Showing posts with label Czar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Czar. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

BB Bowen


Easy Blog Photo
I enjoyed the raft because I nearly fell off the raft.Something that challenged me most was the archery because the arrows wobbled like jelly. I learnt that new things are hard but if you show determination it wont be hard like when I didn't want to do the Burma Trail but I had to show determination and in the end I liked it.

Monday, December 01, 2014

Dress Ups

We used the dress ups to create a character. Room 8 was buzzing with laughter and creativity.





We used the writing skills we have been practising this year to write a character description or a story with the character we created from the dress ups.

I am a poor lady in a blue dress. I have a brown bag with nothing and no money in the bag very very nothing at all. I had skin colour and green old shoes. I walked down the street. I wanted to shop to shop to shop but I didn't have enough money to buyu food to eat the food. I was starving all the way home. Along the way I saw Wonder Woman I was thinking she can bring me food. She flew away and brought some food back for me to eat.
Author Gemma
There is a very talented girl from Ecwescher High School named Rarity! She has white skin and beautiful twisty purple hair. The thing Rarity loves to do the most is making dresses for her friends . She knows a little talking dragon dog loves her. Rarity has her own dog called Lee. Sometimes Rarity steals her sisters name Sweetie Belle. Rarity steals her jewellery. Rarity's eyes are as blue as the sea and with her make up on she looks like a princess! Rarity's house is pink, purple, blue and really light green same with inside. BUT one day Princess Cleslesta came to see Rarity she could not believe her eyes because she was such a big fan. She did what she wanted make her dresses. Would you like a dress from Rarity?

Author Emma

One day I saw an evil grandmother lurking down the shadowy street. Suddenly she flicked around and saw me. Her face was a bears face and her snout was two inches poking out. Suddenly she kicked down the door of the bank so I called her Kungfu Grandma. Se had a scarlet shawl that disguised her bear fur. Her dress came all the way down to her toes. She even kept standing on her dress ans stumbling over. 
Blasting out of where the door once stood wit her sacks filled with hundred dollar notes she jumped in a two meter high pram shaped car. It had pink cushioning on the seats. Suddenly an over sized machine gun popped up out of the roof of the pram. "FIRE" shrieked the old woman as she sped out of sight. Speeding down the road came the cops. Who called the cops? Whatever, we now have to get the money back into the bank today ad the wild chase began.

Author Max

On a strange foggy night a strange person came in the moonlight. He had a night black mask like the face of a bat. A cape that would stretch into jet black bat wings. Some pitch black batamarangs and raven black grappling hooks. He didn't like Superman. His nick name was the Black Knight. His worst enemy is the Joker. When he moves he moves like the wind. He saves people from bad guys. It was Batman. Batman was nearly going to say hi to me until a giant robot that looked like the Joker and the Joker came. He tried to shoot the robot in the tummy so the kryptonite would explode. The kryptonite was the thing that powered the robot machine. When the robot machine nearly shot Batman the batmarangs hit the kryptonite and KABOOM BLAST BOOM went the robot machine. Hip hip hooray. Hip hip hooray. 

Author Zane

Walking down the alley I saw an old grandma looking poor. She had a long red dress and an old modernified bandanna. She had sparkly bluey greeny eyes and Harry Potter type glasses that were half way down her nose. The red dress was as red as a rose and went down to her toes. Her bandanna was covered with orange and blue fish. The lady's skin was as white as snow. There were ruffles at the end of her dress she was tripping on while she was walking down the path. The lady's shoes are as black as the night sky when the moon is in its pit. Her eyes were shining in the glimpse of the moon. The grandma's teeth were as yellow as cheese. She reached inside a window and grabbed a bunch of asparagus and a fish, she must have been hungry, then carried on walking. A man was sitting down beside a fish and chip shop. The old lady went up to the man and slapped him on the face really hard. She pulled out a wallet from the mans pocket and walked down the path some more. The old lady was slowing down she stopped at an old deserted college with broken windows and ripped curtains two blocks down from the shop. The old lady started running so I call her THE AMAZING GRANDMA. 

