The end of the year

Room 8 has worked incredibly hard this year.  They have been Miss Bolton's guinea pigs:  starting our class blog, using the wiki page, using our new iPad, using Miss Bolton's iPhone, trying different apps, using cameras on lots of devices, trying out different timetable ideas, using different websites (like Mathletics!). The list goes on.
Miss Bolton is very proud of the way everyone in Room 8 has given all the new things a go - no-one said that they didn't want to try anything, Room 8 are definitely risk-takers when it comes to their learning!
To finish off the year, Miss Bolton asked Room 8 to reflect on 2012 and use the netbooks to video themselves talking about what they enjoyed the most in 2012.  Miss Bolton then edited the videos and put them all together to make one movie.

A dancing cop helps traffic

this just in a cop helps the traffic flow. a cop has been helping the traffic that is very amazing i wounder how he does it . The seccret is dance! thankyou for saving the road. By Kevin

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Snakes

Snakes Some snakes can be very, very poisonous so you should watch out, they could come any time, I suggest you should watch out good. By Tyler From Paerata school room8

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Be careful this week.

On friday 7th december, 3 people died because of a storm and tornado and others injured. Two died because of construcion sites,one died because of a tree. there reports of another tornado coming in routua this afternoon. 150 homes are destroyed and 300 residents being evevacuated. so be carful this month. this is not a game.

A little bit of rain?

Today (6 December) it rained. And rained. And rained! Miss Bolton took a photo and video of the rain just after lunch today when she was sheltering under the canopy with Mrs Tate. The rain was so loud that Miss Bolton couldn't hear Mrs Tate talking to her!
On the video can you see the water overflowing? The noise in the video is the rain hitting the canopy.

Emotion Poems

In Room 8 we have been learning about similes.  Similes are when we compared two things using the words like or as.

Miss Bolton showed us some blogs where other students had written emotion poems.  Here are the links:

Year 3 class from Australia

Belmont Primary School from Auckland

Here are some of our emotion poems:

                           SHYNESS
                           Harmony

Shyness is like going to a new school for the first time ever.
I see people laughing at me about how I dress!
I hear whispers in others ears about me!
I smell gross school lunches.
It tastes yuck and really fatty.
Shyness feels afraid and nervous! 

                          FEAR
                          Ants

            Fear is like being trapped.
            I see shadows lurking,waiting.
            I hear creaks and knives clanging.
            I smell blood and fire.
            It tastes rusty and curved.
            Fear feels insane and painful.

           pain 
           pain feels like getting punch in the face you fall down  and you know that you will  
            lose the fight.
            It feels painful like falling down and hitting your head on a rock.
             I taste my blood dripping  down my nose.
             In your head you hear noises saying get up get up. by Aloysius


Happy.
 Happy is when you hear giggles like laughs.
It's when you smell delicious chocolate cake with icing on top of it.
Happy is when you see people having fun like playing the game tiggy .
It's when you had a slice of chocolate cake.
Happiness is when you have fun.
By Kevin

             

Peas

Outside in Room 8's pots we have peas growing in everyones groups. They are growing really well! They look really delicious already. We had to re-plant our peas because they wern't growing properly in our little plastic cups. Room 8's peas in our pots outside have growin so fast we just planted them last term.

dragon attack

Today Paerata school had a visitor.His name was Bruce Potter.He is an illustrator.He drew a dragon that looked so realistic.                                                          


by Tui                                                                

The dragon

My favourite part that i like his writing and his one paper that was cool when i do it

learning how to illustrate

Friday 23 November.                  Quinn

This morning in Room 1,  Bruce Potter an illustrator came in to teach us how to illustrate pictures.He even drew a picture of a goblin going as fast as he can in a car with a dragon chasing him.


this is that picture I talked about.^:D

Bruce potter

Bruce potter came to paerata school so we could see what he can dolike what an illutrator could do. So maybe another person would like to be an illustratorwhen they grow up they might want to be one when they are a little bit older. I think bruce potter was born to be an illustrator and maybe an artist. The end by. Waimaria.

The illustrator

This morning in room I Bruce potter came in to talk with us about being an illustrator. The entire school was there. He sang a song about Kaha the kea. He drew a picture of a dragon chasing a goblin.

