Selling Chocolate

In Term 3 we were selling Chocolates to raise money for our school. Our family sold the most – 25 boxes of chocolate worth $1370.00. Our prize for selling the most was a $100 voucher for The Warehouse. We went shopping in the holidays and I brought a Barbie “I can be a Seaworld trainer” [...]

Special Comment

Look who commented on SteMat’s post about the All Blacks’ Training.

Aled de Malmanche plays for the Chiefs and the All Blacks.  What an awesome guy!

Lunchtime Waste – Weeks 7 & 8

These are the final photos from Term 3.  You can see that there’s been a real improvement since week one, but there are still lots of troublesome plastic bags and packets.
Next term we begin to recycle paper as part of our Enviroschool focus.  I wonder if we could concentrate on getting rid of all the [...]

Doing Da Vinci on Discovery Channel

Check out this link about making the machines that Da Vinci designed but didn’t build.

Doing da Vinci
You can watch the programme on the Discovery Channel on Monday evenings if you have Sky TV.
Mr F.

40 000 Cake!

On the last day of term we had a cake to celebrate our forty thousandth visitor.  The cake was in the shape of a google map pin.

Room Niners – can someone write up a story to go with this please.  Email it to me or write it on the wiki and I’ll cut and paste [...]

Forty Thousand Visitors

Well, you did it!  Room 9 have now had 40 000 visitors.

It happened last Tuesday evening at 8:02:53pm and our 40 000th visitor came from….
Jakarta in Indonesia.  Here it is in Google Maps…

and here’s a view in Google Earth.

The city of Jakarta has about twice as many people living in it than the whole of [...]

Lunchtime Waste – Weeks 5 & 6

Looking at these two photos it seems we have managed to reduce the amount of food waste and gladwrap that we bring to school, but we still have a problem with chippy packets.  Well done to Jacob for putting his chips into a reusable container and leaving the packet at home.
Do you remember how to [...]

All Blacks Training

Today 7/9/09 the Glenview Rugby team went to Waikato Stadium to watch the All Blacks train!
I took my Melville Rugby hoodie to get signed.  It got signed by DC (Dan Carter), Mils Muliaina, Joe Rokocoko, Richie Mccaw (c) and Tony Woodcock.
We saw the backs catching and kicking, and we saw the forwards doing line-outs and [...]

Chocolate!

My family has been working hard to sell chocolates for the school fundraiser. We hope the school buys some more mini laptops as I love using them. I like eating the chocolate as well, especially Dairy Milk.
by MatSav [via email]

PETER

Ooh noo.  There is my brother up to no good again.  Anyway, hi I’m Peter andI have a brother that is a pain in the butt.  I have to put up with his silly jokes.  I’m 9 years old and I live in an apartment on the 12 floor.  I’ve got a turtle called Dribble.  One time [...]

FUDGE

Hi!  I am Fudge.  I have an annoying brother Peter.  I have a grandma and sometimes she is a annoying, but I get all the attention.  My brother thinks I am so silly, crazy and dirty.
written and illustrated by CluGem

FUDGE

Hi guys my name is Fudge, but my real name is actually Farley Drexel Hatcher.  I have a deafening toy train, it’s really fun to play with.  My older brother Peter thinks I’m irritating.  I live in a old apartment building in New York City.  I live on the twelfth floor with my mum, dad [...]

DRIBBLE

Howdy! I’m Dribble.  I’m a turtle.  My owner is Peter.  Fudge is his brother, he tries to get me.  I saw his friend go tinkle.  I live on the 12th floor in a hotel in New York.
written and illustrated by JobJac

Lunchtime Waste – Week 4

It didn’t take long to sort our waste this week.

There was an uneaten LCM and fruit roll up, but they were taken home to eat later.  I think we should try for a plastic free Friday next.
Mr F

Daffodil Day

Last Friday was Daffodil day. We brought coins from home and taped them to our chart. Here’s our class total for the day.
How much did Room 9 collect altogether?  If all the other classes collected the same amount – how much did the school have to send to The Cancer Society this year?
Add [...]

Grandma

Hi! I am Peter and Fudges Grandma. I am a sweet, kind, careful, adult, lovely, smart, cheerful, girl and I am an old Grandma. I live in New York when I come to see my grandchildren in a motel.
written and illustrated by GatMic

Fudge!

