SOLO - Our comparing statements

Room 14 have been busy this term looking at creating comparing statements. We have been using flags from the countries at the Rugby World cup and the uniforms from some of the teams.

When we write a comparing statement we need to use words such as: like, same, similar, almost the same, in comparison and both. After we have used one of these words we need to use a joining word such as: because, during, after, which and is. By using these joining words and adding them to our statements we are able to move towards becoming relational thinkers by explaining our statements.

We have been working as a whole class and in buddies and are currently beginning to develop our independence when creating our own statements.

The clip below are our examples of comparison statements using the South African and Australian rugby jerseys - Lauren, Cherkia and Cassady are leading the class. Check it out ...

Stu Duval - Writing workshop

Baileigh Nicholas and Olivia Bernacchi

On Wednesday we both went to see Stu Duval. Stu taught us how to do some doodles like an "S" person and a"X" cat.

He told us how to make a title name first you draw 3 boxes drawn together. Secondly put colours in the first box like Aqua or violet until you fill it up.

Next do the same thing but with random animals. Now write in the last box things you see. Choose your 1 favourite from each box and link them together and you got your title. Stu's title was "The hot pink pig poster". We created a story to go with it [It was so funny]. He drew a cat in a bikini we laughed for a minute.

We learnt alot Stu . THANK YOU STU DUVAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.

The POLICE come to visit

The wind was like a hairdryer only it blew cold and chilly. The noise was almost deafening as the Iriquois helicopter flew above our heads. It hovered over the school field before 5 armed police officers were deployed. They dropped a black rope from the helicopter and dropped onto the school field.

The police officers performed some routine maneuvers to rehearse for the Rugby World Cup.

Danny Love our photographer, shot these snaps from the courts - "it was awesome"

We had such an exciting time out on the court watching the helicopter land and the police officers complete their drills.

Gymnastics

For the past couple f weeks, Room 14 along with all the other students at UHPS have been attending gymnastic lessons. We have been learning a range of skills from ball control, ribbon skills and batons to rolling, jumping and Hula Hooping.

Check out these clips below and see what we got up to...

Room 14 would like to say a HUGE thank you for Margaret for all her hard work and effort. Margaret must have some super ears because we sure made an awful lot of noise in the hall.

RWC Writing Reports

This morning we research some information about New Zealand. New Zealand is going to be our first RWC country report.

First used a highlighter to locate main information that we wanted to use in our report.

We then placed our information on a graphic organiser - sharing information with everyone in our group.

After drawing our Hamburger in out books we planned our report and decided where our 2 pictures will go.

After self editing, making changes, checking in the dictionary, referring to the picture in our writing and organising our ideas into paragraphs - we made our report as factual and as informative as we could.

I wonder what country we are going to report on next!

Hamburger ... What does a Hamburger have to do with writing?

Lets see what Cherkia and Bella have to say.

Our Rugby Eyes are on You !!!

Our Rugby Eyes are on You !!!

Roo

m 14 are very excited about the Rugby World cup starting.

We have all had our photos taken with our funky rugby ball glasses and are looking forward to learning all about the "RWC and History in the Making".

Go the All Blacks

Check out the LEGO Version of our All Black Haka!

Can you spot Richie McCaw and Dan Carter?

The All Black theme song - Can you Hear us - Aotearoa

The All Blacks welcomed the Tongan National Rugby team at the opening ceremony of the Rugby world cup. Check out the challenge below - doesn't it send shivers down your spine!

ARNAY AT THE GAME - Go Black

On Friday last week I went to watch the Rugby World Cup. I watched the New Zealand v Japan game. It was cool when the wave came. One of the All Blacks stepped on a Japan player and it was a foul but New Zealand still won by miles. As I mentioned before the wave is when everyone gets up until the next gap - the Mexican Wave. The game was

all the way at Hamilton in Waikato stadium.

Have a look at one of my pictures that my dad took - what a great pic.
Arnay Maharaj

Tom at the Game - Come on Black

Thursday 21st September - South Africa vs Namibia

When the mexican wave came around I heard a running noise coming from under me. I jumped up and waved my hands in the air - that was fun I felt happy to be at the game.

I was supporting Namibia even though they lost (Miss Bullen was too). I got a hand banger which I held up when tries were scored. Mum, dad and my brother Sam cam with me - it was exciting and my mum even took a picture of two BLUE MEN dressed as Namibia supporters.

Check out the photos of Tom at the game - what an awesome shot!

Tom Compton

Numeracy Group talking strategy

Can you solve problems like 245 x 6 ? what about 536 x 4?

WELL THIS GROUP CAN!!!

Watch and listen to Cassady, Nicole, Tyler, Danny, Baileigh, Lauren and Sua as they share the strategy they used to solve this problem.

Writing ... writing ... writing

One of Room 14's favourite subjects in class is writing ... and we are SSSOOO good at it. Every week we look at our writing goals and decided that we would share some of goals with you.

So join Baileigh and the Room 14 learning community.

Helpful Websites for your Learning

Have a look at these helpful websites at home to supplement your learning

* www.multiplication.com

* www.funbrain.com

* www.arcademicskillbuilders.com

* www.nzmaths.co.nz

* www.coolmaths.com

* www.squiglyplayhouse.com/StoryBuilder

* www.lifeeducation.com

* www.herofactory.com Published Page: Georgia Cavander

* www.friv.com

SOLO Thinkers

In Room 14 we are learning to use SOLO to help us with our thinking. SOLO is all about ordering our thinking and working to improve how we think.
There are 5 levels of SOLO

1. Pre-structural
2. Uni-structural
3. Multi-structural
4. Relational
5. Extended Abstract

Check out the clip below and see what Room 14 has to say about SOLO.

