Jude's Memories of Sunnybrae

Weekly Quiz

How many questions can you answer in the quiz today?

Solar Eclipse

This week there was a Solar Eclipse and for homework we found out what this actually was. Now we know that it happens when the moon moves between the earth and the sun and partially covers the sun from our view. We drew some posters to show how this occurs.

Camp Experiences Part 1

Weekly Quiz

Volleyball in PE

Now we are back from camp normality has returned to Room 12 (or has it?)















For P.E. we are learning the skills required to play volleyball. From the photos you will be able to see we are enjoying this. Whether we are getting any better is yet to be determined!!!!

Have a go at answering the questions ...

Our Assembly

Week 10 Quiz

Visit from a Paralympian

Last week the Senior Syndicate were visited by a real Paralympian - Gary McMurray. He represented NZ in wheelchair rugby and won a bronze and gold medal. He spoke to us about how he was injured and how it has affected his life. Then he told us about his Olympic experience. We all felt he was inspirational and many of us will now set our own goals and strive to achieve them.

 

 

We wrote letters to thank Gary for visiting and included some of our thoughts and feelings ....

"The most interesting part was when you told us about being in hospital and how you had to wear a metal headband around your head with bullets to hold it in place. I felt really sad for you and probably everyone else did too.... You also inspired me to follow my dreams and even though you may get injured this should not stop you." (Meleseini)

"The whole time you were there I was hooked! You have given me inspiration to chase my dreams no matter what stands in my way. The words on the board gave me even more inspiration; success, challenging and attitude....I hope you can visit Sunnybrae soon and see how we have used your inspirational words." (Esther)

"My most favourite part was seeing your medals and touching them. The most interesting part was when we saw you wheelchair. I loved how it had tiny wheels at the back to stabilize the chair and allow it to turn sharply." (Nikki)

"We have learned a lot from you like treating people with problem the way you would like to be treated and how you can still work towards goals even if you are injured. The most important message you gave us is to never give up and never stop doing what you enjoy." (Angus)

 "I was very excited to see you because you won a medal in the Paralympic Games. You have helped me closer to my dreams of being an Gold medalist in the Olympics with your words challenge, success, and attitude." (Rachel)

"I learned that no matter what you can still do what you love...You are my paralympian inspiration." (Melefa)

"What I thought was the most interesting was your medals. The best one was from Sydney as Sydney is one of my favourite city's. What I learned was to always keep a good attitude and to challenge myself. Something to aim for would be smarter, faster, stringer and higher." (Losa)

Cross Country Success

Well done to all the children who represented the school in the cluster cross country. Biggest congratulations to Rachel and Angus who won their race and to Juwon who came second.

Week 7 Quiz

Farewell from Room 12

Today we farewell 2 very special people.

Amy has been a student in our class this term. We have loved having you visit Amy and wish you lots of good times when you return to China.

Miss Spencer has been in Room 12 on and off for most of this year and has been teaching us full time in Term 3. We have learned so much whilst she has been with us and will all miss her when she leaves today. Next year Miss Spencer will have her own class and the children in her class will be very lucky having such a lovely teacher.

Paralympics by Jude

Weekly Quiz

How many answers do you know this week?

Sunnybrae Olympics day

NZ Maths Week

This week New Zealand is celebrating maths week!
 
Teachers, children and parents may access the webpage www.mathsweek.org.nz which can be used at school and home. Make use of this webpage during maths week, earn dollars, complete problem solving activities, challenge yourself!

Sunnybrae Normal School will also be celebrating maths week with fun daily challenges and lunchtime activities involving construction, problems and maths puzzles and games.

There is also a Maths evening on Tuesday where parents and children can come along and see how we learn maths at our school

Maths Riddles

How many maths riddles can you solve??

1. If it takes 10 people 10 days to dig a hole, how long will it take 5 people to dig half a hole?

2. A farmer had 17 sheep. All but nine died. How many does he have left?

3. Take 2 apples from 3 apples and what do you have?

4. Some months have 30 days and some have 31. How many have 28?

5. If you went to bed at 8pm and set the alarm for 9 in the morning, how many hours of sleep would you get?

Handball Rocks

More 'Definitions' from Room 12

Week 4 Quiz

See how many questions you can answer this week?

Maths Games on Kiwi Kids News

Kiwi Kids News Games Link

Go to this site and play some of the maths games. This term you should be checking out those to do with Time, Temperature, Length, Perimeter, Area and also Fractions, Ratios. Let your classmates know the games you think are the best to reinforce maths learning in the classroom.

