Our busy week 9

After hours of labour, we have finished our fantastic Haiku Poems! A shortened account of some of the things that happened at camp. From eeling to the terrible weather to the (mostly) good cooking. There was a whole variety of topics.

A Haiku Poem is a short Japanese poem that does not rhyme, contains only 3 lines and follows the 5 - 7 – 5 formats. (5 syllables in the first line, 7 syllables in the second line etc.)

Written by Ian and Caleb.

This week Room 13 has finished their work on the Treaty of Waitangi. The last task that we had to complete was to identify the key attributes and qualities of the groups in New Zealand at this time and then justify our choices. The groups were Tangata Whenua, Missionaries, Whalers and Traders; some of the key attributes that each group showed were perseverance, and adaptability.  

Our Topic for the last two weeks of term will be ANZAC Day. We started off the unit by reading the picture book “ANZAC Day Parade’ by Glenda Kane and Lisa Allen. Our WALT is to be able to identify the traditions of ANZAC Day and why they exist. On ANZAC Day Janna and Felix will be representing Bledisloe School at the local ANZAC Day service.

Welcome, welcome ladies and gentleman to the famous poppy art museum. I’m Nicole and Shirley and we’re here to show you famous poppy art. These here show you what a class of year five and six students are capable of dong with the help of their great art teacher Mrs Colliss. Here are photos of the first few steps. Check out the blog next week for the finished art.

We have continued reading our Roald Dahl books this week, and most groups have nearly finished their books, depending on what group we are in we did different activities this week, some groups wrote Character Diaries, while others did PMI’s on the story, all groups have been doing Chapter Summaries. We are now doing a matrix of Roald Dahl based activities, some are to create, some are written plus many others. On our weekly trip to the school library a number of Room 13 students issued other Roald Dahl books to read at home.

For all of our art and other work displayed on the walls have been selecting the best presented piece, sometimes we vote and other times Mrs Colliss gets to select the piece. The best piece gets a star shaped with the words ‘Presentation award.’ The award lets people know who the class thinks the best piece is in that particular subject. Man, now I wish I’d put 100% in my art. I wish I could reverse time and retry. To late now!!!  By Troy.

This week room 13 has been doing Scribe Time based on pictures that Mrs Colliss had set up for us. The most popular piece of writing was Ian’s so her it is…

The world was on the edge of their seats.

“Behold” bellowed a voice on all the TV’s in the world.

“The worlds first genetically modified flying penguin”

And then snow splattered the camera as the penguin took off flying and soaring.

The world froze in place, unfortunately that meant the nuclear powered ship heading for Antarctica crashed and thus resulted in a genetic modification to the penguin as the penguin transformed from non-flying to flying birds. This was created by a nuclear gene which is activated by the pressure of nuclear power. So they did what all nuclear gene gifted creatures do, they turned into a gigantic ugly nuclear, world first, genetically modified flying penguin. The nuclear gene made the penguin develop an interesting instinct to seek out all the world nuclear power plants, force then to melt down and ultimately plunge the world into a nuclear inters, where only the penguins survived.