Big Buck Bunny

Room 14 used Big Buck Bunny to help them begin their character descriptions. We chose a character out of the short film and described them. We included what we thought the characters personality would be like. What did we say ...

Baileigh Nicholas wrote "Snoop Dog has a pom pom tail and evilness lerking in his body"

Isabella Hellesoe wrote "he is fluffy, big and smart with chubby fat bouncy arms"

Oliver Cross wrote "he likes butterflies, is friendly and has big arms and floppy dopey ears"

Ryan Webley wrote " Zake the Chinchilla is chubby and goffey and is really funny who follows around Big Buck Bunny"

Character Descriptions

Room 14 have been learning how to write effective character descriptions - what do you think of these?
To help us with our inspiration we watched "Big Buck Bunny" and began by describing the characters on this short film.

The Superhuman Whip Lash - By Cassady Glasgow
With her beautiful blue butterfly wings she swings through the sky with her lazered green whip lashed boots. She has elastic green and green goey hair, a green top and shorts to protect her from the lava and fire. At night she swoops through the air while her electric suit glows light green in the dark. When a monster is near she draws a see through bubble around herself and uses her lazered whip to protect her from getting hurt. - COME AND CHECK OUT CASSEADY'S SUPERHERO IN THE TIPA AWHINA SPACE.

The Smashing Smash - By Brandon Gibbons
The Smashing Smash has the hanner of the demon. He is covered in demon bombs and bombs of ultimate doom!!! His sleek black suit is also a telly-porter because he lives underground. - CHECK OUT BRANDON'S SUPERHERO IN THE TIP AWHINA SPACE.

Chinky the Goblin - By Madeline Giles and Nicole Yong
The little goblin has a water pipe like chocolate coloured hat. His cloak is casual, shaggy and worn. He has a chubby, smiley and sunny bright face. His pipe is vanilla coloured and jagged. Chinky has flat, shiny polished midnight black shoes and his lives in a toadstool house Jollyville. He likes to build houses for new people to move into. Chinky's favourite food is ground up acorns and is his spare time he likes to study. - CHECK OUT WHAT CHINKY LOOKS LIKE BY COMING INTO ROOM 14.

Freaky the Dog - By Tom Compton
Freaky is a three headed dog who lives at Hogwarts school. He has razor sharp teeth and a very SCARY roar! He will eat whoever he wants... except for his friends. He is made up of three types of dogs - a Bulldog, a Golden Retriever and a Beagle. He has huge knifelike claws and is body is super strong. So if you are a witch or wizard at Hogwarts ... ... run away. WHAT DOES FREAKY LOOK LIKE? COME AND HAVE A LOOK

Fireball Breather - by Danny Love
Fireball Breather is a furious beastly dragon that breathes our lava fire balls. His knife like claws can rip a building down in one hit. His glowing red eyes are so shiny that he can blind people and his lava like mouth, wings and tongue can turn someone into ash. He has super razor sharp horns on his bony head that can rip a tree out of the ground. OHHHH SCARY - ASK DANNY FOR A PICTURE

Lilly - by Georgia Cavander
Lilly loves dancing with children waving her long wavy hair with her white pearly necklace. She has a friend Dolphin called Penelope and she swims to her giving her kisses with her red cherry lips. Her long white dress has a fluffy white petticoat and she wears a gorgeous gold crown. LILLY IS NOT YOU THINK SHE IS - COME AND FIND OUT MORE

Jagger - By Baileigh Nicholas

With his beady black eyes, Jagger is a dog crossed with a slug and dragon. He has medium pebble shaped nose and he has a good sense of smell. Jagger has a sharped spiked collar as sharp as a thistle. Punie horns and a purple scabby body with a white scaly tummy. He has killing grim teeth and in one bite he can kill you. He has little mini pink wings and he lives in Blackberry forest and he moves by flapping his flappy wings. COME AND SEE BAILEIGH'S WRITING AND SEE WHAT JAGGER REALLY LOOKS LIKE!

Captain Dual Rocket - By Noah Cate

Captain Dual Rocket has a speed jet that makes him fly high in the sky. With his gun he can shoot the villans. He has 15 bullets to shoot each night. Captain dual rocket lives in New York City and with his arms he can punch people 30 times. He has a belt that shoots lasers for breaking through walls or metal. His jet pack can turn into a machine gun and it has 50 bullets. Captain Rocket has powerful gloves that turn into a chainsaw and an axe. - WHAT A SUPERHERO!!

Dronapeed - by Tyler Franklin

Dronapeed lives in a dark, spiky cave called Drona. He can kill a monster with a flick of his flaming red tail and kill call other Dronopeeds from his family. He can slither 235 km/ph along the ground. He has a black flaming mane with horns that can pick up tress out of the ground and blow flames out of the trunk. - OH COME AND SEE THIS SCARY MONSTER FOR YOURSELF.

Boldazar - shared writing by Room 14
With his beady bulging blue eye Boldazar can see all from underneath his big bushy eyebrows. He has a long blunt nose with nostrils like bouncy balls in-between his shabby hairy sideburns.
Boldazars mouldy rotten teeth are hidden beneath his shriveled dry lips and he has a long wrinkly chin like an elephants. Boldazar is covered with a blood red cloak and with his arched back and cane he shuffles and drags himself along. - WHAT DOES BOLDAZAR LOOK LIKE? COME IN AND SEE FOR YOURSELF.

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