Letter From Frazer

Today we got a letter from a classmate called Frazer who is in Scotland for three weeks. He is currently in Edinburgh and is enjoying it. When he was in Amsterdam his family was able to leave the airport and they got a tour up the canals. Hope you see this Frazer and enjoy the rest of your time in Scotland.
BY PJ and Grant.

Homework 29th July

Hi Room 15,

I hope you all enjoyed the break and are all relaxed and ready for a busy and exciting Term 3!

Homework:
1.  Date and tidy up your diaries for Term 3.  Remember we only have 9 weeks.  Lots on make sure they are kept up to date and used.
2.  Spelling words reviewed and ready for testing on Friday.
3.  Review and master your Math-a-thon sheet.  Your target is 100 %!  Tested next week Thursday.  Spare copies are on our BIS Maths Blog.
4.  Make sure all newsletters and permission slips etc.. for the first week are read with your parents/caregivers at home and returned or sorted on time.

Enjoy the week.
Malcolm Hepburn

Science fair

At the bis since fair we got to look at all the really cool science projects everyone was working on really hard. Some people got prizes like first second and third Harry and I got commended work. The people who got first second or third get to go to the inter schools and possibly win a prize. The science fair was really fun and we got to see tons of cool experiments made by other people. 

by Spider and Harry

On the 11th of july 2013 room 15 won the interclass basketball championship. The team was Kameran,  Nash, Sophie, olivia, Temeka, Alec and Billy. We played room 20 in the final the score was quite close at half time but in the second half we started to smash them. The starting lineup was Kameran, Nash, Billy, Sophie and Olivia.This is the second sport that we have won.

                                                       

Science with Craig

The Isel team went to the top basketball court to see Mr. Maybe's science experiment. All we could see were washing liquids and an ice box full of dry ice. He put four bits of dry ice into two cups and poured cold water into one cup and hot water into the other. A reaction started to happen and the cup with cold water had steam coming out of it. The same thing happened to the cup with hot water and then he put washing liquid into both cups and then it started to blow up all these bubbles and whenever someone touched them they evaporated into smoke. It all looked really cool.

By Grant, Kameran and Will

Homework 8th July

Hi Room 15,

Wow! Hasn't time just flown by!  Last week of Term 2!
We have some assessment this week to complete, so reports can be finalised and printed during the holidays, ready for you take home early Term 3.

Homework:
1.  Complete last weeks homework sheet, no new work this week due to last week and this week being so busy.
2.  Spelling words reviewed and ready for testing on Friday.

Enjoy the week.

Malcolm Hepburn

RUGBY TRIALS

On Tuesday the 3rd of July we had our rugby trials for the BIS Winter Tournament Teams with Mr Swain and Mr T.
As they were playing Billy fractured his thumb by fending Kamreran but he kept playing after that there were some great tackles and great try but all up it was awesome

Interschool XC

A couple of weeks ago some students from B.I.S competed in the Inter School XC at Rabbit Island. From our class:
 -Rhys 73rd in the Year 7 boys,
 -Katie 57th in the Year 7 girls,
 -Sophie 12th in the Year 8 girls,
 -PJ 3rd,  Billy 13th and Nash 52nd in the Year 8 boys.

So now PJ, Billy and Sophie are going to Teapot Valley to compete in the Inter Regional XC. They will be racing against runners from Christchurch and Wellington.

By Pj and Billy.

Homework 1st July 2013

Hi Room 15,
We are into the 7th month!  Time is flying by; 2 weeks to the end of term!
Great work with the Science Fair Entries, you all should be very proud of your entries and efforts they look fantastic!

Homework:
1.  Spelling words reviewed each night as you will be tested on Friday.
2.  Homework sheet completed and ready for marking on Friday.
3.  Have a look at our new BIS Maths Blog.  Leave a comment (first name and room number as ID) and go in the draw for a 'free' Combo lunch this Friday.

Enjoy the week.

Malcolm Hepburn

Homework 24th June

Hi Room 15,
I've been really impressed with your Science Fair experiments and follow up work to complete your entries.  A reminder judging is on this Friday.  We also have our class speeches being presented on Wednesday.  So a busy week; once again!

