Five Sentence Spelling Story

Once upon a time there was a man who got caught in a whirlwind. When the whirlwind stopped the man found he was lost so he asked a marvellous magic genie near by. Sorry, I mean he asked a marvellous magic genie that was near by for directions. Then there was a long awkward silence, the genie didn't say anything. Finally the man lost his patience and shouted at the genie, the genie just opened one eye and POOF the man disappeared in a puff of smoke.

                                                                                     

By Jaime2

Catastrophic Currants!

Today we did an experiment where we added bicarbonate of soda to white vinegar, and then added a small handful of currants.  We could see the currants being taken to the surface with the bubbles and then float back down again once the bubbles burst!  We wondered what gas those bubbles were?  How did the bicarbonate of soda change? What would that chemical equation look like?  Watch this space as we unravel the answers!

Swimming here we come!

We are loving the school pool on these hot days.  Thanks to Sue from Kelly Sports who is working with one group of room 3 swimmers, and  these are some of our other swimmers.  Thanks to Gina for helping out with some of the skills too!

Mrs H

Rocket!

Rocket!

Today in maths we learnt how to play the game Rocket with decimals to two decimal places!  There were 3 rolls of the dice, and after each roll you had to decide where you were going to put that number.  Should it go in the ones column, the tenths or the hundredths?  It wasn't that simple, as we also had to have all our numbers in ascending order as well.  Congratulations to Connor who was a provisional winner, and then Rhys who had the ultimate win - where you have to jump up and shout BLAST OFF!

Gina's Medals and Ribbons from Nationals

I am a swimmer so in the weekend  I went up to Auckland for Nationals. 
I got five medals three of them are bronze and two of them are silver. I also got seven ribbons from out of eight races.
I got some Waikato records one was for 200m breaststroke and 100m breaststroke.
It was so much fun!

By Gina

                            Journey

I hear the rumble of vehicles passing by.  I can smell the nectar from the flowers beside me.  I can taste the fresh morning air.  I can feel the breeze dancing around me in a warm welcome.  I can hear the bus pull up.  I can smell the petrol.  I can taste a change in the air.  I can fell my feet placing themselves on the step onto the bus.  My journey begins.

by Zoe

Update:  Today we listened to Zoe's writing.  We had blindfolds on so that we really concentrated on her words and we could really appreciate the senses that she had used to make her 'moment in time' writing have impact.  These are some photos of us in 'listening' mode!

Bullying

Bullying happens all around the world and it needs to be stopped.  Bullying isn't just physical but it also can be done mentally and over the computer.  Computer bullying is called cyber bullying when people write really hurtful words over the internet and that can really get to someone.  Physical bullying is when someone is beat up all the time.  And mental bullying is when everything builds up over the bullying years and it effects you because you know you can't go on because you have been bullied so much.

These are some of the ways to get over bullying.  One, talk to someone and let them help you.  Two, stand up for yourself and prove to everyone that ever said anything about you, wrong.  Three, think better of yourself and don't let anyone hurt or bully you.  Use these steps and you will be happier.  Don't let your bullying get too severe, otherwise there will be no way to stop it.

Remember, you are not alone so think of the others around the world.  Maybe you could create a 'stop bullying' group with people that have been bullied before.

Thanks.

by Rumaysa

Mrs Hopkins gets a Valentines from Bernard!

What a surprise for Mrs Hopkins today.  A rose, and a note from Bernard, Room 3's grumpy puppet.  How excited she was!  Check next week for a photo of Bernard with his gifts!  She never ever suspected!

Maths - My job / your job

Maths Exchange started this week.  In Room 3 the students worked in small groups and decided what their responsibilities as a student were and what mine as a teacher were.  This is their thinking!

