The most disgusting thing to eat

Booooooooooooooooooooom!

Uncle took the dog and killed it. While it was dripping with BLOOD he took the dog and skinned the it.

It was sizzling on the spit. The fur was floating up my nose when the dog was cooked.

I nibbled on the dog and I felt something in my tummy. I ZOOMED in the bathroom, “BLAH!” The dog fur tumbled out of my mouth and I never forgot that taste for the rest of my life.

Thank you Mrs Manuyag!

Last week we had a fundraising 'Party with a Purpose' to raise money for the Philippines.  Mrs Munuyag and her class organised it for us and we managed to raise over $1000 and collect lots of food and water to send to the Filipino people.  The party was a lot of fun, we had face painting, a bouncy castle, candy floss and a disco.  Some of the children in Room 10 wrote cards to say thank you to Mrs Manuyag for organising such a fun day, but Siale and Kenneth decided to write and perform a song. Here is their finished work.  Thanks again Mrs Manuyag!

Song For Mrs Manuyag from Kirsty Macfarlane on Vimeo.

Athletics Day, By Kenneth

Kenneth has used Story bird to publish his narrative about an imaginary athletics day.  Leave him a comment to let him know what you think.

athletics_day from Kirsty Macfarlane on Vimeo.

Running of the bulls

Last week Kenneth and Siale watched a video of the running of the bulls.  They decided to write a poem about it from the perspective of the bull.  Watch the video and let them know what you think.

Bull from Kirsty Macfarlane on Vimeo.

Tongan Language Week

Malo e lelei!  It's Tongan language week and in Room 10 we are very lucky to have a lot of Tongan language experts who are very keen to share what they know.  We are going to make a series of videos to help people learn some basic Tongan words.  Siale, Agnes and Falakiko have created this video to teach you some greetings and how to say goodbye. 

Tongan from Kirsty Macfarlane on Vimeo.

Book Reviews

The wolves have used Google Draw to write a book review.  Here are two completed reviews written by Losana and Kenneth.

Losana's book review: 

Kenneth's book review:  

Wild Boys Rap

After our zoo trip Calais, Siale, Kenneth and Kaitati wanted to write a rap about the animals we saw. They worked hard all week to write, learn and perform the rap.  Take a look at the finished product.

Zoo Words

After our zoo trip we got into groups and wrote down all the words that came into our head when we thought about the zoo. We used tagxedo to put them into an animal shape. Here are the results.

The Invention of Hugo Cabret

We have been reading The Invention of Hugo Cabret this term.  While we were reading it we discovered that one of the characters, Georges Melies, was a real person.  We had lots of questions about him so Kenneth did some research and he has created a doc with some information on Georges.  Here is his finished research:

Georges Melies full name is Marie Georges-Jean Melies. He was a french illusionist filmmaker famous for  leading many technical and narrative developments in earliest days of cinema

Born: December 8, 1861.

Died: January 21, 1938.

Children: Andre Melies, Georgette Melies.

Siblings: Goston Melies and Henri Melies.  

Georges Melies was one of the best magicians in Paris he has made 5554 movies in 6 weeks.  

Here is one of Georges' most famous movies - A Trip to the Moon.

Making Porotaka

We have been reading and learning about Matariki this week.  As part of our reading programme we read and followed instructions (with the help of Nana) to make a porotaka.  It was a little tricky but also a lot of fun. Here is a Jadaleigh explaining how to make a porotaka.  She used educreate on the ipad to make her video.  

Here is a video showing us as we made our porotaka.

How to Make Milo

We have been learning how to write instructions.  This week we made a milo and then wrote down instructions on how to do it.  We then used google presentations to publish our work.  Here is the finished work completed by the Kakariki writing group.

Tuakana-Teina Time with Room 6

This week we joined up with our buddy class to learn how to use google presentations.  We decided to create a presentation showing the words we had thought of for our blend of the week.  Our buddy from Room 6 showed us how to make the first slide, then they supported us as we had a go at doing it on our own.  They were great teachers and we can't wait to have a go on our own next week.

Here are two of the completed presentations.  More will be up soon.

Netbook Learning

Last week was our first week with our new netbooks.  It was a lot of fun using them and we have learnt a lot.  Here are some of the Room 10 children sharing what they have learned so far.

Zombie Attack

Last Tuesday Kenneth wrote a story about two friends who were attacked by zombies.  The next day he read his story and decided to re-write it to include more detail and descriptive language.  He then used puppet pals and a drawing app on the ipad to publish his story.  Here it is, let us know what you think.