The children in Room one would like to have another wheels day at school.

Rainbow Colour Poems

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STORM STORIES

In the stormy weather I covered my ears then I looked outside and told mum that the garage door was almost in the shed. Boom! Boom! I went back to bed and covered my ears again and it did not work. The storm wasn’t as good but it wasn’t that bad. We had a power cut and then the power turned back on and I laughed at myself. Alex

A lucky escape

One day the storm came. At first it was spitting but it got even worse. Smash! Bash! Crash! I was scared but I kept on riding my bike along the track. Suddenly I came to a halt. What was this? A fallen down tree. Then neowwww! Crack! Bang! Another tree fell down and it snapped right in front of me. Luckily no one was hurt! Gabriel

The big storm

It all started when it was spitting and then one minute later it started to pour down. We could not see anything. When the wind was whistling it was like a door creaking.

The beer bottle blew up and up then when it fell down it shattered like an egg. Glass was everywhere. We had to wear gumboots or shoes out there. I did not take one step out there. It was scary. The lightning was yellow like the sun. Cuban

Scary Strong Storm

In the morning, me and my dad went outside to go and chop a tree down because it was just about to fall on our house. So we did go outside. I opened up the door. The wind went whoosh! Everything was blowing around like a tornado. When I walked down the steps my mouth opened up wide. I quickly ran back up the steps. Kane

The Ferocious Storm

Boom! Crash! “What was that?” I asked mummy. “That was the wind.” she said. I was watching T.V. at that moment. Then we had a power cut and we couldn’t watch T.V and daddy couldn’t do his work on the computer. An hour later I looked out the window and saw the neighbours’ paddock was flooded. Nikita

The Stormy Day

It was a stormy day for the houses in the stormy shivering day. There was a flood over next door. My dad went to work. The power went off. We couldn’t watch television. The trees cracked. Dad got home before the storm got stronger. He brought pies to eat. The wind was howling and growling and howling. Then the power came on. We were really, really happy. The storm was gone. In the night it came back. Our trees were nearly gone. In the morning trees fell down. It was awful. Then the water went away. The storm went away for a couple of days. Casey

Term 3 Catchup

Term 3 already! Please check out the website http://tutpup.com It's a really great maths challenge site and most of Room 1 children have login names and passwords. We have had Logan the Leopard staying with us for the last few weeks. Check out his Blog at loganleopard.blogspot.com and see some of our stories. We have written some incredible stories about the recent storms - these will be here as soon as I get a chance to type them up!
We are studying Water this term -that's good timing eh?
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Alliteration Antics!

We made alliteration sentences for veges and fruit as part of our Healthy Eating Programme.

Six silly strawberries sitting in the sandpit. - Ryan

Seven strawberries sailing somewhere sunny. - Zion

Nine nectarines knitting nighties nicely. - Nakisha

Six sticky strawberries standing in spew. - Sarah M

Two tiny tamarillos playing tag with twelve tigers. - Nikita

Six silly strawberries sitting on the see-saw. - Alex

Pineapples painting pink and purple pictures. - Cuban

Onions eat eggs every day. - Gabriel

Six stupid strawberries sitting on the seashore. - Taine-Lee

Big bananas bouncing on the bed. - Kane

Two tiny tomatoes tackling tamarilloes. - Sarah W

Purple peppers are picking pink plums. - Tahlia

Crazy Curses!

As part of our language focus we have been looking at nouns, adjectives and verbs. We wrote some random lists of adjectives and nouns(clothing and animals) then put them together to make some pretty crazy curses! We had lots of laughs!

May your undies be eaten by a red cat!

May your pants be tickled by a blue bunny!

Sarah M and Mererau

May your socks be tickled by a ginormous rabbit!

May your t-shirt be fried by a fat tiger!

Tahlia and Casey

May your belts be flattened by a hairy cockroach!

May your shoes be twisted by a blue elephant!

Nikita and Nakisha

May your shorts be fried by a yellow kiwi!

