Cause for Celebration: Briar, Jeru and Matt W

Today we had our school assembly. Briar and Jeru were our MC's. They were loud and confident they did an outstanding job.

Also Matt W got a certificate for displaying excellent work habits and taking responsibility for his learning.

Well done all of you. You were fantastic!

By Sasha

Hibiscus Flower Art By Salote

For art we are learning to draw traditional pacific art our WALT was to draw and discuss

the symbols and motifs found in traditional pacific art.

Hibiscus flowers are often found in the art from Pacific islands like Samoa, Tonga, the Cook Islands, Nuie and many more.

By Salote

Alex Rider books are the best. By Cameron

One day I went to see my grandma and granddad in Carterton. Before I got on the plane, I wanted to get a book. I chose Alex Rider: Ark Angel by Anthony Horowitz.

It is about a teenaged spy who has to save peoples lives rapidly from different things. I like it because it has heaps of action in it and I like the main character. He would be an amazing friend.

Anthony Horowitz also writes Graphic novel which I am looking forward to reading. I bet they're good.

There are tonnes of other books by him too.

And that is why I love the Alex rider series

by Cameron

Ticks by Mia V

WALT: Summanse Informaton In a text

In my reading group we are reading a book called Blood Suckers. It is about animals that live off blood. We had to summarise each page by looking for the KEY WORDS. We had to do a poster about one of the blood suckers in the book. I choose ticks.

Thunderstorms By Amy And Emily

WALT: Summerise a text by finding KEY words.

50,000, Thunderstorms, world, day, develop, Puffy, clouds, cumulonimbus, cold/hot, air, flows, greats, speed, 10 km.

Up to 50,000 thunderstorms happen a day puffy clouds called cumulonimbus develop before thunderstorms, when hot and cold air flow together it comes to the speed of 10 km.

thunderstorms, classified, Servere, one, both, features, 2cm, hailstones, wind, 90 km, per, hour.

thunderstorms are classified if it has one or both features, 2cm hailstones and wind 90km per

hour.

Thunderstorms, Tracked, radar, weather radar, microwaves, bounce, droplets, cloud, waves, meteorologists, storm paths, radar, find, 400 km, away.

Thunderstorms are tracked by radar, microwaves are sent out by weather radar which bounces off droplets into clouds, then bounces to a radar dish making patterns that meteorologists study to find thunderstorms paths.

Weather radar, installed,many places, offices, services, airport, TV stations, e.t.c

Weather radar is sent to many places like offices, services, airports, TV stations, e.t.c.

thunderstorms , detected, meteorologists, track, progress, radar, screens information, from, aircrafts, ships, people, near, storm, storm damage,warning radio warn, sometimes TV, ambulance, police, rescue workers, ready, help.

When thunderstorms are detected meteorologists track the progress on their radar screens, information will come from aircrafts, ships and people near the storm, if the storm will make damage then they will warn people on radio and sometimes TV stations. Ambulances, police and rescue workers will get ready to help.

KEY words: Red

Thunderstorms By Ruby and Emma

WALT: Identify KEY words and summarize information in a text.

Thunderstrorms can be cumulonimbus clouds or puffy clouds when warm air and cold air mix.

Thunderstorm's are very severe when hail is more then two centimeters wide it is also very severe when the wind gusts are more then 90 kilometers per hour.

Thunderstorms are tracked by radar.

Weather radar send out microwaves.

meteorologists work out when a thunderstorm is forming and they can track up to 400 kilometre's away. Weather radar are installed at many buildings and are also carried on air crafts and ships.

When thunderstorms have been detected meteorologists give information to radio stations,brood casts. Emergency services get ready for a lot of calls.

A thunderstorm can cause flooding.Hail destroys crops, cars and buildings and may injure people.Lighting may kill people.High winds damage buildings or blow down trees.

By Emma and Ruby.

Thunderstorms by Jack and Cameron

WALT: Summarise information using key words

In Room 11 we have been learning about summarizing. This will help us with research.