Author Faith   


Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Preparing for a party


We worked together with Room 14 to practise our learning about capacity. We had many different stations we needed to complete to get ready for a party.
Toby working with Keagan to find out
how many blocks the fruit weighs
Zane thinking...thinking...thinking
We measured in blocks and grams


Each person at the party will use 10mLs of sauce.
How much sauce will you need?
Isabella measuring 10mLs into
each container
Henrietta working out how much
sauce she will need for a party
15x10=150 mLs



Faith measuring sand for her
sand and water cake
Caitlyn counting in 1/2 litres
1/2, 1, 1 1/2, 2, 2 1/2, 3

Adding 2L of sand to the sand and water cake

Reading the ingredients for the fruit punch

Bowen and Lealou checking their punch will
fit in the jug
George calculating his ingredients to make icing
Bailey and Cloe adding 1/2 teaspoon of each ingredient.
1 teaspoon =5mLs so 1/2 teaspoon =2 1/2 mLs


Thomas and Gwen making a basket to hold
between 60 and 80 lollies

Our human scale
Even though the icing sugar is smaller than the cornflakes it weighs more

Feeling what about 25 kgs feels like
Lots of mess, fun and learning. 

Some reflections from Room 8

I learnt how to count in 1/2s.
I learnt that weight is measured in grams and that 1,000 grams makes a kilogram.
I learnt that a teaspoon has 5 mLs and how to cut 5 in half.
I learnt 1 litre has 1,000mLs and I counted in thousands.
I learnt to count in 30s because I can count in 3s.
I got better at estimating how many mLs will fit in containers



Thursday, October 30, 2014

Calculating time

We are learning how to calculate time.
 
The Pentagons had a QR code time challenge. Each of the QR codes had a time problem to solve.
Bella and Ruby discussing the problem

Teague scanning the QR code to find out the question
Congratulations to Caitlyn and Henrietta who won the QR Quiz Challenge. Great calculating girls.
 
The problem
We needed to be at school by 8:30am on mufti day. We had to work out what time we would need to start getting ready so we arrived on time.
 
Here is some of the thinking
 
Jerome and Czar deciding what they need to do to get ready
for Mufti day

Ruby and Emma working together to calculate time
 
Neesha and Henrietta's plan for Mufti Day
 
Jerome's Plan
The next problem caused lots of laughs. The Kidd-li-winks choose what they were going to get Mr Gifkins ready for. He had to be ready by 7:15. What time did he need to start getting ready?
Teague and Bowen working out the time Mr G needs to get ready for
the rugby

Jeevanjot and Jack working out the time Mr G needs to get ready for
his ballet lessons.


 

Friday, October 24, 2014

Advertising using PowToon


The Kidd-li-winks challenge was to create an advertisement to get people to buy our product, Butter Vegetable. We used Pow Toon and our challenge was to problem-solve and work out how to use PowToon in the best way to create an effective ad.


Created by Jerome and Max


Created by Czar and Gemma


Created by George


Created by Jeevanjot and Jacob

Room 8 would like to say thank you to Connor who came and helped us use PowToon. You were a wonderful expert and taught us all lots. 

Friday, September 26, 2014

Advertising our Businesses

We created small businesses. Our challenge was to choose an animal each and think of a talent it could have. We used the talents of the animals from The Giraffe the Pelly and Me to begin our thinking. We then needed to use the talents and our animals to create a business.

There was lots of great team work and discussions.

The last part of the challenge was to create an advertisement for our business using some of the advertising tricks we have been learning about. 
Advertising Team: Emma, Neesha and Max
Advertising Team: George, Thomas and Mya

Advertising Team: Bella and Teague
Advertising Team: Rana, Ruby and Zane
Advertising Team: Bailey and Czar
Advertising Team: Toby, Henrietta and Caitlyn
Advertising Team: Jacob, Bowen and Ruby
Advertising Team: Gemma
Advertising Team: Logan
Advertising Team: Jeevanjot

Which advertisement made you want to buy?


Thursday, September 25, 2014

Reading Numbers


We have been learning to read numbers. 

 We noticed a pattern. In every house there are hundreds, tens and ones.
This pattern makes it easier to read numbers.

Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Blending

We have been learning to blend colours together. 

We will know we can do this when

-We use dark, medium, light and white
-We overlap the colours a little
- When we overlap the colours we 'pull' a little bit 
of a colour into the next colour.

Emma and George's Giraffes

Teague and Bowen's Giraffes
Ruby and Logan's Giraffes
Jerome and Czar's Giraffes
Bella's Giraffe
Jacob and Mya's Giraffes
Jeevanjot and Henrietta's Giraffes

We read The Giraffe The Pelly And Me and loved it. The Duchess is called Henrietta which made us laugh. This story by Roald Dahl inspired our art. 

We think you should read The Giraffe The Pelly And Me it is a great book. 



Thursday, September 18, 2014

Is the Big Bad Wolf Bad?

We are learning to persuade the reader to think like we do. 
We are learning new persuasive vocabulary.

Is the wolf good or bad? Read the arguments and decide.

