Final Post for Room 1 2009

A big hello to all the children from Room 1, 2009!
Half of you will be just about to start the next phase of your school careers at Intermediate. I want to wish you the very best of luck at your new schools. I know you will do well.... remember, you can take the kid out of Glenview, but you will never take the Glenview out of the kid.
This is the final post for the old Room 1 of 2009 - I have moved along to Room 3 (with the old Year 5's from Room 1). You can follow our progress this year at http://glenview3.blogspot.com/ - please do make comments, and encourage our new class to continue posting about the interesting things we get up to in Room 3.

I am so very proud of all your efforts to get this blog up and running with very little adult help, and ensuring everybody in the class learnt how to blog. Amazing effort Room 1! There have been over 600 hits now!

This Room 1 blog is being gifted to Mr Preddy and the new Room 1 class of 2010. This way, all your old postings will not be lost, and you can go back and look at them at any time. See if you can make it to 1000 hits Mr Preddy!

When I get back to school tomorrow I will download the Christmas tree photo and post it here for you to view.

MOODE (Mrs M)

Thank you

 

 

Thanks to you we have now got 500 visits.

We will have some photos of our blog  cake soon.

 

Here's the link to our first blog party post:

Click here

Contact your friends

Please contact your friends to visit our blog. We are exited about getting to 500 visits so could you please contact your friends.

Glenview1's Mosaics

We have been learning how to make mosaics with Andrea Mosaic software. 


Here are some of the finished products:

By WhaAly

By FisCal    

O'neCal

O'neCod

By MaaDom

By WatJar

By GreJay

By MurRen

By HilSam

By MosSam

By GORTHO

Chromatography

For science this term we have been learning about 
chromatography. 
Chromatography means colour writing. 
We have done one experiment with  smartie and water. We put the smartie on filter paper and dropped small 
drops of water on our smartie.Then we got either a 
pebble or an oompa, the same colour as the smartie and saw if the oompas or pebbles did the same thing that thesmarties did.
The (oompa, smartie or pebbles)  either blended differently or stayed the same colour.

By O'NeCal, GORTHO, Whaaly and                     MaaDom!!!

Spooky

Thunder, lightning, gloom and doom.

Scary, chatter in the night.

Freaky, chuckle darkened room

Close your eyes and grab on tight!

Breaking steps and creaking floors.

Screaming witches and snarling bats.

Ghosts that slime up through the toilet.

Wriggling snakes and flapping cats.

A skeleton with white bones.

Starts following us –He’s running fast!

Right now count Dracula is falling in.

Quick crack the floor! Phew- Safe at last!

Let’s line up for another two!

That haunted house is really awesome fun.


By JuIsa and PedMax

Cats And Dogs

Cats can catch mice 
Wherever they go,
But dogs can't catch rabbits
They're far to slow!!!


They don't chase crocodiles                                                                         
That lie by the sea,
And can't catch monkeys 
witch sleep in the trees!!!


They should both stay at
Home and lie by the heaters,
Or both go to hide
And dream they are cheetahs!!!


By GreJay

Digi Kids

HilJay and HilSam have been training to be digi kids. Digi kids is when you learn heaps of things for the computer with FauMic. He has showed them how to use computer programs like photo story three, myna, Art rage two and Prezi. There is a group of 9 digi kids. Each digi kid has made one or more slide shows using power point, photo story 3 and myna. 

A Big Thankyou

Room1 would like to say Thankyou to all the people of the world who have visited our Blog!

It has made us proud and also has made an upcoming party! 
A Special thank you to:
MooDeb who decided to actually have a blog
And to YOU!!!!!!

What is a Scientist?

This is our big science question. Today we started a WHOLE WEEK of science! We want to discover what a scientist is. Without talking to anybody else, we drew a picture of what we thought a scientist looked like, and wrote about what a scientist does.

