Room 23 have talked about our year. Here are some of our favourite memories...
* Swimming in Term 1 in the school pool and at Aquagym. Some of us were surprised at our results and how much we improved. We also learnt new skills like floating on our back.
* Blue Skies at Kaiapoi. We went as a whole senior team which was really cool and we worked in teams. Some of the best activities were: the flying fox, balancing on the big wooden platform, swinging off the platform and holding onto the net, climbing over the big wall and getting over the barrel all together.
* AVAILLL: We loved this! It was our Term 2 reading programme where we read subtitles of movies and did activities to help our comprehension. The Year 5s and Year 6s did different programmes. We learnt skills like how to write short sentences down fast, to remember what we had seen on the screen; to be able to skim read more quickly; getting better at remembering things; it made us notice exactly what the characters were saying.
* Miss Barker our student teacher was in our class in Term 2. She is AWESOME at football so she taught us a bit about that. She also did some stuff with us about the land that changes like techtonic plates.
* Halswell Quarry: As part of our learning for 'The Land that Changes' we did a trip to Halswell Quarry. We saw the different layers of rocks on the hillside and all about different types of rocks; we learnt about the history of the quarry and the wetlands like how there were 12 men that lived in one cottage and they all had to share the same bath water; we saw the house of the man who first owned the quarry, he was really wealthy and had the first car in Christchurch.
* Showcase: We used our learning about the land that changes to inspire our senior dance pieces about the past, present and future of Christchurch. Our class did the future. Our favourite parts of the showcase was turning around at the end to show our message 'We are the future of CHCH'; how we could tell a story through dance; how everyone joined in; making up the different moves; watching all of the other classes.
* Speeches: we all enjoyed doing the speech competition. There were lots of cool topics.
* Food for Thought: we did an awesome learning programme about the food we eat. We learnt so much about what is in our food, how to read food labels, how much sugar is in different food and drinks, the food pyramid, we found out about the food that we do eat and whether it is healthy or not.
* Beach Ed and Sailing: Year 5 and Year 6 did these separate programmes in Term 4 as part of Education outside the classroom.
* CAMP! We've just got back from camp. We did these activities: Kayaking, coasteering, archery, colour game, low ropes, orienteering, sports games, tribal wars.
Overall, we have had a great year. The best thing about being in Room 23 has been...
* Mrs Hanson
* Having good friends in the class
* Having different cultures in our class
* Being surprised by the friends that we have made when we thought we didn't really know anyone in the class.
* A mixture of Year 5s and Year 6s
* Everyone cares about each other and gives each other second chances
Monday 14 December 2015
Tuesday 1 December 2015
Friday 27 November 2015
Room 23s blog post
Hello I'm Jamie and I'm Jarelle,
This week the year 5s have been to beach education at Waimairi beach they did a relay and a game of octopus. They got to build a sandcastle with a friend and did a couple of water activities like boogie boarding and a swim, the parents made a square around the kids.
We have also had Mrs Brown take some photos for the year book such as specialised leaders,school council, house captains, road patrol, pal, heads ,and a year 6 photo.Sharon took the sport photos for Cricket A, Cricket B, Cricket C, both T ball teams, touch teams, volleyball teams, zone athletics and Canterbury athletics.
we have done Mola art it is when you draw something and putt patterns in the inside of it then draw a colourful pattern for the background. I did a turtle and Jarelle did a spider.
In the next few weeks we have some great fun activity's such as sailing for the year 6s, Canterbury athletics, end of year graduation ceremony, the VIP morning tea, camp, Canterbury cricket, leavers dinner and swim.
By Jamie and Jarelle
This week the year 5s have been to beach education at Waimairi beach they did a relay and a game of octopus. They got to build a sandcastle with a friend and did a couple of water activities like boogie boarding and a swim, the parents made a square around the kids.
We have also had Mrs Brown take some photos for the year book such as specialised leaders,school council, house captains, road patrol, pal, heads ,and a year 6 photo.Sharon took the sport photos for Cricket A, Cricket B, Cricket C, both T ball teams, touch teams, volleyball teams, zone athletics and Canterbury athletics.
we have done Mola art it is when you draw something and putt patterns in the inside of it then draw a colourful pattern for the background. I did a turtle and Jarelle did a spider.
In the next few weeks we have some great fun activity's such as sailing for the year 6s, Canterbury athletics, end of year graduation ceremony, the VIP morning tea, camp, Canterbury cricket, leavers dinner and swim.
By Jamie and Jarelle
Thursday 26 November 2015
School swimming days
Hi everyone, please remember to bring your togs and towel on Mondays and Wednesdays, we have swim times on those days, starting on Monday 30th November.
Thursday 19 November 2015
Sailing Date Correction
Please note that the date on the sailing notice is wrong. The date that the year 6s are going sailing is Tuesday December 1st.
Friday 23 October 2015
TERM 4 WEEK 2
Hello I'm Jamie and I'm Kegan. Today we will be talking about what Room 23 have done this week.
This week we have been doing athletics training for next Wednesday. We have been doing shot put, long jump, high jump, discuss, sprints and class relay. Jamie's favourite athletics rotation is long jump sprints and high jump. Kegan's favourite athletics rotation is Sprints and High Jump.
We went to a Craig Smith show (Wonky Donkey author) and he read us some of his books and he sung us some songs. We had Craig Smith come to our class to do a writing session we learnt about how to not think and just write and Craig Smith took a photo of our class. He told us that we should write about stuff that you know about and get your emotions out in writing.
We also did writing called 'When I'm 40' Jamie's one was about how he might be a professional cricket player and play for the Blackcaps and play in the Indian Premier League. He also wrote about how he had a 3 storied mansion. Kegan's one was that he would be a Formula 1 car driver or play for the All Blacks, and he would have a two storied house with five bedrooms.
Jamie is looking forward to camp and athletics day and sailing. Kegan is also looking forward to camp and athletics day but he's gutted that he doesn't get to do sprints and discus because he has something else on. Jamie's favourite thing that we have done this year was Blue Skies and swimming sports at the start of the year. Kegan's favourite thing this year was Blue Skies and going swimming on really hot days.
We are looking forward to the rest of the year!
Kegan and Jamie.
We are looking forward to the rest of the year!
Kegan and Jamie.
Persuasive Writing
At the end of last term we started writing persuasive letters to people in our lives about issues we wanted to change or convince people about. Most of used Google Docs to publish our writing. Here are some of our persuasive letters. Are you convinced???
Persuasive letter
Dear Mum,
I need to talk to you about something. Why can’t I paint my room a different colour? I have talked to Dad about this many times and he has said yes but you said no. Anyway here are my reasons why I should be able to paint my room a different colour.
My first reason that I should be able to paint my room a different colour is that I don't like the colour of it now. it is a pinky colour. You know that my room is pink and I really don’t like that colour (I would change it to blue like the sky). Blue is my favourite colour and it will always be. So then I would not have to change it ever again. I will also like the new change. So that is my first reason.
My second reason that I should change my room is that I will do most of the work. Dad only has to help a little bit on the ceiling,the high bits of the walls and the edges of the door ways. I can do the rest. It won’t be a hassle. I can chose the colour of the paint myself. You won’t even have to be down in my room with me! If I haven't already convinced you enough my last reason will definitely do the trick!
My next reason is that I will do lots of jobs. I will do the dishwasher for 2 weeks by myself and any other jobs that you need done (eg. washing windows,weeding) and for free (that is a great deal) if you let me paint my room. I will also keep my room tidy at all times. I will put my things away in the living room so that my stuff will not be there and that will stay like that forever.
I hope that I have convinced you and will think about what you have just read. I hope that I can get my room painted sometime soon. The holidays I think would be the ideal time to do it. I do really, really hope that I have convinced you enough. I can’t wait to hear your reply.
kind regards
~Eva~
Dear Mumma and John,
I’m writing to you because I’m persuading you to get me a tablet.
The first reason why I should be allowed a tablet is that I could do the grocery shopping on it. It would save you time and you wouldn’t have to go to the supermarket. Also John wouldn’t have to go the supermarket so that he could came home from work and relax and watch the news.
My second reason why I should get a tablet is that I could check the weather every morning on the weather app for you. This would be good so you don’t have to check the forecast on the tv. If the weather was too bad the tv might not work and you wouldn’t know what the forecast was. If you couldn’t check it you could get wet or too hot.
My third reason for getting a tablet is that when Mumma wants to search something on Google I could do it for her because she might get a bit stuck. When I search things up on it I would get as smart as a t-rex hunting for it’s prey. Instead of Mumma ringing John I could help her. If she had to search it herself she would have to leave Lilly because Lilly could start crying.
Now that you have read the letter I hope that you are convinced enough to get me a tablet.
Love from Finn
Persuasive Letter
Dear Lucy,
I’m going to persuade you that hockey is way way better than cricket. At the end of this letter you will think hockey is 100% better than cricket!
My first reason is that in cricket you are more on your own and in hockey you play more as a team. There are only three people involved in cricket, when you’re batting, the two batters and one bowler, the rest of the team is on the bench or standing around on the side. In hockey you’re all involved not just three people. In hockey you have a chance of getting the ball and working more as a team not just hogging the ball yourself. When everyone is involved you can score more goals and have more fun playing with your team.
Now this is my next reason that hockey is better than cricket, in hockey there’s someone backing you up. When you’re in trouble you can pass it to another person in your team so you can help each other out and get passed the other team.You can’t in cricket because it’s only you and the other person in the other team and nobody is helping you so you are all alone and could score no points for your team you will feel really bad.
My last reason is that hockey is easier to learn than cricket.bowling is hard to aim because you don’t know where it’s going to go. hitting the ball is impossible to hit because you have to get the timing right. Catching the ball hurts and you might get scared to catch it and the other team could get more points .In hockey it’s easy to hit the ball because it’s on the ground not in the air, aiming the ball somewhere is easy because you just aim a different direction to hit to your team. You catch the ball with your stick so it won’t hurt.
In this letter I have told you that in hockey you get to work more as a team than in cricket and everyone is involved in the game. Hopefully I have persuaded you that hockey is better than cricket. I look forward to hearing what you think is better now.
from Harriet
Persuasive Letter
Dear Mum and Dad
This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to get a bit of peace and quiet at home! Can I go to Finn C-W’s house for a sleepover? By the time you have read this you will say yes.
First of all it would save electricity because my electric blanket and my light would not be on. I would also not be having a shower so it would save hot water. Really, it could take some money off the power bill. It might not seem like much but it is still a saving. If it does save you money you will be glad I went! Now to the second reason.
My second reason is that it would also be A LOT more quiet because I wouldn't be running around the house yahooing with loud music on! Harry might make some noise but it won't be as noisy as normal. Its because when I’m with Harry he is so noisy but when I’m not he's not so noisy. Now for the third reason.
