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Journalists - Week 8

Room 15

Term 3  Week 8

Kia ora team.   This week has been maori language week.  

On Monday

Our highlight were finishing our calendar art and learning maori greetings.

On Tuesday

We had the West cluster speech competition well done to our finalist Rylee van Dik and Lacy Graham     

On Wednesday  

The boys kapa haka had a workshop in the pac with Kuka and Justin.

On Thursday

We had a day full of Maori Our highlight was the hangi. We watched them dig the hangi it  was an amazing experience. The food looked amazing.  The kapa haka performance  was amazing to.

Tongue Twister

                 The sixth sick Sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick

Journalists: Zoe and Georgia

Shape Story

Raindrops

A

drop of

rain is like a

sudden knock

at your door. Out

of the blue, yet often.

But welcomed with a smile. It

Could brighten your day or ruin

your plans. It could make you laugh

or make you sad. Whether the raindrop

falls fast or slow or is humongous or tiny,

it always gets everyone's attention. A rain-

drop contains many secrets. It's a bubble of

anticipation and surprise. It cleanses the earth,

it feeds the flowers and fills the holes. The

raindrop is never silent. It bangs on the

roof, splatters on the window or

splashes into puddles.

Raindrop.

By Analise

Journalists - Week 7

Week 6 highlights

Journalists: Ella Wilford and Jasmin De Buisson

Monday:

On Monday the 4th September one of our room 15 highlights were the choir performance in the evening which a lot of kids experienced. It was at Baycourt.

Tuesday:  

On Tuesday we wrote shape poems / stories based inspired by our new season spring!In Maths we also discovered how to do a graph and which one to do for our STAR test it was very tricky because we worked out that we had to convert our score into percentages. For those that picked it up quicker had helped out the people who were stuck,this is a great example of teamwork. We eventually figured out that the easiest way do it was by using percentages.

This is one of our tongue twisters for tongue twister Tuesdays that room 15 try to figure out. Do you want to try?  Well go ahead and try this one.

Ponderous Puzzle:What can run but can't walk?

Wednesday:

On Wednesday a few more kids finished their shape poems or stories we are very proud of our work and we room 15 can't wait until we have finished them it was a great way to improve our drawing skills.

Thursday:

On Thursday we pretty much had a normal day but it was still fun.

No offence to the other teachers in the school but we have the  most fun in room 15 because Miss Edhouse is the best teacher EVER!

What's going to work...?

TEAMWORK

What does 'team work' mean to you?

Disco

Here some pictures from our Disco last term when we got our GROOVE on!

Disco highlights...?

CCC - Fairytales

Welcome to a world,

a wonder to explore.

Of Fairy tales, dress-ups,

baking and more.

An enchanting time

to dance and sing,

Making jewelled crowns

fit for a king.

Be sure to come,

armed ready for fun,

Your magic carpet ride with

Miss Edhouse has just begun!

Miss Edhouse had great fun with the Year 1-3 during our Creative Community Curriculum afternoons exploring Fairytales. Our highlights were: making Stinky troll feet from Billy Goats Gruff, Pirate Hats from Peter Pan and having a snow fight in honour of Frozen!

Kids can ride!

We loved participating in ‘Kids can ride’.

We all had a great time on our bikes.

I liked pretending the back field was a give way. The first thing we had to do was look backwards for cars.

Then when you got to the second cone you had to use your left or right hand signals.

And then when you got to your last cone you got to look back for cars again.

Then we cycled to the give way sign and stopped to do our hand signals. Following this, we cycled around the whole back field. At the end there was  a little jump, it was so much fun.

By Analise Roscoe

Science Roadshow

Science Roadshow

On Thursday the year 5-8’s went to a Science roadshow at Bethlehem College. We tried out a whole bunch of science equipments. We learnt about microscopes, science experiments, physical change and chemical change. It was a lot of fun for all of us.

The Science roadshow is a portable show that travels around the country. It does science experiments and there are lots of stimulating activities that you can do.

Lucas’s favourite part was finding out how to use the bowling ball piston and trying to get the ball as high as he could. Ryan’s favourite part was when he had to test his own reactions.

By Lucas Cotterill and Ryan Galdeman

     

Storylines Tour 2017

Dawn McMillan

It was finally here! After much anticipation, Dawn McMillan, a New Zealand author, was at Tauriko to talk to the Year 5 & 6 syndicate.

It was a great opportunity for us to experience seeing the work of Dawn. She has been an author for 20 years, having started writing at the age of 9. Dawn has written many books such as “Willy Woolly”, “Holly Socks”, “Mr Spears and His Hairy Ears” and “I Need a New Bum”. She read us two of her books and they were so amazing to hear.

This is one of the clever books that Dawn read to us. It was called, ‘The Harmonica’. It was so relaxing to listen to. She also had a little buddy Fergus who was her listening buddy when she was reading her books aloud. Our own Fergus was very excited to meet the other Fergus.

After answering a few questions, Dawn donated a book to our school and a book to Tom Dyer whose name was drawn. What an incredible experience!

By Jasmin De Buisson and Jorja Clark

Katrina Friend

Katrina Friend

Today (Wednesday 30th August) Katrina Friend,a photographer,came into room 15 and gave all the students a lesson in photographing as all the year 5 & 6 students are doing photographs for their art on Ag day.

First Katrina showed rm 15 some of her photo’s and talked to us about angle’s,how our eyes move over the picture that we’re looking at and how the light changed the image,she also taught us about the background and how to adjust it to the thing that you are taking the photo to.

Then we all went outside in groups and took a few photos ourselves,experimenting with the camera on our IPads.I worked with Casey Beach and Kylah Reid,my and Casey’s personal favourite was where I and Casey lay on our tummies between some goalposts and linked our pinkies.We then experimented and made the photo black,white and grey,it was truly beautiful.

So,I think that room 15 have been truly lucky to have this fortunate experience!!!  

Written by Ella Wilford

Please see below for some of Room 15's photography