At the moment for Availll we are watching Bridge To Terabithia. On the first day we did Take a dictionary to the movies. For that we are in groups and we have a letter each. The student assistants would pause the movie and then they would call out a letter. The persons who's letter was called out would look up the hardest word on the screen in the dictionary. The next activity was surprise subtitles. The student assistants pause the movie and we have to write down the subtitle we last saw on the screen.
We will be finishing Bridge To Teribithia this Thursday.
By Kate B
Wednesday, 22 June 2011
Tuesday, 21 June 2011
New library books
Today we got our new library books. There were lots of interesting ones. Mrs Townshend got them out for us. We each had to choose one book. I chose Sam Silverthorn, I still haven't started the book yet. There were lots of different types of books, funny ones, scary ones, serious ones, and lots of other ones. We are all looking forward to personal writing time.
Tomas
Tomas
Earthquake poster
We decided to make a earthquake poster when Miss Mac was teaching us on Wednesday and Thursday. We got pictures off the Internet - Christchurch looked very bad with the liquefaction. There was a picture of a mercedes suck in liquefaction. We feel really sorry for all of the people in Christchurch.
Georgia and Kaitlyn
Georgia and Kaitlyn
Wednesday, 15 June 2011
On Shaking Ground
Recently, Canterbury has been feeling some more aftershocks. On Monday 13th June at 1.00 there was a 5.5 magnitude aftershock/earthquake felt by some of the students at Dorie School. At that time, the YR 7 & 8's were at manual and also felt the shake.
Following the 5.5, there was a 6.0 magnitude shake as well. The 6.0 was felt all in Christchurch and even down in Dunedin & Invercargill. These earthquakes caused more destruction to Christchurch, and some of the effects were similar to the 22nd February.
Also, on the morning of Wednesday 15th June, there was another 5.5 magnitude aftershock, felt by some residents of Dorie.
By Annabel
Following the 5.5, there was a 6.0 magnitude shake as well. The 6.0 was felt all in Christchurch and even down in Dunedin & Invercargill. These earthquakes caused more destruction to Christchurch, and some of the effects were similar to the 22nd February.
Also, on the morning of Wednesday 15th June, there was another 5.5 magnitude aftershock, felt by some residents of Dorie.
By Annabel
Tuesday, 14 June 2011
Wheels Everywhere!!
Today is Wheels Day!! Everybody brought things with wheels, from suitcases to measuring wheels!! Everybody was split into 7 groups then given an activity to start with.
Faiz and Annabel's group started with decorating a bike. You have 10 minutes to use items given (streamers, balloons, etc.) to decorate a bike of your team member. You had to decorate so it was creative and looked awesome! Mrs. Townshend then took a photo when you were finished. The winners were judged by either creativity or teamwork.
Joseph and Harriet's group did the slot car with Mr. Lucas and had some very exciting races! The finals were very intense. We thank Mr. Lucas very much for bringing in his slot cars and slot car track.
Nicholas and Kate's group went to bike races and scooter races with Ms. Reader. Lots of people enjoyed racing others and showing how fast they can go.
Kaitlyn and Zabina's group started on making delicious pinwheels and cheese rolls with Miss A. We all had to make sure our hands were throughly washed before we started. I'm sure we all can't wait to eat them!!
Olivia and Timothy's group began the morning with tyre races out on the field. We all had very intense races with others in our group. When we had finished we all had cold, wet and grass covered hands!!
Tomas and Thea's group kicked off with hoops at the court with Ms. Walls. We had some very tricky warm up activities that all got our brains thinking. We then passed the hoops to each other and did other things with hoops.
Georgia and Juan started with the obstacle course which the seniors had set up earlier that morning. The obstacle course included 2 teams versing each other. You have to zig-zag between cones then go other some dodgy jumps.
Overall Wheels Day was really fun and we had a great time. Lets hope we do it again next year, and we thank all the teachers for supervising the events and making Wheels Day happen.
