Week 7 almost over already and once again it has been a very busy week in Room 7!

Today I have the pleasure of teaching again as it is Mrs Donnelly's turn to be sick.  She has lost her voice, which I am sure her husband is pleased about?

Tuesday was a late night for many of our class as they participated in the ILT Sing Out at the Civic Theatre.  Our singers were Baylee, Azra, Saraya, Dominic, Ella and Emma and they thought it was initially 'nerve racking', but quickly got over their stage fright and really enjoyed it! The school's individual items were amazing and in particular Room 7 were inspired by the Girl's High item.  Emma commented that, "they sung like angels!"

This week we have been busy preparing to create our "I Can Animate" retellings of our myths and legends.  Firstly, we had to select our background pictures and then we had to make our characters.  Our next step is to use the video cameras to take all our clips to make our animation.  We can't wait until we see our end result.

On Wednesday we had a panel of guest speakers made up of parents from our school.  There were two people from South Africa, one from Germany, one from Australia and one from England.  They talked about the differences between their home country and here.  Some of the interesting facts we learnt about were;

1. In Germany you are allowed to go as fast as your car can go on the highway.
2. In England they lock their doors, even when they are in the house because they don't know who is lurking around.
3. In England and Germany their Christmas is in winter.
4. New Zealanders are know for our sheep.

Yesterday was lots of fun because we got to go on a Scavenger Hunt around Invercargill.  We had to figure out the places by reading poems and finding the clues.  We took lots of photos as evidence.  It was really fun because we got to work in groups with our friends and work out challenges.  Some of the places that we had to find were the Water Tower, Queen's Park, Anderson Park and The Trooper in the roundabout.  After the Scavenger Hunt we went to the museum and saw the photographic exhibition of Invercargill 150 years ago.  We learnt that Invercargill has changed a lot, but some of the buildings are still standing such as Boys High.

Yesterday was also the start of our Global Children's Challenge and we have been accumulating lots of steps on our pedometers.  In our quest to be the winners we have realised that walking/running lots makes us really tired.  We were surprised at how many steps we took in a day.  It was a lot more then we thought!

Happy reading from Mrs Webster and the fabulous learners in Room 7