Shrove Tuesday

Room 7 learnt about the importance of Shrove Tuesday and shared it with our buddies from Room 8.
Then we made Pancakes!

Mix a Pancake

Stir a Pancake

Pop it in a pan!

Fry a Pancake

Toss a Pancake

Catch it if you can!

Welcome to Room 7 2018

What a wonderful group of children we have in Room 7 this year.

We have been busy bees working hard and creating all sorts of creations in our classroom.

One of the activities we did was create a poster describing God using different words and decorating it with different materials.

Take a look at the words we chose and at how we decorated our poster.

Senses Poems

We have been learning to write Senses poems. 

Here are a few that some of us made.

Beach

I smell the wet sand.

I hear the waves crashing into the sand.

I taste the freezing cold ice block.

I feel the soft sand.

I see the sand blowing in the wind.

Winter

I smell the cold and frosty air.

I hear the frozen leaves crunching under my feet.

I feel like I'm in a cold bath.

I see the snow piling up.

I taste the hot coco by the fire.

Rice Bubbles

It smells like sweet powder.

It sounds like popping candy.

It feels like hard grains.

It tastes like powder when you bite it.

France

It smells like baguettes wafting through the air.

It sounds like people speaking fancy french.

It feels like hard rock concrete under my feet .

It looks busy with people.

It tastes like lovely croissants.

Cotton Candy

It smells like sugar in one place.

It sounds like popping candy when it dissolves in my mouth.

It feels like a soft pillow.

It looks like a pink fluffy cloud.

It tastes like a sweet, sweet lollipop.

Swimming at Dean Greenwood

The year 3 and 4 children have been lucky enough to go to Dean Greenwood Swimming School 

for 2 weeks!

We have been enjoying the swimming lessons and the bus rides!

We have been learning how to dive, do proper arm strokes, breathing techniques and swimming on our backs!

We can't wait to show our mums and dads what we have learnt!

Taniwha by Garath and Michael

              Taniwha

Once upon a time there was a tiny taniwha called Makare.  One day he went to his Matua Tupuna’s house and he was given a hook. Matua Tupuna told Makare to go fishing at a special place where lots and lots of fish live.         

When Makare went fishing he met a new friend called Tama. Tama and Makare went fishing together. Makare

thought that Tama was a nice friend to him except, Tama tried to take the hook off Makare.

Makare and Tama were fighting over the hook really badly. Suddenly, Makare lost the hook while they were fighting and it sunk down to the sea. Makare felt really bad because he knew that Matua Tupuna would get mad at him.

Then Makare went looking for the hook in the sea but he couldn't find it. So then he went back to Matua Tupuna’s house. Matua Tupuna said “Have you realised what you have done? That hook wasn't a normal hook it was a magical hook. That hook can give people lots and lots of powers.”

So then Makare went looking everywere. Then Makare went looking around the place where he lost the magical hook. Makare was really happy because he found the magical hook sunk under the sea. Then Makare told Matua Tupuna that he found it and then they lived happy ever after.

Shark Rock by Dalton

Shark Rock

As I was swimming in the water along the bay I heard a strange noise coming from shark rock.  It was named that because it had  three rocks which looked like real shark fins. Suddenly there was a huge crack of lightning that struck the rock, even though it was a fine day.

Then the rock began to shake and transform into the grey colour of the amazing great white shark. It wiggled and broke loose of the other two rocks that were left. They too were the colour of a great white shark. 

“Ahhhh! Shark in the water” called Dominic. Everyone then looked at the water and saw the great dorsal fin of the beast. People were out of control, they swooped their children out of the water and like a stampede of elephants ran out of the water. The lone shark was no more because the other two sharks had broke free of the rocks during the stampede of people. The sharks circled the bay, waiting there.

People were scared out of their minds. The fear was unbelievable. No one was brave enough to do anything. Then someone emerged from the crowd. He was the local country boy named Anthony. He called to everyone and suggested that they transport the sharks to the local marine reserve. The crowd whispered among themselves the said, “yeah that's great.” And they all yelled.

So Anthony called for cranes and asked the marine reserve for a huge tank to transport the beasts. The cranes did their job and lifted the sharks into the tank. They were put on a truck and off they went. Everyone waved good bye and had happy, smiley faces. And they ran straight back into the water because it was so hot. The water refreshed everyone as they splashed with joy.

The Taniwha by Taine, Nikita and Jarry

The Taniwha

One day Maui and his brothers went fishing. Him and his brothers went out to the middle of the sea and set out their hooks. Maui used his special hook which he made out of his grandmother's jawbone. He hoisted the hook out to the sea with his biggest throw. They waited for ages and ages, finally a tug.

The brothers heaved and pulled and they had got a big, huge taniwha. Then Maui and his brothers went back to their house, but the taniwha started to swim away. Maui and his brothers didn’t notice that the taniwha was swimming away. When they saw it they all hopped in the water and chased the taniwha. They swam and they swam and they swam. It was a long chase but finally they caught him.

They got home and Maui was starving. He was going to cook the taniwha right away when his grandmother came and said, “stop!!! Taniwha have been loyal to our tribe and we should set the taniwha free.” So even though Maui was starving he let the taniwha go free in the ocean. So Maui went out fishing again but this time by himself. Maui didn’t have that much power in the waka because it was just him. So it might be hard to catch a big fish now. When Maui set the hook into the water he caught another big fish. It was bigger than the taniwha that he just caught. So Maui pulled and pulled but the fish was too strong.

Then Maui almost fell into the water. Maui used all his strength to pull the fish up. Maui pulled and pulled and pulled. He finally got the big fish up. No one else could pull the fish up and he started to swim back to his village and told everyone what happened. They were so angry that they banished him from the village forever. Maui was walking along the river when suddenly a taniwha approached him. But this time he had all of his taniwha family with him and they all looked angry. The taniwha took him away and from that day on Maui was never heard of again.

By Taine, Jarry and Nikita