Welcome to room four's blog 2011 by Bailey, Ryan and Roshani

Hi!

We're Bailey, Ryan and Roshani, three students from room 4 2011. For the past few weeks we have been doing maths assesments, basic facts tests, group activities, art and P.E. Our main topic for this term is globalisation.


One of the random sorting activities we did was to line up in alphabetical order according to the future careers we would like to have. These are the future careers we choose:



Cassie- Dancer

Imogen- Hockey player

Antonia- Hair Dresser

Roshani- Runner & a sientist

Logan- Astronaut

William- Sound track designer

Nasan- Animator

Gavin- Pilot

Nathan- Graphic designer

Arthi- Actress

Skyla- Doctor

Fleur- A person who looks after animals(not a vet)

Gabi- Hair cutter

Ryan- Policeman

Edward- Rugby player

Josh- Musician

Camp 2010

I went around and asked how they liked it

at camp they said it was good

Miss Goldfinch said that it was "amazing and fun"

Fleer said that the ''activities were fun like ropes''

Flynn '' said it extreme and cool''

and Bailey said the weather was good

Damon said it was fun

Interviewed by Edward

Macdougull Award

Penguins - Fleur

They are like shooting stars they never
Stop trying,
As if they were invincible they still never stop trying,
Although they may lose family they still never stop trying,
If they fish and don’t catch anything they still never stop trying,
In blizzard might not be able to fight it but they still keep on trying,
They might not be warm but they still keep on trying

Penguins, they never give up !!!!!

in room 17 we have been writting poems and creative writing the topic that i have chossen is
te kaha my ideal holiday place. I love the beach, going diving .


amokura crane

Term Four Speeches

In term four we have been learning about speeches and we are going tell you about what everyone in room17 is doing it on and a little review.



Arthi:Cancer-What sorts of cancer there are eg. breast cancer, leukima cancer& how to help cancer people.

Skyla:Endangered Animals-What animals are getting excincted? .eg. sea otters, birds etc.

Patrick: Motor bikes- Facts about motor bikes.

Sanutep:Wind Power- Cool facts about wind power and different uses for wind.

Laura:Fiji- Interesting facts about Fiji's history and cultures.

Fleur:World Vision-About groups like the 40-hour famine and more about sponsoring children.

Amokura:New Zealand animals- Interesting facts about New Zealand animals.

Damon:War- Fascinating facts about war.

Edward: Monkeys-About monkeys should be free and treated like humans.

Bailey:Child Abuse- Stories, help & advice.

Sarah G.:Hockey- Information about hockey and how to play.

Pererika:Cars- Facts about different cars.

Maddison:World Hunger- People who are starving in the world with no money.

Ryan:War- About what happened in the war.

Kenzie:McDonalds- What you can get at Mconalds and information about their meals.

Callum:Dwarves- The history of dwarves.

Tiare:Poverty- People who are poor and not rich.

Rachel:Abandoned Children: Children whose family has left them.

William:Cars an Fuel- About interesting cars and petrol.

Michael:Rugby- Getting people to play rugby and enjoy rugby.

Jordan:Hobos- Facts and information about people who are hobos.

Danielle: Rubbish- People who litter and the consequences.

Jone:Rugby- Persuading people to play rugby.

Eli:Flag- Telling people to play flag and how to play.

Flynn:World Disasters- About events that happen to the world eg. Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Earthquakes and floods.

Sabina:Ice Cream- Interesting facts about ice cream.

Sarah T:Family Abuse- Abuse in families.

Jakob: NFL- About the NFL rugby team and information.

By Arthi & Sabina

Home work should be banned
I think home work should be banned because...1. A child could be stuck inside all day . You know your against it. They could go hyper and the parents would not be happy. That could make them Co-co!
2. They should be doing home work at school. It is set by school so DO it at school. Now that sounds fair.
3.Would you want your kid to have fun or be bored? Think about it!

I think home work should not be banned because...
1. It can teach a child to manage there own time. That can make them a good biasness man/woman.
2. They might not have time to do it in school. That might be because there working so hard at school they don’t have time to do it at school.
3. Would you want your kid acting like they own the house because they don’t do home work? I know you don’t and neither do I!

End of term 3 - Instructional writing

For the last 2 weeks of term we have been working instructional writing. We have been focussing on adding advanced features to our instructions. These include:

• Use of adverbial clauses (if, so, that, otherwise) to indicate reason and time (when, after) e.g. Line the tin with paper so that it doesn’t stick
• Use of varying levels of modality to make meanings stronger weaker e.g. could, should, might, like. " Should the cake burn, put heavy icing on it."
• Use of beginning clauses to focus attention e.g. “After an hour check on the cake, it should be golden brown. "
• The use of conditional forms to indicate potential choices. E.g. "To make the cake tastier add 75g of raisins."
• Adding reasons for actions e.g. "Put the cake mixture in a square tin as it is easier to share a square cake."
• Consider different ways of giving commands, e.g. As an offer or an order
• Adjectives add details relating to size e.g. "A cake tin with a diameter of 15cm"
• Present tense
• Imperative (action) verbs e..g take, mix, bake, get, melt, sit, stir, kneed, glue
• Vocab ranges from precise technical to everyday language.

Have a look at some of the delicious things we created and wrote instructions for.

Friends Poem

If you'd be my friend,

I'd eat
dog poo
Lick peoples shoes

Live in a trolley
Throw out my
dolly

Puke in your hair
Be hit with a
chair

Look
stupid in photos
Fight Mojo
Jojo

Spend No Money
Throw away
honey

Not pay
my bills
But run up steep hills

Play
basketball
Dance on
the wall

Use my brain
But get no
pain

And smile
without end
If you'd be my
friend!

By Laura Clark

Michael Rosen poetry by Michael

Our reading group is looking at poetry by Michael Rosen. We read the following poem:

Down behind the dustbin
I met a dog called Ted.
"Leave me alone", he says,
"I'm just going to bed.

Down behind the dustbin
I met a dog called Roger
"Do you own this bin?" I said
"No, I'm only a lodger."

Down behind the dustbin
I met a dog called Sue,
"What are you doing here?" I said
"I've got nothing else to do"

I then wrote some extra verses for the poem myself:

"Down behind the dustbin
I met a dog called Mike
and after I met that dog
he got in to a fight.

Down behind the dustbin
I met a dog called Jakob
and after I met that dog
he ended up naked.

Down behind the dustbin
I met a dog called Flynn
and after I met that dog
he ended up in the bin.

boy overboard comment

This book is funny and exciting. You can hardly take your eyes off this book.