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Our Trip to Sounds Amazing

We wrote a skinny poem about our trip to the museum.

Sounds Amazing

Soft
Low
High
Tinkle
Whistle
Fizzle
Louder
Boom
Bash
Crash
Clang
Extreme
Weird
Smashing
Awesome music
Made by us!

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Narrative Stories

This term we are learning to write narratives. Here are the success criteria.
1. My story will have a beginning, middle and an end.
2. It will be written in the past tense.
3. It will include some adjectives.
4. I will use different sentence beginnings.

Here are some of our first attempts at writing narratives.

Once upon a time a monster lived in a tower. But one day his tower started to disappear. A stranger came and said, "If you do what I say, your castle will come back. Go and find the golden key." So he did just what the stranger told him and he lived happily ever after.
by Arlo

Seven hundred years ago there lived a good man. He made potions in a tall tower. He wanted to drill to the centre of the earth. He was going well. Then there was a large air wave. The drill fell with him in it. He landed on a deserted island. He found himself stuck. He saw a dinosaur. It chased him. Then they started to make friends. The man fed the dinosaur leaves. The leaf eating dinosaur got fish for the man. They lived happily ever after.
by Louis

Nelson Mask Parade

We made masks typical of Native Americans. On Friday night, 16 October, we marched down the street with our school to celebrate the opening of the Nelson Arts Festival. We sang part of Bob Marley's song, One love, One heart, let's get together and feel alright. Room 2 played percussion instruments to accompany us, along with teachers and parents who played other instruments. We saw lots of people we knew as we were marching along.

UNDERSTANDING DIABETES

Term 3 Week 8

Have you viewed our diabetics report above? We learnt a lot about diabetes through our reading, researching on the internet and through interviewing a doctor and a girl at our school with diabetes.

Fairy Tales

We brainstormed characteristics of a good citizen. Here is what we thought.

caring
honest
kind
understanding
happy
fair
sharing
nice
helpful
good
loving


We are looking at fairy tales so we can find out who were good or bad citizens. Keep visiting our blog to find out more!

Week 7 - Suter Art Gallery Trip

We visited the Suter Art Gallery to see the John Bevan Ford exhibition. We saw how he fills his pictures with designs. He does not colour in. Some parts of Maori legends were in his pictures. We filled in a manu with different designs. We are going to draw a background with chalk pastels to mount our manu on.

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Term 3 Week 4

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We are learning to write instructions to make jelly.

We will need:

packet of jelly crystals
hot water
bowl
spoon

Method

1.Put water in the jug.
2.Plug the plug into the socket.
3.Put the jelly crystals into the bowl.
4. Put 2 cups of hot water into the bowl.
5. Stir it all up.
6. Make sure there are no jelly crystals left.
7. Put it in the fridge.
8. Eat it all!

by Riley

Rights for Everyone

We have identified and investigated lots of disabilities. We took a class vote and chose diabetes as the disability we would investigate further. Here are our research questions that we formulated.

How does it feel to have diabetes?

What sort of sickness might people with diabetes get?

How do people know if they have diabetes?

How do people get diabetes?

What sort of food can people eat if they have diabetes?

What happens to people who have diabetes?

Is there medicine or tablets to cure diabetes and if so, what type do doctors' use?

What are the different types of diabetes?

We are learning that people with disabilities have rights and feelings just like us. They can still do lots of things that we can do but some things might take them a little longer.

Term 3 Week 2

MAORI LANGUAGE WEEK

Elmars read us a story in Maori called Hohepa te Puru.

We played a Maori counting game.

We sang lots of waiata. We love singing Te Aroha!

Yesterday a blind person came to school. She was called Anne. She brought her guide dog. The guide dog was named Penny. She was fluffy. She was a labrador. She was white. Anne told us how she got blind. She got very sick. Before she got blind, she flew an aeroplane. Now that she is a blind person she can't fly a plane or drive a car. Penny was a nice dog. I can tell you. Penny is just a nice dog. Anne let us pat the dog as well.
by Riley


Yesterday we saw a guide dog. The guide dog was cute. Anne owned the dog. Anne had a white cane. When Anne goes to the supermarket she needs to feel stuff. She has a watch that tells her the time.
by Kahu

Here is Elmars reading us Hohepa te Puru.

