Room 21
Tena koutou, Talofa lava, Malo e lelei, Kia orana Murhuba, Namaste, Ni hao, Hello
Tuesday, 29 December 2015
Sunday, 20 December 2015
2015 Room 21 Award Winners.
End of year awards Room 21
Sowden cup :
-Taparia Engu – For excellenc
e in literacy, being an active participant in school activities and having a
fantastic attitude toward learning.
Merit
awards:
-Alistair
Stowers - Academic excellence in all areas .
Class awards
:
-Emmanuel Emmanuel
- For diligence at school and an
excellent attitude toward learning.
-Mary-Anne -
For consistent effort in all areas, resulting in sound academic
improvement.
-Mamia Marsh – For a
positive attitude toward learning and consistently producing her best work at a
very high standard.
Tama Toa
Levi is a year 6 student who took maths in room 21 several years ago. He graduates this year.
Graduation for Year 6 students
Students who graduated tonight are moving on to intermediates throughout Manurewa and Papakura. The graduates were impeccably dressed and all had a great time. Mrs Brown was given a heart felt farewell. It was an exciting evening.
High Wire by Kaleb
High Wire by Kaleb
Kaleb told this story to Alistair,
who typed it.
WOW! That
was the best thing I have ever done in school time! At the end I got a
certificate from High Wire and gifts from them. High Wire is by Papakura. Every
Thursday is when we go to High Wire. I’d like to tell you who came. Hyson, Corrina,
Serena, Arnov, Dtroyt, Dhruv, Grace, Jarayius, Alyssa and I (Kaleb).
On the first day we
went in a taxi van to High Wire. We told our names to Carly and Rachael. We
first went into a movie theatre. We told them our favourite foods in the world.
Then we went outside and we had to cross the road so that we can get to the
rugby fields! We learnt how to tie knots, we did activities with Carly and
Rachael and we enjoyed it. We did the “Two legged race”. We did an activity
that was in an imaginary cave. We got a plank, a car wheel, a hula hoop and a
piece of straight cardboard. The grass is supposed to be lava! If anybody falls
off any pieces of equipment, they would have to carry the equipment back to the
start until we got it right with teamwork! We went into a classroom where Carly
and Rachael and we got little notebooks from them. We did drawings and did some
writing in it too! We looked around the place. We did “Tug-of-war” with a rope.
We took pictures of all of us sitting on the deck.
On the second day we
did fitness!!!! We got some rope and a normal and empty bin that we pretended
was a bomb. We tied the rope around the bin and we had to pull it out of the
cone so the bomb doesn’t explode! If the bin falls over then the bomb will
explode. The equipment was a long stick the size of Ms Turner’s 1 metre ruler, cones
and the bomb (bin). We wrote some more in our notebook and drew in our
notebooks too!
I got a special pen from
Mr Thew because Mrs Griffin came with us to High Wire. She only saw standing
out was Dhruv, Dtroyt, Hyson and me. We also got a special pen that says
“Effort brings reward Manurewa Central School” on it.
On the third day we
did BMX riding. We had to cross the road again. We got on the BMX bikes and
went on the grass to get to the BMX track. There were heaps of bumps and Alyssa
and Grace got hurt! Grace hadn’t ridden a bike in a looooooooooong time!!!! We
went down a big ramp. It was fun. There were big hills and little hills. At the
end we had a race on the grass with the BMX bikes. Mr Grover took pictures of
us riding the BMX bikes. I even have one on my certificate!
Room 17 - Experts
The children from room 17 came to teach room 21 how to do the actions to Te hei mauri ora. We all had a lot of fun. It was Ka pai.
Kristal - Applying the face paint.
A big thanks from the Tawhirimatea dance team to Kristal, who ensured the Maori face designs (Moko) looked amazing.
Kei koe he whetu - You're a star.
The Winds of Tawhirimatea dancers - Mary-Anne and Taleisi
... "The winds of Tawhirimatea" as you already know. It was about a big hurricane made by the god of the wind called Tawhirematea. Story by Abbey.
Writing - Looking for exciting vocabulary.
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In small groups, the children brainstorm to find exciting vocabulary to use in their descriptive tiger stories. They are using a Thesaurus to find
synonyms or words with a similar meaning. eg. instead of using 'big' they could use: large, huge or enormous.
