Writing Focus for Week 4

Last week, after an earthquake drill at school, we had some discussion about earthquakes but the HOT topic was really about volcanoes and what to do in the event of a volcanic erruption.

We decided that this week we would have a look at volcanoes as part of our writing programme and do some learning about these incredible processes of our world.

There are a couple of YouTube clips to watch on the blog for some spectacular views of active volcanoes.

Watch out for our volcanic writing - it may be explosive!

GALA HELPERS!

Hi Mums and Dads,

If you are able to spend any time supporting the School Gala on Sunday 14th November then we need to hear from you. Please contact me so I can add you to our helpers - it will be a really fun day for all but we can't do it without your help!

The money raised will go towards a new junior playground for the children at School so please get in behind this great fundraiser. THANKS A MILLION!
Linda McPhail

Welcome Back to Term 4!

WOW...we are already a week and a half into the new term and how time flies! This term we are looking at our Red Beach School Community and finding out who does what at Red Beach School.


We have selected some different people around our school to interview to find out what they do and why.



We also want to know how they do their jobs and how they learned to do their jobs.



It will be interesting to gather all our information and SORT IT once we have finished our interviews. Once we have explored our school community, we will look a bit further and out into the communities we live in to find out how they work. Our big question for this term is WHAT MAKES AN EFFECTIVE COMMUNITY?

Production Week has arrived...

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Winter Poems

We have been learning how to record our voices using the Easispeak microphone. We recorded our winter poems. Here is a selection of four poems, for you to enjoy, from Chloe, Jamie, Jack and Daniel.

Life Long Learning in Production

MAKING SHOES IN ROOM 25

The Dragons and Eagles reading groups read an article about another classroom that had made shoes. They, with the help of Mum and Dad, made some fabulous and unique shoes to bring along and share with the class.

Below are photos of their shoes.

They are busy now publishing a set of instructions on how to make their shoes using a programme called ComicLife.

Well done shoe makers and parents!

Eagle's and Dragon's Shoes

Daniel's Kakapo Shoes

WRITERS' WALL

Please click on the link at the top left called WRITERS' WALL to take you to our writing blog or click on the title above and you will get to our Writers' Wall blog. Here is where we showcase our writing. Last week we made straw characters and wrote about them. Have fun reading our stories.

Life Long Learning in Room 25

On Friday, we grabbed the chance to reflect on where we were at in our life-long learning. In this video we are sharing what particular life-long learning skills we are developing well in.

There are seven life-long learning attributes that we learn and practise at Red Beach. They are: taking risks, setting goals and making plans, questioning, reflecting, self-motivation, persevering and making connections.

MAKING CLOWNS ON A FRIDAY AFTERNOON

We have enjoyed making clowns to go with our story writing. Here is a movie of us at work in Room 25 creating our funny, silly, hilarious, bright clowns.

Nesbert's off on an adventure...

On Friday we said our goodbyes to Nesbert who is moving with his family to another part of Auckland this weekend.

Nesbert has been an awesome member of Room 25 with his bright smile and determined attitude to learning. Nesbert loved having a good laugh with his buddies and he was the early bird who woud come in first thing and jump onto a computer.

Nesbert will be going to a new school on Monday and we wish him all the very best as he meets his new teacher and classmates. We will really miss you Nesbert! We wishyou and your family well as you settle into your new home. Go well!

Lots of Love from your buddies here at Red Beach

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Our Clown Writing

Clowns have colourful clothes. I like them because they make people laugh. Clowns juggle balls, balloons and much more. My clown’s name is Hannah. My clown can juggle. I love my clown because she takes care of me.
By Caitlin



A clown is really funny! Clowns have baggy, stripy clothes and big long shoes. They have big red noses that sound like a truck honking. A clown has got some flowers on his shirt, and he has got a pistol in his pocket, and when he asks the people to smell the flowers he squirts out water in their faces.

Clowns are super amazing characters! They look rainbow coloured. They make people laugh. Clowns juggle with colourful balls. They dance silly dances and walk and pretend to slip over! They can make animal balloons and they ride little mini cars. Clowns say funny things like ‘boo-hoo’. Clowns use funny voices. If I was a clown I would be called Suzie.
By Ella



Clowns have enormous noses. They are funny. They have colourful hair. They have face paint on them. Clowns have a flower and when people smell near the flower, it squirts at them.