Hi I’m Fudge.  I am a disobedient little boy.
My brother think I’m insane.
I am 3 years old.  My real name is Farley Drexer Hatcher.  I live with Mum, Dad, Dribble and Peter.
I live in New York.  I don’t know why Peter hates me.  Maybe because I try fly like birdy.
written and illustrated by SteMat

DRIBBLE

Hi I’m Dribble.  I have a hard shell and four flipper type feet.  My owner’s name is Peter.  He has this annoying little brother called FUDGE who is the most annoying person in the world.  Sometimes I get EXTREMELY bored sitting on my rock.  I live in New York city on the twelfth floor.  Peter cleans my bowl [...]

Skiing on Mount Ruapehu

I went skiing on Ruapehu last weekend and brought in some photos and movies to share with Room 9.  In these photos and movies me and my sister Ashleigh went skiing in the weekend.  And we don’t have to do it with poles.
by Room 9

PETER

Hi I’m Peter I live in New York.  I am nine years old.  I have the craziest brother in the city.  I have a pet turtle called Dribble.  And I am unlucky because of my brother.  I live with my Mum, Dad and my pet turtle and my little brother Fudge.
written and illustrated by HarDan

PETER

Hello I’m Peter. I am nine years old and unlucky.  And you might wonder why I’m unlucky. It’s because of my little brother…..FUDGE!!!!! He’s so irritating all the time. I live with my super duper Mrs Know-it-all mum and again the not so cool Fudge! And dad. My best friend is Jimmy Fargo. My Grandma is [...]

Visitors?

The other day I installed a new widget.  It’s over there on the right.

It tells you where your blog visitors have come from in the last 24 hours.  Then it lets you view where they are in Google Earth.

So I did that and had a look at where some of our visitors lived.  I could [...]

My First Game of League

It was as cold as ice at Fairfield Park with only shorts on and a top.
The game started.  Our first half of the game we got puffed and nervous while people cheered for us.  My friend passed the ball to me.  We were tied 5 all after I got a score.  I got the ball [...]

Lunchtime Waste

Room 9 have started to look at our school environment and find ways to make it better.
One of the ways we can improve it is by reducing the amount of waste and rubbish we have at school.  We started by collecting our waste on Friday*.  Here’s what we discovered (click the picture for a LARGER [...]

How to Make a Milkshake

If you follow these steps you will be able to make a milkshake.
You will need

a glass
a blender
a banana
a yoghurt
knife

Peel the banana and chop it.
Open the yoghurt container, pour the yoghurt into the blender and put the banana in.
Put the lid on the blender and switch on the blender.  Turn it of when the mixture is [...]

Kayaking at Camp Karakariki

Way back in Term 1 we went to Camp Karakariki and went kayaking.  It was the Camp Rock Stars last activity of the day.
First we had to practice with our oar.  I was the first kid to get in the kayak.  I was in a single.
There was a tree stump in the middle of the [...]

Mirror Writing

Leonardo Da Vinci was an inventor, scientist, painter and sculptor in Italy and France.  He painted the Mona Lisa.  He designed and invented lots of things like cars, robots and diving suits.  He really wanted to invent a flying machine that worked, but nobody is sure if he ever built one that flew.  Leonardo used [...]

The Sparrow

Today I was visiting my Nan’s house in Hamilton. My cousin came over to see my Nan with her two children Azra and Brayden and a little girl called Natalia. They were very funny.
Emma decided it was time for her to go as the children were starting to get tired. When Emma backed the car [...]

Going to Australia

When I went to Australia we went to the zoo on Wednesday.  We looked at a lot of stuff.
Then my mum said, “Carla laa here is something you will like.” Then I turned around and it was a butterfly house.  We went inside.  It was so cool, but when I looked there was a big [...]

Clustr Map Reset

Our Clustr Map showing the location of visitors to our blog is about to be reset and all the little red dots will disappear.
Here’s what it looked like on 21st July-

and here’s the large version.

It shouldn’t take long for our map to fill up with red dots again.  Remember you can also check who has [...]

Winning Cross Country

On Tuesday May 19 we had our school cross country.  I had butterfies in my tummy.

Then the year 4 boys lined up, then Mr F said on your marks, get set, go!!!!   Then we went off.  Then I was in front of everyone there.  I had to run 2 laps around Glenview Park.

At the [...]

Jedi!

OK… I know it’s taken me a long time to do this, but I think it looks pretty good.  I wish I’d put my helmet on though.  I can almost hear the light sabre sounds in my head.
So boys, where’s the Star Wars script you were working on?  Have you finished writing it?  Storyboard?
See you [...]

Shocking!

