Healing Species

Here in Room 8 we have started a new programme. Healing Species is all about respect for others, empathy and rescued animals helping to heal the human heart. Every Thursday Susan comes to Room 8 with a new dog that has been through a programme call The Ark.

The Ark is a programme that pairs kid up with neglected dogs so they can be trained, loved, and cared for until they are ready to be put up for adoption. The dogs that have come in so far are Beau, Mac and Lucky. These are all great dogs and amazingly good for what they have been through.    

So far we have been taught how to respect others by respecting their personal space and how to treat people the right way. Also, not to let go of our power. This programme is teaching us to stand up for ourselves and gain confidence.

We have talked about how to get help when someone you trust and/or love treats you without respect,  not to let go of our power and then how to fix a broken heart. Doing stuff you love, helping people out and doing something nice for someone are all things to fix a broken heart.

The way Healing Species started was from an American lady called Cheri Brown Thompson who was driving along one day and saw a dog who looked really mistreated. She pulled over and had a look at the dog. She felt sorry for him and looked for something to give to him. She found a pop tart in her car and gave it to him but he was in so much pain he did not want to eat it. So she went down to the shop to get some dog food. She came back and fed it to him every day for a week or two and she was starting to see some improvement. Then one day while she was feeding him the owners pulled up with big smiles on their faces. They said "That's the woman who has been feeding our dog". Cheri couldn't believe this dog actually had an owner!!! She could tell that these people saw Gravey with their eyes but not their hearts. Cheri asked if she could have their  dog and they just said "Fine".

Cheri named her new dog Gravey. She took him to the vet and fixed him up. And over time he was a healthy dog. She came up with a programme called Healing Species which was to help dogs get trained and to help troubled children socialise with mistreated dogs and help them get a lovely new homes.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

This is Mac

We are learning these

Lucky

Lucky

Kiwi Flyer!!!!

On Thursday 27/9/12 our class went for a little visit to the movies. 

Firstly we walked to the bus stop, then caught the bus and we went to the State Cinema. We bought tickets and food then headed to the Theatre to watch Kiwi Flyer. The main reason that we went to the movies is because Matt French has a big part in the movie Kiwi Flyer. His name in the movie is 'Stewie'. The movie Kiwi Flyer is about a boy named Ben who wanted to follow in his father's foot steps. But sadly while Ben's father was building a trolley for Ben, that night he died. R.I.P.

 A couple of months later Ben asked his Mother if he could be in the race but she said no. He did it anyway with his mate named Tiki.

When he finally finished his first Derby trolley he named it Kiwi Flyer. He timed it and it went slowly the first time. 

Then suddenly out of nowhere here came the Aussie's shooting down the road. They knew they would have to beat them, so they bought some racing wheels and they timed it a second time and boom! Done.

Then their day came. They raced just as a practise and shooting out of nowhere the Aussie's came and knocked them over. Their trolley smashed, they were heart broken. Ben's Mother found out that the Aussie's had called Ben's dad a loser and she saw how upset Ben was.She helped him build another cart for the race with the left over pieces from Ben's Dads one. 
  Then their day came, it was hard but they got through. At the end of the day Ben won and everything was OK.

When the movie finished we headed to the arcade room for a bit. Then we headed back to school on the bus, what a fun day. 

Matt and his Mum made some great biscuits, they were delicious. The biscuits were based on a trolley out of the movie Kiwi Flyer. The biscuits had a TimTam base, then had MM's for the wheels, then had a Tiny Teddy on top. For decoration the biscuit had a number on top and the melted chocolate was holding everything together.

 The last photo is a picture of the class in the theatre getting ready to watch the movie, how fun. 

Life Education

THE LIFE EDUCATION BUS

The Life Education bus is a very helpful experience for most ages, as it teaches you the bad side of life and the good side of life.

Life Ed teaches you about different types of topics like drugs and alcohol. It also tells you how they both effect your body parts, your friends and family.

The Life Ed Bus stays at Broadgreen for five weeks. You get three lessons in the Life Ed bus and guess what? The lessons are all for free, isn't that great!.

VICTORIA

Victoria is the teacher of the Life Ed bus. This amazing woman is very nice and teaches you about stuff you never knew before.

HAROLD THE AMAZING GIRAFFE 

Harold is a twenty foot tall giraffe who sings brilliant songs. He hates drugs and alcohol and gives the biggest kisses ever.

Thanks Life Ed.  Room 8 had a good time.

Confidence Pantoum

 Confidence 

 A Pantoum by Room 8 

 Anything is possible with confidence 

 A pathway to success in life 

 Being true to yourself and who you are 

  Believing in yourself and never backing down

 A pathway to success in life 

 Having the right amount of confidence, just enough to jump 

 life's hurdles 

 Being true to yourself and never backing down 

 Leaving your old, shy self behind 

 Having the right amount of confidence, just enough to jump 

 life's hurdles 

 Having confidence lets you thrive 

 Leaving your old, shy self behind 

 Confronting your deepest fears 

 Having confidence let's you thrive 

 Stand up and believe in yourself 

 Confronting your deepest fears 

 Not letting other bring you down 

 Stand up and believe in yourself 

 You can't see confidence, but it always with you 

 Not letting others bring you down 

  If you put your mind to it, you will be unstoppable 

 You can't see confidence, but it's always with you 

 A pathway to success in life 

 If you put your mind to it, you will be unstoppable 

 Anything is possible with confidence 

This is our class Pantoum. Each of us got into groups of 2 to 3 people where we got some paper and wrote three deep, moving and emotional  sentences for our confidence poem. When we were done we sat in our groups and read our chosen sentence (because we could only pick one out of the three) aloud. The Pantoum originates in Malaysia in the 18th century and consists of 12 repeated lines. Its pronounced  Pan-towm.