My job (student)

Listen carefully

Use manners

Be positive

Behave

Ask question

Use values

Stay on task

Don’t cheat

Respect the teacher

Don’t say the ‘e’ word

Try new things

Raise the bar – try your best standard

Tell the teacher if something is bothering you

Be organised

Don’t criticise

Don’t fiddle with your stuff

Learn

Teach others

Practise

Solve

Think

Answer

Correct

Learn from mistakes

Figure it out

Experiment

Try your best

Take your shoes off

Pay attention

Take information and solve mathematical problems

Finishing work on time

Working quietly

Doing as you are told

Focus

Doing use the ‘I’ word – impossible

Never give up

Do your own work and not your neighbours

Respect

Your job (teacher)

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Give us new challenges

Be nice – don’t be negative

Respect the puppets

Be a role model

Teach us well

Don’t get Bernard unless needed

Be patient

Be organised

Teach us percentages

Teacher square roots and long division

Help us with things we don’t understand

Take us to new levels

Help us learn maths

Explain things we don’t know

Break problems up for us

Show the problems

Don’t tell us the answers

Do her best

Be fantastic

Provide education

Show encouragement

Obey the principal’s orders

Punish those who don’t listen

Be enthusiastic

Stay alert

Plan ahead

Provide treats

Make sure we are doing things right

Make a good impression

Don’t swear

Keep people on task

Don’t let it turn into a zoo

Include everyone

Make sure kids don’t say the “e” word

Explain information well
Take annoyance

Be fun

Teach different methods

Be specific

Help students

Make sure your students understand

Help, respect and support us

 

Chemistry Fabtastico

 "H20 - 2 hydrogens and 1 Oxygen = a substance of water, C02 - 1 carbon and 2 oxygens = Carbon Dioxide - type of air" I muttered under my breath as I listened to Mrs Hopkins as she wrote confusing scribbly signs on the whiteboard.

Now Mrs Hopkins says "Okay, everybody got that".  Everybody nods their heads.  "Good, please get into a big porowhita". The class scuttles like frightened crabs into a circle.

Mrs Hopkins passes round hand sanitiser to "kill the germs because we will be handling food" and then she passes round plates.  Then we go to our desks and wait.  Next she gathers a group of helpers to pass round the lollies to make our H20.

Me and Emalee sit together to help each other.  I choose two pink marshmallows for my Hydrogens.
For my Oxygen I choose one peach sour lolly.  First I put a pink marshmallow on either side of a toothpick.  Next I stick one toothpick in one of the marshmallows and then I do the same to the other marshmallow with another toothpick to form a triangle shape.  Now I stick my peach sour on top of the two toothpicks.  WAHOOO!!!!!! I have One H20!!

Now I am going to make one C02.  I collect 2 Berries and Cream lollies for my Oxygens and a white marshmallow for my Carbon.  Firstly I Stick my 2 Berries and Cream lollies on the sharp sides of a tooth- pick.  Then I stick a toothpick in each Berries and Cream lolly.  On the top goes the white marshmallow.  NOW I HAVE MADE MY CARBON DIOXIDE!!!!!!!

I get them glad-wrapped and then put them in my bag to eat later.
I sit on the mat and the class listens to a man on youtube singing the whole Peroidic Table.
WOW!!!!!!

by Sophie

Mount Tarawera Mind map

                                                        My Mount Tarawera Mind map!

                                    My mind map shows some words relating to the explosion.

                                                                       Joshua G

Today we learnt how to generate our ideas using mind maps.  We first used the example of our favourite place to be - our own bedroom, under a special tree, a swimming pool....  We then thought of six ideas that related to that place - each idea having its own special coloured branch.  From each of those branches with then thought of ideas that related to the idea in the orginal branch.  And so our Mind Map grew.  We then applied that understanding to create our own mindmap detailing important information about the Tarawera eruption.  This is Joshua's great example.  Mrs H

The Fishing Fight

I was in an intense fight with a big fish on the end of my line. I was about to give up when my popa yelled out" I see it"Popa ran and grabbed the net. I had my first glimpse of the fish. I said."Can we measure it"After we kill it. I yelled "WOHOO "about 10 times. Then we measured it, it was 52 cm's long.Soon after we saw a plane doing back flips .Then we saw a pod of Dolphins grazing along the top of the water.There was about eight or nine of them.After I caught the fish it was like I was going to faint and that my face was white. I was astonished with what I had caught.

