Movie Makers

With our inquiry learning about what makes plants great coming to an end, we thought we would like to be story tellers.

We watched a variety of Maori legends to piggy back some ideas.  We also watched one of Mrs P's teacher friends movie about nits.

We have been looking at the characters and the settings.

Leave a comment about how the set was made (what materials were used) and how the character is made (strings, sock puppet, painting)

• Name of the movie
• How the character moves
• How the background was made
• Name of who left the comment

Here are some of the movies we like

Rata and the God of the forest

Here are some more movies we like

Papa and Rangi

The Fruppets - Return of the nits

Tangaroa's Gift

Maui and the Sun

Joshua's highlights about Pet Day

This video is about Joshua's highlight about pet day. Click play to listen.

Thomas

Sam

Bread and raspberry pudding

How To Bake Bread And Raspberry Pudding

ingredients:

6 slices of white bread crusts removed

1 ½ cups of Cream

2 eggs

1 cup of raspberries

2 tablespoons of sugar

Utensils:

big bowl

large coffee cups or small dessert bowls

method:

1.  Put some butter in the cups to make sure nothing sticks.

2. Butter the six pieces of bread with the crusts removed and cut each one  into 9 pieces.

3. Crack two eggs into a bowl and beat with cream and sugar. 

4. Place ½  the bread into cups with the butter facing up.

5. And put in some berries. 

6. Then put the rest of the bread and the berries on top.

7. Put in the oven for 20-25 minutes till golden on top.

Hope you enjoy this amazing dessert.

By Caitlyn Murphy

 

What Dallas learnt about plants

sam's what I learnt

venis fly trap from bryn

What Cushlagh lent about plants

what Anastasia learnt about plants

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I also learnt about plant. that flowers can grow stones. plants need water, sunlight shad c-o-2. That the roots hold up the plant.They breath in c-o-2 and puredace  oxegyn.We warted the plants with coke.Mrs p and I din't think it would grow.

what Lucy knows about plants

Plants facts

We are growing peas. We are watering them with different things. we are watering them with
coke, hand sanitiser, sugar water, tea, and worm pee. We also put one is in the and one is in a pumpkin. I am watering mine with with coke. The ones that were watered with worm pee, hand sanitiser and coke have grown. We are growing them all in a bottle. I think that the worm pee will grow the  best. the peas that are growing in the pumpkin are the tallest. We put the ones in the bottles out side and the pumpkin is by  the window.


  

Yoris

LC10 planter seeds in fizzy bottle .The seeds were Raddiss, Peas and Onios and we are using diffrint loquids to water our plants they are coke, worm pee, hand santier,serger water, tea and normal water.
By Sophie.

Water vs Pepsi

One of the class blogs Mrs P follows is Team Kakapo's class blog.  They have some predictions about our wonderings, What liquids help seeds to grow the best? 

Hi everyone in LC10 we in Team Kakapo thought that we would share our predictions with you.

We have two queries or questions

Olsen - You are using cold tea to feed them aren't you?

Jackson (you won't know me I'm a cool new guy)  Is the coke flat or bubbly?

Tim - Are you doing one lot with just water?  (Mrs H a control group)

Maddison W - Are you putting the same amount of liquid fertiliser on each day?

Mrs H - You have set up all the other conditions the same, ie same sized pots, soil,  etc so that you are having a fair test?

Our predictions are

coke - 1

worm pee - 7

hand sanitiser  - 0

Sugar water - 13

Tea - 4

So that's what we think.    Good luck and please let us know if the flavour is affected by the liquid fertiliser.

Shackelton and Team Kakapo

bryn`s plants

LC10 has been learning about plants and we've used different liquids like coke,worm pee,achole

Hunter`s plants

LC10 have been learning about plants.
The mane pant we've been learning about is swan plant`s.

Brody

I am the oldest in the family

I absenlotly love lego star wars

and I am allways thrild with my dad

 

Dallas

I have a brother he is called Sam

am I good at rugby

do I like soccer more then rugby

tayla

 tayla  I  have got  a troth and a lie wich is my lie. do I  have a black cat or a gray cat

Jennifer

My name is Jennifer...

And I like going on hellecoper rides  

I like doing paper cranes 

I have a horse called Opel 

Damper

     


                                                               Our Damper



We made damper it was fun my group put to mush water in it we had to put lost more flour in it. Then we tipped it out and put it on sticks.I tock photos of them willy I wathed  for my ten. then    we coked it on a camp stove. Then it was reddy we ate it I did not like it because it tasted like stinky socks but it was fun to make it Asia and Lilly did not like it ether.

by Lucy 

Damper

                                                    We Made Damper 

We made damper,It took two days to make damper.We were all in a group there were four  groups. 

