Room 17's Desert Adventure

One day Room 17 were doing research about deserts. Mack found out that there are heaps of pyramids in the desert; Jahnvi found out that there are camels; Viki knew it was really, really hot and there is lots of sand; Ji-Ho found out that there only a few water holes and that there are sandstorms in the desert; Joshua found out that it is the third harshest environment in the world and that scorpions and scarab beetles live there; Jacob found out that there are lots of cacti in the desert; Sam knew that dingoes live in the desert in the Australia.

Just as David was presenting his research about deserts the wind started to blow and suddenly a raging sandstorm blew up around us in the classroom.  When the sand settled we found ourselves standing on top of an enormous pyramid.  "Oh my goodness, where are we?" asked Catrina.  "We are in Egypt, of course," said Michael.  "We are standing on top of a pyramid," said Iona.  "I wonder which pyramid it is.." said Mrs McHale, just as the ground began to tremble underneath our feet.  "Ahhh," screamed Laura, "a big crack has opened up underneath us!" Suddenly, the whole group fell feet first through the earth, flipping head over heels, tumbling, falling and BANG, landing on our butts.

"It's dark. I can't see anything. Where are we?" Ewan and Justin yelled. Mrs Martel held up the torch on her keyring, which she just happened to have with her.  As the narrow beam of light hit the walls around us we saw lots of cobwebs, two scary mummies and we heard a skittering noise.  "What's that noise?" asked Johann.  "Aaaah, it's hundreds of scorpions climbing the walls, look!!" screamed Rion.

"I feel like I'm sinking into the ground. What's happening?" yelled Setareh.  Mrs Martel shone the torch down on the ground, only to see that Setareh and Ciara were both up to their knees in quicksand.  "Quick, pull them out," called YuHyeon, as he grabbed a stick and stretched out to rescue them.  "Well done, YuHyeon," praised Mrs McHale.

Patrick noticed a soft, glowing, light behind one of the mummies.  He pushed the mummy aside and called, "Hey look, there is an exit here."  "How do you know?" asked Iona.  "I know because it says 'EXIT' over the door," replied Patrick.  We all followed him through the door and found ourselves back in Room 17 again.  "Phew," we all sighed and we were all very pleased to go and have a drink after that scary, hot and dry adventure.

Tennis lessons

This week we started having tennis lessons at school.  On our first lesson we learned to throw the ball, bounce it and then catch it in a cone.  We did this with both hands.  Then we had a go at a trick called 'Round the World', where we had to throw the ball, bounce it, pass the cone around our bodies and then catch the ball before it bounced again.  Once we had mastered that, we had to do 'Round the World', passing the cone twice around our bodies.

Then we got to have a turn with the tennis racquets - we pretended that the tennis ball was a car and we had to 'park the car', 'park the car' and walk around (keeping the ball on the racquet) and then to 'drive the car' by rolling the ball around the racquet without dropping the ball.

Lastly, we got to bounce and hit the ball.  We had a lot of fun.

Here are our comments:

Ciara - tennis is fun when you put your mind to it.  I would like to do again.

Joshua - it was awesome.  I liked the 'Round the World' game the best.

Jacob - I liked the 'Double Round the World'.  It was a bit hard!

Rion - I saw our instructor at my tennis club.

Catrina - I liked the tennis.  It was easy and hard.

Jahnvi - it was easy and fun.

Viki - it was fun.  I liked the 'Round the World'.

Bubble Fun!!

On Friday we had lots of fun blowing bubbles!!

Before we went outside we talked about what the bubbles would look like.  We had a look on Youtube at some enormous bubbles that have been blown  - some of them are amazing!!  We talked about adjectives that we could think of to describe the bubbles.

Then we went outside to blow bubbles.  They were a little tricky to photograph as the wind blew them away quickly and also because they are almost invisible.  We had a lot of fun blowing bubbles, as you can see.

Following this we came back into the classroom and wrote a long list of adjectives that we could think of to describe the bubbles.  Using this amazing list of adjectives we all wrote a poem each about our bubbles.

Keep an eye out for some of our wonderful poems that we have written.