Grandparents Reading and Hangi

Grandparent/Koroua/Kuia Reading Week and Taste of Hangi

Kia ora ki nga koroua me nga kuia

Thank you to Mali Lowe, Derek Lowe, Kelly Frewin, all the staff at Parkvale, Mr Blake, Marlene Greaves, Alma Bainbridge, Bonnie Amner, Tom and Doreen Condon, Karen Spargo, Les Byford, Russell Kupa and Linda Maggin our Room 18, 19 and 20 grandfathers and grandmothers who came in to read to their grandchildren and experience eating a hangi with us all. It was a huge success. Sorry we weren't able to take photos of you all with your grandchildren to post to the blog.

In partnership with the Whanau Roopu, our  vision is:

 “Kia tuhono, kia mahitahi ki te whanau, kia whanake i a tātau tamariki”

“Connecting and working with whanau to grow our children"

India Facts

Walt Be Safe Cyclists

WALT Be Safe Cyclists.

In Room 19, We will know we can do this when we:

• Know the main road rules

• Read and understand road signs

• Identify and anticipate hazards

• Wear a helmet correctly

• Carry out a bike check correctly

• Ride a bike safely and with control around a course (and on the road)

• Know what clothing to wear

• Can break appropriately and safely
• Make sure the stand is up securely on the bike
• Stay on the left hand side or cycle lane on the road
• Be responsible on the road/course
• Be mindful of others
• Always check behind you
• Keep an eye out for parked cars, drivers sitting in their cars that may open their doors
• Know how to change a flat tyre
• Carry a repair kit

Safe Cycling Writing T4 W5

10/11/15

Today rm 19 went out to go biking on the school ‘s new track i couldn’t wait , the lady came to our class and gave us a helmet to use while we bike. We went out and were given a bike to use, the lady told us to use our signals like left,right and stop, Lani,Janine,Mrs Hardaker and i were given a adult bike because all the other bikes were to small.

So lani,Janine and I started to take out all of the bikes that were left in the container.We finally finished and were able to go on the track it was fun but hard to get on the adult bike at first but then i got on eventually i set off and passed a few people by saying passing and turning to the right i was then at the front but it wasn't a race.

Me and some others were kind of racing on the track by trying to pass each other when we were able to but i still loved.

I had to hop off and swap my bike for Jazmyn because she was also to big for the other bikes so i waited and held out my hand for a big bike to come around Janine came and then it was my turn again yaayy!!

My bike zoomed and zoomed but i slowed down at corners because it felt like i was going to slip because the bike that i was one didn’t have that much grip so i went slowly around there but sometimes i accidentally cut the corners.

We had to finish and park up our bikes we stacked them all up and went back to class to have brainfood,read and then start writing about what i just wrote about.

The Hakarena (All Blacks Haka parody)

The Hakarena is a parody of our awesome haka and is a mix between the haka and the makarena.
The Hakarena is suppost to be funny in a way it is but they think that it will scare the other team it, probably will....... NEVER.
My reactions to this video is a little bit of a laugh by how they do their actions but apart from that it is just not cool..........plus i think that they think their going to beat us in the RWC their EVER gonna beat us.😝😝😝

Retelling of RIDE OF PASSAGE

Choose ONE of the following writing tasks

Writing Purpose: To entertain the reader

WALT show our writing skills

What counts (Success Criteria for all writing choices):

• structure our writing with a beginning, middle and end
• best possible words
• makes sense
• different sentence starters
• paragraphs (especially important for beginning, middle and end)

Option Three: Your Retelling of RIDE OF PASSAGE

A story about Toki. Watch the animation here. Retell the animation

RIDE OF PASSAGE

Toki is a little boy that got sent out to the bush and get one of the biggest animals heads.

Toki falls out of a bush with only a knife, sack and only has a little frog and he gets angry because it’s too small, but then a cheeky monkey runs pass and grabs Toki's frog and hides up in the tree laughing,then a giant chameleon comes and grabs the cheeky monkey and shows up behind Toki and gives Toki a fright but then the chameleon gives Toki his frog back and then Toki is not afraid anymore.

The giant chameleon wraps Toki up with its tail and takes him for a ride and gets Toki animals from birds to bears and elephants but then the chameleon jumps high in the sky and goes to land but Toki's tribe captures the chameleon so Toki thought of having the biggest animal head or an animal friend he choose to have it as a friend, so Toki cuts up the rope sack and hides in the bushes.Then the tribe members get there and starts shouting yay because they had Toki's ginormous sack of animals but didn’t know it was Toki's, so Toki realizes that he doesn't want to kill animals so he lets his little frog go and goes for another ride with the giant chameleon.

