Beach Day to finish the year

With the choir heading off to perform at the Pier, Room 7 (plus Toby, Jak, Thomas and Seth from Room 8) took our lunch down to the beach. Regan won our beach flags, and the sack races didn't work too well because some of the sacks had holes in the end of them!!

Our 'sand structure' creations showed great original ideas, and there was even one that looked like a pupil from our class!

Thanks to all our helpers who came along and got sand between their toes. 

Grant's surprise shared lunch!

I was working in the school office today when Stella came over to say that Aroha needed me over to the classroom to help her with something.  Imagine what a surprise I had waiting for me when I popped over and found a room full of parents (and children, of course!!), waiting to jump out at me!

My lovely lot had been planning a farewell shared lunch, and presented me with some lovely presents - tau ke!!

Kia ora Room 7 whanau!

Room 7 X-Factor auditions

These are some of our contestants, trying their best to show us their 'X' factor!

Unfortunately, the clip of our winner (Ryan B) playing his guitar and singing is not loading onto the blog, so we cannot see his awesome effort - sorry Ryan.

Who has been looking at our Blog??

As a point of interest (well, for me anyway!), here is a summary of where people have been looking at our blog from since it was created earlier this year.The number refers to how many times our Blog has been accessed from that place.

New Zealand     726

United States        28

France                 19

Slovakia               19

Russia                    8

United Kingdom     7

Germany                6

Czech Republic      3

Japan                     2

Slovenia                 2
Australia                 1

Your homework challenge for this week is to find these places on the globe, and to tell me what each country's capital city is. As I am only asking this question on the blog, I will only be awarding prizes to those who email me their answers!! grant@freeville.school.nz

Grooving to the beats at QEII gymnastics

When we head over to QEII on Tuesday afternoons, this is how we warm up before starting our gymnastics work.

Jamie Oliver in schools

Have a look at the 'Links' page for Jamie's presentation to TED.

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Our Day at the A&P Show

Click here to read about our leapfrogging on www.stuff.co.nz

Leap frog line-up!

Here we all are, lined up in Row 13 and ready to let our frogs do the leaping!
Do you recognise any of us??

Here we are, just 24 of us in the middle of 1325 children from lots of Canterbury schools... Go Freeville!!

What a nuisance - I didn't check Brandon's camera when I borrowed it from Room 3.. and it didn't have any batteries!! Grrrrrr....

Wow, it was 26 degrees at the Show. Luckily Abby, Maison, Amelia and Maddison were all able to find some shade at lunch time! (Nice sunnies!!)

 

Here are the leapfroggers in action! Tetairawhiti has taken the lead with a MASSIVE leap... Go Tetai!

Our class project to 'Express Oursleves'

Here is an excerpt from a presentation Room 7 researched, prepared and is about to present to the school council. It is about how we want to look after our school, how we think our school should look, our rights and responsibilities as students at Freeville, and how we think we can help encourage the other students at Freeville to look after our school too.

Unfortunatley there were a few absences on the day of filming, but we all worked on this together - as a whole class - to express ourselves.

Earthquake Stories

On Saturday morning at 4:30 my dad got me out of bed and my dad said are you alright and I said yes I am alright and then my dad said to me go in mum’s bed and we do not have any power and mum and dad used their phone to see.

On Saturday I was in my bed, watching a movie. When the earthquake happened my Dad ran into my bedroom and grabbed me. One of the pots fell off and smashed on the lino. My Nana and Grandad were holding each other and their tv almost smashed. The power cut off. My Dad was scared but I thought it was cool. The power turned on again. I thought it was the wind. I went to sleep in my Dad’s room.

When the earthquake happened I was crying. After the earthquake finished I went into my Mum's bed and my Dad went into my sister's bed [Chelsea] and I couldn’t get back to sleep. The next day we went and gave some clothes to the homeless people. I felt good.

When the earthquake happened I did not do anything, until Mum told me to get under a table. I did that but I would not come out. Four days later I moved to Casebrook. I am staying there for a few months.

When the earthquake came at 4:30am, my Dad and Brother and Mum woke me up, and I said, “What is that?’’ Dad said, "It’s the earthquake." Then my Dad said, “Go to Ed’s room and sleep there.” My Dad went to get the emergency light. Then we went back to sleep.

When the earthquake came on Saturday morning, I was in bed and Dad came  into my room. He tried to get me out of  bed and  I said "I can’t see", because it was dark. I felt scared because it felt like strong wind.

On Saturday morning at 4.30am there was a gigantic earthquake. It shook my whole house. I started to scream because I did not know what it was. I thought it was a train on the road that had come off the railway track, although there are no railway tracks outside my house. Only a few glasses, a frame and a temperature thing broke; nothing else. Tyson my dog was so quiet. He was just sitting up in his cage looking around…

When the earthquake happened I was asleep, and then Mum said, “Earthquake, get the kids!" So Mum went to get me and my baby brother and Dad went to get my big brother and his friend. After the big 'quake I did not go back to sleep because I was in shock. My Nanna came to my place and then Nathaniel's friend's Mum came to pick Mitchell up, and then my Auntie came to my house and my other Auntie and two cousins came too.