May your pants be drunk by an orange dog!

Sarah W and Ryan

May your t-shirt be eaten by a blue cow!

May your hat be nibbled by a purple bee!

Alex

May your boxers be drunk by a green rat!

May your singlet be flattened by a cool frog!

Arlo and Taine-Lee

May your singlet be poked by an old kiwi!

May your shirts be fried by a fat cat!

Cuban and Patuawa

Matakohe Kauri Museum

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Cool Kiwi

We have learned a lot about Kiwi this term and really appreciate what a special bird we have. These are our fantastic paintings of them. We used a variety of brush strokes to show the texture of the feathers and the background. We incorporated koru into our foliage. We are so artistic, don't you think so?!
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Flowers created in MS Word

We are getting so clever - we can now create these fantastic bouquets using the Draw tools in MS Word! See if you can too!
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SKITE SKITE SKITE!!!

Our Room One Blog won the Maungatapere ICT Cluster competition for best BLOG! And even better we received a Web Cam! Can't wait to use it - let us know if you are a 'web cammer'and we can try and converse!

Scarab Beetles

Sarah brought some very strange friends to school. We looked on the internet and discovered that they are called Scarab beetles. This is what we thought about them:

The beetles are as black as the dark. - Zion

As black as night sky.
A breakdancing beetle,
As spiky as a cactus
As hairy as a gorilla.
Alex

Sticky
Creepy
Active
Ridiculous
Awkward
Black

Busy
Extraordinary
Excited
Ticklish
Lying
Energetic
- Sarah M

As hairy as the cats.
As black as the birds.
As sneaky as the rats.
As creepy as halloween.
- Casey

Slippery
Crawling
Amazing
Ridiculous
Active
Black

Break dancing
Extraordinary
Energetic
Ticklish
Legs wiggling
Entertaining
- Sarah W

As black as the night sky.
Breakdancing beetle.
Wriggly beetle.
- Eruera

Scarab beetle - black and squeaky.
- Nakisha

Beetles go slow.
Beetles are ticklish.
Beetles are black.
Beetles are creepy.
Beetles are slippery.
Beetles are sneaky.
Beetles crawling.
Beetles hiding.
- Mererau

Beetles go slow.
Beetles are ticklish.
Beetles are funny!
- Ryan

Playcentre Visit

We had a great time with Maungatapere playcentre children and parents. We made fabulous rainbow fish and had lots of fun making a big mess!
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Super Stories!!!

I had a ride on the combine harvester and dad and Zoe came too. It chops the green grass. It was very loud. It had special blades. Ryan

I went to Chipmunks with Xanthe because it was her birthday. Nakisha

On Sunday I went to the pumpkin competition. I looked at the giant pumpkins. My pumpkin was the biggest pumpkin in the competition. When it was judging , I got first prize. I had to stand on the potting mix for stands. My prize was a bike. After the competition we went to the bike shop. I'm getting a pinky purply bike with 21 gears. I had to get such a big bike because I grow fast, well, that's what my mum says. Sarah W

I saw my cat on the roof. Dad pushed my cat off the roof and I caught it. The cat was stripy and had an orange tail. My cat was scared. Dad put my cat on the roof again and it fell into a tree. Alex

I slept at Zion's house and when I was at Zion's house I stayed up late. In the morning we went to the cow shed. Then we carried the bottles of milk across the paddock and went on the motorbike back to the house. Then me and Zion got ready to go to my house. At my house we had lunch. After lunch I shared my chocolate bunny with Zion then we raced my cars down the slide and my car won and Zion won too. We watched TV then rode the bikes down the steps. Then I got a bee sting because I punched the window. We went to bed and in the night Zion wanted his nana. Casey

My birthday is on Sunday and I will tell you what I want for my birthday. A new monster truck! Zion

We went to an oyster farm. We picked some oysters for Grandad. Grandad told me to try an oyster and it tasted like blood and sea water.

