Dr Suess - Oobleck

We made Oobleck and wrote Haiku about it.

We used the Haiku form:
3 syllables
5 syllables
3 syllables




It's sticky

It feels soft like pillows

Looks like slime.

By Tom N

It is dry,

Dry and sticky stuff,

Green milkshake.

By Mitchell

Gloopy green,

Squishy like a frog.

Gooey eww.

By Caitlin

Hard as wood,

Stinks like a skunk.

Your hands sink. 

By Tatiana

It is wet.

It is really squishy.

It really stinks.

By Callum

Green milkshake,

Sinks your hands.

It goes really hard.

By Cassidy                                                                                    

 Looks fluffy

Sploshy, slooshy, stuff.

Powdery.

By Makayla

Smells like clay,

Slumpy, bumpy, milky stuff,

Soft as clay.

By Elise

It is wet.

It melts like ice-cream.

It is weird.

By Josh

It is gross.

It is sloshy.

It is dry.

By Ben

Your hands sink,

It melts like ice cream.

Green dinosaur.

By Jacob

Looks green,

soggy and lumpy.

Feels gloopy.

By Brayden

Soggy slop,

Limey, greeny, slop.

Feels lumpy.

By Claire

Goey, soft.

Green dinosaur slop.

Hard, ew yuck.

By Jessica

Slooshy slop,

Melts when out of water.

Smells like clay.

By Niamh

It was green,

Soft as a baby

Gross and goey.

By Georgie

Yuck, bluck, stuck,

Ooey, gooey, green,

Sticky stinks.

By Scarlett.

Hot Air Balloons

 We have been making sculptures using paper mache over balloons, then hot gluing painted egg cups on. They look terrific!

Book Week and a Mad Hatters Tea Party

Book Week and a Mad Hatters Un-Birthday Tea Party on PhotoPeach

Noses - By Aileen Fisher

I looked in the mirror and looked at my nose;
it's the funniest thing,
the way it grows.
Stuck right out where all of it shows
with two little holes where the breathing goes.

I looked in the mirror and saw in there
the end of my chin and the start of my hair,
and between there isn't much space to spare
with my nose, like a handle, sticking there.

If you ever want to giggle and shout
and you can't think what to do it about,
just look in the mirror and then, no doubt
you'll see how funny your nose sticks out.

We are learning to puctuate our speech

The trampoline - By Josh

On Saturday I went on the trampoline. I went as high as a red shiney rocket. I felt like I was in a storm becasue I could feel the wind rushing through my face like a car. It was cold and warm at the same time because it was cold but I was jumping around. Boang, bounce, high as I jumped around like a kangaroo. Next I did a flip. I was as fast as a cheetah. Next minute boing, I landed it. I did more then I felt dizzy like I could fall off the tramp. Then I lay down. I could feel a gentle breeze across my back so I climbed down the old rusty ladder and jumped down. Then I went inside. It was awesome.


Sandwich Response from Miss Irvine:
Josh, I love some of the language features you've used to describe what you felt when you were on the trampoline. I especially like "I felt like I was in a storm."
You have a good beginning and a personal comment at the end, but I think it would be helpful if you worked on using paragraphs in your writing to separate different thoughts.
I also really like you're use of 'because' and 'so' to make your sentences different lengths. It makes it less boring for the reader.

Skiing - By Callum

On Monday some year 5 and 6s went skiing. The bus ride was really long.

When we got off the bus I went to the platter. When I finally got to the top I started to go down. Weeee! I shouted. Clack! as I went down the slope.

Then is was lunch time. I had a good lunch.

After that we went skiing. There was another two and a half hours. Then it was time to go back home.


Sandwich Response from Miss Irvine:
Callum, you're writing has improved so much from the start of this year. You are now writing in paragraphs and adding more detail to your work.
I like that you've attempted to use speech to help you retell what happened, but you need to work on using the correct punctuation for speech marks.
You have used time words well to retell your events in order and you have a good informative introduction.

Who inspires you?

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How many of these people can you name?

Can you name what they are known for?

What do they have in common?

Do any of these people inspire you? Which New Zealander inspires you the most?

You will be choosing a New Zealander to find out some more about and presenting your information in a report format. (We will learn about that!)

Before you start your inquiry, use your little book to record what you already know, what you want to find out and to figure out some questions you want answered.

