Baking and eating Christmas Cookies!

A very big thank you to Mrs Type, Casey and April for helping us make our delicious Christmas cookies today!

Mathletics Update Day 4 16.00hrs

Today Room 11 has been distracted with practising for the school's dance show tomorrow night, but even so, we have managed to come 2nd in the world and 1st in New Zealand!

Here are our current rankings:

Ben 4th in the world and 1st in New Zealand

Anthony 35th in the world and 6th in New Zealand

Maddy 41st in the world and 7th in New Zealand

Charis 44th in the world and 8th in New Zeland

Sharon 68th in the world and 12th in New Zealand

Jamie 13th in New Zealand

Jack 24th in New Zealand

Samsara 25th in New Zealand

Katiana 28th in New Zealand

Jayden 66th in New Zealand

Sian 69th in New Zealand

1st in the WORLD!

At 3.30pm today, Room 11 was 1st in the world and 1st in New Zealand in Mathletics, so we achieved our goal of beating the world in only 3 days!

Congratulations Room 11!

Here are our curent rankings:

Maddy 1st in the world and 1st in New Zealand

Ben 4th in the world and 2nd in New Zealand

Jamie 6th in the world and 3rd in New Zealand

Niwa 7th in the world and 4th in New Zealand

Anthony 8th in the world and 5th in New Zealand

Sharon 20th in the world and 7th in New Zealand

Natasha 33rd in the world and 12th in New Zealand

Porsha 38th in the world and 13th in New Zealand

Jayden 65th in the world and 18th in New Zealand

Samsara 68th in the world and 20th in New Zealand

Ashlee 69th in the world and 21st in New Zealand

Aidan 75th in the world

Finn 33rd in New Zealand

Jack 38th in New Zealand

Nadia 64th in New Zealand

Mathletics Update Day 3 09:00

Jack, our Mathletics captain reports:
Room 11 is 2nd in New Zealand and 9th in the world! with 88,748 points total!
Maddy is 5th in New Zealand, and 58th in the world.
Ben is 7th in New Zealand
Jamie is 36th in New Zealand
Finn is 44th in New Zealand
Jayden is 46th in New Zealand
We are very close to becoming number one class in the world and everybody has been working very hard.
Follow our progress on the Mathletics website:
http://www.mathletics.co.nz

Mathletics Update Day 2 2.50pm:

Room 11 is 8th in the world and 2nd in New Zealand. Ben is 6th in the world and 3rd in New Zealand. Aidan is 28th, Porsha is 68th, and Natalie is 98th in New Zealand.
Jack thinks that we are going pretty well, and he is going to tell everyone to go on Mathletics tonight so we can get heaps of points and reach our goal, which is to beat the world!

Room 11's mathletics war with Room 18!

We won!

Room 11 are the top Mathletes at Waiuku Primary School!

All week, we battled against the Year 8's in Room 18 and at 11am today, we beat them by 19,824 points!

At 11:00 Room 11 was 1st in New Zealand with 177,862 points, and Mrs Kendall's Year 8's were 2nd in New Zealand with 158,038 points.

Room 11 was 8th in the world.

Here are our individual rankings as at 11:00 today:

World Rankings:

Natalie 1st!

Jack 5th

Ben 21st

Jamie 38th

New Zealand Rankings:

Natalie 1st!

Jack 3rd

Ben 15th

Jamie 24th

Thank you Mrs Kendall and Room 18 for a very exciting week!

Mathletics Update Day 4 15:24

Room 11 had a nail-breaking day, as Mrs Kendall's Year 8 class pushed us off our first place in New Zealand in Mathletics ranking at lunchtime today!

We worked hard and came back snatching the first place ranking off the Year 8's and are now first in New Zealand again! Our competition closes tomorrow at 11am, so go Room 11!

World Rankings:

Ben 8th

Jack 13th

Natalie 18th

Jamie 23rd

Aidan 37th

Maddy 57th

New Zealand Rankings:

Ben 5th

Jack 8th

Natalie 10th

Jamie 13th

Aidan 19th

Maddy 23rd

Jayden 46th

Finn 53rd

Porsha 82nd

Abbi 93rd

Katiana 99th

Mathletics 3pm update:

Room 11 is now the top in Mathletics in New Zealand!

and has moved from 32nd in the world to 23rd in the world!

Room 11's world rankings:
Jayden 31st
Jack 32nd
Samsara 34th
Ben 45th
Natasha 78th

Room 11's NZ rankings:
Jayden 6th
Jack 7th
Samsara 9th
Ben 11th
Natalie 65th
Niwa 70th
Jamie 77th

Congratulations Room 11!

Room 11's record breakers:

This morning when Room 11 did the Five Minute Frenzy, we tried to beat our record of 17 people scoring 100%, and at first we thought that we had equalled our top score of 17, until Briana came up and said that she also got 100%.
We all cheered, because now our record is 18 people scoring 100%!
Fantastic effort Room 11!

My Fabulous win!

Ben says:
Today was my first time beating Jamie in the Five Minute Frenzies, by 3 seconds!
And I also scored a perfect 100% with it as well.
It's been a goal of mine to beat Jamie in the Five Minute Frenzies for a very long time, and now I've done it!
I feel so good about it because I'm going to beat him again tomorrow!

