DARE fun day

On Friday 25th October the year 5 and 6 childrenwho had done their DARE work got to go to the DARE fun day. There were two groups; one of the groups went to go to the Tenpin bowling and the other group was supposed to go to the Action sport, but instead they ended up playing Mini golf. Then we had morning tea.
After that the two groups swapped over. After that we had lunch and played around a bit and then went to the LIDO!!! Man that was awesome. Next we hopped on the bus and went back to school. When I came off the bus I said to my friend that was the best day ever!

Thankyou to the parent helpers and Constable Hayden and her crew.

Nathan

These are photos of the girl's cooking group. We made caramel slice . Just to be kind we decided to share our slice with the boys! We were celebrating our good behaviour!

WHAT I LIKED ABOUT THE DARE PROGRAME

What I liked about the dare programe was the choice box and learning new things about drugs and peer pressure. But some of the work was really hard! The first activity was fun because everyone got to see each others special object .Second of all the unfolding story was hard as.

Adam M

DARE

What I learnt in dare is you do not smoke or take drugs. This is dangerous. Also you do not go bullying just because you don't
feel good.

I also Iearnt how to play the human knots game. You need to follow instructions and you need to do teamwork to be able to solve the problem.

Joseph W

what I learnt during D.A.R.E.

I learnt what different kind of drugs can do to you,why not to bully and why I'm special. Every activity was fun. but
the most fun thing that happened was the HUMAN KNOT. The human knot is a game where you have an even number of people. You stand around in a circle. With your left hand you grab a persons hand. Now with your right hand grab another hand. And you have to try and untangle yourself. The first time we did it my group co-operated but the second time my group didn't do so well because they were not co-operating very well.

Nathan

D.A.R.E TO MAKE A CHOICE!

Over the past 5 weeks room 9 have had the privilege of having Constable Hayden in our classroom to teach us proper ways of
resisting peer pressure,how to work together and how to handle bullying.

We watched a few videos for examples of peer pressure then stopped for a discussion break. We then predicted what we thought would be an appropriate way of dealing with it. Next we watched what the consequences would be if they chose a specific choice.

Day after day we would learn something new. Constable Hayden also introduced us to the choice box which is a private way to ask personal questions and they would be read out anonymously and answered. After all the questions were answered Constable Hayden would make sure that the paper the questions were on would be shredded at the police station so that they will never be seen again! Sounds dramatic but it made us happy and less vulnerable to ask deep questions.

AJ

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These photos show us learning to draw maori carvings.

These photos were inserted by Adam.

WALT :import photos into our class blog

This is a photo of Zoe's 2 day old baby chicks. They were born on Sunday night. The chicks are all Bantams and very fluffy. One is called Lucky because he or she got beaten up by a roster and was at deaths door and if my mum hadn't gone out and brought it in it would have not survived. He or she spent the whole day in front of the fire, and the whole night in the hot water cupboard. After awhile Lucky was put out with it's mother to learn to be a chick.


Written by Zoe. Photo inserted by Genea

Introducing Miss Carter

Miss Carter is a nice student teacher that has come to help room 9 with our work. She's like our teacher Miss McFarlane. She's a caring person and going in 3 weeks back to college.
At reading she read us 3 of Aesops fables. It was really interesting and we had to find out what the storys message was. At draft writing we were pretending we were in a room 9 court house. Miss Carter was the judge and after the arguing we had to vote if a character was innocent or guilty. We are learning how to persuade others!

Everyone in room 9 desperately wants her to stay for a long time!

Welcome to term 3!

Hi everybody!

Well we are back online again after some technical hitches earlier this week. Room 9 hopes everyone had a restful holiday! We are looking forward to another busy and exciting term, with much learning ahead of us!

kotimanas meanist marae trip

On Tuesday 16th June 2009 Years5 and 6 walked to our bags to get ready to go to the Marae.