My reflection for week 10 term 2

Learning Logs

Learn: Students learn to reflect on their own learning journey and think critically.

Create: Students keep notes of their own feelings about their work. (Create a folder and name it Reflection, this is where every weeks copy will go into).

Share: Share some of your reflections to your Blog, whenever you see fit.

. The most important thing I learned this week was.... i didn’t have much time in class

. What I found most interesting this week was… making the origami

What I enjoyed most about this week was…. `going to the te kori maori games

. One thing that still puzzles me is…. how a piece of paper can turn into something else

.What I need help with is ….  don’t no

.What pleased me most was… going to the rippa rugby qualifying finals

. This week might have been more helpful for me if…. don’t no

* Students will have some time in class to complete.

My K.W.L chart for Hukanui enviroschool

Name:_Caleb_______________________________________________ Date:__25/5/2015____________________ KWL Chart

In the first column, write what you already know about Enviroschools. In the second column, write what you want to know about Enviroschools. After you have completed your research, write what you learned in the third column. What I Know What I Want to Know What I Learned

What I Know enviroschools are school who help improve their school with plants, new things, and keeping the rubbish where there suppose to go they turn there nowhere areas into amazing things like a worm farm, planting things and making compost places sometime they don’t want to play at their school they want to plant instead	What I Want to Know why did they join with the government and council? How long have they been an enviroschool? why do they do what they do?	its not just them that have nothing areas we have them to they join up with the government and council to help the environment tell people not to break trees and rip plants out

Day 2 - Vocab

Find the meanings for the following words.

drainage Drainage is the natural or artificial removal of surface and sub-surface water from an area. Many agricultural soils need drainage to improve production or to manage water supplies.	gully A gully is a landform created by running water, eroding sharply into soil, typically on a hillside. Gullies resemble large ditches or small valleys, but are metres to tens of metres in depth and width.	boggy areas An area having a wet, spongy, acidic substrate composed chiefly of sphagnum moss and peat in which characteristic shrubs and herbs and sometimes trees usually grow.
cultivated To improve and prepare (land), as by plowing or fertilizing, for raising crops; till. To loosen or dig soil around (growing plants). To grow or tend (a plant or crop).	nursery A nursery is a place where plants are propagated and grown to usable size. They include retail nurseries which sell to the general public, wholesale nurseries which sell only to businesses such as other nurseries and to commercial gardeners, and private nurseries which supply the needs of institutions or private estates. Some retail and wholesale nurseries sell by mail.	influence the capacity to have an effect on the character, development, or behaviour of someone or something, or the effect itself.
trialling test (something, especially a new product) to assess its suitability or performance.	composting make vegetable matter into manure into compost	public charities the capacity to have an effect on the character, development, or behaviour of someone or something, or the effect itself

Day 3 - Summarise

Write an explanation of how Hikanui School became an Enviroschool.

Hukanui school were worried about the environment so they decided to plant some plants to help the environment

Day 4

From the photos and evidence you have collected, create a table of all the problems you have identified we have at Parkvale School. What are the solutions to these problems, do you think?

No where areas	Rubbish	Reduce, reuse and recycle	Greenhouse
we could plant veggies and plants in some of the no where places. we can put some maori carvings, flax,and ferns in the garden at behind the cricket net	we could put rubbish bins in other places like the the field right next to the big trees which are in front of the playgrounds we could tell the school to put their rubbish in their pockets,lunch box and the vin	throw all the cardboard, bottles,paper in the bins at the back of the school we could put recycling bins around the school use the bottles and cardboard to make things	we could grow a whole lot of greens in the greenhouse and tomatos

My pepeha on tellagami

My word cloud about me and what i like

My weekend

In the weekend I went to school for cricket, I played Maraekakaho and Twyford mixed together and my team is the Taylors. We have two people not including me in my team from our class and they are Conor and Campbell. I was the third batter and when Cameron Browning got bowled out I went in and I hit one four and six singles and then I got out on a no ball but they still counted it. Then we were on 23 runs on our 11th over and the other team was on 93 we got on way better  and then we got 92. We were so worried but then we hit four runs and won 96 - 93 yay!!!!!