Harley, Teina, Jessie S & Rawiri's Running of the Bulls Poem

listen to ‘Harley's group running of the bulls’ on Audioboo

Maraea & Maia's Running of the Bulls Poem

listen to ‘Maraea And Maia’ on Audioboo

Jonathon & Rhys' Running of the Bulls Poem

listen to ‘Rhys And Jonathon’ on Audioboo

Xyen, Jameel, Kingston & VJ's Running of the Bulls Poem

listen to ‘Xyen,Jameel, Kingston & VJ’ on Audioboo

Aesha, Juztice, Mahia, Danielle & Ashleigh's Running of the Bulls Poem

listen to ‘Aesha, Juztice, Mahia, Danielle, And Ashleigh’ on Audioboo

Nau, Lifuka, Jessie L, Meagan and Juan Bull Poem

listen to ‘Running of the Bulls Nau Group’ on Audioboo

Soccer Guru!

Congratulations Navuga for your super soccer skills!  It was awesome watching you show the whole school how skilled you are at juggling a soccer ball!  Congratulations on your win!

Awesome Alliteration!

Today we looked at alliteration - when the same beginning sound is repeated in one sentence.  Here are some of the examples we came up with.

Welcome Back to Term 4!

Tony Williams Duffy Assembly Recounts

Yesterday the author Tony Williams came to talk about his books for our Duffy Hero Assembly.

We wrote a recount story about it and Mrs A wanted us to include our opinions and emotions about what we saw and heard.

Here are our best sentences:

Xyen: Right away you could tell he was crazy, weird!

Kingston: Kini and Tony were funny people!

Ashleigh: I was so excited about my books I just wanted to go right up to the stage and grab Room 3's books.

Maraea: I just wanted to spew up like a baby!

Teina: Oh my gosh! This man is crazy!

Josh: Yesterday it was very well done

Meagan: I saw a man sitting on the seats with a leather jacket and a mysterious hat.

Danielle: Tony shared some wonderful knowledge with us.

Aesha: When it was his turn to speak he jumped out of his chair!

Jessie L: He threw his jacket into the crowd.

Navuga: Tony Williams is a brave and weird man.

Juan: Tony Williams is funny and he made us laugh.

Isiah: First we sat down and Mr Greer introduced Tony Williams.

Kini: Suddenly Tony stopped and stared and I was like, WHAT?!

Jessie S: When Mr Greer introduced Tony Williams I thought he was crazy!

Maia: I loved it when Tony said that teachers brains were smaller than dinosaurs brains!

Rhys: I thought that he was going to say PIZAZZ and perform a new show when he leapt off the stage.

Jonathon: He was kinda weird, funny, hilarious and amusing.

Jameel: Tony stood up with his tummy leaning forward and said, "Sup Bro?"

Harley: When Kini went up he was hilarious like Tony Williams.

VJ: OMG we've got the coolest person coming to assembly!

Ana's Awesome Writing

Ana has been working hard to write independently which she has been achieving with amazing results.  Well done Ana we are all so proud of you.  Keep it up!

3D Ping Pong

Try this game!  Click on SERVICE to get the game started.  Lets see who can get the highest score.

 

CLICK HERE TO PLAY PING PONG!

Australia to build emu underpass!

We read an interesting article about emu underpasses on Kiwi Kids News today.  We discussed the new words we were introduced to in this article.  Here is what we decided they meant:

We decided after reading this article that we agree with the experts that this may not be the best idea as emus aren't the most intelligent birds!!

CLICK HERE IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO READ THE EMU ARTICLE

Story Endings with Mr Greer

Today Mrs A had an IEP meeting so she asked Mr Greer to do some real teaching for a change!  He came in and worked with us on writing effective story endings.  First we brainstormed about different types of endings we could have.

 

Mr Greer then gave us a story starter and we had to write the ending with a buddy.  Here are our results.