We read a book about thunderstorms. We would read a page with at least 50 words and look for some key words. We then turned them into sentences and then paragraphs.

Here is some information summarised by Jack and Cameron.

50,000 thunderstorms develop like puffy clouds every day and travel at great speeds.

You can find hail bigger than some thing 2 cm wide and wind up to 90 kilometer per hour.

Thunderstorms are tracked using a radar. Meteorologist look for storms forming as far away as 400 kilometers away.

Thunder storms begin as cumulonimbus clouds that are made out of warm and cold fronts. They can go ten kilometers in the air.

Awesome Facts About Storms by Willie

The Book Bandits reading group read a book about storms. Here are two really interesting facts:

There are many of diffirent types of storms like dust storms, snow storms, sand storms, thunder storms and a normal storm.

If thunder is heard as soon as lightning flashes it means a storm is very very close.

Storms by Christina

On Wednesday 15th February the Book Bandits had to write six most interesting facts about storms and here are some of them.......

- Sandstorms can block the nose and the eyes, and make it very hard to see or breath.

- Storms happen when cold air and hot air mix and make the air spin.

- The weather changes when the temperature in the air changes.

- Cyclone is a very strong storm that starts over warm parts of the seas or oceans.

Interesting facts about Storms By Jennifer

In Room 11 the Book Bandits have been reading a book about Storms.Storms can strike at any time of the day.We learnt that there are different types of storms and how you stay safe.Here are some facts I learnt about storms:

-If Thunder is heard and you can see the flash of Lightning too,that means it is very close to you.

(Or they could even be lurking around the top of your house!Scary!)

-Cyclones get called their names in alphabetical order.The first Cyclone that ever hit was beginning with an A.It was called 'Adam.'

-Scientists can estimate weather a few days away.(4)

-Over 200 years ago Francis Beaufort made a Machine to predict the weather.

-A Funnel is in a Tornado.The Funnel is what sucks up anything in its way.Then drops them back down when its moving.

-In America,The United States gets hundreds of Tornados a year.Isn't that shocking?

-A Funnel of dust that spins round and round i that you find in places where it is completly dry.(aka Sahara desert or anywhere else in the World that is dry.

-Other Countries around the world have very strong shelters to keep safe.It can hold more than 100 people.

Thankyou for reading some interesting facts about Storms,I hope you liked it!

Please leave a comment about this.

By Jennifer

STORMS by Salote

On Wednesday we had to list down the most interesting facts about storms. I'm going to share my facts.

- Scientists use many different machines to find out when a

storm is going to happen

- They send back information about

wind and cloud.

-The weather changes when the temperature

in the air changes.

Whakairo Art by Madeline

For art we have been designing and creating Whakairo: Maori carvings. Our first creation was individual. As you can see in the video.

1. Ruth talked us through making it.

2. We penciled it out.

3. Added korus.

4. Put in the hand of our whakairo, something that said 'us'. E.G Someone who likes soccer, they would put a soccer ball.

5. Then we outlined it with Black or brown pastel.

6. Finally we dyed our Whakairo red or brown.

Our second creation, is still at work. It is a Kowhaiwhai panel patten. Before we dye or paint it, we designed it in our design and art book. We then experimented to see if we would like to pastel, dye, water-colour or paint it. We did this by drawing our design, and then moved from table to table. Each table had either Paint, dye... Here are our Whakairo.

Watch our blog to see our finished Kowhaiwhai panels.

By Madeline

Cause for Celebration 5: Briar, Matt and Maia

Today we had a fabulous first assembly. This was because of the outstanding year 6's (and some teachers) running it. Matt and Maia were two of these people. As MCs they were flexible and they were good speakers, considering they were the first MCs of the year.
Briar won the first merit certificate of the year for displaying exemplary work habits. It's no surprise as she is a very hard working student. She's sure to be successful all her life due to her wonderful personality.
Anton, Jordan and Max were also very helpful as technicians so they need to be acknowledged. Assembly wouldn't have been assembly without these guys.

