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Save Our Snails

This week we went to the museum. 

We went to learn about some giant snails which are endangered. This means they may become extinct. 

They have an amazing name which we could all say by the end of our trip... Powelliphanta.

Miss Whitehead's favourite thing about the trip was that lots of parents came to help and they got to teach Room 9 children too!

 Thank you Dale for your amazing lessons on traps!

 Thank you Deane for helping us catagorise different shells!

Thank you Matiu and Shelley for teaching us to sort the 'pest' rocks.

Keeping Ourselves Safe

Constable Garland has been coming to our class! Jorja

Here are some things we learnt:

We have learnt the right names for our body parts. Karlos

We learnt about good and bad secrets and good and bad touch. There is touch we like and touch we want to stop. Logan

I learnt about saying NO. Jayden

We also learnt that sometimes we can say no thank you. Michael

It was fun with Constable Garland learning to say no. Caleb

We did some role plays to help us learn to say no. Tia

We learnt that when people you don't know offer you things you say no in a loud voice and then run away and tell Mum, Dad or someone you can trust. Justice

Stealing is bad. Zaliyah

Being nice to other people os important. Don't hit. RIta

Maths - words to use when we are describing the position of something.

I am above the chair.

I am below the chair.

I am to the right of the chair.

I am to the left of the chair. 

I am behind the chair.

I am in front of the chair.

An Amazing Performance

WOW Enner Glynn School and Room 9, what an amazing production you put on for our community! I hope you learnt a huge amount putting on 'Just One Wish', I certainly did and was so impressed with all your hard work. Well done : )

Here are some pictures of our scene, the DVD will be available soon from the office. 

The Twits

We have been reading a book by Roald Dahl called The Twits. We are beginning to enjoy listening to chapter books and using our imagination! Mr and Mrs Twit are always playing tricks on each other! 

We have been learning to make our writing interesting. How do you think we have done?

We have retold a chapter of the story, enjoy our writing.

Mrs Twit dug up some worms. Mrs Twit was watching Mr Twit eat yuck worms from the other side of the table. She said it was tasty. Burp! That was to pay him back for the frog trick. Ha ha. It was mucky worms. I like tricking people because it is funny. 
By Louisa

Mrs Twit dug up some yucky stripy worms. Then she mixed the worms in with the spaghetti on her husbands plate. Mrs Twit waited until her husband had eaten a whole plateful. I felt happy because it made me laugh. 
By Michael

Mrs Twit played a trick on Mr Twit. She dug up some worms from the garden. Mr Twit slurped the slimy worms up. At dinner when he ate them all up Mrs Twit stamped her feet on the floor and rocked the chair. She said ha ha. She felt happy. Then Mr Twit got frustrated. I don't like tricks because my sisters trick me. 
By Abbey

Mrs Twit went into the garden and dug up some worms. She cooked them for tea then they ate spaghetti. Mr Twit wiped his beard with a corner of the table cloth. It is fun playing tricks on people. 
By Logan

Mrs Twit got some worms from the garden. She cooked them for lunch and plated the worms in her husbands spaghetti. Mrs Twit told Mr Twit why his spaghetti was moving. It was worms. She was rocking on her chair with terrible laughter and stamping her feet. 
By Baillie

Slurp, slurp, slurp! Mrs Twit dug up some fat worms. She cooked them on the stove. Next she gave them to Mr Twit. She told Mr Twit why they were squiggling and she said they were worms. She laughed and laughed. Mt Twit was mad. It is really funny to play tricks on someone. Mr Twit was really, really angry. 
By Stacey

Just One Wish

Would you like to know what our upcoming production is about? Watch this video to learn all about it! Most of Room 9 is part of scene 2, the Maori legend we retell is 'How the Kiwi Lost its Wings'. We can't wait to show you it!

Zumba

Did you know, every Friday Enner Glynn School does Zumba? We do it after morning play time to get some exercise. We like shuffle. We like to dance. We like doing Zumba on sunny days. 

By Room 9

Arohatia Te Reo - Maori Language Week

This week is Maori language week. We have made videos of some of the Te Reo words and phrases we use in our class. We hope you learn some new words!

Volcanoes - Our One Day Inquiry

Facts we learnt about Volcanoes today!