It was fun making it. But when had to taste it. It tastes like stinky socks.It smelt like lamb's milk and we cooked it on the camp stoved Goldon sirp on our damper it was good then.

By Sophie 

West Melton's 150

On Saturday it was west melton's 150 celebratsoin.Every body in west melton came to the parade 

incloding  teachers at school. There was only four kids allowed on the float there were three stations 150,2014 and future.Sophie was excited because there was a lot of floats when she was walking beside the float and she was holding a pukeo.Jax was very excited because he got chosen to go on the float. On the float we had a pukeo on the float.Sophie, Thomes ,Dallas ,Sam and Liam helped paint the pukeo.We also had giant iPad on the float and Leila,Ameila,Finn and Liam helped paint the giant iPad.We also had an olden day phone and some old decks on the float. There were four kids in each station and four kids from each class in the pukeo team By Jax and Sophie.

Lachlan

My name is Lachlan

I have 10 transformers.

My middle name is James.

                                

5, 10, 15, 20

Loads of online activities here

test your division facts

Rhys

I have a dog. 

I have a spa.

I don't play Minecraft.

Dallas

I'm Dallas
What am I better at soccer or rugby
What do I like better soccer or basketball
Is my  fav  couloir green

Liam and Sam

My name is Liam I do  kicks with my Dad .

My nickname is  Lee .

My favourite monster is  cookie monster.



My name is Sam

I ride both a two wheel and four wheel motor bike.

My middle name is Mark.

When I was two years old I had a big operation.

Anastasia and Lucy

My name is Lucy.

I have a bull dog and I love her.

I have a lamb.

I am the middle child.


My name is Anastasia.

I have 2 dogs.

 I have a lamb all to myself.

I am the middle child. 

Finn

My Name is Finn.

When I was 5 I went to Broadfields school.

My Dad was born in England.

My Mum plays netball for West Melton.

Amelia

My name is Amelia.
My favourite food is ice -cream.
My favourite thing is and gardening.
My favourite thing to do with Mum is sewing.

Dan

My friend is  Dallas

My nick name is Dee

I hate salt and vinegar chips

Joshua,Yoris

My name is Joshua, I like doing the Hula.
I like playing Lego.
I like playing the Play station.

My name is Yoris and I love my sister.
I like school.
I like playing Destiny!

Sophie

My name is Sophie...

My favourite clouler is green.

My favourite food is loiles.

I have a cats and a Dog.

Thomas and James

My name is James.
I like everyone.
I like sausages.
I like puddles.

My name is Thomas.
I have a dog.
I have a dog called Ben.
My dog is a boy.

Leila

I like school.

I have  three dogs. 

I like the coller blue.

by Leila.

Cushlagh

I like pink.

I like  maths. 

 And I like pink Lillies .By Cushlagh 

Hunter

My name is Hunter.
I have 2brothers and 1 sister                                                                                                                      
I like maths more than spelling.
I have cows.

Jax

My name is Jax and I play a lot of rugby.

I play baseball.

I am a good baker.

BRYN

My name is Bryn

I like Nerf guns.

For Christmas I would like a Barbie doll.

My favourite game is Clash of Clans.

Dear Brody...

One of our class mates, Brody is away on an amazing adventure to USA.  He has written to us and told us about his travels so far.  We are using Google Maps to track where he is going.

Hi LC11 and LC10

We are now in Naperville staying with uncle Hamish and auntie Lauren.

We had a great time at the rugby. There were so many people there.

Here are some pictures.

From Brody

What are some things you'd like to see while Brody is traveling through USA?  Leave a suggestion and he may post some photos.

Here's another email from Brody.  We have left comments for Brody in the comment section.  Let's see if we remember how to be a "relational" or "extended abstract" thinker when leaving blog comments....

Hi Mrs Poulsen

I am having a great time on my holiday.

We left Chicago and we are now in Los Angeles. Before we left Chicago we saw Big Hero 6 on an advanced screening. It was super cool!  Do you think we could have been the first NZ kid to see it?

Yesterday Dads friend Swifty took us to a live NBA game. We sat really really close to the game. It was Clippers vs Portland.  The LA clippers won. We were cheering really loud with our thunder sticks and we used the thunder sticks to make Portland miss shots and it worked 3 or 4 times. We nearly made it on TV.

We are now in Swifty's car about to go on a car ferry to Newport Beach.

Tomorrow we are going to Universal Studios

I will write again soon.

