Last week of term 3 - personal timetables

During the last week of term 3, everyone planned their own week based around what activities needed to be finished.  It was amazing to see the places people worked and how much got finished.  See below:

Tennis

In the last week of school coaches from the Burnside Park Tennis Club taught us some tennis skills.  Check them out...

Ilam School Olympics Day

Enjoy a slideshow of photos and video clips below of our Olympics Day!

Ilam Olympics Day - free slideshows with music

Pandemonium in the hall

On Thursday 13th September, a musical percussion group called Pandemonium visited Ilam School.  We were treated to a 'round-the-world' trip hearing music from the Cook Islands, Africa, South America and more.  We got to join in one of the Samba songs.  Listen here:

Here is a clip of Lydia playing the drums with one of the group members.

The performance finished with the Bongo Song, which many of the children know, so they got up and danced.   Unfortunately I didn't get a clip of Room 19 enjoying it.

Sky full of colours

The most amazing colours were in the sky outside Room 19 last night.  The camera couldn't even capture what it was like to see, but it gives you an idea of the beautiful sunset.

A few minutes after I took these photos, this happened:

Then:

The ground was rumbling beneath my feet and I almost dived under the pile of cushions on the couch!  IT WAS LOUD!

Fizzing and Foaming - Experiment 1

Today we started off a science unit called Fizzing and Foaming, learning about chemical reactions.  We made sherbet using the following recipe and process:

We learnt when a carbonate, in this case the baking soda, and an acid, the citric and tartaric acids, are mixed together with moisture present, it creates CO2 (carbon dioxide) which are the gas bubbles fizzing on our tongues.  What a tasty way to learn!

French lesson

Today we had a visit from a teacher from France.  She spent the afternoon in Room 19 and at the end of the day she taught us to say Hello, what is your name?  My name is ............  How are you?  I am ..................  We had fun practising and here is a short clip of some of us.

Hello - Bonjour!
What is your name? -Comment tu t'appelles?
My name is....... - Je m'appelle...
How are you? - Comment ca va?


Try out your french here or here

National Astronomy Speech Competition

So, are you a star... or at least have an interest in stars? Perhaps you'd be interested in entering the National New Zealand Astronomy Speech Competition?  All details are here:

http://www.earthandskynz.com/earthandsky/competition/competition.html

Let me know if you are interested.

Golden Girl Strikes Again

What was the amazing news that Valerie Adams received this morning?

How do you feel about the result?

What do you think about drug use at the Olympics?

Building blows up

What were you doing Sunday morning at 8am?  Many people were in Christchurch's city centre to watch the Radio NZ building being brought to the ground in 7.7 seconds.

See it here:
http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/radio-network-building-imploded-video-5007073
 or
http://www.3news.co.nz/Hundreds-watch-Christchurch-building-implosion/tabid/309/articleID/264175/Default.aspx
 or
http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/christchurch-landmark-imploded-5007055 (best footage in my opinion)

Switcheroo

What do you think each of these creatures uses their body parts for?

Call Me Maybe? or Share It Maybe?

So you've heard of the song 'Call Me Maybe' by Carlee Ray Jensen,

Hey I just met you
And this is crazy
But here's my number
So call me maybe?
 
but have you heard Cookie Monster's version?

Hey me just met you
And this is crazy
But you got cookie
So share it maybe?





Can you makeup your own chorus?

Here's mine:

Hey I just met you
And this is crazy
Holidays you are gone
So come back maybe?

HelloSlide - a new presentation tool

With HelloSlide.com, you can upload pdf documents and add written text to the document which is turned into audio (like Voki).  You will need to see Mrs Robinson to log in and create your presentation.  This is an example.  It explains your Olympic reading contract.

Little Bird Tales - a new presentation tool

LittleBirdTales.com is a new tool you can use to create online presentations similar to photo story.  These can be added to blogs and web pages very easily.  Here is one Mrs Robinson created to show you what it can look like.  Of course you can be creative with your photos. 

• Click to view my tale.
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Snow Fun

Once you have written your poem and taken a winter photo, you can choose how you would like to present your poem; Voki, Blabberize, Word document, PowerPoint, or another way of your choosing.  We will upload them here on the SNOW tab at the top once they are finished.

During week 5 a mini squash court was set up in the hall and Tim from Squash Canterbury came to take a session with us.  Check out our moves...

Room 19's dance

The senior school are all working on dances for a performance in Week 7.  We done some research to find authentic dance moves from different cultures.

Reflecting on our ecology unit

What two sports would you combine?

The Northern Mystics have crossed the line by trying a 'line out' style jump during their most recent game against the Melbourne Vixens, much to the crowd's disgust.  Have a look here:
 Netball Line Out
If you could add a feature of another sport to one you currently play, what would you do?

• Lydia would pick up the ball and throw it into the goal in hockey.
• Rylie would like to be able to run with the ball in netball.
• Anna would like to be able to jump and shoot (dunk) the ball in netball.
• Ben would like to be able to tackle people in judo.
• Zak would mix basketball and soccer so you could run with the ball in soccer.
• Leah wants to be able to ride a horse while playing hockey.
• Eileen wanted to mix soccer and hockey to hit the ball with a hockey stick.
• Sarah wants to combine horse riding and basketball so you can bounce the ball while on a horse.
• Alison would mix netball and soccer so you could hold the ball in soccer.
• Keito would make it so there are conversions in soccer.
• Jonty would combine archery and horse riding so it’s more of a challenge to shoot and aim.
• Rylie would like to combine horse riding and netball so that you can jump over your defender.
• Eres would combine pole-vaulting and basketball so you could pole-vault into the basketball hoop.
• Nathan would like to combine food eating contests and rugby so you could tackle your opponent in food-eating contests.
• Thomas would combine fencing and archery so there  was one opponent of each, but with fake arrows.

Consumer pyramid

Look at this consumer pyramid:


Why do you think there are more organisms at the bottom of the food pyramid than the top?
What happens if the population of the top level increases?
What happens if a new species is introduced that eats grasshoppers?