Civet Coffee

W.A.L.T Write an explanation.

Civet Coffee comes from a Civet Cat's poo.  The Civet cat is from South East Asia.  It is called 'Kopi Luwak' which means Civet Coffee.
It has a rich, smooth & chocolatey flavour.

When the coffee beans go through the intestines, it changes the flavour.  When the cat poo's, the people get the beans and wash it and then they roast it at a high temperature.


At a café, a cup of coffee costs over $80NZ.  In NZ money it costs over $200 for 1/2 kg.

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Problem Solving_Cars in Garages

Hi Ruma Tekau Ma Tahi!

I thought I'd post a Problem Solving activity for you to try out.
So have a go and let me know how you solved the problem.

http://www.nzmaths.co.nz/resource/cars-garages?parent_node=

Dinosaur out my window

W.A.L.T use full stops and capital letters in the right place.

I woke up and saw a dinosaur at my back window.  My mum and dad told my brothers "there is a dinosaur".  They were scared and I was too.  My dog was too.  It was a big T- Rex.
                                                                                         By Thomas 

market day

Wow look at all these people selling all this amazing stuff.I made ten FMG stadiums and we sold quite a lot.I bought an ice cream soda and it was so nice it tasted like a bunch of ice cream.our group still had four FMG stadiums left we went around asking people if they would buy one but they kept on saying no.ka hu bought him some popcorn and an ice cream soda and sone bought him nothing and after the market day we had a clean up then we went side and had our lunch.

45th of J-lune

The day i will never remember is the 45th of J-lune.
My favourite year of the day right before my ballon
This day something not strange happened
The sky turned red with sandwich punch and then i ate some chunky trunks
The day the i will never remember the 45th of J-lune
something that will never cause a halla baloo


By Maya

Maya`s Clerihews

Rules for Clerihews                                                                                           By Maya

1. They are four lines long.
2. The first and second lines rhyme with each other, and the third and fourth lines rhyme with each other.
3. The first line names a person, and the second line ends with something that rhymes with the name of the person.
4. A clerihew should be funny.

These are my 7 Clerihews based on The Illusionists
The Anti-Conjuror,Dan Sperry
Had a big big cherry
then he visited Cher
and never never teared again

Escape esacape Andrew Basso
You will never find Lassso
Alas alas find a cafe
then you can get a fluffy

Hello there Jinger Leigh
what are you doing on this day
I wonder if you are okay
Maybe you wanna stay

Hey Mark Kalin
Are you ailin`
Didn`t you go to River Leed
oh and had a feed

Oh you got me again Jeff Hobson
Oh now ya coughing
Why don`t  you get  up and start writing
Huh now ya sighting!?

Oh dear Phillip Escoffey
Wheres ya Coffe
You are mumbling
and grumbling

This magician Kevin James
Went to the river Thames
and then found a great Hail
then got the Holy Grail

By Maya

Vaiaso o le Gagana Sāmoa – Samoan Language Week

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Pizzarific

Room 11 have been looking at poetry.  We learnt how to write a Cinquain (pronounced 'Sin-cane' not 'Sin-kwane').

A Cinquain has five lines.
The first line has 2 syllables.
2nd line has 4 syllables.
3rd line has 6 syllables.
4th line has 8 syllables.
and the 5th line has 2 syllables.

Here is our class Cinquain about pizza...

Pizzarific

 

Pizza

It is yummy!

Pizza is delicious!

Tasty Tony Pepperoni!

CHEESY!

 



Checking out Fotobabble

Wacky WebTales

Hey Guys!

Had a play with 'Wacky Web Tales'. 

All you do is pop in verbs and nouns and the site creates a 'wacky tale' for you.

Have a go and see what weird and wonderful tales you can come up with. 

http://www.eduplace.com/tales/

 

p.s. I'll pop the link into a list of 'Literacy Games' in our blog.

Ms Etuale
 

 

An Ode

Radio Announcer: Thank you for tuning in today. We are here in Palmerston North to celebrate National Poetry Month. In just a moment, the nation's poet laureate, Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, will read a poem about a duck. And here is Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson.

Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson: Thank you, everyone. This is a very ataahua poem I wrote about a duck.

An Ode to a duck
The duck is as big as a goose.
It reminds me of small geese singing.
O, the duck. O, the duck!
What do grumpy people think when they see you for the first time?
Perhaps they know there are happy days ahead.
O, the duck. O, the duck!
For some, you are freak, but for others, you are tumeke.
If we are dancing, we pause when we think of you.
May you always twirl.
O, the duck. O, the duck!

Radio Announcer: On behalf of the poets, thank you for sweating

Swimming Carnival

It was absolutely freezing last week, as Kahikatea entered the pool for our annual Swimming Carnival.  Teeth were chattering, bodies were shakin' and skin turned all bumpy.  Kahikatea strove to remain positive and fun was had by the team despite the cold weather.
GO KAHIKATEA!... Your teachers are so proud of you all!... YOU GUYS ROCK!!!

Tuakana - Teina

Our buddy class - Ruma Waru are awesome!
We enjoy hangin' and sharing with them and cannot wait to see what we do next.
A few weeks ago we got together and taught each other something.
Ruma Waru taught us a clapping game.
We taught them 'Fa Pati' - a part of a Samoan sasa.
We both loved teaching our buddy and had lots of fun and laughs!
See you all soon little Teina buddy class!

Te Reo Practice

Kia Ora Ruma Tekau ma Tahi. On this wall you can post Te Reo words or phrases and their translations. Alternatively you could post your pepeha. Have a go...

