Good bye year eights :( :( :(

Hi everyone,
Unfortunately today we had to say good bye to our awesome year eights :(
It was really sad, I wish you all good luck for highschool :(
You will all reaaaaaally be missed :(
Posted by Millie

CHRISTMAS

i cant believe its so close to christmas. Only 11 days to go!!!
yesterday i put up our christmas tree which looks great heres some pics of what it looks like.
merry christmas.

daniel

Your personal guide to building a Colosseum!

Hi everyone!
For my Roman project I decided to write a guide to building a Colosseum.
I was originally doing Cleopatra and Julius Caesar but I decided to change!
So here it is,
YOUR GUIDE TO BUILDING A COLOSSEUM

The Colosseum is a building of massive proportion. So how do you build such a big building? First of all, you take thousands of slaves, and make them work all day for ten years.
~ FACT ~ The Colosseum is 465 feet long, 386 feet wide, and 118 feet high.  Its cement foundation is about 23 feet thick. 
Next, you host a grand ceremony  in dedication to this amazing building. Of course, no ceremony would be complete without a grand celebration of types. You should definitely slaughter 5,000 animals and follow this up with 100 days of games.
~ FACT ~   The building was built on an artificial lake, which means they had to put drains in it so it wouldn't flood.  If they closed these drains, the whole Colosseum could be flooded, which they sometimes did for mock ship battles.
Now you are ready to use your Colosseum for everyday things. Just make sure to look after it, and don't let anyone take any marble from it! Don't forget to decorate your Colosseum with lots of statues! It is also optional to light up your colosseum with lights and/or use it as a round about!

Posted by Millie (:

P.S Only three more school days til holidays!!

BIG DAY OUT

Hi everyone the big day out was awesome. i really enjoyed the hydro slides at jellie park unfortunately Mrs S beat my down the racing slide twice. thank you Mrs M, Mrs T and Mrs S, it was a truly great day.

from Daniel.

Visit the Enviro Blog!

Hi Guys
Please visit the Enviro Blog!

The address is:

southbrookenvirogroup@blogspot.co.nz

or you can find it via the school website

Posted by Millie and Lizzy

Cool pic miss t.

Keigans moment of the week

my moment of the weeek was building the colosseums and making my
power point on roman gladiators.
posted by keigan

Emma J moment of the week

Hey,
my moment of the week was reading I have finally started publishing hopefully I'm not to latye to finish 1 person is finished already. I also enjoyed my rome topic and once I have writen down the rest of my facts I'm finished YAY!

Posted by Emma J

The Enviro Group helps Piwakawaka

 

Well done to Mitchell, Tane, Elisabeth, Riley and Caleb P-E who helped the children in Piwakawaka plant out their new planter box yesterday. Well done guys, it is great to see you sharing your new knowledge with younger members of our school :)

 

Emma's Work!!

Hi,
Today I went and saw Mr Fletcher and had my work put up on the Quality Work Wall. So far I am the only person with projects on the wall! Come on guys... you are all able to have something up there. :)
Emma L

Mrs T in the Red Zone

Hi Team
I thought I might share these pics with you. I was in town the other night next to the red zone and they were pulling down a massive building with a dinosaur looking machine.... (don't you love my technical language?!?!) Enjoy

Posted by Mrs T

Homework

Hi Team

There are three weeks to go, and lots to finish, so here is the homework:

1. Spelling. At the end of next week (week 8) there is going to be our big 70 word test. You need to figure out which words of the last 10 lists you don't know and start practising pronto!

2. Reading. Please keep reading for 15 minutes each night

3. Ancient Rome Research. We need to finish our research, and present using either power point, poster or booklet format.

HAPPY HOMEWORKING!

Posted by Mrs T

TOP DOG WINNERS

Hi Everyone
As requested, here are the top dog winners!

1: ASTRO                                
2: GEORGE
3: HOLLY

Thanks for everyone who entered their pet!

Eva's MOMENT OF THE WEEK!

