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Today, we were invited to give our own ideas for the community (Glen Innes) Music and Art Centre.

The name's of the visitors were:

Debbie - Landscaper

Jo - Sustainability

Lindsay (Man) - Architect

Vanessa - Auckland Council.

Lindsay asked us to write our ideas on the paper. Autymn and I worked together. We tried so hard to think of good ideas.

After we had written them down, Lindsay asked some kids to share. There were lots of good ideas but I think the best one was a community garden around the building.

After that, Debbie talked about the Landscape. The Maori symbols on the landscape represented the things they were going to build there. She had awesome ideas. I thought they were great.

Jo talked about how we can clean the river to keep the creatures that live there, healthy. She also said that we will be using water from the rain and getting electricity from the heat of the Sun to keep things going

After they spoke we had to put more ideas. My idea was to reuse recycling to make things out of it.

When we all finished Britney said a short speech on behalf of room 11 and 12.

As she ended they said thank you and then we packed up and went to class.

Soup Making

WoW! What another surprise!!!!

On Tuesday the fourth of September we had soup making in the hall.

There were different kinds of  soup that all the classes made.
Room 12 made potatoe and leek soup. Room 09 made pumpkin with pasta and the rest of the classes made pumpkin with other ingredients.

Each class got the chance to make their soup with the teacher aids.
Room12 got to peel the potatoes and cut the leeks themselves.
When everyone finished we helped room 07 set the hall with tables surrounded by chairs.

After a few minutes all the classes came to  the hall to eat their tasty soup.
Before we ate Melissa  said a Kara Kia. When she said amen we all started digging into the soup.
I tasted the potato and leek soup and oh my gosh it was so DELICIOUS.
 No offence, and sorry to disappoint you Miss Barry,
At first when I looked at the soup it looked like mashed worms and snails with rotten milk.
But it was so delicious that I went for two rounds.

Some kids wasted their pumpkin soup or they did not even taste it. That was a disappointment for me.
There were some leftovers in the pot.

After all that delicious soup it made me full.

CLICK HERE TO SEE SOME PHOTOS OF OUR SOUP MAKING

My Most Memorable Moment

Bing- The most memorable moment of my life is hearing that New Zealand won 3 Gold medal so far. I know that other countries are beating New Zealand but at least they tried.

Bang- The other memorable moment is seeing Usain Bolt win in the 100 metre race. As I was watching Usain Bolt win it made me think that he is the world's fastest sprinter and that he worked very hard to get the Olympic games.

Bong- The other memorable moment of my is hearing the twins win the rowing. They received Gold medals. I was proud they represented for New Zealand.

If you would like to see the counts of the medals CLICK HERE.

MAKING SANDWICHES

WoW! What A Surprise, Glen Innes School had a healthy sandwich making day because

1. It's a healthy eating month and
2. It's healthy for our body.

Yesterday Mr. Naidoo prepared the hall with many pictures that showed us healthy food, tables surrounded by chairs and a huge yellow banner. I was so shocked to hear that Pak'nSave sponsored us for our Healthy Eating Month.

Mr. Hendricks told us that Mr. Naidoo went and spoke to the Manager of Pak'nSave about our healthy eating month. It was very helpful of him to do that for us.

Before we received our bread and fillings Mr. Hendricks said an opening prayer. When he was finished, the teacher aids came out with some Bread, Lettuces, Carrots, Cucumbers, Tuna with Apple and some Hams.

Once the girls got their bread and fillings they started looking for nice lettuce, yummy carrots and fresh green cucumber. After getting their fillings they added some yellow cheddar cheese and tuna. When they finished they waited for someone to eat first and Chloe was the first to eat, so we all ate our sandwiches too.

After eating three sandwiches I was full that I did not want to do anything. Room 11 and 12 helped stack the chairs and pack away the tables. Tre, Kaz, Sameera and I stayed to sweep the floor because the floor was so messy.

I can't wait to make soup next week. I hope it is as nice as the sandwich. Yesterday was awesome and I had so much

Olympic Speech

We have been learning to write and present our speeches. We had to persuade the audience to think our way. The Olympics was our theme.

The criteria we had to use to write and present our speech included, an introduction, delivery, content and our conclusion.

Today we learned:

1. To write a powerful introduction
2. To use appropriate words
3. Pose a question

On Friday17 of August Rooms 9-12 announced their speech in front of the whole school.

Before room 12 announced their speech we have been recording each others speeches on our netbooks.

Some of us were nervous and some of us were calm.

Our theme was on Olympics.

I was really nervous but not as nervous as Tan - Charlie, he was shaking.
When Mr. Hendricks called me to say my speech I was a bit nervous.
I did not know whether my speech was 3 minutes or less.

I thought I was good because I didn't look at my cue cards, I just looked at the kids.
As I was Looking at the kids I thought I would mumble in the middle of my speech.
Once I saw my family I felt alright, but still nervous.

Once I was finished I sat back down.
Mr.Hendricks called the Yr7-6 onto the stage.
I thought I didn't come first but I did come fourth.
Even though I didn't come first I was still happy.

I WAS SOOOOOOOOOO UPSET

I wasn’t expecting to miss out on the biggest day of my life.
My biggest day was the Netbook Roll Out.
On that day I had to stay at home because I was sick.

While everyone in Rooms 9 to 12 were getting their Netbook I was stuck at home.
I almost cried missing out on getting my OWN Netbook. I had to stay home with my little sister and brother while my mum and nana were at school doing the Netbook course. As I was at home I was watching too much tv while my siblings were running around the house.

When the kids came back home they told me about the Netbook Roll out.
They also told me that they took pictures and played a lot of games. They said they had so much fun exploring their netbook.

I was so happy but I wished I had got the chance to get my own netbook on that day.

Yipppeeeee, wow Auariki!

Aren't we so lucky to be able to use this type of technology to help with learning and teaching at Glen Innes School?