I think it would be easier to look after 2 kids than 3. It would be as easy as pie because I eat the most so you would not need to make dinner or breakfast for me and wouldn’t need to wary about me getting all my jobs done. You also might not get mixed up with Issy and Harry!
Now that you have read my persuasive letter you know why it would be a great thing to go to Finn C-W’s house. Because of all my great reasons, you can’t say no.
from Jake.
Why the Black Caps are better than Australia at cricket
Dear people of Australia,
Today I will be writing a letter to you on why the Black Caps are better than Australia at cricket.
At the end of this letter I am sure you will be convinced of my argument.
My first good reason that the Black Caps are better than Australia at cricket is that the Black Caps show better sportsmanship than Australia. Here is some evidence to back it up. Like how after the match against South Africa in the semi final of the World Cup , AB De Villiers got out and Brendon Mccullum gave AB Devillers a handshake, congratulated him on how well South Africa did. When Grant Elliot got out for NZ, the Australians were sledging him.
My second good reason is how well we play as a team. Here are some examples to show you what I mean. Like when we played Australia and we only won by one run but we all played as a team how Grant Elliott, Corey Anderson did that amazing partnership together. How Tim Southee, Trent Boult gave each other tips on how to bowl a bit better.
My third good reason is the outstanding players we have compared to Australia. Here are some players I’m talking about. Like Martin Guptill got 221 runs in one game and he got most runs in the Cricket World Cup. Tim Southee got 7 wickets in one game. Trent Boult got second most wickets in the Cricket World Cup. Trent Boult can bowl as fast as a cheetah.
I hope after reading my convincing letter that you now know that the Black Caps are at least a little bit better than Australia because of all the things we do as a team.
From Jamie Goodgame.
Persuasive writing
Dear Dad,
I know I’ve talked to you about this several times, but after this letter you’ll be convinced that we should get a turtle instead of another dog.
The first reason why we should get a turtle instead of another dog is...turtles are more gentle than dogs. Can you imagine walking down the street and a dog comes up and bowls you over? Well I can. Whereas if you had a pet turtle it wouldn’t bowl you over because they’re really slow. Turtles aren’t as energetic as dogs so they don’t jump around as much as a dog would.
My second reason is… That I will clean up after the turtle no matter what. I’ll feed it, I’ll take it out and play with it and I will clean its tank and I’ll clean his/her shell whenever it gets dirty. If we get another dog there will be extra poo on the lawn, where if you had a pet turtle there wouldn’t be extras all over the place because they will be in the tank where the turtle will stay.
My third reason why we should get a turtle instead of another dog is…Turtles are much quieter than dog, so if you get a dog it might bark all night, so we don’t get much sleep. The bad thing about it is the neighbours might get angry at us they might not want to live next door.
Guess what? You can pick his tank and what it eats. But I shall pick the name that’s only if you agree. Turtles are as slow as sloths so the good thing about turtles is that they don’t come out of their tank so you don’t have to walk them. You could even play with him with me! We could play hide and seek, monopoly and many others.
I hope my letter exploded in your face like a bomb and blew the answer out of you, and maybe by the end of the year there will be a turtle in my room that goes by the name of Shelley or Bolt
~Love from Kegan~
Persuasive Writing
Dear Sammy,
I know you probably think that netball is better than hockey. I hope that by the end of this letter you will change your mind and agree with me that hockey is better than netball. When you get a hockey stick and play you can not put it down because it is as fun as eating chocolate. I bet you will agree with me, and you will thank me for days .
My first strong reason that hockey is better than netball is that you do a lot more running around the pitch than on the netball court. If you play hockey the pitches are a lot bigger than netball courts if you put two full netball courts you get one half of a hockey field that means if you put four netball courts together you get one full hockey pitch which seems humongous to me and probably to you as well.
My second strong reason is that hockey is a more active sport than netball. For hockey you don’t have to hold the ball. There are three different steps, number one you only need to dribble the ball to throw it and then the other team gets the ball, number two in netball it is quite hard to keep the ball not going out however, in hockey you can use your stick to keep it from going out. Number three you play halves NOT quarters in hockey which makes the game feel a lot longer than a netball game. Well that is my opinion on that!
My third strong reason is that it is quite hard to score goals in netball and it is as easy as saying hello to someone in hockey because all you need to do is hit the ball at the goal. In netball you need to be able to shoot and be goal shoot. For hockey your whole team can score accept your goalie because she/he are all armoured up in the goalie gear. This is all squishy and hard, the only thing they can feel is the vibration of the hockey ball.
I hope after you read this you will change your sport to hockey, rather than netball. I hope I see your name is on the hockey sign up sheets. Will you be in my hockey team?
Kind regards,
~Lucy~
Persuasive Writing
Dear Mrs Hanson and Room 23,
I know you all love meat but I’m about to persuade you all to try to be a vegetarian!
My first reason for you to try be a vegetarian is that people don’t treat animals very nicely. If you become a vegetarian you will save lots of animals’ lives. They sometimes get kept in tiny places and get squished to death! On their way to the place where they get killed they’re also squashed because they put too many animals together in a very small space.
My second reason is that the world would be a much more happy place if we were all vegetarian. Obviously the animals would be happier because they would be alive and butchers would be happier because they wouldn’t have to chop up dead animals every day. It would probably be hard for farmers to send their animals, that they had looked after away. Did you know animals have feelings just like people? If someone hurts them then they feel hurt. Just because we are bigger and stronger than they are doesn't make it ok to hurt them! How would you feel if you were one of those animals?
My third reason that you should be a vegetarian is it’s really healthy! You end up eating a lot of fruit and veg. I do miss sausages and burgers but there are veggie burgers and sausages! (They are as yummy as a real piece of meat!) A great thing about vegetarian is you get more handfuls of the things that are good for you. You also get to try new food! If you're a person who likes challenges, then being a vegetarian is a great challenge to try. I can’t wait to see how many of you are going to try it
from Millie
persuasive writing
Dear Mum and Dad,
Ok I know that we have talked about this a lot, but I know that after you’ve read this letter, you will let me go to bed at 8:30pm instead of 7pm. Here are my three reasons for my letter.
My first argument about why I should go to bed later is with my bed time now I don’t have enough time to do everything I need to. My bedtime now doesn’t give me enough time to finish my homework. I don’t even have enough time to think about my work and put detail into it. I also don’t have enough time to read which will help my English get better. I just don’t have time to help Mum with jobs that she does. If I went to bed later I could do things like vacuum the house. Now my second reason is coming up, be ready!
My second reason to go to bed later is that at my bedtime now is way too early and how will I go to sleep? Sometimes I find it really hard to go to sleep because my eyes just don’t close when I want them to, in fact I don’t even feel sleepy and I don’t need all that time to go to sleep. At the moment I sleep at 7:00 and wake up at 7:30 which is 12 and a half hours that is way too much sleep.
Now my final best,third reason is now I am 10 ,not a baby that should go to bed early. My friend's parents let them go to bed at 8:30, so why can’t I? It’s not like I should be forced to go to sleep, but now I’m nearly a teenager and teenagers like my big brother go to sleep about 9:30. I’m only asking for 8:30! That’s why I should allowed to go to bed a bit later.
Hopefully you have thought about my three reasons and I have convinced you that I should be allowed to go to bed at 8:30 not at 7:00. It would make me very, very happy if you could do this at least for your daughter’s sake.
Kind regards,
Your daughter Nisha Biswa
Persuasive Writing: Why I should be allowed $2 a week for pocket money
Dear Mum and Dad,
I am going to tell you some things that will make a lot of ‘cents’. Need help in the house? Then I should be allowed $2 a week for pocket money and I hope by the end of this letter you are highly convinced. Turn the coin and we’ll see what it lands on.
My first strong reason is because I’ll donate $2 a month for people like the Ronald McDonald house and other charities. This will make me feel warm inside like I’m under thick layers of blankets, for not keeping the money to myself. I’ll learn a lesson to care about other people not just myself, this could help at school and in my future life. I know people can go crazy with money and buy sweets, but I won’t because it’s bad for my health; I’d rather spend it on helping other people making them smile as I hum happily.
Reason two, is that if you need to borrow money, you’ll have no problems, we can can make an agreement on that. Just ask it with me and it can be done. No hassle about going to the bank you can just open my piggy bank and its done but please ask permission. This also allows my brother to borrow as well but he can’t go overboard. I’ll keep a piggy bank with all my coins in it and not stack it too high as soon as it does I’ll donate it immediately to the charities I talked about.
Lastly, having pocket money could give me great practice with maths. For example, when giving a shopkeeper more money than needed you will get change. Estimating what the change would be or using original knowledge to work out the equation that is in front of me. The more I practice the better I’ll be when it comes to maths at school and the future. Sometimes money is challenging as it comes out in notes, cents and dollars. I want to understand them as they are classified as what I call ‘brain errors’. To improve my learning with money this will take time but I know you can be patient as you were waiting for my first baby steps.
Now you can let me do some work like the dishes around the house, I won’t break a pot or glass cup maybe give me supervision. Now you’re convinced admit it. I promise I’ll share until my heart thrives with life, this is doing myself a favour by filling up someone’s bucket making me smile. I’ll show respect with money and treat it like it’s shiny gold and rare as crystals.
Sincerely, your loving daughter,
~Olivia Towns~
Persuasive Writing
Dear Mum and Dad,
I know we have gone through this several times, but I need my own room! So through this writing I’m going to persuade you why I should get my own room.
My first reason why I should get my own room is Tyler snore and because he’s in the same room as me I can’t get any sleep! Then I stay up until 10 o'clock or something. Then when I wake up, I’m really tired and can’t do much. Then I can’t help you do the dishes or make your coffee. Also I find it hard to do my school work at school because I’m too tired.
Now my second reason why I should get my own room is it will be more quiet. Right now Tyler and I just fight. So if I get my own room we won’t be able to fight. Which means you can watch your movies without heaps of noise. Then we can also play with the other kids so they are not too loud. If I get my own room you won’t have to hear me and Tyler arguing.
Now my last reason why I should get my own room is I would keep my room tidy. I know you have been wanting that for ages. So if I get my own room it will be more tidy, because most of the stuff is Tyler’s only some stuff is mine. Even better if i get a small room I won’t need so much stuff. So we can donate some stuff to charity.
Now I hope that you understand why I need my own room. I’ll look forward to seeing some of my things in my own room and Tyler’s things in his own room.
Love Ryan Andrews
Persuasive Letter
Dear Room 23,
Hey do I hear someone playing the best sport by far in the world? I think I do! Today I’m going to convince you that hockey is better than any other sport.
My first reason why hockey is better than any other sport is that you don’t get muddy at all in hockey. When I get home from hockey I’m as clean as a piece of paper that has just come out the packet! In a sport like rugby because it’s played on the grass it gets quite muddy and you can slip over very easily. In hockey it can’t really get muddy because hockey is played on the turf full stop. Well sometimes it’s played on grass but not often but anyway now I’ll now talk to you about my second reason.