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SAVE THE PLANET

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Retold Stories

Every year Haumia grew his kumara. But when haumia grew his kumara, the Taniwha killed his kumara. But Haumia tricked the Taniwha. His trick was to send the taniwha to Manukau. There were no fish. So the Taniwha came back. But Haumia blocked the Taniwha's cave. So every year Haumia could eat his kumara.
by Kahu

There was a boy called Haumia. He grew kumara. There was a Taniwha under the cliff. The Taniwha made waves. Haumia was very, very angry. He climbed down the cliff and he told the Taniwha to go to Manukau. He said that there were lots of fish there but there wasn't! Then the Taniwha came back because there weren't any fish. But his cave was blocked!
by Charlotte

Transfer Station and Landfill Visit

We went to the landfill and the class came as well. There was a tractor rolling the food scraps and it was stinky at the dump. then we went to the landfill and it was stinky there as well. It is just because it is just the food scraps. by Ebony

Yesterday Renwick Two went to the rubbish dump. So did Sally's class. Also we went to landfill. It was very stinky there. I felt happy because my Dad came. There was a bike that could fit six people. by Lydia

Louis's Chickens come to School

Louis's nine day old chickens came to school. Their tail feathers were just starting to grow. They are growing really fast.

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Renwick Two are learning to reduce, reuse and recycle to save the planet! We made up some questions to ask our families. Here are their answers.

What things do you reuse?

Ice cream containers, plastic bags, glass jars, wrapping paper and ribbons, cardboard boxes, plastic bottles, hand down clothes, paper, food scraps and coffee grinds.

How do you reduce rubbish?

We try to buy things that don't have a lot of packaging, reuse things as above, give things away when we are finished with them, put scraps of food on the compost heap or give them to hens etc, we only buy things we need, by not using plastic bags from the supermarket, by eating all our dinner so there is no waste, recycle as much as possible and resell things that are still useable.

Why do you recycle some things?

We recycle things so they don't go into the landfill, to reduce the amount of rubbish we produce, to save our planet earth, to save money and so other people can make use of things we don't want or need any more.

Renwick Two think that their families are doing a good job. What do you think? What else could we do?

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Winter Sports

Today we went to sports. It was fun. There were three coaches.

by Luis

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Worm Farm Pictures

Worm Farm

I learnt that worms have five hearts so oxygen can reach to the tail.
by Harry

I used to pick up worms but now I know I should not pick them up because I will burn them.
by Charlotte

I am learning about worms. They have five hearts to get oxygen to their tail. They have bristles, no face, no eyes and they live in a worm farm.
by Geinty

Today I learnt about worms. We learnt that they have five hearts to pump the blood to the end of the worms and the worms were called tiger worms.They also have a tiny brain.
by Dylan

I learnt how the worms crawl. They have no face, no eyes, no ears and the worms have a worm farm too.
by Riley

Our visit to the Suter Art Gallery

On Monday we went to the Suter Art Gallery to see the exhibition "White Gold".We learnt about cows and how to draw them. We had to look carefully and do the outline first.

Swimming Demonstration

Last Thursday we demonstrated our swimming skills to our parents. The water was cold but we all went in.

Tutus on Tour

We went to the ballet in the bus. Dianne came with us.

A couple of days ago, I went to the ballet. It was very, very lovely.
by Lily

I went to the ballet and we saw the people dancing.
by Ebony

We went to the ballet. We sat at the top.
by Tim

I went to the ballet. I liked the part when they put on the different coloured lights.
by Lydia

Friends

Friends are kind. Friends share. Friends look after each other. Friends are happy together. Friends smile at each other. Friends play nicely together.