A Pirate Limerick Poem by Room 10

Over the last week, we have be learning about Limerick Poems. Do you know what a Limerick poem is? We looked up some examples from this website about Pirates that had lots of good information and activities to do. Here is what we came up with as a class.

There once was a pirate named Peter
He loved to sit next to the heater
He tried to go to sleep
But was hungry for sheep
And he ran a hundred meters

If you have any ideas or would like to share a limerick poem with us, feel free to do so. Here are some pictures that Kavaliku and Calvin have drawn of a pirate.

Life Education at Pt England School

Every year Pt England School are visited by the Life Education Bus. It travels all across the country teaching children about different things. Click here to find out more.
From this Room 10 wrote a paragraph about one thing they learned and experienced. This is Rave's paragraph. Look carefully at her picture and do you know what his name is?

In the Life Education Van we chose some doctors to pick something out of a bag with blood in it. We got the heart and put it on Carpet Kid. We got different things to put on Carpet Kid.

Immersion Week

Team 3 here at Pt England School spent Week 1 changing classes each day from 12noon until lunchtime. Each teacher had organised and planned for each class to do an activity around our topic for the term "Mighty Mariners". Here are some photos from Room 10 and what they did with their teacher. Can you figure out what kind of mariners they are?

In the Holidays.....by Asena

This is Asena's piece of writing that she did during the holidays.

In the holidays, it was my birthday. Me and my family went to the movies to watch Karate Kid. It was so fun because we bought two packed of popcorn and two drinks. When I was watching Karate Kid I was eating popcorn and drinking coke. The popcorn was so yummy that I ate the whole popcorn. My favourite part was when Karate Kid knocked out the boy that bullied him.

Korobeau's Holiday Writing

During the term break all of the children in Room 10 had homework to do. One of their tasks was to write a paragraph about what they did daily. We did this because it's important for us to continue learning even if we're on holiday from school. You might like to leave us a comment about what you did during the holidays.

This is one of Korobeau's piece of writing:

Thursday 8th July, 2010

I woke up at 6.15am and watching the FIFA 2010 World Cup Semi-final between Germany and Spain. Spain won and will go the final to play against Netherlands. Paul the Octopus chose Spain to win the FIFA World Cup. FIFA means Federation Internation Football Association.

Mighty Mariners

This term our topic is called Mighty Mariners. Our focus question is: What does it take to explore the sea? Our learning outcomes are: to explain why people left their homes to explore the oceans and new lands, to explain one or two different technology used by early explorers and to explain and describe how a chosen group of people prepared for sea travel.

This is going to be an exciting term because we also have the Life Education bus with our friend Harold here for the next two weeks. We will also be practising for our school Cross Country competition. We've also got a trip to the Maritime Museum in Auckland and our school wide Pasifika at the end of the term.

If you can help us with any ideas or can answer the above questions and learning outcomes, please keep visiting us and don't forget to leave us a comment!!

An Earthquake Animation by Lee

This is Lee's animation of an Earthquake. He's worked really hard on adding details in his graphics and he can even turn his slideshow into a quicktime using iMovie. Well done Lee!

Calvin's Earthquake Animation

This is Calvin's animation of an Earthquake. He is really clever that he can even turn his slideshow into a movie. Calvin has worked hard on the details in his graphics and even wrote a paragraph explaining what an earthquake is. Well done Calvin!

Kavaliku's Earthquake Animation

This is Kavaliku's animation of an Earthquake. He worked extremely hard to put all his graphics into a slideshow using kidpix. Great work Liku!

Keis' Earthquake Animation

This is Keis' animation of an Earthquake happening. She has worked really hard this term to write a paragraph about what an earthquake is. Listen as she explains. Excellent work Keis! This photo was taken on our term 1 picinic at the Pt England Reserve.

Korobeau's Animation of a Volcano Erupting!

This is one of Korobeau's movies that he has made this term of a Natural Disaster. He has worked extremely hard to show what a volcano will look like when it erupts. Excellent graphics Korobeau!

An Earthquake Animation by Leka

This is Leka's animation of what an earthquake will look like. He created this using kidpix and has worked hard on his detail in graphics. Great job Leka!

Mao's Volcano Animation

This is Mao's animation of a volcano erupting. Watch and listen as she explains what is happening. Well done Mao! This photo was taken of her sliding down the hill at One Tree Hill or Maungakiekie.

Tafaoata's Earthquake Animation

Ever wonder what an earthquake might look like - animate? This is Tafaoata's animation of an Earthquake, that she made using kidpix. Well done Tafaoata!

A Volcano Animation by Mua

This is Mua's volcano animation. She worked really hard to write her own voiceover for it as well. Well done Mua!

Lee's paragraph about Life Education

Inside the Life Education Bus, it is really colourful. Lynn and her team have a done great job ensuring that each session is fun as well as informative for the children. This is Lee's paragraph that he has written about Carpet Kid.

When we went in the Life Education Van, Carpet Kid was a carpet. Lynn said there was blood in the bag but there wasn't. Carpet Kid was the size of a seven year old.

Hiwarau's Volcano Animation

Do you know how active our Earth is? Here is Hiwarau's animation of a volcano erupting. He has worked extremely hard this term. Well done Hiwarau!

Happy Birthday Asena!

It's Asena's 8th Birthday and we were very lucky because she had bought in a beautiful and scrummy chocolate cake for us to all share. Here is a picture of her scrummy cake!!!

Today is also the last day of Term 2 for us and now we're on holiday. But as always on blog isn't and so, there'll be children's work being post for the next 2 weeks. We return on Monday 19th July.

Earthquake Animation by Mary

This is Mary's animation that she has made about an Earthquake. She has worked hard and created this using kidpix. Well done Mary!

Brandon's Earthquake Animation

This is Brandon's animation of an Earthquake. He also has written a voice-over for it. Well done Brandon!