Once you've done that, this wee video might help you get started with doing some research:

http://www.google.com/insidesearch/searcheducation/lessons.html

Cubism Art

What is cubism?

Create your own Picasso piece

A Skip to Beat Bad Temper - Cynthia Mitchell

An angry tiger in a cage
Will roar and roar with rage,
And gnash his teeth and lash his tail,
For that's how tigers rant and rail.
I keep my temper in a cage,
I hate it when it roars with rage,
I hate its teeth, I hate its tail,
So when it starts to rant and rail,
I tell my mum, I tell my dad,
I tell them why it's feeling bad,
And then I skip and skip and skip,
And lash my rope just like a whip
And when I skip because I'm cross,
My temper-tiger knows who's boss,
And when I've skipped and whipped like mad,
My temper-tiger's not so bad.
I have to keep it tame this way,
Or it will eat me up one day.

This might help with your reading and spelling.

Adventure

I stepped on to the sloshy ground. Glug, slurp, glug. I could hear the trees rustling.

Then I saw a dark shadow. It looked like a hairy sasquatch but it wasn't. It was a bushy tree.

I took a short cut through the ferns and wild flowers. The birds were sasquatch like mad. "Squeekpeekdieek," that's what it sounded like.

We came to an opening. It was the Darfield desert, it's the only desert in the world with puddles the size of lakes.

I slowly trudged along, "No-o-o-o-o, why me," I yelled at the top of my lungs because in front of me was the most biggest puddle ever. I had no choice but to squidge through it.

I finally got out, the air was hot and the sun was roaring. "Ro-o-o-oaw."

The adventure that I had was the most fun ever.

P.S. No sasquatchs were harmed in the making of the story.

The Touch of Horror

"No, no, no, no," I whispered grosely.  "I will not touch a dead deer." "Do it, do it, do it," My whole family was shouting. "Oh fine," I felt grosed out! I felt inside like I could pop like a gross dragon. "Really, look I can see all their insides," I was thinking in my head.

"Okay I'm ready to touch now." "Go, go,  go," everyone was shouting. I touched a dead deer. I was relaxed. It was as soft as a piece of possum fur. Soft, sad and scared all at the same time .... but I thought it was quite nice! "Ahhh," I said as I was as relaxed as a baby sleeping.

Then it was time to go! "Ohhh but it was to nice." "Just come," mum nudged me as she talked. I finally left.

I had the best time ever!

Chucking Pea Straw

                                                   
On a sunny beautiful Sunday, me, Georgie, Jake, Nicole and Nev chucked so crunchy so chunky pea straw onto their wonderful garden. Sling! down, down, down went the pea straw. Nicole said, "You guys work faster." We said, "Okay." So we worked as fast as a running dog.

Soon we had to get a new, fresh bail of super crunchy, chunky, crawly pea straw. We super quickly rolled one over. We finished the bail. Meanwhile Nev rolled another crunchy bail over to the beautiful garden. Soon it was finished. We made a fabulous swing, "Weee."

I enjoyed chucking pea straw because I got to chuck it at Georgie.

The Weekend

In the weekend at soccer we lost the game but I got player of the day. "It's time to go," said  mum. Then I went to my brothers game and they won and my brother got player of the day and we went and got  lunch and then we went home.

Arohatia te Reo - Maori Language Week

Today we skyped with Halswell Residential College to be a part of their morning karakia and waiata. We followed this with a karakia and waiata of our own.

Here is a photo of us skyping.

Arohatia te Reo - Maori Language Week

This morning three students used skype to join in a lesson with Room 12 at New River School in Invercargill. Mrs Rolton and Whare Suddaby were making Maori Instruments with things found on the beach.

This morning we learnt to make music out of sticks, stones and shells.  By Claire.

I really like the sounds  that we did in the morning using sticks, stones  and shells. By Josiah.

Hello, This moning we learnt to make music with sticks, stones and shells because it's Maori language week. Thanks, by Jess.

WALT: include a range of language features in our writing

Language features make our writing more interesting to read.

Here is a fun video about onomatopoeia.



This one is about similes.

WALT: use speech marks

What special week is coming up?

The week of 23rd-29th of July is a very special week. Do you know it is? Below is a video to help you work it out. We will be learning this with the help of our e-buddie class, Room 12 NRP.