Room 23 Travel Guide

Room 23's hot tips for what to do in the holidays!

Hello! Welcome to the ultimate holiday adviser blog. In the following, you will have plenty of ideas for what to do in your next holidays. Please continue.....

1. Joel went to the Sunshine Coast in Australia and he thinks that the best two places to go to are.. Hervey Bay & Frazer Island. 

Hervey Bay has a unique underwater wildlife to boast. If you love whales, this is the place to go! With it's beautiful weather and gorgeous location, this is a must go to place for beach people and couples!

Frazer Island is probably nicer than some places in Fiji! It's golden sand beaches have a shipwreck grounded ashore which is sure to fascinate anyone! But, also is a great place for getting a tan and a long walk.

The ship went through a lot, but was eventually sold to Japan for scrap and the rudders were removed, but when they were heading through Queensland in a cyclonic storm, it drifted ashore.

Frazer Island

Frazer Island Ship Wreck

2. Jacob thinks that Mangawhai surf beach is a top vacation spot, and when you go you'll see what he means!

Mangawhai Surf Beach surf

Mangawhai Surf Beach

With magnificent views and great waves for surfing, this beach is a great beach for anyone, surfer or not. But, the waves can get huge there, the beach offers and efficient life guard team.

3.  Elliott thinks that Freddy's Ice House is a must do for a cold drink in the city. A room purely made of ice, with sculptures games and cool objects, this freezing ice paradise offers it's amazing mocktails, cocktails and other delicious soothing cold drinks, with cups made of ice!

Thanks for reading our travel blog, hope you have some ideas now Please look out for other blogs from Room 23. If you've been to these places before tell us or if you have other great ideas tell us please, we could add them in!

(In the comments)

Gym Bus

Room 23s visit to the Gym Bus

Today, Room 23 experienced the beginning stage of what it's like to do gymnastics. We all thought that this wicked fun routine was really great exercise. We did basic things like...

Balance

Jumping

Rolley-polleys

 

Catching & Throwing

and went over some safe movements to prevent any injuries.            

If you think this sounds boring, take a look at our photos and you'll see our HUGE smiles. 

:)

If you've done gym bus, we'd love to hear how you liked it. (Please leave a comment)
Especially if you love gym etc. Thanks.

Shouldn't we all be looking the same way! Jokes! Just before we started.

Going over some brief safety rules on how to do things.

Rolley Polleys!

Balancing was hard! Easier said than done!

More balancing!

I loved this.

Strong boys! Trust me, this was VERY hard!!

That's only the beginning part!

Told ya we had big smiles! :)

Really getting into it, ha?!

Road Patrol

Road Patrol at Greenhithe School

 

Greenhithe School have encouraged Year Six students to save our children and patrol the crossings on Greenhithe and Isobel Road.

We start at 8:15 in the morning to the bell, and in the afternoon we go from 2:45 to 3:15. We have a parent help who shows up as well just for extra safety.

At the end of the year, all the road patrolers get to go to Rainbows end! For a whole school day too! Woohoo! No admission charges to be paid by parents. Also, every cold day we do road patrol we get a free hot chocolate! Yum!

Greenhithe School is also part of Travelwise, so we have lots of cool kids who walk to school. Max the Pukeko is a good friend of ours.

 <(Max the Pukeko)

Thank you for reading this blog!^

By Red Prince. ;-)

 www.greenhithe.school.nz/

House Design

House Design 

How it came to be

It was just going to be another ordinary day for Room 23. We were all prepared and to use to it. 

Mrs Bate, our awesome and very good looking classroom teacher was unprepared to be shocked out of her socks in five seconds. She had no idea that she would say it, but she did.

She came out of her office in teacher like manner and exclaimed to us all, "I AM BORED."

Her students and herself were utterly shocked. I felt like it would be right if her words blew us 20 feet out of the classroom!

Thank goodness it didn't happen though!

"Lets do something different today."

That would be worth another good 25 feet of flying.