Hello Every Body..
My moment of the week is the Colosseum building cause me and Emma Have a lot of fun and laughs but still manage to get the work done he-he but yea were almost finished cant wait to see the end product i bet its gonna be amazing everyone else looks really good.!
Eva H-G (((:

CODY'S MOMENT OF THE WEEK!!!!!

SUP MY MOMENT OF THE WEEK HAS BEEN DOING THE COLLESEUM WORK
CODY

Emma's Moment Of The Week!!!

Hello,

I have really been enjoying the colosseum building. My moment of the week was when we had almost a whole day of colosseum making. Eva and I are almost done... I am pleased with our result so far, everyone elses is looking great as well!

Emma L! :)

Quizz 2

Hey guys time for another quizz

Guess Who
I play football
I am a boy
I am an adult
I am world known for well being awesome
I have played in the FIFA world cup
Who am I?
posted by Emma

Rubys Moment Of The Week

Hello,

My moment of the week would probably be........
When we were making our colosseums for nearly the whole day.


From Ruby

Quizz

Guess Who
I am a really bad empire from Rome
My name starts with N
I started the fire of Rome to make room for my Golden Palace
You have seen me on youtube when we was looking for Tiberius Gracchus
WHO AM I?
posted by Emma

P.S. this is just a fun quizz no prize won.

Colosseums

Hey guys my 'learning moment of the week' was continueing to build our colosseums they are starting to look good.

DARIA

Emma J and Emily's favourite moment

My favourite moment was the Colosseums. Emma and I are nearly up to paper macheing it.
Emily =]

My favourite moment this wekk was working with Emily on the colosseum we make such a great team and we're nearly finished with the inside and then we need to do paper macheing can't wait :D
Emma

Joshua's Moment of the week

My Moment Of The Week

My monent of the week was learning all the types of roman weapons like

Spatha- A sword Calvery units (Horses) use
 
Arcus and Saggitta- Bow And Arrows




Plugio- A Dagger







By Joshua

Guess Who..

Hi everyone
I am a girl
I have blonde hair
And I love  Emblem3 and Rihanna!
Who am I?
From ......

Millie's 'learning moment'

Hi Guys

This week I learnt that in Ancient Egypt Chlidren didn't wear clothes until they were old enough to marry which was about 12 years old!

My moment of the week was probably being lifted up by Pippa and Lizzy at lunch times!
That was fun

From Millie

Daniels moment of the week

my  favourite part of the week was on thursday when we spent ages doing our colosseums
my group are making greatt progression at this and cant wait till we can puut in some lighting and see the finished product.

posted by

dan

Our Colosseums are taking shape!

Hi Everyone
It is great to see our Relationship and Character Kete in action as we build our colosseums. I am loving seeing team work and problem solving happening in Room 11! Here are the latest pics

Mrs T

Who am I

Who am I?? 

Hey guys 

Try and guess who this is 

1) I have blonde hair 

2) I have blue eyes 

3) I sit at a desk with only boys 

4) I love chocolate 

5) And I LOVE One Direction 

From .............

Sorry no prize 

In the weekend I played cricket for the year 8 north canterbury cricket team.We smashed country south twice.Then i went to morgans house good times :).And now its sunday morning I think im going to lukes today.

From Angus.

Eclipse 2012

Today the senior team enjoyed using black paper, white paper and the sun to make cresents on the white paper with holes in the black paper. Using the paper meant we were not hurting our eyes by looking at the eclipse.

Colosseum and Team Work

Hi Everyone
The colosseums are progressing and everyone is now onto building their actual colosseums!
It has been great to see most people participating with 100% effort, managing themselves and working well with others. AWESOME WORK GUYS!

Check out pics from Week 5 below

Colosseum buliding begins!

Hi Everyone!
This week we have started building our model colosseums, as part of our Ancient Rome theme "Rome, The Romans and You."
The first task was to make a mock up design. Check out the photos below :)