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End of School Year Reflections

Our final Hands-On-Homework for 2014 was to fill out an end of year reflections. It was such a pleasure to read these and I'm amazed at how thoughtful the comments were. I have picked out all the key words and made some wordles. The first one is all the answers from the following questions:

• My favourite activity this year and why
• I had the most fun when
• What I liked most about my class and teacher
• What I'll miss the most and why
• Things I learned the most this year

The bigger the word, the more students that choose that as an answer. Thank you to all the students that completed their reflections!

Another question was for students to give a piece of advice to students for next year. 

100WC - Grace's Entry

He was shocked to find a tiger. "Ahhhh," he screamed. He'd never seen anything so cute and he quickly did up the bag. He said, "Ah, that's better." Then he said "Where was I up to?" and then he started talking again. Then he said, "minions and guards, kill that creepy thing now otherwise you'll be dead too. Now go and do your business." But one refused to do it. Lord Nulth was mad. His face went red. Suddenly, one of the guards came up to him and stabbed him in the back. Then the war was over and there were trees, houses, rivers and the ocean.

By Grace

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100 Word Challenge

The last 100 Word Challenge prompt was just 5 little words. Those students completing the 100WC had to include the words swimming, lifted, broken, green and cat in their writing somewhere. Unfortunately we missed the deadline for entering the competition this week but we still read them to the class and Josie and Grace were voted the winners. Levi got the teachers choice. Have a read of them and see if you can pick where they've put those 5 words!

I was walking beside the broken swimming pool. I saw a broken cat with green paint slashed on it's wooden back. "What happened to this place?" I shouted. "It's a crazy mess." It was like a tornado crashed right through it without a care and went right to the whole place and destroyed everything in it's path. This shouldn't be a swimming pool anymore, It's lifted it up diagonally. It's a total mess of destruction. On the news it said seven thousand, eight hundred and forty two lives were risked for their beloveds. This is a disaster. I better leave them be alone.

By Levi

There once was a green cat. Every morning he went swimming in a broken computer. I know this sounds weird. One day he lifted a pencil to see what was under it. Just incase. He went to plat golf with his friend duck. But he didn't because duck was in space. So he killed a snail. "Ahhhh!" said the snail. "Hi.I'm back!!" Duck came back. They finished the game. "Why did you kill the snail?" said duck. "I did not meant to," said cat. The duck died. I don't know how. Cat is dumb.

By Josie

Once upon a time there was a green swimming pool and I was thinking, 'how did that get green?' The next day my dad got me a cute, furry gremlin and you could not get them wet or feed them after midnight otherwise, dun dun dun....they turn into this. "Ahhhhh," I screamed. Then I lifted up the ugly green thing and chucked it in the microwave and it exploded. There was all green stuff on the microwave. Then my cat was running around like crazy. There was something broken from those ugly gremlins and my cat broke it even more. It was a disaster.

By Grace

Showing Movement

How can you show movement in a photo? We realised that if someone is actually moving in a photo it will be blurry! Last weeks #handsonhomework challenge was to take a photo showing movement. Can you guess what movement they are showing?

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Finding out about NZ coins and notes

It's NZ Money week this week and we've been finding out lots about our coins and notes. We worked in groups to research who was on each bank note and why they were there! We also learnt about what the images are on our coins and learnt a bit more about them.  Here are some facts we learnt.

Jordan - On the front of the 20c coin there is a carving of a Maori chief

Zachary - Sir Apriana Ngata played a significant role in the revival of maori people and culture. He's on the front of the $50 note

Hugh - I was wondering what was on the back of the $20 note and when I found it was the NZ falcon, I learnt it's one of NZ's biggest bird.

Yuna - Ernest, Lord Rutherford of Nelson is on the front of the $100 note and he was known as the father of atoms.

