Te Reo Maori

We are learning to ask what day it is in te reo Maori.

We practised together in groups and decided to film ourselves and made imovies!

Inquiry Learning - Space

http://www.jogtheweb.com/run/NoUa4TidQSnb/Space

Here is a link to websites we will be using during class time to assist our Inquiry learning.

A song about the Solar System

Room 18's Role Models

In Written Language we wrote paragraphs about who our role model is and why. Here is our fantastic work!

My Mum is my role model because she teaches me to cook, be safe, read and do maths. My mum is the best role model ever because she has almost taught me everything I need to know. She knows how to cut a log without chopping your leg off and at the moment she is teaching me to cook popcorn, cut an apple and make gingerbread men. She is someone who is kind, caring and loving and helps me while I grow up. She always gives me good advice and shows me how to be safe. I can always count on my mum because she always loves me.

By Joshua

My role model is my mum because she always tells me what to do, like look both ways before crossing the road and do really neat handwriting. My mum also teaches me to cook things like cakes, pies, fudge and chocolate. My mum also teaches me how to read really hard words in books. I will follow my mum’s footsteps because she always does the right thing like when the house is messy she will tidy it up right away. Mum also goes to work and makes the family have money and I know that I can trust my mum whenever I go to her.

By Maddy

My role model is my Dad because I like the fact that he’s been doing well lately. My dad owns a retail company and he has got lots of people using Vend, which is his company’s name. His name is Vaughan Rowsell and he cares for my family and me lots. He’s also very talented. When I was about four, he rode his bike all over New Zealand in five weeks, which really inspired me. I love my Dad and I will follow in his footsteps because he has done really amazing things which has encouraged me to do the same. I wil never pick another role model because he is the best person I have met.

By Holly

My role model is someone who I look up to and someone who is very humble. He always corrects me and tells me about good manners. He encourages me when I play cricket and rugby so that’s why I play so well. I always will follow in his footsteps. He is very funny, he makes me laugh all the time. He teaches me cricket and rugby my two favourite sports. He is very smart and he shares his techniques of maths to me. I will always trust him because he has lots of experience in life. He is a very caring person and always looks after me. I can rely on him. I really love him and that role model is my Dad.

By Ishaan

My role model is someone I trust, someone who is responsible and sensible. I want to follow in their footsteps. My role model is someone who has experience in Maths and English subjects. My role model is my mum. I love Mum. I can always trust my mum and ask her for help.

By Melvin

My role model is someone who is humble. My role model is also someone who looks after me. She is responsible and she is a kind person. She is someone who gives me good advice. She teaches me more maths.  She shows me what good behaviour is. She makes me laugh a bit. She is also so sensible and she is also wise. She is respectful and explains things to me. I can always trust my sister. My role model is my sister Connie.

By Jason

My role model is someone that helps me and encourages me. She always takes care of me. She is honest and fair and I can rely on her and that person is my Nana. She is the person that I go to when I have a problem at her house.

By Brianna

Here are some reasons why my brother is my role model. He likes Lego as well as me and when I was four he built me and himself a really col spaceship. He gives me tips of advice for building Lego structures, plus he helps me research for my speech. He told me that Lego was first made in Denmark. My brother corrects me when I do something wrong. When we argue he always forgives me in the end. My brother is the best brother in the world!

By Daniel

My role model is my mum because she helps me with my maths and spelling. Sometimes when I'm not sure how to do something my mum gives me advice. My mum is nice and sometimes funny and she encourages me with my work. This is why my Mum is my role model.

By Jonson

My role model is my Grandad Gindle. I always look up to my Grandad. I walk to school with him. I respect him. He is so precious to me. I never want him to leave. I love my Grandad.

By Danielle

My role model is my mum. My mum is humble and kind. She is always in a good mood. When I need advice she is always willing to help. Mum has a really good job and earns lots of money for the family. She is never bragging and she is always reading from the Bible and I want to do that too. My mum is a great gardener and I like that in a mum.