Ants

Bruce Potter's visit to Paerata School

On Friday the 23rd of November Bruce potter came to Paerata school to tell us about his job.  The first thing he showed us was Kaha the Kea.  Kaha the Kea was a really cheeky kiwi.  After that he talked o us for a while.  Then he drawed a big dragon chasing a goblin in a broken car.

Harmony

Bruce Potter visit to Paerata School

In the morning, at Paerata school in room one, Bruce potter visited us . Our favourite par was when he drew the picture of the broken car and goblin and dragon. The whole school was there. He sang a song drew a picture of a dragon breathing fire at a goblin in a car and read a short story. Then he gave us his picture.

Re-planting our Strawflowers

Our new pots for the strawflowers.

On Friday 16 November Room 8 repotted their strawflower plants into bigger pots.  We did this because the pots that the plants were growing in became too small.  Then we replanted the extra strawflower plants into the garden under the big Tōtara tree outside Room 3.

While we were doing the replanting, Tyler used the iPad to video what Room 8 was doing.  She also talked to some of Room 8 to see what they were doing.  Her video is below (Miss Bolton has edited it a little bit.)

Proof-reading #2

As a class we looked at the piece of writing below.  Miss Bolton highlighted the mistakes that we found and then we told her how to fix the mistakes.  How do you think we did?

Proof reading

We are practising proof reading our writing. In the photo below, some of Room 8 are proof reading a story - looking at capitals, full stops and other punctuation.

Flintstone's Animation #3

Aloysius's animation.

Flintstones Animation #2

Here is Harmony and Monomono-Ava's animation.

The Flintstone's Animations

On the twentieth of October the Flintstones reading group did animation.
We could work together or by ourselves.  I was doing Captain Underpants punching a bad guy.
The hard part was drawing.  After you've finished drawing you colour it in.  Then you have to go on the Apple laptop to do iMovie.
First you had to go to new project by doing command N or File, new project.  Then you had to typ in a name.  After that you put the pictures in order.

By Kevin.

Here is Kevin's animation:

Our trip to the Paerata bush

On Wednesday 31 October each Junior class went down the the bush.  We learned about the native plants that were in the Paerata bush.  We used the camera and iPad to take videos and photos when we were in the bush.

Here is a video of Robynne Sutton (the Park Ranger) explaining about the different native plants in the bush.



Junior Bush trip 31 Oct 12 from mbolton on Vimeo.

Kevin's Comic about our bush trip

Click on the comic to make it full screen.

Descriptive writing using WOW words

WALT use descriptive vocabulary in our writing.  

WOW words are interesting words we can use in our writing to make it more interesting.  How many WOW words can you spot in these pieces?

The dark blue deep water was blasting with loudness on the heavy rocks. The blue water is on the people. There are big trees that are like nikau palms. The sunny bright sun is shining down on the warm beach. The warm sand is tickling in the water. By Aloysius

There is a dark blue  and  trees and some people on surf boards.  And people swimming  and I can hear waves.  By Bosston

The people   are splashing in the bright  blue sea.  Theres’ people  playng in the sand.  some people talking.  People  are playing  in the sea.  Tall  skiny  trees.  I see people relaxing.  By Elijah

The people are walking on the grass and the people are playing with the sea  shells and sand.  The wind is blowing the dark blue sea.  By Fonua

To read more of Room 8's awesome descriptions please go to our wiki page.

Monomono-Ava's description

Here is a recording of Monomono-Ava reading her descriptive writing.

Can you hear the WOW words that Monomono-Ava uses?

listen to ‘Monomono-Ava' description’ on Audioboo

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Miss Bolton

The Beach

There is a dark blue sea. The tall, huge trees are bending. There are people lying on the hot sand. There are people laughing out loud. I saw the colourful ball hit over the High net.
There are small seagulls over my head.  I heard the big splashing waves. I can see people on there awesome surf boards.

Kevin

Audioboo - a new app

Audioboo is a new app that Miss Bolton learned about in the holidays. Cameron was the "guinea pig" for Miss Bolton to try out the app. Cameron is reading his description that he wrote about a picture showing three sheep on a farm. How do you think he did?

Descriptive writing

Can you spot the WOW words in this piece of descriptive writing?

Dragons

Dragons are extremely powerful.

It would feel frightening,scary and shivering .

His colour is bluish,purplish and a bit of black and yellow.

The dragon is muscly big and fierce.

Aloysius