Did you hear about Paul Henry....well if you didn’t you obviously live under a rock. Paul Henry was forced to resign after he made two racial comments. The first was about a mispronunciation of a Delhi Chief Minister who’s name was Shelia Dikshit which is pronounced “Dixit”. The next comment was about Sir Anand Satyanand not being a New Zealander. The comment that was made was “Next time can we have a Governor-General who looks and sounds more like a New Zealand”? Anand Satyanand was born in New Zealand and besides having Indian relatives/blood he is a kiwi. Personally in my opinion he should just be left alone and he should be able to continue his job, I mean he just says the things we all think but don’t have the guts to say. When he apologized I think it sounded like he was reading something he had previously written that made him sound sorry but he didn’t really mean his apology. I have no problem with Paul Henry staying on Breakfast, then again I don’t watch it but I know so many people like him and really I don’t see the point in wat having him not on TV will do so WHATEVER! I know many of you will have different opinions about this so leave a comment about what you think.
How to measure a Joey
One or two year’s ago there was a gray stray cat in the garden and we named it kitty-cat then it ran away and came back on and off for two weeks then we wondered why it was getting so fat then my parent’s realised it was pregnant so they shooed it away and it didn’t come back!
By Emily
Five minuties ago Partick poked David in the eye. Jonah thought it was his falt becasue he picked Patrick for a question.
Bye Maia
Fran has had lego for about two years now. She made a house with little things inside.Outside it had... A basketball backboard, trees, bushes, furniture. It took Fran about three hours over two weeks.
Tori’s News-Yesterday Tori made vanilla perfume and I asked Tori if I could put some on and she said yes so I stuck my finger in it and it spilled all aver the floor then tori put it on me and it turned all sticky. By Fran
Emily and Maia- On Saturday Emily and Maia’s Netball team played in the finals at Te Pai Courts. They were versing a really hard team and their team lost by 10 points. The Centre was really good because she kept intercepting the ball. Emily and Maia went to prize giving straight after and they got medals even thought the didn’t win, they still came second from the best grade which is A. Good job thanks for making Summerland proud. By Tori
Joeys News
One or two year’s ago there was a gray stray cat in the garden and we named it kitty-cat then it ran away and came back on and off for two weeks then we wondered why it was getting so fat then my parent’s realised it was pregnant so they shooed it away and it didn’t come back!
By Emily
David's News 30-8-10
Five minuties ago Partick poked David in the eye. Jonah thought it was his falt becasue he picked Patrick for a question.
Bye Maia
Fran's News 30-8-10
Fran has had lego for about two years now. She made a house with little things inside.Outside it had... A basketball backboard, trees, bushes, furniture. It took Fran about three hours over two weeks.
Written By Maia
Tori’s News
Tori’s News-Yesterday Tori made vanilla perfume and I asked Tori if I could put some on and she said yes so I stuck my finger in it and it spilled all aver the floor then tori put it on me and it turned all sticky. By Fran
Emily and Maia's News
Emily and Maia- On Saturday Emily and Maia’s Netball team played in the finals at Te Pai Courts. They were versing a really hard team and their team lost by 10 points. The Centre was really good because she kept intercepting the ball. Emily and Maia went to prize giving straight after and they got medals even thought the didn’t win, they still came second from the best grade which is A. Good job thanks for making Summerland proud. By Tori
Tori's Narrative
2: “Hello Students, my name is Mr. Martin, I will be your guide today”. Jack was so excited this was his dream place. “Thank whoever invented science” he said to himself. Emma was so bored all this smarty pants knowledgy stuff made her disgusted. Jack was lost in his deep thoughts of becoming a famous scientist. But before he knew it he was more than lost in thought...he was lost in the science lab. Jack looked around the room, he wasn’t alone he saw Emma. But only Emma. “Hey Emma” Jack asked “Where’s our class?” “I don’t know where the are.” Emma replied. “Should we go look for them?” she continued. “I guess we could” said Jack...”Shall we hold hands?” he asked hopefully. Emma just flipped her hair and walked off.
