We're back...

Since I got my new computer I haven't been able to publish posts but have finally figured this one out now... Stand by for some Artrageous photos and posts :)

What a fun way to spend lunchtime!!!

Rather you than me Reihana :)

What to do on a rainy day...

Grace was a very clever girl making this card castle... stand clear everybody!!!

Excellence Award Term 3 Week 2

Way to go Dylan, great job making good choices and ignoring distracting behaviour around you. Keep it up. Ka pai!

Way to go Christian!!!

In the holidays Christian was in Wellington for the Tenpin Bowling Championships. He had a fantastic time coming home with 3 gold medals and a silver. He was representing the Superstrike Hastings.

Christian was the National Champion for his age group, singles and for all events. Christian was also a member of the teams event that came second.

Christian has been bowling since he was 2 years old!!!

Wow fantastic effort Christian Room 7 and Raureka School are very proud of you :)

Huts

We made huts as a motivating experience for some writing. the boys and girls broke into 2 separate groups. Check out what the kids came up with...

Room 7 Make Huts on PhotoPeach

Just had to share this ... it is toooo cute!!!!!!!!

Lets go term 2!!!!

Far out those holidays went quickly! They were busy, wet and wild. This term is going to be busy again and we are kicking off our topic study with a unit called 'What's the Plan Stan?'... this is all about disasters and how they can affect us and what we can do to cope... Christchurch and Japan are going to give us some really important things to think about if the BIG ONE ever hit the Bay.
The other thing I am looking forward to is winter sport and our interschool exchanges.
Watch this space!!!

Week 10 Excellence Award

Congratulations Rana on your excellence in learning behaviour and attitude... you really deserved the award :)

Using the Mini Laptops

We have been researching with our buddies about a chosen rocky shore creature so we can write a factual report. It can be tricky finding our way around the internet to find useful information so we are trying to think carefully about the key words we type into Google.

Competition

please check out this link so we can get as many hits as possible and maybe win some cash for our school

Fabulous Times At The Rocky Shore

Raureka Senior Team at the Rocky Shore on PhotoPeach

Week 8 Excellence Award

Congratulations Ariana you have stayed focused on your work and completed it to the best of your ability. Tino pai!

Fundraising for Christchurch

Black and White Mufti Day on PhotoPeach

Wonderful Swimmers

Gwen came with certificates for Macabe and Charlotte for completing a season of swimming lessons.. they also got chocolate Easter eggs for all their good efforts... way to go guys

Farewell Teagan

Last Friday was Teagan's last day at Raureka, she has left to move to Australia with her family. Good luck Teagan, room 7 will miss you. :)

Gold Card Awards...

We had several children in the draw for showing excellence, respect and curiosity... 2 lucky room 7 kids got their names drawn out. Cool stuff Shadae and Charlotte

Week 6 Excellence Award

Way to go Grace... congratulations! Keep striving to be the best that you can be :)

Congratulations to our swimming place getters... awesome!

Senior swimming sports

2011 swimming sports

Our swimming sports! by Jordan

Go Raureka Go!Today we had our swimming sports, mostly everybody competed in them with the seniors only a couple of people missed out in our class. It was really hot we started at 10:10. We had like these houses and I was in green there were other colours the other colour were Red,Blue and yellow our team Green nearly came first but red and blue just beat us we were so close but red and blue got the prize at least we tryed our best that was all I was concerned of. My team mates cheered for me and I cheer for them. It was cool cause I like the colour Green and I was in Green it is the colour I see every morning on the trees and grass and on the stem of a flower. The teacher said if we had anything of our house colour then we could go in and not wear uniform. The dumb thing was that I didn`t have anything Green. AAAAHHHHHH!!!! I didn`t want to go in my uniform but I had to, great! I don`t have any Green accessories so I went to school Green-less but luckily my friend Teagan brought something Green for me thank goodness! Yeah! we are done with swimming sports, gosh am I hungry wow! it is past morning tea oh well it is over anyway. I had fun swimming it was the best one ever!

Book Review by Heath

In room 7 we have been reading Roald Dahl books. So far we have read The Magic Finger and now we are on to the Twits. We have already read a bit of the book.It's about two people called Mr Twit and Mrs Twit.They liked to play tricks on each other.It's a really cool book.I wonder what other Roald Dahl books we are going to read.

Excellence Awards by Jordan

Last Friday we had the excellence awards at assembly. I was hoping it would be me but it was Mosiah. I was so happy for her. She looked really surprised and excited. I clapped my hands really loud since she got the award. I was so proud of her she must of really worked hard to get it! I bet I couldn`t do work like she can. Like when she did her first bit of homework in Room 7 it was amazing... she had a blue cardboard background and she drew pictures and cut out pictures, also she had written down things. She did that in just one week now that is excellent so no wonder she got it.

Room 7 bloger`s

Hello I am Heath and my buddie Jordan are the Room 7 bloger`s for 2011. We have only just stared being a blogger ... we will get better as we practise. Mostly year 4`s are alowed to be a class bloger. Me and Heath are a year 4. We cant wait to be a year 5!!!!!!!Being a bloger takes a great responsability and we hope we get to be a bloger next year as well.

Nice simile, Jaydin...

We have been talking about adding detail to our writing to build a clearer picture for the reader...we were walking to the pool and Jaydin said "My feet are as hot as melting cheese!" Remember those hot days we had this week ... 34 degrees, that builds a really clear picture.

End of Week 2

Well they say time flies when you are having fun...and this week has well and truly flown by :) We have finished our Statistics study now and we found out that if McDonalds had to rely on Room 7 for business that they would be out of luck! The kids favourite takeaways is KFC followed by Subway. I wonder if sushi would ever be a first choice???? The tally charts and bar graphs showed what we found out very clearly.

Room 7 by Heath and Jordan

the cool kids of room 7 on PhotoPeach

by Jordan

Welcome to room 7's blog.It is geat to be back at school. I was dying to go to school on the Monday. I am exhausted from all that working but, listening to stories was fun... but the best thing was that I got to see my friends. It was cool to be back at school also because i got Mrs Crawford as my teacher. I think school is really cool.

How clever is this little guy??? He is only 4 years old!!! Check out his facial expressions ...

Custom Glitter Text

Something to get you going on your timestables!!!

I just love ths adjective song :)

Clustr Map

Hey have you guys noticed the red dots poppong up on our map ... we have had hits from England, Denmark, USA and Abu Dhabi... as well as from in NZ. Let all your friends and Relatives know about our site so they can check it out.