Room One is the bomb!

Last post from Mrs Murphy

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Hi guys,

I've had a wonderful year sharing our learning together. We have made loads of cool memories. I will miss you all. But remember that where ever you go in the world you will always be my babies. No matter what you will be in my heart.

May you all have many groovy adventures. I hope to hear about them. Keep in touch.

My new email address is bobbytmurphy@gmail.com

Arohanui

Mrs M

A lullaby for Christma by Tiki Tane. Help support Tiki as he supports Starship Hospital.

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Sometimes life is tough. Never give up, never surrender!

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Crazy paper thing.

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Mechanical Harry Madness. Thanks David for the link.

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Whakamaru Fun.

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A quieter trip home.

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This is the life.

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A cunning plan team. Clever thinking.

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Oh dear, something had to go wrong.

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Stick your tongue out. It helps with balance. Hmmmm.

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Magical Mr Mistoffolees

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Go faster!

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Don't look down.

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ARGH!

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Champion obstacle course team.

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Just hanging about. Easier said than done.

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Water challenges BEFORE we went to war.

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Wild Wall William.

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Overcoming fears is so satisfying.

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Go higher!

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Team Talk/Walk

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Look out for the ace shot.

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Top Team Madness at Whakamaru

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Spelling success stories for Wednesday.

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Congratulations to:
Braden,Hayley, Zak, William, Tyla,Shyanne, Elijah,Libby and David who have gone up a spelling book level.
Jazz, Isla, Rebecca and Mikayla got 98-100% on the Now You Can spell test today.

Your teacher is very proud of your efforts. Best of luck for your test tomorrow.
Remember to bring your exciting homework ideas tomorrow. Or else you will be eaten by a viscious, wild and crazy teacher. (Matt and Braden said that!)

This may help you with your homework ideas.

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Celebrate Spelling Some More.

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Todays Champion spellers are Braden, Isla, Jazz, Zak, Natalie and Mikayla. Congratulations guys. Practice does pay off.

Let's make Mrs Meder smile.

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Team One
Let's remember to bring back ALL of our permissions slips, health forms and money for camp by Wednesday at the latest.
Then Mrs Meder in the office will love us forever.

Camp Gear List

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Day pack/school bag with you on bus
Sunhat
Warm jersey
Book
Pack of cards and/or quiet activity
Water bottle
Pencil case
Camp diary (These will be handed out on camp)
Packed morning tea, lunch for Tuesday!
Children are NOT allowed to bring electronic devices.

Pack / suitcase
Towels x2
Toilet gear, include soap
Pillow and pillow case
Sleeping bag or sheets and blanket
Pyjamas
Jersey/sweatshirts for 4 days
Shorts for 4 days
Trousers for 4 days
T-Shirts for 4 days
Underwear for 4 days
Socks for 4 days
Raincoat
Covered shoes for tramping and tree climbing
Jandals
Swimming togs
Plastic bags for dirty clothes
Insect repellent
Sunscreen
Book/s
A few pegs to dry wet clothes
Home baking
Fruit to share

Camp Reminders

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Whakamaru Camp is next week! You will need to be at school on Tuesday by 8:30am unless you are coming on the bus as normal. We will load the bus and leave school by 9am. Please be punctual as our camp programme is very full and needs to run according to scheduled times. We will return to school on Friday by 3:00pm.

Please have shared baking, crackers and fruit ready to be packed into storage on the bus separate to general luggage. This will help speed up our organisation.

Remember to pack your day pack/school bag with items needed during the journey as the luggage compartment will not be opened until we reach Lake Whakamaru. If your child gets travel sick then you may want to take a travel sickness pill the night before and a plastic bag – just in case.

Parents Coming on Camp
As you are camp supervisors feel free to growl any young mischief makers during the camp. We will only accept the most stunning manners, care and respect for each other and property as well as great decision making. If you are faced with a problem then Mrs Murphy or MR T are only a few steps away.
We will talk about camp duties, safety and sleeping arrangements when we are at camp. It’s going to be great fun, so enjoy yourself!

A gear list is on the back of this sheet. Make sure you look at this carefully. It’s a long drive home if you forget your togs!

See you next week.

Let's celebrate spelling!

