Poems by Judy

The poem below is a acrostic poem about Sunnybrae...

ACROSTIC POEM ‘SENIORS’

So desperate to move on, out of Sunnybrae when we were juniors.

Endless chatting, silenced by the stern words of teachers      that lingered and gave the classroom an eerie silence.

Nearly haunting the handball courts, marking it as their territory.

Irritating (some of us), yet sometimes we still get awards and certificates.

“Oh yes!” We are getting better at using electronic devices from all the ‘practice’ we do at school.

Realising how many more weeks we have here, no one wants to leave...

Sunnybrae has been the best place!


Now the poem below describes a feeling that we have had at Sunnybrae...

Feelings poem

Luck is light green mixed with a happy yellow, joyously lashing against the paint pot.

When you scratch a card and find out that you’ve just won the lotto, you know that luck is upon you.

Luck tastes like rich nectarine ice cream on a drenchingly hot  summer afternoon

Luck sounds like jingling bells of laughter echoing down a candle-lit hallway.

Luck looks like glorious sunshine on a four-leaf-clover.

Luck smells like fresh bread out of the oven.

Luck is knowing that there is a sunny day ahead.

Team Building at Camp - by Jessica

Below is Jessica's piece of writing about her experience of Team Building at camp! 

Team building     By Jessica

“ Left, right, left, right!” my team of 4 yelled. We were with Mr Whiting doing team building and our first activity in team building was where we had to get in groups of 4, with boys and girls, then walk across part of the field on the ski mask. We weren't that bad and were in fact better than most of the other people in A3. The time was 6 minutes and 43 seconds, I think.

The next activity was climbing over a high wall where one of the sides was easy. Well, I found that one of the sides were kind of like a built in ladder! I found it easy (I'm not scared of heights) so for the people who were, we cheered for them and they made it.

The hard part was getting back over on the flat side. First we had to choose who was going to lift everyone up. We chose Vinny, Casey and Spencer. I was the first to go up. I know this sounds weird but I thought of it like riding a horse. It is like that because when you hop on a horse you swing one leg over first, then sit on it. So that’s what I did, but if you were one of the people who were not pulling people up from the top (which I was), you would go back over the other side.

Overall I think we are now a better team because of this.                       

  

Guy Fawkes - For and Against

Alisya's Camp Recount

What If? ......

Rugby League... and Ultimate Tag!

Photos in action of us trying to rip off other people's tags...

Camp Preview by Judy

Spelling by Caiden

The muscular system Caiden and Andy

The muscular system by Dylan and Sanha

The muscular system by Tahnee and Anni

Current event by Caiden

Liam's Speech

Recently the Senior Syndicate at our school held our speech finals and Liam won. He represented the school in the Zone Finals and finished 3rd. This is his speech (on its first attempt). Don't you agree that it is pretty good?!

The Respiratory System by Blue Reading Group

During reading computer time our group put together a presentation on the Respiratory System of the body. We each completed a slide so that the whole system was explained. Here is our presentation.
By Caiden

Maths Week Lunch Activities

Window Poem by Jinhee

Cross Country Training

Over the last couple of weeks we have been training for our school cross country. Looks like Mr Whiting and Mr Gordon are as well!!!

Thank You Museum helpers .. You were great.

Commonwealth News by Room 12

Angelina's War Inquiry

Liam Knight's War Inquiry

Arlen's War Inquiry

Esuru's War Inquiry

Liam Kim's War Inquiry

Junki's War Inquiry

Jessica's War Inquiry

Harry and Dylan's War Inquiry

Andy's War Inquiry

Caiden's War Inquiry

Rio's War Inquiry

Senior Syndicate Museum Trip

Last week the Senior Syndicate visited the museum. We went to look at the War exhibits but were lucky enough to explore many other parts of the museum as well. Liam, Judy and Kyla made a video of some of the photos that were taken.

Rm12 Current Events

Have a look at some spectacular events that have happened around the world. Room Twelve students have been writing some great current event pieces for the blog. Some of these events are the weirdest and craziest events so we hope you enjoy reading them! 

  

Room 12 Book Reviews ...

