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Monday 22 December 2014

End of Year

It has been an amazing year Room 15, you should all be very proud of your effort and achievements this year. I am sad to say good-bye, however I am sure that you will go on to do great things, not only next year, but in all the years to come. Good luck, and enjoy the holidays. 

Wednesday 3 December 2014

Inquiry - La Tomatina

This term we have been studying festivals. We had being finding out about La Tomatina. This is a Spanish festival which involves tomato throwing, it is now the largest food fight in the world. The children have been developing games which involve "tomatoes". We have created the games and are presenting them by the way of a poster, so that we can share them with others in our class as well as with other classes in the Middle school.

This term we have also learnt about Solo Taxonomy, this is a Thinking Tool which is helping us to expand our ideas and thoughts. These are the Solo Taxonomy steps:


We have also been busy using the devices in our classroom. To help explain the rules of our games, we have made videos which show others how to set up our games, the aim of our games and how to play our games. We have added these to our posters using QR Codes.

This is an example of our QR Codes. Scan the QR Code below to see the instructions to the La Throw-a-tina Game:
What a busy, yet fun term we have had, now we have only a couple of weeks left, sad and exciting times are ahead.

Sunday 16 November 2014

Narrative Writing

This term we have been learning how to write exciting narrative stories. We have learnt what information we need to include in our stories and how to make them more interesting for our audience to read. We have been writing our own stories, making up the characters, scene, problem and finding a resolution and an ending to our stories. We are in the process of editing them and getting them ready to publish.

This is Emma's narrative:
One sunny Monday, there was a little cottage in the dark woods. It is made of purple and pink bricks and has chairs and tables outside. It was owned by a very smart 11 year old girl called Hayley.
She loved to write fiction books. She has a purple T-shirt, brown hair, tan skin, pink shoes and a blue skirt.

One afternoon when Hayley was walking home from primary school to write a new book, she saw there was no more paper left and Hayley had just brought a new bach of paper. Hayley thought someone had been stealing it, but who?

This had been happening since last year, but this year it started to really annoy her. This time she put out spy cameras. The next day when she went to her publishers house, she set up the cameras. When she came home, she checked her spy cameras to see what had happened while she was gone. When she saw the person stealing her paper, she thought she recognised him. His name was Jackson and his job was to type out the running records. For Jackson's job they needed 100 pieces of paper in a day and so did Hayley, but it was her paper.

Hayley just remembered that Jackson's job earned more money than Hayley's job paid, so why did Jackson steal paper that didn't belong to him? Jackson was very rich and so was his family and his company was also very rich as well. It just didn't feel right thought Hayley. So this time, she disguised herself to look like one of Jackson's work mates. Jackson thought that he would take Hayley out for lunch, because he did not know it was her. When they went for lunch Hayley remembered one of her science experiments that could change someones brain. So Hayley put some brain changing tablets in Jackson's food. The brain changing tablets made him die. Hayley never told anyone.

Thursday 13 November 2014

Lorax Garden

Our Lorax garden is starting to take shape. We have had these two large tyres delivered and our truffula trees have also been put up. Thanks to the help of many in getting these completed, especially Mrs Andrews and Mrs Adshead. Thanks to Bridgestone Albany for these amazing tyres.





Tuesday 4 November 2014

Whanua Time

On Friday Room 14, 16 and 28 hosted Whanua Time. We had a Diwali theme. Room15 shared their Rangoli Rice Patterns, Room 14 shared their Clay Elephants and Room 28 shared their Calendar Art. We were luck as five of our girls also performed in the Indian Dancing Group. Thanks to Mrs D'Lima who prepared them and organised all the amazing costumes.


















Sasha had a busy day. She also had to introduce her little brother, who has recently started school.






Wednesday 29 October 2014

Trip - Waterview Tunnel

Last Thursday, Room 14, 15 and 19 went to visit the Waterview Tunnel Project. We met Dennis, who is the big yellow machine who is building the over bridges and Alice who is drilling the tunnels.

We went to both ends of the tunnel and saw the amazing work that is taking place on New Zealand's largest roading project. There are about 1000 people working on the project everyday, one on them being Chazz's Dad.

This was our trip ...













Thursday 23 October 2014

Rangoli Patterns

As part of our festival Inquiry we have been making our own Rangoli Patterns to celebrate Diwali.
We are lucky to be able to share these with the Whole School next week at assembly.














Tuesday 21 October 2014

Truffula Trees

We have finally finished our Truffula Trees to be put up in the Middle School Garden. 
Today we put on the last glass marbles. We have been very luck that Mrs Andrews and Mrs Adshead have helped by sealing the Truffula Tree (so the rain will be kept out) and ensuring that they are safety put up.
I can't wait to see them up.