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Congratulations to today's sensational spellers who moved up a spelling group: Caitlin, Braden, Zen, Sian, David and Tyla. Also Mikayla, Jazz and Isla who got 100% but they are already in the You Can Spell spelling group.
I wonder how we will get on tomorrow?!

Science never stops. This is cool. But how does it work?

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Technology Homework

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Technology Homework

Let’s get creative again with our homework. Instead of finding and creating sensational sentences I would like you to create ‘Mechanical Harry’ ideas for our classroom or school playground.

You will need to think of something that needs to be done first, then organise your creative ideas into order, then sketch the process that will need to occur.

Also, include the materials you will need to use. For example: cotton reels, a pulley, string, a lever, a pivot.

To help you with ideas please collect examples of inventions. Bring them to school to share each day.

We will be having a spelling test every day for the next fortnight. Make sure that you have a copy of each list so you can practise them each night.

Enjoy!

Mrs M

Technology is our focus curriculum area for next term. Here is a little taster of what it could involve.

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A beautiful animation. Very clever.

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Descendants from Goro Fujita on Vimeo.

Yippee, it’s homework time again.

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Jasmine congratulations, you blew your homework the farthest out of the water last week. Stunning.

Please take some time to read the stunning homework sentences on the wall in the book nook, also check out how they have been illustrated. These will be added to during the rest of the term.

Ag Day is fast approaching. This year Rooms One and Two are focusing on the science side of Ag Day. We will be completing either a research project based on an agricultural or horticultural product or else a science project where you can demonstrate your practical understanding of science in agriculture or horticulture. Already you have put a lot of thinking and planning time into your topic.

So, for homework you will be gathering information, making lists of things you need to collect at school for your experiment/s, talking to experts AND finding a large cardboard box which will be your display board. The criteria for judging these are on the back of this homework sheet.

Let’s continue with finding ‘sensational sentences’ from what you are reading, and then writing your own. Topics for writing this fortnight are: Morning, Sleep, and School.

I still need to see the titles of what you are reading, the newspaper, magazines, dictionary and books are all reading material. Jot their titles down as well as your opinion of them.

Your new spelling words will need to be defined and your 6 times tables practiced.

Enjoy!

Mikayla's simple and effective description of 'evening'

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"As the sun sets on Katikati out comes the HOMEWORK. Then the nagging begins, "Focus, focus, focus!"
"Mmmmm, what's that delicious thing cooking in the oven?"

What scientific thinking made these bubbles work so well?

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Stinson Beach Bubbles (canon 550D) from markdaycomedy on Vimeo.

Check this out. I always wondered how they did this.

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Try this link for a daily NASA update. It's fascinating.

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http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/

What techniques are used to make this speech so effective?

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It’s official – Homework can be enjoyable!!!!

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After our class discussion we have decided that homework isn’t that painful after all. We like being able to be creative with our layout and select when to do the activities. Having two weeks to complete it means that if we are busy or sick we still have time to get it done. Most of us are proud of the way we present our homework, but interestingly most of us know that we can step up and present our work in an even better way. Look out world here comes Room One!

Sensational sentences have been collected over the past few weeks and reasons given for why they work so well. Now select one and present it on an A4 piece of paper in your most creative way, illustrate it, give your opinion about why it is such a groovy sentence, and remember to include the title and author. Punctuation and spelling MUST be accurate!!!

Then, write a sentence of your own that is sensational. A sentence that describes the evening at your place. JUST ONE SENTENCE! Then if you are feeling creative you may write a sentence about spring, or your garden, or the night.

We are gathering some interesting science facts. This fortnight please collect one fact that relates to each of the sciences chemistry, biology, physics, meteorology, astrology and geology. That’s six facts you need to find. Our science trip on Thursday will help with this. Have you brought your permission slip in for this?

It’s speech week. Wednesday will be our class competition. Then Friday will be the Senior School competition. Practise, practise, practise. That is the key to fabulous speech giving.

Times tables focus is 9x.

As our assembly was rained out we will try to video our plays and poems to put on our class blog. Stay tuned.

Every kid needs to see this!

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Glorious Homework

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It’s Room One’s turn to host the Community Whole School Assembly this Friday. If you need to memorise your lines then that is your most important homework focus this week. Remember to gather props before Thursday too.

