Our last week of term 1.

Lego avatars

 We created Lego avatars on the computers. On this website http://reasonablyclever.com/mini/flash/minifig.swf

You could choose a variety of clothes and accessories for your Lego avatar. Once we created our avatars, we had to screen capture them, copy them into our learning journal and then crop them so we could only see our avatar.

Here is what they look like.

By Tommy and Humo.

Fantastic Mr Fox written by Roald Dahl

Ladies and gentlemen, our reading group, Mike Teavee, has been reading the most fantastic book…. FANTASTIC MR FOX!! For the past two weeks we read it, it was about when these three crooks Bean, Bunce and Boggis wanting to kill Mr Fox because Mr Fox keeps stealing food from their farms. At the end of the story had a dinner feast. We all loved the book.  By Willow, Samantha and Shirley.

Te Reo Maori

At Bledisloe School every Wednesday a tutor named Hoani comes to our classrooms and teaches us Te Reo Maori. We learn the culture of Maori, the language and the stories. At lunchtime a special group of children go to the hall to sing songs and do chants. The Kapa Haka group performs and do shows to represent our school we are very proud and we hope to go very far with our Te Reo Maori. 

By Ocean and Sam                  

Volley Ball

Over the past term we have been playing volleyball on Wednesday’s. We have two teams and they are coached by Mrs Harris and Miss Mills. In the games we have 3 different shots we use.

1-    Is the set where we have to get the ball to the other side creating a rainbow to the other side.

2-    Is the forearm pass, which we have to bend down low and we put our hands on top of each other and hit the ball with our forearm.

3-    The last shot is the spike we open our hands and hit the ball over the net. The spiker is also the target if another player from our team gets it to us and we spike it over and we get a bonus point.

We are playing really well and are really proud of our hard work and commitment.

By Kassie and Maxine.

Charlie and the

Charlie and the chocolate factory POP UP BOOK! This book was really funny because everyone laughed and enjoyed the humour of the book.  The book had amazing popup pictures and cool put out bits. Also we looked at these little songs. The funniest little song was this one about Augustus Gloop Augustus Gloop .The song went a little like this….

Augustus Gloop Augustus Gloop…

The great big greedy  nincompoop!

How long could we allow this beast

To gore and guzzle, feed and feast

On everything he wanted to?

Great Scott! It simply wouldn’t do!

Funny huh?

By Te Manawa and Felix. 

     

Term 1 Review

What a term it was a start to start all school years! The main highlight was camp of course (apart from the fact that we were dead tired when we got back home.) Also our class is now looking beautiful with our art up on our walls from the treaty posters to the Gavin Bishop art, our classroom is a masterpiece. We are nearing the end of our Roald Dahl unit with us completing a Roald Dahl matrix.

By Ian and Willie

 Wow!! Our classroom is bright we have done so much art in term 1. Kimberley’s favourite art was the Kiwi Moon Art and her partner’s was the Treaty of Waitangi posters. We have just finished the poppy pictures they are looking great. We are working on exciting words, we get a boring word and think of exciting ones to use instead. We hope to do just as much art in term 2.   

By Kimberley and her partner.

Poppy Art

This week room 13 have done poppy pictures to remember the A.N.Z.A.C’s who died in World War 1, 2 in Gallipoli and other places around the world.

We did the pictures by starting with painting the green grass then the blue sky and the clouds, poppies with the black dots and stems. With the poppies, we did the poppies large at first and did little dots of red at the back. On the back Mrs Colliss numbered the back 1 to 29 and put them in order so they form 1 cool, big poppy picture they look great on the wall. ByBen and Michael.       

Basketball 2012.

           This year the year 5/6 Bledisloe Boomers had an awesome start to their games! The team had practised from a Monday to Friday. The team played at the Centennial Hall in Napier. Our coach Mrs Dingle was awfully proud of how well we played throughout the term. The students in Room 13 who played are Foni, Te Manawa and me, Tyler. We are stunned of how well we’ve played throughout the term.    

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.