My second reason is hockey is pretty easy to learn. Sports like cricket, tennis and rugby are quite hard to learn because they have so many more rules. In tennis you’ve got to hit the ball at the exact right time. How do you do that? Now to rugby. What do all tries mean? How do you pass this in? In hockey all you have to do is pass the ball from player to player and try to score a goal. You have a whole lot of fun. I will now tell you about my third reason.
My third reason is that there is no huge puddles on the hockey turf. For other sports, on the grass or a court there can be huge puddles that you splash in and get completely wet. I don’t want to get wet and I don’t think you do either. So I’d start playing hockey if I were you.
Now that you’ve heard about my three reasons I hope I’ve convinced you that there will mostly be hockey lovers in Room 23 this year.
Kind Regards,
Phoebe Spear
Persuasive Letter
Dear Room 23,
I know you all might think NZ is the best country but I’m here to tell you about why America is better than NZ.
My first reason on why America is better than NZ is that there are many different states and each state has their own thing to do. Like California, it has many different cool theme parks. NZ only has one theme park in Auckland. There are many things to do in America for all kinds of people but NZ is for hiking, sailing and for adventurous families.
Now I’ve told you about my first reason, so now it’s time for my second reason which is on some more sports that you can play in America but not in NZ. Like if you are a hockey player, ice hockey is for you, if you want a challenge than you should try it. Ice hockey is a big sport and is played all over America. If you like baseball than you should come over because almost every city has a baseball stadium. In Summer you can go to a pool and in Winter you can go to an indoor waterpark.The waterparks are as thrilling as jumping off a cliff.
If I haven’t convinced you then this paragraph will! In NZ there is only fish and chips plus lots of seafood, in America there are lots of different foods to try like Mexican, Italian, American and seafood. Like I said earlier each state has their own culture they also have their own food taste. For example where I am from Minnesota there is ice fishing, Italian, Mexican and of course America.
I hope after reading my letter you know that America is better than NZ. I hope you come after thinking about how America is better.
Kind Regards, Paige
Persuasive Letter
Dear Dad
Look dad I know we’ve gone through this several times but I don’t think we should get a dog. That is why I’m going to try to convince you enough to not get a dog. Trust me, once I’ve finished with you, you won't want to get a dog.
Here are some of my reasons why we shouldn't get a dog. Reason one is that the dog will poop everywhere. Around the garden and around other people’s houses. Just so you know I will not go round picking it up! You will have to!
My second really convincing reason is probably going to be very loud one. If we did get a dog Ava would definitely scream every time she saw it, because she hates dogs. Plus you don’t want to hear her scream, she screams as loud as an elephant stomping all over the place! If we did get a dog it might bark in the middle of the night and wake everyone up. Anyway Ava’s not the only little girl who hates dogs. If I have not already convinced you enough with evidence, my last one will surely do the trick.
Here is my final reason, you will have to exercise the dog yourself and I know you hate to exercise dogs! If we got a dog you would have to take it for walks every day and it wouldn’t leave you much free time. Also, If we did get a dog it would cost a lot of money, and I know cats cost a lot but most cats find their own food including our one so that means we don’t have to buy cat food much. But dogs on the other hand, they don’t.
I hope that you now realise that having a dog is way harder than having a cat and harder than having a monkey if you ask me. Just have a big think about that. I hope that I have now convinced you enough to not get a dog. I hope not to see a big cute thing running around the house. I can’t wait to hear your reply.
Love from your boy who hates dogs,
Zach
Persuasive Writing
Why cats are better than dogs
Dear Mrs Hanson and Room 23,
I will tell you why cats are better than dogs. I will share some really good reasons with you.
My first reason why cats are better than dogs is that cats are easier to look after than dogs. You don’t need to wash cats because they wash themselves with their tounge. To wash a dog you need a hose, dog shampoo, a bath and lots of water. Washing a dog makes a big mess and it takes a long time. Do you think dogs like being washed? I don’t think so! You don’t need any equipment or time to wash a cat. Also cats don’t need to be walked ,they walk themselves while dogs pull and pull until you fall over on the soft green grass or on the rock hard concrete.
My second reason why cats are better than dogs is that cats don’t make a lot of noise very often. Imagine reading a newspaper while a dog barks as loud as a roaring lion in your ear. The only noises a cat makes is a soft purr and a quiet meow.
My third reason why cats are better than dogs is that cats don’t make dirty messes. Would you want to have a dirty and messy dog inside your house that you just cleaned causing trouble? (Of course not). The worst part is if you leave them outside they’ll bulldoze your garden and poo in it ! If you want a clean house then get a cat.
Maybe most people think dogs are great pets and cats aren’t ,but some dogs are a lot more naughty. Some people like cats and have one or more and they have lots of fun with them.Cats are cute, cuddly and very playful.
I hope you enjoyed my reasons why cats are better than dogs. So what are you going to get a pet a dog or a cat?
by Benjamin Robertson
Persuasive letter
Dear Mum,
I’m writing this letter specifically because I don’t think I should have to do jobs around the house. I hope that you could be reasonable enough to see the good side of me being more freed up and have more time to be doing other things.
My first reason Is you're always worried about me getting sick. If I had to go out into the cold ice box air and empty the compost or get the mail, I might catch a cold. I fear If I touch the compost I might get sick or even worse catch a disease!
Convinced yet? My second reason for not doing any jobs Is that I would have more free time. If I had more free time I could baby-sit Grace while you and Billy can go out and do whatever you want while Grace and I will be perfectly fine and happy at home. I could get more homework done than I ever have, this will also improve my chances for passing the test and possibly getting into the inquiry classes at Cobham.
Now my final reason. Doing jobs makes me tired. If I do my jobs I would have to go to bed really late meaning I would get extremely tired and would most likely wake up late leading to me being behind at school!
Now, I would expect that you would have a think about this and I'm hoping to hear the most hated sentence I've ever heard and that Is… time to do your JOBS!
From your most appreciative son
Jarelle
Persuasive letter
Dear Mum,
I need to talk to you about something. Why can’t I paint my room a different colour? I have talked to Dad about this many times and he has said yes but you said no. Anyway here are my reasons why I should be able to paint my room a different colour.
My first reason that I should be able to paint my room a different colour is that I don't like the colour of it now. it is a pinky colour. You know that my room is pink and I really don’t like that colour (I would change it to blue like the sky). Blue is my favourite colour and it will always be. So then I would not have to change it ever again. I will also like the new change. So that is my first reason.
My second reason that I should change my room is that I will do most of the work. Dad only has to help a little bit on the ceiling,the high bits of the walls and the edges of the door ways. I can do the rest. It won’t be a hassle. I can chose the colour of the paint myself. You won’t even have to be down in my room with me! If I haven't already convinced you enough my last reason will definitely do the trick!
My next reason is that I will do lots of jobs. I will do the dishwasher for 2 weeks by myself and any other jobs that you need done (eg. washing windows,weeding) and for free (that is a great deal) if you let me paint my room. I will also keep my room tidy at all times. I will put my things away in the living room so that my stuff will not be there and that will stay like that forever.
I hope that I have convinced you and will think about what you have just read. I hope that I can get my room painted sometime soon. The holidays I think would be the ideal time to do it. I do really, really hope that I have convinced you enough. I can’t wait to hear your reply.
kind regards
~Eva~
Dear Mumma and John,
I’m writing to you because I’m persuading you to get me a tablet.
The first reason why I should be allowed a tablet is that I could do the grocery shopping on it. It would save you time and you wouldn’t have to go to the supermarket. Also John wouldn’t have to go the supermarket so that he could came home from work and relax and watch the news.
My second reason why I should get a tablet is that I could check the weather every morning on the weather app for you. This would be good so you don’t have to check the forecast on the tv. If the weather was too bad the tv might not work and you wouldn’t know what the forecast was. If you couldn’t check it you could get wet or too hot.
My third reason for getting a tablet is that when Mumma wants to search something on Google I could do it for her because she might get a bit stuck. When I search things up on it I would get as smart as a t-rex hunting for it’s prey. Instead of Mumma ringing John I could help her. If she had to search it herself she would have to leave Lilly because Lilly could start crying.
Now that you have read the letter I hope that you are convinced enough to get me a tablet.
Love from Finn
Persuasive Letter
Dear Lucy,
I’m going to persuade you that hockey is way way better than cricket. At the end of this letter you will think hockey is 100% better than cricket!
My first reason is that in cricket you are more on your own and in hockey you play more as a team. There are only three people involved in cricket, when you’re batting, the two batters and one bowler, the rest of the team is on the bench or standing around on the side. In hockey you’re all involved not just three people. In hockey you have a chance of getting the ball and working more as a team not just hogging the ball yourself. When everyone is involved you can score more goals and have more fun playing with your team.
Now this is my next reason that hockey is better than cricket, in hockey there’s someone backing you up. When you’re in trouble you can pass it to another person in your team so you can help each other out and get passed the other team.You can’t in cricket because it’s only you and the other person in the other team and nobody is helping you so you are all alone and could score no points for your team you will feel really bad.
My last reason is that hockey is easier to learn than cricket.bowling is hard to aim because you don’t know where it’s going to go. hitting the ball is impossible to hit because you have to get the timing right. Catching the ball hurts and you might get scared to catch it and the other team could get more points .In hockey it’s easy to hit the ball because it’s on the ground not in the air, aiming the ball somewhere is easy because you just aim a different direction to hit to your team. You catch the ball with your stick so it won’t hurt.
In this letter I have told you that in hockey you get to work more as a team than in cricket and everyone is involved in the game. Hopefully I have persuaded you that hockey is better than cricket. I look forward to hearing what you think is better now.
from Harriet
Persuasive Letter
Dear Mum and Dad
This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to get a bit of peace and quiet at home! Can I go to Finn C-W’s house for a sleepover? By the time you have read this you will say yes.
First of all it would save electricity because my electric blanket and my light would not be on. I would also not be having a shower so it would save hot water. Really, it could take some money off the power bill. It might not seem like much but it is still a saving. If it does save you money you will be glad I went! Now to the second reason.
My second reason is that it would also be A LOT more quiet because I wouldn't be running around the house yahooing with loud music on! Harry might make some noise but it won't be as noisy as normal. Its because when I’m with Harry he is so noisy but when I’m not he's not so noisy. Now for the third reason.
I think it would be easier to look after 2 kids than 3. It would be as easy as pie because I eat the most so you would not need to make dinner or breakfast for me and wouldn’t need to wary about me getting all my jobs done. You also might not get mixed up with Issy and Harry!
Now that you have read my persuasive letter you know why it would be a great thing to go to Finn C-W’s house. Because of all my great reasons, you can’t say no.
from Jake.
Why the Black Caps are better than Australia at cricket
Dear people of Australia,
Today I will be writing a letter to you on why the Black Caps are better than Australia at cricket.
