MATAPU SCHOOL – Room 1 Talkback

We have just started our planning for next term as a class.  This is our first stage in our Inquiry Process where we are deciding what we know, what we don’t know and what we are unsure about.  

First we stickered everything we know about astrology with blue stickers, then grouped them according to catagories such as planets, stars, moons and “others” (ones that we couldn’t catagorise).  We then thought of different questions and stickered them on the page in pink labels.  After that we found we could answer some of the questions already with things we already knew.  So now we are left with some unanswered questions that we will tackle next term!

Well.  It’s been a fantastic few weeks of competition and it has been GREAT to see you all get out there and give it 100% for your houses.  Well done all of you!!!  Here are your results…for the FIRST half of the season!!!  (You don’t actually think I was going to give you the overall results this easy??!!) So, at the half way mark these are the placings and points…
Fourth – Kakariki on 24 points
Third – Whero on 25 points
First equal – Kowhai and Kahurangi both on 28 points.
I will tell you that the final standings are different than the standings above. Some houses move up in rankings and some move down. Find out next week!!!!!

This week we have had the Life Education bus at our school.  In Room one we have been talking about making informed choices about smoking and the consequences, and also about peer pressure.  We also looked inside the body with the aid of PAT and learnt heaps about how the body works!

We had a great time in New Plymouth recently at the BP Technology Challenge.  Our two teams did really well in creating bridges for cars to cross, sky high towers and creative hats to hide Marge’s hair, amongst other things.

Today is the big day for our BP Technology Challenge teams!  We are off to New Plymouth to compete against other year 7&8 students.  Good luck to us all! 

In class we have talked about those two missing Habits of the Mind.  Post your answers of what you think they are on this post.

Boy oh boy we had a few problems finding this word!! Here it is again, and the first person to get it correct wins the Matamoney! Remember, it has to do with growing plants.
H O R _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ E

We are starting our unit on finding out about different jobs in this area and will be working hard to get our information gathered by next week to present on our blogs.

If you think you know the answer, post it right here!!!