Layla - At first I thought it was a tiki on the front of the 10c coin but then I learnt it was a carved head called koruru

Jake B - A $1 coin has a kiwi and a silver fern. I didn't know there was a silver fern too

Eric - I've found out all the animals on the notes and coins

Joshua - A $2 coin has a big bird on it

Levi - Sir Edmund Hillary in 1953 became the first man to climb Mt Everest and to drive overland to the South Pole. He is on the $5 note

Olivia - A long, long time ago only men could vote and not ladies but Kate Shepard said it was not fair and she helped NZ become the first country to let everyone join the vote. She's on the front of the $10 note

Zoe - I learnt that Queen Elizabeth was on the back of every coin

Josie - I learnt that the Yellow-Eyed is the one of the rarest penguins in the world

Renee - On the 50c coin there is a big boat, Captain Cook was on it

Grace - The portrait of the Queen on the $20 note was taken at Government House

Jake S - I learnt the name of the bird on the $50 note. It's a Kokako

Reading about Dinosaurs

The Tui's reading group have been practicing reading information and highlighting facts. Today they split in to two smaller groups and read about a dinosaur. Neive, Grace and Helen (from Room 19) read about Ankylosaurus. They shared some of the facts they read using Puppet Pals.

100WC - Grace's Entry

Yellow Snow

I was about to eat some snow but it is yellow! Dun, dun, dun! I ate it even though I noticed there was something on it. I looked in the mirror and screamed. I was covered in yellow. I couldn't believe it. I've always wanted to be yellow. I was bouncing up and down, I was happy! I've wanted to be yellow in a million years so I can blend in with the sun. Then I licked my fingers because I just ate crisps but I remembered the yellow snow. I was looking for a shower but I couldn't find one. I was screaming.

Learning to write reports

Today we're working in pairs to write a report about Stegosaurus. First we did a plan and now we're using the information to write a report. We need to remember an introduction, conclusion and each paragraph has our ideas grouped together under subheadings!

Hands on Homework - Egg Parachutes

Last weeks Hands on Homework was to make and test a parachute for an egg.  It was great fun watching the video evidence and seeing pictures. Some eggs survived and some did not! Here's a few snippets of the egg parachute challenge.

Teach Me Tuesday Catch-Up!

At the end of Term 2, Mrs Smith was lucky enough to get to see some Teach Me Tuesday lessons.  I heard they were fabulous and a real range of skills were taught.  Jayden was teaching the class how to make windmills and Grace was developing some Silver Ferns for the future. I can't believe I missed out on donut making with Sienna and it sounded like Josh taught the class lots about his trips abroad. We also had Josie's TMT in Week 7. She was getting her scientist hat on and showing Room 17 what happened when you added dishwashing liquid and food colouring to milk.  Here's some snaps from all the lessons.

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Our Pick of the Bunch writing this week is from Grace!

On Tuesday we went to the beach and first we had morning tea then we went down to the beach.  We raced into the water and we started to splash and jump.  Then I started to swish and whizz through the water.  Then the wind started to whistle through the air and it started to get freezing cold like an ice-cube.  My legs were shaking then I had shivers down my legs.  Then I hopped out for a minute then I hoped back in and it got a little bit warmer so I started to splash again.  It was such a fun day!

By Grace

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Safe Walking

Today Room 17 had a walk around the neighbourhood with Constable Bluemel.  These are the things we learnt about how to cross the road and driveways safely.
- Look out for sneaky driveways (Yuna)
- Stop, look and listen (Layla)
- Listen for cars (Renee)
- Listen for garage doors opening (Zachary)
- Always look to see if there are cars or not (Grace)
- Don't dilly dally across the road (Josh)
- Look left and right and then cross (Josie)
- Listen out for engines starting (Hugh)
- Keep looking left and right as you cross (Zander)
- Walk on the side of the footpath that's closest to the houses (Olivia)
- Watching out for signs a car is about to move e.g. lights on (Scarlett)
- Don't walk on the grass closest to the road (Sienna)
- Stop, look, listen and think, then cross (Jordan)
- If you live on Kyle Rd you leave through the stairs by the junior playground and cross with the flags (Levi)
- If you live in Greenhithe or Fernbank you need to walk through the court gates (Eric)
- If you're walking up to Schnapper Rock you leave through the nature trail (Yuna)