We have been enjoying reading books by Chris van Allsburg.
What is your favourite part of The Polar Express?
A contraction is a shortened form of one or two words (one of which is usually a verb). In a contraction, an apostrophe takes the place of the missing letter or letters.
Some contractions are: I'm (I am), can't (cannot) and how's (how is).
Let's see how many contractions we can come up with. Write two words which can be contracted. The next person writes the contracted form and adds two more words. I will start the chain off so you can see how it works.
Click here to try Dance Mat Typing. Meet the gang and learn to type. Make your way through all 12 stages and you can be a top typist. Thanks for the suggestion, Caitlin. What does everyone think of it?
Congratulations to the winners of the Year 4 Speech Competition. Seven finalists presented their speeches to the Tall Poppies who selected the following winners:
1st Lisa Evans
2nd Cristina McCormick
3rd = Sean Galdeman
3rd = Kate Hudson
Congratulations also to our other finalists: Gemma Taylor, Olivia Simmonds and Ally Hudson. Certificates will be presented at the next assembly. Well done!
This week, our word of the week is: 'industrious'. Find out the meaning of the word and then put it into a sentence to show your understanding.
* Remember - only sentences with capital letters and fullstops will be published.
It is really important that all children learn to touch type. Touch typing is fast and means you are looking at the screen and not at the keys. This means your typing will be more accurate. Click on the link to practise your touch typing.
Touch Typing
Tauriko School is establishing an Enviro-Schools team. Two members from each class will be invited to be a part of the team. This team will drive the Enviro-Schools projects at our school. If you would like to be a part of this team then click on 'comments' below. Write your reason for wishing to join the team. You might like to include a couple of ideas you have for our school. Remember to include your room number.
Play Free Rice - every word you get right earns 10 grains of rice which get sent to feed the hungry. Just click on the widget on the right of the screen. When you are done let us know what your highest level was. Get Mum or Dad to have a go, even big brothers and sisters. Make sure they let us know their level. Good luck!
DOGS AT THE BEACH
Two excited dogs ready to have a great time.
Waves crashing on the sand.
Running, jumping into the water.
Seagulls swooping down into the ocean.
Dogs enjoying playing together in the ocean.
They were on an adventure in the smashing and crashing ocean. They found some rocks and saw some interesting fish. They were so excited. It was just whitebait! There was a crab. It nipped the dogs foot. “Ouch!” said the white dog. What a great day at the beach. What a tiring day at the beach. What an adventurous day!
By Troy
RENA.
Splash!!! Water and oil was everywhere. Screaming helicopters flying above. String and containers falling heavily into the black sea. Fish dying and floating up to surface covered in black oil. Rena cracking, oil spilling out of the Rena like blood pouring out of a possum.
By Joshua M.
What an amazing bunch you all are! We thoroughly enjoyed listening to all of your speeches. So much effort was put into research, preparation and practice. You certainly taught us something new and entertained us at times as well! Every single one of you should be very proud of yourselves. We will be expecting amazing things from you all next year.
The children selected to share their speeches with the Tall Poppies are:
Gemma Taylor
Sean Galdemann
Ally Hudson
Cristina McCormick
Kate Hudson
Olivia Simmonds
Lisa Evans
Judged by Mr Opie, Mrs Te Whaiti, Mrs Palfrey and Mrs Lockett
This week, our word of the week is: 'widget'. Find out the meaning of the word and then put it into a sentence to show your understanding.
* Remember - only sentences with capital letters and fullstops will be published.
Brought to you by Troy and Mitch
This week, our word of the week is: 'flabbergasted'. Find out the meaning of the word and then have a go at putting it into a sentence. Be as creative as you like.
* Remember - only sentences with capital letters and fullstops will be published.
Can anyone see Daisy dog looking conspicuous among Olive's teddies? Great photo Olive!
