This is a photo of blueberry pie.

This is the recipe. Today I made this for the class.

By William.

Tales of a fourth grade nothing

Dear Fudge 

How have you been?Iheard you went out with your mum and peter.Did you enjoy smearing mashed potato on the wall. Do you like your new shoes?I will try to give you some ideas to help you with your brother Peter. Try to act normal,just eat it don't wear it, and last but no least,DO NOT FLY!!!! It may seem fun, but for the sake of your mother,don't do it again.Oh,and before I leave you,please leave peters turtle dribble ALONE!!!!!!! 

Dear Fudge

Hi my name is Mike and i would like to tell you something about your brother Peter. He is embarrassed by you. You especially annoyed him when you yelled " EAT IT OR WEAR IT ". My advice is,you cant fly,and you cant use a pea pod as a suit

From MIke

Tales of a fourth grade nothing

5/12/13

Dear fudge

It has come to my attention that you have been very naughty. I am writing to you to tell you to please stop being naughty like scribbling on peters poster and smearing potato all over the wall. I am just warning you that Peter will soon put a padlock on his door to stop you going in to his room and trashing the place. It is actually really funny when you do tantrums and do naughty stuff but please try do it with out any one finding out and by the way you're mum tricked you into buying the wrong shoes.

From Daniel Morris 

P.s don't eat Dribble 

Tales of the fourth grade nothing

Dear Fudge 

Do you ever get the feel that you really annoy Peter?I am the youngest as well.I get that sometimes it's fun to annoy your siblings, but messing up a project that Peter worked really hard on that's over the top.P.S don't kill Dribble.

From Lachie

Tales of a fourth grade nothing

Dear Fudge,

I'm going to give you some tips on how to not be annoying to Peter. First,stay calm and don't try to fly. Just saying, Peter is going to get a lock for his bedroom.

From Charles 

Tales of a fourth grade nothing

5/12/13

Dear Peter

How are you? Hope your brother hasn't been a pain. I heard you were talking about locking up your bedroom.I really hope it works out. Sorry peter gotta dash my little brother's attacking me now bye.

From Blake

P.S HIDE DRIBBLE

Tales of a fourth grade nothing. Room6 letters

We are reading a book called the tales of a fourth grade nothing and we have written letters to Peter or Fudge.

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Dear Fudgey

Now let's talk. I've heard that you want to be just like peter. My advice is to be like your self. I know. I've got three little younger onesand they want to be just like me, it is so annoying. I hope you take this on.

P.S Peter and mr brown tricked you into opening your mouth and then your mum, peter, me berman tricked you into getting the right shoe.

P.P.S Plaese do not throw a tantrum because miss phillis has a bad screaming expression.

See you soon Annabelle 

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing

Hey Peter,

How are you? Fudge may be an annoying little brother, but on the other hand he is a funny, crazy boy who looks up to you. Just try to get along with him and he might not annoy you any more.

P.S I know just how you feel.

From Caitlyn

Blake and Nicks success

In the weekend  Blake and Nicholas had a swimming  prize giving . Blake got first and nic got third. To get a placing in the competition you can score points by showing up and beating other peoples times.

We have one each term on a Sunday. there are up to six heats. This competition  is done at Te Awamutu event center swimming training is also held there.here is a picture of the medal and trophy.

William likes pavlova

For homework this week room 6 had to studie a topic of their choice.

William did a PowerPoint on his iPad about whangamata beach. Annabelle did a study about Pavalova. She also made this delicious Pavlova for us to eat. It was yum!

Calendars in Progress

We are in the process of asking our 2014 calendars - we are making collages of our favourite animal

Here are some photos and a sneak peak of what we have done.

Caitlyn Parrotts Calendar

Chloe Wellmans Calendar

Paige Gibberds Calendar

Blake Clarkes Calendar

Jeremy Doigs Calendar

Annabelle McGuires Calendar

We have worked extremely hard to finish these amazing calendars

Made by Caitlyn & Chloe :)

A Time When I Was Successful by Nikki

The Proud Moment

Huff, puff! Will I make it to the finish line? I hear, "Go Nikki, go!" A cold shiver runs down my spine as I see the finish line. All I can see are friends and family running to the finish with their child. Eagerly I start sprinting to the finish line as I catch a glimpse of mum. She's yelling at me saying "You're nearly there, keep going!"

Clonk! "Yes, I'm over the finish line!" Miss Phillips hands me a square white card saying that I'm 4th place out of the 11 year olds to the 13 year olds. My friends all run over to congratulate me. My frown was turned upside down after all. "Have I just come 4th? OMG!" I can't believe it. I was as small as an ant, well, compared to some of the others I was against.