I believe the wolf off the Three Little Pigs is the most kindest loveliest wolf I've ever met in my life. I know people report that the wolf is big and bad but that is a lie! 
First he wanted to have some fresh air out in the woods and then he saw a little girl and he wanted to play with the girl. The girl thought the wolf was big and bad. Well he is big but not bad! You must believe me!! He just wanted to play. Oh the poor old innocent wolf. He gets blamed for everything.
Second he had a really bad cold He wanted a friend to help him. If I was the Three Little Pigs I would help him wouldn't you? Anyway he sneezed and sneezed achoo achoo. That's what he was doing and he accidentally blew the Three Little Pigs house over and they were cruel to him! The Three Little Pigs are so sinister I feel like blowing their house on purpose. I hope this is the last time I have to report about the wolf getting into trouble. 
It all happens when the wolf is bored. So the wolf went to the goats house and the goats were being mean to him when he was trying to make friends but the little goats thought the same thing that the little girl thought too. 
The wolf is poor and innocent. That must prove to you that he is innocent.
Author Bailey

I believe that the big bad wolf is the biggest baddest wolf in the universe. You must trust me he is the biggest baddest wolf in the universe,
Firstly the wolf will eat anything that he sees even a person. He is like a killing machine. He shreds your flesh rips your eye balls to bits and pieces and will rip your belly open and eat your guts and shed your head off. You must agree that he is big and bad. 
Secondly the wolf locked up that poor poor Grandma in a closet and tricked Little Red Riding Hood that the Big Bad Wolf was the Grandma. Do you think it is really bad to trick Little Red Riding Hood? 
You must trust me now he is truly bad. Now did I convince you that the Big Bad Wolf is bad? 
Author Czar

You must agree the Big Bad Wolf is the most tallest and the most diabolical wolf in the entire WORLD! 
Firstly he eats the six goats and he has a disgraceful plan. He didn't stop thinking about it until he was able to rip the flesh off the goats bellies.
Secondly he tried to eat Grandma and Little Red. Snap! Snap! Snap! He eats Little Red Riding Hood and Grandma in one gulp. He didn't even chew on them! He was greedy he didn't need the humans in his fury over weighted belly. He only needed one small rabbit to eat. 
Thirdly he blows the piglets houses down that they were happily building. "I'm going to devour you piglets come out and fight me like your father" said the wolf. "Oh its on! I'm going to smash you and make you into a diaper sandwich" said the Big Bad Wolf. Would you play with this wolf?
In conclusion you must believe that Wolf is sinister and really really really evil. Do you think he is diabolical? 
Author George

You must believe that the Big Bad Wolf is a really abusive person. He trespasses and goes on other peoples properties. 
You must believe me now the Big Bad Wolf eats anything he comes across. He's a greedy wolf because he gorges more than he needs. Horribly he rips the flesh off innocent little animals and makes them die slowly and painfully.
The terrifying wolf eats because he wants to hurt people not because he is hungry.
The extremely bad wolf suffocates grandmas. He eats innocent defenseless baby goats. Little Red Riding Hood was murdered by the extremely bad wolf. Do you think it is alright he went into somebody's house and killed them? 
This is why the wolf is guilty of these revolting crimes and this proves he is extremely bad.
Author Faith

I believe the amazing, fantastic, fascinating wolf is not an evil guy. He is a wolf who has to do what he needs to do!
Firstly he was just trying to get a friend because most of his friends have died except Bob who is in China. Actually he is just getting a friend! He wanted to explain to mother goat  how he messed it up but she said "Bye! Nasty Wolf!" 
Achoo. He asked the Three Little Pigs if they can look after him but they said "NO". Achoo. He didn't mean to blow down their house.
Will you agree now he is just good. 
Author Toby


The pig is good. The wolf is bad. The wolf gets an axe and goes and kills the pig and that's why I believe he's the most vicious thing in the world.
He assassinates living things.

Firstly the wolf chops animals tails off to make them scream in pain.The wolf made the woodcutter get in trouble when he didn't actually chop the animals tail. When the woodcutter comes along animals look at the woodcutter and then look at the animal and animals pounce on the woodcutter and hurt him. You must believe  me he's really bad.

Secondly he puts landmines  on the helpless pigs house door.The pigs come out side to harvest their corn crops-BOOM! The piggy's were blown up into pork and crackling.
 YUM YUM! :-) There, NOW you must believe me that it is   

EXTREMELY NAUGHTY!, AND BAD.

Lastly the Bad Bad Wolf crushes naans bones at the retirement centre. 
It goes like this: cr cr cr cr crack! ccccccccccccccccc crack crack!
He scratches old poor innocent peoples heads off.
He locks grandmas in cupboards to suffocate. You must agree that the Big Bad Wolf is malicious.

