Museum sleepover - 5th August

On Thursday 5th August Room 6 and 7 travelled by bus to the Otago Museum for a sleep over. When we finally arrived we headed to the Discovery Pad, and then into the butterfly house. I saw all three tarantulas, my favourite was the big hairy one! I enjoyed playing in the new part of Discovery World called Survival World. We had pizza for tea, and then we lined up to explore the museum at night, we ended up in Animal Attic!! I really enjoyed the night walk. Thanks Hamish and all the parents and teachers for helping.

By Jake

Mini Ball Champions!

On Monday 9th August 2010, the Year 3 and 4 Fairfield Flames played Mini Ball at the Memorial Park Stadium. Our team versed Outram Jets in the finals. We were fighting for first and second. The final score was 18 - 14 to us! Zoe scored her second goal for the season.

Thanks to our awesome coach Sue!!!

By Zoe and Isabella

On Tuesday 27 July 2010, Room 6 and Room 7 went to the Tech block to meet Mrs Duggan. Mrs Duggan came down from Christchurch to teach the kids and teachers at Fairfiled School how to draw and shade. We drew a pumpkin, bucket and book. We shaded light and dark with two different pencils.

It was fun!

By Olivia

Learning to draw with Wendy Duggan

On Tuesday July 27, Room 7 and Room 6 went to see Wendy Duggan.  We drew a book, a bucket and a pumpkin.  It is called still life.  We did some planning steps.  We drew a fence which is the outline that helps you to figure out where to put things. 

The hardest part was the shading, we had to shade light and dark.  We used two pencils, an HB and a 6B, the HB is our classroom pencil and it's light, the 6B pencil was Wendy's and they are really dark.  I really enjoyed learning to draw!

By Laura

Yesterday Room 6 and Room 7 went up to the Tech Block to learn to draw.  We met a lady named Wendy Duggan.  She is an artist from Christchurch.  We drew a book, bucket, and one big pumpkin.  We drew slowly step by step, this is called sketching.  I enjoyed it a lot!

By Elliott

Alliteration through the alphabet. By Room 7

Abby ate an apple

Bob broke his boat

Caleb climbed the climbing wall

Danny danced at the disco

Ella eats eleven Easter eggs

Five fat frogs were in the fog

Grey grass grows fast

Holly hates having haircuts

Isabella eskimo is ill

Jolly Jake jumped to Japan

Katie kicked the Kings kittens

Laura loves little lambs

Mickey might migrate

Nice Nicola nodded her head at nine naughty children

Odd Olivia is an octopus

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers

Queen Elizabeth had a quilt

Red ruby rode a racing car

Silly Sam shot seven goals

Terrific Tor tried to teach the teacher

Umbrellas are useful

Victoria went to view the volcano

Window wipers wiggle when they work

Xray

Yellow yummy yoghurt

Zoe zebra zipped her zipper

Alliteration in Room 7

Sneaky snakes slither slowly.

By Danny

The freaky fire formed bigger, the firemen found some fantastic furniture flaming fiercely. 

By Tor

Skye sent some sensible students to see Sue for some stickers.

By Skye

Roshan the Raptor  rode a rhino at rapid speed in Rarotonga. 

By Roshan

Every Easter Ella eats eleven Easter eggs.

By Ella

Our Discovery Days with Room 14!

Cat

Runs away  from  the  visitor  

Leaps  along  the  deck

Creeps  in  the  kitchen  at  night

Balances  on the  brick  wall

Walks  over  the  bedroom  carpet

Shakes the bell on her  collar 

Chases  after  the  toy  mouse

By Bridget

Dog

Leaps off the bed

Digs up the garden

Creeps up on me

Runs after the rubbish man

Scrambles to the cats food

Dashes to the toy bunny

Pounces on the trampoline 

Bites my hand

Slides under my bed

Licks my face!

By Ella

On the 24 of May, Room 7 and Room 14 went on a trip to the Portobello Aquarium. Both classes went by bus, it took a long time to get there. It was raining that day so we had to take our coats. We went there because we were studying animals. I was in Laura's Nanas group with Bridget and Lili. A lady showed us a mystery creature, and then we were split into three groups.

I went to the touch pools first where I saw a star fish try to eat a scallop, but the scallop swam away! It was funny!!

The lady then told us the mystery animal was called a 'snake skin chiton'. I learnt a lot and had a great time!

By Isabella

Hectors World Link!

http://www.hectorsworld.com/island/index.html

Click on this link to watch Hector the Protector and his friends!

Today in the computer lab we watched Hector Protector and his friends. We watched the episode called "Details, Details", which talked about how important it is not to share all of your personal details on line. Personal details means our full name, address, e-mail and telephone number. We also had a wee look around on the map to see all of the fun activities that are on this website.

Then we went into our own blog and learnt how to put a comment on, making sure that we made a comment that was meaningful to the person or thing that we were commenting on. We also only used our nickname or first name at the end of our comment.

We then went on to learn about ComicLife and started making Cyber Safety posters. We will put these on our blog once we have completed these.

Leave a comment Room 7 and tell us something that you learnt about when you watched Hector the Protector.

Strikers Win!

Hi, we are called the Strikers from the Green Island soccer club.  Our coach’s name is Mark.  He is a fantastic coach.  We got our medals for winning a 7 aside tournament on  Saturday 15 of May.  We got 23 goals and the other teams got no goals.  We played 5 different teams.   The teams we played were Grant Braes, Northern, Malchester, Dunedin Tech and Maori Hill.   Our names are Alaistair, Danny, Jack, Samuel and Jake.  We played on our home ground named Sunnyvale.   We are in 8^th grade.   Our sponsor was Flints plumbing and drainage. 

Our KidPix Slideshow on the Circle of Life!

Welcome to Wacky Whales!

Welcome to Rm7 Wacky Whales blog site. We are a fun, energetic class of 22 year 3 children. We are so lucky to have 2 awesome teachers in our room. Miss Tudor teaches reading and writing in the morning, and Ms Lee teaches us maths, topics... in the afternoon. Our class also has a pet fish, her name is Louise, she's a very quiet member of our room.

Danny came up with our fantastic name 'Wacky Whales', he thought it suited us well, and fitted in well with our class inquiry unit on 'animals' and 'the circle of life'.