Well Done - Room 3!

Room 3 won William and Flynn's quiz this week!  They were super quick getting their answers into us.

Keep an eye out for Courtney and Sofia's daily competition next week.

Tennis

Star of the Week - Sophie

Voice Message from Nigel

Thanks for your voice message Nigel!

listen to ‘Message from Nigel - Meg's Dad’ on Audioboo

Cupcake sales for the SPCA

Leah made cupcakes to sell after school today.  All the money is going to the SPCA.  She had lots of hungry customers after school!

Kendall and Zoe animation

Harvey and Ben animation

Winter Sports tournament

Last Thursday the Year 5 and 6's went to Henley school to take part in the Winter Sports tournament.
I played rugby & Hamish's dad was our coach and a very good one too. Our first match was against Brightwater and sadly we lost 7 - 0 but we were still happy because that team was full with club players.
Our favorite game was the last game because we won 7-0 against the Henley Warriors.

By Flynn - Week 7 Blog reporters

Daily quiz

Hi everyone it is Flynn and William here. Room 8's week 7 reporters. This week we are going to be having a daily question posted on our blog. You need to keep a record of the answers all week and then you will need to give us the answers to all the questions on Friday. It will be the first person who comments on Friday with all 5 answers to our questions, will win a prize ..... So keep checking back each day. We will post our questions just before lunchtime each day. Megan has created a new tab along the top of our blog to record the questions so you can find them easily. Good luck followers.

Flynn and William

Terms and Conditions:

Our competition is only open to Ranzau School students.

This is a whole class competition.


Room 8 children unfortunately can not enter this competition.  We feel they would have an unfair advantage.

Speeches

Kendall kicked off our speech sharing this morning. She did a great job because it isn't easy going first!

Saturday morning netball

Go Ranzau

Gymnastics at Morning tea!

Photos by Zara - Week 6 Blog reporter :)

Walking Wednesday

Walking Wednesday crew this morning! 

Ecofest Funky Fashion

Over the weekend Kendall, Zara and Sofia went to the Ecofest funky fashion show.  We modeled our Wearable art creations from last term.  We had to model our dresses on a catwalk in-front of a big crowd.  We were the first 2 models out on the catwalk.  

There were 52 different dresses in total.  There was the option to create your design out of recycled material or you could create an op-shop outfit for under $10. Some dresses were made out of old wallpaper, music sheats, bubble wrap and colleted things from the beach.

It was heaps of fun!

By Kendall - Week 6 Blog reporter

Star of the Week - Liam

Ranzau Olympics

To celebrate the London Olympics, last Friday our school had a mini Ranzau Olympic.  We were all placed into teams and we represented a country.  There were 6 events, the events were sack races, javelin, equestrian, discuss, volleyball and our new fitness track! Murray opened the Olympics and he cut the ribbon to officially open our new fitness track. Dave and Murray were the first ones to have a go. There were Medals for first, second and third. Netherlands won Gold, Great Britain won Silver and China won Bronze.
It was an awesome afternoon and everyone had a great time.

By Zara -week 6 blog reporter.

Terrific Tennis

Ngaire came to take room 8 for tennis today. We will be having 4 sessions with her. Some people in our class go to Ngaire for tennis coaching at the Hope courts.

Voice Message from Dave

Dave left us a message about our Revolting Recipes!  Have a listen to the feedback he had for us.

listen to ‘Dave's Voice Message’ on Audioboo

Star of the week - Alyssa

Hamish's Revolting Recipe

Monster Munch Stew

This is a great meal for a lonely monster.

You will need these ingredients:

* 2 Frog legs * Tree sap x 10g * Baked beans x 1 cup * Spider legs x 8 * Sting ray tail x 1
* Rat eyes x 8 * Water x 2 cups  * Salt and pepper 

Equipment you will need:

* A big pot * A wooden spoon * Knife * Open fire * Plate * Mince muncher*

Method:

1. First you will need to grab all your ingredients.
2. Put all your ingredients in the mince muncher and turn the handle so all the ingredients squeeze through into the pot.
3. Next put your two cups of water in.
4. Then stir your stew with the wooden spoon.
5. Grab the pot and put it over the fire.
6. Then you will need to keep it over the fire for an hour and a half.
7. After half an hour put some salt & pepper in if you would like too.

      ENJOY!

Courtney's Revolting Recipe

Homemade Bats Claw Ice Cream 

      This will feed 3 hungry zombies and will be a tasty dessert  


 Ingredients :

*50 bats claws * 1 cup of snail slime * 1 cup of bats blood * 50 grams of of mouldy ice * 5 slugs
* 10 human vains * 1 cup of sour milk

Equipment:

* a chopping board * a frezzer * a cauldron * a big knife * 3 bowls ( for serving up ) * a tray * an open fire * a blender

 Method :

1. Firstly put the human vains on the chopping board and chop each one into 30 small pieces and place in the cauldron.
2. Cut the slugs into 3 pieces and add them to the vains.
3. Then put the sour milk in the caudron and place on fire.
4. Bring it to the boil then immediately take off the heat.
5. After that add the rest of the ingrediends and put into a blender for 1 minuite
6. Finally pour into the tray and freeze for 5 hours.
7. Take it out after 5 hours and dish up. 
8. Enjoy!                                       

Multi-tasking with the Olympics

This week we have been working hard while having the Olympics playing on our tv in the background! We are awesome at multitasking and Megan has been really impressed with us! We will miss the Olympics next week.

iPad animations

This morning we are attempting to create animations using only the iPads! It is trial and error in room 8 this morning. We will share some examples with you when we have some completed animations.

Olympic Art

Catriana gave us this really cool art idea.  We are creating a tissue version of Wenlock, the olympic mascot.  We are using red and blue tissues to create a raised effect.

What do you think so far?

Samsung Truck & Mini Olympics

Today 20 Ranzau Seniors went to the Mini Olympics at Saxton Field.  Before we started the Mini Olympics we went through the Samsung Truck.  In the Samsung Truck they had an X-Box, Tablets, Phones, Cameras and a giant phone.  You used the technology to complete a quiz and send messages to the NZ olympic team.  For the Mini Olympics we completed 8 different events.  We did javelin really well because we scored lots of 5 pointers. The rowing event was on a rowing machine and 825 meters in 5 minutes was the record.  We rowed 725 meters in 5 minutes.  One event was weight lifting.  It was a relay and you had to run down and grab some 2kg weights and do some bicep curls!

Room 8 came second.  We had heaps of fun.

This was a group post by:

Zara, Kendall, Leah, Joshua, William, Sofia and Hamish  

Music Making

Today for music we were in small groups and we had to play a piece of music on the glockenspiel and use percussion instruments too.

Here is a short video of how we did.

Star of the Week - Flynn

Zoe's face to face with a Tuatara!

In the holidays my family went to Invercargill for my Granny's 80th.  While we were there we chopped up some old wood and collected some huhu grubs.  We went and fed these to some Tuataras.  They were really quite and sat really still.
It was a really cool experience.
Zoe