1.  Review and fine-tune your speech for Wednesday morning, which we have been working on in class.
2.  Last minute changes and amendments to your Science Fair entries for judging on Friday.
3.  Following on from maths in the class review and complete some activities on the website http://e-ako.nzmaths.co.nz/.  Make sure you have your username and password sorted out, so you can complete some of the activities in class when you have time on the computer during maths.

Good luck to our Class Basketball Team, a good start to lunchtime sports with a first up win!

Enjoy the week.

Malcolm Hepburn

Homework 17th June

Hi Room 15,
A busy week this week as we try to complete most of our Science Fair entries.

Homework:
1.  Speeches are to be presented next Tuesday in class, so take some time to prepare and 'fine tune' your speech which we have been working on in class.
2.  Spend 10-15 minutes each night reviewing/writing notes or organising materials for your Science Fair entry.  Remember we hope to be testing on Wednesday.
3.  If you have time have a look at some of the other BIS class blogs.

Enjoy your week.

Malcolm Hepburn

Cross Country

These are 4 runners from Isel house. They did very well and got 1st,2nd,and two 3rd's they did Isel proud Pj 1st, Billy 2nd, Alec 3rd and  Sophie 3rd awesome job. by Rhys

Netball Semi/Finals

On Tuesday the 11th of June, room 15 were in the semi finals against room 20. We won that game and we got put through to the finals vs room 6. We played really well even though it was quite tough because they are a good team. The score for Room 20 vs Room 15 was we beat them by quite alot       and the score for Room 6 vs Room 15 was 9-10 to us. Ashleigh the beast got the final goal. 

Well done guys. 

By Ashleigh, Hannah and Eva. But manly Eva because Ashleigh and Hannah were fighting about where Mt Everest is.

Hannah passing to Eva

What type of face is that Hanny?

Nash starting of the pass. 

Emily passing off the back line

Teamwork guys

Eva trying to block

Yay, we won the finals vs room 6

Good work guys

group photo

Homework 10th June

Hi Room 15,

Well done everyone for a great effort in the cross country; Room 15- PJ-1st, Billy-2nd, Alec-3rd and Sophie-3rd.  We also have a lot of runners who made the Inter-Schools Relay and Cross Country Teams.  Isel House won the Cross Country House Competition and we are now leading the school overall- Yahoo!

Homework:
1.  Refer to the guide sheet glued in your homework book to review, research and decide upon some options for your Science Fair Investigation.  Any questions just ask me.

No other homework this week as we really need to sort out our entries.

Enjoy the week.

Malcolm Hepburn

Homework 4th June

Hi Room 15,

I hope you all enjoyed the long weekend.
Looking forward to our school cross country on Friday- Go ISEL!

Homework:

1.  Complete your homework sheet which will be marked on Friday.
2.  Spelling words reviewed each night.
3.  Ask someone from home to leave a comment on our blog.
4.  Leave a comment on our canteen blog, so you can go in the draw for a free Juicie on Friday.  We will be running the canteen on Friday.

Enjoy your week.

Malcolm Hepburn

Term 2 Class Newsletter

Vortex Rings

At assembly on Friday, Mr. Maybe showed us vortex rings made from a bucket/trash bin.

The way it worked was you tightly fit a shower curtain over the lid end of the bin, and cut a hole on the bottom of the bin. Then you get a smoke machine and fill up the inside of the bin with smoke. Then what you did was whack the shower curtain on the bin and a small ring of smoke would pop out and go flying off!

Room 15 got the honor of making one of the bins so we got to use it first! Some people put cups on their heads and the people holding the bins knocked them off. It  looked so awesome and everyone had a great time using them. (except the people who didn't use them!)

Harri 

Homework 27th May

Hi Room 15,

Good luck to all of you involved in Stage Challenge, it will be a fantastic experience.

