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

Model search 2012

As I was waiting in line my knees were wobbling, my heart was pounding and butterflies were fluttering around in my tummy like mad!  I was at the Model search at the Richmond Mall with about 45 other kids, including Bree and Savannah.  It was my turn! OH NO I screamed in my head.  As I started walking up my eyes were fixed on the judges. Then I heard a huge cheer coming out of the crowd saying "GO SOFIA''  Thats when I saw that it was Mum, Zac and Dad.  As I walked from one side to another I could feel my nervousness growing bigger and bigger than before.  When I walked off the catwalk I was relived and happy because I had done a good job !        
Then I thought how will Bree and Savannah do? One of my friends Elise came 1st, 2 times in a row.
After every one had their go we gathered in a bunch and listened.  Savannah's number was 32,  Bree's number was 19 and my number was11. We all listened very carefully as the numbers got called out, number 12, number 22, number 40, number 19.  Wow that was Bree's number!  She looked so excited as she walked up on stage to get her t-shirt they said she was in the final!  I was so happy for Bree that she got in the final and also for myself.  I think I did a great job.

By Sofia

Olympic Fever

Yesterday we watched this inspiring clip about a past olympic competitor.  It has a really powerful message about not giving up and always finishing what you start.  The Olympics will be our Inquiry focus for the first 5 weeks this term.

Falling off into the water!

I could hear his hooves pounding on the soft sand as we gathered more speed. We were going the fastest I had ever gone on a pony. I noticed that he was edging into the water. Then suddenly he shyed side ways into the silky sand.  Slowly a wave rolled in and he turn and galloped away. I could see the water rushing up to meet me I was waiting to hit the ground but I found myself being dragged through the water and let go of the reins. The water covered my face. I pulled myself out of the water my cloth's felt cold and heavy. I walked over to catch Danny Mum was running over to us. I was soaked to the skin. The water was about freezing! I gave Danny a pat I could fell sand sand up my back and my jodhpurs were heavy and wet. I was going to have to walk back to the horse float!

By Meg