All the time they juggle. Sometimes they juggle balls. They make a big difference because they try to make people laugh. If I was a clown my name would be Chino.
By Olly



Clowns are silly characters! They have baggy, colourful, bright clothes. Their noses are very big and red and they sound like a horn. They have a white background of face paint and they put stars and dots in different colours on their faces. I thought they looked funny.

The first time I saw a clown they looked scary. Clowns make people laugh! They do that by squirting people with a flower. Clowns can juggle balls and plates. If I was a clown my name would be Silly.
By Kate



Clowns are amazing characters. They have baggy clothes. My clown has two patches and my clown has a big fat tie. She sometimes says “Do I have odd socks on?” I say, “Of course you do because you are a clown.” Her hair is pink, purple, green and yellow. Their balloons can be any colour but my clown has a red balloon. My clown is 100 years old!

Once I saw nine clowns. Clowns make people laugh. They do silly things like squirt people with a flower. When I went to the bike ride, a clown squirted me and my Mum with a flower and my Mum wasn’t very impressed.

Guess what…Clowns juggle dice, fruit and plates! Clowns are really, really funny and sometimes clowns can be children. They have red noses and face paint. Their noses sound like a horn. If I was a clown my name would be Furny Wurny.
By Kyla



Clowns are funny. They paint their faces white to make his/her face pop up! There noses make horn sounds like…beep! Their pumps squirt water from flowers to scare people. They hide their pumps in their pockets.

Clowns give cards like Ronald McDonald. They are so silly they make people laugh. They make people laugh by driving tiny cars and saying people are tiny, and then they make them big again. They ride a unicycle and trip over. If I was a clown my name would be… Stinky Me!
By Irinej

A Story Teller Comes to Red Beach

We were so lucky to see Stu Duval in action today at school as he entertained us all with amazing face drawings and story telling. Room 25 were in fits of laughter from the funny sounds Stu made as he told stories and kept us entertained. We loved the setting he drew to develop his story and we made lots of connections between his story telling and what we will be needing in our Production.

We went back to class buzzing with ideas and decided we had to learn how to do alphabet faces. If Stu could start learning to draw cartoon faces at the age of 5, then we figured that we could too.

Below are some of the pictures we drew for Stu to say thank you for coming to share with us. We really look forward to practising a new drawing skill in Room 25.

Mya's Word Cloud for Room 25

Why Blog...?

A Blog is an on-line website where children can access, exchange and receive information from their teacher, their classmates and from other people around the world.

In Room 25, we can use the Blog to:

Share resources and access on-line learning activities

Share our work and learning

Provide up to date information on what is happening in Room 25

Keep in touch with parents and the wider world

It provides opportunities for us to learn outside the classroom

We can learn new ICT skills

It motivates us, it's exciting and fun!!

As you can see the Blog is an amazing tool which has huge potential to enhance our learning.

If you want to see a great youtube clip that gives a really simple explanation about blogging click on the link below and enjoy.

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Guess what we did in the Holidays?

Here are our pictures of our favourite things we did in the holidays. We made a pop-out picture. Here are three stories for you to enjoy. Room 25 did lots of different things in the holidays.

In the cool holidays we went to Kelly Tarltons. First we saw the funny penguins. They had an ankle tag on their feet. We went into the cage of the penguins and after that we went back out of the cage and saw a plastic seal and an orca whale. When the orca got out of the water I got a shock! Then we went to a warm shop. I saw some sharks and fish rings and I saw some pearl necklaces. After we went to the shop we saw them feel the mantarays. When you look at them they really look like they are flying, but under water, and it looks like they have wings. They are so big! I loved going with my sister and my Mum because they love me. At the end I had a race with Amy, my big sister and got a picture.
Chloe

In the holidays I had a fantastic time at Irinej’s house. We played Playstation 2. We played a very cool game. In Star Wars you could turn into any character you want. Then we went upstairs to play with my jet ray gun. We shot Irinej’s sister and then we played with a light in the closet. We liked that. Then we played Lego Batman.
Shiv

In the holidays I searched on the computer and the biggest number in the world, it came up, with was a google plexian. It has 54,784 zeros. There are not that many seconds in your life! It even has a tag – it said biggest number known. 54,784 zeros made my printer print 7 pages! On the first page there are 1528 zeros! That means you can’t count to a google plexian. I think it is a gigantic number.
Jack