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Forensics

Hello, this is Sam and I am reporting to you on forensics. We are well underway for this topic. We have been doing fingerprints and looking at the different types like whorl and arch, we have also looked at the ridge characteristics which make them all different.

Hello, here are some facts about hair. Plucked hair from the head has a white bit at the end but combed hair does not. Although from a distance hair may look similar, when you look at it with a magnifying glass can see differences. We found this out by comparing our hair others in the class. By Troy

Look at Me – At the start of this topic we looked at the different characteristics people have in our class. Most people in our class are right handed and not many people have hairy knuckles. By Te Manawa

We had a visit from a police officer and he showed us the finger print kit that they use to solve crimes. He then used it to take some finger prints of people in the class, this was different to what we did in class because he lifted the prints off the window. By Felix

Tackle Friday

On 25^th May a group of people are doing tackle Friday. You need to bring an old rugby jersey and a mouth guard. You also have to have permission from your parents. We can’t wait.  Tommy

Te Reo Maori

With Hoani we’ve been working with verbs. When we had the COW (computers on wheels) we got given a verb and had to search it up on the online Maori dictionary to get the translation. Mrs Colliss took a picture of us doing that verb. Then we created a sentence in Maori saying that we were doing the verb. We created an image including the photo the sentence and a Maori border. They are now on display in our room. Written by Kimberley and Shirley.

Soccer Field Day

This is coming up in a couple of weeks. We go to Park Island and play a lot of games against other teams. We are really excited about it! By Caleb.

Literacy Circles

Room 13 has started doing Literacy Circles for reading. We chose our groups that we would be working with; they have between 4 and 6 people in them. One person in the group asked us what types of books we were interested in and then went with Mrs Colliss to collect them.

The books that the five groups are reading are…

Pig Heart Boy

There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom

Killer Energy

Evolve or Die

Lost Riders

Each person in the group has a different role of work they are to complete. The roles are:

Connector,

Passage Picker,

Illustrator,

Summariser,

Word Master and

Discussion Director.

We rotate around these roles.

Each time we meet we have to have read the allocated pages (that we decide) and complete the work related to the role. The discussion director leads the group in a discussion about the book and then gets everyone to share what they have done.