3: Emma and Jack walked for about two minutes. “My legs hurt” moaned Emma. “We’ve been walking forever!” Jack rolled his eyes. “So Emma....” Jack started to say “Where are you going?” asked a deep voice. “After this place the mall” said Emma. “You’re coming with me” said the voice. The man was a security guard, a big muscly guy with a pink badge in the shape of a poodle. He grabbed hold of Emma and Jack and led them towards a jail cell looking room. Jack walked in and sat down quietly while Emma struggled to hold on to the bars while the guard pulled her into the cell.
4. Time went by...Emma called for help numerous times while Jack tried to dig his way out with a yoghurt spoon. Meanwhile Jack’s class was having a blast! Everyone was playing with gloopy green liquids and studying chemical reactions. “Jack this is all your fault” Emma yelled. “Wha... MY fault?” Jack asked. “Yes... if you weren’t so cute I wouldn’t of been distracted!” Emma put her hands over her mouth like she shouldn’t of said that. Jack smiled to himself. “What did you say?” he asked. “Uh....I said if you didn’t smell like puke I wouldn’t have been distracted....yeah that’s what I said” Emma replied.
5: Emma just looked away...embarrassed. Jack was so happy...Emma thought he was cute! Jack felt so happy it was unexplainable! The happiness continued when Jack saw a way out of the cell. There was a vent shaft in the roof and a foot stool which Emma was using to paint her toenails. “Hey Emma...I think there’s a way out of here” he said. Emma looked surprised. “You climb on my shoulders then you climb up through the vent and pull me up.” “Ok” Emma said. When Jack and Emma got into the vent they crawled through for about five minutes before they were just above their class. Jack tried to turn around to tell Emma but his foot got stuck in between two bars in the ground.
6: “Aaaaaaah!” said Jack as his foot fell. Emma rushed over...”Jack are you ok?” Emma asked. “I...I think so” Emma looked scared. “Grab my hand Jack” she said holding out her arm as far as she could stretch it. Jack held her hand....it felt like heaven. Emma pulled her arm back but Jack didn’t budge. She tried again....nothing. “Jack I just want you to know that if you die here I always had a crush on you...ever since kindergarten” she told him. “Me too....I mean you though” he said. Emma finally pulled him out of the bars. Emma hugged him...Jack was frozen, was this really happening? Emma and Jack climbed out of the vent and joined their class in a line hopping onto the bus. Emma sat next to Jack on the bus. “Emma” Jack asked.. “Will you be my friend?” “Of course I will” Emma replied.
The Bake Sale
Room 9's Bake Sale
RADICAL Ultimate Learning Environments
RADICAL Crayon and Dye Art
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Joeys News
On sunday morning at seven joey woke up to let his dog Sarah out too pooh on the lawn then she barked when she saw a cat on the fence. Joey tried to shoo it away but it would NOT move. Then he saw a spoon on the ground and tried to hit the cat but missed and got the neighbour’s roof. It made a strange noise and made the cat go away but it also made his dog run away too, so Joey ran inside behind Sarah
By Emily
Fran's news
Fran’s news- On Saturday Fran missed netball because of her sprained finger. She was bored so her mum got a candle and lit Jovis and crayons. Once they were burnt they put it on paper and the Jovis made a liquid sort of like paint and the crayons made drops of wax. By Tori
Kyla's Book Review Half Men Of O
My Book Review
How would you feel if you entered another world because a funny talking man made you enter it. Then in that world a different man is trying kill you because of your birthmark on your wrist. Well that's what happened to one girl called Susan with help from her cousin Nicholas in this story. Susan has a mark on her wrist. It had two parts. Each one was shaped like a tear drop curved like a moon. One was bright red and the other golden brown. I like this story because it's one of those books you can't stop reading and it is packed full of adventure . When you read it feels like your mind enters a different world. I think this is a book for 10 years old and older because it might be hard to understand.