Diversity Calendars - examples of the classes work
The children in Room 21 are a very diverse group. Our calendar art this year is made up of a combination of symbols representing the cultures and ethnicities from our class.
Science experiments.
Ahaana and Kamryn-Ginnywith their science projects.
Both girls received a distinction award for their terrific projects.
Rico's Maltese Cashew
Fatu and Click by Taparia Engu year 4
WOW!!! I had such an amazing time at Vodafone event centre! We watched a play called “Fatu and click". The people who acted it out were from Tangaroa college and MAN... They were amazingly awesome! If you would like to know more then READ ON!!!
"Mum! Mum! Something smells good is it for me?" asked the daughter. The mum looked at her and said "who's birthday is it Fatu?" asked mum. Fatu knew it was her younger brother, Ietie’s birthday. "Oh mum! Grr" grumbled Fatu.
Then dad popped up." Ah my son Ietie it is your birthday! I remember when you were born the sky grew bright with stars!" Fatu heard and went over asking "what about me, dad what did you see?" Dad told her that he saw an octopus but an octopus is smart.☺️
"Happy birthday Ietie!" shouted the brothers and sister Fatu. They celebrated till suddenly HAHAHAHAHA!!! An evil laugh was coming from the dark. Out of nowhere 2 dark figures stalked out of darkness laughing and cackling with dark evil intent. "We are the ‘The Witches!’ And we have come for our slave!"
“You’re what?" Shouted dad confused.
"Oh come on you can't be this stupid!!!" shouted the witches.
What did you do, that they ask this? Well when mum and dad got married dad accidentally made a deal that one of his sons would become a slave of the witches. They tricked Ietie into drinking a hideous poison that turned Ietie to rock! Gasp! Then they left the family heartbroken.
Quite a while later they heard more voices, "Who runs the world? AUNTIES!!" The aunties came in the house (they were and still are showoffs) and gave the boys a massive telling off! (I wish I could give the boys a massive telling off).
Ietie was stuck in a rock and he couldn't talk or move till a crab came by the name Click. He climbed onto Ietie and pinched him so hard his voice box snapped back on! Ietie was horrified to see that his little crab Click was slowly crawling away while Ietie was still stuck as stone. The brothers came back home doing the same things they always did which was of course horseplay then all of a sudden they heard Ietie speak. “Brothers you must be good to get rewards if you don't you will be stuck with everybody disliking you" Ietie wisely said. At first they thought they were crazy but then they realised that it was Ietie speaking! They listened and made some changes and because of that everybody liked them.
Kina the older brother was irritated because while the whole family were listening to Ietie he lost a spear throwing competition so he stomped to the house in a terrible rage then when he got there he pushed Ietie off the side of the house into the deep dark depths of the blue sea.
The family were angrier than an elephant stomping on a man! They threw lots of complaints at Kina and he knew that he had made them furious. Suddenly out of the dark stalked the Witches in a rage! "You think you can outsmart us with your Crab Click!?" shouted the witches. "And we want something to drink!" They demanded. (I forgot to tell you at the beginning, Kina hid the hideous poison in the sand that turned Ietie into stone. Watch this next part and see what happens.) Kina rushed out of the house unseen, grabbed the poison and rushed back into the house to trick the witches into drinking the poison. And guess what? They drank it! And in an instant they disappeared. Kina had killed the witches! They were happy so Kina grabbed a spear and threw it and it kept on going. They were happy and smiled.
And that is the story of Fatu and Click thank you for enjoying my recount and remember Effort brings reward.
Tuesday, 27 October 2015
Eagle and Squirrel
Great
Sentences: Eagle vs Squirrel
In room 21
we a learning to write descriptive sentences and re-craft the work to make it
sound even better. Here are some sample sentences.
Mamia – The ferocious eagle had sharp hooks and was a blood
thirsty, powerful, dangerous but ghostly beast.
Tyrone – He saw his prey and swooped like a killing machine.
Alistair- The squirrel flinched and dashed away, running for
its life, WHOOSH!
Alex – The eagle has big wings and a razor beak.
Abbey- While the eagle flew out of sight, the squirrel peeked
out his house hole, terrified, his heart beating rapidly.
Kaleb - The eagle is a predator who likes to eat juicy meat.