Finally the bus came so we got our bags and went on the bus. I walked to the back and I sat on the seat.

Finally we were there so I hopped off the bus and lined up and walked into the wharekai to put our bags away.

Next we went into our groups and we looked at the carvings. We sketched some of them in our booklet .

Emily's fun trip to the Marae

Before we left we were put into groups. My leader was Nikee. We also had to check if we had everything.
Then we walked on the bus to leave to the Marae.

When we arrived we got out our Aorangi Marae booklets and started to answer some of the questions in it. Then we went round to see the Hungi pit. Once we finished the outdoor activities we took our shoes off and walked into the Wharenui. When we went into the Wharenui we had to do the indoor activities and then we had to say our mihi's in front of the whole class! I was so embarrassed!!!

But after that we didn't have enough time to have a go at using the poi's so we grabbed all of our things then the teacher instructed everyone to hop on the bus so we could go back to school and work.

I enjoyed listening to everyone's mihi's when we were in the Wharenui and I also learned that the marae is not the building it's the grass in front of the building!

By Emily .S.

Blair and Kaylas cool trip to the marae.

On Tuesday the 16th Blair and I went to Aorangi marae to learn about their culture and the marae.

We went onto the grass (The Marae atea) and we did the outside activities. We organised ourselves into groups and worked together on each activity Kayla (me) worked with some of my friends in my group. After that we went inside the wharenui and lay down on the ground, looking at the pattens up on the roof. We drew the patterns and also we did a waiata (but only room 9). We had so much fun at Aorangi marae and we want to go again and again to learn more!

By Kayla and Blair

Michael's fun Marae trip

Hope you have fun reading it
On Tuesday 16th of June Rm9,some of Rm12 and all of Rm13 went to Aorangi marae.

My leader was Harsh. Blair and Anna were in my group too. We had a booklet to do there at Aorangi marae.

This was my second time there. My first time there was with team B 2008. There was a lot of cool things at the Marae, like all of the koru patterns. My favourite ones were in the wharenui. After we finished the outside activities we had some lunch, some people brought shared food. When we had eaten most of the food we went into the Wharenui to do one more activity. We got to pick if we would do our Mihi or use Poi's or Rakausticks. I did Rakausticks and my buddy was Harsh. We are both good at it.

Then we got on the bus after having so much fun at Aorangi Marae.

I learnt how to use Rakausticks and how to say a Mihi

The end.
Hoped you had fun reading it.



By Michael Parsons

Ajs home-work success

On the first of June I drew my plan for my bookshelf ,the aim for my home-work was to design my own challenge.I thought about it for a while then realized I had too many books and nowhere to put them, suddenly the idea of a bookshelf struck
my mind! The wonderful teacher approved my plans. On the 3rd {wednesday} I started pursuing my bookshelf idea, dad brought home some good quality wood to build with,and a spirit level. We measured and cut to the size we wanted the four parts to be.
Drilling was unexpectedly entertaining, we placed the carefully cut wood on the outside table and then screwed the two side pieces on then the back piece then finally sanded the rough edges until they were smooth. The last task was to paint the
with white acrylic paint, as I was doing the 2nd coat of paint I sprinkled gold glitter onto my hand then blew gently towards the wet paint, once I had finished and the paint had dried I free handedly painted a thin black outline on the back of the bookshelf of a smiley face with of course black acrylic,then colored in the inside with yellow paint. Now I am finally and happily finished thanks
to my dad.

Listen to us practising our Mihi!

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Our Hatchet art work

Room 9 has been working on the story about hatchet.
Hatchet is a story of a boy called Brian who survives a plane crash in the canadian woods and is left alone to survive, and he only has a hatchet. I would give it a 10 out of 10 because as soon as you start reading you want to find out what happens to him.
We are doing some art on it and we got to choose what we wanted to do to represent the book. We could do a diarama, a poster, a wanted poster or just a regular painting.
ZOE

Hatchet - A novel by Gary Paulsen

We have just finished reading a novel called Hatchet. It is about a boy called Brian who is in a plane when the pilot has a heart attack and crashes the plane. Brian has lots of adventures,while surviving with just a hatchet.
We also have been drawing a scene of one of his adventures from the book.It has been really fun doing art about the novel.


