Friday, February 24, 2012

TOKU MAHI NA SHANNEN








Hi my name is Shannen and my favourite colour is red.  I like swimming and running
I have heaps of friends!! My goals for 2012 are...
To get better at maths so I can count in a flash. 

2nd March  



TURANGAWAEWAE  FESTIVAL
Why do we have the Turangawaewae  festival?
Because we want to celebrate all the culture in our school and also for fundraising!
                                                                 
My BFF Sarah doing jump jam



Hobo stoves

On Tuesday the 6th of March room three made hobo stoves.  Sarah, Charlotte, Sophie, Lachlan, Eddie and I made pancake mix because we were making pancakes on the hobo stoves







Morepork   

The maori name for the Morepork  is Ruru .
The morepork is a small dark brown motted native owl with large owl eyes.  It is nocturnal, eating a variety of insects and small animals such as rats, mice and smaller birds.  Ruru is mainly  found in forested areas from sea level to the high country.  Ruru has a variety of calls but derives its common name from the iconic call that sounds like '' morepork'' Ruru is hard to spot because its nocturnal hidden in forested areas and possesses eenily silent flight.


BOOK WEEK
We have book week because we want to encourage students to read books.
During the week we get read to by parents.
Harrgh

Hi Captain
Pretty people
Evil gang
We should thank Becky for setting this up
On Friday we dressed up and had a parade around town and went to the kindergarten.

Sarah and Shannen's awesome slideshow on PhotoPeach


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
 TREASURE ISLAND 
This story starts in the Admiral Benbow, an inn. Jim Hawkins (played by Quin) works there. Billy bones (played by Shanti ) comes to stay. He has a map. He was once a pirate, a member of Captain Flint's crew. He is visited by Black Dog (Stevie )who fights him. Then the evil Blind Pew (Sasha ) comes and scares him to death.
Jim gets the map . He gets the Goodies, Dr Livesey (Charley) Squire Trelawney ( Sarah), Mr Dance ( Shannen) and they hire a ship called the Hispaniola. The captain is Captain Smollett (Makayla ) who gets Long John Silver (Madison ) to collect a crew. He is evil and one of Captain Flint's  pirates. He collects all the other pirates and away they sail.  On the trip Jim hears of a plot to kill them.
When they get to the island the Goodies go to the stockade . The baddies go in search of the treasure . An old pirate called Ben Gunn ( Zion) who has been marooned , arrives and joins the goodies . Jim takes off and sails the ship around the island. The pirates have nowhere to go. There's a big fight. The pirates are winning until they hear Ben Gunn whom they think is a ghost of Captain  Flint. Ben screams horribly..
They all run away and the goodies find the treasure and sail back to England
My favourite part in the show was when the goodies find the treasure!
My favourite character was Mr Dance
My part in the show was Mr Dance
I thought the whole show was really awesome!!!
We should thank Smiddey the producer.
Yeah Doctor and Dance
Go Long John Silver
                                   VOLCANOES                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                                                     
                                         
Deep within the earth, rock is so hot that it melts to become a sticky sub tance called magma when magma is pressured it is forced up to the earths surface and pushes up through the vents.
When two plates push together they sometimes form volcanos.  This is because pressure forms cracks and the magma flows through them.         
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
THE OLYMPICS 2012
The Olympics were held
The participants were
Some of the activites I watched and enjoyed were
New Zealand had a very successful games.  We won 6 golds, 2 silvers and 5 bronze medals
click here to see the 2012 olympic medal table
   
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 ROCK DA HOUSE
Go Makyla
They're our leaders
The name of the show is Rock Da House and our vocal leaders are Paulette and John they were helping us with our singing. Our really cool soloists were Makayla, Jason and Quin.  Makayla sang We Are The World.  Jason sang Falling Slowly. Quin did ukulele  for Hey Soul Sister. My favourite songs were We're Gonna Have A Party and Eye Of The Tiger.  I feel a little bit nervous about it though.              
My thoughts about the show... I felt great and my heart was pumping.  I talked to my Dad after he said it was awesome. The soloist were great especially the ones from our school and I think the audience loved it.
DENTAL HEALTH
Dental heath week was great because we learnt heaps of new stuff like in our mouth we have incisors canines and molars. Incisors are made for cutting. Canines are made for ripping. Molars are made for grinding. On the 11th of September we had a long lunch with heaps of healthy food.


OUR ENVIRONMENTAL PROJECT

We made signs because we want to protect the birds and their eggs.  A person from Doc named Sally came and talked about the project we were doing.  She brought bits of driftwood from the spit.
Sophie and I were partners for making the signs. I drew the pictures and painted our signs.
We went to the Kumaras to see the unveiling of the signs and we played a cool game.


LEONARDO DA VINCI

Leonardo Da Vinci in the 16th century created the Mona Lisa also known as La Gioconda.  Leonardo invented fire throwers and missiles and made the first design for the machine gun.  Da Vinci was left handed and he could write backwards as well as he wrote forwards.