 

                                                            "The Birthday Party"

Today is my birthday. I am having a big party at my house. I invited everyone in my class. I hope that they all come.
My doorbells is ringing. I answer it. Three of my friends are at the door! The rest of my friends arrive. It is time for the party to begin. First, we play games. We play pin the tail on the donkey. Jasmine wins. My mum gives her a prize. She is very happy. I am happy that my friends are having fun. We also play tag and musical chairs.
Next, we eat cake. My favourite kind of cake is chocolate with vanilla icing. My mum made a special cake for me. She wrote "Happy Birthday" on it in red icing. Mum lights the candles. My friends sing the birthday song. I make a wish and blow out my candles.
Now it is time to open presents. Jack hands me the first present. I unwrap it and open the box...

and there was nothing. I said, "Awesome, a box! This is the best birthday ever!"
My friend Jasmine gave me a big present. I slowly unwrapped it and it was a helmet.
"A helmet?! You got me a helmet? You came to my birthday and you got me a helmet?! Not cool, girl. I would rather play with my box than this helmet!"

                                                                                                                           By Kini

It was dark inside. I really wanted it to be one of those teenage dolls, but instead it was a mud ball. Everyone laughed, but I didn't think it was funny. I unwrapped the next present. When I looked at it I said, "this is more like it!"
Everyone laughed again. It was a pair of indian shoes!

                                                                                                                           By Rhys


and I couldn't see anything because it was so dark. So I put my hand in the box and something gave me a cut! I tipped the box upside down and a dagger came out with a messaged tied on to it. The message had a code which said...

                                                                                                                           By VJ


Jack laughed at me as I slowly open the lid to the box. Water started to pour out of my eyes like a water fountain. I wanted a doll but not with its head chopped off or sauce on its hands!
Jack ran out of the door as fast as he could. I screamed so loud that nearly all of New Zealand could hear me!
The door-bell rang. I quickly went and answered the door. It was Jack. He tried talking to me but I just yelled at him. He slowly walked off feeling bad, but I did not want to hear about it.
Jack sat down and got out his scissors. He cut some wrapping paper and wrapped up the chocolate that was there, placing a bow on top.

                                                                                                                        By Juztice



                                                               "The Snow Day"

My sister woke me up early this morning. She ran into my room before the alarm clock went off.
"Look outside!" she yelled.
I got out of bed and looked out the window. All that I could see was white snow! There was a man shoveling the sidewalk in front of our house.
Mum came into the room. She brought us each a mug of hot chocolate.
"No school today!" she said. I was very happy. My sister was happy, too.
Mum left the room find our snow clothes. She gave me my blue snowsuit. She also gave me a hat and mittens.
"What are you going to do with no school?" she asked.

"I am going to have an adventure in the snow!"
"Okay" she replied. I put my clothes, my hat and my mittes on. I ran outside. I was going so fast I forgot our house was on a huge hill. Then all of a sudden I was rolling and rolling and rolling!
Suddendly I stopeed. I couldn't move! I realised I was in a huge snowman. I waited 30 seconds and I was getting really tired.
"Finally!" I said, as my sister came running outside. But she had forgotten that there was a huge hill under the house too. She came running and running and then,
"BAM!" she crashed into me.
"Oh, man! You broke my snow man!" I cried.
"Shutup. Atleast I saved you from that munted snow man"
"But I wanted to break it!"

                                                                                                                   By Maia and Ashleigh

Welcome Miss Corkill

Ruma Toru would like to welcome Miss Corkill to our team.  She has joined us from Massey University and we are looking forward to working with her for the rest of the term. 

Ukelele Festival

Congratulations Meagan, Ashleigh, Danielle and Maia for giving up your lunch times and a Saturday to participate in the 2012 Ukelele Festival. I hope you had an awesome time. You all look very professional and I'm sure Room 3 would love to see your talent. We will book you in for a performance soon!!!

Azonto Somerset Styles!

Here it is team - our entry into the Manawatu Digi Awards!!  We think it's a winner, lets hope the judges agree!  You all look spectacular and I think you should win!!!

 

Family Math Evening

I would like to send out a huge thank you to all of you who gave up your time tonight to come back to school with your whanau and learn some math games.  It was fantastic to see so many of you there. 

