Alice in Wonderland trailer. This looks fascinating!

An optional extra for homework. See how well your family does it.

KIWI KWIZ 2010

QUIZ 2



Question One: The Government is considering raising G.S.T to 15 percent. What does ‘G.S.T’ stand for?

a) Gifts and Sales Tax

b) Goods and Services Tax

c) Government Swindle Tax

d) Gross Surplus Tax



Question Two: Last week, the ship Peter Jackson used in his ‘King Kong’ movie was..?

a) made the centre piece of Wellington’s Planet Hollywood restaurant

b) given to the Cook Islands as a cargo ship

c) used to smuggle illegal immigrants across the Mediterranean Sea

d) sunk 25 kilometres off the coast of the North Island



Question Three: Drybread, Sweetwater and Depthford are..?

a) New Zealand ghost towns

b) New Zealand mountain ranges

c) New Zealand fashion labels

d) New Zealand maximum security prisons



Question Four: In the original novel, ‘Frankenstein’ was a..?

a) nine-foot monster

b) scientist

c) backpacker from Germany

d) member of the vampire royalty



Question Five: Which of the following options is an open-ended question?

a) Is this an open-ended question?

b) Do you know the answer to this question?

c) Why did you choose this option?

d) Are you awake?



Question Six: Why was an Australian speed skater lucky to win a gold medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics?

a) He’d never skated before the final

b) His coach pushed him over the finish line

c) The skaters in front of him fell over on the final lap

d) The other skaters ate contaminated shellfish before the final and couldn’t compete



Question Seven: Which teenager was the highest paid actress in the world last year?

a) Emma Watson

b) Hannah Montana

c) Miley Cyrus

d) Keisha Castle-Hughes



Question Eight: Last week, a school in England banned students from..?

a) asking questions during lessons

b) exchanging Valentine’s Day cards

c) reading books at lunch time

d) cracking jokes about the Royal Family



Question Nine: Which New Zealand group had a world-wide hit with the song ‘How Bizarre’?

a) Split Enz

b) Otara Millionaires Club

c) Katchafire

d) Smashproof



Question Ten: Three major sporting events in the U.S.A are..?

a) the Dust Bowl, the Pepsi Bowl and the Fruit Bowl

b) the Disney Bowl, the Xtreme Bowl and the Blood Bowl

c) the Sugar Bowl, the Orange Bowl and the Super Bowl

d) the Dog Bowl, the Glass Bowl and the Toilet Bowl

This is a fundraiser for the people of Haiti. How can we help?

Homework Checklist

Your Homework will be in a clear file this year. We are using these so that you can add extra pages where necessary.

You are expected to complete all mandatory tasks (must do) in the checklist below. The optional activities (may do) are there for those who wish to do them if you have spare time or energy.

You are able to design the way you set your homework out now. You may be as creative as you like. However, neat work is expected.

Please edit your work carefully before you hand it in for marking every second Friday. You have two weeks to complete your work to a high standard. Get into the habit of using a dictionary and Thesaurus at home. Share your work with your family, quiz them on what you have learned at school. Let me know how they get on!

You may use pen but it must be tidy, gel pens are for decoration only. No felt pens please as they tend to go through pages. Twink is illegal, just as it is at school!
You will need to include evidence of practise work eg. Times tables and reading. Ask your caregivers to sign your work in that section.


Mandatory Tasks ‘Must Do’

• Word Study
• Daily reading
• Times table practise.
• Any specific task that you have been assigned by a teacher.

Optional Tasks ‘May Do’

• Review a book you have read.
• Add a comment on the class blog www.room1online.blogspot.com
• Current Event report. P.M.I. it (Plus, Minus, Interesting/Improve). Share your opinion.
• Research or project work that you are doing at school. This can be emailed home and back to school. room1@pahoia.school.nz or email me bobby@pahoia.school.nz
• Share an exciting experience eg. Photos, brochures, report…
• Have some fun and tell us about it.
• Tell a joke!

Homework. Sink your teeth into it.

Homework Week Three

Let’s celebrate authors for homework.

Writers need to be observant. We need to recall details about a scene or a place.
Go into your bedroom. In three minutes write down all of the objects in your bedroom.
The third object in your list is the one I would like you to describe in writing in such a way that another person can work out what it is without your naming it or its actual use.

Do the same with your kitchen and lounge.

Collect an example of an author’s descriptive writing detailing a setting eg. A house, a street, a mountain, a sunset.

Remember to record what you are reading and get your parent to sign it.

Times table focus is 7x.

Our word study this fortnight is to find the dictionary definitions or alternative words using a thesaurus for the following words: celebration, talent, magnificent, average, observational, mandatory, optional.

An optional extra activity is to put these words cunningly into a sentence.

If you have time let me know some of the exciting things that you get up to when you aren’t at school. I enjoy learning about your interests; it helps me to get to know you better.

Have fun. I’m looking forward to seeing how creatively you set your homework out.

Celebrate!

Try this cool geography game at home.

http://www.freepoverty.com/

Room One 2010

Welcome back to school families of Room One students, we welcome especially Elijah and his family. The fun filled holidays are over but we can still enjoy what remains of the summer in a different way here at school.

This year our focus is 'Celebration' with a special focus on celebrating our TALENTS this term. The children have been asked to bring in evidence of a talent they have or someone they know.

The class blog is up and running, feel free to take a look and make a comment. If making a comment via this platform is impossible I welcome emails bobby@pahoia.school.nz and love receiving letters or notes. Our homework folders are also a handy avenue to use for communication between home and school. Homework will begin in Week Three which coincides with Meet The Teacher evening. Any homework questions can be answered then. I am looking forward to meeting as many of you as possible then.

Swimming will be every Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. A note is required explaining why your child is not swimming.

2010 is going to be an exciting year. I look forward to experiencing many adventures with your children. Thank you for sharing them with me.

Bobby Murphy

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