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.

PEARL HARBOUR

Our teacher Roselyn Binnie went on a holiday to Hawaii and went on a doorless chopper ride and these are some of the pictures she took. She showed us these photos because this relates to ANZAC Day (WW1)  because many people were lost on the ships docked in Pearl Harbour two years in World War 2.

The full view of the Memorial and SS.Arizona.

                                       

The close up view of the SS.Arizona and the Memorial.

                                   

The airfield that was once Pearl Harbour.

                       

Hello and welcome to the Room 8 2012 blog. Above are pictures of Pearl Harbour. The airport on the bottom is where the Japanese laid waste to Honolulu on the island of Oahu but now they rebuilt it as an airfield.

The two pictures above are the memorial to all the soldiers who died during the bombing, the giant behemoth resting beneath the memorial is the SS.Arizona which is too big for words.

 Oil is still slowly leaking out of the damaged hull but if they tried to move the ship the walls would collapse and all the oil would flow out to the sea. There are still some bodies inside but all that would be left is bones.

 An interesting fact is that if the Japanese didn't bomb Pearl Harbour, Hitler might have won the war and we would have lived under Hitlers reign. 

 This post has been sent by the tech-educators of Room 8, Poppy and Jake and there shall be many more posts from the students of our class.

Rugby World Cup Rush!!

In Room 8 we  made posters for the All Blacks supporting our own New Zealand team. Some people drew the All Blacks and others drew the New Zealand flag.
In our class we have the flags of the world; Canada, France, Japan, Tonga, Argentina, England, Romania, Georgia, Scotland, Australia, Ireland, Italy, Russia, USA, Fiji,  Namibia, Samoa, South Africa, Wales and our own home team New Zealand.
So far our All Blacks have won against Tonga and Japan.

Courtney:
Likes the All Blacks because they have really good team players (Sonny Bill Williams).

Regina:
Likes the All Blacks all the way because she is a New Zealander and she's proud of it. She likes  Daniel Carter.

Jess:
Likes the All Blacks because they are a very strong team and they are in New Zealand so it's their turn to win.

Tate:
Likes the Azzurri (Blues), Italian team. because Italy is his favorite foriegn country.

Minna:
Supports England Rugby Union because it is her home country and the people over there are awesome.

68 % of the class support the All Blacks.
4 %  of the class support Scotland.
4%  of the class support Samoa.
4 % of the class support England.
4 % of the class support Italy.
8 % of the class support Ireland.
8 % of the class support Canada.

Our Wacky Technology challenge

On the 10th and 11th of August 2011 Room 8 had a Technology Challenge. We had to make a Waka.  We got separated into groups of 4-5. The rules were that the Waka needed to have sturdy sides, fit at least one person and to form the shape of a Waka. To make the Waka we got given 30 sheets of newspaper and 30 ice block sticks and a roll of Sellotape.

The race was on...!!


Most people started with making the bottom of the Waka with newspaper, after that we needed to make the sides, with either rolled up newspaper or folded newspaper. To make them sturdy we used the ice-block sticks around the sides. We finished just before the bell rang so we had to judge our Waka's the next day.

The next morning Miss Rodman said to the class "Ok, lets judge our Waka's." So one person in each group went into the back room to get their Waka. Then they all decided who was going to sit in the Waka and who was going to explain what they did during the process of making their Waka. Once everyone had explained what they did Miss Rodman judged our Waka's. Max's group won because they had sturdy sides, had the shape of a Waka and also could fit Max into their Waka.


We had a great time making our Waka's and we all cant wait for our next Technology Challenge.


By Josh and Mikayla.

Red Sock day!!

 By Leah and Jack M!!

Sir Peter Blake liked to wear his Red Socks for good luck. During the America's Cup Challenge in 1995 New Zealand supported the boat by putting on  their own lucky red socks.  The Sir Peter Blake Trust encourages schools to celebrate Leadership Day and the memory of Sir Peter Blake!!

Last Friday much of BIS and New Zealand put on their own red socks in celebration of Sir Peter Blake and supporting the leaders in our school. Everyone was encouraged to wear red socks to show appreciation for all the leaders and people who want to be leaders all over New Zealand. The Friday before Room 8's class leader told the school about Sir Peter Blake and what he did to become a hero in our country! Here are some photos of BIS showing their support!!

(from Left) Mr Johnstone, Mr Lucic and Mrs Gully Showing their support for the leaders in our school!!!

(in both Pictures) BIS wearing their red socks!!!

Fair Testing

Monday 30th May 2011:

Room 7, 8 and Mr J went over the rules of 'Fair Testing'.
With a five cent piece and an eye dropper we tested how many drops of water would fit on the coin. There were 51 drops of water in the end on the coin before the waters' skin broke.
Most of our estimations were right. We could guess 0-5, 5-10, 10-20, or 20+ drops of water.


What made the experiment a fair test
 It was a fair test because we kept the height of the dropper the same and the coin was kept on a flat surface.                                                                      

 The Equipment Used:

• 1x Eye Dropper 
• 1x 5c Coin
• 1x Desk
• 1x glass cup of water 
• Hypothesis

Fair testing...

Fair testing is where you keep everything the same, except you change only one variable each time you do a new experiment.

Wednesday 1 June

Room 8 went to the Science lab today and did an experiment with jelly beans, yummy! We all got into groups of three and got a small container. We filled it with water and vinegar then put our jelly beans in. We also put a piece of cloth in it.

Question:

Can coloured jelly beans dye a piece of cloth?

We did two experiments changing one variable in the second test. E.g Colour of jelly beans, amount or type of vinegar. 

We all brought the containers back to the class and put the containers into the back room. We left them there for a few days and most of the cloth ended up dyed.