By Harry

Tu Tangata. 3, 2, 1 .... FREEZE!

A stranger is helping an old man across the street while a man is out of control
in his car. The stranger is caring about people that he doesn't know. This is
level 4 thinking. By Josh, Lucas and Levi.

Tu Tangata. 3, 2, 1, FREEZE!
For our freeze frame we chose to do a girl getting bullied by a
older girl who wanted her lunch money. We chose level 3-4
thinking.
We thought this was showing Tu Tungata because Grace was
 sticking up for a friend.
by Maisy, Grace and Izzy

Tu Tangata. 3, 2, 1..... FREEZE!
Level 5 thinking because we are thinking about the whole Elephant species.
The protector (Gina) was trying to protect 3 Elephants (Jaime1 Halle and Elijah) from the hunter (Joshua H). The hunter tries to kill the elephants with a Bow and Arrow for their tusks but the protector  jumps in the way.

Tu Tangata. 3, 2, 1 .... FREEEZE!
this picture represents standing up for others
Tu Tangata (stand tall)
A new person to the school is being bullied
and his friends are standing up for him.
This is level 3 thinking.
Blake, Joel, Maia and Joy. 

Tu Tangata. 3, 2, 1... FREEZE!

Hi this is Mitchell(Doctor) Rumaysa(Assistant Doctor) Emalee(Patient) and Theo(Patients Father)

This is a level five thinking Freeze Frame.

It is so because a Doctor and his assistant travel around the world to help save a Patient that was dying
 the scene is a Doctor doing CPR on the Patient and the assistant is holding the emergency kit and the father is praying that his daughter would make it through 

Tu Tangata. 3, 2, 1 ... FREEZE
For our freeze frame Josh is littering and Oliver is telling him not to litter.
Conor was picking up the litter that Josh threw on the ground and Harrison was holding up the bag.
We were doing level 5 thinking because we were thinking about protecting the enviroment
 but Josh was thinking at level 1 and only about himself.
By Oliver,Conor,Harrison and Josh.

Tu Tangata. 3, 2, 1 .... FREEZE!

               Our freeze frame is about a girl being bullied by a bully and her friend is showing Tu Tangata by standing up for her.  We chose level two: Thinking about me and the people I care about.

By Zoe, Sophie and Mckenzie

Tu Tangata. 3, 2, 1... FREEZE!

Our freeze frame is about a little kid who is getting bullied by a bigger kid and two girls are yelling 'STOP' to the bully.

We choose level 4, which is: Caring about people you do not know.

By Casey, Jaime 2, Meharban and Logan.

Jellybean Mayhem

Bursting flavour, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Spotted to

Puke, Earthworm, Cinnimon, Watermelon and Cherry

All disgusting but tempting at the minute

Flavours that blow your mind and bring your taste buds to the limit

Never eat them

Never do

BY:EMALEE

     Jelly bean adventure

I stared down at the jelly beans then at the line of people with the watering mouths. Ha ha ha I mumbled to myself as the line slowly moved past I took one for myself and skipped off to join my friends and their jelly beans. We all threw them down smiling

 but that didn't last a long time. Izzy's face turned green,

 Grace's red and Halle's dreamy. Izzy splattered  to the toilets, Grace tumbling after her

while me and Halle stared in dismay. Then went back to enjoying our jelly beans.

The taste trickled down my throat leaving a sweet taste for my taste buds to enjoy. Moments later 

behind.

Moments later Izzy was sprinting to the drinking founten then lazily ploped her self down on the wooden seat ,"what flavour?" asked Halle rotten egg she puffed back EWW I said Izzy scowled back

 hey you cant be talking I bet when you hear graces you will be laughing your head off.

By :Izzy