Esheeta – Sneakily swooping through the forest, the eagle
looks like an owl bird.
Nirari - the ferocious, hungry eagle flew swiftly through the
trees, chasing the squirrel for his dinner.
Ahaana – The eagle is a blood thirsty killing machine with
razor sharp knife like talons, soaring through the sky majestically.
Alesana- The eagle is graceful, glorious and dangerous. It is
also powerful and very magnificent.
Gavy – The eagle was staring with enhanced eyesight, dodging
trees, not giving up.
Labron –The squirrel scrambled into a tree truck in the nick
of time.
Tavita – The eagle is a beautiful thing to look at but there’s
a catch. It is a killing machine!
Jane – The eagle is a well designed energetic, sneaky,
curious and majestic predator.
Emily – The magnificent flying eagle was fluttering its
feathers.
Mohammad – The glorious dangerous eagle is furiously trying
to catch its speedy prey.
Liam- The eagle kept its big pitch black eye focused, carefully
not taking them off the squirrel.
Kamryn-Ginny - The
eagle swiftly swooped, dived and pounced off a tree branch.
Tanishka – The powerful, dangerous eagle is flying in the
sky, swooping and trying to pounce on the squirrel.
Taparia – Whoosh! As a small, mini sized squirrel sat
peacefully down, a hungry maroon coloured, ghostly quiet bird swooped down on a
rough branch, thinking to himself, “I could use some squirrel stew tonight.”
Emmanuel – Once there was a dangerous looking eagle trying o
chase his tasty prey. He swiftly chased the squirrel like a lion chasing a
deer.
Trinity – The majestic dangerous eagle swooped down onto a
tree branch. “ Yeah,” he thought, “I’m going to catch this squirrel and gobble
it up.”
Mary- The
killing machine soars around with its enhanced eyesight kept on its prey. Its
tail balances and directs the eagle through the branches and leaves.
Monday, 26 October 2015
Saturday, 24 October 2015
Saturday, 3 October 2015
Keeping safe by Jane
Yesterday Ms Turner introduced us to
this amazing topic, keeping safe because there are lots of kids that are
walking to school by themselves and there are kids that still have to learn how
to keep themselves safe. Well I can
help you with that.
Step 1. When you’re walking home
don’t take short cuts covered with bushes where no one can see you.
Step 2. If you’re going to the park
alone bring a group of friends.
Step 3. If you think a stranger is
following you scream as loud as you can and run away and look for an adult to
help you or an open shop.
Step 4. Tell a trusted person what
happened.
Now you know how to keep yourself
safe and always tell your parents where you’re going.
Today Constable Sally talked about a
secret code that only your mum and dad and family knows. So if you’re mum is at
the doctors she might say to a man go and pick up my daughter she would say what’s
my code “ice –cream” then you will know it’s a good stranger. I am now an expert
at keeping safe I also learnt a lot from it. Also don’t ever never get fooled by their trick tracks.
Keeping ourselves safe by Kaleb
Yesterday we watched a dvd about keeping safe. There was a man named Bryan and the other one
was Bobby a dog. Bryan is a policeman.
The first thing to keep safe is run
away.
Step two is get home, to school or
into a shop quickly.
Step three is to tell a trusted
person what happened.
Bryan said don’t take short cuts like
taking a short cut through the park.
Friday, 25 September 2015
Science Experiment - Procedural Text.
Question:
Can a needle go through a balloon without popping it?
Hypothesis:
Room 21 decided that:
“Yes I think so if there is something like detergent to
block the hole.”
Equipment:
Balloons
Long needle
(meat skewer)
Dishwashing
liquid
Method:
1. Blow up a
balloon and then tie it up tightly.
2. Put
dishwashing liquid on the needle.
3. Put
dishwashing liquid on the balloon.
4. Stick the
needle through the balloon carefully. The results are…the balloon bursts like a
volcano bursting.
CONCLUSION!
My hypothesis appeared to be
wrong.
Next step:
Do some
more research to find a better way to
test our hypothesis.
After
looking at the experiment on youTube, we have decided to rub the oil into the
stick for at least 1 minute and only
blow the balloon up to a medium size.
We’ll
keep you posted and let you know what happens.
Thursday, 24 September 2015
Sunday, 20 September 2015
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