Coke Explosion!

We all sat around a coke bottle wondering what would happen.  Ben felt nervous because he thought it might splash on him.   Brenden was excited because he thought it would make a mess.  Then at morning tea he could slide through the spilt coke on the ground.   When it was time to do the experiment Adam unscrewed the lid.  Then Adam dropped in a blue mint (the mint was green inside because Brodie saw a cracked one).  We all stayed close to the coke bottle.  We had to move quickly away from the bottle before it splashed all over us- Adam got splashed!  But no one else did.

By Ben, Adam, Brodie and Brenden

Our Favourite and Interesting Things.

Purpose: To tell our own stories using photos, to help prompt our thinking, of things we like to do with our time.
Write in a way that for someone who doesn't know what it's like, (as not everyone lives on a farm),  can get a picture in their head.





I was riding the four wheeled motorbike with Josh on the back and diesel the boy dog was chasing us.  Josh was holding onto the back bar so he didn’t fall off.  He needed to do this because I went over bumps really fast.  I wasn’t allowed to go in last gear, only second and first.  If I did Josh would fall off because I have done it before, and he hurt himself.

Ben with brother Josh on the back.

                                             By Ben

I went motorbike riding a long time ago with my Dad, and friends.  We put cones down to drive around them, making a track for our motorbikes.  We made dirt tracks around the cones.  We drove up the hills and down the hills.  You can go fast down the hills, but when you go up the hills you go slowly.  Some people had a crash. An adult’s bike was munted because his kid pulled in front of him, so he crashed into him, it was Ben, his son.  

Adam with his motorbike.

                                          By Adam.

Some years back.

I like Holden’s because Ford’s always break down.  My family reckon Holden’s are cool.  We have a Holden commodore V6 car.  We also have two other Holden’s that are V8’s.  They sit in the garage.  One is a Ute and it isn’t used for anything either because we don’t need it for anything.   My photo was taken in Waihi at my home.

                             By Brenden.

 

I was standing on top of the rock jumping into a swimming pool, with my friend watching.  I slipped and sunk down to the bottom of the pool and my friend had to dive down to rescue me.  He swam down and got me up and had to keep doing that until he got me to the side of the pool. I had sunk to the bottom and I didn’t float back up until he pushed me up.  His nana was inside making a cup of tea.

The swimming accident.

                             By Shae

 

Riding in the park with Mum, my friends and my friends mum, I brought my orange bike.  I tried to pull a high wheelie but I was too young and I wasn’t big enough or strong enough to pull one.  I didn’t like any other photos, I liked this one because my bike helps me exercise a lot.

You might see my chicken pox in the photo but they are just scabs because it is healing up.

Biking at the park.

                   By Devon 

I am on my motorbike in a paddock racing my friends.  I have all my gear on, helmet, goggles – safety gear.  I was riding in a maze paddock.  I was racing and playing around with our motorbikes while I was skidding.  I fell off when another person passed me.  He hit me as he passed, so my bike flipped over.

       By Josh.

In the maze paddock.

Environmental Writing in Small Groups.

Purpose: To write with detail and description so that the reader gets a picture in their head of what you have writing about: -

Brown spikes with some white spider webs.

Feels prickly and sharp when I touch it with my hands.

It reminds me of a hair ball that the cat coughs up.

I wonder what grows inside ?

                By Adam & his buddy.

White, holey, rough pumice that blasted from the volcano.

Feels rough and light to touch.

Reminds me of running on the beach on a hot

summers day.

The surface is like a full moon on a dark night.

I wonder if it came out of a volcano ?

     By Shae and Josh.

Brown and black lumpy spikes shooting out the middle like a baby hedgehog.

Smells funny and feels weird.  Hard, prickly and rough.

I wonder if it will grow into a tree ?

It reminds me of a baby hedgehog putting out its spikes as it turns into a ball. 

                                                                        By Ben & his buddy.

Commenting on Blogs

After some discussion we decided we needed to consider some things when posting comments on our own or others blogs so we came up with some main ideas.  Wordle has been used to put these main ideas together and this is posted on the right side of this blog. One of the main things we decided is that if someone asks for our suggestions, we think of 2 positives and 1 thing they could think about or work on further - this is how we'd like our work to be treated too. 

Livestock Day

"I didn't go," said Brenden "I went to Waihi with Mum".   "I ate sausages and sold raffle tickets with Devon," said Adam.   "We ran out of the tractor raffle and the grocery raffle".  What is a tractor raffle ?   It's a remote control toy tractor.   "I lead my calf around the ring," said Ben.  "I touched a peg and you are not supposed to do that, because I didn't know.  My calf behaved well and the judges said her butt was too small, so she didn't win, but I got some ribbons".

Me and my small butted calf - Ben.

By Ben, Brenden and Adam.

Motumaoho Livestock Day

The winning leader.

On Friday morning everyone got ready for livestock day.  Josh and Ben had calves.  Josh's calf is called Jay and Ben's is called Taffy.  We were competing for trophies and raising money for school camp plus the PE shed.  Devon sold raffle tickets and Shae ate sausages.  Josh and Ben had to lead their calves around a ring.  The calves had to behave and follow their leaders.  Josh won a silver cup for champion leading !  Josh was real happy and proud.  Some people brought lambs to walk around the ring.  And some people brought goats.

By Devon, Josh and Shae

Our Class Makeover

The class walls.

We got a class makeover just before the holidays.  I came to the school in the holidays - none of the others did.  I had a look at the class and my teacher was putting the spelling words on the wall.  I thought "It was awesome" !      
                     By Ben

On the first day of school I thought it was cool because the colour was green and blue - they are good colours together.  I thought the desks were put around the classroom neatly.  The carpet is soft and it smells funny because it's brand new.
                       By Adam

Our new writing corner.

When our class was empty to be fixed up, we went into the Junior room.   It was kind of boring because we had to clean up their mess.   We went into the library sometimes to learn our times tables.

More views of our class.

                By Brenden

Our classroom getting re-built

3 of us in front of the pink batts that have been added to the walls.


Just before the Sept/Oct holidays we had to pack everything up and put it in the library and in the garage where the bus goes.  So we had to do all our learning in the Junior room as our room was bare.  The builders and sparkies (we called them this, they are electricians) came in and smashed the walls down and there was walls, paint and dust all over the floor.  We had the walls lined and it took them 2 weeks in our classroom, then they spent 2 weeks in the junior room doing up their room.
Coming back after the holidays it was much warmer than before, with the pink batts in the walls, that weren't in there before.  The walls are green and navy blue, because they are our school colours. We can't see the pink batts now - but we sure can feel them.


By 3 fantastic writers !

Our visits to try to get ideas and the purpose behind setting up a blog.

We visited the local Intermediate School and St Josephs School to find out all about setting up a blog.  The purpose for this was to see what we needed to consider re; safety, ideas for on the blog, what we should include and to 'buy into' the whole process of a blog - not just to be told to do it.   We thought the schools we went to were really cool and they had lots of ideas to share with us, thanks Jane and Terry for being so helpful and friendly, with lots of great ideas.