Vienna Weldon

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WALT: IDENTIFY PARTS OF A WHARENUI

COME AND VISIT ROOM NINE TO SEE OUR WHARENUI MURAL. WE HAVE BEEN LEARNING ABOUT THE MARAE AND HAVE DISCOVERED THAT THE MEETING HOUSE ITSELF IS NOT A MARAE! TO LEARN MORE, CLICK ON ONE OF OUR LINKS THAT WILL TAKE YOU TO AN INFORMATIVE SITE ABOUT MARAE AND MARAE PROTOCOL.

GARAGE BAND AND READING

Hudson  Sisson

Today  I  learnt  how  to  use  Garage  Band                                                         

 to  help  me  with  my  reading.                                         

I  got  to  tape  myself  by  talking  into  a  

microphone  while  I  read  my  story.  

When  I  had  finished  I  got  to  hear  how  I 

sounded.      

Fun Temanawa trip

Me and most of my school frends went to TeManawa.

We left school at 9:30am. The bus trip was a bit boring, I sat by none of my friends but by someone who is good at bugging people.

Soon we were at TeManawa. The first thing we did was sit down on some carpet and eat some of our yummy food. We then went to a place in TeManawa where we learnt how to flaxweave a fish and what it means.

Next we went into a room full of mirrors, one was a jally bean hologram.

After that we had some more food for lunch then a couple of mins after, room9 and only room9 went on a scavenger hunt while room12 learntwhat it means and how to flax a fish. I had no sharpened pencils so I just helped people in my group.

Then we were on the bus in a flash. I sat next to Hudson and we both made space for Willie, my best friend. We got back to school just as the bell went.

Michael Parsons

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Te Manawa trip

It was a cold day but there was hardly any rain. When we got to school  it was freezing, it was like jack frost.  When we walked in to the class it was so warm. Then the teacher called  the roll.

Then we had to put some vests on and we went to TeManawa. The first thing we did there was have morning tea we- had to eat very fast because we were late and we had to go and do some weaving. We weaved  ika (fish) .It was pretty hard. We were lucky enough to go to the mirrors. 

Then it was lunch time. After we had finished we went on a scavenger hunt.  The hardest thing was finding the three sided thing! After we had finished we went back to school and it was home time.

 I had a good day and I learnt  it was not that easy to make a fish out of flax!

Nikee Simeon

Looking angelic in the square!

Sayj's Te Manawa Experience

WEDNSDAY  20th MAY  

On Wednesday 20th of May 2009, rm 9 and rm 12 went to Te Manawa

for a trip.On the way there me,nikke,nathan and bray were singing nga iwi a and pa mai.

The parents were Mrs Simeon,Mrs Atherton, Mrs Curtis,

Mrs Izaac and Miss McFarlane.

AH finally there .

We entered the Te Manawa sliding door and settled in the lounge room to

have our morning tea. 

After that rm9 and rm 12 were split up. .RM 12 

were at the square doing  a sheet around the square while we were learning how 

to do a fish out of flax.

A few hours later we met for lunch then we swapped

around, So we were doing the sheet and rm 12 were learning how to do th fish out of flax.

I was proud of myself on that day  because I learnt how to do a fish out of flax.

 Yeah!!!!!!!!!!

te manawa trip

On the 20th of May room 9 and 12 went to Te manawa to learn about flax weaving.

We went to a flax weaving session and we made fish out of flax and that was pretty tricky.

Room 12 was not back from the square so room 9 got to go and have a look at the Mirrors and they were fun to play with. 