As I walk up to the control room mum keeps telling me how proud she is. Proudly I hand my card to the lady and tell her my name. Excitedly she tells me that I have finished 1st in my age group. I was honoured to get first place at the Interschool Cross Country.

A Time When I Was Successful by Ana

Hallelujah!

I can feel my heart pounding through my chest. Why me? Why does she want to see me? The question thrashes around in my head sending streaks of pain to my temple. 

The clicking of heels echo around me as Miss Phillips and I exit the classroom and make our way to the office. Usually you go to the Principal for bad reasons, or so everyone says. But I don't recall doing anything bad lately. As I let my mind wander off into this situation my body calms. I start to relax even. But as I pass Room 7's door, anxiousness fills my body, right to the top of my head. I hardly have time to react...

Now I'm waiting. Just outside the door, ready to be welcomed in. Then I hear it, her voice, just behind the door saying, "Come in!"

I cautiously make my way in and Miss Phillips closes the door behind me. Mrs McNeil then instructs me to stand where I can see the screen of her computer. I choose to stand right behind her. She begins to speak. She talks about all this stuff about ICAS and other things academic and then just as my mind starts to wander off, the words come and they say "You got a High Distinction for English." 

All I can say is "Wow!" Instantly I feel like I have been frozen for a million years.

Calendar Art

We have started our Calendars! We have chosen an animal to collage...

Kids can cook kitchen

Crepes

Ingredients 

To make the Crepes you need,

Milk

Flour and

Eggs

First crack to eggs into a medium bowl and mix then put about three cups of  milk with the eggs then stir well then put to cups of flour into a different bowl. Then tip the egg and milk in with the flour and stir until mixed then leave to sit for 20 minutes. (20 minutes later) tip the mixture into a pan the size you want then when cooked fill with what ever you want.

Our sue chef/ second in charge.

And that concludes this blog of our experience with cooking with Master Chris

WordSalad app

 

Spirit-Leigh has use the app WordSalad to create a "Salad of ideas" about herself.

Popplet

Popplet

This app has helped us with our learning in class. We can use it for things like brainstorming and planning and for putting together information.
Miss Phillips found pout about this app in a course that she learnt about all apps that help us with learning. There are two popplet apps and one of them (free) can't save and you only have one popplet and the one that costs can save as many as you want. We are doing a popplet about the Tangiwai disaster and here are some facts...

151 people died in the crash
it happened in  1953 on christmas eve
the number of the train was 939
285 passangers

From Michael Jordan and William McNeil

Simple Machines

Simple Machines

 

 

For science this term we have been learning about Simple Machines. We have learnt that they are all around us and help us to do things everyday. There are 6 types of simple machines-wheel and axle, levers, pulleys, inclined planes, wedges and screws.

 

We made catapults because these are an example of a lever. You have a load, effort and fulcrum. 3…2…1… Fire! We had a competition to see whose catapult could launch a ball of paper the longest distance...

 

 

 

Cars have wheels and axles and we made these as part of our homework. Here are some photos…

 

 

Using all our knowledge about Simple Machines we created Chain Reaction Contraptions. In these we used a number of different simple machines to create one complex machine.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Baking with Ana, Annabelle and Spirit-Leigh!

Today we made a yummy chocolate cake.





















Firstly we greased the baking dish and turned the oven onto 160 degrees.








Secondly we placed the egg and 1 1/4 cups of water and the mixture into a mixing bowl.











Next we mixed all the ingredients in the bowl.

  

 




We poured the mixture in to the cake tin, and put it in the oven.

We put the cake in the oven, set the timer for 55 minutes and waited...

 

We made chocolate icing and put sprinkles on it. Here is a picture of our cake all finished...



Exposition Writing

 

Exposition Writing

 

We have been learning how to write a piece of exposition with clear arguments, backed up with explanations and evidence.

 

 

The structure of an exposition is: Preview (State your point of view and briefly outline the three points of your argument), Elaborations (Adding detail to your arguments), Reiteration (Last chance to convince your audience and restate your point of view)

 

 

Here are some examples we have written:

Should all children in the senior school be allowed to bring an Ipad or an Ipod to school?

I think children at Korakonui School should be allowed to bring an Ipad or an Ipod to school. Firstly, we could use them to find recipes to make school lunches. Secondly, you could learn on them and finally, you could check the weather.

 

It would be good if we could use Google to find recipes. We could find healthy recipes and make lunches for people. If someone was sick we could make them some soup. We could sell the food to make money.