We will be playing the games I had in class so you better get practising.  Lets see who can be the class champion.

                       GAME ON!!  (Especially you Harley!!)

U ALL ROCK!

I hope you had fun today celebrating another great U ROCK term so far!  You all completed the photo hunt in your groups cooperating and thinking together.  It was more challenging than I thought it would be!

I enjoyed watching you all make, create and eat this afternoon with our science based activities in Room 12. 

Tino pai rawa team!  Keep up the great work!

Room 3's 2012 U ROCK Olympics!

Today was the last day of our Olympic competition.  It was very close but in the end we had a clear winner.  You all worked extremely well in your country groups and should be proud of all your efforts. 

Kenya Our bronze medalists

Team Kiribati Silver Medalists



The Bahamas Gold Medal Winners







All of our medal winners Tino pai rawa

Water Lillies

Our science experiment writing continues and today we experimented with paper water lillies.  Some of our hypotheses' were almost correct but we didn't guess that the petals would open out!  Here is a photo of our opened lillies.

Swirling Colour Change

We looked at how primary colours can mix together and make a secondary colour with a bit of a change.  We used a glass, water and food colouring to test our colour theories.  We also added some cooking oil to spice things up which led to some great discussion about different substances.

Here is a You Tube clip we got the idea from!

FUN WITH FOOD COLOURING! SWIRLING COLOUR CHANGE EXPERIMENT

Kaleidoscopic Milk

For writing at the moment we are learning how to write about simple science experiments.  We did one that is called Kaleidoscopic Milk.  We used food colouring, milk and dish washing liquid.  Here is a photo story showing the method and results.

Well done Kingston and Jessie for recording this experiment using the camera.

We then tried it again but used a cotton bud dipped in the dishwashing liquid after we saw it on You Tube!  Here are the photos.

Here is Jessie L's published experiment:

Kaleidoscopic Milk

Equipment:

Milk

 Food Colouring

Bowl  

Dishwashing Liquid

Hypothesis:

 I think it is going to explode.

Method:

1.Pour the milk into the bowl.

2. Drop the food colouring into the bowl.

3. Put some diswashing liquid in the bowl.

Conclusion:

It swirled like a tornado and the colours mixed together.  My hypothesis was wrong because it didn't explode.

Olympic Assembly

WOW! You guys were fantastic on stage yesterday!  Your entry into the hall was amazing and our crowd loved it.  You pulled together as a team and looked very regal up there presenting.  I was super proud of you!  Check out our photos.

New School Flag

Somerset Crescent has a new fandangled flag!  We thought it looked pretty good, almost as good as us! 

We are eating the ice blocks we won for being the 2nd class to have the biggest turn out for our 3 way conferences!  Tino pai rawa team! I have enjoyed catching up with all of your parents and caregivers.

Kahikatea Silly Olympics

Congratulations on such a fantastic day!  You all worked well in your teams and I was impressed by the enthusiasm you showed under the cargo net!  I hope you had fun!  Click on Room 6's blog link to hear and see our country chants!

Marae Visit on Friday

Tena Koe,

REMEMBER: We have our marae visit on Friday and need some of our wonderful parents to help get us there safely and to stay and share our learning experiences with us.  Have you given them the notice that was given out last week??  Make sure you ask nicely and use your manners!!

first post

Mrs a trained us to put a post on our  blog now me and xyen are the experts by vj

1st log in

Mrs A just told me and VJ how to use our blog. We are now the experts of blogging in our class.We are now awesome.

Cultural Questioning

We have been learning and thinking about our culture and what culture means. We looked at this photo and wrote down some questions we could ask her. 

Wednesday's Writing with Whaea Molia!

Hey Team I hope you are being good for Whaea Molia! She said that she enjoyed working with you yesterday so keep up the good work!

I heard you came up with some excellent questions about our picture yesterday so here is another one.  I would like you to apply this thinking model to it today:

SEE - what do you see in this picture?

THINK - What do you think is going on here?

WONDER - Now what are you wondering? What questions would you ask?

