Roald Dahl-Gumboot questions

Today we read a story about Gumboots. WALT: Ask and answer questions during reading.
We have created a wallwisher of our questions that we still have about gumboots.

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Maori Language Week

I am super proud of Amelia and Gina who have learnt to use Puppet Pals, on their own, to create this cute video, sharing some of their Te Reo knowledge.
Watch how they use Te Reo in everyday situations.

 

We watched an example of this and got the idea from Room 5 of Russell Street School in Palmerston North's blog. There blog is below.

http://theinsandouts.co.nz/?cat=1

Fonterra Milk in Schools

Today we got our first delivery of our tasty milk. Rico, Alex and Trinity our milk monitors went and collected our box of milk after morning tea.

Our milk monitors taught us how to fold our milk cartons so that we can recycle the boxes to make other things and to stop the milk from smelling out our school.

We discovered that on the back on the milk cartons there are different facts.
Today's facts are;
-Did you know that 40% of your body is muscle? Milk has protein to help build your muscles.
-You have about 100,000 hairs growing on your head! Milk contains protein to help hair grow and grow!
-The best dairy cows make up to 50 litres of milk a day - that's 200 glasses of milk!
-Milk's got calcium to help build strong bones - even your funnybone! It's real name is the 'humerus' ha ha!

The things we enjoyed about tasting our milk today were;
-There were different facts to read. (Gina)
-It was delicious. (Gemma)
-It was yum and I found that milk can help you grow big and strong muscles. (Tawhiao)
-That milk makes your hair grow and makes you strong. (Sarah)
-We got to find out different facts. (Amelia)
-How we folded up our cartons. (Paarth)
-I learnt that a cow can make 200 glasses of milk and it makes our bones strong and healthy. (Filipe)
-I enjoyed the freshness of the milk. (Jacob)
-They had facts about milk on the back. (Faye)
-I liked folding the cartons. (Eva)
-I enjoyed collecting the milk for the class. (Rico)
-It was yummy and salty. (Alex)
-I liked drinking it. (Ella)
-I enjoyed drinking it because it was yummy and refreshing. (Kayley)
-Folding the carton. (Paige)
-I liked drinking it. (Josh)
-I enjoyed drinking it because it was fresh. (Saphyre)
-It tasted yum. (Kaylee)
-I enjoyed collecting the milk. (Trinity)
-I liked collecting the milk as well. (Alex)
-I enjoyed how they all had different facts on the backs of them. (Oliver)

Once we had finished our delicious milk we showed off our big strong muscles.

Maori Language Week

This week is Maori Language Week.
Today we called the roll with one of our previous Maori Phrase's of the Week.
We all answered "kei konei au" which means I am here.

How have you started this week off celebrating Maori Language Week?

Trashion Show

It was our own World of Wearable Art and it was pretty WOW!
After a term spent creating designs then making prototypes to finally making our finished products some of our garments had some major reconstructing and designing throughout the process. But one thing is for sure they all turned out looking great!
Check out the video's of our Kiwiana costumes.


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Can you guess what the inspiration behind each costume was?

Should McDonald's be allowed to touch up their burgers?

Watching this video shows how McDonald's make their burgers look so tasty.



1. Do you think it is right that McDonald's 'touch up' their burgers to make them look better? Why/why not?
2. Why do you think McDonald's have made this video?
3. Has it made you think any differently about McDonald's? If so how?

Quadblogging Aotearoa

We are excited to begin our NZ Quadblogging with three other classes around the country who are the same age as us. Find out where in the country these schools are based. Check out their blogs, what learning do you like the look of?

http://www.room14stclair.blogspot.co.nz/
http://oakuraroom6.blogspot.co.nz/
http://www.9plus10.blogspot.co.nz/

Room 9's Assembly

On Friday it was Room 9's turn to showcase a snapshot of our learning over the term. We all enjoyed being up on stage and our audience were great which hopefully means they enjoyed it too. We shared our writing, to dancing and making music from our bodies. We even shared one of our favourite brain breaks which we heard other classes trying later on that day.

Kiwiana Book

Amelia, Filipe and Kayley made a book using Book Creator on our class ipad. Unfortunately we couldn't get it off our ipad so we have had to make a video to show you our book. Take a read.

Kiwiana Writing Video

Kiwiana Writing Video

Gina's Glogster - Kiwiana Writing

Sarah's Glogster - Kiwiana Writing

Letters about Kiwiana

Dear Readers,

Most NZ people eat tip top Hokey Pokey ice cream and drink L&P. L&P stands for Lemon and Paeroa. Did you know L&P is a fizzy drink? Paeroa is a place in NZ where it is made. Tip top icecream is made by New Zealanders and it tastes good. There are heaps of different TipTop flavours. Our favourite is Hokey Pokey it is Vanilla icecream with small balls of Hokey Pokey in it.