Congratulations to Natalie, Ryan, Jazz, Isla, Caitlin, Tyla, Aden and Hayley for the sensational sentences you discovered, shared and gave opinions about. Glorious. We will ALL be doing that again for homework, selecting brilliantly constructed sentences, look for alliteration, onomatopoeia, interesting vocabulary, complex sentences, images, similes. At least three sentences please.

You will each have a spelling list to add to your homework sheet. Please learn these, define them, and practise using them in sentences out loud or written down.

Timestables focus is 8x. Practise them, ENJOY them, and teach them to someone else.

Remember to record the books/magazines/newspapers you read each day. A parent MUST sign this section.

Collect an interesting scientific fact. It could be something to do with biology, chemistry, physics, or meteorology. Have fun discovering.

Fascinating Science

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Why did the water rise in our experiment with the candle and glass? Here are a few reasons from experts.

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How does it work?
The candle needs oxygen to burn. When you cover the burning candle with the jar, the flame eventually goes out as soon as all of the oxygen is used up. Since there is no more oxygen under the jar, the rest of the gases (nitrogen, argon, carbon dioxide, and others) exert less pressure than the atmospheric air. The greater atmospheric pressure on the outside of the bottle pushes the water in the pan up into the bottle.

There is another important factor that accounts for the rise in water level. The candle flame heats the air in the bottle, and this hot air expands. Some of the expanding air escapes out from under the bottle — you might see some bubbles. When the flame goes out, the air in the jar cools down and the cooler air contracts. The contraction of the air draws the water up into the bottle.

My understanding is different than yours. I believe that every O2 burned is replaced by a CO2 so there should be no significant pressure change from burning O2. This can be seen because the water rises only as the candle is going out and the air is cooling and most of the rise happens after the candle is out all together - when no O2 is being burned. The air expansion is responsible for nearly all the water rising and the water is not "drawn" up as you describe, but pushed in from the outside by the air pressure. An interesting related experiment is to rust some steel wool in the top of the bottle which should indeed result in rising water because O2 is being chemically combined with the iron.

I agree that the heat from the candle causes the gas in the bottle to expand which causes some air to escape which is what may cause the bubbles to form under the bottle. I also agree that when it begins to cool the pressure caused by the heated gas goes down. BUT when the candle burns it not only produces CO2 it also produces water vapor which I have seen condense on the side...SO not all of the O2 goes into the CO2 it goes in to Water as well which occupies less volume. Either way I think the rise in water has to do with the difference in pressure outside vs inside...like a Hg barometer

Homework Weeks Two and Three. Term Three

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Science is our big focus this term. We will be looking at things that grow and change, from the smallest electron to the biggest ‘anything’.

Your challenge is to collect ten interesting scientific words and their definitions AND to learn to spell and define the following useful words:
chemical, chemistry, molecule, research, elements, growth, experiment, hypothesis, conclusion, equipment.
We will have a scientific spelling test each fortnight based on your homework spelling.

I will be putting a few simple science experiments on our class blog. Feel free to try some at home. BUT you will need an adult to say if it is ok to do it first!!!!
If you happen to find an experiment that looks cool to try at school bring the idea in your homework folder and share it.

We have been collecting sensational sentences when we read at school. Please find and record at least three sensational sentences for homework also. Add why you think they are such excellent sentences. This is a mandatory (must do) activity NOT optional (may do).

Remember to record what you have read, also add the author and publisher.

Our times table focus is 9x. Remember to mix it up or go past 20.

Teamwork and perseverance. Impressive.

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Landslide

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How did they do this?

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What do you think of this?

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Just for fun.

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Try this site to set up a dramatic battle. See if you can save it and send it to me. Have fun! Copy and paste this URL http://www.adgame-wonderland.de/type/bayeux.php

Challenging homework for the end of term two.

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Tyla Moore you are the HOMEWORK STAR. Your last lot of homework showed a layout which was very effective. Our guest teachers were most impressed.

This week you all have a couple of optional tasks to try as well as the mandatory 90s research. The first optional activity is making the 2-4-1 glider from the template attached to your homework sheet and following link http://www.sciencetoymaker.org/hangGlider/index.htm . The second optional activity is a short story competition. See below for details.