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Connect the Dots

Each week we have a brain bender in our homework sheet.
Here is the brain bender used in this week's sheet.  Have a go...

           Without taking your pen off the paper,

 

            connect the dots, using 4 straight lines.

 

Liam's Weekend

Room 11 are beginning to experiment with AudioBoo. This is Liam's recount of his weekend.

listen to ‘Liam's Weekend’ on Audioboo

My Family by Stance.

My name is Stance Cruz Aldrige. I Have 5 people in my family. I have 3 brothers and 2 sisters. My 2 big sisters names are Tash and Courtney. My 2 big brothers names are Anfee and Fraza and my little brothers name is Austin. My big brother Anfee is 18. He lays in bed all day and plays his ps3 and doesnt shair his ps3. If we try 2 play on it he will pick me and my little brother and me up and pick on us.

Tongue Twisters -'I don't Understand'

E-Share with Mantar Cluster...

E-sharing AudioBoo...
listen to ‘Tongue Twisters - 'Understand'’ on Audioboo

Tongue Twister - 'The Thought'.

listen to ‘Tongue Twister - a thought’ on Audioboo

My Family

My family. my name is  kahurangi cook. and I have 8 people in my family. my sisters take me places  like the pools.I have a big brother could willson he helps me with my home work.and he  buys me stuff. my big cousin takes me to the skate park. He is 13.he allways tells us jokes. my sister rina she is 36 she doesent go to work.but here boy friend

Doodling with PicassoHead

 



On Friday Room 11 experimented with 'Picasso Head' (refer to 'Cool Tools...' section of blog).

As well as getting creative, some of the skills we used were:

1. take a screenshot
2. crop the screenshot in word
3. utilise the 'fill' feature in paint
4. save our artworks as PNG (Portable Network Graphics)



Ms Etuale

 

 

Falefehi U-Rock Tagxedo

Chelsea's U-ROCK Tagxedo

Spooky night

One spooky night One person named Maya was a hairdresser that had half a brain .The shop name was called Maya mae hairdresses shop.she had a customer called Chelsea she was hoping to get her cut like half shaved and normal.So Maya did her hair but used a  knife on Chelsea.But then one more person came and called the police.

THE HOT DAY

I wish said falefehi that it was that my whole class melted and my wish came ture

down to the ground went Ms Etuale and maya moo down went chelsea and liam

looking like soup lisiate and tevita like it hapend in Austalia.

By Falefehi

Thinkers Keys - Interpretation Key

• Give possable interpretation for my neighbour sweeping the roof ...

          - mabye because its padu.

• Give possible interpretation for my teacher coming to school with a suitcase full of jellybeans...

          - mabye for a jellybean fight.

Thinkers Keys

Interpretation Key

Give possible interpretations for:

• Your neighbour sweeping the roof.

- To clean the roof
- To make it shiney
- To sweep the snow off the roof.
- He is trying to clean the bird poo off.
- He is trying to get the eggs off.

• Your teacher coming to school with a suitcase full of jellybeans.

- The teacher is trying to be funny.
- Dress up for her birthday.
- For Freaky Friday.
- She is trying to be a clown.
- The jellybeans are a class treat.
                            by Thomas

Respect Poem

            
               R espect is the right thing to do
               
               E vry one always uses thir manners
         
               S how soupport and encoragement to others

              P ick the respect and ontoit people

              E vry one is ready to lern

              C are others and they will care you

             T ell people what respect if they dont know

                                              by LIAM

Maya Windy Day

"I wish" said Maya flying in the breeze  "why can`t all the teachers just FREEZE FREEZE FREEZE!"
Away froze Whaea charlie, Whaea mei and Whaea lisa too.
Into ice Ms Etuale, Mrs Tootil and Mr Greer did too.
Quick as a flash Mrs A,Miss Moftey and Whaea Darnielle froze in to.

Our Holidays...

W.A.L.T... start our writing in an interesting way that captures the readers interest

and makes them want to read on.

WOO HOO!  I did the most awesomest bomb in the really deep bit, on one of the best holidays!  We went to Nelson.  It was awesome because of the two rivers.  Go Nelson!!!                 by Maya

"Jackie can you please stop splashing me?!"  In the holidays, I and my sister went to Vinegar Hill.  I went down a really fast water slide  and Jackie went boogie boarding.      by Sarah

"Oooohh, Don't push me off!!...   Aaahhh!!!"
In the holidays we went to Gisborne.  We were jumping off the Marina.  I  jumped off and slapped my back.  "Oouch that was sore!" When I got out my back was red.      by Liam

 "Bubba!... Let go of me!"... "Elijah Stowers, unhand your mother right now!!! My pleas went unheard as my youngest son wrapped his arms around me and attempted to wrench the water gun from my hands. 
by Ms Etuale

"Come on!... I want to go to the birthday!"  In the holidays, I went to Auckland to celebrate Solo's son's birthday.  His name is Solomona.  It was a Tongan style.  After that we had a swim.  It was deep.  That was fun.  It was a good birthday to me.                by Falefehi

I saw ugly and gross animals at Hamilton Zoo.  They swam and swished side to side and tree to tree.    by Kahurangi

"YUM!... The smell of joy... cake and ice-cream!"  Outside is the smell of a BBQ.  MMMMmmmmm.  Delicious!  Best cake I've ever tasted!     by Chelsea

"YAY!"  I went to Wet Pets so we went inside so we looked at the pets.  We saw birds and fish and puppies.     by Nele