At the end of this letter I am sure you will be convinced of my argument.
My first good reason that the Black Caps are better than Australia at cricket is that the Black Caps show better sportsmanship than Australia. Here is some evidence to back it up. Like how after the match against South Africa in the semi final of the World Cup , AB De Villiers got out and Brendon Mccullum gave AB Devillers a handshake, congratulated him on how well South Africa did. When Grant Elliot got out for NZ, the Australians were sledging him.
My second good reason is how well we play as a team. Here are some examples to show you what I mean. Like when we played Australia and we only won by one run but we all played as a team how Grant Elliott, Corey Anderson did that amazing partnership together. How Tim Southee, Trent Boult gave each other tips on how to bowl a bit better.
My third good reason is the outstanding players we have compared to Australia. Here are some players I’m talking about. Like Martin Guptill got 221 runs in one game and he got most runs in the Cricket World Cup. Tim Southee got 7 wickets in one game. Trent Boult got second most wickets in the Cricket World Cup. Trent Boult can bowl as fast as a cheetah.
I hope after reading my convincing letter that you now know that the Black Caps are at least a little bit better than Australia because of all the things we do as a team.
From Jamie Goodgame.
Persuasive writing
Dear Dad,
I know I’ve talked to you about this several times, but after this letter you’ll be convinced that we should get a turtle instead of another dog.
The first reason why we should get a turtle instead of another dog is...turtles are more gentle than dogs. Can you imagine walking down the street and a dog comes up and bowls you over? Well I can. Whereas if you had a pet turtle it wouldn’t bowl you over because they’re really slow. Turtles aren’t as energetic as dogs so they don’t jump around as much as a dog would.
My second reason is… That I will clean up after the turtle no matter what. I’ll feed it, I’ll take it out and play with it and I will clean its tank and I’ll clean his/her shell whenever it gets dirty. If we get another dog there will be extra poo on the lawn, where if you had a pet turtle there wouldn’t be extras all over the place because they will be in the tank where the turtle will stay.
My third reason why we should get a turtle instead of another dog is…Turtles are much quieter than dog, so if you get a dog it might bark all night, so we don’t get much sleep. The bad thing about it is the neighbours might get angry at us they might not want to live next door.
Guess what? You can pick his tank and what it eats. But I shall pick the name that’s only if you agree. Turtles are as slow as sloths so the good thing about turtles is that they don’t come out of their tank so you don’t have to walk them. You could even play with him with me! We could play hide and seek, monopoly and many others.
I hope my letter exploded in your face like a bomb and blew the answer out of you, and maybe by the end of the year there will be a turtle in my room that goes by the name of Shelley or Bolt
~Love from Kegan~
Persuasive Writing
Dear Sammy,
I know you probably think that netball is better than hockey. I hope that by the end of this letter you will change your mind and agree with me that hockey is better than netball. When you get a hockey stick and play you can not put it down because it is as fun as eating chocolate. I bet you will agree with me, and you will thank me for days .
My first strong reason that hockey is better than netball is that you do a lot more running around the pitch than on the netball court. If you play hockey the pitches are a lot bigger than netball courts if you put two full netball courts you get one half of a hockey field that means if you put four netball courts together you get one full hockey pitch which seems humongous to me and probably to you as well.
My second strong reason is that hockey is a more active sport than netball. For hockey you don’t have to hold the ball. There are three different steps, number one you only need to dribble the ball to throw it and then the other team gets the ball, number two in netball it is quite hard to keep the ball not going out however, in hockey you can use your stick to keep it from going out. Number three you play halves NOT quarters in hockey which makes the game feel a lot longer than a netball game. Well that is my opinion on that!
My third strong reason is that it is quite hard to score goals in netball and it is as easy as saying hello to someone in hockey because all you need to do is hit the ball at the goal. In netball you need to be able to shoot and be goal shoot. For hockey your whole team can score accept your goalie because she/he are all armoured up in the goalie gear. This is all squishy and hard, the only thing they can feel is the vibration of the hockey ball.
I hope after you read this you will change your sport to hockey, rather than netball. I hope I see your name is on the hockey sign up sheets. Will you be in my hockey team?
Kind regards,
~Lucy~
Persuasive Writing
Dear Mrs Hanson and Room 23,
I know you all love meat but I’m about to persuade you all to try to be a vegetarian!
My first reason for you to try be a vegetarian is that people don’t treat animals very nicely. If you become a vegetarian you will save lots of animals’ lives. They sometimes get kept in tiny places and get squished to death! On their way to the place where they get killed they’re also squashed because they put too many animals together in a very small space.
My second reason is that the world would be a much more happy place if we were all vegetarian. Obviously the animals would be happier because they would be alive and butchers would be happier because they wouldn’t have to chop up dead animals every day. It would probably be hard for farmers to send their animals, that they had looked after away. Did you know animals have feelings just like people? If someone hurts them then they feel hurt. Just because we are bigger and stronger than they are doesn't make it ok to hurt them! How would you feel if you were one of those animals?
My third reason that you should be a vegetarian is it’s really healthy! You end up eating a lot of fruit and veg. I do miss sausages and burgers but there are veggie burgers and sausages! (They are as yummy as a real piece of meat!) A great thing about vegetarian is you get more handfuls of the things that are good for you. You also get to try new food! If you're a person who likes challenges, then being a vegetarian is a great challenge to try. I can’t wait to see how many of you are going to try it
from Millie
persuasive writing
Dear Mum and Dad,
Ok I know that we have talked about this a lot, but I know that after you’ve read this letter, you will let me go to bed at 8:30pm instead of 7pm. Here are my three reasons for my letter.
My first argument about why I should go to bed later is with my bed time now I don’t have enough time to do everything I need to. My bedtime now doesn’t give me enough time to finish my homework. I don’t even have enough time to think about my work and put detail into it. I also don’t have enough time to read which will help my English get better. I just don’t have time to help Mum with jobs that she does. If I went to bed later I could do things like vacuum the house. Now my second reason is coming up, be ready!
My second reason to go to bed later is that at my bedtime now is way too early and how will I go to sleep? Sometimes I find it really hard to go to sleep because my eyes just don’t close when I want them to, in fact I don’t even feel sleepy and I don’t need all that time to go to sleep. At the moment I sleep at 7:00 and wake up at 7:30 which is 12 and a half hours that is way too much sleep.
Now my final best,third reason is now I am 10 ,not a baby that should go to bed early. My friend's parents let them go to bed at 8:30, so why can’t I? It’s not like I should be forced to go to sleep, but now I’m nearly a teenager and teenagers like my big brother go to sleep about 9:30. I’m only asking for 8:30! That’s why I should allowed to go to bed a bit later.
Hopefully you have thought about my three reasons and I have convinced you that I should be allowed to go to bed at 8:30 not at 7:00. It would make me very, very happy if you could do this at least for your daughter’s sake.
Kind regards,
Your daughter Nisha Biswa
Persuasive Writing: Why I should be allowed $2 a week for pocket money
Dear Mum and Dad,
I am going to tell you some things that will make a lot of ‘cents’. Need help in the house? Then I should be allowed $2 a week for pocket money and I hope by the end of this letter you are highly convinced. Turn the coin and we’ll see what it lands on.
My first strong reason is because I’ll donate $2 a month for people like the Ronald McDonald house and other charities. This will make me feel warm inside like I’m under thick layers of blankets, for not keeping the money to myself. I’ll learn a lesson to care about other people not just myself, this could help at school and in my future life. I know people can go crazy with money and buy sweets, but I won’t because it’s bad for my health; I’d rather spend it on helping other people making them smile as I hum happily.
Reason two, is that if you need to borrow money, you’ll have no problems, we can can make an agreement on that. Just ask it with me and it can be done. No hassle about going to the bank you can just open my piggy bank and its done but please ask permission. This also allows my brother to borrow as well but he can’t go overboard. I’ll keep a piggy bank with all my coins in it and not stack it too high as soon as it does I’ll donate it immediately to the charities I talked about.
Lastly, having pocket money could give me great practice with maths. For example, when giving a shopkeeper more money than needed you will get change. Estimating what the change would be or using original knowledge to work out the equation that is in front of me. The more I practice the better I’ll be when it comes to maths at school and the future. Sometimes money is challenging as it comes out in notes, cents and dollars. I want to understand them as they are classified as what I call ‘brain errors’. To improve my learning with money this will take time but I know you can be patient as you were waiting for my first baby steps.
Now you can let me do some work like the dishes around the house, I won’t break a pot or glass cup maybe give me supervision. Now you’re convinced admit it. I promise I’ll share until my heart thrives with life, this is doing myself a favour by filling up someone’s bucket making me smile. I’ll show respect with money and treat it like it’s shiny gold and rare as crystals.
Sincerely, your loving daughter,
~Olivia Towns~
Persuasive Writing
Dear Mum and Dad,
I know we have gone through this several times, but I need my own room! So through this writing I’m going to persuade you why I should get my own room.
My first reason why I should get my own room is Tyler snore and because he’s in the same room as me I can’t get any sleep! Then I stay up until 10 o'clock or something. Then when I wake up, I’m really tired and can’t do much. Then I can’t help you do the dishes or make your coffee. Also I find it hard to do my school work at school because I’m too tired.
Now my second reason why I should get my own room is it will be more quiet. Right now Tyler and I just fight. So if I get my own room we won’t be able to fight. Which means you can watch your movies without heaps of noise. Then we can also play with the other kids so they are not too loud. If I get my own room you won’t have to hear me and Tyler arguing.
Now my last reason why I should get my own room is I would keep my room tidy. I know you have been wanting that for ages. So if I get my own room it will be more tidy, because most of the stuff is Tyler’s only some stuff is mine. Even better if i get a small room I won’t need so much stuff. So we can donate some stuff to charity.
Now I hope that you understand why I need my own room. I’ll look forward to seeing some of my things in my own room and Tyler’s things in his own room.
Love Ryan Andrews
Persuasive Letter
Dear Room 23,
Hey do I hear someone playing the best sport by far in the world? I think I do! Today I’m going to convince you that hockey is better than any other sport.
My first reason why hockey is better than any other sport is that you don’t get muddy at all in hockey. When I get home from hockey I’m as clean as a piece of paper that has just come out the packet! In a sport like rugby because it’s played on the grass it gets quite muddy and you can slip over very easily. In hockey it can’t really get muddy because hockey is played on the turf full stop. Well sometimes it’s played on grass but not often but anyway now I’ll now talk to you about my second reason.
My second reason is hockey is pretty easy to learn. Sports like cricket, tennis and rugby are quite hard to learn because they have so many more rules. In tennis you’ve got to hit the ball at the exact right time. How do you do that? Now to rugby. What do all tries mean? How do you pass this in? In hockey all you have to do is pass the ball from player to player and try to score a goal. You have a whole lot of fun. I will now tell you about my third reason.