Room 11's Kowhaiwhai

This is Maxi and Langi explaining the process of making a digital Kowhaiwhai pattern.




This is room 11's Kowhaiwhai patterns.

Cause for Celebration 4: Willie's Tournament

On Friday me, mum, dad, my two brothers and my sister went to Rotorua because my brother and I went to represent the best all over NZ in touch. On our way to Rotorua we went to a lot of towns made out of all roofing iron. One hour later we arrived at the holiday home where we were living. Once we got to our house we had 2 bunk beds and 2 bedrooms. We also had a pool for everyone, a game room and a television room. When we played we had 4 draws and 2 losses. If we won at least 1 game we would have made it to the finals and maybe won the trophy for Auckland. On our way back we stopped for ice cream. We came home on monday at 2 .00pm

Willie in his touch uniform.

Our Class Pets by Mia V and Eva

In Room 11 we collect soft toys, all sorts of them but they have to be strictly animals only. All the animals have a name like Sam the dog. There's 14 animals but if you count the triplet bears as three there's 16 animals in total. In our class we get to look after a animal for the day if Ruth has seen us doing what we should be doing. Ruth calls the pets her furry friends. The one thing we do not have is a giraffe furry friend. If you did not know, Ruth loves giraffes. Our furry friends put smiles on faces. Our furry friends give us comfort for the day. All us kids love our furry pets.

Front row: Triplets, Harry, Alice, Soso, Floyd

2nd row: Pipi, Gorge, Poppy, Sam, Dudley, Garry

Back row: Bluey, Geoffosaurus

The Word Wizards Reading by Jordan

Today the Word Wizards got to choose a novel or book to read from a brand new colection of books from Scholastic called The Core Reading Library. Each book comes with a bookmark which gives you a selection of activities to do before, during and after reading the book.

The book I am reading is called UFO (Unavoidable Family Outing) by Dave Hackett. One of the before reading activities I had to do was 'Atlas' it said: Look up an Atlas and find out how far it is from Sydney to Cape York. Estimate how long it would take to drive there. I estimated it would be 1900 Kilometers from Sydney to Cape York and would take two and a half days to get there. Everyone in the Word Wizards got a different book and when we have finished the one we are reading we get to choose a new one.

I am excited about getting to choose my own book and that there are so many to choose from.

Cause for Celebration 3: Otto

In the holidays I went to Canberra, Australia to play futsal. We took two teams called Rio (the team I was in) and Sampa. Rio came 5th out of 8 teams but we were so close to getting into the quarter finals. I scored 5 goals. I played up 2 years this means I was playing with 11 year olds and I was only 9. Our goalkeeper got MVP (most valuable player) out of everyone there. We won two games and lost the rest. The wining team was called the New South Wales Lightening.

By Otto

Cause for Celebration 2: Mia M

Today Mia brought her violin to school and performed a piece of music called 'Bouree' by Handel. We were VERY impressed. She played with confidence and great flair. We couldn't believe she remembered the whole piece of music (it was quite long) off-by-heart. Impressive.

Then Mr Barker arrived with some visitors and so Mia played another piece of music called 'Humoresque' by Dvorak. It was also amazing.

Thanks for sharing Mia. You are a wonderful musician!

Cause for Celebration 1: Maia

This year we will posting about all the things we have to celebrate in Room 11. This means all the successes we have such as, examples of great work, acknowledging outstanding attitude, effort and persistence, and recognising children who are great role models and who demonstrate our school values. I am sure we will be posting a lot!!!

Our first 'Cause for Celebration' is this excerpt of Maia's writing. I am sure you will agree that this piece of writing is funny, smart and really quite clever. If you know Maia, you can probably imagine her reading it!

The Incredibly Preposterous Story of Dollinger the Giraffe

Dollinger the Giraffe was born on April 1st. In giraffe lore this meant that she was destined for great things, like bird spotting or playing the trumpet. Actually, it turned out that she liked neither of this things, but instead preferred writing poems about elephants' feet and designing ropes.

So altogether she was not what giraffes called a typical 'April Firsty'....