... rubbish! But you could turn into whatever you want.                                        

From Vir and Alex H

The value of respect

In room 30 we have read a book about Abraham Lincoln's life and how life is all about respect.  In our book we learnt about slavery and how only dark skinned people had to be the slaves.   In this book Abe was poor but he was happy with his family and friends.   When Abe was a year older Abe and his sister Sarah went to school because their mother said that nobody would respect them if they didn't go to school.   Then when Abe was older a rich farmer asked if he could  go down to New Orleans with the farmers son.   
Then when Abe and Allen went to sleep  river bandits came luckily Abe woke up and he woke up Allen then they fought and Abe and Allen won so the river bandits went and didn't come back.   Then when Abe and Allen got to New Orleans and when they turned the corner Abe saw a very sad sight he saw a slave market.   
He said to Allen "those black people are human beings they deserve respect".   Then when Abe returned home he said to his friends and family that he was going to get a job.   First Abe headed to Salem he got job there and when Abe had finished his shifts he would read tones of books about being a lawyer.  
 Three years later Abe became a lawyer later on that year he had a wife and three children.    Then there was another election and Abe entered to stop slavery. The people thought Abe would be good at being the president so they voted for him. A little while later Abe became the president. After a little while there was a civil war .

Room 30's passport

Room 30 have been drawing a passport cover on a paper.

On the paper we draw a picture and our names also our country names.We haved drawed stamps in

 our passport the stamps is about what new things that we learned.In our passport we glued our 

mathletics password and our username.

These are Room 30's passports.

Cricket

On Wednesday 5 March Room30 played cricket with a lady called Amy. First what we did was caught some balls and learnt that you never catch balls with crocodile hands because you can break your  fingers.We split into 6 groups to hit some balls with some bats. At the very end we played a game of fielders and batters of corse the batters won because we took for ever to get the ball.

Jump jam

On Thursday 6 March Room 30 went to the hall for jump jam. The first song we did was move it like this, the second song we did was ketch up song and the third song was the haka song.Lots of people got house points when they were dancing like us. One of the middle school kids was the best in jump jam.