Speeches

We have just finished our speeches. Everyone in room 7 did an awesome job. They gave great messages and used interesting stories to tell their messages. There was lots of learning around hooking people in, engaging the audience and speaking in a way that keeps people interested. Well done guys, I was proud of how you all presented them. The above video are some snippets of Room 7's finalists presenting at the school speeches. They were awesome and gave important messages clearly and in a way that everyone understood. Well done guys.  Their placings were:
Year 8: 1st Taylor, 2nd Finn, 3rd Graham.
Year 7: 1st Bradley, 2nd Ellen, 3rd Logan
The top boy and girl from each age group will now go on to the Lower Waipa competition.

HORSE RIDING and KAYAKING

Well done Room 7. Challenge 6 completed! I know a number of you were nervous about this challenge but you all took it on and realised that often things are not as scary as you anticipate them to be. You found the courage in yourself to get on and it wasn't long until everyone was relaxed and loving it!

Stop Motion Animation

For our visual arts this term we are going to create stop motion animations. At the moment we are exploring what they are and learning te basic process. Above are some we created as a class to learn the process. We also viewed a number of stop motion animations to identify different ways of creating them. Below are some video links to a few of these. Our animations will be based around our inquiry into the living world - primarily insects. I am really looking forward to what you will create room 7. I know you are creative and will think of some really imaginative ideas to turn into movies.

Living World Inquiry

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Those small creatures, that can be annoying and gross, but are crucial to this world and are often incredible and fascinating are what we are making an inquiry into this term. Insects, spiders, slugs, beetles, bees and other small life make the world go around and we are going to find out why! 

We have started looking at how we can tell what is living and what is non-living. This video which talks about Mrs Nerg has helped us with this. 



Yesterday we got out our magnifiers and microscopes and viewed the wings, legs, hair, etc up close and began to see the similarities and patterns between them.