Yay. We could now go to the square and do the scavenger hunt around the square

 because room 12 was back. The hunt was hard but fun and the whole day was amazing.

Genea Hill

p.n.t.m.t.

Hi my name is Alex and my class and I went to Te Manawa.

 At Te Manawa my class and I did some weaving with flax, but before that we had a man talk to us about fibre and things that are made out of flax and how strong flax can be. When we got to weave we all made a lovely fish! After we made the fish we got to cut shapes on the fins. 

After that we had lunch with room 12 then room 9 did a scavenger hunt in the Palmerston North

square. In the square it was hard to find everything because the square s such a big place. 

I'm sure everybody learnt something interesting on this trip.

My favourite bit was the fish making `

Alexandra Duff

Te manawa, awesome trip

On 20th May room 9 travelled on a bus to the awesome Te Manawa Museum. 

The first thing we did there was have morning tea.After that we did flax weaving and we had to make a fish; it was pretty hard but I still did it.

Then we were lucky enough to go to the mirror room. One made me short, one made me really tall, one made me fat. Miss McFarlane yelled out "That's enough. Let's go and have lunch" then everybody said ohhh. 

In a while we had to do the scavenger hunt. There were some hard questions. One of the hardest questions was to find a thing that is angelic but I still answered it. After that we went inside.

 In a while we walked outside to get on the bus. And then we left out of Palmerston and got back to school.

By the time we got there it was home time. It was a awesome day and I had great time at Te Manawa. I had learnt how to weave flax and make a fish.    

NATHAN TALUMEPA

    

Zoe  Hallett

On  Tuesday, 40 lucky student's got to go to Te Papa. 

At Te Papa we saw a giant frozen squid that was in a glass cage. We also got to watch a 3D movie on the squid catching fish but it looks like it's going to catch and eat you! 

Also I learnt that there is a giant ''plate'' under every volcano and when the plate gets deep enough  it then splits and it makes the volcano erupt. 

There was a huge whale skeleton on the roof and I couldn't believe it was not it's actual size! 

While we were there we had a race to see which team could find out the most information about Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and what damage weather can cause. 

We saw lots of other exciting cool stuff  but  I can't name it all!  

Aj's tricky ANZAC Quiz

No.1    

The victim of the murder was?................................

A. Archduke franz ferdinand

B. Andrew french fries

C. antonio franti ferdinan

ANSWER:

No.2

Who retreated?

A. Turks

B. ANZACS

ANSWER:

No.3

What flower commonly  grew in the Gallipoli soil?

A. Roses

B.Poppies 

C.lillies

ANSWER:

No.4

What does A.N.Z.A.C stand for?.............

A.hi

B. Australian New Zealand Army corps

C.Annies never zealous about colliflower

ANSWER:

 

No.5

What do the poppies that are sold in the street look like?..............

A.Do they have curved petals ?

B.Do they have spikey petals?

ANSWER:

No.6

Who did the ANZACS try and help?.................

A.Turks

B.England

C.Jamaica

ANSWER:

No.7

What animals were commonly used?......

A.Snakes 

B.Rabbits

C.Donkeys

ANSWER:

No.8

Why did the Anzacs  retreat?

A.They were getting defeated

B.They wanted to meet santa 

C.The ships were pretty

ANSWER:

No.9

ANZAC day is a time for ..............

A.Celebration

B.Comemoration

C.Ceremonies

ANSWERS:

No.10

Donkeys helped by.....

A.Donkey rides

B.Carrying things

C.Standing there and looking pretty

ANSWER:

Thank - you  for having a go at my quiz!

LEST WE FORGET

We have been learning about the ANZACS because they fought for our Country and they helped Britain fight. 

ANZACS stands for Australian New Zealand Army Corps! 

World war 1 started by one murder.

It was called the Great war because people thought it was so terrible that it could never happen again. 

People joined the army because they thought it would be cool to be in the war but when they got there they were wrong.