SHORT STORY COMPETITION
Explore the depths of your inner mind and start your story with one of these

The morning was different… Now I'm in real trouble!... If only…

Rev up your imaginations and win prizes, the Bay of Plenty Times and Bookrapt bring you the 'Short Story Competition' for 2010. The entries will be judged in two categories; Years 5 & 6 and Years 7 & 8

Stories will be judged on the following:
• Originality
• Individual writing style
• A well-developed plot
• Clear characterisation
• Good presentation
• Satisfactory ending
• Good use of dialogue
• Tension and suspense

Conditions of entry:
1. Open to all students in the Bay of Plenty Times' circulation area
2. Stories must be students own work
3. The story must be presented typed on one side, double-spaced on A4 paper (no handwritten text will be accepted)
4. No more than 750 words
5. A completed and signed entry form must accompany each story
6. The companies decision is final and no further correspondence will be entered into.

Prizes $30 book vouchers to four award-winning stories in each section! Highly- commended certificates to be presented

Enjoy!

Instructions for flight.

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Homework challenge. This looks like a lot of fun and will use up the old phonebooks.

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A homework treat for my lovelies.

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Wicked 80s Homework

Dudes,
Your 70s research was fascinating. What a busy decade. Particularly impressive homework was completed by Isla, Jazz, Olivia, Natalie and Elizabeth. On the whole your observations of the night helped you in your quest for a deeper word bank. Some of you gathered such powerful words that you were moved to use them in beautiful ways. Check some of them out on our class blog.

Now we are focusing on the 80s for the next fortnight. This time when you research add your opinion about at least ten important events. Include details about who, what, why, where, when the event happened.

Word Study
“or”
Collect words that include ‘or’ sounds. Three to four words beginning with the digraphs ‘aw’ as in saw, ‘or’ as in fork, ‘au’ as in sauce, ‘awe’ as in awesome, ‘a’ as in ball, ‘oor’ as in door.
Place a tick beside the words that have the common ‘or’ sounds that you need to remember. Then work on remembering them!

AND collect at least three observations of the ‘weather’ this fortnight just as you collected observations of the night.

Timestables
7x recap.
Mrs Murphy’s maths group must be practising their 3x and 5x also.

Remember to bring in your homework THIS Friday to demonstrate your progress so far. I’m pleased that fewer of you are putting off your study until the last moment. AND record the books you read each day.

Have fun
Mrs M and Miss Phipps and Miss Wynne

Lulu and the Lampshades are my new favourite band. They did the cup songthat Room One learned last year.

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Congratulations Team!

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Congratulations learners in Room One. The majority of you are on track with your fortnightly homework. I have seen evidence of observations of the night, 70s research, daily reading and timetables progress. You've made your teacher proud. I have learnt a lesson about putting off work until the last moment recently with my university study. It's not a delicious feeling is it?!!!
However, I must celebrate my A+ for my first assignment. What a cool feeling.

The Sea. By David and his Thesaurus

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The vivid blue sea looked relaxed and the ripples shimmered with the reflection of the sun until the dark stormy clouds blew over and the sea became rough and the tempestuous current thrashed the waves onto the shore.

Congratulations Jazz on being the first to create and save a scribble. How can we use this for real now?

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70s homework for weeks four and five.

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Room One I am a very proud teacher. On the whole your homework over the past fortnight has been sensational. Most of you stepped up a level in your presentation as well as the depth of your work. Your poems about the sea were beautiful I have put a few examples on our blog. Now the world can enjoy them.

How will you improve your homework this time? Perhaps you will present it differently, or use linked handwriting, or complete an optional activity…

Annie Rae Te Ake Ake spoke to us last week about making a bank of words in our heads. She encouraged us to be tellers of tales, to enjoy poetry and songs and to observe carefully. I would like you to observe the night and write all of the details you notice this next fortnight. Take a blanket and make sure that you go on your own so you are not distracted. Do it a couple of times at least. Notice the changes from each night.

This fortnight we will be focusing on the 70s. Collect information, fashion, music, inventions, events from the 70s. The decade of nuclear issues in NZ, Saturday Night fever, Rocky Horror, Elvis died, the Vietnam War continues, the Beatles break up, and Rolling Stones, when did the ‘punk’ trend start…

You will eventually be selecting an event from the 70s to create a project on. Your home research will help with this. Keep Mum and Dad informed about this.

