Jake and AJ's amazing races!

1500m was the first race at Zone yesterday. Jake and AJ had 6 other people in the race. For the first 3 laps, AJ was ahead the whole time with Jake about 20 metres behind and on the last straight Jake caught up another 10 metres but AJ won!

The last race of the day and the BEST race of the day was the 800m. AJ and Jake were up against 5 other people. AJ was winning by 3 metres over Jake over the first one and a half laps, and then Jake caught up and passed AJ. But on the final 50 metres, it came down to a good sprint between the two boys and AJ won by a dive! How exciting!

Jake and AJ's successes mean that they go on to the Auckland Champions of Champions at Mt Smart Stadium next week - Go boys!

R14'ers go to Zone Day:

Jake is going to Zone Day for 1500m, 800m, high jump, discus and 200m. Anna is doing 1500m, 800m and discus. Olivia is doing long jump, and Kelsey is doing 1500m and 800m. AJ is also running in the 1500m and 800m.

Go Room 14'ers!

Group Day results:

Group Day was tiring for Anna and Jake, because they had to do every event. Jake won high jump, and was 2nd in the 1500m and 800m, and 3rd equal in 200m. He also came 4th in the 400m and 5th in the finals of the 100m.

Olivia came 1st in long jump and she fell over and bruised her tail bone.

Cody didn't go very well, because he came 4th to last - he didn't have any water. He learnt that he needs to drink water to help him win. He was also versing hard people, too.

Jamie-Lee was very frustrated because she was ONE cm away from coming 3rd in shotput!

AJ's first race was the 1500m. He shot out at the start with Jake. He kept his pace up and won by 200m! In the 800m, it was AJ and another boy out at the lead, but at the final sprint, AJ won!

Chris feels pretty good about coming first in the 200m.

Kelsey came 2nd in the 1500m and 2nd in the 800m, and tied for 4th in the 400m.

Dana came 4th in the 800m and she doesn't know where she came in the 1500m. Group Day was exciting, because she was representing her school.

3 Gauguin inspired paintings

Athletic Champions

Tuesday next week, 10 students from Room 14 are going to Athletics Group Day at Sandspit School.
We are versing all different schools in Waiuku. Our goal is to get to Zone Day for some of the events.
Anna and Jake are in every event that is available. Jake wants to go to Zone Day for at least half of the events, and Anna wants to go to Zone Day for the 800m and long jump.
Good luck Room 14'ers!

Two Golds too good!

We won gold twice in a row for our spelling in the morning - one for an oral test and one for a written test. As soon as they got to school, Chris and AJ tested each other.

It was like winning gold in the Commonwealth Games!

Testing!

We have started testing to gather data for reporting back to whanau later this term and some interesting results have started to come through.
So far Room 14 has completed the IKAN test (Maths knowledge) and Basic Facts test.
IKAN results:
Arabella and Chris both scored a massive Stage 8 (the highest stage) jumping 2 Stage levels - they are expected to be at Stage 6!
Zyra, Eleanor, Kelsey, Jake and Scott jumped one Stage to reach Stage 6. The remainder of the class maintained their levels from the beginning of the year.
Basic Facts results:
Arabella jumped 3 sub-levels and scored 4A! Sophie and AJ improved 2 sub-levels and scored 3P.
Scott and Eleanor both moved up 1 sub-level, while Jaime-Lee, Tom, Jake, and Cody remained sitting comfortably on 4A.
At Year 6 the children are expected to be at Level 3, while at Year 8 they should be at Level 4, so for our Year 7's at this stage of the year, they should at least be sitting on 3A ready to move into 4B.
Remember that Basic Facts is a weekly homework activity that students so be doing, along with a minimum of 1 hour per week on Mathletics.

AJ's CGF jingle

Future House

This is what our house is going to look like in the future. This took us an hour and 15 minutes to build, after maths. It has 2 swimming pools and a jacuzzi, a movie theatre, a diving pool with a bungy jump, and an ice-cream truck, the world's biggest burger and a fireplace. There are 3 massive bedrooms and only one bathroom, because we ran out of blocks. We had a kitchen and a stadium.

Hesitation by the Chocolate Covered Reading Bananas

Zone to Champion of Champions!

Kelsey feels happy that she came 2nd in the Zone Cross-country for the Year 7 girls. It was the highest placing out of all the Waiuku Primary School students who raced today, but she is still annoyed that she didn't beat Savannah! Her dad cheered both her and Anna on, and her mum took them to McDonalds and they missed the prize-giving because they didn't know there was one.
Anna is proud that she came 16th and just made it into the Champion of Champions in Auckland with Kelsey.
AJ came 4th so he will be going to the Champion of Champions, too. He was right close to Finn until the end when Finn sprinted off and came 2nd. AJ felt pretty cool about coming 4th and in the Champion of Champions his goal is to make the top 10!

2nd at Group Day

We were determined to win! We lined up in our age groups and the clappers went. The first corner we got out in front, and Kelsey stayed in front all the way until the very end of the race. A metre or so away from the finish line, Savanah from another school overtook her and won!

Kelsey felt happy that she made it to Zone, but was disappointed that she didn't win.

AJ stayed out in front for the first half of the race, then Finn pulled out in front and started getting away from him. But AJ made sure that he didn't get out of site, and AJ was only beaten by 5 metres at the end! The last hundred metres, he couldn't feel his legs and felt like he would faint. He is a little bit disappointed because last year, he came first. He is going to beat Finn at Zone!

AJ is the 1st Year 7 Boy!

At the start, I was determined to win. I knew I could win, because every morning at camp at 6am we went for a run and I was always first back.

When the beeper went, everybody sprinted but me, so I wouldn't blow my energy out at the start. Mat was ahead of me at the start, but when I went past him, he just faded.

In the last lap, I started to get the stitch, but I kept running hard and I WON!

When I heard fans (my family) cheering for me, I ran faster. I was happy because I thrashed the Year 7 boys and achieved my goal.

AJ's Self-portrait:

This painting was inspired by Leonardo da Vinci, because I had to paint a realistic self-portrait.

The challenge for me was mixing the colours to make my skin colour using the primary colours and white.

I feel awesome about art, because I learn new skills like mixing primary colours to make other colours.