Homework this week:
1.  Complete your homework set in your homework book, to be handed in Friday.
2.  Spelling words reviewed each night and ready for testing Friday.
3.  Complete your last 'Typing Tutor' lesson and then 'Go for Gold'.
4.  Have a look at Room 14's new blog and leave a comment.

Enjoy the week.

Malcolm Hepburn  

B.I.S 2013 Stage Challenge 

Schools from all around the Nelson region are coming together to perform at the Trafalgar Centre on the 27th of May this Monday and Broadgreen will be performing.

Alot of people from Broadgreen are in Stage Challenge so they have the opportunity to perform in front of hundreds of people which is scary but also exciting.

Room 15 has alot of people away because of stage challenge those involved are Billy, Pirran, Rhys,  Will, Ashleigh, Eva, Hannah, Livs and Katie. The Stage challenge people have been working really hard in these past couple of months and I'm sure people won't be disappointed when they perform at the Trafalgar Centre on Monday.

The whole school has seen Stage Challenge and we all loved it and thought it was awesome.

So let's all wish them luck when they perform tonight and hope that they do the best they can.

By Grant.W

Pictures By Alec and Sarah.

Room15 Art

 This is some of Room 15's art. 

We did hot and cold paintings using red and blue colours. 

We blended blue and red with black and white colours.  Then we cut the paper in half and on one half we cut out triangles or circles and glued them on the other half, contrasting them (trying not to get black with black and red with red).

 The pastel art we did with the six pictures and three colours.  We drew the six pictures and then coloured them in using four different colours for the back ground and they ended out looking  excellent. 

Then we did monster names which is with our names.  We doubled them beside each other and then we decided where the eyes mouth and nose would go.  Next we drew them in and coloured the rest of the  letters  using only three colours.  Then you colour the background in one solid colour.

We think they look really cool.

By Frazer,Sophie,Pingo. 

Homework 20th May

Hi Room 15,
Keep up the good work, you are all working well in class constantly striving to produce your best work.

Homework:
1.  Complete your homework set in your homework book, to be handed in Friday.
2.  Review your spelling words.
3.  Leave a comment on the School Canteen Blog; once Temeka, Sophie and Sarah have updated it.
4.  Have a look at some of Steve Spangler's youtube videos. Leave us a comment if you want to recommend one for others to watch?  Steve Spangler Ellen 2007 and 2008 are a good start! 

Enjoy your week.

Malcolm Hepburn

Room 15 Movie Night

Last night in Room 15 we had a movie night.

Some people got couches and, pillows and bean bags from other rooms to sit on. We watched Jumanji which is a magical board that comes to life. At 5 o'clock we stopped to eat our fish'n'chips from Two Little Fish Takaways, they very kindly delivered them!  We then watched the rest of the movie and cleaned up afterwards and went home.
It was a lot of fun and we hope to have another one!

By Eva , PJ 

Some boys moving a couch from Room 17

Everyone watching the movie

Those fish'n' chips look good!

Pingo, Katey and Livz being 'weirdos'!

SCIENCE WITH MANDY

On Tuesday, Room 15 did science with Mandy (Pirran's mummy). We got film canisters and filled them 

with either milk, vinegar, water or lemonade. Then we got the lid of the film canister and put paste on it which contained meths, citric acid and baking soda. We then put then lid on the canister and tipped it upside down and got out of the way! It took about 10 to 30 seconds the canister exploded upwards.

We had lots of fun doing these experiments.

Mandy at work!

Getting ready

Spider putting the lid on the canister

Homework 13th May

Hi Room 15,
As usual a very busy start to the term!   Great to see you all however and I enjoyed our first week of Term 2!

Homework:
1.  Maths sheet completed and returned ready for marking on Friday.
2.  Spelling words reviewed as you will be tested on Friday.
3.  Review one of your typing lessons from Term 1.  Just to check you can remember where your 'home keys' are!
4.  Leave a comment on our blog telling us what you are looking forward to this term?
5.  Extra for experts: review Mrs Parkers' trip notes and photos on her blog and leave a message.

Enjoy the week.

Malcolm Hepburn

Camp Snapshots pt 2

Camp Snapshots