Define 'Olympics'

We have been writing definitions for key words to do with the Olympic Games.
Thomas wrote this definition for 'Olympics'. Where do you think it fits on the SOLO rubric?

Weekly Quiz

Long Vowel Sounds

Last term we were looking at some spelling patterns that are used to make the vowel sounds in words. Here are some examples of the Long Vowel Sounds.

Olympic Homework

Today we began thinking about the Olympic Games. We had to think about what we already knew about this event. The words we came up with were combined in a wordle.

Early in Term 2 Room 12 learned about ANZAC Day and after this thought about war in general.
We wrote poems that created images for the reader.
Some of these are below ....

WAR

by George

Black smoke fills the air

Repeated red and white explosions

A whole country-side full of white ashes

Men’s lives are shattered

Fear embeds itself into a man’s heads

When will it end?

Can we survive the horror to come?

WAR POEM

by Hayden S

Lonesome in the pitch black night

Every time a gun goes off,

you get the biggest fright of your life.

All you can do for fun is to

sharpen your knife or clean your gun.

War is stupid!

War is bad!

Most people lose everything they had!

War is greedy.

Makes people needy

for food and water.

Save their son and daughter,

their wife and also their own life.

BEFORE THE WAR

by Ha young

It was blue sky before the war.

There was green grass before the war.

There were yellow flowers before the war.

There was red fruit in the trees before the war.

There were green plants before the war.

There were brown trees before the war.

There were many white houses before the war.

There were many people before the war.

WHEN THE WAR STARTED EVERYTHING TURNED THE OPPOSITE!

LIFE AT WAR

by Ellisha

War is bloody, full with dull colours.

War drapes its pain on everyone.

Mushy, squishy, dirty clothes and rats

creatures you have never known.

War is frightening, scared with fear.

It spreads its pollution everywhere

No swimming pools or bouncy balls,

Just a gun, it’s not much fun.

 

It’s a nightmare come true

But at least I am fighting for you

I just wish that angel wings

Would come and drape themselves on me.

In my head I picture me at home with my family

But no, I’m not there with the birds and the bees

I’m squished up in a trench

Like a bird in a nest.

WAR POEM

by Sam P

War is hard and very bad

War is emotional and very sad

War is the horror of them all

Oh Grandad, forget the war and let’s play ball

The smoke of bombs, fill the air

With shells flying everywhere

Men are dying all around me

Oh family, save me from war and let’s play ball

The stench of Bully Beef fills my nose

All the soldiers share a pose

I’m glad to be going home

Come on Sam, time to go back and play ball.

Jarrod and Isaac share their current event ..

Esther and Nikki share 'Catch of the Day!!'

News Broadcast from Jude and Sam

Campbell Live

Listen to You Seok and Tabitha present 'Campbell Live'. These two may end up on TV as they are pretty good. What do you think?

Thomas Live .... News

This week we presented our current events as a though we were presenting the news. Listen to Thomas Live. Do you think he will be on the TV one day?

Jump Jam

Two days a week we take part in Jump Jam for fitness.
As you can see we all love this activity and everyone joins in, including the teachers. The music is really great and the dance moves are tricky but fun. When it is fine we get to do this outside and there is lots more room. Keeping fit and active whilst having fun id the best.

Music Class

Listen to Room 12's original composition then tell us what you think about it?

Homeward Bound by Jarrod

 Dear Diary

I woke to hear my cobber saying that we were going home. It was the best news since my family wrote to me. We started to pack straight away and then we went to the boat. Everyone is happy to be going back to NZ. We have just set sail. I hope that I can make it back in time for my son’s birthday on the 1st of May. My family will be expecting me to be back then.

 

Week 4 Quiz

Term 2 Week 2

ANZAC DAY by Tabitha

Tabitha prepared a slide show about ANZAC Day and presented this to the class.

You Seok's Holiday

The Best Holiday Ever In the holidays I went to Queenstown to do a Korean speech about what I want to be when I grow up. I came 2nd in NZ. If I came 1st I would have gone to America .... but I was also too young. At least I tried my best. I was the youngest there. They say that the next competition will be in Auckland. I want to do it next time and come 1st. I have always dreamed of going to AMERICA!!!

Tryathalon Poems

During Term 1 we took part in the school tryathalon, either individually or as a team. Our class did very well with Liam winning the boys and Ellisha the girls. After the event we decided to write acrostic poems and here are some we published using pages or kidpix.

Which publishing style do you like the best?