Today we started with a virtual plane trip to Antarctica! We had to get in groups of three, then went outside to get our virtual clothes to wear on the big trip. We were "specially selected scientists" about to go to Antarctica for the summer. We put our lugguge in the hold (really our class ramp rails)... then entered the plane (that used to be our classroom!) MurRen checked our passports at the door. We had to sit down and put our seatbelts on. Just as we were about to take off, Mrs Tooley came in (through our plane door!) She invited 3 real life visitors to our school from China. Now the plane was quite full, but then PutLea from Room 2 ALSO came into our plane... so we invited her to come with us. She wanted to study penguins! While we were on the "plane", we looked at photos on the whiteboard of Antarctica and McMurdo Base. After lunch we watched a movie about scientists at Antarctica, then we discussed our ideas, and recorded them in our topic book.

Pictures will come tomorrow, but here is the website with interesting videos and photos to look at: http://www.coolantarctica.com - you should take a look yourself!

I found today quite interesting. I liked going to Antarctica!

By PeeDay

Drip Drop By Mormit and MaaDom

Drip drop here and there,

Splish splash sharp and hard,

Oh no! one big flood,

Time to get the boat,

Hopefully it floats!

What is a Glenview Kid!! By MosSam

What is a Glenview Kid

Confident, Cheerful

Smart, Honest

Bold, Gleaming

Respectful, Delightful

Thoughtful, Friendly

Generous, Valuable

Intelligent, Amazing

Loyal, Wonderful

That is a Glenview Kid

Gala

On the 7th of november 2009. We are going to have our school gala. Everybody is looking foward to it. Be sure to be at Bruce ave, Glenview.

The Gingerbread Movie!

This is what we did for measurement in maths!

We had to measure calculate decorate and of course EAT!!!!!

Thankyou to all the parents ,Mrs Moore and all the gingerbraed eaters!

By ChaIsa, Booros,Maadom and Whaaly

Alliteration Poetry

We have been exploring lots of different poetry formats, and playing with words. We all sit in table groups called "Learning Rocketships" ...because the tables sort of make the shape of a rocket!

This is our group's first attempt at Alliterative Poetry based on our names
(of course, we have substituted our real names with our secret code Internet names):


Wizard ShuWer went wow!!!

Awesome WhaAly actively ate!!!

Kool Kookaburra FisKyl flys!!!

Cool OneCod crafted carefully!!!

GorTho the tank tiger!!!

Miss Magic Marvelous GilMan!!!

Poems

Summer Time Fun

By FisKyl

Summertime fun

Ready to run

Into the pool

To have some fun

Summer time camping

Out we go to do some tramping

Summertime feast

Put on the barbecue

So we can eat eat eat

Summertime celebration

Ready to make a family creation

Run run

Lets have some fun

In the great deep down under

Having summer time wonder

Holiday beach

By AndTeg

Holiday beach

waiting in the water

we surf in it

we jump in it

sometimes we play in it

all summer long

Soccer

By AndTeg

Soccer

ball flying

grass ripping

legs hurting

people cheering

yea!

we got a goal

starting again

to get another goal

ball spinning

people cheering

children screaming

people sweating

adults yakking

out of bounds!

Octopoems

Dragons

By HilSam

A dragon is purple

They are summer

Up in the sky

They are warm

A skin coat

Flame coloured bean bag

Jane And The Dragon

Flame Grilled Pork

Glenview Kid

By Hilsam

A Glenview Kid is green

They are Spring

Glenview School !

Sunny

School Uniform

Teacher Chair

Be Our Best Movie

Fish and Chips

Witches

By HilSam

Witches are Black

They are Winter

Witch's lair

Thunder and Lighting

Pointy Hat

Potions

Narnia - The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe

Magic Potion

PoliceMan

By MosSam

A Police Man is blue

He is springtime

In a car

He is cloudy

He is a hat

Seat in the car

PoliceTen Seven

A Big Donut

Glenview Kids by ChaIsa

Green and Gold

SpringTime

In the Class

Hot Sunny

Summer Clothes

Awesoms tables and chairs

The cool Moviemaker

YummyFruit!

Summer by Booros

Children playing sport,

The sunny sun is shining,

(octopoem)

A Fireman by HedChl

A Fireman is red

He is Autumn

In a Firetruck

In a tall building

He is sunny

A yellow hat a red shirt and pants

He is an addvert

Roasted healthy vegetables.

Summer Holidays By BeaSav


Holidays with friends,
In the middle of the pool,
We swam in it,
Ran in it,
Sometimes we eat ham in it,
All summer long.








