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Tuesday, 19 February 2013

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

Monday, 18 February 2013

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.

Monday, 4 February 2013

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

       

Wednesday, 31 October 2012

Never Ending Story: Spooky Night

Evangeline has started a story for us.  Lets help her finish it by adding our own ideas to it...

One scary spooky night an old whitch had dark red and grey boofy hair.  Her name was Mrs Etuale. She lived in a spooky school called Somerset School. 
Every day  she would always try to cut her hair with a spooky sharp knife. The knife was called Whaea Lisa. One night the witch Mrs Etuale went to a barber. That barbers would never close.
That old shopkeepers name was Mr Howard. The witch went that night to the barber. She told Mr Howard if he can cut the witches hair bold. The which said to the shopkeeper if she can look in the mirror.  She scremed as LOUD as she can.  She blow the roofs off.
Evangeline

Jimmy's Big Toe

Room 9 are currently participating in the Bikenz programme 'Bikewise'.  We were given a passport each and the following is a recount of one of the stories in our passports...

One day Jimmy was riding a bike down his driveway.  The seat was too high for Jimmy and he scraped his toe.  It was really gross and it hurt. He ended up missing swimming for two weeks.  That's why he remembered every time he rode his bike, that he had to wear his shoes. 

He would always put his seat where it was meant to be. When he wore trousers he tucked them into his socks so it wouldn't get caught up with the chain.
 adapted by Room 9 from 'Bikenz Learn to Ride Cycling Passport'

Tuesday, 23 October 2012

Kahikatea Fun Day

Well what to begin with because this day was so fun,sad,interesting,stupid
and most things inbetween. It started out with a nice,calm movie.
Mr Howard so happend to have a movie because constible emily forgot
to bring a movie. the film we watched was Diary of a WIMPY kid and it
seemed to put the main charicters Greg and Rowley in constant dander
and bad things were happening all around. I hated how Rowley was all ways
in trouble,like when he got his arm broken or when he had to say sorry to
the kindergartiners for something that Greg did but over all it was a good
film and i wish we saw the whole film. We had to go to Indoor Action
sports by bus and I had a wonderful conversation with Kini and Nahum
NONE OF YOUR BUISNESS WHAT WE WERE TAIKING ABOUT,
when we were waiking into Indoor Action sports arena I felt like I was
going to be EXECUTED and I got relly sceared when the guy who was
telling us what to do only had one arm like Freddy cruger befour he was a
horrer movie charecter.I was looking ford to doge ball at the end of all the
other games. What I keeped on saying was,STOP TOKOTAI DON'T LET
HIM GET ANOTHER GOAL.When we finaly played doge ball and I had 
 my little plan ready, the only problem was while I was thinking I got hit
in my upper leg. THE END.   

My Birthday

The 20th of September was my birthday, it was fun like Christmas day.
There will be presents,Plaza`s and more,presents with cresents without feasents
it will be fun like Christmas day.
My friends, my friends, my friendliest friends.
Ariana the U-ROCK Queen, Sarah the stand by friend and Caitlyn the funny friend
YAY YAY YAY MY BIRTHDAY

Tuesday, 21 August 2012

Math Task: How many legs...

How many different combinations can you find for the following problem?


  http://nrich.maths.org/content/id/7210/Noah%20136.png


Build Your WildSelf






We had fun creating images of ourselves as magical mythical creatures. 

http://www.buildyourwildself.com/

We then wrote descriptions of those creatures using similes...
















