Reading

This week for reading we have been retelling our favourite part of a book we have read this year. We were able to choose the way in which we presented it. Some people used puppets, others photostory and some people made a video. Check out Nerys, Georgia and cameraman Zara retelling their favourite part from Roald Dahl's book Matilda...

Jamie's Emotion Poem on JOY

Zoe's Colour Poem

White
White is like falling snow flakes in air.
White is the fuffy white clouds floting away from us.
White is yummy hockey pockey ice cream.
White is like bubbles in the bath that get all over your body.
Wite is like candy floss sticking to your hand.

Tanirau's Colour Poem

Black Black is the night sky clear and peaceful. Black feels like the dark side of the force. Black sounds like mist floating through the night. Black is the color of the All Blacks. Black is darknees.

Ben's colour poem

Green.
Green looks like brussel sprouts and yucky broccoli.
Green is discusting vomit blurting out.
Green rusting hedges blowing in the wind.
Green acidbubblingto its heart.
Green is the colour of horrible beans.
Green is the colour of Grass.

Western's colour poem

GREEN
Green is the colour of a yucky brussel sprout.
Green is the rich 20 dollar note.
Green is a sweet and sour green apple.
Green is a lucky four leaf clover.
Green is a big fat cabbage.

Nina's colour poem

Blue is the bright blue sky on a summer day
Blue is the feeling of tummies rumbling for food
Blue is the nice cold water waving in the sea
Blue is the snow falling down the mountain
Blue is the colour of $10 notes flying in the air
Blue is the colour of a stream
By Nina

Adam's colour poem

Black is the colour of the midnight sky.
Black is the colour of king kong and his mates.
Black sounds like a giant gorrilla smashing at its chest.
Black feels like standing right under a gaint thunder cloud.
Black is the colour of the all blacks.

Colour Poems

Orange
Orange is the sunset that you see on a warm summers evening.
Orange can heat you up and make you feel alive and firey hot!
Juicy oranges drip down your chin and make you sticky and wet.
People splashing and lashing around in a crystal, clear lake.
Firey smoke whistling out of a bubbling, spitting volcano.
Orange is a colour of many words.

By Zara

Texas's colour poem

GREEN
Green is the taste of a rotting rubbish bin.
Green is the colour of a $20 dollar note flapping in the wind.
Green makes me feel alive when I do something nice.
Green is the colour of you're best friend's advice.
Green is the sound of the soft wind blowing.
Green is the colour of a mossy stream flowing.

Tyler's colour poem

Yellow is the colour of a sour lemon getting squeezed in to your mouth.
Yellow is the colour of a hot burning sun heating the world.
Yellow is the colour of a band-new bunch of tennis balls bashing through the air.
Yellow is the colour of a burning star up in the sky at night.
Yellow is the colour of boiling sand where scorpions live.

Megans Black Colour poem.

Black
is the colour of a haunted Halloween night,

As crows call they sound like wicked witches cackling in the wind.

Black

feels like you're locked in a deep, dangerous cave with nothing around.

Black

is what vampires wear while blood drips from their large disgusting mouth.

Black

By Megan

Colour Poems

Yellow is the colour of a nice fresh banana smoothie.
Yellow is a brand new tennis ball fireing at your raquet.
Yellow is a colour of the leaves falling from the trees
in autumn.
Yellow is the colour of the hot sun on a good day.

from Ethan McKnight.

Ninas Saltwater Crocodile poem

c amouflaging in the water waiting for their predators to pass by
removing the leaves and grass when the babies start chirping
on top of the water you cant see but the mother is hiding
crocodlies can be really dangerous sometimes
on the river bank a crocodile lays her eggs
dangerous predators are really easy to catch with a crocodile
if it is warm in the mound it will be mostly males if it is cold it will be mostly females
life is a big job for a crocodile
eggs can crack open very easy with there egg tooth

Megan and Hannahs saltwater crocs

Crocs acrostic Poem
C camouflaged in the water watching the babies in the mound to keep them safe from predators.
R idling in their mothers mouth, the babies are carried to the water.
O ver 90 days the babies are ready to hatch.
C atch insects, frogs and small fish to survive.
O ut of the mothers mouth and into the water to learn to swim and to keep safe.
D angerous predators are a round, be careful.
I n danger if you get too close to her mound.
L ays eggs in a mound that shes made from leaf litter and grass.
E ggs crack and the babies make chirping sounds.

BY HANNAH AND MEGAN

Manaia's cake win

Manaia played a reading game with Ethan W's Mum and he won the game. Ethan's mum baked Manaia a yummy cake to share with the class as a prize...And it was DELICIOUS!!!!!

Brave Texas!

On Monday Texas stood up in front of the WHOLE school and sung the National anthem in Maori. She was used awesome courage and we were sooooo proud of her. Check out how good she was...silly Miss Ryan didn't quite get the whole song though!

Ashlee's Cross Country

Rhys's Cross Country

Hannah's Cross Country

Ethan's Cross Country

Ski Trip

Check out the awesome day we had up the mountain yesterday!