List as many words as you can about the 70s. Define at least ten of them.

Timestable focus 8x. Mix them up. Go past 12.

Even though homework is for a fortnight I would like you all to bring your homework in this Friday so that I can see how you are progressing and that you are NOT putting it all off until next week.

Have fun

Mrs M

The Sea. By Dylan

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As the waves rush in and touch the sand,
I stood on a crab the size of my hand,
I tripped, I fell, I washed out to sea,
As the big waves rushed over me.
Being tossed and turned I'm feeling green,
Like I am being trapped in a giant washing machine.
The rolling waves are dragging me down,
I wish I was eating an icecream back in town.
The waves are churning the tides are turning,
I saw a boat, I tried to scream,
I woke up sunburnt, it was just a dream!

The Silent Sea. By Rebecca

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The calm sea laps gently against the rocks. Water seeps into the rock pools. The pools fill slowly., the rocks become wet, shiny and submerged. The water rises quietly until the waves overlap the rock pool edges. Gradually the water in the rock pool goes down, spilling silently out, back into the sea and the rock pool is empty once more.

70s commercial for a Big Mac. How has advertising changed since then?

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A Sea-motion-al Day. By Isla

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Over the sand dunes kids play on their boggie boards day after day.
I watch from my boat bobbing up and down, up and down, keeping a float.
Waves are crashing and tumbling rolling and unfolding as far as the eye can see.
The sun is shinning bright there is not a single cloud in the sky, a perfect day for a snooze.
The gentle sway of the boat reminds me of when I was little, lying in a cradle rocking from side to side.
A comforting memory.

*

I’m asleep.
I smell a warm tropical breeze fragrant with hibiscus and pawpaw.
I hear the distant strumming of a ukulele.
I open my eyes and see the vast, shady leaves of the coconut palms.
I feel the gentle sway to and fro, to and fro of my restful hammock.
I drink deeply of my delicious fruit cocktail which slips through my hands and delivers a cold shock!

*

I am awake now, trying to get my breath back, I’m wet through.
A boiling, foamy wave has swamped my boat.
Panic sets in, I have to get back to shore, a storm is brewing.
My boat surfs the peaks of monstrous waves then crashes down into the troughs over and over, like some petrifying rollercoaster ride.
The spray from the waves batters my face and stings my eyes.
The motor of the boat is almost dying, coughing and choking like an old sewing machine.
The shore looks so far away, will it ever come closer?
Surprisingly, I hear the familiar sound of sand scraping against the bottom of the wooden boat.
Relief washes over me, safe at last.

Sian has written a beautiful poem about the sea for homework.

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I watch as the sea
comes closer
and the waves
get bigger.
I listen as the waves
crash on top of each other.
I sing
as the sea takes my breath
away.
I smell the salt
as it runs
through my palm.
WOW
the sea is wonderful .

from Sian Donaldson Room 1

Have some fun with this site. Send me a masterpiece.

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Click here to begin your creation

Has the music of the 60s affected the music we listen to today?

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Homework for my cherubs during weeks two and three.

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How will you improve your homework this time? Perhaps you will present it differently, or use linked handwriting, or complete an optional activity…

This fortnight I would like you to write poem or two (which may or may not rhyme), or a prose paragraph, about the endless movement of the sea.
I would like you to write so that readers will feel the sensation of the sea’s movement when they read it. The readers may feel giddy, or sea sick, or invigorated by the tidal shifts.
Excellent snippets will be published on the blog.

Timestable focus 8x.

Social Science challenge for the week. Collect information, fashion, music, inventions, events from the 60s. The decade of flower power, the Vietnam War, the Beatles and Rolling Stones…

List as many words as you can about the 60s. Define at least ten of them.

An alternative story ending by William.

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‘Who is he? I said. ‘And why does he sit always alone, with his back to us, too?’
‘Ah’ ! whispered Will ‘He is Lordred and is under strict rules from his father that in all of his spare time he must practise the ways of a Druid. If any one distracts him they will be turned to stone. ‘Why would he want his son to be a Druid so much?’ I say. ‘He is the most powerful Druid in all time. And Lordred has to take his fathers place.’

