Kids taking action!

Here's our cardboard challenge planning day organised by some creative people from rooms 8,9 and 10. Well done team! We can't wait for the making day on Thursday the 4th of December.

And remember - hopefully you are bringing your resources into school now..

Miss Matich

Home Learning

Ruma Iwa’s Home Learning - Term 4, Week 7/8

Handed out: Friday the 28th November  Due: Friday the 3rd December

Ruma Iwa Unstoppable Compliments

This week I will share a compliments page - you will need to go in a compliment others.

Think about a time this person made you feel happy - what makes you smile when you think of this person? What do people in Ruma Iwa excell at?

Phototastic

Time for you to scroll through the blog and make a photo page! Remember how to right click and save a photo. Then you can make a photo collage.

Eugenie Sage, The Green MP

A huge thanks to Eugenie Sage for coming to visit Room 9 yesterday and tell us about the Maui Dolphins.

It a was a great experience to share our actions with you and to let you know how amazing Ruma Iwa children are!

Miss Matich 

Cardboard Challenge Planning day.

Thanks Nikau for contributing to our planning day today!
It was a blast!!!
I got so inspired with everyone's ideas, almost everybody had enthusiasm thanks guys!
Now for our making day!!!
I can't wait to see the final stage! And Nikau, keep that enthusiasm at making day on the 4th of December!
For us we turned a cardboard box into a...
Basketball court! I'm so curious and I just can't wait!
By Sam

Eugenie Sage and the Maui Dolphins

A huge thank you to Eugenie Sage for coming into Room 9 today and telling us about the Maui dolphins. She then had to catch her bus to parliament, where she promised she would pass on our message.

We are really proud of the progress we are making with our action projects - keep it up team. Remember, if you want something to happen, take charge and be the change. 

Baking Cookies

We have been baking some cookies to sell.

We made some cookies over the weekend. It was a fun experience playing with the dough and cutting shapes. Can't wait to make even more!!!

Here is a picture of us baking the cookies:

Hope you like it.

Come buy cookies outside the staffroom for $1 we will keep upgrading cookies!!!

Thanks,

Help us save the Maui Dolphins

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IHC

Blog Post

Hey Everyone, we are Tino, Aleezio and Josh CN and we are trying to raise awareness for people who have a disability. 

We are raising awareness is for | www.ihc.org.nz  And if you comment on this we might even be on the news. That would be AMAZING so if you give us good comments Ruma Iwa Blog Will go viral!

More Term 4 Inquiry Action

Some more action!
Well done to these two for contacting Constable Blue and organising new jackets and signs. Blue organised with the council to get new signs made. The contractor brought them to school today and he said our old ones were some of the worst he has seen. Lucky we have these two safety officers in charge of making Maungaraki safer.

Well done you two!

Creative Challenge

This week, we started with some squiggles and had to turn them into something amazing.
This is what we started with...

And this is what we ended up with...

Selling the Maui Dolphin cookies

In the Nikau Syndacite for Inquiry we are doing Actions (Be The Change).

Jess and I are selling Maui Dolphin Cookies after school $1 for a small $2 for a big one we are doing this to help the Maui Dolphins.

We will be selling Maui Dolphin cookies every week day after school outside the staffroom.

Who's going to Save The Maui Dolphins tonight...

You are!!!!

It would be great if you could help us by buying some cookies.

Thanks,

Ash and Jess

Home learning Week 6/7

Ruma Iwa’s Home Learning - Term 4, Week 6/7

Handed out: Friday the 21st November  Due: Friday the 28th November

Learning Successes and Next Steps

Think about your year.

What have been your successes? They could be literacy, maths, inquiry, spelling OR they could be a social success, a managing self, a value success. What are you really proud of?

And, remember, we’re always learning. So what’s next for you?

Think about personal goals as well as school goals.

Thanks Aubrey!

A huge thanks to Aubrey Nepia today for coming in and teaching us to play touch.

It's a work in progress! We're excited to play again next week.

Are you keen?

Hour of Code

Interested in coding? Join students from all over the world and take part in the Hour of Code

No coding experience needed - just come along and have fun! Bring your own device and headphones if you have them.

The Hour of Code is a free one-hour introduction to computer science, designed to demystify code and show that anybody can learn the basics. If you already know how to code then participate in online tutorials to increase your skills.

Let us know if you’re coming. Join this event at Hour of Code on Chalkle. You can always turn up on the day.

This event is being run by Hutt City Libraries, Victoria University and Sacred Heart College.

War Memorial Library, Teen Floor – Friday 12 December, 4pm, Ages 8-18

Interested in 3D printing?