If you wont believe me you might die in pain. The Big Bad Wolf will kill you!
Author Jerome

Which piece of writing convinced you? 
Is the wolf good or bad? 

Monday, September 15, 2014

Creating Light

The Kidd-li-winks have been learning how to show light in their artwork. 
The moon is the light in the art work created by the Kidd-li-winks.

Can you see how the sky is lighter around the moon and the ground lighter the closer it is to the moon? Also can you see the branches closest to the moon have light reflecting off them?

The artwork created will be used as our calendar art. If you would like to come in and see the works of art they will be out Wednesday afternoon. 

Thursday, September 04, 2014

Haka for Thomas

Boys in Room 8 decided together they would practise and perform the haka for Thomas when he returned from Rarotonga. They worked together to give Thomas a big surprise.
Boys you are so caring and thoughtful.

My Movie 8 from tracey hill on Vimeo.

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Skipping

The Kidd-li-winks had a challenge to learn how to skip 50 or 100 skips. They have all shown a lot of determination and have improved their skipping and learnt some tricks. There has been skipping before school, morning tea time, lunch time and after school...oh and during school. Watch the video to see some of the skipping. 

Skipping from tracey hill on Vimeo.

The Kidd-li-winks are now sharing some of the skills they have learnt with our buddy class. The patience and care the Kidd-li-winks show makes me so proud to be their teacher. 

Thursday, August 14, 2014

New Species Reports


TIGLE
Oh no this is a terrible creature. It is part of a tiger and an eagle. At the zoo it just sleeps around on a big rock.
Where a tigle lives.
It lives in a big place with big ricks. There are trees that they can hide and sleep in. There is water to drink. Cubs get protected by their mums. When they get born with little wings a cub gets milk from their mum. There is just one tigle left because it got found on the ground dead killed from a human with a spear.  
Author Gemma


OXAPE
What does an oxape look like?
This creature is part oxen and part ape. It is hairier than King Kong and Big Foot. Its got claws as sharp as dinosaur teeth. It is so fussy about everything and when it is angry steam explodes out of its ears. 
Where does an oxape live?
It is too dangerous for him to be out in the wild. The oxape  has to live in a ginormous cage in the jungle.
What does an oxape eat?
The food that it eats is McDonalds Big Mac and it eats 1,000,000 a day. 
How does an oxape move?
Well the oxape moves just like an oxen, which is kind of like a bull. The oxape punches trees with its two fists.
What does an oxape do?
The oxape sings Red Foo songs and the oxape plays, scissor paper rocks, peaknuckle and chopsticks and he plays coconut with the zookeeper. This creature only plays at midnight when there is thunder. 

Have you seen an oxape before? There's only one left in the universe. 
Author Czar


RABAFOX
What Does a Rabafox Look Like?
Rabafox has a coat of fury wool. Rabafox's ears flop to the side of her smooth round head. Her eyes glimmer and gleam in the sunlight. Rabafox's tiny paws make tiny sounds in the silky long grass. At the bottom of her tiny paws she has five pink pads that make pitter patter sounds.

Where a Rabafox Lives
Rabafox lives in an underground house called a burrow. Rabafox lives in the gigantic rain forests in South America. Rabafox is nocturnal. She runs around at night and sleeps at day. 

What Rabafox Eats
Rabafox eats meat from its prey. It hides in the dry grass so it can blend in. Rabafox pounces on her yummy prey. Her favourite food is blueberries.

Rabafox's Babies
When a rabafox's babies are born they are pink as a rose. When a baby rabafox is born their eyes are closed. When the babies are born they are hairless. In a couple of weeks time their babies open their eyes. When they are over 6 weeks old they search for food by themselves. They eat blueberries.

Rabafox's Predators
Rabafox's predators are huntsman, huntsman spiders and lions. When its predators trod by rabafox scurries into her burrow. 

What would you do if you saw a rabafox? 
Author Faith


RABBILION
Well its species are rabbit and lion. It has razor like teeth that would devour your hand in a second. You should look at its mane its like the Mad Hatter's hat sticking out of each millimeter around his head. Its ears flop down like a dead rabbit hanging over a fence. But guess what? Its body is a pink rabbit, how weird. 
Anyway guess what it eats? It eats any body parts, gross! Every time it sees an animal or a human it will pounce on you and gobble off your head. In its body it has two tummies, one for good food and one for bad. For this reason it has two bottom holes one for the good food tummy and one for the bad food tummy.
They live in burrow in Africa. It lives in burrows because they are dirty creatures.
What do their babies look like? 
Well they're tiny little things only two centimeters long. Their mane is fluffy like candyfloss. 
What are their predators? Well they actually have none because they are too fierce. 
How do they move?
They normally walk in herds just like an army with claws and teeth instead of guns. In their herds there is only about eleven or twelve of them. When they're in herds they are looking to eat people and animals. 
Would you like to meet one of these carnivores? I wouldn't! because they are disgusting creatures. They also gobble off your head aaaaaaah!
Author Neesha

