Year 8 Social By Karlie

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Kerri Room 9's Honour Student

Class raps-The Hot Chip rap

I like hot chips and I cannot lie

You other girls can’t deny

When the smell comes round with a hot salty taste

And Watties sauce is on your face

You get stunned

Cuz you eat real rough

And you notice that gut was stuffed

Ever since our first meeting

I’m hooked and I can’t stop eating

Oh, baby I just wanna eat em

But I won’t stay slim

My sisters tried to warn me

That those chips you got

Make me so hungry

Ooh, bite of crunchy skin

You say you wanna get in my mouth

If I keep munchin’ on this luncheon I will never be very thin.

Tricky Rap

This speech is my recital, I think it's very vital
To get (a date), when she’s (your mate)
It's Tricky is the title, here we go...

It's Tricky to get a date, to get a date when she’s your mate
It's Tricky...it's Tricky (Tricky) Tricky (Tricky)
It's Tricky to get a date, to get a date when she’s your mate
It's Tricky...Tr-tr-tr-tricky (Tricky) Trrrrrrrrrrricky
Verse 1
Alex Burne my best mate a girl you can really rate
Went to her house to ask her out but then she said no your gay
These girls are really crazy, they think I’m very lazy
Or spend some time and get a date, I said "It's not that easy"

It's Tricky to get a date, to get a date when she’s your mate
It's Tricky...(How is it D?) It's Tricky (Tricky) Tricky (Trrrrrricky)
It's Tricky to get a date, to get a date when she’s your mate
It's Tricky...Tricky (Tricky) Tricky
Verse 2
In MIS the people talk and try to make us cry
They are saying we are dorks but they can all go die
And in the loo we go boohoo cause we just can't hide
toilet doors don't mean nothin', they know who's inside

It's Tricky to get a date, to get a date when she’s your mate
It's Tricky...(How is it D?) Tricky (Tricky) Tricky (Tricky)
It's Tricky to get a date, to get a date when she’s your mate
It's Tricky...Tricky (Tricky) Tricky (Tricky) huh!

Interface Magazine 2010 Awards

Yay, we won! Congratulations to Room 9 (and I guess me) for winning the Interface magazine Best Use of a Free Web 2.0 App. competition. This is an amazing achievement and tops off a great year learning with ICT.
Thanks to everyone who supported by voting for our idea of using Time Toast as a digital reading log.

What am I haiku poems on Voicethread

Finalists in the Outlook for Someday Film Awards

Congratulations to Sam, Jacob, Holly, Omrith, Karlie and Jessica for having their film Down the Toilet selected as one of 20 finalists in this competition for young filmmakers. The competition was to produce a film with a message about conservation and sustainable practices. The team had only two short weeks to produce their film and everyone at MIS is very proud of their achievements.
You can show your appreciation of their efforts by registering at Outlook for Someday and voting for Down the Toilet in the audience favourite category.
Go to http://www.theoutlookforsomeday.net/vote/
to have your say.

Interface Magazine Awards

Exciting news Room 9. Our use of TimeToast as a way of keeping a personal reading log has been recognised as one of the five best uses of a free Web 2.0 application by Interface magazine. This is exciting stuff and the winner will be decided by voting (you have to be an educator so teachers and support staff reading this can vote by clicking on the picture).
How does it feel to be recognised as being innovative users of ICT Room 9? Feel free to comment.

Tainui Disco Photo Competition

Welcome to our Tainui disco photo competition!!! One entry will be given to each of your teachers, then they can get some copies out to you. You can take it home over the holidays so you can do it. Entries have to be in by the end of week one, term 4. All captions are good, but remember no rude captions!!!!! Funny is fine but rude is not. There will be prizes given out for the best captions. The best captions will be showcased on the blog.

Christchurch Earthquake: the good, the bad and the ugly

New Zealand is coming to terms with the devastating impact of the earthquake in Christchurch. Despite the terrible destruction caused, amazingly no one has been killed.
In room 9 we have been looking at the photos of broken buildings and reading newspaper articles that really show the best and worst of human nature.
Sadly, a few people have taken advantage of this terrible situation to steal and loot from shops. This is the ugly side of human nature: dishonesty.
On the Good Morning Breakfast show, a person e-mailed in to the show complaining about how much news coverage the earthquake was getting. This is the bad side of human nature:selfishness.
More encouragingly, was the Herald article on university students organizing work parties to help clean up Christchurch and in particular those who are old and incapable of helping themselves. Over 1300 students have registered on a Facebook site and are out on the streets helping. This is the good side human nature: selflessness.
Read the thoughts and comments of Room 9 students on the Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

Year 7 & 8 Survey Results

These students designed a survey trying to find out information about a 'typical' year 7/8 student. They designed a Google Docs form and embedded it in this blog. After they analyzed the data they were able to produce graphs in MS Excel, which they then put into a PowerPoint to present their findings.
View this and other awesome work by these students at their wiki page (click on the links below).
James
Ryan
Kerri
Kathleen
Larissa
Karlie

2010 Maths Challenge

Click here to go to Mathletics.
Good luck to all those who are participating.

