Room 10

Term three in rm10

This term we are taking part in the school dodge ball tournament; we have practised hard and intensely and have a pretty good chance at beating some of the other classes. This term we have also taken part in the KOS (Keeping Ourselves Safe) program we have learnt a lot about different types of abuse like emotional and physical abuse we have also learnt about what to do if it happens to us. Such as, talking to a counsellor, calling the police or kids line or telling someone else you trust about it so that they can help put a stop to it. Abuse is also NEVER the victims fault.

In maths we have worked on fractions, ratios and percentages and have done our PAT tests. As a class we are reading the novel "Tomorrow When the War Began” by John Marsden. Miss Siefe said that we might be going to see the movie when it comes out in the movie theatre, depending on the rating. We have the Tawa Intermediate Open Night on Thursday and a disco coming up in week 8.

Over all we've had a great start to the term let’s hope the rest of it goes well!

Kia Ora,

This week is New Zealand Maths week. Each student has been registered on http://www.mathsweek.org.nz/ and will receive a login and password from me. They are able to use the site at home and school and will earn "money" on the site which they can use to buy prizes. There is a variety of games to suit all personalities. Watch this space as we update with you who's working hard in Room 10 Maths week.

On Friday the 25th Room 10 had their first World Cup Football match against Room 7. There were two rounds to the tournament; a boy’s match and then a girl’s match. The boys were up for the challenge first. Riley, the team captain, won the toss and chose to kick off. It was a nail biting match, of what felt like the longest six minutes ever! Room 7 had great defence which helped them score first. In the final seconds, room 10 scored the equalizing goal and celebrated in style with the famous 'airplane' dance. It was now left up to the girls to get room 10 into the next round.

Katianne, the girl’s captain, won her toss – luck was on our side with Room 10 scoring in the first minute. We put our defence but they managed to score an equalizer, leaving both teams nervous. As hard as we tried to keep the ball from going into our opponents’ goal, they managed to score. We had to get another goal to have a chance at the next round. In the last few moments of the game we scored a goal, leaving it at two all. Now it was up to our mighty c team to win.

With our captain risking all and playing with a pulled hamstring, we managed to put on some mighty defence and worked well as a team. There was support and chants coming from the sidelines and on the field. Tension was everywhere as Room 7 scored the first goal. We felt that we could get it back again, just like before. Unfortunately, we never got the chance to score again. Room 7 had excellent defence but what we did achieve was stopping them from scoring again and working well as a team.

We have been learning about writing recounts and about how recounts are set out. The purpose of our recounts was to describe past experiences to inform our reader’s about what we have been doing this year.

There are three types of recounts
- Personal Recounts
- Factual Recounts
- Imaginative Recounts

The success criteria we came up with for a good recount is:
1. Have a title which links to your writing and gains readers’ attention
2. In your first paragraph, mention the WHO, WHERE, WHEN, WHY
3. Each paragraph should describe a specific part of the event and the events should be in order of when they happened.
4. Finish your recount with a concluding statement which expresses your personal opinion regarding the events described.
5. Add descriptive words to help your reader visualise the event.
6. A good recount is always written in past tense and uses a range of sentence beginnings such as, ‘Next… After…The following day… Meanwhile… Later… Eventually’