ANIWANIWA
 


On Monday the 29th of October we had the opening of our new multipurpose room called Aniwaniwa.   First Whaea Tania called a Karanga, then about five minutes later Reverend Gladys blessed the place so we all walked though the building.  Then Whaea Tania told us about the name Aniwaniwa.  It means rainbow and she told a whole story about it, it was really cool.  After that they unveiled the tukutuku pattern that was awesome.  Now it was almost finished.  There was just a couple of speeches left.  After it was finished we got some cookies and a chocolate bar.


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TOKU MAHI NA LUCIA








Hi!  My name is Lucia.  I love horse riding. My favourite colors are purple and red.  My goal for the year is  to get better at swimming. My favourite music is Selena Gomez.   I have brown hair and my eyes are brown too. I am 10 years old and my birthday is on the 14 of October.:):):):)


2 of March 2012

TURANGAWAEWAE FESTIVAL
Edward dancing:):)


Q. Why do we have a Turangawaewae festival?A. to earn money for the school and to celebrate other cultures. my favourite thing there was the bouncy castle. :):):)



HOB0 STOVES

Yesterday on  Wednesday the 6th of March room 3 went out and made pancakes.  We made it on hobo stoves outside MOTEC.
1. First of all we made butter by putting some cream and some salt and then we started shaking.   We got 20 shakes each.   When it was done we had to pour out the buttermilk  and got a board and a padder and started padding.  My favourite bit was making the pancakes.
We put 1 cup of flour
some sugar
and an egg
and butter that we made earlier that morning then we mixed it all together and then we all went out to collect sticks for our fire.  Karina and I stayed and put more flour and I sneaked a bit of sugar.  When they came back we quickly put the flour and the sugar back and mixed it .  I enjoyed it ‘cause we didn’t have to do work. 
Finally we went out and got our paper and sticks we collected earlier that morning and then we set up the fires.   When the hobo stoves started going going,   we put butter on it and the pikelet mix on.   The first pikelet  was a disaster.  It had metal stuck to it.  It was Karina’s pikelet 
The next one was Sherly’s pikelet and it was soggy and wasn’t cooked properly so she chucked it away.   Mine was the best of all .  It was cooked properly .  I felt extraordinary.   The pikelets tasted good.   I hope we can do it again this year .


FANTAIL
Friday 27th of april
Fantails live up in mountains but a few live around houses and farms. The fantail can have up to 5 chicks a year. The fantail lives up to only three years. They are a indicator species  because when theres heaps around in the forest it means that the forest is healthy and it got heaps of produce. The Maori name is piwakawaka. They eat insects while fluttering around unlike any other birds which have to land and then eat.fantails have an ability to flutter around in the air.

BOOK WEEK

We have book week to encourage children to read books and to use the library.
During the week we did a Stop Drop and Read every day.  Other teachers came and read to us.
On parade day we all dressed up in our Book Character costumes and paraded around the town.
We thank Becky for organizing it for us.

For the little kids
Ready to go


Captain T
Captain S





TREASURE ISLAND

This story starts in the Admiral Benbow, an inn.  Jim  Hawkins (played by Quin) works there.  Billy Bones (played by Shanti ) comes to stay.  He has a  map .  He was once a pirate , a member of Captain  Flint's crew.  He is visited by Black  Dog (Stevie  )who fights him.  Then the evil Blind pew  (Sasha ) comes and scares him to death.

Jim gets the map . He gets the Goodies, Dr Livesey (Charlie ) Squire Trelawney (Sarah ),  Mr Dance (Shannen ) and they hire a ship called the Hispaniola.  The captain is Captain  Smollet(makayla ) who gets Long john silver  (Madison ) to collect a crew.  Long john is evil and one of Captain Flint's pirates.  He collects all the other pirates and away they sail.

On the trip Jim  hears of a plot to kill them. When they get to the island the Goodies go to the stockade   . The baddies go in search of the treasure.  An old pirate called Ben gunn (Zion ) who has been marooned , arrives and joins the gang .

Jim takes off and sails the around the island .  The pirates have nowhere to go.  There's a big fight.  The pirates are winning
until they hear Boo  whom they think is a ghost of Captain Flinty's.  Ben screams horribly..

They all run away and the goodies find the treasure and sail back to England.

My favourite part was the dancers doing their dance

My favourite character was Billy Bones   
Jackson a pirate
Quin plays Jim
                                                                                                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                                                            

Volcano info!
volcano erupting



Deep within the earth, rock is so hot that it melts to become a sticky substance called magma.When magma is pressured it is forced up to the earths surface and it pushes up through the vents.







The Olympics 


The Olympics were held in London.
The participants were countries all over the world:) 
Some of the activities I watched and enjoyed was gym and equestrian. NZL had a very successful games. we won 6 golds, 2 silvers and 5 bronze medals.
            