So somehow, those few words lead to the decision (made by all of us) that each and every one of us students could design our own houses!!! We are now in the middle of making birds eye view draft plans.

Schoolgen

Schoogen Greenhithe School

Schoolgen is a cool organisation run by Genesis Energy. Genesis Energy is a company that is trying to get all the buildings in New- Zealand with solar panels on the roofs. Schoolgen was created to teach children the power of solar. It is a New Zealand owned company, and I'm sure they're proud to be NZ owned, for 80% of New Zealand is solar power! In Australia, they're 80% not solar power. So all the Kiwis can be proud!

If you would like to learn more about Genesis Energy, click HERE

So anyway, a lady called Maggie came in to talk to the School Leaders about solar energy, and I learnt a lot! Our school has a successful solar panel on the roof of our school library and staff room. We have almost a directly north facing roof, where the sun shines most during the day in New Zealand.

In the holidays when only the Principal and the care taker are here, our school pretty much runs on solar power!

Apparently, our school power bill is well over $20,000 a year, and we're trying to get that down by $500 a month, so our yearly power bill would be a bit less than twenty grand. That would just be ace.

At our school, the School Leaders have organised a group  that go round all the classes in the school checking if the classrooms are saving power. We are called the Power Rangers! Lights, heaters, computers, projectors and other things such as laptops etc are all things we check for every two weeks. On assembly weeks.

At assembly, we announce the best class from junior, middle and senior syndicate. The winning class from each syndicate gets to play with three solar cars until the next assembly. 

Thank you for reading this blog.

By the Red Prince with the help of Monkey Man

(If you would like to learn more about our school, click on the hyperlink) GREENHITHE SCHOOL

Emirates

Hot tip from a recent traveler on Emirates!

Tired of flying economy? Well, here's a deal that will make traveling a dream!If you check in online a day before you fly with Emirates, they will offer you something great, so read this and the email you receive from your travel agent carefully.....They will offer you an upgrade to business class for an unbeatable price!!How do I know this? My family and I experienced personally.Lie flat beds, bigger TV's, better service and food!
Feel rich, feel relaxed." Hello Tomorrow". (Emirates catch phrase) 

Emirates business class

Emirates A380 (below Emirates economy)

What Makes a Good Learner

WHAT MAKES A GOOD LEARNER

This is what Room 23 thinks:

• Doing your homework on time and regularly
• Always trying your best
• Perseverance
• Asking when you really need help
• Not being afraid to get things wrong
• Good concentration
• Listening
• Always have a positive attitude
• Someone who sets goals and tries to achieve them
• Someone who is self-motivated
• Being fair
• Being respectful to everyone

This is what Long Meadow TV thinks

By Jake,Oliver and Joel                  

Manners

Manners, Manners, Manners.

Introduction:

Hello there, I am Elliott, a Year 6 boy from New Zealand. I think that manners are very important, which they are. On this page, you will learn more about manners, and part of what they are. Hopefully this will teach you something that you may like to improve on and enjoy using.

Types of Manners:

There are so many manners, probably more than you think! Such as, eating manners, p's and q's, playing manners, and more will be explained, if you read on and enjoy!

General Manners (mostly about p's & q's)

Do you or your kids suffer from lack on politeness? I mean like please, thank you, you 're welcome and so on.

This is a vital thing to do. If someone gives you something, what do you say? "Thank you." If the other person is polite also, they will say, "you're welcome." 

If you want something, what do you say? "Please may I," or, "Will you please."

But, sometimes, people do say these things, but what is bad is, how they say it. People might just mutter a thanks, or say, "can you please instead." It is extremely important to say it nicely.

Eating:

Don't you think it sounds horrible when someone is chewing with their mouth open, or showing their food in their mouth, chewed up and mushy? I loathe it! It is very good to eat with your mouth closed.It's a horrible sound and look. I would try starting not to do it if you're over five years old. It's okay for younger kids because it's harder to teach them. If you're a mum, I can guarantee you know what I mean.