Story coming…

Australia Photo Story

by MatSav
Can anyone tell us the name of the superhero on the left in the last photo? We know Flash, Wonder Woman and Green Lantern, but who is the woman with wings?
Made in Photo Story 3

Going to Australia Part 2

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I have been in Australia for 6 days now. We flew with Emirates, they gave us a great backpack filled with free things to do. There were over a 100 movies to choose from to watch.
We went shopping the first day as it was raining. On the second day we went to Dreamworld [...]

My Weekend

A few weekends ago me and my dad went to Te Kuiti.
We saw the sheep shearing it was cool. Then I had an ice cream. After I went on the tea cup ride and I got really dizzy.
Then we went back to the shearing.  After that they did the sheep run, but they did not [...]

Going to Australia Part 1

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This Tuesday I’m going to Brisbane, Australia to see my cousins. I’m very, very EXCITED! We are going to Dreamworld, Movieworld and maybe Whitewater world. My cousins are Holly (11 years) and Emma (9 years). I am going to play with my Nintendo DS lite on the plane. I have been to [...]

Player of the Day

Last Saturday I played Rugby.
I play for Melville and we played Varsity. I got 7 tries and player of the Day. My position is wing. For player of the day I got a ribbon, then we went to the club rooms at 5.00 and I waited for my name to be called out and they [...]

30 000

On Friday 1st May Room 9 had a celebration because we had the thirty thousandth visitor to our blog.  It was during the holidays on April 17th at 4:50:41 am.  They came from Madrid in Spain.
We had party table cloths with balloons on and we had delightful, delicious cupcakes.  Each cupcake was covered in white icing.  [...]

Camp Karakariki

At camp my group was called CAMP ROCK!
We did lots of activities.  One of the activities was BMXing.  Mr Fawcett showed us how to go over the hills on a bike.  Then four people from CAMP ROCK got a BMX bike and one person went at a time.  Everyone had a few turns going around the [...]

I Got to Meet Greg Murphy at the V8s!!!

I went to the the Hamilton 400 on Friday 17.4.09 with Dad, my brother Brock and 5 other family members. When we were at the Holden merchandise tent I saw Greg Murphy signing posters. He signed our posters and was happy to let us take a photo with him. My aunty got him to sign [...]

Send a Postcard to Space

Hi Room 9, I hope you’re all enjoying your holidays.  I see that some of you have been on the wiki – well done!
I’m sure you all remember our visitor Eric Boe who came to school to tell us about space, NASA and the International Space Station (ISS).
There are a few astronauts on the ISS [...]

Winning What Now!

Read or watch this post first.

We were one of the 10 finalists but we did not win the big prize pack. It was still great to see us on TV even if it was only for 3 seconds. We did win the High School Musical 3 DVD however.
From MatSav [via email]

[permission to use the What Now [...]

The Hamilton Gardens

On Saturday I went to the Hamilton gardens.
In the Victorian gardens we went to catch tadpoles. We got lots of them in fact we got so many the pond was nearly empty of its tadpoles.
In the jungle part of the glass house building we saw 3 pitcher plants, one was yellow, one was green, and one was red. In the desert part of the glass house building we saw some BIG cactus.
In the lake we saw [...]

Thirty Thousand Page Views

It doesn’t seem long ago since Room 9 did this last year, but I just checked and our class blog has had 29, 169 visits. It took 3 years to reach 20,000 and just 6 months to reach nearly 30,000 visits.
We have about 100 visitors every day from all over the world, but that won’t [...]

Climbing the Tree

On Thursday we played lots of games at camp.
One was climbing a tree. When I went swimming it was freezing in the pool. My favourite activity was climbing the tree because it’s fun and its really high.
When I went half way up and I said “I can’t do it.”
Then a parent said “Yes you [...]

Camp Karakariki Animoto

I uploaded some photographs to Animoto, chose some music and pressed go.  This is what Animoto made for us.
Mr F.

Camp Karakariki

On the 2nd day of camp there were lots of activities.
I did BMX for my 3rd activity and it was my 2nd favourite activity.  Mr Fawcett took a photo of me when I went down the hill very fast.  I didn’t fall off the BMX.
The BMXs were easy for me, but I went pretty slow [...]

What Now Competition

At the weekend we made a video to enter a What Now! competition to win a MEGA DISNEY PACK!
by MatSav and GatMic

Kayaking

At Camp my group was the SUPER STARS.
On Thursday at Camp Karakariki I went kayaking. First I got my togs on and got my towel. Then I walked to the kayaks through a gate. It took about five minutes. I was nervous because I thought that I was going to fall in. I was excited. [...]