Congratulations to Grace...Principal's Award

Well done Grace...we love your creative writing ideas. you are a clever mathematician and a talented artist too!

Stella and Grace... Syndicate awards

The proud Room 18 recipients of the Middle Syndicate Awards today...congratulations Stella and Grace for your great attitudes to learning in Room 18!

Planting My Little Garden by Grace

Planting My Little Garden

By Grace

Materials:

• Cup
• Spoon
• Water
• Pot
• Soil Tablet
• Seeds
• Sign

Instructions:

• Take your little garden out
• Fill your cup up with water(30 or 40ml )
• Get your soil tablet and mix it with the water
• Use your spoon to fill your pot halfway up with the soil
• Drop the seed in and cover it with the remaining soil
• Now stick in the sign
• Enjoy watching it grow !

Russian Culture by Grace

Russian culture

There are about one hundred and twenty ethnic/cultural groups who speak more than one hundred languages. Russia is known for it thinkers and artists including Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky and ballet dancers such as Rudolf Nureyev. Russia’s flag is white, blue  and red. As it is the world’s largest country it occupies one tenth of the land on earth and has shores on three oceans: the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic Oceans. The  Russian landscape varies from desserts to frozen coastline. The capital of Russia is Moscow.

The population is 144,125,000. The area is  17,075,200 square kilometres.The major mountain ranges are Ural and Altay. The major rivers are Amur, Irtysh,Lena,Ob,Volga and Yenisey. Russians drive on the right hand side of the road which is the opposite to us.

Russians eat Salat Olivier (Russian salad) Bliny (Russian pancake) Cabbage Pirozhki or Piroghe for short, Pashka, Sbiten (Russian national winter beverages) Borscht(beet soup) Sharlotka (apple cake) Klyukva S Sakharom (frosted cranberries), Semechki (toasted sunflower seeds) Chai Po-Russki (tea Russian style).

By Grace

The Russian Orthodox Church celebrates The New Year On January 1 And Christmas on January 7. In Russia there are nine million more women than men. There are over 500,000 alcohol related deaths in Russia each year.There’s a museum in Russia that hires cats to protect it’s artwork against rodents. A Russian woman in 1700 gave birth to 16 pairs of twins 7 sets of triplets and 4 sets of quadruplets in forty years  with just the same husband thats 69 children altogether! Lake Karaychay is the most polluted lake in the world. It is a criminal offence to drive around the road in a dirty car in Russia. It is believed Russia has at least 15 secret cities with their names and location unknown. A third of all Russians believe the sun revolves around earth. The dialing code for Russia is 007.

Did You Ever Poems by Grace

Did you ever…  

Did you ever...

Go to Puzzling world

In Wanaka

Buildings tilting

Brains focusing

IIlusions tricking

Confusing entertaining

Wanna try!

Did you ever...

Go to Arrowtown

In the South Island

Leaves rustling

Sun shinning

People tasting

Yum!                                     By Grace

Come and buy some!

Fidget Letters

Room 18

Room 18 wrote persuasive letters to Mrs Driver about Fidget Spinners and our school's ban on them.

Sunnyhills School

Pakuranga

22 June 2017

Dear Mrs Driver

Our class has been discussing about whether fidget spinners should be kept at school or not.

I agree with the rule and understand why fidget spinners should be banned.

Firstly, we come to school to learn, right? We are not supposed to distract other student’s learning. We can always play with them as much as we want while we are at home.

Secondly, nobody likes to lose things. Fidget spinners could get lost at school and we don’t want to go home with tears.

Thirdly, we might get injured due to fidget spinner’s fast speed.

Last of all, kids that don’t have them will be left out and might bug their parents to buy them one.

There is no reason why fidget spinners should be kept at school. However, if  any student have been told by a doctor that he/she really needs a fidget spinner for concentration or any other purposes, then they could go to a teacher to ask for permission to bring it.

Thank you for banning fidget spinners.

From

Grace

Room 18

Sunnyhills School

Pakuranga

22 June 2017

Dear Mrs Driver,

I disagree with the rule that fidget spinners are banned at school because some kids need them to concentrate.

We probably could have fidget spinners at school if there were strict rules about when we could use them.

We could have fidget spinners at school if we weren't silly with them. When we were bored at lunch time we would have something to do. When our friends run away from us at lunch time we  have something to do or play with.

From Olivia Thomas

Rm 18

Sunnyhills School

Pakuranga

22 June 2017

Dear Mrs Driver

I agree with the rule no fidget spinners allowed in the school because they could get lost or stolen. Everyone might argue over them  or get hurt.

Your friend

Pippa

Room 18

Sunnyhills School

Pakuranga

22 June 2017

Dear Mrs Driver

I agree with you that we should not have fidget spinners because…firstly some fidget spinners are valuable so if they drop they could easily break. Also, people could have fights with them.They can get too addicting and people might not listen to their teachers when they're explaining something.They can hurt other people.

People might tease others saying that their one is better.

They could get rusty and fall apart. Some people might not have one and some people might and they could also tease them about that.

From Tait

Room 18

Our Assembly

Today it was Room 18's turn to present the Middle School Assembly. Grace and Khan capably led us. The class recited their Taniwha poem, sang "I Saw a Taniwha"  and showed off their Taniwha art work which they had created with Ms Maloni. 

Well done everyone!

Grace's Autumn Poem

Autumn Time        by Grace

The fiery red, orange and yellow leaves

Twisting, twirling,and tumbling gently to the ground

Like gymnasts doing cart wheels

Leaves getting crushed beneath peoples feet

The cold autumn breeze  

Whizzes around me as I walk past

The sound of  chirping birds  

The birds flutter around as

Finding twigs to build nests and to rest in

During Autumn time  

The smell of fresh air

Starting a new day

Getting people excited or nervous

Autumn... a chilly time

People usually staying inside

Jackets, scarves, beanies and more

Worn on people when they're outdoors