Mrs A - I can see a young girl standing on a crocodile!

I think she is trying to jump off him and go for a swim.

I wonder if the crocodile will try and eat her when she goes for a swim.

 

A bit of Thai Culture

This term we have to write and present a speech to the class about what culture means to us. Mrs A broght in her head piece from Northern Thailand to show us some Thai culture.  We had to write down some examples of how this hat reflected culture. It was really tricky but this is what we came up with.

* The style and shape of the hat reflects their culture.
* The materials they have used to create it reflect their culture.  They have used beads, metal,  fabric,feathers and coins.
* The coins are from their country.
* The colours are bright.
* The designs that they have put on the metal parts reflect their culture.

New Net Books

Here are our tekids working hard on our NEW net books! Thanks to our awesome BOT who gave the go ahead to buy 4 net books for each classroom.

Thank you to Jonathon and Harley who taught our room how to use Voice Thread too. You were awesome boys and I am looking forward to embedding some examples on our blog!

Soldier Stories

Here are our unedited soldier stories. We were learning to write a short descriptive piece of writing to show some emotion.  We found it tricky putting ourselves into someone elses' shoes but we are pleased with how our writing turned out. Mrs A asked us to write a minimum of three sentences but some of us were on a roll and wrote more!  Please forgive our mistakes, as stated earlier this is unedited!

Boom went the bombs!

I can see lots of gun fire. Soldiers have been hit. Some are lying on the ground screaming in pain. Bleeding to death, the ground was covered in blood. It was so gross I wanted to swipe it out of my mind.    By Ashleigh

BOOM! Went the gun I heard the enemy coming closer to me, my heart was pumping.  I was as tiny as a mouse, I was scared in the corner. He found me.

He has trapped me.  I picked up my gun and shot the enemies as fast as a cheetah I was so scared, but I did it anyway. I feel so much better.  I rescued everyone else.  I got a medal.        By Danielle

Kaboom!!! Its coming my way pieces of shrapnel that’s in my face whatch out before you get hit in the back, it will be sore like yesterday.  By Harley

KA BOOM! another bomb exploded! I want to run somewhere where no one can find me, but where?  I am terrified and exhausted. I really want to get out of here.   By Jameel

It was freezing outside.  I wish I was at home. Guns shooting at people.  Some soldiers have been hit by the bullets.  My friends have died.    By Jessie L

KABOOM!!  Exploding heads flying in the air wounded men starting to die. Plane’s  everywhere  flying in the sky dropping bombs all over us but …. By Jessie S

BOOM!!! Our enemy was coming closer and closer. I hid and  was as quiet as a mouse. My heart was pumping really fast I was frozen in fear.  He was close but he couldn’t see me, he heard me and he started searching for me. I grabbed my rifle and I shot him.  By VJ

I felt water dripping from head to toe it was like ice-cubes falling down my back. Thunder storms every where. KA BOOM!!! Aircraft dropping bombs everywhere. You wouldn’t believe your eyes if you were here.  I want to get out of this place.   By Jonathon

Kaboom!!! I’m tying up my lace. Pieces of shrapnel is in my space. Watch out before it hits your face. I’m on the chase. By Kingston

Ka boom!  Blood splats everywhere, I felt so sad for my friends because they all got shot. As I was shooting I got angry like a bull getting teased.   By Kini

Boom went the bombs, I was freezing .  I wanted to run away, so I did.  I ran where no one, I mean no one, could ever find me. I saw a good hiding spot when I was running. I ran there and then there were bombs over there and here. I was tired and I wanted to go home.  By Maia

BOOM! Went the guns I heard the enemy was coming closer, my heart better fast and fast.  By Maraea

I was freezing. I wish I was back home with my family and friends. It was sad because my mate died. I was going back to bass but I saw bodies every were. By Meagan

 

BANG! Traces flying around us. SLOP!!!Another soldier died, the Soldiers is scared and defeated by. What they are seeing Soldiers were firing bullets at the Turkish army up on the slippery wet mountains above us.   By Navuga

Boom all the bodies spread around me it felt so horrible it was like hell. I WANTED TO GO HOME.ALL THE BULLETS WENT PAST ME AS I saw the dead bodies.  By Rhys

Soldiers

Last week we learnt about the ANZAC's.  Here are our photos we took in Brendon's uniform with his medals.  Thanks Brendon!  We know we should've changed the medals over to the right hand side but Mrs A forgot and then when she remembered most of the photos were done.  We don't mean to offend anyone and Brendon didn't mind so we hope others aren't offended either!! The beret isn't quite right either but we tried our best for a photo opportunity to wear an army uniform with some medals.