• There are more than 1500 active volcanoes around the world. By Josh, Michael and Karlos

• Volcanoes are sometimes really dangerous because they erupt quickly. By Ruby

• Volcanoes are red and hot. By Jorja and Ella-Marie

• Volcanoes that are active might erupt. By Zaliyah

• Not just lava kills people. Ash can too. By Baillie

• Volcanoes are hot, steamy and dangerous. There are under water volcanoes. By Jayden and Omar

• Lava is not just hot. It is very dangerous too. It can kill you. By Justice

• Lava only comes from volcanoes. By Boston

• Volcanoes are enormous. Some are small too. By Tia

• Red lava is hot as. By Caleb

• Volcanoes can erupt! By Logan

• A volcano can be bigger than Mt Cook. By Louisa

Class adventure term 2

Last Friday we went on an adventure up View Mount Street! 

We went to investigate the big slip that happened in December. We remembered that planting trees helps to protect the hills and keep them safe during heavy rains. We saw what changes happened to the hillside that didn't have enough trees on it. 

Skyping Sophia

We skyped Sophia in Bali. She was a bit shy and we were a bit over excited! We hope she comes back soon because we miss her. We asked her some questions. She lives near a volcano and we wanted to know about it. Sophia's school doesn't have any walls. The time in Bali was 9 in the morning. It was 1 o'clock here.

Cross Country

We had a great time last week at Cross Country. We have some super fast runners in Room 9. We were exhausted afterwards!

Here are some pictures of the day.

Silent Movie

We have finished our 2 minute silent movie! We had a great time producing this. The children in Room 9 did some fantastic acting. Here is some of our writing about the experience.

There were three main characters. Welcome to Room 9's talent. First up we have Boston. Boston finished the Boston marathon. Next up we have Omar. Omar did a move. Finally Louisa. Louisa made it across the monkey bars. I was happy. By Michael


Room 9 made Room 9's talent. I won and Boston was second. Louisa was third. Boston tried to run but he gave up. Stacey came up to Boston. He started to run again. He ran to the finish line. By Omar


Room 9 made a imovie. Boston was running. He slowed down. Louisa went on the bars. Omar danced. We watched it. By William

In Room 9 we are making a movie. Everybody is making it. Boston is running. It is cool. By Logan

Room 9 made a movie. It was exciting. I had a part by congratulating Omar. It was really fun. The movie is about pushing the boundaries. By Josh

Boston was puffing. He couldn't run. Come on Boston you can do it said Stacey. Boston thought he was in the Boston marathon. Boston ran and ran to the finish line. Louisa was on the monkey bars. Louisa thought she was in a circus and she made it to the end. By Ella-Marie

Our Place - a new Inquiry!

We made some sandcastles. We tipped water over them. The sandcastles fell down.

Then we saw a tent with tools, a blanket, a jacket, some canned food. We thought about what these things might be used for if was there was a natural disaster.

We looked at pictures of the slips in Nelson. We talked about what, when, where, why and how.

Flick It On!

This term Room 9 will be involved in the Flick it On! Film project. We will make parts of short films and flick them on to other classes from other schools. In our group we have children from every primary level up to intermediate! We are working with classes from Birchwood School, Nayland Primary School and Broadgreen Intermediate. The topic this year is 'Pushing the Boundaries'. 

This is the Flick it On! blog in case you want to check it out 

http://flick-it-on.blogspot.co.nz/ 

This week Room 9 children choose four people from our class to represent us at a workshop day at Broadgreen Intermediate. This was to learn about the tools we will need to make our films. We learnt HEAPS! 


Here are is what we learnt about.

We learnt about using storyboards.

We learnt to make music using Garageband.

We learnt about camera shots and emotive photography.

We learnt to make movies using iMovie.

Room 9's Disco

We had a fantastic day today! The children in room 9 have been working very hard at their listening skills so we had our very own class disco. Enjoy the pictures and the video of their awesome dancing!

Our Learning

We have had a busy week in Room 9. 


Here are are some of the best things we have learned.


Tia says we learned to do things at the same time with different colours (brain gym!).


Michael says he learned how not to get angry with help from Justice!

Justice says she learnt how to do lots of writing.


Karlos says he is enjoying learning how to read. He especially likes to read his own words.


Ella-Marie, Ashlee, Stacey, Tia, Sophia, Jorja, Karlos, Michael, Zaliyah, Aine, Omar, Josh, Abbey, Boston, Koki and Ruby have loved learning about Maori culture. We learnt the Maori word for food is kai. We learnt what a Hangi was.


Logan says he has learnt his spelling words this week. 

Zaliyah is enjoying learning to read. 


Jayden has loved using our class Ipad! 


William has loved doing his writing.

We all enjoyed Maths this morning where we watched five different sports and choose our favourite. We made a graph showing which sports we all liked.