Personal Writing

Our aim this week is to try and connect with our reader when we are writing and to try and get a connection or reponse from them through our descriptions. Read some of these fabulous pieces of writing about our most hated or loved food. Tell us how they make you react...

I don't like peas. They're gross. They're horrible. They're just yuck.
Usually I play with them. I squeeze them so hard their guts go flying out. Well... it's not really their guts but it tatses like it. Once it hit my cousin in the face. We just laughed. I also think that they look like snot balls or beetle tummies or just plain mush. Peas are absolutely disgusting.

By Texas

I love it. Just simply, love it how my mum towers the cheese on top of my spaghetti bolonaise. It gurgles down my throat when I swallow it. I shovel it into my mouth all the time. My mum always tells me to make sure my plate is clean. After 5 minutes it is all gone. My mum says "Stop slurping that down your throat!"
My family are pigs!

By Ashlee


Besketty bobanase (Spaghetti Bolognaise) is the best taste with cheese mountains on top then it melts into the meat as I slurp the pasta into my mouth. Besketty, besketty I love that besketty taste. Do you too?

By Georgia

Tomatoes, yuck!

I never ever ever ever eat tomatoes. Tomatoes are horrible, discusting, poisonous red balls. I will never eat tomatoes. Do not give me tomatoes because I always throw the tomatoes out the window.

By John

Tiffany Matthew's Art

For the past week, Room 15 have been exploring the work of Tiffany Matthews. We love her art and tried to do a few of her pieces ourselves. Here is a sneak preview of some of our work. Miss Ryan will post the rest of our work in the holidays.

Singing With Room 16

Science

Last Friday Rhys brought in a bottle of diet coke and a packet of mentos for his science experiment. Watch this video to see what happens!

Do you know how this happens?

Adam's explanation

How the speedy greedy works
We invented speedy greedy to help kids get to school faster.
There are boosters on the side of each shoe .To start the boosters you press the button on the side of the booster.
There are wheels that come out of the bottom of the shoes .To make the wheels come out press the button on the boosters.
There’s a break on the outside heel on each shoe. There’s a wire coming out connected to the break it’s got a grabber on it.
It makes walking safer and fun.mostley for teen ages or over.easy to start.
By Adam

Megan's shoe explanation

How the coolest shoes work

We have invented heaps of the coolest shoes to make walking to school more fun, safe and easier.

I’ve added a MP3 to make walking to school more fun. There is one MP3 on each shoe in the lace. When you tie up your laces the MP3 will turns on, but when you untie your lace theMP3 turns off.

I’ve also added a booster so we can be much faster on the way. The booster is on the heal of the shoe and when you touch the booster frame the booster turns on/off.

The coolest shoes help everyone be faster and funnier for everyone!

By Megan Elise Lockett

This weekly report is by Ethan

Hi! Last week Waipahihi School took part in wacky hair day. Wacky hair day is so we can raise money for the westpac helicopter. There was a lot of cool hairstyles, one of them had straws through her hair it was crazy and a lot of other cool hair style but some had dye in there hair it was not very cool but some people had cool dye in their hair like gold and yellow. Some children did not have any hair style but they still look cool because they mucked up there hair it was awesome!

thanks for reading
from Ethan

This weekly report is by Tyler

Hi This week room15 and 17 went on the bus to go to the A.C.baths for swimming lessons. The bus driver's name was Ray when we got to the pool we had to sit in the waiting room. My group learnt to do the rocket shape. We all had different instructors. We had 10 day's at the A.C.baths. On the last day we got to go in all the different group's pools and did fun activities like playing water hockey.

THANKS FOR READING!!!!!

BY TYLER

Week 2 Report by Hannah and Megan

On Tuesday Room 15 went to Harolds's life education trust to learn about body parts with Andrea . We also learnt about caring with a video called "Billy's new school". Billy is one of Harold's friends and Billy has moved school,that has made Harold really sad. That was our last time with Harold this year.We waved Goodbye as we walked out of the caravan with our stickers!
We had a great time.
Next week we are going to Oceans Alive. We are also going to begin our science experiments.
See you then
from Meggymoos and Hannah banana

Check out our entries into the school digital photography competition. We entered into the manipulated images category

Term 2

Welcome Back to Term 2 Everyone!

Those holidays really went by quickly. Here are a few more of our Special Places videos that we wrote when we were learning about adjectives last term. P.S. If you are having trouble viewing the videos, try moving the speech bubble shape along a little bit!

Here is Ollie's work...

Here is Ethan W's video...

Last day of Term 1!

WOW! Can you believe we have already finished Term one! We have had such a busy term. To celebrate the last day we had an easter egg hunt around the school. Room 15 were running around the grounds like headless chickens (or should I say bunnies?). We also said good-bye to Whaea Christina, who has been our student teacher for the past 4 weeks. Here is a photo of us with her on her last day. See ya Whaea Christina - we can't wait till you come back in July!

Tanirau's Writing

Tanirau wrote an awesome recount of his rugby game that he played last year. You can listen to him reading his story.