GIRAFFIDILE

What is a giraffidile?
Giraffidile is a strange animal that is a crocodile and giraffe joined together. However you will never see how sharp the tail is. Its little horns are as hard as a rock. The scales are narrow. 
Where does a giraffidile live?
A giraffidile lives on land and water like a crocodile. When it gets cool swimming in the ocean it goes on land and sleeps and eats. 
What a giraffidile eats?
A giraffidile eats fresh leaves and people. He goes in the water then people see it and they think it is a giraffe so they hop in the water, then snatch, he kills the people and eats them.
Giraffidile Predators
Giraffidile predators are people because giraffidiles eat them. This is how people catch them. They place a net underneath leaves then a giraffidile walks into the traps and kills them. 
What a giraffidile sounds like?
A giraffidile sounds like this grrrr. If you are walking outside and you hear grrr and are around fresh leaves the girrafidile might be about. Whenever you go in the water if you see a head of a giraffe I wouldn't go near would you?
Author Thomas

LIONEGL
What a lionegl looks like?
A lionegl is a lion attached to an eagle. Lionegl has long pointy soft tail feathers at the end of the lionegl. It has long flappy wings that help the lionegl fly quickly through the air. It has a long fury mane surrounded around the lionegl's face. The feet are all yellow and at the tip of each toe are claws that point out at you. The eyes on the lionegl are a beautiful blue and it has a pink nose sniffing in case there is danger.
Where a lionegl lives
A lionegl lives in a nest on a rocky mountain but it can also go on land to look for its prey. The land is very dry and bare and has hardly any water there.
What a lionegl eats
Strangely a lionegl eats people, peacocks, lions and snakes. They are all it eats. They fly up in the sky to track down their food. When it finds its food it swoops down before the animal runs away from the lionegl. Stab! The lionegl's teeth stab into the peacocks side.
What are a lionegls predators
A lionegls predators are tigers, bees and sheep. The lionegl are scared of sheep because they bounce at the lionegl and surround the lionegl and he doesn't like it. The bee stings the lionegl's tongue and it really hurts because it stabs the lionegl's tongue and it really hurts.

Would you like to have a lionegl?
Author Caitlyn



CENTIFLY

What a centifly loooks like
It is strange creature because it is a dragonfly fused with a centipede. the bug has brown comfortable skin. they have forty legs on each side that are silvery green. Centiflies have gigantic white patterened wings. Centiflies have two big wings and two small wings that are powerful but thin.
Where a centifly lives
Often it lives near swamps. Sometimes a centify lives underground where there is lots of mud. It changes its home lots so it can catch its food.
What a centifly eats
It eats miniature flies that are shadowy black and have black, orange and green eyes. The centifly eats flies because they are small so they are easy to catch.
Who is the centiflies predator
It's predator is a rhinoceros. It uses its tongue to catch the centifly. The centifly sticks to the saliva when the rhinoceros sticks its tongue out.
Its amazing how strong such a thin bug can be. It has beautiful striped blue wings.
Have you seen a centifly?
Author Jeevanjot



LANTI

Do you know what a lanti looks like? 
A lanti is a tiger combined with a lantern fish. It has the gills of a fish and legs for running away from predators on the ocean floor with claws to scratch up prey. With a fishes tail, in length, it can grow about one meter. The teeth are rotten yellow-green. The lanti glows like a diamond in the sky.
Feeding
A lanti catches his prey by waiting for little fish to see his lantern and tries to take it with them when "SNAP!" He devours his meal by chewing furiously at the meal with his mouth shut because if he chews with his mouth open his food comes out and the blood spreads.
Where it lives
He lives in the bottom of the ocean in little caves because he needs to be protected because there can only be one lanti at a time. The caves are as long as a shin bone. They have cartilage instead of bone.
How it moves
A lanti transports by flickering its tail and flicks and stops and keeps doing that over and over again flicking around corners furiously snapping and investigating the gloomy water.
Babies
An egg from a lanti takes five years for a lanti's egg to hatch. There can only be one lanti at a time.
Predators
His predators such as stingrays, crabs and lobster eat the lanti. His stripes are shiny enough to reflect his light from his lantern. this reflects on his stripes and lures the enemies away from the lanti.

Would you want to meet a lanti?
Author Max