My third reason is that there is no huge puddles on the hockey turf. For other sports, on the grass or a court there can be huge puddles that you splash in and get completely wet. I don’t want to get wet and I don’t think you do either. So I’d start playing hockey if I were you.
Now that you’ve heard about my three reasons I hope I’ve convinced you that there will mostly be hockey lovers in Room 23 this year.
Kind Regards,
Phoebe Spear
Persuasive Letter
Dear Room 23,
I know you all might think NZ is the best country but I’m here to tell you about why America is better than NZ.
My first reason on why America is better than NZ is that there are many different states and each state has their own thing to do. Like California, it has many different cool theme parks. NZ only has one theme park in Auckland. There are many things to do in America for all kinds of people but NZ is for hiking, sailing and for adventurous families.
Now I’ve told you about my first reason, so now it’s time for my second reason which is on some more sports that you can play in America but not in NZ. Like if you are a hockey player, ice hockey is for you, if you want a challenge than you should try it. Ice hockey is a big sport and is played all over America. If you like baseball than you should come over because almost every city has a baseball stadium. In Summer you can go to a pool and in Winter you can go to an indoor waterpark.The waterparks are as thrilling as jumping off a cliff.
If I haven’t convinced you then this paragraph will! In NZ there is only fish and chips plus lots of seafood, in America there are lots of different foods to try like Mexican, Italian, American and seafood. Like I said earlier each state has their own culture they also have their own food taste. For example where I am from Minnesota there is ice fishing, Italian, Mexican and of course America.
I hope after reading my letter you know that America is better than NZ. I hope you come after thinking about how America is better.
Kind Regards, Paige
Persuasive Letter
Dear Dad
Look dad I know we’ve gone through this several times but I don’t think we should get a dog. That is why I’m going to try to convince you enough to not get a dog. Trust me, once I’ve finished with you, you won't want to get a dog.
Here are some of my reasons why we shouldn't get a dog. Reason one is that the dog will poop everywhere. Around the garden and around other people’s houses. Just so you know I will not go round picking it up! You will have to!
My second really convincing reason is probably going to be very loud one. If we did get a dog Ava would definitely scream every time she saw it, because she hates dogs. Plus you don’t want to hear her scream, she screams as loud as an elephant stomping all over the place! If we did get a dog it might bark in the middle of the night and wake everyone up. Anyway Ava’s not the only little girl who hates dogs. If I have not already convinced you enough with evidence, my last one will surely do the trick.
Here is my final reason, you will have to exercise the dog yourself and I know you hate to exercise dogs! If we got a dog you would have to take it for walks every day and it wouldn’t leave you much free time. Also, If we did get a dog it would cost a lot of money, and I know cats cost a lot but most cats find their own food including our one so that means we don’t have to buy cat food much. But dogs on the other hand, they don’t.
I hope that you now realise that having a dog is way harder than having a cat and harder than having a monkey if you ask me. Just have a big think about that. I hope that I have now convinced you enough to not get a dog. I hope not to see a big cute thing running around the house. I can’t wait to hear your reply.
Love from your boy who hates dogs,
Zach
Persuasive Writing
Why cats are better than dogs
Dear Mrs Hanson and Room 23,
I will tell you why cats are better than dogs. I will share some really good reasons with you.
My first reason why cats are better than dogs is that cats are easier to look after than dogs. You don’t need to wash cats because they wash themselves with their tounge. To wash a dog you need a hose, dog shampoo, a bath and lots of water. Washing a dog makes a big mess and it takes a long time. Do you think dogs like being washed? I don’t think so! You don’t need any equipment or time to wash a cat. Also cats don’t need to be walked ,they walk themselves while dogs pull and pull until you fall over on the soft green grass or on the rock hard concrete.
My second reason why cats are better than dogs is that cats don’t make a lot of noise very often. Imagine reading a newspaper while a dog barks as loud as a roaring lion in your ear. The only noises a cat makes is a soft purr and a quiet meow.
My third reason why cats are better than dogs is that cats don’t make dirty messes. Would you want to have a dirty and messy dog inside your house that you just cleaned causing trouble? (Of course not). The worst part is if you leave them outside they’ll bulldoze your garden and poo in it ! If you want a clean house then get a cat.
Maybe most people think dogs are great pets and cats aren’t ,but some dogs are a lot more naughty. Some people like cats and have one or more and they have lots of fun with them.Cats are cute, cuddly and very playful.
I hope you enjoyed my reasons why cats are better than dogs. So what are you going to get a pet a dog or a cat?
by Benjamin Robertson
Persuasive letter
Dear Mum,
I’m writing this letter specifically because I don’t think I should have to do jobs around the house. I hope that you could be reasonable enough to see the good side of me being more freed up and have more time to be doing other things.
My first reason Is you're always worried about me getting sick. If I had to go out into the cold ice box air and empty the compost or get the mail, I might catch a cold. I fear If I touch the compost I might get sick or even worse catch a disease!
Convinced yet? My second reason for not doing any jobs Is that I would have more free time. If I had more free time I could baby-sit Grace while you and Billy can go out and do whatever you want while Grace and I will be perfectly fine and happy at home. I could get more homework done than I ever have, this will also improve my chances for passing the test and possibly getting into the inquiry classes at Cobham.
Now my final reason. Doing jobs makes me tired. If I do my jobs I would have to go to bed really late meaning I would get extremely tired and would most likely wake up late leading to me being behind at school!
Now, I would expect that you would have a think about this and I'm hoping to hear the most hated sentence I've ever heard and that Is… time to do your JOBS!
From your most appreciative son
Jarelle
Wednesday 21 October 2015
Home Learning
We have been talking as a class about how we can be more creative with our home learning. As you know, Year 5/6 students are expected to learn weekly spelling words (except first and last weeks of term, and camp week), read every day and practice maths basic facts. They can also work on their writing at home on their Google Docs. Anything extra is up to them. Some students may wish to research something of interest to them or do something with their family as part of home learning.
Some people came up with some amazing ideas for making learning spelling words more fun.
Here are some of the ideas:
* Spell out your words with Lego or toys
* Bounce a ball or jump a skipping rope as you say your words
* Time yourself and see how quickly you can spell the words correctly
Jacob had a go at spelling out his words using Lego. Looks like fun!
Some people came up with some amazing ideas for making learning spelling words more fun.
Here are some of the ideas:
* Spell out your words with Lego or toys
* Bounce a ball or jump a skipping rope as you say your words
* Time yourself and see how quickly you can spell the words correctly
Jacob had a go at spelling out his words using Lego. Looks like fun!
HOMEWORK CHALLENGE
* Find out about Labour Day. Why do we have it? What is the history of Labour Day? Present your findings and give it to Mrs Hanson by this Friday for some house points (and maybe Treasure Box!)
Friday 16 October 2015
Team 23's Week 1, Term 4
Hello everybody this is Eva Howison & Ryan Andrews. We are going to tell you what we did this week.
The first thing we did was finish our Persuasive Writing. This is on our google docs. We are trying to persuade someone at home to change a rule. Nearly everyone is finished it!
The next thing we did is do a haiku or a tanka about our holidays. For a haiku the syllables are
5
7
5
then for a Tanka the syllables are
5
7
5
7
7
The next thing we did is was our calendar art we did the Canterbury Plains. They look amazing.
If you want to learn how do draw it this is what you'll need this stuff:
Pastels
Paper
Crayons
Blue dye
A pencil
A ruler
Follow these steps to make your own Canterbury plains
1:Rule a line for 1/3 of the page
2:Draw your river
3:Draw a line beside your river with your ruler (make sure its up and down)
4: Keep on drawing more lines across your page don't go over the 1/3 line
5:Then do some uneven lines across each indvidial vertical lines
6:Dye above the 1/3 blue for the sky
7:Draw on the mountains on the 1/3 line colour in the bottom of the mountains green.
8:Use pastels to colour in the different feilds (tip use lots of greens and browns)
9:Then use a white pastel to do the tops of the mountains
10: You are done on your canterbury plains
The last thing we did that was exiting was Athletics Rotation.
The first one we did was High Jump.
Then Fitness which isn't in the real thing
Then we did Sprints
Then Discus
The last one was Long jump
Thats all for now and we will see you next time bye!
By Ryan Andrews & Eva Howison.
The first thing we did was finish our Persuasive Writing. This is on our google docs. We are trying to persuade someone at home to change a rule. Nearly everyone is finished it!
The next thing we did is do a haiku or a tanka about our holidays. For a haiku the syllables are
5
7
5
then for a Tanka the syllables are
5
7
5
7
7
The next thing we did is was our calendar art we did the Canterbury Plains. They look amazing.
If you want to learn how do draw it this is what you'll need this stuff:
Pastels
Paper
Crayons
Blue dye
A pencil
A ruler
Follow these steps to make your own Canterbury plains
1:Rule a line for 1/3 of the page
2:Draw your river
3:Draw a line beside your river with your ruler (make sure its up and down)
4: Keep on drawing more lines across your page don't go over the 1/3 line
5:Then do some uneven lines across each indvidial vertical lines
6:Dye above the 1/3 blue for the sky
7:Draw on the mountains on the 1/3 line colour in the bottom of the mountains green.
8:Use pastels to colour in the different feilds (tip use lots of greens and browns)
9:Then use a white pastel to do the tops of the mountains
10: You are done on your canterbury plains
The last thing we did that was exiting was Athletics Rotation.
The first one we did was High Jump.
Then Fitness which isn't in the real thing
Then we did Sprints
Then Discus
The last one was Long jump
Thats all for now and we will see you next time bye!
By Ryan Andrews & Eva Howison.
Thursday 8 October 2015
End of Term 3
Room 23 had an incredibly busy end of Term 3! We worked really hard on the dance showcase that our Senior team created. The part of Christchurch's story that we told was the future of Christchurch. More photos are to come but here are a couple of photos of us all together!
Check back here next term, we hope to be doing lots more blogging!
Check back here next term, we hope to be doing lots more blogging!
Friday 28 August 2015
week 6 times
This week Room 23 has been having good times. Firstly yesterday we had a healthy shared lunch. The table was full of vegetables and fruit of rainbow colours. Some people tried new types of food like pita bread or capsicum. It's linked with a program called Food For Thought. We were food detectives which means we looked at the back of packs of foods to see if they were healthy. Our class got given $60 to spend on a healthy shared lunch. Also we planned a menu for the class so we knew what we were going to buy.
We are practicing a dance for the end of term showcase which tells a story through movement and actions. Room 23 has worked hard on this dance piece in the afternoons. At first we did the 16 beat movement where we chose 'ing' words for our topic. Examples: Generating, flying, growing and hovering. We are choreographers in our dance piece.
In writing our class started a persuasive writing which we got to choose topics like our speeches. Our goal is to persuade the audience that our point of view is right! Here are examples of people we chose. Most of us did the class for the audience and some did individual people. Thank you for reading our blog we hope you enjoyed and we'll see you soon in future times.