Olivia & Thea
Faiz and Annabel's group started with decorating a bike. You have 10 minutes to use items given (streamers, balloons, etc.) to decorate a bike of your team member. You had to decorate so it was creative and looked awesome! Mrs. Townshend then took a photo when you were finished. The winners were judged by either creativity or teamwork.
Joseph and Harriet's group did the slot car with Mr. Lucas and had some very exciting races! The finals were very intense. We thank Mr. Lucas very much for bringing in his slot cars and slot car track.
Nicholas and Kate's group went to bike races and scooter races with Ms. Reader. Lots of people enjoyed racing others and showing how fast they can go.
Kaitlyn and Zabina's group started on making delicious pinwheels and cheese rolls with Miss A. We all had to make sure our hands were throughly washed before we started. I'm sure we all can't wait to eat them!!
Olivia and Timothy's group began the morning with tyre races out on the field. We all had very intense races with others in our group. When we had finished we all had cold, wet and grass covered hands!!
Tomas and Thea's group kicked off with hoops at the court with Ms. Walls. We had some very tricky warm up activities that all got our brains thinking. We then passed the hoops to each other and did other things with hoops.
Georgia and Juan started with the obstacle course which the seniors had set up earlier that morning. The obstacle course included 2 teams versing each other. You have to zig-zag between cones then go other some dodgy jumps.
Overall Wheels Day was really fun and we had a great time. Lets hope we do it again next year, and we thank all the teachers for supervising the events and making Wheels Day happen.
Olivia & Thea
Topic of transport
For our topic we have been learning how transport can ship and truck around the world to transport objects that could be sold. We have been doing scenarios of what we would do if we had to ship and truck things around the world. So we had to print out copies of maps and search up the places where we need to go. We had six teams and there was a captain Geo, super symbolist mishearing magicians and gadget cadet. So we will Sherie them at the assembly. From Timothy and Nicholas
Winter Sport Practice
Coming up soon is the Mid Canterbury Winter sports tournament. Every school around the district will compete in many different sports. Every Friday we have practice with our principal Ms Walls. We are going to put in teams for netball and hockey. The boys are angry that we don't get to play rugby and soccer. Last year the hockey and netball teams got in the top five. We hope we do well this year.
Joseph and Clark
Joseph and Clark
Wednesday, 8 June 2011
Leadership Day
On Wednesday the 1st of June the Year 7 and 8's went to a leadership day in Christchurch. It is a day where all the students from around Canterbury go to listen to many different speakers.
The first speaker we had was Pat Buckley. He talked about making the right decisions. Then we had Allison Mooney. She talked about how every ones personality is different. Our third speaker was Adam Hall who is a paralimpic skier. He talked about when he won his gold medal and how he achieved it.
The we had Christian Cullen. He said, you don't have to follow your friends. Then we had Jason Gunn, he was so funny and he talked about how he got his job as a television presenter.
It was an awesome day and we should go next year.
By Kate B
The first speaker we had was Pat Buckley. He talked about making the right decisions. Then we had Allison Mooney. She talked about how every ones personality is different. Our third speaker was Adam Hall who is a paralimpic skier. He talked about when he won his gold medal and how he achieved it.
The we had Christian Cullen. He said, you don't have to follow your friends. Then we had Jason Gunn, he was so funny and he talked about how he got his job as a television presenter.
It was an awesome day and we should go next year.
By Kate B
Tuesday, 7 June 2011
Wheels day
Next week on Thursday we are having a Wheels Day to celebrate the end of our topic. We are going to have tyre races and we also are having Mrs Townshend dad with racing cars and obstacle courses. We are going to send a form home to kids to sign what they are bringing so then we can have races. We had to come up with some good ideas then we write them up on the whiteboard and if we had some more ideas we had come to the board and write them down.
Kaitlyn and Georgia
Wednesday, 1 June 2011
AVAILLL
Yesterday we started ReadWatching a new movie called Holes. Our activity was called Next Word Hunt. We had to look for all of the 'my something' words and write it down. We were put into teams and the winning team gets to get a few minutes extra break time. Annabel's team won! Zabina got 24 'my' words right! We are really enjoying it - the activities are really cool and exciting.
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