Room 12 have been writing some fantastic book reviews. You will see here a few great and interesting books that you will love and enjoy. These book reviews are published by Room 12 students and they have put a lot of work into this. It is great for people that are looking for books. We will add more next term. Don’t forget to comment!

Gymnastics can be fun ..

Army Fitness Trail Slide Show

Our amazing ideas for a new fitness trail for soldiers...

War Facts Slide Show

This is our slide full of facts on war...

Disco Night

What fun we all had at the disco .. Here are some of the photos Mrs Waters took of us.

Middle Syndicate Production Reflective Comments

Auckland Get's Frosty .. By Judy

S.M.A.R.T. Thinking

This term we have been looking at war and our S.M.A.R.T’s are based on war so enjoy.

Blog Group Number 3

Soccer 2014

War and Peace Cinquains

This term we have been thinking about ANZAC and how the soldiers were so brave to even go there. These are some reports our class did about A.N.Z.A.C Day in the holidays.

Fortunately, Unfortunately

We wrote some 'fortunately, unfortunately' poems about an event that happened during the holidays.

Fortunately/Unfortunately         By Anni

I was sick for a few days in the middle of the holidays.

Unfortunately it was at 12:25pm that I was sick first.

Fortunately it was only every half a hour.

Unfortunately it kept me up all the haunted night.

Fortunately it stopped at 8:00am because a monster scared me.

Unfortunately  I was not having  fun being sick.

Fortunately I got red lemonade.

Unfortunately I hate not playing with lego for a long day full of boringness.

Fortunately my parents would come in and get me whatever I wanted in the house.

Unfortunately my parents only came in every hour so I feared monsters would kill me.

Fortunately that gave me time to fall asleep and go to dream land.

Unfortunately my sisters kept making bathroom noises.

Fortunately my mum told them to be quiet with a loud voice that could have made my ears blow up.

Unfortunately one of my sister’s wouldn’t be quiet and kept being horrible.

Fortunately my sisters went to the movie.

Unfortunately  my dad went to the movies but not my mum, a noisy complainer.

Fortunately I got to sleep because aliens made me.

Unfortunately my sisters woke me up with tamborines.

Fortunately I got 2 hours sleep.

Unfortunately dinner was then and I got so hungry I couldn’t eat because a sticky machine would come and attack me if I did.

Fortunately I felt a bit better because I got to watch T.V and a anti-sickness machine made me feel better.

It was the holidays and mum took us to the beach ..

Fortunately it was a sunny day.

Unfortunately mum forgot her purse.

Fortunately she had her phone and called dad.
Unfortunately dad said he can drop the purse at 2 o'clock.
Fortunately mum saw her friend and asked: “can you buy my family food?”
Unfortunately Burger King was closed.
Fortunately we saw a ride we wanted to go on.
Unfortunately the ride was broken.
Fortunately we went for a swim.
Unfortunately we went home.
Fortunately dad bought me a basket ball.
Unfortunately we were tired.
Fortunately we had fun.
Unfortunately mum said we need to go to bed.
Fortunately dad said we can play in our room.
Unfortunately we started fighting.
Fortunately our mum and dad did not hear us.
Unfortunately someone started crying.
Fortunately mum arrived with drinks.
Unfortunately we had to go to bed.
WOW WHAT A FUNNY MIXED UP DAY!!!

By Jun Ki

Haiku's by Room 12

These are some of Room 12’s Haiku poems. We have been writing them this term. They originated from Japan and they were normally about Nature but we have written them about war and peace.

War and Peace Wordles

 

Term 2

Music with Mr Ramsay

This term we have been learning music with Mr Ramsay and today we did a performance. The first performance is conducted by Liam Kim - doesn't he do an excellent job?

Weeks 9/10 Bloggers

Thank you Evie, Andy, Jeremy and Jessica for creating and choosing most of the work to post on the class Blog this week. Another amazing job done by you all.

Judy's SMART Breakfast

More current Events

Here are some more current events from Term One. We chose cool events that interested us or the most unusual event we could find!

New Zealand flag debate ..

This week for homework we have been creating some NZ flags. There has been some debate about changing the NZ flag from the government. What do you think about these amazing creations!?