Run Jump Throw

You ran, you jumped and you threw! Congratulations to everyone for participating and giving it 110%. It was awesome seeing the progress you had all made over each lesson with Cameron and finally at our Kahikatea team athletics afternoon.

ANZAC Day

We have been learning about ANZAC Day as Mrs A thinks this is a very important day. Not just because we get a day off school but it is a day to remember all those men and women who both gave their lives and risked their lives so that we can live in such a beautiful country today.

Try completing this ANZAC quiz to see how much you have learnt.

CLICK HERE TO TEST YOUR ANZAC KNOWLEDGE!

Last Terms UROCK Inquiry

Well it's taken a while but here is some of the video footage you completed to show how we can accept others' abilities and efforts.  I haven't made any changes to your clips. We will have to learn how to edit our video to bling it up a bit! I have found a Web2 tool that I used for the last two clips. We will experiment with it this term!










Congratulations to those groups that cooperated and succeeded with this task.

Term 2 Inquiry

Here is a clue about what we will be doing for inquiry this term.  If you want to have a go and create a word shape click on Tagxedo under the Publishing Tools link list.

Create your own cartoon you!

Check out the new animation links on the right.  Here is an example of my cartoon avatar! What do you think?

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Hi Team I hope you are all enjoying your holidays! I am! Troy and I have been watching the old Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Movie that was on tv on Easter Sunday at least once a day! I'll be able to sing you the Umpa Lumpa's song once school starts again!  We have eaten far too much chocolate - I hope you all have too! 

Have fun.  I'll put some new games on the blog for you. I have been hooked on the hidden object games and have been staying up late playing them! 

Mrs A

Clay Yourself!

Check out this awesome website and create your own clay profile!

Click here to clay yourself!

What's gonna work? TEAM WORK!!

CONGRATULATIONS!! YOU DID IT! YOU REALLY ARE A DREAM TEAM!
Well done on cooperating, accepting others abilities and efforts and strategising to ensure everyone succeeded. You have really started to communicate effectively and you won graciously too. KA PAI!

KEEP ON THUMPIN!

Xyen and Kingston's wordle.

Magic Snow Globe

Magic Snow Globe

This is really freaky! Click on the snowball, type in your address and see your house appear!!

Jonathon & VJ's Wordle - From "Against the Wind"

Dodge Ball Champions

EXCELLENT TEAM WORK RUMA TORU!!
Congratulations on winning the first out of three challenges against the mighty Room 6 students. You worked well together and demonstrated great U ROCK behaviour.
Tino pai rawa! Lets see how we go with our next challenge of 'Rubbish'. I know you can do it!
Keep on rockin'!
Mrs A :)

Jessie and Juan's Shark Wordle

Maia & Ashleigh's Wordle - verbs from the story Memories

Teina-Kore and Rawiri's Wordle

Here is our wordle that shows verbs from the Memories story.

Friday Rice Day Bubble Map

Here is our bubble map we did as a class for our recount writing. We were extremely lucky because Whaea Charlie gave us some chopsticks from overseas.

Terrific Te Reo Site

Click on the link to practise your reo!

Days of the week:
http://www.maorilanguage.net/phrase_drills/phrase_drills_lesson.cfm?learningsubcategoryid=9#

Maori Phrases:
http://www.maorilanguage.net/phrase_drills/index.cfm

How many do you get?

Graphics for Funny Picture Comments

The Little Match Girl Retell

We watched this You Tube clip of the Little Match Girl and with a buddy had to retell it. Check out our writing below.