By Olivia T and Te.
We are practicing a dance for the end of term showcase which tells a story through movement and actions. Room 23 has worked hard on this dance piece in the afternoons. At first we did the 16 beat movement where we chose 'ing' words for our topic. Examples: Generating, flying, growing and hovering. We are choreographers in our dance piece.
In writing our class started a persuasive writing which we got to choose topics like our speeches. Our goal is to persuade the audience that our point of view is right! Here are examples of people we chose. Most of us did the class for the audience and some did individual people. Thank you for reading our blog we hope you enjoyed and we'll see you soon in future times.
By Olivia T and Te.
Friday 14 August 2015
Week 4 Blog Post
This week has been awesome we have learnt a lot from food nutritionist Rita we learnt all about the food pyramid and what is good for our body and things that were occasional. She also taught us to be food detectives at the supermarket, we looked at the back of food packets such as salt, sugar, dietary fibre and energy. Rita the food nutritionist also went to the Commonwealth Games she competed in a 100 km bike ride she told us that she ate brown rice, banana, yogurt and raisins all mixed together for her breakfast. Did you know that Nutri Grain has a whole heap of sugar which is 32.0g wow that's a lot compared to Weetbix witch is only 1.0g.
This week was maths week we have been doing something that is called a rich maths task the question was: The answer is nine penguins...what is the word problem? We had to find as many word problems as we could using this equation. We also got a choice number and we had to think of as many things as we could to do with that number e.g if you had 101 you could have done 101 dalmatians.
by Finn A and Jarelle
Tuesday 4 August 2015
Flags of the World Quiz
Here's a link to the quiz we did today. See if you can beat Josh's top score of 18,500!
Flags of the World
Flags of the World
Sunday 2 August 2015
Reminders
A few reminders...
* Food for Thought supermarket permission and transport forms need to come back to school in the next few days. Thanks to those who have offered to take transport, I'll be in touch by the end of the week if we need you.
* Camp forms are also due in as soon as possible. If you would like to be considered to be parent help on camp, please read the SQP (suitably qualified person) criteria that is in place for Wainui camp. Thanks to those who have volunteered to be parent help, we have had a huge response so far!
* The class speech competition will be Wednesday 12th August (Week 4). It will be judged by Sam Pelham (Rm 14 teacher). 3 students per class will be chosen for the Senior team finals on Monday 17th August. Please make sure your child is preparing at home based on the criteria sheet I sent home last week. I have helped them to come up with topics and we have looked at structure and the criteria in detail, but the speech writing needs to be done at home. I am happy to look at any draft speeches if you like.
* We have started our dance learning in preparation for our dance showcase at the end of the term. Here are some pictures of our dance session last week.
* Food for Thought supermarket permission and transport forms need to come back to school in the next few days. Thanks to those who have offered to take transport, I'll be in touch by the end of the week if we need you.
* Camp forms are also due in as soon as possible. If you would like to be considered to be parent help on camp, please read the SQP (suitably qualified person) criteria that is in place for Wainui camp. Thanks to those who have volunteered to be parent help, we have had a huge response so far!
* The class speech competition will be Wednesday 12th August (Week 4). It will be judged by Sam Pelham (Rm 14 teacher). 3 students per class will be chosen for the Senior team finals on Monday 17th August. Please make sure your child is preparing at home based on the criteria sheet I sent home last week. I have helped them to come up with topics and we have looked at structure and the criteria in detail, but the speech writing needs to be done at home. I am happy to look at any draft speeches if you like.
* We have started our dance learning in preparation for our dance showcase at the end of the term. Here are some pictures of our dance session last week.
Friday 31 July 2015
Wonderful Week one and two
For the past two weeks it has been (Week one and Two) We have been turning our brains back on from the holidays. We started our new topic of arts using our body to show what we are saying in a beautiful way. On week one we started doing a piece of writing by drawing a camera with a picture that sums up our holidays. Then we wrote a summary about what our picture was about.
Not only did we start something new but we finished of some other things too like our wonderful novel Wonder! It was a brilliant book and had a extremely meaningful message 'never judge a book by its cover'.
Week 2 has been just as exciting because its maori language week. We learned some Te Reo. Like how to say 'How old are you?' Week 2 has also been extremely arty we have learning a new dance where we choose a word ending with 'ing' and made a four beat dance then chose another new 'ing' word and combined the dances together. They all looked great.
We still cant believe its been half of the year all ready. We have all enjoyed everything we have done for the year so far and can't wait to see what is next. Hope you enjoyed reading this.
By Thesara and Jake
Wednesday 24 June 2015
A few weeks in Room 23
Hi everyone, this is Harriet and Zach, reporting on the past few weeks in Room 23. It's been a few weeks since our last update!
For the past 6 weeks we have had a student teacher called Miss Barker. She's been doing lots of teaching and lessons with us. She has been teaching us our Science unit which is about what causes our land to change. We now know that people can cause the land to change, like chop down trees, build cities and build stuff that effects the environment. We have also been learning about movement, like how the tectonic plates move and continental drift.
Miss Barker has also taught us some different types of poetry. The first poem we did was a Diamante poem, which had opposites in it, and it had to include adjectives and verbs. The poem we just did was a Tanka poem. It is kind of similar to a Haiku poem because it uses syllables too but it is a bit longer. a Tanka poem has 5, 7, 5, 7, 7 syllables.
We've been learning about Football with Miss Barker because she plays football for a womens team. We have learnt about passing and how you have to use the inside of your foot, and how communication is important when you pass.
On the last day of term there will be a music performance for Grandparents. The orchestra will perform. We have Zach, Millie, Sam and Paige in the orchestra. Some people will also perform some songs they have been learning with Ms Emeleus.
For Reading, Mrs Hanson has been teaching us about heading and trigger words, which is a way to summarise what you have read. We are reading a text called 'What Causes Rain?". We are also practicing using 'I think that means' to show that we understand what we are reading.
Kapa Haka has been working really hard towards their Cultural Festival performance. The girls have to learn long poi and the boys are doing a haka. We are feeling really excited and nervous.
Last but not least, this week has been BOOK WEEK! On Monday we had a dress up day. We had to dress up as a character from a book then we had a parade so we could see everyone's costumes. We had a vote for best dressed in our class and Georgia (as Mary Poppins) and Jarelle (as Mr Stink) won.
On Tuesday we had an afternoon with our buddy class. We heard some adults read books to us and we read with our buddies. We also went to the book fair in the hall. Teachers are doing 'Read around the Rooms" where they go to different rooms and read books. Yesterday Whaia Mel and Mrs Dykstra read to our class. Today we are going to a book show and tomorrow we are doing a book swap in our class. A book swap is where you bring a book in from that you don't anymore or have already read and you bring it in to class to swap it with other people's books. Tomorrow we also have the 'Book Olympics'! We are excited!
We hope you enjoyed reading our blog post, don't forget to check next week for our next post!
Harriet and Zach
For the past 6 weeks we have had a student teacher called Miss Barker. She's been doing lots of teaching and lessons with us. She has been teaching us our Science unit which is about what causes our land to change. We now know that people can cause the land to change, like chop down trees, build cities and build stuff that effects the environment. We have also been learning about movement, like how the tectonic plates move and continental drift.
Miss Barker has also taught us some different types of poetry. The first poem we did was a Diamante poem, which had opposites in it, and it had to include adjectives and verbs. The poem we just did was a Tanka poem. It is kind of similar to a Haiku poem because it uses syllables too but it is a bit longer. a Tanka poem has 5, 7, 5, 7, 7 syllables.
We've been learning about Football with Miss Barker because she plays football for a womens team. We have learnt about passing and how you have to use the inside of your foot, and how communication is important when you pass.
On the last day of term there will be a music performance for Grandparents. The orchestra will perform. We have Zach, Millie, Sam and Paige in the orchestra. Some people will also perform some songs they have been learning with Ms Emeleus.
For Reading, Mrs Hanson has been teaching us about heading and trigger words, which is a way to summarise what you have read. We are reading a text called 'What Causes Rain?". We are also practicing using 'I think that means' to show that we understand what we are reading.
Kapa Haka has been working really hard towards their Cultural Festival performance. The girls have to learn long poi and the boys are doing a haka. We are feeling really excited and nervous.
Last but not least, this week has been BOOK WEEK! On Monday we had a dress up day. We had to dress up as a character from a book then we had a parade so we could see everyone's costumes. We had a vote for best dressed in our class and Georgia (as Mary Poppins) and Jarelle (as Mr Stink) won.
On Tuesday we had an afternoon with our buddy class. We heard some adults read books to us and we read with our buddies. We also went to the book fair in the hall. Teachers are doing 'Read around the Rooms" where they go to different rooms and read books. Yesterday Whaia Mel and Mrs Dykstra read to our class. Today we are going to a book show and tomorrow we are doing a book swap in our class. A book swap is where you bring a book in from that you don't anymore or have already read and you bring it in to class to swap it with other people's books. Tomorrow we also have the 'Book Olympics'! We are excited!
We hope you enjoyed reading our blog post, don't forget to check next week for our next post!
Harriet and Zach
Morning Tea this Friday
This Friday is the final day for Miss Barker, our student teacher. We will have a small celebration for her at 9.45-10.10 on Friday. If you would like to bring something SMALL to share, please bring it on Friday. Those students who are in orchestra will leave orchestra early so they can attend.
Next Week
Next Week is the last week of Term 2 and we have LOTS happening!
* Parent Teacher Interviews: Wednesday 3-7 and Thursday 2-6. On Thursday school will end at 2pm to allow for this.
*School Photos: Wednesday 1st July.
* Music for Grandparents: Friday 3rd July. The Middle School and Senior School singers will perform, along with the Orchestra. Please be seated by 11am, the performance will run for approximately 40 minutes.
* Parent Teacher Interviews: Wednesday 3-7 and Thursday 2-6. On Thursday school will end at 2pm to allow for this.
*School Photos: Wednesday 1st July.
* Music for Grandparents: Friday 3rd July. The Middle School and Senior School singers will perform, along with the Orchestra. Please be seated by 11am, the performance will run for approximately 40 minutes.
Book Swap
Our Book Swap is tomorrow (Thursday) morning!
Please remember to bring between 1-3 books that you would like to swap. Make sure you check with an adult at home to see if you're allowed to take them!
Please remember to bring between 1-3 books that you would like to swap. Make sure you check with an adult at home to see if you're allowed to take them!
Friday 5 June 2015
Short Week 7
This week at school we have been doing art , for our art we did something called a hotch potch , it is a creature made up with 6 different animals like platapus and a lion and we combined them in to one animal e.g platalion and we have been doing a program called AVAILLL. AVAILLL is an activity were you read watch e.g with the subtitals on. We are looking forward to assembly next week, we are running it. I hope we get a certificate!!!!!!!! This short week at school has been very fun , we have been doing our portraits for our reports, that's everyone's favourite time of the year isn't it? We had two different teachers this week. We have also been reading a novel called wonder.
