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It's a ...

We've been enjoying Lane Smiths "It's a Book" and have written our own versions of the story.

Here's the book trailer to give you an idea of the story flow:



Here's Hannah's version:

It's a piece of paper
“Whats that?”asked Weirdo.

“It’s a piece of paper”, said Wizard Smarty-pants.

“Can it change channels?” asked Weirdo.

“No, it’s a piece of paper,” answered Wizard Smarty-pants.

“Does it need a remote control”, Weirdo.

“No, it’s a piece of paper”.

“Can it make this sound effect”, BOOM BOOM POW! “I don’t mean this one I mean that one”, BANG!”

“No”

“Can I look at it?”

“Sure”

“I will just plug it in and put the antenna on the roof”

“YOU DON’T NEED TO IT’S A PIECE OF PAPER WEIRDO!”

The Big Day in Te Papa

I was waiting in the wings for the big moment to occur.

“…and please welcome the Keynote Singers from Raumati Beach School!” said one of the people.

We all ran on stage and performed. I was as happy as a person winning lotto. When we were done we stepped to the front of the stage and bowed.

Then we all waved and ran of stage. When we got back to the “dressing room”, Mr Farrely came and awarded us with…….

200 DOLLARS! WOW! We were all amazed. Then we got an hour and 15 minutes to explore Te Papa.

It was a great day that I will always remember.

Beaten by their best game.

“Shakaia dashed past the attackers, so close, can’t be beaten , can’t stop now, and.. and… and she makes it past the line!!! Oh, the glory, we got a score.” I made to the base!! Passing the flag behind our backs, I put my hand up my shirt because I’m the distraction!! I run out, they look at me, Taurean shoots past, this could be it, he ducks, he dashes, just a couple more steps, he’s over the line, he gets a point!!!!! We win the plate!! ♥☻!!! My whole class is running round screaming, Including me. Its amazing!!!! I throw my hat in the air. They were beaten by their best game!!!

The Plate of Resilience!

On Thursday Room 9 challenged Room 10 to the plate. The plate is something that year 5 & 6’s try to win by playing a game aginst another class. We played flag-tag, (best out of three) which is a game that Room 9 is quite bad at.

I was the person that made sure Room 10 didn’t get off of their side, but I was mostly guarding Caley and the tall Emily because they were too easy to get. Some people like Keren and Sam were trying to trick me by pretending to be tagged but I didn’t fall for it.

The first round went by and we won (well at least I think we did, it’s quite confusing really). Then the second round and they won =( I was disappointed and puffed but I wasn’t going to let my class down. The last round seemed like the longest and the hardest but after what seemed like hours people on my team started screaming when I looked in the direction of the screaming I saw that Taurean had the flag which had meant…

WE HAD WON THE PLATE!

Student comments on Super Scoopers stories

Group one: Little Red Riding Hood by Louise N
We thought the pictures worked well with the story. We like the detail of the story and how it made the story different. It was easy for everyone to read.

Group Two: Little Red Riding Hood by Lusia M
Your description was really good. We thought you did good paragraphing. We liked the twist at the end and thought the pictures related well to the story.

Group Three: The Present I couldn't open
We thought the pictures were really cool. We also thought that it was a 'mint' story and it was cool that it was real. Also the present was 'mintage'. (mint = good/cool)

Group Four: The Worst Diary Entry
We thought the story was great. We like the way you set it out. Thanks for sharing it with us. Also thanks for dedicating it to us.

Group Five: Little Red Riding Hood by Ella M
We found the blurb interesting and the pictures fascinating. We also thought the layout was good too. We all liked the story.

Thanks for sharing your stories with us.

Writing Collaboration

Earlier this year Room 9 students collaborated with students from the Super 7 scoopers @ St Clair's school in Dunedin. Super 7 Students wrote some stories and Room 9 RBS students edited the stories. We did this using Google Docs.

During the last holidays Ms F met up with Mrs Bee at Ulearn10 Conference in Christchurch. Mrs Bee had a surprise for Ms F - copies of the finished stories! They had been turned into real books!

Ms F got us into 5 groups and we each got a book to read. It was great to see the finished work.

Podcast - Week 3, Term 3

Apple Magic Trackpad

On Thursday James' dad gave Ms Fothergill an Apple Magic Trackpad to use in the classroom. We were all excited to see what it was and how we could use it. Ms F is very proud of how quickly we picked it up and how we shared it around the classroom. She made this movie of our first try at using it.

Podcast - Week 2, Term 3

Podcast - Week 1, Term 3

A round up of Week 1 by Hemi - this is a podcast with visuals!

Land of Magic

Heat Ice Gas Electricity Boys

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Kapiti's Mad Scientist by Fabian

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Vuvuzela

Connor's grandparents live in South Africa and sent him a small size Vuvuzela. We think it would be a good way to call kids back into class after play.

GOAL!

We were excited this morning after the 1-1 draw in last night's game between NZL & SVK. Some of the students hadn't seen any of the game so I played this for them. I seriously didn't coach them in what to do.

PAPER PLANE

Paper plane

Aero dynamic

Play

Easy to make

Ruling to find out how far

Plain piece of paper

Lots of paper

Around went my plane

Nice to do a competition with other classes in NZ

Extra excitement

Super fun

Flight of the Planes!

On the 10th of june we brought paper planes from home and made them at school for a plane competition!

Plane competition!

Arty and fun!

Planes to fly!

Everyone enjoys!

Rulers to measure!

Planes to use!

Love flying planes!

Air to fly with!

New designs from everyone!

Excitement of flying the planes!

Speed of the plane!

Paper Airplane Challenge

Room Nine has been doing a paper plane plane flying contest.

First Ms Fothergill  told us what we had to do and she showed some ways to make paper planes, then we got to go and make some paper planes .

Next we ran around the class room screaming and testing our paper planes. Mine weren’t as good as I thought they would be, so I made some more.

After that we went outside to see how far they could go. Unfortunately my planes only went half a metre so I went back inside to try making some different ones but I accidently made a sailers hat instead!

A week later we had the final test. Room Nine, Mrs McEntegart and Ms Fothergill went to the hall fo the competition.

I didn’t win but I but I got six metres exacly and I bet a lot of  boys. Then we got our picture taken.

It was a lot of fun!

Paper Plane Challenge

Playing with them was fun.

Also making them too.

Paper planes take a long time.

Everyone flew a plane.

Riding on air.

Please step up to the line.

Lets go.

And fire.

Next person.

Everyones planes got measured.

So that is the paper plane challenge.