From Brody

150th Celebrations

Cub Float

On Saturday  I went on the Cubs float at the 150 years of West Melton parade.  It was fun waving at everyone who was there.  We were firing rubber bands with a catapult at people.  There was a tent and a camp fire on the float.  The trailer belongs to my Dad.  At the end of the parade we parked up at the school.  Then I went to the playground with my friends.  Daniel and I had a ride on the mini steam engines, it was awesome!

By Finn

Lachan pet day.

it was a good at pet day at  lunch I saw a lot of sheep and boots the sheep was at the show.

By Lachlan                                        

Damper

                                                           
                                                       
                                                                       Our Damper
                                         
  We make damper and it was fun to make damper. But it did't taste very noise my friend did't like it. I did't like it because it taste like sting sock.    

by Anastasia
                       

Fraction Math online activities

We have been learning about fractions.  These online activities will help learn and understand fractions.

Have a go at the experts section if you are finding these ones to easy.

Bus fractions

Halloween fractions

Bus station fractions

Castle fractions


*** EXPERTS***

Musical fractions

Baseball fractions

Orchestra fractions

What makes plants great?

Our inquiry for Term 4 is looking at plants.

Here are our wonderings click here

Here is our learning so far


Loads of resources!

plant parts

Many uses of plants

life cycle of plants

Where do plants grow?

Build a plant

Grow a plant

Zip the expert

photosynthesis

Reading 4 Life!

Comprehension strategies  learn while you are reading

punctuation  blast the right punctuation into the correct place

bite size  bite size literacy activities

story maker write your own story!

capitals rule

KAPOW words

Typing

Help develop your touch typing skills with these fun learning activities.  Remember don't RUSH, get use to your fingers being in the right place.  Speed will come with practice! :-)

snow man

race horses  - this one is a little bit harder, but still loads of fun

type fast

ninja cat - type letters and words

Nominated for Best use of ICT!

We have been nominated for BEST use of ICT with our submission of our Assembly iMovie.

Please vote for us here!  Voting closes 19th of November.  All votes go in the draw for a chance to win 1 of 10, $20 app store cards.

Here is our iMovie if you haven't already watched it.

Chatter Kids

          

Shelfie!

We love to read!  Who doesn't.  These are some of the books we are reading at the moment.

Our aim is to sell you the book.  Does the book review make you want to go and find it in the library?
Remember when you are leaving comments to be a multi-structual thinker you need to

• compliment
• connect
• ask a question

What do you have to do to show you are a relational thinker?

Here is Hunter explaining how to use Chatterpix Kids.  What a fantastic and informative video Hunter.  I love the glasses!

Sharing Equally

Here are some flash cards... Are you ready?

Our Assembly take two!

Our chance to share with our families and school what we have been learning.

Spelling Activities

Here are some activities to consolidate your spelling and phonics. Leave a comment on which activity you like the best and why.

This will tell me what activities you prefer so we can keep them and use them in our phonics/spelling programme : )

All entries receive a Dojo point!

abcya! - how many words can you spell?

kitty hop - an addictive game, can you bet the other players?

We did it!

Finally after 4 weeks of making paper origami cranes we have reached our goal of 1,000 cranes.  It has been a busy time as we tried to steal any time we could making cranes, we even made them during our break times and Mrs P made some while Bruce was driving.

We begun the paper crane journey for Peace Week. We read Sadako's story about how the bombing in Hiroshima left many families sick even years after the tragedy.  Sadako was 2 when the bomb was dropped but she didn't get leukaemia until she was 12.  In hospital a nurse shared a story if she made 1000 paper cranes her wish to get better would become true, but unfortunately Sadako only made 648 before she passed away.

Our buddy class LC 17 helped us make cranes, but it was tricky even watching Youtube.  Some of our buddies quickly learnt how to make them and became experts.  At first we were very slow and Mrs P even needed help from the buddies. But with practice and patience we succeeded! And boy did we feel proud.

Ms Cider's daughter will be visiting Hiroshima as part of her culture exchange, where she will hang our cranes up on the Children's Peace Memorial.

Lucy's Mum visited Hiroshima before Lucy was born and took these photos. 

Cranes draped over a statue to the entrance of the Memorial Park.

Huts that have been made to house the thousands of cranes sent in from around the world

Peace Week on PhotoPeach

Ewwwwww

Our experiment of seeing which bread would keep longer has resulted in a quote from Liam..."The room is smelling of stinky socks!" It was the perfect time to photograph our evidence.

What can you see?
Here are some of our thoughts...