The ANZACS were planning to take the TURKS by surprise but since the army was in a hurry and given the wrong orders they went to the wrong beach.

Room 9 made ANZAC  biscuits because we found out that the ANZACS had to have food rations. A lot of food  had already gone off while the shipment was on its way to the ANZACS, so they made a special biscuit that wouldn't go off on the way to the ANZACS.

Authors:  ALEX DUFF and Emily Svendsen  

Lest we forget

 

OUR BIG DAY OUT!

Daniel C

Finding mud crabs and climbing up and falling down sanddunes on beach trips is fun .

EMILY .S.    Fabulous bus trip!

 At the Estuary Rooms 12 and  9 were digging up crab holes so we could hold the mini crabs!

The crabs we were holding were crabs that don't snip you and they run/walk to the side.

After we left the Estuary we went to Foxton beach to draw some of the dunes and their roots underneath the sand.  I learnt that some types of crabs don't actually snip you with their 

claws.When we went to the River Mouth I found a fish spine.

Kotimana.S.  

We were walking to the Estuary to dig the mud up to get some crabs

but it was hard going! Finally I got a crab! 

Phoebe

We had to walk for 10 minutes to get to the Estuary where we dug up crabs                and I can't believe I held one!

Kayla

It was fun when we went to the beach because we climbed up the sand dunes and 

ran down them!

Anna    

We all had lots of fun  at the  beach  because  we climbed  up  the  sand dunes and       looked at the grass and  we drew  pictures  of the grass   and wrote some  facts down.

Alex 

It  was  fun  because  we  went up the  sand  dunes  and  drew  the  plants  and  went up  the other  sand  dunes  and  looked  at  the  back  of  them  and  saw  little sand  dunes.                                                                                                                

Blair                                                                                                                                                                 We had lots of fun at the beach because we were looking at how the plants  grow  and looked  at  what the roots looked like on the sand  dunes. We  copied  what the plants looked like.

AJ

Wow!Who knew we made such a big impact on the beach environmen!  The estuary was a fun experience because we were allowed to dig out the holes and catch the crabs.I caught about 

6 crabs. Climbing the sand dunes was good exercise , it really worked our muscles! As we arrived at the top, we triumphed over our great success and the parent helpers looked at us as if we had gone mad (we probably had after sitting in a bus and climbing with jelly legs.) After celebrating like we were 3 years old, we sat down and drew what we saw. First I started to draw the dunes, one after the other patterned big and small.Then I made vegetation appear on the page.

Getting down the dunes was the easiest part because you could just let your self fall.

Overall it was an energetic experience.

TeAati

I wish I could go back to the beach. We got to do crab racing with crabs. We went to the river but didn't get to swim but we know what a river mouth is now!  We also climbed dunes, drew plants and the best part of all, EATING!!

VIENNA

We had a great time at Foxton beach. We went to the estuary and there were lots of crab holes, some of them were really small holes. The crabs that we we dug up were tiny. I was expecting them to be bigger than they were. We learnt a lot and I hope to go back again.

ZOE

We  got to do crab racing by digging the crabs up first. We went to the river mouth at the Estuary and then we went to Foxton beach.The only thing that bothered me was the walking and the heat- that made it hard. 

GENEA

We went to Foxton to learn about the coast. 1st we visited the Crabs but I never picked one up. So then we walked to the Rivermouth and stayed there for half an hour then went to the Beach and had a great time.

Kiana

 It was so much fun at Foxton. We got to find little crabs. I found 4 crabs but the first time I  found one I didn't want to hold it  because I thought it was going to bite me.

 Lorelle

It was a  brilliant  day at Foxton beach. I had lots of fun looking at the river mouth learning about the beach. We went to the estuary and I took photos of the crabs and drew lots of things. By the time it was over  all of us were tired.  

Our Swimming sports results: Didn't we do well?

DANIEL C

I am proud of this because I got a placing 2nd out of 3rd in a width Backstroke.

