Medtech Trip!

Today Room 7 traveled to the city to experience the Medtech exhibition in silo 6. This is an interactive exhibition that focuses on bio-engineering - focusing on how medicine and technology combine.

We were split up into groups of 6, we rotated around the silos to learn about different areas of the body and different areas of bio-engineering. Check out some of our favorite activities!

In this exhibition, we had to make music with different parts of our body. In this picture, Dora is holding a sensor that makes music as she moves her arm.

In a different area, the volunteers were showcasing an app that let you see inside the body (as long as you were wearing a particular t-shirt). There was also an opportunity to perform a virtual operation to remove an appendix in this room!

In another room the students were able to make slime using different chemicals.They also got to try to make a container that could hold kinetic sand - which wasn't as easy as it seemed!         

However, our favourite room was one where we got to use our bodies in different ways. We used our balance to play a computer game, measured the height of a jump while wearing weights and created art while cycling!

Using balance to steer in the game

Adding paint to the wheel

 

Our artwork

Lorraine and Courtney have been learning about music in South Africa in the 1950s. Here is the their presentation about their research.

Healthy Shared Lunch

Today we had a whole school shared lunch in the hall. Each class made a different healthy dish and we made enough for each child (and some whanau) to try a piece of each.

In Room 7, we turned our classroom into a kitchen in the morning and created around 100 sandwiches, which we cut up so that everyone could try at least half a sandwich each. These were a great hit with the students and completely ran out by the end of the shared lunch!

Well done to all of the students who put in a great effort to ensure that the sandwiches were finished in time.

Miami and Melenaite have been researching South Africa in the 1930s. They looked into music as well as historical events happening in that time frame. They created a Google presentation to show what they learnt.

The Haunting

This term all of the students in Room 7 are completing novel studies. To help us select chapter books to read, some of the students completed reviews of books that interested them. Check out Dallas' book review of The Haunting.

Book review of The Haunting by Margaret Mahy.

This book  is about a boy name Barney and he thinks that seeing ghost is normal for him. He started seeing ghost when he was a young boy and he thought that seeing ghost is like when you fall off a bike or fall on the ground and cry. My favourite part of The Haunting book was  when the boy Barney thought he was getting close to death. I like this book because it is scary and has a lot of details about the boy and what is happening in the book.  

I think someone that is interested and loves to read scary horror books would enjoy this book.  I think I would tell people that like horror to read this story.

I rated this book 5 out of 5 because when I started reading through the first chapter it was interesting and then when I got to the middle of the chapter it was explaining what was happening to the boy.

   

Room Seven Survivors

This week in writing  Miss Stones group have been writing survival stories. The students were able to think very deeply about their survival scenarios and each wrote a very different story.


Here is a snippet of Luisa's story "Shark Attack"

Bethany, fought for her life, struggling to get free from the monstrous sea creature. A destructive pain urged through Bethany’s body, red velvet liquid flowed through the seawater, disintegrating very quickly. She kicked violently and was set free, she was able to reach the surface of the sea, struggling to swim. There was no sight of the cold-blooded creature, but in that case there was also no feeling of her right arm. Bethany blared horrendously in pain and in disturbance attracting the creature towards her. She glared back as kilometres between the creature and her became metres. Kicking her pale feet urgently made her more visible to the creature, besides the amount of blood that was flowing continuously much like a mini waterfall.

Check out the opening of Courtney's story about Terrorism

It was barely dawn when Ben woke up to the sounds of heavy footsteps and loud thuds coming from the room below him. Ben didn't recognised the heavy footsteps and he knew his family wouldn't risk being so loud in the middle of the night of the fear of being caught by people they didn't want attention from. So using his wits he left the warmth of his blankets and crawled onto the cold wooden floor to the other side of the room where the door of his closet was. As he was about to hide in his closet Ben hesitated “I need to warn mum and dad” he thought to himself .  

Sam's story again was very different - he wrote about Naruto!

“OUCH?!?!” Naruto got a hard punch from Minato. “ What’d you do that for” Naruto said.“You did the Jutsu all wrong, you're supposed to use Rotation, Force and more Focus”. Naruto kept training hard so he could master the Jutsu called the Rasen-Shuriken. Naruto was so happy until the village was attacked by a strong group called THE AKATSUKI.  

Being Sunsmart at Glenbrae

Glenbrae school is a Sunsmart school. As part of being a Sunsmart school all students and teachers have to wear hats when they are outside in Term 1 and Term 4. Every class also has sun screen for students and teachers to apply before leaving the classroom.

Why is it important to be Sunsmart?

Because skin cancers are the most common form of cancers in New Zealand.  The incidence of melanoma skin cancer is among the highest in the world. 

Sunsmart students Mateaki, Taki and Hemi

Sun exposure to the sun makes us vulnerable to skin cancer. The more we cover and stay in the shade the less chances we have of developing skin cancer.

Hats and sunscreen before heading outside

The White Mouse

This week Weka have been reading a book called The White Mouse by Leon Davidson. One of the create activities was to make a storyboard of the main characters journey through World War Two.

Check out Alfred's storyboard below