Here is the beginning of Rawiri's and Jameel's retell.  I like how you have added in detail to paint a picture of exactly what is happening in the story boys. Ka Pai!

One freezing cold night there was a little match girl. She was poor and had no money so she tried to sell her matches but no one wanted to buy them. She got up a lamp post and tried to get people’s attention but the people ignored the match girl and just kept on walking. Then a man came along and picked her up and put her on the ground. She started walking off like a nervous penguin. Finally she reached  a wall and sat down with a sad face. She was cold as an ice cube. She thought about her match sticks and started lighting one of them up. Then she faced the matches at the wall and it reminded her of home. It was a picture of a Christmas tree with her mum at home, and she was hugging her mum. Vanish!! Everything was gone!

This next piece of writing belongs to Kini and Xyen. I was impressed with how you constructed it in such a collaborative manner boys - great cooperation indeed.  I know you didn't get a lot done as you wanted it to be a perfect piece of writing!

The snow fell down creating a white layer on the little match girls worn and dirty hood. She looks at a family ice skating, a horse comes and bumps her and her matches fall on the ground. As she collects them her hands start to get freezing and sore.

Have a read of Kingston's and Teina-Kore's work. They have used their own vocabulary well and have tried to give the readers a sense of emotion.

 One very freezing night there was a little match girl that was homeless and poor and had no money. There were snowflakes drifting down from the gray clouds and landing on her hoody. She tried to sell her matches to other people so she could buy some food. She was poor and freezing but the people were ignoring her. She climbed onto a lamp post and tried to get other people’s attention and a man lit up the lamp on the pole. She watched a family coming out of their house with longing as they looked warm and happy.

VJ and Harley your story tugged at my heart! You have really thought about the emotion in the poor little match girls life and expressed it well. Excellent use of similes too! Tino pai rawa.

The snow was floating gently down like feathers falling from the sky on a little girl. This little girl was as thin as a pin because she had nothing to eat; she had no parents and no one to look after her. She was as lonely as a homeless person.

The little girl was trying to sell matches, but no one wanted to buy them. She started to shiver; she was as cold as ice cubes. To try to warm herself up she began to light her matches but they kept going out. Every time she fired up the matches she day dreamt about having a family. Then she went to sleep, she was as tired as a sleeping lion. Then someone found her and took her with her.  It was her mother taking her to heaven. The little match girl had died from hyperthermia in the snow.

I was impressed with all the writing that you did with a buddy - fantastic cooperation! It was hard to choose which pieces to publish. I think our next steps could be using different sentence starters! Keep up the great work.

Happy St Patricks Day Team

Hey Team,  thanks for being such a great group of students to work with.  Whaea Molia really enjoyed her morning with you and I was very proud!  Congratulations on our second win today at 'Hit and Run'. It was very close!!  Here are the links to our St Paddy's Day sounds so Kini can practise his jigging!!  You were awesome Kini!

Maialocks and the Three Grizzly Bears.

"STOP! MAIALOCKS! THAT'S NOT U ROCK! but Room 3 absolutely rocked on stage yesterday for our school assembly item!

We performed a story that we wrote about Maialocks and the three grizzly bears. Maialocks was a rude and nasty girl who only thought about herself. She threw a tantrum, she ran away, she broke into a house, she ate other peoples pancakes and she broke a 82 inch plasma t.v by throwing a Wii remote at it while playing tennis. When the bears arrived home, Maialocks hid under Baby Bear's bed. Poppa Bear was angry when he saw his broken tv. When the bears found Maialocks she used her U ROCK manners and said sorry. She had to clean the house, do 10 push ups and teach Baby Bear her multiplication facts as her consequence.

I was very proud of the whole Ruma Toru team. The announcers spoke clearly. The actors were on-to-it and the orchestra looked stunning in their fluro skirts!

Ka pai team! You ROCKED!

SWIMMING!

We haven't had much of a swimming season this term what with the funny weather and everything else that has cropped up but at least we've had a few dips in the pool! Here are some images of Ruma Toru in the pool.