Term 3

Welcome to this new, sparkling, fabulicious Room 5 blog!
The blog has gone all grey and dusty and old because Jay was so busy being evil, he forgot about this poor, neglected blog! Well, now you have a new post written by moi (Yasmin Larry) so read and enjoy!

Maths
Recently we have begun a new unit of maths – Algebra. It requires logical thinking, and the use of letters in the place of numbers. If you keep trying, it really isn’t that difficult. To improve on this, we have been doing ‘One-Hour Mysteries’ (as a class) to develop our mathematical thinking.

Writing
We participated in the Senior School Short Story Competition (a tongue twister in itself) and three stories were just good enough to get through to His Principalness Mr Sutton:
Lydia – “Lost” (A drama that deserves an Oscar)
Ben – “The Life of a Serial Killer” (It’s a fantastically twisted story)
Hannah – “The Unfortunately True Story of Me” (Better than Jacqueline Wilson,Roald Dahl and Jane Austen altogether)
We wish them all good luck!

Maori
We were asked to take any book out of our library of Maori books and translate it into English. We are going to scan these into a Powerpoint and then record our voices reading it. We will then share these with the Junior School.

Art
About two weeks ago (when SOMEONE should have been writing this) we had our first Graham Braddock Art Course. We were taught how to draw Still Life. It’s a lot more complicated than just drawing a bunch of fruit and leaving it alone. It’s boundaries, shades, dimensions, lines, scales, centimetres... More recently, we did Still Life on our own. You can come into Room 5 if you want a Butcher’s Hook (UK slang for look).

Inquiry
We have been doing a HUGE inquiry on China. Our big question is:

WHAT ARE THE SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN NZ CULTURE AND CHINESE CULTURE?

We have been investigating this question in several different areas: Food, Medicine, Art, Government, Family, etc, etc. And let me put you in on a secret:
We’re planning to have this fantastic exhibition on what we have learnt! It is going to be fantabulous, I tell you, and that is all I can let loose. It will be fantabulous.

And one last thing…
SPEECH SEASON IS NEAR!

5 days,9 hours,30 minutes and 55 seconds left till Speech Day…

On a closing note, I would like to thank Jay for giving me this job…well actually it’s not a job because:

“If you like what you do, you’ll
never work another day in your life”
-Kong Qiu

And I love it!

I also promise to not be like our evil teacher and neglect this blog, and write in it every week. Jay’s happy now.

Rainbows,
Yasmin