Our Cool Trip To One Tree Hill

The other week Rooms 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 went on a trip to one of Auckland's many volcanoes, One Tree Hill. Here is Ashleigh's recount of the day.

I just remembered that today we were going to go to One Tree Hill.We went to One Tree Hill because long ago one tree hill was a volcano. Luckily it wasn't raining because we would have been soaking wet. Suddenly we all went on the bus ready to go to one tree hill. Then we arrived.
The classes were all going to go to three types of places at different times. One place was the learning centre the two other places were when we played a game and when we climbed up the mountain. First my group went to the leaning centre to learn more about how volcanoes are formed and lot more information. One of the things that I learnt was that One Tree Hill has been around for about 20 000 years. As soon as I heard that I said "Wow that is a long time". Right after that we got to see a movie that showed us what one tree hill looked like when it erupted. Eventually we finished our lesson and it was time that we were going to climb the mountain.

It was a hard time while trying to get up but I managed to do it. Before I knew it I was on the top of the mountain. I was proud of myself because I had got this far. So we all had a little rest. Now we were all ready to go down. As soon as we got down we got to the down and ate our lunch. After we ate our lunch we all played a game called Capture the Flag while waiting for the bus to come.The bus came and we were ready to go back to school.

I had fun going to One Tree Hill. I hope when you go there you will have fun.
The End

This term our school's topic is called Active Earth. We have been learning all about what the Earth is made of and how volcanoes, earthquakes and tsunami's happen. Chante, Raenan and Vivienne wrote a script for a movie explaining all about what they have found out about the Earth so far. Here is their movie.

Early European Settlers to NZ

Room 15 have been finding out about the Early Europeans who came to NZ. We read about the Whalers and Sealers, Missionaries, Settlers and Traders. We wrote scripts as if we were one of these people and recorded our scripts with our animations of the European ships arriving in NZ playing in the background. Here are the ones that were finished and played on P.E.N.N. our school news programme.

Crusader's Maori Migration

Room 14 and 15 were playing a game called capture the flag. Capture the flag is a easy but tactical game to play.
First Miss King precisely explained the rules and the roles to us. In the beginning we got divided into teams.Everyone in room14 and 15 all had different roles to do like guarding the flag area, running to get the flag and rescuing.I keep on getting out but luckily Darius kept on gratefully rescuing me.
We got the first three points. I had to run after my opponent because he had the flag. I heard lots of people shouting "Spartans".We got five scores and room14 got one score.
At the end of the game we celebrated by picking up rubbish. We won that too. I felt excited playing Capture the flag because that was my first time playing it.

Here is the final goodbye to Room 15 2009 and for the record, the photo of our blog as it looked then. We wish everyone all the best in their new classes and look forward to keeping up with their blogging. Check out their links still on our sidebar.
Welcome also to our new Room 15. It is now Week 2 and it has been fantastic getting to know you all. I'm sure we are going to have a wonderful year together.
Ms Squires

Celebration Movies

Here are some more finished celebration animations that we have been working on this term. They show diferent celebrations that we have gone to.