WALT...We are learning to write a report

Kitten’s

Do you want a kitten but you don’t know how to organise one? Will this report has information that can help you.

To organise a kitten

To organise a kitten you need a possum cage or a cat cage or a cat cage to bring it home in and you also a box and some cat litter for the kitten to go toilet in.

What food does a kitten need?

Kitten’s need kitten biscuits and jelly meat, kitten’s also need plenty of water to drink. To get kitten food you can go the store and ask the store owner how much food you need to give them.

Fun

Kitten’s are a fun thing to have but you still need one more thing, some toys for it to play with for example some string, a ball and a stick. You also need a climbing frame as well, you can make one yourself or you can buy one with a pole on it for the kitten to climb.

Now you know how to organise a kitten and you have all the information for it. You can now enjoy your time with your new kitten.

By Paige Taylor

WALT:write a report

Our School

Kumeroa Hopelands School is a lovely small school. It is a rural, country, primary school, on the outskirts of Woodville. It has a lot to offer.

Discovery Time

This is a time where we can choose to do an activity. For example: Dress-Ups, Construction, Klikko, and woodwork table. For Dress-Ups you can dress up in whatever you like. Construction you can build anything also you can construct with the klikko”s. Woodwork you can build anything. We then come back together and we do donuts in our house groups and talk about what we did each day.

Technology

We have sixteen computers that people can work on. We are able to go on to our gmail account, Studyladder for maths. We do work like type up our writing and our poems.

Fort

We are able to play ball games like: Ball tag, netball, dodge ball, basketball, poison and kicks. People also play other games. We have a fun fort and we are lucky to have a fort like it.

Tree’s

Tree’s is a great thing to have at a country school. We have a lot of tree’s to play on and they are good for shade and for people to read underneath.

Plenty of Equipment

Do you have enough of equipment at your school? Well this is the school that has enough for people that want to play in groups and for people that want to play by themselves. We have equipment galore.

Join with other Schools

This is a time when we join together. For example: Small Schools Swimming Sports, Athletics, Small Schools Cross Country and a seven a-side tournament. We also get to see our friends and we get to meet other people.

Kumeroa Hopelands School is an exciting place to be providing different opportunities within our Community.   

By Tara

WALT ... write a report

Kumeroa Hopelands School

Kumeroa Hopelands School is a rural primary school.

Sports

Kumeroa Hopelands School has lots of good sports gear like soccer balls, rugby gear and sandpit toys. The school also joins in with other schools. We join in with small schools swimming sports, and even more.

Playground Environment

At this school we have some trees you can climb and some you cannot climb. Kumeroa Hopelands school has a good fort you can play on.

Learning Opportunities

This amazing school also goes on activities outside the school grounds like camps and trips to the museum.

On Friday forget about your work in the morning because it is time for discovery.

So I hope you like Kumeroa Hopelands school and that you will come here.

Written by Bradley

Discovery Term 2, Week 8

Key Competency - Thinking

Using kind words.  Before you speak, you think – Akaisha

Thinking about whether it is a bad choice or not – Bradley

Thinking about others – Marc

Thinking about your actions – Jack

Thinking About your attitude and how it might affect others – Paige

Am I being helpful or not – Zoe

Thinking about your ideas – William

Before you start, think about what you’re going to do – Tara

Discovery Term 2, Week 8 on PhotoPeach
Collaborating with Nature on PhotoPeach

Reflections

What did you learn today?

Adelle learnt that some leaves are made up out of tiny bits

Zac learnt how to do the art things –

 Trin learnt jump jam, he had to do lots of thinking about dancing.

Lots of people found it hard to think about using their feet and hands at the same time.

Tara – Jade learnt that you could made big trees out of little branches.

Thomas H – Ryan learned not to hurt his fingers with the hammer

Thomas H learned that if you change the light by flicking the switch the thing looked quite differently

Jonathan found that the bigger the cone, that louder the noise was.

Jack learnt through the clip that we human ears can listen between 20 – 20,00 hurtz

Kimberley learned that if you put a third cone on the string it still works

Who helped you today? And how did they help?

George - Zac helped Thomas with some wood to put something together.

Nobody helped George today.

Bradley – Jack helped me make a bike ramp, by nailing the nails in because every time I did it, I hit my fingers.

Alicia had lots of girls helping you with jump jam. Paige said the man on the DVD helped too.

William - Ms Edmond helped me bang in a nail on my army tank

Jessie had a lot of people helping her test her balance board.  It started off as a seesaw but it was made too close to the ground. People tried to get even balances, how many people, matching weights to keep it even by adding on different people. Aramona found that he was heavier than Legend.

What the hardest thing for you to do today?

Nathan – Ben found it hard trapping his spiders on his piece of paper. Nathan found making his wooden chair done because people were rushing him.

Kristen – Jack found jump jam was the hardest

Kristen found the hiphop hard

Zoe – Lucy’s hardest thing was figuring out what to make out in the woodwork area. Zoe found jump jam hard, especially the moves.

William found banging in nails hard to do.

Reading, reading, reading

Friday Week 8 saw another great example of 

Buddy Reading ... 

... then during the wet lunch these girls made them selves a cozy space to read together as well!