By some of the Young Poets of Room1

Incredible Seasons

Yesterday the "Incredibles" reading group wrote a poem about the best things about "seasons". Firstly we read a Journal poem, then we worked out the rhyming pattern, and what each line was about in each verse, so we could try to write our own poem. Once we did our first draft together, we proofread the poem (by fixing spelling mistakes), then we edited the poem (by finding even better words use).

This is the poem:


Incredible Seasons


I walk to the best school with my brother
Sun smiles across the cloudless sky
Birds chirping drowsily as they fly
I can't wait to see my friends


Training for my competitive hockey games
Warm coloured leaves crunching on the ground
Wind swirling all around
My team is awesome and we will win!


I need my warm scarf and my cosy gloves
Wind gusting through my hair
Thunderstorms give me such a scare
Snuggling up at home curled up in my blankets


I kick my school bag into my wardrobe
Sparkling tinsel and glitter spilled on the floor
A colourful wreath on the door
I cant wait for christmas!!!


Published by FisKyl and MosSam (for the Incredibles)

Our Class!!!!!

500 people party coming soon

On the 21 of october 2009 we found out that we are coming close to 500 visits. We came to a conclusion that when we reach 500 visits we will have a party. We hope that the party will be held before the year 6's leave.

Year 4 - 6 Athletics

ATHLETICS

IS

HERE!

We run,we jump,we throw and we land on our bottoms in the sand.........................................

WE TAKE

SPORTS

SERIOUSLY...

We are Senior Students and love sports we are training up for the big day so wish us luck.

The top sportsmen are going to go to Interschools and to represent

GLENVIEWSCHOOL!

By Whaaly

Welcome to Term 4 !

We have been buzzing with excitement about the term with lots of things coming up like :

• The Gala
• Athletics
• The Big Day Out
• Grandparents day

We have been sitting at our desks shaped like Learning Rockets these are the names of our rockets:

1. Endeavorly Holdens the 1st
2. Rainbow Rockets
3. Thinking apolo 6
4. Lightning Strike 1

We are going to make toothbrush bracelets. (We will keep you posted on the toothbrush bracelets.)

Written By MosSam HilSam and Maadom.

The Presentation

For Social studies Room 1 has been studying Early Maori life. We learnt so much we felt that we had to share it with our parents. So on the 17 of September 2009 we hosted a Social studies night. 100 people came!
It was a marvellous event.

We showed the parents our BOB HERE claymation movie we made in Term 2. We made the movie in ONLY 2 WEEKS! You can see it further down our Blog if you want to.
The parents were hugely impressed.

Next was our Gingerbread Photo Story - this showed pictures of our gingerbread baking - part of our maths unit on Measurement.
One small child in the audience said "Awwww - that's beautiful", and we all laughed!

We have 9 kapahaka students in our class. They dressed up in our school's precious piupiu and sang and performed Haere Mai to introduce our Early Maori Life part of the presentation.
Then we presented our Early Maori Life slide shows. They were fantastic.
One of the students didn't have any of her group there but she was very brave and presented it by herself. She did a great job.
We finished the night off with our teacher, MooDeb's fantastic last speech.
The parents want us to have presentation evenings more often!

Our next challenge is to convert our Powerpoint presentations into Moviemaker so we can play them here on our Blog. We also have some photos.... good things take time!
(Luckily we have an expert in our class - Maadom!)

Made By MosSam, MaaDom GORTHO , WhaAly and Glenview1

Kaimoana work sheet

In Term 3 we have been learning about Early Maori Life for Social Studies.

Our reading programme has been excellent - we have chosen articles to read out of Journals all about Maori life.

This is one of the worksheets we have done, after we finished our buddy reading. We have been learning to write proper sentences using key words from the question and the text.

Meeting the All Blacks

On Monday the 7 of September 2009, OneCod, FisCal and HilJay

went to the waikato stadium to see the All Blacks train for their

upcoming game. Everyone got signatures from the All Blacks.

To see The All Blacks websites and more click the following links.

http://www.richie-mccaw.blogspot.com/

http://www.dancarter.co.nz/

http://www.allblacks.com/

By

OneCod, FisCal and HilJay