Kegan and Finn CW
Kegan and Finn CW
Monday 25 May 2015
Home Learning
While St Albans does have a 'no homework' policy, it will always help if students do some learning at home. I would expect that students are reading every day for at least 20 minutes, learning spelling words and also learning basic facts/times tables. They can do this by using the times table wheel in their home learning book or using Sumdog. Home learning consolidates the learning done at school and also allows kids to build up their knowledge so they are more confident at school. The home learning book they are provided with is theirs to use for whatever purpose they think will be most helpful to them. Please see me if you have any questions about this.
Twitter Chat
I think that in this technological age we need to empower our kids to be cyber smart. This is one of the reasons why participating in kidsedchatnz on Twitter is really important. As one of the administrators of the chat put it: "We need to teach our kids to be responsible, respectful and mindful collaborators."
I look at the topics every week and choose topics that are relevant to us. The chat teaches us not only the above skills, but also to be succinct in what we write. We get the message across using a limited number of characters.
These are the questions for this week. Kids, talk to your parents about Twitter and see if you can come up with some ideas for replies to these questions!
I look at the topics every week and choose topics that are relevant to us. The chat teaches us not only the above skills, but also to be succinct in what we write. We get the message across using a limited number of characters.
These are the questions for this week. Kids, talk to your parents about Twitter and see if you can come up with some ideas for replies to these questions!
This week our topic is 'Your School'
Here are our questions:
- What do you like about your school / What makes your school special?
- Does your school have any special physical features? Describe its layout and physical features.
- Where exactly is your school and how many students and teachers does your school have?
- Describe your classroom. What does it look like?
- How would you like your learning to happen in the classroom?
- Is there anything you would like to change at your school/in class? What is it?
- Do you think it is good to have your own blog? Why?
- What other technologies are you using in your learning? Tell us why you are you using them.
- What fun things do you like to do when it is raining during lunch time?
- Tell us what you liked about school today.
WEEK 5 AT SCHOOL!!!!!
Hi, this is Finn A and Samantha!
Week 3 we went to Halswell Quarry we learnt lots about the different types of rocks, like Basalt rock. We also learnt about the 12 men who lived in the cottage and shared 1 bath!
This week the Year 6s have been doing Cycle Safety. This is when Cycle Safety come to our school and teach us how to ride a bike on the road safely. Constable Debby came and talked to us about legal requirements that you must have when you are biking. Most people didn't have a red rear reflector which is a legal requirement. Our instructors were Sophie, Cristina, Keith and Yasmine.
On Fridays some year 5 and 6s go to Hagley Park for sport like soccer and rugby and netball and there are A&B teams for sport and Hockey go to lots of places on a Friday.The rest of the people stay at St. Albans and play sport themselves on a Friday.
This week we have been learning about Pangaea and all the continents were originally joined together.
In our class we have a student teacher called Miss Barker and she will be staying in our class for 6 weeks which is nearly the end of the term and she fits in like one of us here in Room 23 and she's getting along really well!
All the year 5 and 6s have been doing AVAILLL which is where we watch a movie with the subtitles on and read-watching and doing lots of fun activities. The year 5s are with Mr. Williams and they are watching Holes and the Year 6s have just finished watching The Wizard Of Oz and we have Mrs. Hanson.
We have been learning about SOLO it is Prestructural, Unistructural, Multistructural, Relational and Extended Abstract. It's so we can show how much we understand and how we can get better with our learning.
Week 3 we went to Halswell Quarry we learnt lots about the different types of rocks, like Basalt rock. We also learnt about the 12 men who lived in the cottage and shared 1 bath!
This week the Year 6s have been doing Cycle Safety. This is when Cycle Safety come to our school and teach us how to ride a bike on the road safely. Constable Debby came and talked to us about legal requirements that you must have when you are biking. Most people didn't have a red rear reflector which is a legal requirement. Our instructors were Sophie, Cristina, Keith and Yasmine.
On Fridays some year 5 and 6s go to Hagley Park for sport like soccer and rugby and netball and there are A&B teams for sport and Hockey go to lots of places on a Friday.The rest of the people stay at St. Albans and play sport themselves on a Friday.
This week we have been learning about Pangaea and all the continents were originally joined together.
In our class we have a student teacher called Miss Barker and she will be staying in our class for 6 weeks which is nearly the end of the term and she fits in like one of us here in Room 23 and she's getting along really well!
All the year 5 and 6s have been doing AVAILLL which is where we watch a movie with the subtitles on and read-watching and doing lots of fun activities. The year 5s are with Mr. Williams and they are watching Holes and the Year 6s have just finished watching The Wizard Of Oz and we have Mrs. Hanson.
We have been learning about SOLO it is Prestructural, Unistructural, Multistructural, Relational and Extended Abstract. It's so we can show how much we understand and how we can get better with our learning.
Monday 18 May 2015
WELCOME MISS BARKER!
Today is Miss Barker's first day in Room 23. She is a student teacher from the New Zealand Graduate School of Education and she will be with us for 6 weeks. I encourage all of our whanau to come in and meet her!
Year 6 Cycle Safety
Remember, if you have a bike, please bring it on Wednesday this week for Cycle Safety! (And next Monday and Friday) Don't forget a helmet! If you don't have a bike, they will lend you one.
Monday 4 May 2015
Twitter Chat this week
For those of you who would like to do the Twitter chat this Wednesday, the topic is 'Family'. Here are some of the questions that you might like to think about. I have only included the questions that are relevant to us.
QUESTIONS
Q1. Who makes up your family? What position were you born in your family? Oldest? Youngest? Middle? Only? What's it like being that position?
Q2. What is special about your family? What do you love about your family?
Q3. Would you prefer to be in a big family or small family? Why?
Q4. Do you have any family traditions? (Holidays, fun activities etc)
Q6. What's the best piece of advice a family member has given you?
Q9. It's Mother's day on Sunday, can you send a special message to your Mum, or someone who you consider to be a Mum to you (this could be a grandparent, aunt etc)?
QUESTIONS
Q1. Who makes up your family? What position were you born in your family? Oldest? Youngest? Middle? Only? What's it like being that position?
Q2. What is special about your family? What do you love about your family?
Q3. Would you prefer to be in a big family or small family? Why?
Q4. Do you have any family traditions? (Holidays, fun activities etc)
Q6. What's the best piece of advice a family member has given you?
Q9. It's Mother's day on Sunday, can you send a special message to your Mum, or someone who you consider to be a Mum to you (this could be a grandparent, aunt etc)?
Friday 1 May 2015
Wicked Week one and two
The last couple weeks have been busy.
In week one we learnt a lot about World War One and ANZAC day. It was really interesting how much ideas we came up with as a class.We put up our ideas on the wall and there were a lot of words taking up the paper. Some of the words were Gallipoli, trenches, poppies, sacrifice.
After doing some more learning about the ANZACs and ANZAC day, we turned our ideas into Haiku poems. Haiku poems have 3 lines. the first line is 5 syllables, the second line is 7 syllables and the last line is 5 syllables.
Here's Thesara's haiku:
Blood red poppies grow
Where brave men risked everything
We shall not forget.
Now Olivia's haiku:
Petals flutter down.
Red blood will flow through fields
We'll remember them.
Time for the cross country results for Room 23.
Everyone finished the track. It was hard but we gave our best shot.
People going to zones are
Lucy
Phoebe
Kegan
Jamie
On Thursday Nicky Dyer kindly baked us some ANZAC biscuits and we helped too.We enjoyed eating the fab biscuits they were as crunchy as peanuts but don't be worried they had NO nuts. Mrs Hanson sprinkled to much sugar into the bowl so some of the biscuits came together like a massive cake but they were still yum.
THANK YOU Nicky for baking the ANZAC biscuits they were the best biscuits and we just wanted to thank you.
Thank you for reading the journeys of our last couple of weeks
By Lucy and Olivia T
In week one we learnt a lot about World War One and ANZAC day. It was really interesting how much ideas we came up with as a class.We put up our ideas on the wall and there were a lot of words taking up the paper. Some of the words were Gallipoli, trenches, poppies, sacrifice.
After doing some more learning about the ANZACs and ANZAC day, we turned our ideas into Haiku poems. Haiku poems have 3 lines. the first line is 5 syllables, the second line is 7 syllables and the last line is 5 syllables.
Here's Thesara's haiku:
Blood red poppies grow
Where brave men risked everything
We shall not forget.
Now Olivia's haiku:
Petals flutter down.
Red blood will flow through fields
We'll remember them.
Time for the cross country results for Room 23.
Everyone finished the track. It was hard but we gave our best shot.
People going to zones are
Lucy
Phoebe
Kegan
Jamie
On Thursday Nicky Dyer kindly baked us some ANZAC biscuits and we helped too.We enjoyed eating the fab biscuits they were as crunchy as peanuts but don't be worried they had NO nuts. Mrs Hanson sprinkled to much sugar into the bowl so some of the biscuits came together like a massive cake but they were still yum.
THANK YOU Nicky for baking the ANZAC biscuits they were the best biscuits and we just wanted to thank you.
Thank you for reading the journeys of our last couple of weeks
By Lucy and Olivia T
Thursday 23 April 2015
Welcome back to Term 2!
Welcome back to Term 2! We have had a busy week so far! A newsletter will be sent home tomorrow, updating you on the happenings of the term ahead.
Each class has been given a cross, representing a Soldier who died in WW1. You might like to see if you can find out any information on the soldier our class has been given.
Each class has been given a cross, representing a Soldier who died in WW1. You might like to see if you can find out any information on the soldier our class has been given.
Thursday 2 April 2015
AWESOME TERM ONE!!!!!
This term we have learned more about our class and bonded with them. We have been working on our personal newspaper and finished our letters to the amazing Black Caps. Earlier in the term we started collaborative maths.
If you didn't know this is Paige & Georgia telling you about this term.
The Twitter chat this term we have talked about using Twitter in our class and we do questions on kidsedchatnz. The questions we have done are about food and nutrition, sport, digital safety, creativity and ANZAC. Next term we are going to do a book chat with Selwyn House kids.
This term we had three different sports you could play, cricket, ripper rugby and tee ball. The girls Cricket A team won all their games and played there finals in the CWC oval. They even won against the staff by a lot of runs. We have had lots of trials for next seasons sport like hockey, soccer, netball, basketball and more.
We are looking forward to next term!
By Georgia & Paige
If you didn't know this is Paige & Georgia telling you about this term.
The Twitter chat this term we have talked about using Twitter in our class and we do questions on kidsedchatnz. The questions we have done are about food and nutrition, sport, digital safety, creativity and ANZAC. Next term we are going to do a book chat with Selwyn House kids.
