An Adventure with Words

Writing; a story, but also an adventure. An adventure with words, yes, but an adventure nonetheless. This week in Room 9, we have been writing narratives. We began with using a story arc plan. In this plan there is a conflict, three rising actions, a  falling action, and finally the resolution, which ties everything together.

After we had planned out how our narrative would go, we wrote our draft in our Literacy book. This was probably the longest stage of narrative writing, and many are still working on finishing their draft.

Then, we went through the editing stage, where we had to read through our story, sentence by sentence, correcting any mistakes and making improvements to our writing. It was a long stage, but well worth it.

Finally, we published our stories on computers, or by hand, this took quite a while, but produced a result that everyone was proud of.

By Emma E. and Aster

Lockdown Poetry

LOCKDOWN 1

Lockdown is as annoying as Barbie

Lockdown is as boring as watching paint dry

Lockdown is as boring as staring at a wall

Lockdown is as relaxed as 100 sloths

Lockdown is boring like doing 100 maths tests

Lockdown is so annoying, it’s just like my sister

Lockdown 2

Lockdown is an emotional rollercoaster

Lockdown is a Ferris wheel

Lockdown is as annoying as my brother

Lockdown is like snake poison, killing slowly but surely

Lockdown is worse than Donald Trump and a dead baby

Lockdown is a real big

pig

Lockdown is the government keeping everyone hostage

Lockdown is as hard as a brick

Lockdown 3

Lockdown is a shipwreck in a coral reef

Lockdown is the death of socialising.

Lockdown is a spiky thorn on a rose

Lockdown is a place where we are jammed inside almost like a jail

Lockdown is a person being tortured

Lockdown is like being a little goldfish stuck in an aquarium

Lockdown is the place where we feel like we are being trapped

Lockdown is a spider in an arachnophobic’s home

Lockdown is a nightmare you can't wake up from

Mole Patrol

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Check out these fantastic videos that Ryan was involved in making. Wonderful animation and an important message.

Mole Patrol One

Mole Patrol Two

Mole Patrol Two

Arty Types

In Room 9 we have been creating portraits. We started with taking a selfie of ourselves in any sort of way and then sending it to Mr Smith. After we started a 'Hobby Head' (side portrait, full of all the things we love doing inside the head) and next we are drawing a self-portrait or portrait of a friend.

By Milla and Pearl

Swimming

On Wednesday the 11th of March, years 4-8 went to Okato Pool to compete in  our school's swimming sports. At the end of the event, we had a relay between the school houses, Koru came 4th, Matekai came 3rd, Wairau came 2nd and Patuha came first. Each house were awarded points for the relay, as well as points for each competitor during the entire event. The final placings were…

4th overall: Koru

3rd overall: Patuha

2nd overall: Matekai

1st overall: Wairau

By Felix and Adi

Maths Homework

Basic Facts Stage work:

http://roomninebasicfacts.blogspot.com/

Maths worksheets:

https://www.math-drills.com/

Maths tutorials (video):

https://www.virtualnerd.com/middle-math/all/

Maths quizzes:

https://www.thatquiz.org/

Maths problems:

https://nrich.maths.org/11993

Virtual manipulatives:

http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html

Fun Times

Last week, we ran our school assembly. It was loads of fun.

On Monday our class took part in the Oakura School Beach Clean-Up. We are trying to keep our beach clean by picking up all the rubbish left along it. We walked all the way to Ahu Ahu Road collecting rubbish.We were surprised by how much rubbish got picked up. We collected many beer bottles, also a lot of them were smashed which is a safety hazard. Our message is to keep our beaches clean.

Jokes

What did the ocean say to the shore ?

Nothing, it just waved!

By Raehina and Keziah