We were really surprised to received cards about the earthquake from some pupils at Hauraki Primary School in Auckland. They were so kind asking how we were and wondering if we had been badly affected by the earthquake. A lot of them said thay had never felt an earthquake.

Here are some photos of us reding their lovely cards.

Our 6 foot bookcase fell over and its in front of the front door so we couldn't get out the front door! Caitlin!



The only thing that broke in my house where some glasses in our bar. It was scary because

my dad was in Kiakora that weekend and coming down stairs with mum because the stairs

where shaking a lot! Zoe



Nothing broke at my house or no cracks. Ethan



The only thing that broke at my house was the court and some glasses. David



When the earthquake happend I eas the only one down stairs it took a while for my dad to get down stairs.at my dads work a printer had smashed,shelfs fell over and every compute fell over.

My dads wherehouse 70% of the racking fell over even the metal was bent. we have about 5 cracks.We also did'nt get our power till sunday,after the earthquake we all slept in mum and dads bed.Our friend got their power about 8 hours after the earthquake.Maxim

Christchurch Earthquake

Saturday 4 September 2010

At my house one of our t.v fell over and the toilet came off its base. We coped really well.Toby.

In my home only two things fell over.Caleb.d.

In my house my roof is cracked so I am not allowed in my room!Ashleigh.

Our 6 foot bookcase fell over

26 Thursday August

This afternoon

the teachers are playing against the netball team.They are doing it at 1:00.

The Harewood Netball team came 3rd at the tournament so the teachers will have a hard game.

Who was AESOP?

Aesop was born in Greece, In the sixth century.B.C

He was a slave.

He possessed great wit and gained a reputation for telling clever animal tales.Harry

All of Aesops fables have a coda.Ashleigh

All the stories are about animals.-Chloe

Aesop was born before Jesus.-Mikayla

There are no records that Aesop ever wrote down his fables or published them.-Caitlin

He wasn't the only one writing down the fables-Breanna

He was a story teller then later on people wrote books about his fables-Bonnie

Aesop was a slave and his master let him go to write his stories down on paper.- Zoe

Aesop was born in Greece.Grace

Aesop was a slave who works for people.Zeeba

Aesop was supposed to write fables for adults.David

Aesop has told a lot of stories and people have been copying it.Dion

Aesop has been a slave. Ethan

Aesop tells fables to other people.-Sven

Aesop tells the truth. Caleb L

Aesop tells messages at the end of his stories.Liam

Aesop wrote stories and puts morals in them so children can grow up to be good people.Toby

Aeasop told stories to people.Caleb.D.

Aesop was a slave.Isaiah

I have been learing how to measure the water. In the containers and how much is in the containers altogether and the millletres which is short for ml . Remember the short ways for the measurement and how many letres are in the containers and centremetres and the short way for centremetres are cm. Also how much water fits in the container like 1 lertre. The 1 lertre might fit into another container. You can use all kinds of containers like plastic containers. We are also learing about how long and wide everything is using millimetres, centmetres and killemertres.-Alec

I have been learning about how to measure water and the distance between some things. WAter i s measured in milli letres and litres. Water,milk and juice are all liquids.
We measure distance in metres. WE used a one metre ruler to find how far it was from room 5 to the flag pole.Ithink it was 30 metres.
Caleb

We are comparing which container holds more water.Bonnie.

Our challenge was to measure very long distances.We also had to estamate first then measure.

Here my group are measuring the water in the containers.We used litres and millilitres.

WE WERE doing measuring with water

Here I am asking Caitlin and Ethan what they think.

I HAVE LEARNT THAT IT WAS FUN CALEB L

Here my group are weighing

some mini weights and then filling

in the question sheet.

we had to estimate how many grams everything weighed.Chloe.

MEASURING IN ROOM 7
Here my grop is measuring

how high the cups were it was fun

Grace

we are measuring water with

litre containers - Zoe

We are leanring about measurement in our maths.

we have learnt about the units we use for length or distance -centimetres, metres,millimetres,kilometres.

We are becoming great readers in Room 7.

Here are some of the challenges we have this term.

I am learning to retell a story in my own words - Grace

I am learning to identify key statements in reading - Zoe

Iam learning to re read.I go back to the start to check my reading - isaiah.

I am learning to compare information-Ashleigh

I am learning to use text and make connections-Chloe

I am learning to explain -David

I am learning text to text connections, and text to world and text to self-Mikayla.

