Congratulations to all Rm 9's enthusiastic readers!

 

Thinking of Celebrations

Celebration can be a fun and interactive part of our everyday lives. Understanding celebrations will help us connect and relate with different people, places, traditions, events and cultures. During our Google Meets, we shared our thoughts and ideas on Jamboards.

We watched a short video of an unknown celebration and discussed its purpose and parts. We hope to create our own celebration and have fun when we are back at school later this term.

The Wild Snow Dog read by Liana

 

'Megabyte' read by Neomi

 

"Mice" read by Ngariki

 

Book Review by Neomi - Enemy Pie

Do you have an enemy?

Well, if you do have an enemy I recommend you to read Enemy pie!

Enemy pie is a book where a boy has an enemy of his friends neighbour and he asks his dad how to get rid of having an enemy. So the dad suggested an enemy pie!

I really like this book because of how he thought he had an enemy but he didn’t! I also really like this book because the dad helped him make a new friend by telling the boy to be nice to his enemy for the rule that the dad said he needed to do for the enemy pie!

Book review. By Neomi

How to Make a Tornado in a Bottle by Adrian and Science Kids

 

Room on the Broom - Mason's version.

 Once upon a time, there was a Witch on a broom with a Cat. She dropped her hat, and down they went! They looked all around the place until they saw a Dog come with a hat in his mouth. The Dog dropped it and said’ is there space for a clean Dog like me?’’ "Of course", said the Witch "you can come and help me with my journey around the forest floor '’.Thank you’ said the Dog’ you are very kind’ and as soon as the Witch could speak her bracelet came off. ‘No!’ said the Witch and down they went.

She looked all around the forest floor. Out of nowhere there was a Bird with her bracelet and dropped it.’Do you think there is Room on the Broom for me?’ ‘Of course’ said the Witch.’Thank you’ said the bird. ‘No problem’ said the Witch ‘you can look just in case something bad happens,’ and off they went. They glided in the sky until ‘Oh no my wand!’ shouted the Witch. ‘Down we go!’ For the third time they landed. ‘Oof’ said the Animals and the Witch.They looked all around until a Frog came out ‘Ahhh!’ shouted the Witch .’Ahh!’ shouted the Animals.’Hi my name is Frog. I like this wand and do you think I can fit on the broom?’ ‘Of course.’ said the Witch.’Thank you said the Frog.So the frog hopped along to the broom and off they went until the broom snapped in half! The Animals went into the mud .’That hurt!’ said the Animals.

The Witch looked behind and saw a Dragon. ‘Rahhhh!’ The Witch was so scared she fainted. The Dragon said ‘this is a nice meal.’ Then there was a Meerkat on him, it was so fast, the Dragon got dizzy and fell to the floor.’Hi my name is Meerkat and I am a Meerkat.’ ‘Thank you.’ said the Witch.’Your welcome.’ said the Meerkat.’Can I fit on the broom?’ said the Meerkat’ but there is no broom!’ said the Witch.’Don’t worry, here is a magic wand.Tell the animals to get what they like best’ ok said the Witch’ so she did what he told him to do.They got their favourite stuff on, put it in a cauldron the witch did a spell and... there was a brand new broom! “Yyay!!!” they shouted’ THE END

Room on the Broom by Asja

The witch lost her hat then the dog found the witches hat.

The dog lost his toy then the bird found the toy then gave it to the dog.

Then the frog came to the witch with the broom.

We were reading room on the broom .

Then the witch  broom was broken.

That’s  my most favourite book in the whole world.

 

What we know about Alan by Room 9

We have been learning about how to conduct an interview. We decided to interview Alan the dog and his owner and invited them for an interview. Today we brainstormed what we know about Alan. We also read some of his blog posts and added more information.  

Today we read about Black Bears. They are very special animals!

 

If you want to learn more about black bears, CLICK HERE.

Reading and Science - Volcanic eruption by Jasmine, Adrian, Leigh, Charlie, Mason, Osaiasi and the team

Night Shadows by Osaiasi

 

Night Shadows by Ngariki

 

Anzac Day - Close reading

 

Poem Reading by Sekope

 

Poem by Celia

 

New Zealand Birds

Today, we started to learn about New Zealand birds. Some of these birds are endemic. That means they are found only in our country!  

Here are some of our thoughts:

Cilia: I liked the book because I could learn about New Zealand's birds. My favourite New Zealand bird is tui because I like the colours. Also I like pukeko because they have long legs and they like stealing bread I feed to the ducks. I want to learn more about kea and pukeko. 

Sadaw: I really enjoyed the book because I actually learnt about new NZ Birds. My favourite NZ bird is the Kea, because they are cheeky like me! I really want to research about a Tūi, because I really want to know where they are usually seen at.

Zurielle: Piwakawaka are very small birds but they have very long tails that looks like a fan! Which reminds me of something! Do you know what it is? It's a fantail! Piwakawaka are very similar to fantails which almost makes piwakawaka and fantails well... the same!

You can find more information about NZ birds here