By Michael

My role model is my big brother James. He gives me examples of how to treat my little brother and sister nicely and how to ignore them when they are annoying. He shows me what is wrong and what is right to do and if I am stuck in a difficult situation he gives me good advice. He tells me that I am responsible for my own belongings. He tells me that I am my little brother and sister's role model and I have to set a good example for them. He encourages me when I am too scared or shy to do something, but in the end I am not too shy or afraid anymore. My brother is an awesome role model.

By Amy

My role model is my mum because my mum is kind and responsible. I can follow in her footsteps and I can rely on her. My mum cares about me. My mum tells me what to do and she is respectful and sensible. That is why my mum is my role model.

By Meg

My role model is my dad because he is sensible and kind. He does everything correct. He is caring and gives me encouragement. I can follow in his footsteps because he is a good parent, not a bad parent. He encourages me for sport, doing art and doing jumps on my scooter and other stuff like that. He is the best my dad. He is a good parent so he is a role model to me. He can also be a good role model to any person.

By Simon

My role model always helps me with my maths. He tells me what to do and what not to do for my future. I will always follow his footsteps because he is really good at maths. He really influences me to do good things like to do what I'm told. He gives me very good advice for when I get older. The advice he gives me the most is about singers. My role model is my dad and it will never change.

By Hazel

My role model is my mum and dad because they are caring and they make good choices for me and my brother and sister. They are encouraging to me, they are kind, trustworthy and they are always happy and very sensible. When I cry and need help they help me and sort it out. They give me techniques for school and I can follow in their footsteps and be like them when I grow up. I love my mum and dad.

By Kelsey

My first role model is my dad because he is sensible and he helps me with tidying my room. When I do something wrong he tells me how to do it right. He encourages me with everything I do. Dad gives me good advice for the future. I always follow in his footsteps. He teaches me everything I know. My dad is the best role model.

By Alana

My role model is Sam my brother because when I do maths he helps me, he is also really nice and he plays with me. Whenever I do something wrong he helps me fix it and he give me good advice. He is a very caring person because sometimes we fight but we always make up.

By Will

My role model is someone that is kind, caring and responsible. She teaches me how to cook and if I make a mistake she tells me how to fix that mistake and she lives in Germany now. She gives me a lot of advice about life, she is very confident. I can trust her a lot and I know that I can tell her anything. My role model is my half sister Julie.

By Brielle

My role model is my cousin Maddy, she is 16. I think that my cousin Maddy is worthy of being a role model because she always cares for me. Whenever I am hurt she helps me go on. She also gives me lollies when I am sad. Maddy is also a great friend. She helped me build a tyre swing, it was really fast! Maddy is a great role model because I can rely on her.

By Carlos

My role model is somebody who looks after me and we both have big personalities. I look up to him all the time. I rely on him a lot. We do everything together. His name is Andrew he is one of my big cousins. I love him as a role model.

By Damian

My best role model is my sister Morgan. I chose Morgan because I know she is always honest and she is always there for me. She tells me if I am doing something wrong and I look up to her. She is very trustworthy because I know I can trust her very much. She teaches me new maths techniques and always encourages me. I know that I can rely on Morgan. I think Morgan is a great role model and will help me with my future.

By Devon

My role model is Mrs Poole because she is kind and caring. She is responsible and reliable and she teaches me maths so now I know that 68 + 23 = 91. I also know that half of 70 is 35. I also love the reading that Mrs Poole is teaching, she is the best role model in town.

By Kerry

My role model is my grandmother she helps me with maths and takes me to shops and zoos or Seaworld. She told me that Earth turns one circle = 1 day, when Earth turns around the Sun = 1 year and when the moon turns around Earth = 1 week. She tells me lots of information that I want to know. When I am stuck on something she always helps me out. She is good to rely on and she tells stories and sings songs and teaches me how to make dumplings. She cares about me and makes me laugh. I can look up to her as she is the best grandmother I ever had in my life.

By Jia Qi

My role model is my dad. He is the best dad anyone has ever had. He is sensible and responsible for what he says and does. He listens to me and helps someone when they need help and he would do it. I think he is a great role model and he will always be my role model.

By Madeline

Madeline's Ballet Achievement

Congratulations to marvellous Madeline on passing her Grade 1 Ballet exam.

