Thursday, 27 February 2014

Spotlight on Kayla and Josef

After reading part of The Twits by Roald Dahl  we completed some descriptive writing about a character. The character was called Mr or Mrs Glob. The children had to imagine what this character was like and fully explain their different characteristics and quirks. They were rated 1, 2, or 3 on the level of each part of their descriptions. Here are a couple from the class:

Kayla:



Mr glob Is a truly and utterly disgusting man. He was so disgusting that when he got married he wasn’t in a suit or anything. He hadn’t even had a shower in the morning. He wasn’t only disgusting he was overweight, Fat to be exact. If he bent down to find a shoe in his wardrobe, even if he sat on the couch his button on his jeans would pop undone and is pants would fall down. He didn’t care if this even happened to him town. Everyone thought it was disgusting, but they didn’t say anything because they were so scared of his face that they thought they might faint if he talked to them. Luckily for them he never talked. It was almost like he talked so when he was little his mother superglued his lips.

When he was in town no one went near him. But why didn’t they?
The answer is he had a special spray, A very stinky spray. Actually a very very special stinky stinky spray. He sprayed it on every time he was going to be in public. He knew it scared people away, and thats how he liked it.

Going on to how just on part of his body might even give you nightmares, His face. Now don’t faint……..
He had peas mushed all over his face. He didn’t only have a green face he a face full of speed bumps, Wrinkles if you didn’t know.

Whenever he got asked out for a special occasion he made an excuse that he was busy. He never talks or communicates with anyone except his TV. You're probably thinking that TV’s aren’t human but he acted like it was. He fed it breakfast, Lunch and Dinner even sometimes desert. He talked to and had conversations. They even played board games together. Though he never watched it because of the food spilled all the way down to the carpet if you can call it that.




Josef:


Mr Glob was a putrid and foolish old man. He lived far away from town in an old shack in the woods. The shack was built of termite infested walls, held together with mud and raccoon droppings. Mr Glob was a rather odd man, for example his arms. One arm was huge and beefy and he could probably break your face with it. But his right arm was skinny and pathetic, you could see the bone and in a hand wrestle a two year old could snap his arm off, literally. As well as that he stunk. He smelt this way because he has never bathed properly. Whenever he bathed it was in a swamp full of frogs and god knows what else. He has never had a job as everyone refused to hire him because of his smell. And every now and then someone would come up and tell him he stunk. Then he would bathe in the sewer, track down the person who told him he stunk and stick his armpit in their face.

Lets move up to Mr Glob’s horrifying face. He had an insane hairdo, with tufts of hair sprouting out everywhere. Ear wax pours out of his ears and he has a snot waterfall streaming out of his nose.


Wednesday, 26 February 2014

Softball


We have been learning some new softball skills with some specialist coaches that have come into the school. Today the class was working with gloves and throwing. They played a game where they throw instead of hitting the ball. Here are some pictures.
The class really enjoyed it and it was a great day for being outside.





Wednesday, 19 February 2014

A little bit of Frontloading. MEAN MEDIAN MODE RANGE.

For maths we are starting on Statistics. Here is a clip I made for the class to look at to get a quick understanding of the mean, median, mode and range. This is great because they can review this as many times as they like to get an understanding of how to work out these mathematical concepts.
I think next time I'll try to make the video a bit more exciting.

Boring Mr Billings voice Activate!!

What does the fox say?

Not much, especially when it's made of MDF. Here are some of the cool foxes the class decorated for technology. These are the ones that went to electronics today.

Tuesday, 18 February 2014

Spotlight on Oliver and Cullen

In Room 6 we have being looking at adding description to our writing. Today we looked at what adjectives and adverbs are. We also looked at similes and metaphors. I was really impressed with what the students came up with. Here are a couple of examples from Oliver and Cullen.


OLIVER:

One night there was a stormy night with rumbling lightning shooting across the sky like a bullet over the spooky haunted mansion with the lightning looking like blue veins in your body keeping the mansion alive and protected. And the door glowing like glowstone in the mansions heart.

CULLEN:


The old creepy house that nobody would enter sat up on top of the hill just sitting there making crackling noises and hearing screams from the house at night. Thunder was roaring and the lightning struck right by the house like if it was trying to guard the house.
Every night the house lights will turn on and at day they turn off wondering what would be doing that maybe the old family that lived there that passed away but didn't find their way to where they were meant to go and are stuck as ghost that are making weird noises as they fade away trying to say let me free. People complain about that house on the hill they say that they see all of the family that died their staring at them holding hands with disgusted and sad  faces as they all fade away with screams.

Monday, 17 February 2014

Expectations

A few days ago the class set expectations of other students as of their teacher. They came up with some absolutely great ideas.



Thursday, 13 February 2014

PIE TIME!!!!

In maths today we have started our statistics unit. We are learning to collect data at the moment so today we focused on tally charts for a pie graph. By pie graph I mean a graph about pies.
Here is a short clip (unlisted on youtube) showing the class busy surveying everyone else.


Here is an example of the tally chart on the board, without the tally marks

Although it may seem strange, the class was hugely engaged and couldn't wait to survey each other. We'll look at the most favourite tomorrow and start to graph our results.

Wednesday, 12 February 2014

Swimming trials.


Today at the pools we had some swimming trials to determine our representatives for Hillary House. It was an awesome day, warm, sunny but with adequate shade.
Here are some action shots:





Tuesday, 11 February 2014

School song

Today we had our first house assembly. The class begun learning the school song as well. For a first time they did extremely well. Here's a quick shot of them. 




Wednesday, 5 February 2014

The lovely class photo

We had a few minutes to spare before heading up for swimming so I though we could have a class photo outside under the trees. Unfortunately I cut one student out of the nice smiling photo so you're left with this one.



Anyway, we've been having loads of fun over the first few days and learnt a lot about the school and had our first session on the he classes devices. All seems to be going ell so aware with only a few small things needing to be sorted out in regards to the ICT.

Monday, 3 February 2014

DAY ONE!

We have had a marvelous first day here in Room 6. The students all look great and seem very geared up for the new year. We will be looking at Kotahitanga at HNI for the first term. Our theme is "Identity: I am New Zealand... Together we grow"
The children have all taken home a huge amount of paperwork (in a paperless classroom?!?!?) so that we can get onto the computers as soon as possible.