Nuestro nuevo idioma

Thank goodness for Google translate... Our new language is Spanish!

In Term 3 we started learning Spanish. First we watched videos that showed us a lot about Spanish that really made us think!


Then we made signs with the English saying and underneath the Spanish saying. Here are some of the signs we made.
Hello Hola.
Buenos dias good morning.
Hasta mañana see you in the morning.
Adiós bye.
Hasta luego see you later.
Buenos noches good night.

After that our nice teacher Miss Panther gave us a sheet of paper that had lots and lots of words on it it had the English saying then the Spanish saying. Once we had pretty much memorised the important words room 13 had to make a play using just Spanish words. It was harder than we thought and we kept on pausing, trying to find the exact right word {or words) for what we wanted to say.

We are still learning but we are definitely getting better..

Ciao amigos

Elliott

Commonwealth Games

The Commonwealth Games was an excellent experience.With things such as Run to India, Mini Commonwealth Games(at school) and the topic/homework based on Blooms Taxonomy.

NOW for the run to India - our whole syndicate had to run on a track of 500m and in only 10 mins. The best runners struggled to get around it 4-5 times and the bad people on the course - 1 or maybe even two if lucky.

This next activity everyone in the big school had to do was the mini Commonwealth Games and it involved high jump, hurdles, ping pong, shot put, netball, rugby sevens, archery, hockey and weightlifting.

Then for the lucky last thing blooms taxonomy homework... Miss Panther gave us a sheet with heaps of activities on it. They were all related to the Commonwealth Games or Commonwealth countries. We could choose which activities we wanted to do as long as we made 30 points before the holidays. Most of us made the 30 points.

Term 3 Ski Trip

Term 3 was a really busy term in Room 13.

Ski Trip
We went to Porters Pass for our ski trip. It took us ages to get there on the bus. When we got there the beginners went onto the beginners ski field and the intermediate went on the intermediate slope. Every one learnt how to ski! Some of us even went on the intermediate slope but fell over on the way down. Then we went on it to more times.

The only bad thing that happened in the slopes was that a girl in Room 14 called Olivia went sliding into a fence and was helicoptered to Christchurch with Miss Panther. It turned out that she was o.k. On the way back we stopped in Arthurs pass to get some refreshments for the trip back to Greymouth. We got back one hour early because it was starting to get cold up at Porters so some of us had to wait for one hour in the rain for our parents to arrive

Can't wait till next year...