100%'ers:

Today was the first day that Niwa and Tuko scored 100% in the Five Minute Frenzy (C)!  Niwa feels happy, because it's her first time to score 100%, and she only scored 46% in her first test.  Tuko feels proud that he scored his first 100% as he only scored 27% in his first test. Their goal was to achieve 100% and get a good time under 5 minutes.  The whole class is proud of Tuko and Niwa's success.

We had an astonishing 17 people achieve 100% in this morning's Five Minute Frenzy:

Tuko, Niwa, Jamie, Abbi, Ben, Shontelle, Sian, Jayden, Phoebe, Briana, Ashlee, Finn, Aidan, Sharon, Charis, Katiana and Maddy.  Only 5 people scored 100% - Jamie, Natasha, Abbi, Sharon and Jack - when we first started doing Five Minute Frenzies.  Natasha would probably have scored 100% too, if she hadn't been at music.

Fantastic learning Room 11!

Awhitu's 2km run:

At 10.15am Samsara, Jack and Jayden walked down to the hall, ready for the 2km race for cross-country in Awhitu. They hopped in seperate cars and soon arrived at our destination. They had roundabout half an hour to check our route, warm up and have a little something to eat.
Then a lady gave a humungous speech about the route and how there was going to be marshalls so we wouldn't get lost.
The third race was Samsara and Jayden in the Year 6 girls. Jayden came 9th and Samsara came 17th, that means Jayden is a reserve for Zone Day. The fourth race was Jack's, the Year 6 boys. Jack came 15th, and he felt really good because it was the first time he had been to Group Day.
They felt very proud of themselves, because they got very good placings, because they raced against 5o other children of their age.

Awesome A/V Monitor:

Bailey is Room 11's A/V monitor this term. He takes photographs and record videos of our class doing plays, and downloading these onto the server. He feels really, really good about being A/V monitor. Ben says it helps us alot, having Bailey as A/V monitor, as now we can just ask Bailey to record our work and save it for us.

100%ers in Five Minute Frenzy Multiplication:

This week's timestable frenzy was easier because there was 1X tables and sometimes 2X tables. Room 11 is getting better because they are getting used to the format and layout. Ben, Jamie, Abbi and Sharon are practising them at home.
Eight people scored 100% correct this morning within 5 minutes:

Natasha

Jamie

Nadia

Jack

Sharon

Abbi

Jayden

Congratulations!

Ben's cross-country goals!

Ben was aiming for a perfect Top 10 in the Waiuku Primary School's cross-country this week, and a perfect time - 10:50. He pretended that he was a racing car driver and it worked!

On the first day's training, he got a time of 15:00 exactly, and came in one of the last people to finish. On Wednesday, Ben came 4th in his age group and 10th altogether, and he has made it as a reserve to Group Day cross-country. It's impressive that he beat his time by 5 minutes!

Go Ben!

Homework Rulz!

Room 11 are super students!

Most of the students in Room 11 have been working on our maths, spelling and reading at home every night, because you know what they say...practise makes perfect!

And that's what we are aiming for!

Ms Clydesdale doesn't make us do homework, we don't have to do it, but we want to get better. Samsara has moved up from 56% to 96% in her basic facts!

Maddy has moved up from Level 25 to Level 35 in her spelling.

Sage does her timestables every night.

Katiana does her basic facts and five minute frenzies every night, and she has improved on her basic facts from 39% to 59%.

Sian does her basic facts and spelling every night. Her basic facts facts have gone from 50% to 70%, and she is becoming very successful in learning her spelling words.

Ben does his timestables every night, and his spelling on Tuesdays and Thursdays. He has improved 23% in spelling and in multiplication he has improved 43%, and in basic facts, he has improved 12%. He is focussing on his speed in his multiplication timestables.

Ms Clydesdale is blown away with all this homework happening at home every night, and especially on the massive improvements that the class is making!

Go Room 11!

Chemical Reactions Rock!

Yesterday morning my science group and I found out that we were awarded 3rd equal in the school's science fair. We felt really great about it, because we stuffed up our entry and then we fixed it all up and then it looked much better.
Our question was does the colour of hair affect the amount of static electricity that it can hold, and we concluded that yes it does - darker coloured hair can hold more static electricity than lighter coloured hair.
Aidan and Jamie attended the science fair prize giving last night and were presented with a certificate - they felt very proud!

Ben teaches his Dad!

Yesterday afternoon, I had my Learning Interview with my mum, dad, and my teacher, Ms Clydesdale. My dad was admiring how good my e-folio was for the powerpoint and how I presented it. My dad asked me if I could help him with his powerpoint, for presenting it and making it more exciting for his work.

I thought of these techniques that I learnt off the computer at our school and helped dad with the backgrounds and really good pictures.

My dad said thanks for helping because he would have failed if I didn't help him, because he didn't know what to do. He wants to take me to work, so I can be his right hand man!

Successful Speech Competition!

The final session of Room 11's speech competition was held this morning after morning tea, with our special adjudicators, Rose and Arabella.

Maddy, Sage and Samuel were the top Year 5 speeches, with Ben as reserve. The Year 6 competition was very tough, with Jayden, Phoebe, Briana and Sharon being choosen, and Maygan is the reserve.

We were also lucky that three parents came and enjoyed our speeches. Hopefully, we will have more parents watching next Friday, when we compete against the other Year 5 and Year 6 students .