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Tuesday, April 21, 2015

The focus for writing this year is instructional writing.  On Tuesday Room 6 wrote instructions on how to make a bed.  Here are some examples of the children's amazing writing that I found quite entertaining in some places...



How to make a bed – instructional writing 21/4

YOUR ENEMY THE BED

Have you got a bed so dirty that it can’t look in the mirror? Well my friend or foe you need my help! I’ll give you seven simple pimple steps and your bed will be spick and span in no time. So get your bottom off the ground and get to work!

Step 1: Old sheets out new sheets in.  For starters you need to strip your sheets and get a new one from the cupboard and lay it out on the mattress.
Step 2: Tuck in the corners.  After you’ve laid it out you need to tuck in the corners extra tight!
Step 3: Puffy Pillows! Now it’s time for other pillows so get 1 or 2 fresh covers and wrap them around the inside.
Step 4: Make sure it’s even.  Once you’ve done that make sure both sides are even.
Step 5: Duvet cover.  Now you have to lay the duvet over the sheet.
Step 6: Styling time! Now I’m getting to that part you can style your bed up with a variety of toys!
Step 7: Go and get your parents and say ”Isn’t it wonderful?” but your parents will probably say yes but you haven’t cleaned the rest of the room!

By Kuku





 HOW TO TIDY YOUR BED

Have you always had a bed that is sooooo completely ball smacked your mum doesn’t clean it? Well I can turn your bed into a bed of a king.
Step 1: You need to wipe every single thing on your bed then run like an athletic champion to your new sheets.
Step 2: Put your bottom sheet on your mattress because they’re both little friends. Now make sure you tuck in the bottom sheet.  Very good - otherwise you’re going to go back to where you started.
Step 3: Get your pillow and your pillowcase on top or when you go to bed you might roll out of your bed and fall into a dimension of uncomfortableness.
Step 4: Put on your top sheet that you get from the evil lair the cupboard and gently place the top sheet on top of everything else.
Step 5: Now this is the cozy part - put your magical duvet also on top of everything. Now for this snuggly masterpiece - make your dreams more magical and tuck it in!
Step 6: Now just incase have some extra blankets and if something happens, you might want to have cuddly toys in your bed to play with or have as company.
Step 7: Crawl into your bed, snore and fall asleeeeep!

By Harvey




Have you got a bed that has a war going on between messiness and cleanliness?  So listen to this! Step 1: Clear your bed and leave the dirty sheets in the wash. Step 2: Get some bottom sheets on, tuck it into the corners, sides and under the mattress.  Step 3: Neatly tuck your pillow into the case and then neatly put your pillow on your bed.  Step 4: Neatly tuck on the top sheet and check if it’s clean.  Step 5: Put on the MASSIVE duvet cover so you can have a soft bed.  Step 6: Put on some extra warm snuggly blankets, some soft toys, and some comfy cushions.  Step 7: You need to chillax and fall asleep and all of your problems will be solved.  And that’s how you make your bed.

By Ethan Baker




STRIP YOUR BED AND PUT A FRESH DIAPER ON IT

Are you one of those human beings that has a bed so dirty that your going to move to a hotel any minute? Stop packing your bags! All you need to do is strip your bed and put a new fresh nappy on it!
Step 1: Firstly take your pillow off your bed by grabbing your pillow and chuck it on the ground your standing on.  But try not to stand on it.  Also, strip the sheet, duvet, and blankets off by pinching them and pulling them and put them in the washing machine – although after you do that – don’t look at your bed too much – because it’s naked!
Step 2: Now get a pillowcase and put it on top of your pillow by shaking it in just like you do when you’re about to drink a smoothie.
Step 3: Thirdly place your tidy, nice smelling sheet, blanket and duvet on the bed after they’ve been cleaned and dried by tucking them in.
Step 4: Congratulate yourself by having a sleep.

By Lily D




Term 2 Character Writing for ANZAC

On Monday we wrote a character description about a soldier in our book of the week "One Boy's War" written by Lynne Huggins-Cooper and Ian Benfold Hayword.  


The Army

One Boy’s War is a story about Sydney who goes to World War One.  A soldier is a person that is part of the army and fights for their country.  They need boots because the trenches are wet and muddy.  It’s not like Disneyland with warm weather and comfortable seats.  They are army coloured boots with no designs on them just plain.  The helmet protects their heads and also saves the delightful brain.  It is a very funny, gigantic, gorgeous slouch hat.  It protects the head from gunshots, bombs and flying objects.  The jacket is as army green as a swamp.  The jacket is army green because it make you camo to the tree and also hides you so the other army team doesn’t see you coming.

By Cindy

20/4/2015


Our Classroom Tree

Here is our classroom tree that sits waiting to be filled with our school values and what they mean to us.  Rm 6 children that find this post (a classroom challenge) are going to comment on this blog entry and tell me what E tu atu nei means to them so we can fill our tree trunk with our definition .... I wonder how many children in Room 6 will comment???



Miss Monteath

2015 - Term One and beyond...



Welcome to Room 6's blog for 2015!