The next day after lunch Grandad asked me and Christina if we wanted to go on the boat. I saw shiny fish in the blue water. Grandad was doing wheelies and sharp corners and I nearly puked. It was bumpy when I stood up so I fell back down.

Jingles, the black Chihuahua, was very happy that I came. When I got inside the house Jingles lay on the ground and when I bent over I gave him a tummy rub. When I sat down to watch TV he came over and licked my nose.

In the morning Grandad told us to come in their room. Grandad was holding up two big Easter eggs with chocolate buttons in them! I put mine in the fridge and when Nana came out of bed Nana gave us more easter eggs! It was yum. Sarah M

I went to Bream bay College Gala Day. There was a volcano bouncy castle and there was a lucky dip and there was medium dodgem cars. There were some girls dancing. - Eruera

I went to my dad's rugby to watch him play on the field. I was hungry for food so I went with my pop to his home. I saw my nan. She gave me a hug and a kiss. - Mererau

Super stories

I went to the camping grounds at Tutukaka with my nana and Whitey shortly
after school. We went to gather some pipis when the tide was out. You
had to dig in the squishy sand to get them.
We went for a big walk with John and Jenny, nana and Whitey, Ryan and me.
We were walking to the soft beach to play on the play ground. There was a
big swing and a bumpy slide.
My cousins came on the last day to have lunch with me, my mum, my dad, my
nana and Whitey. After lunch my cousins and my brother went for a swim.
Julie and I watched them swim. I could hear the waves crashing. Smash,
bang, crash as I watched them swim.
I saw a couple of spiky hedgehogs on the beach. They were so cute. I had
a lot of fun and we played cricket and soccer and we went walking on the
gooey mud flats with Whitey and nana. Squish, squish, squish!

Argument Writing

Room 1 have been learning about writing an argument. They give their opinion and some reasons to convince you to agree. See what you think!

In my opinion we should be allowed to play with the cameras at school. Everyone can look at the photos and then you can delete them so you don't waste the memory. Then we can do it all over again. And we already know how to do close-ups, medium and long shots. We will take pictures of good things happening all over the school. We will be careful. - Sarah M

In my opinion we shouldn't be allowed marshmellows at school because it isn't good for you because it has sugar in it. Sugar makes your teeth rot. Other people would follow you. - Alex

In my opinion we should be allowed fizzy drinks at school because it is yummy and it cools you down on a hot summer's day. - Casey

In my opinion we should be allowed to play on the computer all day. We should be allowed to play maths games because we learn our maths on there. It's a good idea to learn it when I am 5 or 6, not 10, because that is way too old to learn them when you are 10. I should be allowed and in my opinion the teacher will have more time to do stuff! - Sarah W

In my opinion we should be allowed to have chocolate at school. Why? Because it is healthy for us to eat - that's why. It is yummy for you. It tastes like seeds. It is healthy for your teeth because it is made from milk. - Mererau

In my opinion we should be allowed to have icecream at school because it is yummy and it is good for you because it is made from milk. - Zion

In my opinion Room 1 should be allowed to play in the sandpit every day because we won't let the bad boys come in. We will play nicely. It makes us happy so we are happy in the classroom. - Ryan

In my opinion we shouldn't have sugar at school because it is not good for you. It makes your teeth rot. It makes you fat. - Nakisha

Tukutuku Panels

Tukutuku panels are found inside meeting houses. We made some by weaving paper and then pasting koru shapes on top. BubbleShare: Share photos - Find great Clip Art Images.

Last Terms Camp at Paihia

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Welcome back!!!

Hi everyone and welcome back to Room 1, 2008. We look forward to sharing more great work with you this year and would love to keep receiving those comments - we get a real buzz from them! We say goodbye to Tahlia and Nikita who have moved to Room 2. I am sure we will see more of their wonderful work in Room 2's Blog site.
Keep an eye on us!
Regards
Maree Middlemass
Teacher