Liam's Cross Country slideshow

Photo and video editing at www.OneTrueMedia.com

Year 7/8 survey

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Week 8 Video Diary

Year 7's Spanish in Action

Year 7's Spanish Bloopers

Weekly Video Diary Term 2 Week 7

New Photo Slideshow site

I found this new site to upload photos to and create cool looking slide shows. What do you think?

Karlie's Hug a ginga post

Heard about hug a ginga day yet? If you haven’t I’m surprised. I’m a ginga and love this day; I get free hugs and people talking about my hair all day. I reckon the father of the two boys that went on TV about this day is going too far, this day is meant to be fun not racist. I don’t know about anyone else but if my parents went on TV about my hair colour I would NOT be happy. I think that the father of these boys needs to think more about his sons because although they don’t want random people coming up to them and giving them hugs they probably don’t want their father talking about it on TV either. Personally I’m proud of my hair colour and love this day, so I can’t wait until next year.
Do you think that this day is racist? What about if it was hug a blonde day or hug a short person day? Should we discriminate against people in this way or as the radio station suggests, is this all just a bit of fun? What do you think?

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Nikiian & Larissa-Justin Bieber's hat gets stolen.

Hey, as most of us know Justin Bieber was in the country late Tuesday night and left on Wednesday. When he arrived, around about 500 screaming fans were waiting for him and amongst them were two mischievous teenage girls who got hold of his precious purple hat and stole it. In the end he got it back but it wasn’t that easy. The Edge radio station managed to find the two girls who stole his hat, Emah and Beki from Hamilton. When they stole his hat they were just so excited but when he wanted it back they thought about it and said that they’ll give it back if they get a hug. Justin Bieber said no, because they had stolen his property. So the girls thought again and this time they wanted him to say “Thank you” but he wouldn’t do that either. In the end they gave him back his hat, but with their personal details like their phone numbers, their twitter accounts on a piece of paper in it. These details got out to the world and Emah & Beki started getting hate mail from Justin Bieber fans. In the end Justin Bieber said he forgave them.

If you were these lucky ladies what would you do would? Would you keep it or give it back? If you were Justin Bieber what would have you done about it?

Weekly Video Diary

Anzac Day

This week we will inquire into the reasons why we as a nation recognise April 25th, Anzac Day, as a special day of remembrance.
Watch the video and then post your thoughts on Anzac Day. Do you think war is something we should remember and celebrate?

Clip courtesy of YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpgzuVuHg1U&feature=fvw)

Spanish in Action with the Year 8's

Spanish in action-bloopers

Week 8 Video Diary

Weekly News-week 7

Homework -opinion 4

Should New Zealand become part of Australia?

Watch this short news item at TVNZ .
What do you think about the idea?
What would be a beneficial thing about becoming part of Australia?
What would not be so good about it?
Write a well-thought out opinion statement.
(Cheers to Ryan for this opinion topic)

Homework-opinion 3

Town vs Country?

In our class we have a mix of students who live in town, and those who live out in the country. What are the advantages and disadvantages of each?
Write an opinion comment stating where you live and whether you prefer living where you are or that you would rather swap. What are your reasons for this opinion? Justify and give examples.

I live in the country on a small lifestyle block. I prefer it to living in town because it is peaceful and there is little traffic noise. I can have some animals roaming in the fields and I can go for walks on the neighbours farm. I can play loud music and not annoy anyone and I have no neighbours living just across a fence. Sometimes traveling to and from town is a pain, but not enough of one to make me want to move.

Homework-opinion post 2

In our class we have 4 literacy groups-two of which are organised by gender (a boys group and a girls group). Some Colleges/High Schools are boys only or girls only.
Write a comment giving your opinion about what would be good about working in a single sex school and what would not be so good. Which would you prefer? At which type do you think you would learn best?

Homework opinion task 1

We have been talking about the 7 habits of highly effective teens, based upon the book by Sean Covey.
If the seven habits make you a more effective and 'better' person, what do you think would be the 7 habits of highly ineffective teens?
Post a comment listing your 7 ineffective habits and explain why they are not such good habits to have.

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Lessons from Geese Lesson #1 Trust

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