Room 9 Describes The Hail Storm
Hail storm
Looks like: Frozen white meteors, raining beads, people are having party in the sky and ice is falling down, the sky is breaking apart, mini versions of ice, Someone is shooting at you from the sky (Mua), someone is throwing crushed ice on you (Patrick), heave raining golf balls (Josiah), crazy people running (Patrick), Tiger Woods just missed his hole (Josiah), Tiger Woods throwing golf balls from the sky (Patrick), someone turned on the fire hydrant and the water went so high it turned into ice (Colton), tiny clean comets (Callum), a zip, students all running and merging at the same place to get outside (Tori), lots of water trying to get out through a small hole (Callum), war with people dodging bullets (Fran), an angry mob (Joey), soaked children, wet, everybody got splashed with water (Louise), mini white ufo coming to Earth (Patrick), the clouds are trying to make a milkshake that went wrong (Aaron), dodge balls of ice when the little bits of ice are squashed together (Louise)
Feels like: an injection, cold, a bee sting, like pebbles are falling from the sky, you are having a shower, hard cold rain drops (Fran), a waterfall falling on you (Emily), a pinch (Louise), soft paintballs (Nathan), rock candy when you bite into it (Fran)
Tastes like: Ice, disgusting (Patrick), an easy gumball to chew (Ruan)
Sounds like: someone is dropping marbles on the floor (Callum), A shower (Daniel), people clapping (David), glass shattering (Emily), Stampede (Ruan), jumping off something into water (Colton), fast tapping on a drum (Fran), children screaming (Joey), Let it hail! (Callum), people running outside (Karl), hundreds of footsteps (Emily), smashing things (Daniel), screams of excitement (Louise), an earthquake (Mua), people shaking maroccas (Emily), The crowd going wild when a try is scored (Josiah), short words of excitement (Callum)
Joeys News - This morning joey’s sister and dog were watching blues clues then his brother came along and smacked the dog out the way and sat there then they were just sitting there the dog came back and his brother pushed him away with out moving his eyes off the TV
By Emily
Ravens News - yesterday Raven went rock-climbing with Bailey and Crystal some of the walls were really high and some when diagonal, people holed you up to help you, there is also a kids room
By Emily
Home Grown
This term, room nine are learning about Home Grown. We have done lots of diffferent types of activtives for this topic. We did theses activtives with our whole pod.We some different activtives on the first day of term three. We did things like colouring and dying New Zealand icons, we also made chocolate crackes, lerent to play Rakau sticks and last of all we played relays and did three legged races.
In art time we had to choose a New Zealand icon the best represents us and what we do.
These are the steps that we did to make our great arkwork.
- First we had to pick an icon.
- Then we needed to draw the picture that we choose in to our art books. We had to make sure that it was big enough to fit a fat crayon into all the gasps.
- After that we lightly sketched the copy on a white A4 piece of paper.
- We went over the pencil with chalk making sure that they we not thin lines.
- When we had done that we coloured the picture with crayon and we couldn't have any white becuase it would turn BLACK!
- After we had coloured it in we needed to dye. (not literally.) (Just the painting.)
- Now there up on our wall. YAY!
Written Bye Maia
David's Half Men Of O Review
Imagine there's a hidden world in your backyard. Now imagine someone in that world wants you dead.Now imagine a pirate took you to that world.This has become a reality for Susan Ferris and Nick Quin.The Half-Men Of O is Narnia meets Alice In Wonderland.The book is Good for boys and girls 10+(long words).Even though I do think the book could do with less drama and more action (I'm a boy) it still made me want to turn the page. The author gave me a clear picture of what was happening in every sentence but I did have to use my imagination for some of the characters eg. Jimmy Jaspers. Overall I give the Half-Men Of O a 4.5/5.
Fran's Halfmen of O book review
My reading group Thwack read The Halfmen of O and this is my review on it
Tori's Book Review
My reading group Thwack read a book called The Halfmen Of O here is my book review:
Emily's Book Review:The Half Men of O
Emily's Book Review
The Half Men of O
The half men of O is a great book about Susan and Nick going on an adventure though O. Susan's birth mark could save O or could it, and what is a blood cat, what are bird folk and who is odo cling?
It's a tale of how someone like shy Susan overcomes her fears and is stronger than anyone else, but she is just a mixie. Can she save O? Yes, no, MABYE the main thing is if she can it's NOT without the help of all her new friends and cousin Nick.
In my opinion it is one of the best book I have read mainly because it is full fantasies and bad guys so if you like badess and fantasies mooched together you need to read it NOW! ! !
By : Emily
Raven's half men of O review
This is my review of the half men of OThis story is about a girl named Susan and a boy named Nick and they go on an adventure to save the land of O on the way they meet Jimmy Jaspers, Breeze, Brand and the evil Odo Cling. During there adveture there was lot of high tension points like the blood cat.