Hutt City Libraries is running introductory workshops aimed at absolute beginners to help you get started with the basics.

Come along with a willingness to learn and you’ll be 3D printing in no time! All attendees will end up with a 3D object they have created and printed themselves.

War Memorial Library - Monday 24 November, 5.30pm-8pm

Eastbourne Library - Saturday 29 November, 1pm-3.30pm

Workshops are $40 and spaces are limited. For more information or to book in for a workshop head to our 3D Print Beginners’ Workshops on Chalkle.

Art with Mrs Fox

These are beauuuutiful!

Reading and Writing Maps

Over the past week, we have been learning some new Mathematics vocabulary.
Clockwise, Anticlockwise, North, South, East, West, Left, Right, Rotate, Translate are some to name a few.
We then started at the flag pole and wrote instructions for others in our class to follow.
We rated the instructions and wrote some feedback for the writer. We then gave them back to the writer so they could evaluate their instructions. It was interesting to see two different people giving different types of feedback on the same instructions.

Here we are following some instructions:

Creativity

Our Creativity challenge this week was all about the Letter S. We have a creative challenge each week at literacy time - we're trying to think about things differently, think outside the box and spend some time learning to be creative.

Here are some of our responses:

1) 

• Fishing bait
• Giant rat tail warmers
• umbrella warmer
• baby hat
• arrow protector
• sting ray and scorpion weakness By Zena

2) sunglasses   swimsuit     Sun   Sun screen     Sandals    Sun hat By Jorden

1. Sun
2. Smoothies
3. Summer Sports
4. Sunhat
5. Sunscreen
6. Spa By Al

3) Sandals, Super soaker, six sardines, ships, a soccer ball. By Milly

4) Sailor Simon, sailed Sunny Ship across the sea, singing satisfying songs. Soon sharks surrounded Sunny Ship, swallowing some wood, making it sink. Sailor Simon’s son Superhero Scott saved the ship, slicing sharks with swords,  the sun sets down while saving the day! By Sam

The slimy snake slivered slowly into a snake habitat to slumber. Slowly the snake slivered into a sandal and suddenly the snake shouted SSS! Then a person heard the snake and killed it with a knife. By Max

Sloths, Snails, Salmon, Spiders, Snapper some Squirrels stare... suspense smoking the scene. Small sweetheart sloths sleep sweetly, salmon swish, smash, smosh! Surrounding smelly snapper smiling, surprised something so small suddenly swum stupidly in the sacred, scintillating, secretive smashing swimming waters. Squeak! Squeak! Sweetheart squirrels swipe strawberries. Slyness sweeps sunlight swapping with shadows.  Stupid snails slowly sliding slipping sweeping scared, sweeping some sunlight shadows scare small sacred sweet animals. Swearing, strolls six silly, stupidly-stylish students. Stopping stupidly smiling, standing still scratching shoulders smoking salmon, swallowing stupidly. By Grace

Something New.... World Kindness Day!!!

 Padlet

Hey Everyone!
Yesterday was world kindness day! List something someone else has done to you which is Kind and caring. I also have a question, write your answer at the bottom of your kind action! :)
-Grace-

What we did today.

Today as part of World Kindness day I made this presentation with Sam and Josh. It is all about what Nikau Syndicate have done this year. We got all of the pictures of the Rooms 10, 9, 8 and 7 blogs. We did this instead of going to Western Zone Athletics. Also congratulations to all of those people who made it into Interzones. 

Enjoy the presentation!

Al

The link to the 2014 Presentation!!!!!!

Home learning week 5/6

Ruma Iwa’s Home Learning - Term 4, Week 5/6

Handed out: Friday the 14th November Due: Friday the 21st November

Dreams and Ambitions

Think about the future.

What do you dream about?

What are your ambitions/long term goals?

Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

Where do you see yourself in 10 years?

Where do you see yourself in 50 years?

Dreams and Ambitions

Describe your hopes for the future, including your plans for your education and career.  What are some things that you would like to accomplish during your teenage years?  What goals do you have for when you become an adult?  Where do you hope to live, what will your family be like, and what would you like to be doing?  Include any other dreams and ambitions that you have for the future.

World Kindness Day.

Today, we celebrated World Kindness Day in style.

We made people in the community smile by making placards and walking up the road and waving them as cars drove past.
We got 37 hoots and A LOT of smiles.
We also went and knocked on Mrs Evans door and wished her a happy day. You can see the photo below of us standing together outside her office. 

What kind gesture have you done for someone today?
Or anyday.
We talked about the idea of 'paying it forward' and what a kindness cycle is. You don't have to spend money to be kind. 

We had a great day working together with children from Rooms 7,8,9 and 10.