I am learning to skim & scan-Caitlin

I am learning to recall stories in order-Breanna

I'm learning note take the story-Bonnie

I am learning to retell in my reading -Alec

I am learning to make inferences-Maxim

I am learning to silent read in my head-zeeba

I am learning to explain the story Liam

I am leaning how to skim/scan in my reading-Toby

In my reading I am learning to reread-harry

In my reading challenge I am learning to summarise-Sven

In my reading i have learnt how to clarify meaning.caleb.d

I have been learning to predict what is going to happen next.caleb.l

my reading grop is lrning to predct and clarifying- ethan

I am learning to scan for the anwer and to use expression.Dion

We had the best afternoon on Thursday. As part of our study this term on "Money Matters" we had our own class Tupperware Party.

Genevieve, our sales lady ,is a pre school teacher so she helped us learn about measurments,colours,displaying items for sale, costs, selling and then we had a mini auction.

Before our party we learnt about invitations and promoting a party.

My name is Zeeba and my sister Fatima and my mum Kazimiya are doing Ramadan Which is when you can't eat from August 12 to the 10 of September.

Ramadan is on the 12th of August you can not eat or drink anything! We fast because we are muslims and it is part of our religion.

We do this because people in Africa are dieing of sarvation so we try to save money.

In Room 7 we are learning about money.
We are learning how we have all the things we have and countries like India don't have .
We are learning about Needs and Wants.

Needs:
Education
fresh air
water that is clean
mixture of weather
clothing
shelter
protection
support
food

Wants;
Mansion
Jet
new clothes
new shoes
Electronic games
bigger garden
Bigger bedroom
Flash car
swimming pool
i phone
milkshakes
Yacht
lego

I am doing my felting.

Rm7 have been learning about fibres and how to felt. chloe

Miss France brought a big bag of dyed sheeps wool.Breanna

You can turn wool into felt.Alec

You can make lots stuff out of wool.Dion

You can make clothing by felting.Harry

I learnt the hooks on the wool connected together.Sven

I learnt how the wool connects together.caleb

It was amazing how easy it was!Ben

Wool fibres hook together when soapy water is rubbed into it thats felting. Zoe

You put in really really hot water and you rub the felting all the hooks together you rub together for awhile and then you pull it out and put it in normal hot water.Mikayla Abbot

You can dye the wool different colours to make different patterns.Ashleigh

Fibres hook together with lux water. Ethan

I was interested about how the wool for the backround stuck to the decoration on top.Bonnie

There are little hooks on the wool, when you press hot soapy water against it it hooks up and becomes strong! Maxim

I learned that it's really easy to do felting!CAITLIN!

I learnt that you use lux water to hook the fibres together. David

Wool is from sheep. caleb

Ashleighs Mum came with snowy the lamb and room 7 got to feed her. Zeeba

Wool comes from sheep.Liam

I learnt how to felt.Toby


In Room 7 we had a lamb called Snowie visit.Grace

We are a rainbow, snow and the weather map.

We are are all dressed up as types of weather or symbols on the weather map.

The Weather Dudes performing on stage!!

Waiting excitedly for our turn on stage.

In Term 2 we did a huge inquiry on Weather and then put on a presentation at the Aurora Centre. Room 7 did a cool rap dance to The Weather Dude.

We studied the punnet of pansies closely. We looked at the veins in the flowers, the number of petals and the way the petals oiverlapped.We did observational drawings.

We also looked at other artist's drawings of pansies.

We used pastels to draw our panisies. You can mix pastels really well.

It takes concentration to be a good artist!

This is our class this year - we are all in Year 4.

We have set ourselves lots of challenges this year and enjoy seeing our progress.

We are starting up our blog again. It is now Term 3 2010 and there are new class members in Room 7.

We have done some amazing art and want to share that with everyone.

Here are our Pastel Pansies

Helping Hannah

We have a big problem.Hannah in our class's wheelchair!!!!

We all get new desks and chairs in class as we get bigger but Hannah hasn't had a new wheelchair for years.We think this is dreadful.

She must be so uncomfortable in her small chair and she is getting sores on her back where it rubs.It is hard for Miss France and Mrs Stodart to get her in comfortably especially when she has her jacket and sweatshirt on.s getting too small for her.Hannah already has some disabilities and having a wheelchair too small is not helpT!!!

Hannah's Problem!

We are so concerned about Hannah's wheelchair and it being too small.We all want to get the best for Hannah because she has some disabilities and having a wheelchair too small is getting in the way.We asked the Health Department for a new wheelchair in August 2008!They said wait till 2010 and that is not urgent but it is.Hannah was had the same wheelchair since 2008!A new wheelchair will be a great Christmas present for her and it is her birthday in December too.

Room 7 love having Hannah as a class member. At the moment we are fighting for her to get a new wheelchair.We can't understand why she has to put up with the old chair.