Tuesday 8 December 2015

The Time Tunnel Exit Point

Today, it was the Time Tunnel exit points. Our class had to dress up as Romans. Other classes on the other hand, had to dress up as a person from another time period: The Mayans, Victorians, Maoris and Celts and last but not least of course, 5K as the Romans. Our class had a big banner saying "The Romans". Boards were put up to display about our time period. The timeline of events were put up on a curtain that was very silky and lots of students wanted to touch it and smoothen it out or hide behind it to surprise their friends therefore, the timeline kept on wobbling as it was stuck on with tape onto the cloak of the curtain spread along. Lots of classes from different years came to it. So did tons of parents and other family members. They learned a lot of history. It was very, very crowded. We had to squeeze through to see what was going on the which meant a lot of bumping into each other. Some of the other classes performed some dances and the songs from their time period. It was so much fun teaching others that visited the stations and sections. Even the school's head of technology Came, the school's principal and vice principal and many more important people from the school Came. There were so much of photo taking! There were lots of QR-Codes to scan and Aurasmas. We displayed our mosaics, pictures of us as Romans, a timeline, interactive technology and other really cool things. We made a quiz corresponding to each of the section about Roman history and it was made by Mr E and it was very awesome. Everyone had a really fun time and it basically almost lasted for the whole day. We put a lot of effort in it and spend so much time into the exit points and we're really proud of what we put up and what we accomplished over the past few weeks and taking it to showcase them to an audience of all types of ages ranging from toddlers to Elderly. It takes a really hard job to get everything done in a matter of time but everyone did great. The exit point was really like a time tunnel!

There were some really interesting ,weird and unique facts about the Ruthless Romans:

-Did you know that Romans used urine as mouthwash, toothpaste and to wash their laundry?!
-Laudrymen would set out jars so whoever was passing by could pee into the jar and went the jar was all filled up and fill, the laundryman would collect the jars and use it to wash the clothes!?
-Romans didn't have any pills to make them fall asleep so they had to have their surgery awake!
-Back in the day, thumbs up and thumbs down didn't mean good or bad, it meant live or die.
-Did you know Romans got married at 14 or sometimes even YOUNGER!
-When a child is born, the father has to pick the child up and place them on his lap that meant it was part of the family and if he left the baby without picking it up, it meant they were not part of the family
-There were more than. 6,000 gladiators in 1 legion!?















Monday 7 December 2015

Run The School

Today, during the third period, we had an event called Run The School. Hence the name, we had to run around the school. It started and ended at the Rugby Field. These are two sweaty and tired classmates that ran around the school three times!





Sunday 6 December 2015

Time Tunnel Exit Point Preparation


Today is the second last day before the exit point on Wednesday. On Wednesday the Class has to dress up like a Roman. The Class has started to put up the display's for Wednesday.





Thursday 3 December 2015

Celebration Of Learning

Today, lots of parents came in. Everyone had different time slots for when they went to meet their parents. If it is your time slot, you would go out with your parents with your IPC Book, Literacy Book and Maths Book. There are 2 or 1 piece of work you are proud of and you would share it with your parents. We would have little sheets of what we want to say to our parents to remind us what the piece of work was. Some people even had their times slot in the afternoon very late! Or some people had it early in the morning.





Time Tunnel Exit Point Preparation

This is a group's presentation ready to be put on display. Each class has a different time period to work on. Our class are doing the Romans. Our class split into different groups for different categories in the Roman times. Such as Clothing, Culture and Childhood.