Dale Percy

Mr Percy is an author and illustrator. He came in to show us the books he has illustrated and the one book he has written called Summer Within.
He read us one of the books called The Fish Truck, this was based in Martinborough and Ngawe.
Mr Percy's son re-wrote The Three Bad Bunnies. His father had told it to Mr Percy every night, and then told it to his own children every night. Then his son Phillip Percy wrote it into a book. So this poem is over 100 years old.
Mr Percy used water colour to paint the pictures. He drew the pictures first with pencil and then used a black pen to do the outlines. After this he rubbed out the pencil lines, followed by using water colour paint.
Mr Percy is a local person from Kohinui, and he had never been to Kumeroa-Hopelands School before. He was brought up in Alfredton and went to Tararua College.

Ideas contributed by Kimberley, Olly, Jack, Bradley, Kirsten, Lucy, Tara, Adelle and Paige

WALT ... use similes

An Apple Poem

My apple is as colourful as burning flames.

It feels like my duvet cover pulled tight.

It has dents like my car bonnet.

It looks as bright as the first three colours of the rainbow.

My apple smells like a sour lolly, but tastes like a sweet one.

It crunches like a cracker, and is as juicy as a trickling stream.

Co-constructed in the Kea Room during a poetry workshop.

Published by Kimberley

... more presentations

More science presentations from the Nest

Scientist Jonathan

Scientist Thomas



Scientist Kristen


... and from the Kea Room
Scientist Zoe

Scientist Tara

Scientist Bradley

Scientist Akaisha

Scientist Liam

Scientist Paige

Oral Language presentations

Oral Language Term 2

Science is Everywhere

Your task this term is to explore scientists.

1 - choose a type of science that interests you (hint: scientist jobs are often jobs that end in ‘ist’ eg; chemist, psychologist, marine biologist ….. but there are many more!)

2- research how to become this type of scientist, how long do they train for, where do they train, what they do in their job, what tools or equipment do they use, where do they work, and who/what do they help?

3 - present your findings to your classmates by coming in ‘role’.

·         Come dressed as this scientist.

·         Introduce yourself as the scientist.

·         Explain what your job involves.

·         Show us pictures or examples of the tools/equipment you use.

·         Show us pictures of places you work.

·         Tell us about who you help.

·         Explain why this is a good job to have.

The Kea Room presents ...

Dr Lucy

Dr Tim



Dr George

Dr Nathan

Scientist Thomas



Scientist Olly

The Nest presents ...

Scientist Jessie

Scientist Jack

Scientist Adelle

Scientist Kimberley

Scientist Hannah

Scientist Thomas

Scientist Jade

WALT ... freeze

In preparation for our science learning and final presentations we have been learning some drama conventions to help us 'get into character'.

This convention was called 'freeze frame'. The scenario was the corner shop was being robbed.

WALA ... the brainy bunch

We have been really lucky to have the Life Education mobile classroom come to visit us at Kumeroa-Hopelands. The Brainy Bunch learning was aimed at the Years 4-5, check out our pictures.

WALT ... use a format

For Poetry we have been learning to follow a format and make the poem more interesting by adding similes.

Poems on PhotoPeach

WALT ... write the next book

During Shared Reading in the Kea Room we read the book called Stuck by Oliver Jeffers.

This book finished with an open ending. Tim thought it would be a great idea to write the next book.

... watch this space for 
'The Great Idea' by the Kea Class

The writing begins ...

The Great Idea

Hey maties I’ve got a great idea! I’ll grab my cell phone from my pocket and ring the police.

While they were waiting for the police to arrive, the fireman threw everything down from the tree. Except the humongous boat which was just too heavy for the firemen to lift.

Flloyd saw everything on the ground. He got so mad that his face turned red like the reddest tomato, and steam came out of his ears. So, he decided to chuck everything back up angrily.

Stop right there, shouted the policeman. What are you doing?

Floyd turned to see a policeman standing behind him with a taser in his hand. With a cheeky smirk on his face, Flloyd dived for his stumpy fat legs, and before the policeman knew it, he was up in the tree too.

Floyd rang the security guards and asked them to stay at the tree for the night to watch the things in the tree to make sure they didn’t climb or jump down.

Unfortunately the security guards fell asleep at the base of the tree, but were woken with the sound of cracking, crackling, squeaking and other strange noises.

The security guards looked up and saw the tree swaying from side to side. One of them said, oh its fine.

Slowly the tree begins to tip towards the ground, followed by a gigantic boom!

The security guards were squashed under the gigantic trunk and all the people in the tree were then free to run away. The objects in the tree were also free but will still stuck in-between the branches like a net.

But instead of the people running away, they chased after Floyd to catch him and put him behind bars in the cells. Floyd felt scared as he noticed the people become an angry mob and charge towards him.

Floyd ran towards a tree as fast as a charging rhinoceros. Leaping into its branches …

… and there he still sits, stuck in the tree.

WALA ... Andy Warhol

As part of our visual arts this term, we have been looking at the artist Andy Warhol, as well as gaining an understanding of the colour wheel. This includes primary and complimentary colours.

Andy Warhol is probably best known for this picture ...

... even though our students didn't know who this famous person was ... perhaps their teacher is beginning to show her age! :)

The Success Criteria that we co-constructed was:

• clear outlines
• solid colours, no scribbles
• use complimentary colours
• each picture needs to be completely different

Here are some examples of what we have created in the Kea Room using pastels so far.