Scribbler

We used 'Scribbler' to draw pictures and then we wrote stories about our picture.
 http://www.zefrank.com/scribbler/

In the holidays I went to the beach.  I saw a butterfly and some birds.  The waves went up and down.  I went for a swim.  The water    was   really   cold.   When  I  wanted  to  get  out  I   got  out.  I  lade  on  my  towel  and dried  off  the  sun  was  blazing  hot.  Then got dressed and went home.  On  the  way  I  got  an  ice  cream  when  I  was  in  the  dairy  I  bumped  in  to  Faaoso  so  we  both  got  the same  ice  creams.  We  got   goody  goody gum drop. And then our mums picked us up and taken as home.
 Ariana 



Once upon a time there was a baby rabbit who was looking for a carrot but all the carrots were gone so the baby rabbit searched around for carrots and 2 hours later the baby rabbit gave up until the baby rabbit saw something green and orange so the baby rabbit walked up to it and the baby rabbit  said ``a carrot``. 
Benjamin

 
‘’ Hi’’ I am Zach. Hi I am shakana. And I’m Shawn; we are just getting ready for a robbery at my mums house. “OMG”, says my sister “what if we get caught, never mind” so we went along with it.
We didn’t we steal a cookie from the cookie jar.  
Brieanna 

Today Briget the butterfly went to the mall to get some more paint. She choose the cool fluro colours blue,pink,red and green. Her friend stephenie the spider got sick so she made her a chocolate cake.
Maya 

 
In the weekend me and my brother and dad went to the lido for a swim with the ball.  It was fun at the lido. We had chip’s and drink’s. We went back to nana’s house for dinner and then I went to sleep.
Michael 

 This morning I felt like going to the field to play and see the birds . When I got up  I brushed my teeth, washed my face and then I got change into my t shirt and my skirt and then I put on my socks then my shoes then I run to the field its just one  blocks Away.
Simaima

More Scribbler Pictures...


Using locatives in Te Reo

Monday, 13 August 2012

Olympic Articles

We chose an article from the site 'Kiwikidsnews' and had a go at re-writing an Olympic-themed article of our choice in our own words...

Adam's wins Olympic SILVER

Valerie Adams has won in London Olympics for 2012 in Shot Put.  The kiwi's won New Zealand's 8th medal of these events and the first silver medal but the 27 year old could not even get closer to the eventual champion Nadzeya Ostapchuk from Balarus.    
Fa'aoso 
  




Bolt wins 5th Olympic medal

                           

Usain Bolt has made history being the first man to win the 100m and 200m sprint twice in a row.  Bolt struck again beating his buddy in 19.32 seconds.
Bolt has five gold medals and could get another gold medal to his collection in another relay.
 Taylor


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Lisa Carrington wins kayaking GOLD


Lisa Carrington has just won gold in the K1 200m kayaking.  The 23 year old Lisa raced against a heavy wind. She started it really slowly but came quickly home on the final 100m.
Crystal



New Zealand cyclists win bronze

The New Zealand cycling team won bronze in a bronze medal ride-off .  Earler on they had been beaten by Australia so they had the ride-off against Russia.
They were behind Russia in the race but won the race in the end. They clocked 3m 55.952s, more than 2s quicker than Russia.
The team has four riders called Jesse Sergent, Aaron Gate, Marc Ryan and Sam Bewley.
 

Runner finishes relay with broken leg


USA Manteo Mitchell ran the last 200 metres of the opening of the Olympic 4x400 metre relay heats with a broken leg.
Mitchell said after the speed race, he had about a 1/4 around the circle when his foot felt like his feet is popping in the right leg.  He complete the race in 46.1 seconds and helped the USA to tie for the first with the Bahamas in 59.87 seconds.
Falefehi
 


Van Velthooven wins BRONZE for New


Van Velthooven wins BRONZE for New Zealand


                                          

Simon Van Velthooven a New Zealand sprint cyclist won bronze after a five minute delay because of a tight finish.  He said that "It's the nation's medal". 
Maya                                                                                                                                        

Sunday, 12 August 2012

Olympics


It must be really exciting for the sailors who just won our 100th medal. We think it's cool that NZ Olympians did better than we thought they would do. How amazing to achieve the same amount of medals as our 'greatest ever haul... in South Korea'. Even though we are a small country we showed the world that we can achieve!
YAY for New Zealand!!
                                                              Ruma Iwa

BeFunky


We had fun exploring the site 'BeFunky'. Here are a few examples of our work...