Special Places Writing

This week we have been trying to add adjectices into our writing to make it more interesting. We wrote about our favourtie places in the playground. We have published our work using photostory...What do you think?

This is Tyler's writing...

This is Sammie's work...

This is Millie's work...

This is Zoe's work...

This is Georgia's work

More Amazing Recounts...

Zara and Texas have written great recounts about out school triathlon. We especially liked the way they have used personal voice so the reader knows exactly how they are feeling.

Zara's Recount...

On Tuesday I competed in the Triathlon /Duathlon. Here I am waiting for the year 4 girls to start the swimming part of the Triathlon. One part of me was nervous and the other part of me excited. Finally we were up, suddenly my nerves vanished and my excitement was at full strength. I hopped in the pool and shivered. I decided to do backstroke. The starting blocks went and I was off! I zoomed to the middle of the pool but at that moment I was smacked in the face by a hand. I stood up and tears filled my eyes (it really hurt). I panicked and knew I would never win. Then I started up again and kept going, I was a bit proud of myself. I got out of the pool, my togs were dripping wet and I flicked my goggles off my face as I jogged to the gate. Next I grabbed my bike and rode. My feet hurt because my pedals were sharp and pointy. I got round a corner and past someone and …WOW that was quick I was already at the transition area for the run! The teachers took my bike and I started the run. As I was running my friend cheered me on. Just as I felt I would never finish, I did! I jogged to the winner’s table and finished. I felt so glad to finish, it was like a dream come true.


Texas' Recount...

Team Tauhara’s Triathlon
On Tuesday, Team Tauhara competed in the triathlon. When I got into the pool I was extremely nervous but as I started swimming I felt confident. As soon as I came up for air all I heard was “Go Texas”, I know other people were cheering for their friends but ‘Go Texas” was the loudest cheer. As one of my hands touched the other side of the pool, I ran for the ladder, got out of the pool and started to zoom. I was excited. When I reached the court I passed someone – that felt good! As soon as one of my feet touched the bottom field I started sprinting, legs pumping, my heart was nearly beating out of my chest but that did not stop me from trying to win. As I went down the chute I was relieved that I had come second, I was not first but it is better than coming last. It was the best triathlon ever.

Ethan the Ironman!

Last Sunday, Ethan helped his Mum and Dad out at the Ironman. He got to meet Jo Lawn and Cameron Brown who were this years winners of the Ironman! Ethan is 7 but in 14 years we will be watching him in the event! Go Ethan!

Calligrams

Check out our cool calligrams that we created on Friday. A calligram is when the word LOOKS like what it SAYS. We think we did a pretty good job...

Tyler's Recount

My Triathlon and Duathlon

On Tuesday it was Team Tauhara’s triathlon.
First we swam. Bang went the wood, we were off. I tried to zoom but someone grabbed my leg and pulled.
Soon I got out of the pool.
I zoomed to my bike and I puffed a lot.
It was pretty hard because I went the wrong way. I skidded and kept going. Soon I zoomed to the end of the bike. I jumped off my bike and started running. I ran to the finish, my friend tied me.
I said my house colour.
We got a chocolate bar.
I got my towel and went shivering back to class.
It was the best day.
By Tyler

Writing Recounts

We have been writing recounts. These are the things we need to included in a recount. Read our writing below to see if we have included everything...

IronKidz

On Sunday the 28th of February, I did the Ironkidz for 2010. It was on the way into town.
I was in the cold lake first to participate in the 8 year old girls. The whistle went and I glided across the lake in about 3 minutes. Then there was more! I had to sprint to get my bike. I wiped all the sand off my feet with my towel and slipped my shoes on. Then I zoomed off along the road. It only took me about 2 minutes and 30 seconds to do that, but then there was still a run to do. I quickly gave my bike to a marshall and very tiredly wizzed off through the run and through the shoot. I got my medal and was glad it was over. It was awesome!

By Megan


On Sunday we did the Taupo Ironkidz. In our groups we dived into the lake and swam to the other side. When we got out we had to run across the sand to the transition area to get our bikes. Next I rode my bike with my helmet on my head through town and back to the transition area. I took my helmet off and got off my bike ready for the run. Then I started the run, I ran around the corner and around the flag. Iwas coming towards the finish line and then finally I had finished! I was very proud.

By Sydney

Drumming

Yesterday a drummer, named Dylan Elise, came to our school and he showed us on his drums that he had 4 different cowbells. The teachers had to stand up and dance, they looked really funny! He told us that his Dad taught him how to play the drums and he played all sorts of music like rock, funky music and also he played a cool rhythm with one drum. I reckon it was really cool.

By Ethan M

Triathlon Pictures

Have a look down the bottom of our blog at our triathlon pictures we have done in PAINT...

We swam, we biked and we ran...

Today we all completed in our Triathlon and Duathlon. Boy did we go FAST!!!!
Lots of parents came to watch us race and some of us did really well. Once we had finished we were given a treat...yum! Watch out Ironman...here we come!