My kids loved these stories. In fact they still do!!! What do you think?

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Isla has recommended this to share. It is very clever and tugs at your heart strings. Thanks Isla.

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This video shows the winner of "Ukraine’s Got Talent", Kseniya Simonova, 24, drawing a series of pictures on an illuminated sand table showing how ordinary people were affected by the German invasion during World War II. Her talent, which admittedly is a strange one, is mesmeric to watch.

The images, projected onto a large screen, moved many in the audience to tears and she won the top prize of about £75,000.

She begins by creating a scene showing a couple sitting holding hands on a bench under a starry sky, but then warplanes appear and the happy scene is obliterated.

It is replaced by a woman’s face crying, but then a baby arrives and the woman smiles again. Once again war returns and Miss Simonova throws the sand into chaos from which a young woman’s face appears.

She quickly becomes an old widow, her face wrinkled and sad, before the image turns into a monument to an Unknown Soldier.

This outdoor scene becomes framed by a window as if the viewer is looking out on the monument from within a house.

In the final scene, a mother and child appear inside and a man standing outside, with his hands pressed against the glass, saying goodbye.

The Great Patriotic War, as it is called in Ukraine, resulted in one in four of the population being killed with eight to 11 million deaths out of a population of 42 million.

Kseniya Simonova says:
"I find it difficult enough to create art using paper and pencils or paintbrushes, but using sand and fingers is beyond me. The art, especially when the war is used as the subject matter, even brings some audience members to tears. And there’s surely no bigger compliment."

What do you think of this? Make a comment. Share your opinion.

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I can't wait to see your homework on Friday guys. Here is a weird video to keep you entertained until then.

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Funky Chicken. Oh my goodness!!!!

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Celebration is our theme but this is funny.

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Just for a laugh.

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Delicious homework for weeks seven and eight

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Thank you all for your homework last week, many of you created some interesting relatives.. Check the blog for some examples of excellent writing. The stand outs for excellent homework presentation were Ahren, Jasmine and Ryan. If you get a chance have a look at their work.

First Person or Third Person

Here are the beginnings to stories that Katherine Mansfield wrote. The first is in third person (where we write ‘he’ or ‘she’). The second is in first person (when we write ‘I’). You choose one of these beginnings and complete the story by saying what was in the letter or why ‘he’ always sits alone. Just choose one to complete.

From ‘the Swing of the Pendulum’:

‘The land lady knocked at the door.
‘Come in,’ said Viola.
‘There is a letter for you,’ said the land lady, ‘a special letter’ – she held the green envelope in a corner of her dingy apron.’

You may complete this story or the next one.

‘Who is he? I said. ‘And why does he sit always alone, with his back to us, too?’
‘Ah!’ whispered…’

You write who is whispering and what this person says about why ‘he sits always alone’. If it’s because he is lonely you must explain why he is lonely. If he is unhappy you need to explain why he is unhappy. Maybe you’ll think of an entirely original reason for him to behave like this.

Times tables focus is 9x. Challenge yourself, go past 12!

Please list your favourite authors this week. We will make a class list to help encourage each other to read different books.

Spelling Extras

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Spelling words for the next fortnight are:
knight
worthy
effort
peace
contentment
dwell
confusion

Please remember to find their dictionary definitions.

Let's celebrate some homework success.

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William's fascinating "ancestor'. Sparthoredon 505 BC - 435BC

Born in Sparta 505BC.The third son of Poseithodon, a poor athlete. Sparthoredon had a hard life. At the age of 15 he went to the Battle Marathon. His job was to plan the battle. His two brothers died in battle and his father was badly wounded. After the battle Sparthoredon was forced to leave Sparta. In Athens he drew plans, maps and houses. There he became very rich. He had one son. Sparthoredon was murdered while in the woods.