 

 We could learn maths on tablets. You could look up how much things cost and you could also do reading games so you get better at reading.

 

I believe that we need to check the weather so that we know what clothes to wear. Also, if we are going to play sport we can check the weather so that we know if it is going to rain.

 

 It is for these reasons that I think Korakonui kids should be able to bring an Ipad or Ipod to school to help them learn.

 

By Josh M.

Should our school swimming pool be heated?

I believe that the school swimming pool should not be heated. Firstly, I think heating the swimming pool will cost too much money. Secondly, we would get used to swimming in water that is warm and wouldn’t be used to cold water. Finally, in summer the water would be too hot.

 

Heating the swimming pool would be really expensive for the school. The average cost to heat a swimming pool in $120 per month. This amount of money could be spent on other things like new sports gear. Too much money would be coming out of our school budget for the pool. It already costs lots of money to keep the pool working.

 

If the pool was heated we would get used to warm water. Your body gets used to certain temperatures. If you went for a swim in the sea you would probably freeze because you have been used to swimming in such warm water.

 

When we go swimming in the summer we want to cool down. If the pool was heated it would be too hot and we wouldn’t cool our bodies down. We wouldn’t want to swim if it was too hot. When we feel hot we feel less energised and wouldn’t want to do lengths.

 

I am certain that heating the school swimming pool is not a good idea. We are better off to leave it as it is. Some schools don’t even have a swimming pool at all so we are lucky!

By Ada

 

Should commercial fishermen be banned?

 

Imagine being a little baby fish swimming silently through the sea and then bang! You get swooped up by a gigantic net. Not fair is it??

I firmly believe that commercial fishermen should be banned. In the first place, the commercial fishermen kill all the little fish. Consequently, they throw the little fish or any other fish they don't want back. It is known that the commercial fishermen catch endangered species such as dolphins in their nets and kill them.

 

Too many little baby fish are being unnecessarily murdered. The commercial fishermen kill all the baby fish in their nets and they don't even care. If all the little fish are killed there will be no fish for the future.

 

Large amounts of fish are being thrown back, already dead. The commercial fishermen catch large amounts of fish, and once they have their quota throw back the smaller fish into the sea and leave them for everyone else to clean up. Nobody is picking it up and the dead fish are rotting and polluting our oceans, killing more fish. Each year 20-40 tonnes of dead fish are thrown back into the sea.

 

Endangered species are being captured and killed. Dolphins and sea turtles swim into the nets and are caught and often die while waiting to get to the boat. Every year 150,000 or more endangered fish are being killed and that is mostly dolphins and sea turtles.

 

Therefore, I strongly agree with the statement that commercial fishermen should definitely be banned. It is extremely important to keep our oceans clean and healthy and to keep our fish for future generations.

 

By Daniel M.



 



Museum Trip 2013 Rm 6

MUSEUM   TRIP

THURSDAY THE 20^TH OF JUNE 2013 

Hi all,

  It’s been a while since we have blogged because we have been  non - stop  learning about Matariki which means "eyes of god" or "tiny eyes". Matariki is also the name of the Maori New Year where you see the constellation of 7 stars in the sky. Finally the day came and it was time to go to  the museum. Thank you to the parents that transported us to the museum.  We soon arrived and Alan Reiley ( The museum educator)  had a slideshow  to see what kind of Manu Tukutuku kites they made in the older days. He then showed us the materials we were going to use. All of us started  with blank  minds on how we were going to make the kites. Our materials we had were flax and some other materials. Then he showed us how to make them while we  were in groups of 3 our 4 . He showed us how to make the Manu Tukutuku kites step by  step. Soon we finished with the help of  parents the teachers and Alan Reiley.And man do they  look amazing.

Caitlyn , Annabelle , Boston and Paul were in a  grop

Paige , Pip and Nikki were in a group.

It was a great day for cross country. All the children were amped for the big day. We would like to thank Sam, Catherine and Daniel White for building the track and letting us use your farm. Also a big thank you to the parents and caregivers for coming to watch the race, We all disserved a sausage and an ice block!!!

By Riley Wyber, William McNeil,  Willem Grond - Holmes.

Here are some photos about Cross country.

The winner is Jack Bull!!!

All the way to the end!!!

Sprint Chris sprint!!!!!!

Lorien wins the race the crowd goes crazy !!!!!

School gala written by BLAKE,CHARLES and CHRIS

On Friday the 17th  we had our school gala. It was so cool to see all the parents there. Every kid was at their stall waiting for a customer to come. Here are some photos,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

of us at the gala. ps the school made $ 2,875 and 24 cents.