Click here to view the full medal tally




Rock Da House
the band
 
us
having fun
BAD HAIR DAY


Parkiands had a choir in rock da house. We had the Pesants perform for us while we sang.Our leaders were paulette and John. Our awesome soloists were Makayla, jason and quin who played his ukelele. My favourite song is BAD HAIR DAY and SOMETHING  IN THE WATER. in BAD HAIR DAY we wear wigs.
I didn't want to do Rock Da house so I did not really enjoy it. Makayla and Jason did awesomely with there solo parts. The audience had heaps of cheers.   I think they loved it.  I can't sing so I didn't think it was that great.



DENTAL HEALTH
nice teeth
bad teeth

We learned about how cavities how they form so quickly and they don't start hurting till they have eaten away at your teeth.  You have Incisors, Molars and Canines in your mouth.



OUR ENVIRONMENTAL PROJECT

Jack, Karina and me

Our signs

We made signs for DOC to stop people standing on new born chicks and eggs.

My part was drawing the block letters and painting. My buddy was Karina.

We went to the Kumaras on Monday to watch the signs being put up.



LEONARDO DA VINCI

Mona lisa!


Leonardo Da Vinci was born in Italy April 15 1452.

He  died 1519 May 2nd.

He was dyslexic, so he wrote backwards.

His favourite subjects were art and science




ANIWANIWA



On monday the School gathered for the opening of Aniwaniwa.
First we were greeted by a Karanga. And then Mr Major made a long unravelling speech!!!!
And then we blessed the room by walking around it, touching it.  Whaea Tania explained the meaning of Aniwaniwa, the rainbow.  It reflects all the colours and cultures at our school.  At the end every one got a chocolate and a biscuit.



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Toku mahi na Bailey

My goal is to swim faster and I am allergic to Bees.  I like playing playstation.

March 2
Turangawaewae Festival

My favourite festival picture.

9 March

HOBO STOVES

We went out side and made the fire.  We put in the fire, newspaper and twigs.   We set it on fire and it was like black clouds coming out .




FANTAILS


Fantails  Maori name is Piwakawaka  Fantails eat insects and bugs.  They are one of the best birds in New Zealand .  When fantails are flying they eat bugs and insects in the air. They only live a short time.  A fantail's tail is important because it helps it flit through the air.    


RURU


The ruru is a small dark brown mottled native owl with large owl eyes.  It is nocturnal eating a variety of insects and small animals such as rats, mice and smaller birds.  It is hard to spot because it hides and it flies silently.


BOOK WEEK
Every year we have Book week to encourage kids to read more.
During the week we had Stop Drop and Read every day at 12.15.  People came in and read stories to us too.
On Friday we came dressed up in Pirate costumes.  I was dressed as a castaway with a sword.



We paraded through the town and then through the kindergarten and all the little kids came out to see us go past

Thanks Becky for arranging it for us.


OUR BOOK WEEK SLIDESHOW BY ALEX AND BAILEY on PhotoPeach

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
 TREASURE ISLAND 
This story starts in the Admiral Benbow, an inn. Jim Hawkins (played by Quin) works there. Billy bones (played by Shanti ) comes to stay. He has a map. He was once a pirate, a member of Captain Flint's crew. He is visited by Black Dog (Stevie )who fights him. Then the evil Blind Pew (Sasha ) comes and scares him to death. 
Jim gets the map . He gets the Goodies, Dr Livesey (Charley) Squire Trelawney ( Sarah), Mr Dance ( Shannen) and they hire a ship called the Hispaniola. The captain is Captain Smollett (Makayla ) who gets Long John Silver (Madison ) to collect a crew. He is evil and one of Captain Flint's  pirates. He collects all the other pirates and away they sail.  On the trip Jim hears of a plot to kill them. 
When they get to the island the Goodies go to the stockade . The baddies go in search of the treasure . An old pirate called Ben Gunn ( Zion) who has been marooned , arrives and joins the goodies . Jim takes off and sails the ship around the island. The pirates have nowhere to go. There's a big fight. The pirates are winning until they hear Ben Gunn whom they think is a ghost of Captain  Flint. Ben screams horribly.. 
They all run away and the goodies find the treasure and sail back to England
Jackson
                                                       volcanoes             
Deep within the earth rock it so hot that it melts to become a sticky substance called magma.  When this is presurised it is forced up to the earth's  surface and it pushes up through the vents.  
                                                                                                                                       
 ROCK DA HOUSE 
The leaders were Quin , John , Pauletle. The band is called the Peasants. The soloists are Jason , Makayla  and Quin. The songs that I enjoyed are count on me, Bad Hair Day and One Day. When I get to the show I feel excited. AFTER THE SHOW. I thought it was awesome. It went amazingly well                                                                                                                                                                    
DENTAL HEALTH

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