Here is Mikayla's 'ancestor'.
“Wafflecot Bingybong 1900-1916”
My cousin Wafflecot Bingybong was born in Wocha Mocha Bingbong SillyBilly Town. He was a Llama Farmer who loved his work. He could speak to llama’s which is pretty weird and awesomely cool. He sometimes fell in llama poo! His name was pretty weird too. He actually was a ghost, a kind one as well, so were his llama’s. He had 3300 of them. The evil guy, his name was Oogerbooger Evilwevil MrCotterwotter. The evil guy got out a knife and pretended to cut my cousins’ neck, they were best friends. They were playing dead – a different kind of dead, getting out a knife and then slicing across their neck. One day Oogerbooger’s knife slipped and cut Wafflecots neck by accident. Oogerbooger was very upset but now he has learnt his lesson and will never ever play with a real knife again. Luckily Wafflecot forgave Oogerbooger and now goes wherever his friend goes, although no one else can see him, except his Llama’s. THE END

Matt's 'ancestor' has a talent for cricket. Now there's a surprise!
In 1965 Tommy Barn was born and he is my uncle. He was
born in a small town called Pokopoko. Pokopoko was at the top of the north lsland that has now been Vertalike
Tommy liked to be called Barn like a farm barn. Tommys Dad did not like tommy playing cricket because he wanted Tommy to help with chores at his garage workshop.

And then at the age of 19 tommy moved houses and went to go and live with his nana for a while and she did
Not mind if tommy played cricket or not tommys nana always came and supported tommy
At his cricket. . And then he was so good and then when he terned
21 years old he got selected to play for a vertalike team called the vertalike smashers
They where the best cricket team in vertalike.Tommy always went home and start playing
Cricket every day after cricket pratice and after school. Tommy lived at 13 night RD.and then
Tommy found this guy and went to go and play for his team called Azo V.and his name was
Dilman scoop he was the best cricket player in the world. THE END!

Nice try. Have another go.

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What a talent!

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Homework Weeks Five and Six

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Room One I am very proud of your attitude to homework, you are showing resourcefulness in your organisation, excellence in your presentation and you demonstrate learning beautifully. Keep it up! Some examples will be on our blog soon, check it out some time. room1online.blogspot.com

Times table focus is 6x.

Inventing An Ancestor
Katherine Mansfield had a vivid imagination. She wrote about people, real people, real locations and real situations, but she could also invent. Once she wrote to a friend, “ Would you not like to try all sorts of lives – one is so very small – but that is the satisfaction of writing – one can impersonate so many people.”

I would like you to invent a person, let’s make it an interesting relative. Here is an example.

“Gertrude Fenella Wattle-Bottle 1897-1969

Gertrude Fenella, or Gerf as she was called, began life in Opoutere, a small coastal settlement at the bottom of the Coromandel Peninsula. Not one to enjoy the sleepy murmur of the tidal lagoon, and attracted to fame, fortune, and new electric lights, at the age of 16 she escaped to Thames and began work for a seamstress who made the costumes for the Thames theatrical Society.”

Word Study (remember that these are your spelling words as well as the words you have spelled incorrectly in your writing tasks)
Define: noun, verb, synonym, antonym, adjective, adverb, dictionary, thesaurus. THRASS at least two of these words, especially the ones that have interesting GCAs.

Alice in Wonderland trailer. This looks fascinating!

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

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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?

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Homework Checklist

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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.

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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!

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Try this cool geography game at home.

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http://www.freepoverty.com/

Room One 2010

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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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We think it is powerful to learn...

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Week Seven Homework. I know that you can't wait for it!

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All of you have created and improved a presentation about a musician. It was interesting to see the different ways of presenting your information. Your challenge now is to create a presentation in using a different format about another musician. For example if you made a power point you could present your findings and opinions in a video, or a booklet, or a speech, or a drama, or a voice thread... Thank you Bianca for handing your homework in on Athletics Day and Megs and Kaleb for emailing yours.

A 100% kid planned filmed, edited and everythinged movie. Well done Mat, Tommy, Kaleb, Chris and Lennox. We can't wait for your next movie clip.

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http://ms-gif-animator.en.softonic.com/ has some ideas for those of you who are keen to make a GIF for our blog. Your other homework challenge is to practise the Cup Song without using the video clip. Remember to record your reading and timestables practise.

Come on Ricky, we are waiting for your next GIF!

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How are your GIFs coming along Ricky?

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Goodness me, here is more!

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http://www.sunlive.co.nz/10198a1.page