Madeline shared her certificate and medal with Room 18.

We are all so proud of you, Madeline.

Writing Paragraphs

We are learning to write paragraphs we use a set of traffic lights to help us!

Green light is the Topic Sentence and is the first sentence in a paragraph, it tells us what the paragraph will be about.
Orange light is the Supporting Sentences which add detail and they need to be about your topic.
Red light is the Ending Sentence which closes your paragraph, it means that your paragraph is finished.

Here is Devon's paragraph she wrote today about her pet cat Harold.

Inquiry Learning - Space Invaders!

Simon's Weekend News

Meg's Weekend News

Working Together

Today Room 21 and Room 18 worked together to make friendship bracelets. The bracelets remind us that to be a good friend we must share, care, listen and play nicely with our friends. We had an awesome morning working with each other and proudly wore our bracelets all day.

Devon's Holiday Diary

In Written Language we are learning to write in paragraphs.

Devon was very lucky because when we all came back to school after the holidays, she went to Australia for a week!  Here is her Australia holiday highlights story. Devon decided to write her story like a diary using paragraphs. Well done Devon.

My Trip to Australia

Friday 26 July

I flew to Australia. When we arrived at the hotel we were staying at I was surprised because my room was amazing. It had a wonderful ocean view and wonderful beds they were so comfortable.

Saturday 27 July

My family and I went the Robina Shopping Centre. At the shops I bought a Diary of a Wimpy Kid Do It Yourself Book. I bought it at the book shop. For lunch I had Hungry Jacks it was delicious.

Sunday 28 July

It was my BIRTHDAY I turned NINE. For my birthday we went to Australia Zoo. First we saw the crocodiles they were only babies. Within minutes we saw the koalas’ one of them had a baby.

Monday 29 July

We went to Sea World. I went on Jet Rescue 4 times it was a roller coaster and it went 70 kilometers per hour it was very fast. I also touched a stingray at ray reef they are very slimy.

Wednesday 31 July

I went to Movie World. I went on the Scooby Doo Spooky Coaster it was scary. Then I ran to another roller coaster called Road Runner.

Thursday 1 August

I went to Wet and Wild and I struggled to get up the stairs to a ride called the Tornado. After that I went on the Kamikaze where you drop straight down and you’re on an inflatable boat thing, it was scary. For dinner we went to Twin Towns it was yum I had a really nice burger with tomato, bacon, lettuce and other stuff.

Friday 2 August

It was time to go I was sad. When we got to the airport we went to check in. It was a three hour flight we got back at 10:30 at night.

By Devon

Our Learning from Visy Trip

Visy Trip 31/7/13

•  There is a machine that sorts plastic bottles. A scanner (optical eye) looks at the different types of plastic bottles that are on a conveyor belt and sends a message to the computer which then sends a message back to the machine to tell the machine how much air needs to be blown so that the different types of bottles are flicked up into the correct sorting bins
• There are three sorting bins for the plastic bottles

        - milk bottles
        - coke and lemonade drinking bottles
        - any other bottles eg. hair shampoo bottles

• Room 18 weighed 1300 kg and Room 14 weighed 1440 kg, a difference according to Riley of 140kg
• A big magnet is used to sort aluminium and steel cans from all the recycling materials, sucks up the cans, spins around and drops the cans onto a different conveyer belt
• Glass gets separated by colour; brown, white and green in the glass recycling building
• Big bins sort out light and heavy materials by moving up and down so the light materials come up to the top and the heavy materials stay at the bottom. Paper is the lightest and steel is the heaviest
• Aluminium cans get squashed together and then put into ship containers and taken to China, Korea, Malaysia and Australia to be recycled
• Recycled plastic gets formed into a long tube and then hot air is blown into it to make a coke or lemonade bottle
•  150 trucks deliver recycled rubbish every day to MRF (another name for Visy)
• MRF works 24 hours a day/6 days a week
• MRF stands for Material Recovery Facility
• MRF can recycle paper, plastic, aluminium, cardboard and steel
• MRF sells cardboard boxes, plastic bottles for coke or lemonade and aluminium cans
• MRF cannot recycle plastic bags

Visy Trip Photos