This week, our word of the week is: 'conspicuous'. Find out the meaning of the word and then have a go at putting it into a sentence. Be as creative as you like. (Clever Cookies might like to try using language features such as alliteration, similes or metaphors!)
* Remember - only sentences with capital letters and fullstops will be published.
Jon Scieszka is a guy who writes books — funny books.
Mr. Scieszka is one of six Scieszka brothers who grew up "wrestling in the living room, fighting at the dinner table, and tying up the babysitter." In class we have the hilarious 'Knucklehead' - Jon Scieszka's autobiography about his childhood. Enjoy the book by yourself or with a buddy. Then put on your thinking cap. Even if you've never had your brother try to sell you your own shirt or tied a sibling to a bed, you have a family story to tell. Your family history, your heritage, is more than just dates and places. There are stories to be told and retold.
Here is your challenge: Write a recount describing something funny that has happened to you. Keep it short - just a few sentences is plenty, BUT BEWARE, only those with capital letters and fullstops will be published on our blog. Good luck!
We are running a competition to create our own pictures based around our Seuss-type rhymes. Can you make a picture or take a photo to show a frog on a log or a mouse in a house? Have a go at a moose on the loose ...
Email your pictures, photos or edited photos to your teacher and you just might get to see them published on the blog. There will be prizes for the most creative images.
jtewhaiti@tauriko.school.nz
alockett@tauriko.school.nz
lpalfrey@tauriko.school.nz
Look at Olive's dog on a log and mad dad.
We are learning to use and create words and sentences that rhyme.Here are some of our favourite Dr Seuss rhymes:
- the cat in the hat
- a goat in a boat
- a fox in socks
Room 7 have begun a fundraising activity to raise money to build a wall around an orphanage and school in Kenya.We heard about the programme to build the wall on Close Up and how Conrad Smith, the All Black is giving his support
to raise the money.
The orphange and school were built by a New Zealand charity called So They Can and you can see what they are up to at their website www.sotheycan.org.nz
When we saw the children at the orphanage we realised how lucky we are and it made us wonder how we could help.
Inspired by the programme Pennies for Peace we decided to collect as many 10cent coins as we could, attach them to paper bricks, each worth $1 and donate them to Conrad's Wall.
We have already discovered that 10c coins aren't worth much by themsleves but if there are enough of them, they can be very valuable and powerful.. We believe our 10c coins can
stack up and build the wall to help keep the children safe and happy.
We want to help the children at the Holding Hands Orphange and we'd welcome your support too.
We believe that every small good deed makes the world a better place.
Conrad's wall 2
View more presentations from rjensen.
Who Am I ?
I was born in a small town in Germany
I am a writer and illustrator
I am fascinated by adjectives
I love nature
I first started writing with another author
Who am I?
Features of a personal recount are...
- Written in the past tense
- Written in the first person
- Events are in sequence with time connectives such as; then , next, afterwards...
- Personal voice
- Explains who, what, where, when and why
- Retells a specific event
- New ideas have new paragraphs
- Figurative language such as aliteration, similes, metaphors
My bedroom re-do
“Do I have to I too dad” I whined loudly. My dad and my brother, Ben was demanding that I tidy my bedroom. I decided only bone thing, you have to help me I asked quickly and quietly.
Yes we will help you tidy dad said. “No way I’m helping Amy” Ben said looking very angry. Ben slouched on the couch and shouted I want a cookie” then dad said “you can have a cookie if you help Amy” ben just couldn’t say no.
We were as busy as bees, but ben was hungry as a horse. My bed got taken backwards agenst the wall so we could clean under it. We were all going through a small gap when disaster struck bens head got stuck ben squiggled and finally after a lot of time bens head got unstuck.
After that we tided and tided it took forever but we finally finished and my bedroom looked great. Now it was it was time to re-do my bedroom. My bed got swapped with my draws, my piano got swapped with my dolls house and Voilà my bedroom looked brand new.
Amy Charman-Moore
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