There is no wonder they call it mouldy bread. Because its an old, it is a bigger loaf and it is made from different materials  Brody

I think the olden day bread got mouldier quicker because it doesn't have the same ingredients in it as the bread now days Yoris  

  

I think that it has mould on it because it has been inside the bag for a long time Leila 

Yesterday there was some bread and it was really mouldy and every one smelled it and it smelt yuck Dallas

No wonder it is called mouldy bread

I think our mouldy bread is mouldier because it stayed in the plastic bag for longer Sophie

For Interchange this week Room 10 made Maori bread. We waited for 18 days. It was a long time but finally it started to grow mould Thomas 

I  think the mouldy bread  is called Maori bread because it'sbeen in the plastic  bag  too long and it can probably grow mould with no air in the bag Jennifer

I think the Maori bread went mouldy because air could not go through the bag Lilly

  

Some of us wondered who put strawberry jam on the bread!

This is Bruce's bread after 18 days of incubation.  

This is our Maori bread after 16 days of incubation

On Monday LC10 made Maori bread. Then we hung up bread it took 2 or 3 day then we waited for about 20 days then we looked at it. It was all mouldy. It smelt worse than our Dads socks. There was red mould on the Maori bread. The Maori bread was mouldier than the normal                                                           bread.  

Filling our buckets!

After a weekend of picking some beautiful daffodils with Ms Crosby from Hadstock farm, our classroom was bright and cheery.  Our buddy class told us about Filling each others buckets, so we thought it would be a great way to fill the teachers and staff's buckets.  Here are some of the compliments we received...

Mrs Coster said "thank you"

Mrs Busch said "you're nicer than James"

Jayden said "ladies before boys"

Ms McKenndry said politely "thank you very much and I'll put them somewhere in the classroom"

Mr T said "thank you I will have those"

Mrs Moake said quietly "thanks for the beautiful flowers"

Ms Crosby said "thanks, I'll put them with the rest of my flowers"

Ms O B said "thank you, you are a star"

Ms Cider said "thanks for the flowers"

Mrs McKee said "you're the Hulk"

Mrs Busch said "could you please go and get a jar for Mrs Bromley so her flowers don't die"

Mrs Mac said "you have made our day"

Mrs Thompson said "are those for us?" "You can have one of Mrs Armstrong's flowers"

Mrs Hyde said "well thank you very much"

Mr D said "how could we fill Mrs P's bucket?" Mr D gave LC 10 a sheet of stickers.


We also learnt that it doesn't cost a thing to make people smile :-)

Leila felt happy filling Mrs Coster's bucket!
James felt grateful because we all gave teachers and staff flowers
Tayla felt good inside because we were giving the flowers away
Brody great because giving out flowers makes me happy!

LC10's Cricket Lessons

Buddy time!

Today for buddy time we were blogging buddies.  Mrs Busch told us about a book she shared with her class called Have you filled your bucket today? What does a bucket filler mean? How do you fill your bucket?  Some of our buddies used a google doc and wrote about how we could be bucket fillers...

Other buddies wrote their own stories and will continue to work on these stories through the week.  

Turkey Fractions

Here is a online activity to help practice your fractions.  How many turkeys can you hit?
Turkey Fractions

Hunter's playhouse

On Monday, Hunter shared this newspaper article about the Monopoly house his parents designed and built as part of the Christchurch city gap filler projects.  Hunter now has his very own hut to play in.

Beautiful Butterflies

What a journey we have been on earlier in the year.  It was a highlight getting to tag butterflies so we can help NZ Monarch Trust understand behaviours of Monarchs over the winter.

Kiwikiwi's Play

KIWIKIWI performed the play called the Animal Band.  They practiced a lot so their reading sounded like talking.  I love the expression the readers put into their voices.

Well done KIWIKIWI!

Sophie's narrative

Sophie shared a story she wrote at home that was inspired by a story her younger sister was reading.  Share your 2 stars and 1 wish for Sophie in the comment section.

Boggle Champs

Congratulations to our first champions for Boggle.  We had a three-way tie!  

Peace Week

During Peace Week PAKURAKURA read why we are making origami cranes.

This is a famous story called Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes.

As a class we asked interesting questions as we listened to the first four chapters.

We spoke about how we can stop conflict in our own lives, whether this is at school, at home, with friends or family.  So next time your Mum asks you to tidy your room, don't cause conflict, be peaceful and go and do it!  Mum will love that! :-)

Leave us a comment

Ferrymead

Here are some of our photos from Ferrymead, thanks Ms Crosby for sharing pic collage with me

I liked Ferrymead when we did planting.

By Hunter 

Ferrymead was awesome my favorite thing was the stilts. my favorite thing was the train. We wore a suit with a hat,shirt and pants  went everywhere.  My favorite place was the playground because it has a dino slide,monkey bars, rocking hours and a fake train.

We liked Mr Black the best because he was a really good actor.
By Tayla and Lilly