This term we had three different sports you could play, cricket, ripper rugby and tee ball. The girls Cricket A team won all their games and played there finals in the CWC oval. They even won against the staff by a lot of runs. We have had lots of trials for next seasons sport like hockey, soccer, netball, basketball and more.
We are looking forward to next term!
By Georgia & Paige
Sunday 29 March 2015
Twitter Questions for Wednesday
ANZAC
Q1. What have you learnt about ANZAC Day at your school?
Q2. What does ANZAC day mean to you personally?
Q3. Do you have any extended family that fought in Gallipoli? What stories can you tell us?
Q4. How does your school and/or family celebrate ANZAC Day?
Q5. Do you think ANZAC day is important? Should we celebrate the day? How else could ANZAC Day be celebrated?
Q6. There are lots of great ANZAC books and stories out there. Which is your favourite and why? Share your book reviews! :)
Q7. Why are poppies sold before and on Anzac Day? Why was the poppy chosen and what does it represent?
Q8. How did the Anzac biscuit originate? Do you have a favourite Anzac biscuit recipe that you would like to share?
Q9. Have you ever been to an ANZAC Day celebration? What happened and how did it make you feel?
Monday 23 March 2015
Swimming Tomorrow
Room 20 will not be able to use their swim time tomorrow so we will be able to go swimming at 10.30 tomorrow! Remember to bring your togs!
Sunday 22 March 2015
Wednesday 18 March 2015
Twitter Design Competition
After our awesome Twitter chat today we were thinking about what we should do for our profile picture on our class Twitter profile.
I think it would be fantastic if someone in our class designed a logo for us so we could use it as our profile picture on Twitter.
It needs to include the words 'Team 23' and be colourful. See the 'POD 11' logo as an example. There are also some examples of other logos below.
Have fun designing! Designs are due to me by next Tuesday.
I think it would be fantastic if someone in our class designed a logo for us so we could use it as our profile picture on Twitter.
It needs to include the words 'Team 23' and be colourful. See the 'POD 11' logo as an example. There are also some examples of other logos below.
Have fun designing! Designs are due to me by next Tuesday.
Tuesday 17 March 2015
Blue Skies
Last Tuesday we had a fabulous day at Blue Skies in Kaiapoi. We worked together on a confidence course, an initiatives course and a fitness course.
Monday 16 March 2015
Swimming this week
Room 2 have kindly allowed us to join in on their swimming time at 10.30am on Friday. Please bring your togs that day.
Multiple Intelligences link
Click on the link below to find out more about Multiple Intelligences...
Multiple Intelligences information
Multiple Intelligences information
Twitter questions for this week: Food and Nutrition
As usual, there are 9 questions this week. Here are some questions (1, 3, 4 and 6) for you to think about independently and draft some tweets if you like. We will discuss the other questions as a class.
1. Why do you think it is important to eat healthily?
3. Does your school have a garden? What grows in it? Do you get to eat any of the food grown? What do you do with the extra produce?
4. Do you grow food at home? What do you grow? What would you like to grow?
6. Find a recipe (from home or google) that uses your favourite fruit or vege.
Friday 13 March 2015
Awesome week 6
Hi my name is Josh and my name is Nisha and we are this week's bloggers.
On Tuesday we went to Blue Skies in Kaiapoi for the day with the whole senior school. We were put in groups and there were 24 groups in total. The activities were Flying fox, Confidence course, Initiative activities and fitness. Blue skies was awesome. Everybody enjoyed it and there was lovely weather.The parents that came from our class were Jake's dad Clayton, Paige's dad Bill, Zachariah's mum Sarah, Ben's dad Grant and Jarkwyn's mum Chontelle.
Every Wednesday our class does a Twitter chat on the laptops and the desktop computers. We have to choose a partner to work with and Mrs Hanson told us the 10 questions about creativity. Mrs Hanson said we could write our own tweet with a buddy and Nisha and Ben's tweet got replied by someone with over 2,000 followers. Next time we have to work with another buddy.
We also did another creativity task we started of with a odd picture then we had 10 seconds to complete it, then 10 minutes and the 10 minute ones looked a lot better. Once the 10 minutes was over Mrs Hanson told us to come down to the mat and she looked at the drawings and she choose some for the wall. It showed us that creativity takes time.
On Monday we started our family description writing. Lots of people have started publishing it.The family description writing is our second piece of writing for our personal newspaper.The family description writing is about our family. Each paragraph is a different person in our family.We also started this new thing called literacy time, instead of separate reading and writing time. We personally love it.
Well that's all for this week because we have to go swimming right now so goodbye.
On Tuesday we went to Blue Skies in Kaiapoi for the day with the whole senior school. We were put in groups and there were 24 groups in total. The activities were Flying fox, Confidence course, Initiative activities and fitness. Blue skies was awesome. Everybody enjoyed it and there was lovely weather.The parents that came from our class were Jake's dad Clayton, Paige's dad Bill, Zachariah's mum Sarah, Ben's dad Grant and Jarkwyn's mum Chontelle.
Every Wednesday our class does a Twitter chat on the laptops and the desktop computers. We have to choose a partner to work with and Mrs Hanson told us the 10 questions about creativity. Mrs Hanson said we could write our own tweet with a buddy and Nisha and Ben's tweet got replied by someone with over 2,000 followers. Next time we have to work with another buddy.
We also did another creativity task we started of with a odd picture then we had 10 seconds to complete it, then 10 minutes and the 10 minute ones looked a lot better. Once the 10 minutes was over Mrs Hanson told us to come down to the mat and she looked at the drawings and she choose some for the wall. It showed us that creativity takes time.
On Monday we started our family description writing. Lots of people have started publishing it.The family description writing is our second piece of writing for our personal newspaper.The family description writing is about our family. Each paragraph is a different person in our family.We also started this new thing called literacy time, instead of separate reading and writing time. We personally love it.
Well that's all for this week because we have to go swimming right now so goodbye.
Wednesday 11 March 2015
We are loving our learning that we are doing through Twitter at the moment! The weekly questions are making us do some deep and inventive thinking. Come and see our Twitter wall to see what we are up to on Twitter. We did an awesome activity on creativity where we had a basic picture and we only had 10 seconds to finish it. Then Mrs Hanson gave us 10 minutes to work on it. The message we got from that is that CREATIVITY TAKES TIME! We also talked about inventions that we could think of that would make the world more awesome. We watched a youtube clip about the inventions that the Kid President came up with. You can watch the video too, it's linked in one of our earlier posts.
Monday 9 March 2015
Blue Skies tomorrow
Remember, we are going to Blue Skies tomorrow. What you need is written down in your Home Learning book, but here it is again just in case:
Wear: Mufti that you can run and move around in (sports shoes please)
Bring: sun hat, drink bottle with water in it, food, warm jacket
We will leave school on the bus after the morning roll and return by 3pm.
Wear: Mufti that you can run and move around in (sports shoes please)
Bring: sun hat, drink bottle with water in it, food, warm jacket
We will leave school on the bus after the morning roll and return by 3pm.
Saturday 7 March 2015
Kidsedchatnz questions for Wednesday's chat
Here are some of the questions that will be discussed on our next kidsedchatnz Twitter chat. You might like to record some of your ideas in your Home Learning book or prepare a tweet for Wednesday. Remember to start your tweet with @kidsedchatnz and it can only be 140 characters!
The next chat is about invention and creativity. We will be doing some work on this in class.
What are your interests, talents or passions?
What is the world's most important invention so far? How does it affect your life?
The top 10 jobs in 2013 didn't exist in 2004. What jobs do you think there will be in 10 years time?
Is creativity important? How can we encourage creativity in the classroom?
Watch the Kid President talking about Inventing and problem solving:Click on the link below
Kid President Invents!
The next chat is about invention and creativity. We will be doing some work on this in class.
What are your interests, talents or passions?
What is the world's most important invention so far? How does it affect your life?
The top 10 jobs in 2013 didn't exist in 2004. What jobs do you think there will be in 10 years time?
Is creativity important? How can we encourage creativity in the classroom?
Watch the Kid President talking about Inventing and problem solving:Click on the link below
Kid President Invents!
Friday 6 March 2015
Room23's 1st half of term
Hello everyone I am Jamie and I am Millie. We have had a busy first half of the term.
On the first week of school room 23 made mini pictures of ourselves.
Mrs Hanson gave us a little person and we had to create it to look like us.
In week 3 we went to Aquagym. There were 4 groups in the little pool and 3 in the big pool I was in the big pool and so was Millie. We learnt a lot at Aquagym and got ourselves more confident for swimming sports.
At assembly we announced the leadership roles and deputy heads and head boy and girl Jamie and I
both got a leadership role. Our head boy is Will Easton and head girl is Niamh McKenzie. Deputy head boy is Jake Dickie and deputy head girl is Olivia Timbs.
Our class has been learning about Twitter and kids chat. We think twitter is very interesting and
we get to learn about other classes and were they are from. We did our first kidsedchatnz on Wednesday about digital citizenship. We have three followers at the moment.
Yesterday we had swimming sports the results were very good lots of people got into zones
and we are very happy for them. Everybody that was there tried their best and had fun.
Thank you for reading.
by Millie and Jamie.
On the first week of school room 23 made mini pictures of ourselves.
Mrs Hanson gave us a little person and we had to create it to look like us.
In week 3 we went to Aquagym. There were 4 groups in the little pool and 3 in the big pool I was in the big pool and so was Millie. We learnt a lot at Aquagym and got ourselves more confident for swimming sports.
At assembly we announced the leadership roles and deputy heads and head boy and girl Jamie and I
both got a leadership role. Our head boy is Will Easton and head girl is Niamh McKenzie. Deputy head boy is Jake Dickie and deputy head girl is Olivia Timbs.
Our class has been learning about Twitter and kids chat. We think twitter is very interesting and
we get to learn about other classes and were they are from. We did our first kidsedchatnz on Wednesday about digital citizenship. We have three followers at the moment.
Yesterday we had swimming sports the results were very good lots of people got into zones
and we are very happy for them. Everybody that was there tried their best and had fun.
Thank you for reading.
by Millie and Jamie.
Wednesday 4 March 2015
Blue Skies parent help
Thanks to those who offered to be parent help at Blue Skies next Tuesday 10th March. Sarah, Grant, Clayton, Bill and Chontelle, I have sent home a wee notice with your child, letting you know that you are down to be parent help. Please let me know as soon as possible if you are now unable to help so I can ask the next parents on the list. Thank you!
Swimming Sports tomorrow!
Please remember to bring your togs, towel, drink bottle, goggles, and food to school to take to the swimming sports. We are leaving around 11.30am and the sports start at 12.
50 metre races are first, then 25 metre races start around 1pm.
Those who are not going to the sports, please bring your togs as you will hopefully go swimming here at school. You will be working with Room 22 and Miss White.
50 metre races are first, then 25 metre races start around 1pm.
Those who are not going to the sports, please bring your togs as you will hopefully go swimming here at school. You will be working with Room 22 and Miss White.
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