Hi In Room Eight, recently, we have been competing in an amazing road trip from Bluff to Picton. Firstly we had to design a car or van to take us from place to lace. then we had to decide what route we would take. would we go to Dunedin and up the east coast, would we go inland past Mt Cook, or up the west coast and across? we had to make our choice and then plan what towns or cities we would visit. at each stop we had to find one tourist attraction to do and where we would stay the night and where we would eat. Mr Burt 'gave us' $7000 to cover our costs (NI and SI)....he is a generous man! We had to keep a log of how many kilometres we had travelled, how much we spent in petrol food accommodation and on tourist attractions each day. We had to keep a diary of what we did in each town and at the end we had to decide which of our attractions we thought was the best. In the South Island many groups voted that whale watching in Kaikoura was the best SI tourist attraction.

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Over the last several weeks we have been involved in the school production, 'A Big Green Adventure'. Many of us had parts to play and those who did not get a speaking part were involved in props, costumes, lighting etc.

It was a great experience and went well on the night. We did three shows and they were fun. Some of us had to sing solos. That was a bit embarrassing at first, but we soon got used to it and in the end it was just part of the play and we enjoyed it.

Hi, Muz here. Welcome to Room 8 2010. This year there are 27 children in room 8 made up of 17 boys and 10 girls.

Term one is over (can' t believe it has gone so quickly). We have had a full on term (as usual). Last week we had an outdoor education week involving a couple of observation trails.

The one around the school was interesting in that the children found it difficult, as a first up activity, to not rush things and there by miss information as they followed the instructions. On Thursday we did a more involved one around the industrial area of Port Nelson. The children were really focussed and with great powers of observation, found the answers to all the questions. I was very proud of them all.

TITANIC

The class is really enjoying learning about the Titanic and its design, history, travels and its untimely and tragic sinking. We have been using the knowledge from the documentaries to make a postcard. We had to pretend we were on the Titanic before it sank. We did not know it was going to sink. We had to write to a friend telling them about our first day on the Titanic and what we did, discovered and thought. After that we created some posters from the 'White Star Line' advertising to take a trip on the Titanic.

This term we are doing a research study of the Titanic.  We have been watching a documentary that gives us lots of facts and information.  We have have found it interesting, educational and fun learning about this famous luxurious passenger liner from a century ago.  

Work started on building the Titanic in 1909...100 years ago...Rose

It had 29 huge boilers..... Brad

It only had 20 lifeboats.... Leighton

...only enough for about 1200 people...Sophie

It had a swimming pool, Turkish Bath, Gymnasium and a tennis court.....Nina

The pool was a salt-water one and  was heated... Beverley

There was a First Class smoking room for the men and writing room for the women...Daniel and Apitoni

It cost 4/- or $1US to go into the Turkish Bath....Astrid

It had four funnels..... Jackson

E J Smith was the captain and he was going to retire after this trip....Kayla

There were 2228 people on the Titanic on its maiden voyage.....Liam

There was a professional tennis instructor on board for First Class passengers.... Celine

If you were rich you got luxury and comfort.....Analyse

It sunk three miles down in the North Atlantic Ocean... Caitlin

There were only 705 survivors from the disaster... Josh

1523 people died... Maddy

There were First Class, Second Class and Third Class passengers.  Third Class was called Steerage.... Jackson

The Titanic had three huge propellors....Sophie

It was built in Belfast, Ireland but sailed from Southhampton, England....Rose

The ship was so big and new that many crew did not know where things were.... Astrid

It cost ₤3 for a Third Class ticket.....Hope

It had 16 watertight compartments...Victoria

There are many more things we could tell you, some we already know others we will find out.  We have lots of activities about the Titanic to do which some of which we will share on our website or our blog.

Room 8

Room 8 Egg Firing Catapults

Last week on various days we  made or improved our three types of catapults.  They were: The Popsicle, the Peg and the Coat-hanger.   We tried out all three in the hall with jaffas, marshmallows and jellybeans (they were very tasty yum  yum).  On Monday room 8  brought eggs to dress up.  We had various styles including : super eggs, gentle eggs (gentlemen) and wacky eggs.   On Tuesday Mr Burt came into the class with some good news and some bad news. The bad news was that the popsicle, peg and coat hanger catapults were too weak to fire an egg.  The good news was that the big catapults that Nina, Brad and Alexander built were perfect for firing them over the castle wall.  So instead, with the small catapults, we fired fake jellybeans.  Then the big catapults fired our eggs, some survived but so me splattered.  Then for the PRIZES!  The winners got two Crunchies  the other people just got one   snake.  Here are some thoughts that some people said. Kayla-Awesome I really liked it. 

 was really fantastic with the big catapults when they fired off the eggs.  Janalli -  I thought that they were really awesome. Hope- Fun, creative and cool, really fun dressing up the eggs. Josh- great it was cool when some of the eggs splattered on the ground and on the castle wall.  Celine- It was really funny when the eggs hit the wall. Alicia- It was really fun when we fired them. Victoria- It was really fun and cool, I liked firing the eggs. Caitlin- All of it was heaps of fun, I think when Room 8 catapulted eggs over a cardboard castle wall and they splattered everywhere. But we cleaned it all up afterwards.      

Room 8 Egg Firing Catapults

Last week on various days we made or improved our three types of catapults. They were: The Popsicle, the Peg and the Coat-hanger. We tried out all three in the hall with jaffas, marshmallows and jellybeans (they were very tasty yum yum). On Monday room 8 brought eggs to dress up. We had various styles including : super eggs, gentle eggs (gentlemen) and wacky eggs. On Tuesday Mr Burt came into the class with some good news and some bad news. The bad news was that the popsicle, peg and coat hanger catapults were too weak to fire an egg. The good news was that the big catapults that Nina, Brad and Alexander built were perfect for firing them over the castle wall. So instead, with the small catapults, we fired fake jellybeans. Then the big catapults fired our eggs, some survived but so me splattered. Then for the PRIZES! The winners got two Crunchies the other people just got one snake. Here are some thoughts that some people said. Kayla-Awesome I really liked it.

was really fantastic with the big catapults when they fired off the eggs. Janalli - I thought that they were really awesome. Hope- Fun, creative and cool, really fun dressing up the eggs. Josh- great it was cool when some of the eggs splattered on the ground and on the castle wall. Celine- It was really funny when the eggs hit the wall. Alicia- It was really fun when we fired them. Victoria- It was really fun and cool, I liked firing the eggs. Caitlin- All of it was heaps of fun, I think when Room 8 catapulted eggs over a cardboard castle wall and they splattered everywhere. But we cleaned it all up afterwards.=)