Great for reader who like fantasy and something a bit weird for me I think I would rate it a 4.5/5 but thats just my opinion.
Lily and Tori's Mr. Hall Made of Beans
Yesterday we made a picture of Mr. Hall out of our maths counting beans. It took us fifteen minutes before school to make this masterpiece. We had to use instant alpha on pages to remove the spotty carpet from the image. It took us ages to rotate the picture as well!
R.A.D.I.C.A.L.S news 24.06.10
Joey doing Emily's news- Yesterday Coutrny Enversone got hit by a car and it dragged her acros the road.Then stopped the aumbulance came and 2 people tried to wake her up she woke up in the hospital but then they put her to sleep again because she was scared about what happened.She went to the hospital broke her collar bone and ribs but nothing happen to her head.
Tori doing Louise's news- This morning Louise finished drawing her orc. It looks pretty cool, she spent two days drawing it. She looked Orc's up on google and then drew it from the picture she saw. She didn't trace it.
Emily doing Lily's News- On Thursday We got bored and we found a frisbe and we went outside and the frisbe went frisbe car splat then Maia, Lily, and Fran ran inside and started laughing hard out!
Radical's News 23.6.10
Franny's News
Lily's mini recount
Nathan's mini recount
Maia's mini recount
Maia's Made Up Story
After he had bumped his head on the floor his mum came in and she said
"Get out of bed you lazy bones" She said this because it was dinner time.
Made up by Maia.
R.A.D.I.C.A.L'S Radical News
Lily’s news.
In the holidays Lily is going up north. She is taking
Fran on Good Friday. Her brother,
her mum, dad and her dog daisy are going with her too.
Josiah’s News.
In the weekend the warriors played the
broncos and the warriors won! Josiah
was very excited.
Maia’s News.
On Tuesday when Maia was walking to school
she tripped over and rolled my ankle and she
really hurt herself and it still hurts a week after!
Tori’s News
When Tori was running Cross Country
there was a piece of wood sticking out of
the ground and she tripped over the piece of
wood and she sprained her ankle and her leg now she
needs it wrapped.
R.A.D.I.C.A.L'S Radical News
Nathan helped his brother do his homework. What he had to do was he had to build a bridge. Nathan felt like making one too it’s made of polystyrene. But it isn’t real!
On easter Emryk is going out to dinner and he’s going to Rainbows End. The first thing he’s gonna do when he gets there is go on the Fear Fall. The Fear Fall doesn’t scare him, it’s his favourite ride!
On Tuesday Mua and her cousins went to the beach. There was lots of mud so much mud that she got stuck in the mud so Mua threw mud at her. Mua had a great time!
Lily's News
Lily is a girl guide. She brought in her collection of badges for her guides accomplishments . Lily got a badge for inviting Maia to Girl Guides. Lily’s favourite badge is a shiny circle badge that she received for enrolling.m Good on you Lily!
Callum, Emryk and Nathan are making a movie. It’s about them losing a bunny. They then had to go on an adventure to find a bunny with Nathan as the sound effects guy.
Raven's news
Raven’s parents went for a walk and saw some kids tagging on a skate ramp so Raven’s called the police. The tagging guy ran away but his friends turned him in and then tried to pretend that the tagging guy wasn’t who he was. Weird!
Emily's News
Emily sprained her arm. She was walking to school and she turned around. She couldn’t see where she was going so she grazed both of her knees, her elbow and her hip but worst of all she sprained her arm. Poor Emily!
Mua's super learning focus!
Brilliant stuff Mua. Keep it up!
( She's also taking the cards home to practice on the holidays.. Can't wait to see what she's learned by the time Term 2 starts! )
Colton's Recount
Shan's mini recount
Raven's mini recount
Conan's mini recount
Pranav's mini recount
David's mini recount
Emryk's mini recount
Josiah's mini recount
Joey's mini recount
Louise's mini recount
Fran's mini recount
Callum's mini recount
Jonah's mini recount
Daniel's mini recount
Ruan's mini recount
Kyla's mini recount
Crystal Mountain. Michelle's mini recount.
Oh No! Patrick's mini recount
Tori's mini recount
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