From Paarth

Dear Readers,

You should visit New Zealand because you can watch the All Blacks and eat tip top icecream. The All Blacks are New Zealand’s best rugby team. Our All Black’s won the Rugby World Cup. Tip top icecream tastes very yummy. They have different flavours but Hokey Pokey is a special New Zealand flavour. It is made from vanilla icecream and little balls of hokey pokey.

From Kaylee

Dear Reader,

Most New Zealander’s eat tip top ice cream and drink Lemon and Paeroa  because they are so good.                                   L&P is a fizzy New Zealand drink. It is world famous in NZ. Tip top ice cream can came in so many different flavours but hokey pokey is the top ice cream it is made from vanilla ice cream and it has little balls of Hokey Pokey. It tastes really yummy!

From Trinity

 

Christopher's Glogster-Kiwiana Writing

Comic Life Kiwiana Writing

Here are Rico, Tawhiao and Saphyre's comic life posters about Kiwiana.

Matariki

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Skype Date to learn about Bougainville

Today Room 9 and Room 13 had a Skype date with Gina and Toby's great uncle Brent. Brent has lived in Bougainville, which is where all the money raised from the 40 hour famine is going this year. Bougainville is a small island not far from Papa New Guina. Lots of people in Room 9 have signed up to do the famine and help children in a country less fortunate than ours. Brent lives in Melbourne now so we started skyping at 11am our time which was 9am his time. It was the first time skyping for some of us and we were amazed at seeing ourselves on the TV. But we also learnt some interesting things about Bougainville.
Bougainville was named after the French explorer that discovered it.
There were a lot of differences we found between NZ and Bougainville. Over in Bougainville all the land is owned by the families and each family gets a block of land. Bougainville is a lot smaller than NZ because it is only the same size as Cape Reigna to Auckland only a tiny part of NZ. They live in bamboo houses and have mini buses to help get around, at school there are toliets but most houses have long drops. School is very different with assemblies starting at 7.15am and studytime going from 6-9pm which makes it a lot longer day than our 9am-3pm school day. There are not many teachers in Bougainville so you are lucky if you get to go to school. But if you are naughty you are kicked out. The weather is really nice in Bougainville and ranges from 20-26 degrees all year round. But there is one thing that is the same as NZ. Bougainville has beautiful beaches. Brent loved his time living in Bougainville and although the people don't have TV's, playstations, computers or ipads they are very happy people who are always smiling.
Here are a few of the things we enjoyed from yesterday;

Oliver learnt that there were lots of different kinds of orchids (a type of flower).
Amelia learnt there aren't many teachers so you are lucky if you go to school and they are poor. I enjoyed skyping to learn more about Bouginville.
Kaylee learnt that he missed his school and he helped people sell stuff. I enjoyed talking to them on skype.
Kayley learnt that the weather is not too cold and not too hot and it is just perfect. I enjoyed skyping and talking to him because we learnt a lot about Bouginville.
Alex learnt about helping other countries. I enjoyed skyping and being able to meet someone new.
Alex S learnt that the houses are made out of bamboo. I enjoyed skyping at school.
Trinity learnt in Bougainville there are volcanoes.
Ella learnt that they eat fish by fishing. I enjoyed him talking about Bougainville.
Gemma learnt that they don't have TV. I liked being able to ask him questions.
Paige learnt they have volcanoes.
Rico learnt that they have a lot of beaches and the volcanoes were really tall. I enjoyed skyping because I learnt a whole lot of stuff about Bouginville.
Eva learnt that they eat fish. I liked hearing what he did in Bougainville.
Christopher learnt that they have volcanoes. I enjoyed him telling us about Bougainville.
Jacob learnt that most people use long drop toliet. I enjoyed learning so much Bougainville.
Gina learnt that everyone in Bouginville are very happy even though they don't have much. I enjoyed getting to see my Great Uncle Brent again.
Saphyre learnt that even though it has very active volcanoes that it can still be a very pretty place. I enjoyed skyping to learn lots about Bougainville.
Filipe learnt there are two volcanoes on Bougainville and that he missed his school. I liked how he answered our questions on skype.
Tawhiao learnt that Brent cried when he left the school he taught at because he really missed his school and he enjoyed living there. And school is different if you misbehave you get kicked out. I enjoyed skyping because you can only see a certain amount of us on the camera.

Diamonds Maths Learning

We made a comic life about rounding up and compensating this is something we learnt in maths today.

Maori Phrase of the Week

Our Maori Phrase last week was I am here Kei konei au