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

Room 7 Warriors

This afternoon the students in Room 7 have been working hard on their items for cultural festival tomorrow. 

Not only have the students been practicing in their cultural groups, but we will also be performing two class items at tomorrow evening. 

The boys have been practicing a Haka while the girls have created a dance. 
We hope to see lots of whānau tomorrow to celebrate the students hard work with us!

Congratulations Bloggers!

Every month in Room 7 we celebrate our top blogger. We have a blogger of the month wall where a picture of the winning blog is displayed.


Last month, Linda Kiki and Luisa took part in the Winter Learning Journey, which involved blogging over the holidays. They also actively blogged during the term.

Linda Kiki won second place for the Winter Learning Journey.

As they both blogged 51 times in July, the girls won our blogger of the month. To celebrate, they recieved a prize each and Miss Stone created an infographic for them that displayed information about their blogs.

Cook Island Language Week!

This week we have been celebrating Cook Islands Language Week.   This years theme is "Kia ariki au i toku tupuranga, ka ora uatu rai toku reo" or To embrace my heritage, my language lives on. 

In Room 7, we split into groups and each studied a different island. We then used this knowledge to create a slide on  a shared slideshow.



We then made a video with our Cook Island students, to show them sharing their language.