Cool Conjunctions

We have been learning about joining together sentences using joining words (conjunctions)

Mrs Ware wanted sentences that 

- used a good conjunction (instead of 'and' 'but' 'or')

- had some WOW words

- had only 1 captial letter

- had a fullstop

Here are some of her favourites

My dog scatters across the grass because I chuck dog biscuits and he tries to catch them.

Mila Wishnowsky

The wolf ran faster and faster and faster until he went too fast and tripped over a branch and fell down a steep hill

Braxton Bell

The cute, tiny baby rabbit pranced and skipped across the river where she hoped she would find some delicious food

Katie Fellowes

The Zebra ran across the green grass because a lion came to eat him.

Zeke Ferguson

The baby owls waited patiently while the wood peckers swooped across the beautiful blue sky.

Sara Petuha

The white, fluffy bunny bounced high...high... high as he caught his prey when it was not looking.

Riley Burke

The president turned on pop music because he loved to dance. 

Logan Ide

The black, fluffy snow dog was waiting patiently for his prey, when suddenly, SNAP! 

Ryder Moore

The tiger sprinted as fast as he could so that he could catch the rushing reindeer.

Zhi Heng Zhou

Tim in Minion

We have a new class member! Meet Tim the Minion.

He met Mrs Ware in the holidays and though that Rm12 sounded like so much fun that we would come along. Here he is at the Huka falls with Mrs Ware's children Lily and Olivia.

Tim will be going home with someone different each week to have some adventures. Unique took him home last week and here is her story.

Earth, Sun and Moon

We started our new topic today and learnt about how the Earth and Moon move. We watched an animation on youtube  (you tube video)









Then Mrs Ware taught us a song. Here we are singing it!

Then we all went outside and tried to orbit (go around) and orbit (spin) like the Earth and Moon do. Some of us got very dizzy. Riley, Giana and Belle did a great job.

Food Fair!

Tomorrow from 4. 30 - 6.30 on the school feild.

Take a night off cooking and come on down for some fun.

The event will go ahead if there is rain or showers so support your school and fundraise for our library.

Check out the awesome sign the class has made to advertise our stall :)

Is it a vegetable?.....

This week for science news Grace bought in an enormous cucumber that her Mum grew.

Mrs Ware told us that it was acutally the FRUIT of a plant because it had seeds inside it. We thought about all the other 'Vegetables' that were actually fruit like pumpkin, peppers and tomato.

We found out that things that most people call fruit have more fructose to make them taste sweeter.

Then Mrs Ware told us that the other 'Vegetables' we ate were

Roots (potato, carrot, kumara, radish etc)
Leaves (lettuce, cabbage, bok choy etc)
Flowers (brocolli, cauliflower, brussel sprouts etc)
Seeds  (corn, peas etc)

But where does onion fit in?.... and asparagus?.... and mushrooms?

.....so.... see if you can figure out what you are having tonight for dinner - who would have thought flowers could be so yummy!

definition of fruits and vegetables

Horrid Henry!

We have been reading a lot of Horrid Henry books by Francesca Simon recently.

This week we are writing poems about the main character. This is Emily's. Mrs Ware liked it because she had used sentences and it really sounds just like Henry!

Horrid little boy

Evil plans every day

Naughty constantly

Rude to his Mum and Dad

Yells, yells, yells and yells!

Sea Week - Rena disaster

Today Mrs Ware read us a book called 'Oil and Water' which was all about oil spils at sea.

We learnt about what can cause them, and what happens to all the fish, birds, animals and beaches afterwards.

We talked about the Rena diaster and some of us remembered a bit about it.

Here is a link to a recent article about the Rena disaster

Rena memorial