Kahikatea's Silly Olympics

As a rev up to our inquiry unit this term the Kahikatea team decided to have a silly Olympics to coincide with the London Olympics. This is what we did. First, we split into 8 countries.

 We made flags for those countries....

Then we made chants...

 Then we had our Olympics. Some of the events were the tarp pull, the bucket run, the caterpillar crawl, dress up sprints and the Weet-Bix eating competition.

Diary of a wimpy kid & U-ROCK

 

We have just started reading this book as a class and are looking at it from a few different angles. We are looking at the writer Jeff Kinney's style and the way he has set out his book. We are also looking at the way he has used personal voice. We have also tied in our U-Rock values and we are doing character descriptions of the main characters.

Battle of the fast food giants!

As a class we have looked at the article posted on kiwi kids news about why my burger looks different from the advertisement. (Click Link) Based on this we have decided to do a "Target" styled approach on the three big fast food outlets in Palmerston North. McDonalds, Burger King and KFC. Our test will be looking at Four main areas; Presentation( how close it resembles its picture), value for money, nutrition and taste.

We will be looking at the cheeseburgers from McDonalds and Burger King and the Cheese Snack Burger from KFC. We will edit this post as we bring out our findings. .

This was our step process
We read and discussed the article e.g why they make their foods look like that? What is the point?

Then we watched TV3's Target programme to watch how they went about their product check.

We also made an opinion poll to see which burger we thought would win at the beginning.

Then we decided what  burgers we were going to test and what we would test them on.
We made up a table and gave each set of criteria a mark out of 5.This picture shows us the final winner.

Then Mr H, Sean and Misty went to go and pick up the burgers and some chocolate milkshakes!!!!

We marked our burgers according to our set criteria.

We then had our taste test and added up our results to get our winner.

Festival of Languages

Last week we had our festival of languages competition. This is where we retell our speech in our own language. It is also a time that we can show off some of our traditional dress. Ruma Ono did really well with many students taking a position in the top three for their language. Here are some shots from the day.

Ruma Ono

Making kites for Matariki

This week Room 6 have been making kites for Matariki. it has been wicked making kites because we have been able to learn how to make kites.
these photos are of Kingstyn, Colin, Zane and I helping Nehemia make kites.

by Shakuahn

What do you ......


See..
wrinkles, gold bands, bandanna, old lady with a long neck and earrings.

Think...
An empress from China, in her mid 90's, she has cancer, her neck is broken, no hair, she is of major importance, she is showing off her traditional dress.

Wonder...
where is she, where was the photo taken, what country is she from, why does she have those around her neck, can they come off? Is she in some kind of trouble.

These are our thoughts from this photo. We also had to write and expand on these ideas. After we compared our reasons to with the video to see if we were on the right track.

Basketball vid

Not bad for your first attempt !!

UROCK Day

Last week the school had their UROCK Day. This is where children who had earned enough vouchers were allowed to have a block of hard earned fun. This term the Kahikatea team had a masquerade ball and had to create their masks to go. We also had some good old fashioned party games like pass the parcel and the ballon stomp. Here some pics and video of the day.

MMMMMMMMMM bread!!!

 In Ruma Ono we try to bake/ cook at least once a week. As well as being fun and yum it is also teaching us lots of great things along the way from maths through to our U-ROCK skills. So far we have made corn fritters, pikelets and bread.

This is our bread recipe if you wold like to try at home.

1 tsp salt
2 tsp sugar
3 cups flour
1 cup water
2 tbsp water
3 tsp yeast

Great start to the season!!!

Well done to both of our school basketball teams who played really well for the first game of the season. A big ooh rah to my team the Somerset Slammers who won 34-4 against Russell St. You all played extremely well and with a U ROCK attitude, which and the end of the day matters the most and what really makes you winners!!!!!!!!!

Mr H