Speeches

                                               Speeches

Hello! Our names are James Blackler and Jake Williams. In Term Two we had Broadgreen's annual speech competition featuring the six houses of Broadgreen. Each house put through some brave people to represent their house in the school-wide competition. Two of our classmates Jake Williams and Emma Nell were selected. Once the preliminary embers were extinguished the finalists went on,the speeches were amazing. We could tell how much work the people put into this,tension was high. When the six finalists were called we were lucky at the end of the competition that our friend Jake made it in.

                                     Part from Jake's Speech

"This man has brought laughter to children, smiles to faces and cheer to the world. So that’s why my speech is about (take deep breath) Sir Terence Alan Patrick Sean Milligan also known as (take another deep breath) Spike.

Spike had an odd life doing many things, meeting many people,going many places and writing many books, but his life all started in Ahmednagar in India on April Sixteenth 1918. His father was Captain Leo Alphonso Milligan who served in the British Indian Army, his mother was Florence Mary Winifred Kettleband. *I guess long names run in the family.*"

This is a small part from my speech. It was about sir Spike MIlligan, more commonly known as the author of Bad Jelly the Witch.

                                             Part from Emma's Speech

 It all started on the 11th of March last year. A magnitude 9 earthquake triggered a tsunami in Japan. It also caused a Nuclear Power Plant to overheat, leaking radiation into the air. A seagull named Larry was heading to England when he flew straight into the contaminated area. Luckily he survived but the radiation then gave him super sonic flying powers. Larry was actually on his way to watch the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Katherine Middleton at Westminster Abbey

This speech follows the story of a Seagull that gets radiated and eats someone's homework. Oh yeah it's also an excuse!

                             Photo's of the Speech Finalists.

Aw man! I got red eye.

In the winners circle.

"Sir Terence Alan Patrick Sean "Spike" Milligan." In third. (not too bad if I do say so myself.)

"The Philosophy of Wishes" got second.

"YouTwittFace" Got first.

This has been the 5th post of 2012 by Jake Williams and James Blackler. Goodbye

P.S The Jake typing this is the Jake in the photos.

The Hacket Trip

Last Wednesday Room 8 went to the Hacket on a day trip as part of our Earth Science study.

We found rocks like Poppy Jasper, Serpentine, Chromite and Talc

Serpentine

Poppy Jasper

Chromite

Talc

About to go over the Swing bridge.

Brianna and Te Maunga 

We'll be coming 'round the mountain when we come.

Blah Blah Blah >_<

Are we there yet?

"I'm not too sure about this bridge."

Watch out for loose rocks.

I know I've already said this, but are we there yet?

You're facing the wrong way!

They grow up so fast.

Is it a sideways river photo or a  right side up stalagtite photo?

HURRY UP!!

Why am I at the back?

MY EYES ARE TOO BIG  FOR MY BRAIN !!!

(Dropping jaw)

It's a miracle of nature :0

My legs hurt.

WOW!!

Ooooooooohhh aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh!!

No, we are not there yet!

Drinking water the ol' fashioned way.

"Oh yeah I just totally climbed that mountain"

Look at my ice NOW!!!!

       BY TREVOR & KADEN

It's Raining Raincoats in Room 8!

Kia ora guys,

Last week Room 8 did a Technology Challenge. The challenge was to make a waterproof raincoat that had a hood, sleeves, a belt and a cellphone pocket. We were put into groups of 4-5 and our only resources to use were 7 plastic bags, cellotape and a vivid. The winner of the challenge was Taylor's group. Their raincoat was fantastically awesome. Here are some photos of the models. 

Taylor is a pretty princess and the winner!

Tanesha loves calling people on her fancy cell-phone.

Kaden shows off. Cee-cee-mo!

Joey's rocking this coat

Astral strikes a pose!

Brianna struts her stuff.

By Chloe & Emma, 

Peace Out :D

                                                   

This term our virtue is Responsibility and for an assignment Mrs Binnie gave the class a task to do that day. We were split into four groups of four and had half an hour to take at least six photos that represent Responsibility. When we were done taking the photos we converted the photos into a Comic Life strip.
Here are some photos that Joey,Holly,Te Maunga and Corban took to represent Responsibility .

    Joey is not being responsible because he is on the wrong side of the path and he will hurt someone.

                                                       Like Holly for instance! Poor Holly.

            Joey is now being responsible because he is on the right and safe side of the foot path.

This is the right and safe way to ride on the foot path 

Made By Astral Ramsay And Brianna Weir.