Genea. 

Im am proud of my places in the Swimming Sports. I got 4th in Freestyle,2nd in Backstroke and 1st in Breastro     

 ANNA H  I am  proud  of  my swimming   because  I got   3rd  in    freestyle    and     I got     4th   in backstroke  ...                                                                                                                                                  

AJ

Im proud of  my swimming because I was put in the house relay team because I was placed 2nd. 

ALEX

I am proud of my swimming because I got 1st on breaststroke 3rd in freestyle and 3rd on backstroke.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                BLAIR                                                                                                                                                              I am  proud of my swmming because  I  got  3rd in feesttyle  and I got last in backstroke  and I  got 3rd in  breastroke.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            ZOE                                                                                            

I am proud of my swimming because I cam 2nd  in freestyle and 3rd in backstroke  in L.S.S  swimming sport`s. 

HARSH

I am proud of my swimming this year because last year I couldent evan do 3 lenths freestyle none stop, but this year I came 2nd in freestyle 3rd in back stroke 5th in breathstroke in L.S.S

Swimming sports.

Kotimana

I am proud of my freestyle because I got  faster at swimming

and I done 4 lengths non stop. At the swimming sports I came 

3rd in freestyle.

EMILY

I am proud of my freestyle , backstroke and my breaststroke because I got better at all of 

them. When my race numbers got called ( 6 , 18 and  30)  I thought I wasn't going to win anything but instead I did. I came 2nd in freestyle and won a rod whitch means I won some points for my house. 

KAYLA

I'm happy because... i came 1st and 3rd in swimming sports. Year 5 and 6's got numbers on our hands but only 3 numbers were only on our hands but on 

my hand there was (6,18 and 30) and i was proud of my self. We did freestyle, backstroke and breaststroke. Also there was leths and weths but i was weths.

Michael

i'am proud of my swimming i was in race 1,5 and 25 in race one I came 4th 

in race 15 I came 3 in race 25 i came 2.Race one was swim ther,race 15 was

 freestyle and race  25 was swim ther with a green small ball i won some points for kea.

my favrite one was race 25 cause it was a bit diffreat to all of the others my 2 favrite race was 1

 and my 3 favrite 15

Ben

I had a hard time getting third place in my 3rd race which was race 31

it was a little bit hard to get fourth place in backstroke race number 19

and on my first race freestyle I came fouth as well but I got to admit I

had lots of fun at the swiming sports on Thursday.

    

Coastal care with Kelly

Tuesday 24th February

Room 9 had a visit from Kelly from the Department of Conservation , to talk  to us about how

to look after the beach and vegetation. She also talked about the sand dunes at the Manawatu

local beaches like Tangimoana, Himatangi and Foxton. The vegetation  was interesting 

because only at Tangimoana there's a little succulent only found  there,  it's not  a New Zealand

flower ! And the other  vegetation at New Zealand beaches are the Toetoe plant the Pingao plant , the spinifex plant [Tumbleweed]  and most common, the marram grass.

We also experienced planting seeds and separating  stalks with the hard ends( which means it has a seed in it)  from the

ones that don't. PLEASE KEEP FROM DRIVING ON SAND DUNES! 

Our W.A.L.T: (We are learning to..)  

Respect our  environment and keep it clean. 

Written by:AJ and GENEA.

Election '09 !

CLASS CAPTAIN OF 'O9

                            

AJ has been elected by room 9 to be our class captain 

for 2009.We know that AJ will be a good class captain for room 9

because she is responsible and respectful to our classrooms and 

the schools environment.AJ has a big responsibility ahead of her.

VICE CAPTAINS OF 'O9

Lorelle: Lorelle is a very honest girl and is friendly in and out of the school grounds and if you need help or if you hurt yourself and she sees it 

she will help you or take you to the office if you need it.

TeAati: TeAati is a very responsible boy and a very good school councillor.

        

Shoot for the stars!

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