The first term flew by so fast and it is amazing to think that we are now already in Term 2. 
Last term was filled with exploration and learning about what makes us unique and special and what community means to us.  E tu atu nei has been our main focus and we will continue to grow our understanding of this concept throughout the year - (stand proud and strong and this is our time to shine).

E tu atu nei writing by Nikaya:




Here are the shields we made that show why we are unique and why our class is special:





Here are parts of the waka we made to show our class community and what we bring as individuals to make the boat (or learning and classroom) move forward:






Room 6 created a manipulated image showing what E tu atu nei means to them.  Here are some examples of the amazing work the children have produced!






So if you're wondering what our classroom looks like during the day......here are the amazing students from Room 6 :)






We spent quite a bit of time last term working with Pic Collage and Luca created this manipulated image showing how we set a goal, know when we have been successful and know what our next step is:




I know this class is going to have a great Term 2 (and the rest of the year) and I'm really looking forward to the interesting topics we have coming up and also seeing the children all progress in their learning!

Miss Monteath

Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Hello and welcome to Room 6's blog for term 3! 

This term we have some exciting things planned - here's what we are all looking forward to:


  • Technology based topic on how we can create change within our school
  • How to create a still image
  • How to create an eBook
  • How to make a moving image
  • Tri-nations - Room 6 is in charge of Football with help from Ryan's amazing mum and the talented Martin!
  • Choir festival and Polyfest
  • Student led conferences (Week 4)
  • Three brand new iPad's to explore and play with
 And much more.....

On the first day back from the holidays we had an interesting adventure where Room 6's classroom transformed into an art gallery.  There were a series of different photos (or still images) on display for the children to critique.  A special guest (the "photographer") Tony Bishop then came in and spoke to the class about the photos.  The children asked him lots of questions and learned a lot from this local quirky artist!  Here are some photos from the afternoon:

Sid and Chaylem writing down what they liked about this photo

Erica and Joash discussing what they didn't like about this photo (something was definitely wrong!)

Devyn, Jorja and MacKenze about to move onto the next photo to critique

Shevin, Zach and Rosemarie discussing features of the photo

Xavier and Tammy looking closely at the beach shot (I wonder what they were thinking?)

Here is Tony Bishop talking about the first two photos

Here Tony was discussing the use of negative space and background features.  We also spent a long time discussing what the girl might have been thinking about!

Here is Mr Bishop explaining what the message in the picture

Room 6 successfully have a collection of notes and ideas from Tony's visit. We hope he will come again!




The next day Luca wrote a character description about Tony our artist:



Tony Bishop looks like he belongs in a museum.  He is about thirty years old and spends his days taking cool photos and doing housework.  He has long salt’n’peppery rough hair and he’s got sparkling blue eyes like diamonds.  Also Tony has big huge ears as big as elephant ears WOW!
Mr. Bishop has a long nose and strong white teeth, also a smiley face with a short neck with a pink scarf.  I can tell he likes scarves.  Tony Bishop has long fingers like salad fingers.  He is a photo person.  He likes photos.  Last thing – he has long legs.  And that is what Tony Bishop looks like.

By Luca Ryder 

Miss Monteath really liked the way Luca used creative description to describe Tony Bishop and felt that Luca really captured his character in his writing.

Luca says: He gets his awesome describing words from movies, reading books and talking to people.  

HOMEWORK:

Keeping with the theme of the term, Room 6 has started to send Miss Monteath their homework via email.  This has proved to be very successful and useful and some great submissions so far!  Here are some examples of technology submitted homework:

The sound of the week is SW this week:

Caleb McCall made a poster about swag

Hoani dressed up showing SWAG!



Raeffe sent in some information about swords:

SWORDS
Swords were used till the 17th century bc that's too long ago.
The first swords that were made were in China where the most stickler swords were made.
Stickler swords are a basic regular swords that you sometimes see in pirate games.
It looks like a steal stick but is so sharp that it could rip right trough your curtain in a second.
Stickler swords are thin sharp battle swords that were almost used every were in China.
A man called tinggo a chines sword maker that came up with a stickler sword.
It's called the stickler sword becuse it's like a steel stick.
 

Next week we are learning about the sound 'tw' and about the suffixes 'er', 'en' and 'est'. I wonder what the class will come up with for their homework?!

Here is a link to an electronic form of Power Point - it's really cool and interactive:

https://prezi.com/login/




Tuesday, June 17, 2014

TERM 2 UPDATE


Welcome to Room 6 blog for term 2 

We welcome Miss Monteath as our new teacher.
We have been doing heaps of different things this term!
We have been doing chemistry experiments about how and why things change.
The first thing we did in class was states of matter about liquids, gas and solids.

Here are some videos we have watched in class about states of matter:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja4-j1Ak87Y&safe=active

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW-bn9zssak&safe=active

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFvik_THcNQ&safe=active

.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uHxRwQqWFo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be-_OgewR1M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be-_OgewR1M

On the 19th of May we started our science fair projects and it is going good.
On 17th of June we have done our speeches.  Miss Monteath picked Hoani and Ngakau to go through to the senior finals for the competition.  



On the 26th of May 2014 I.M.S did cross country here is a movie we made: