Prize Giving

Today was our prize-giving.

The year 5s gave the year 6s an outstanding gift, a song. This is a tradition at BMPS.

Check it out!

Blake's Farewell

Blake is nearly one! He has grown so much since we first met him.

Good-bye Blake, we'll see you really soon xxx

Okahau Capsule

Okahau Capsule

We looked at the capsule on the blog and we could see writing on it. When we zoomed in on the computer we saw the words Okahau Capsule.

We looked on Google to see what Okahau meant. It means Warrington.

We know that we taught some kids how to do blogging in Warrington but that's about it.
Mrs T-J had the capsule in her bag. We had a look...


What does this tell us about Okahau?

The people down there are interested in beach stuff like crabs and shells. They are beach people, they might like to surf, they like collecting stuff. They love being around the water, they like nature. They love being surrounded by water. They like adventures. They like nature. They find out new things.

The Crabs taught us that they have crabs at their beach - we think that they might like to eat kai moana.

The seaweed smelled yucky and it smelled different from Auckland. It looked like sea food. We think Warrington must smell salty and beachy.

We saw mini shells. They were really cool and they reminded us of the beach. They must have little small sea snails. We wonder if they have pipi. They had curling colourful patterns. We have shells like that at our houses.

In our cultures we make beautiful jewelery out of shells - Do you?

We looked at big shells too. This tells us that they have different sized shells down there...

SEAWEED
I think that this is dried seaweed. I know that seaweed is in the ocean and that some animals eat it. It tells me that this person likes seaweed. It makes me think about the deep ocean...
MINI-SHELLS
These tell me that this person loves the ocean. I know that these are everywhere on the beach. It makes me think about sand.

Talking to our friends in Warrington on Video-Chat

What are you doing???

Hey Room 12

If you get access to a computer, let me know what you are up to ...

I hope you all have a great 2 days. See you on Wednesday :)

chalk makes everything better

Soccer Balls - Where are they from?

In the weeks that I have been researching about soccer balls and how that there are more than 1/8 of the soccer balls in the world that are made by children! I have found that these children are forced to work at least 15 hour shifts every day for only 100 rupee.

100 Rupee is roughly around NZ$3.00. So these kids live on just 43 cents a day. With that money they could buy 2 lollipops.

These children haven't even been given an education and work from as young as 5 to 17.

More than 22,000 children injure themselves in work related accidents.

Gratin de pommes de terre - the process

Yay here is how we made Pascale's Gratin de pommes de terre recipe. We hope that you can see the fun we had. We enjoyed it so much that we worked through the bells. True engagement. We are looking forward to trying some more recipes.

Gratin de pommes de terre

Comparing and Constrasting Blake

He couldn't talk
He didn't know how to crawl
He was small
He cried
He was tiny
He wanted hi mum all the time
He couldn't roll over
He couldn't make noises
He didn't have teeth
He couldn't communicate
He couldn't stand
He couldn't grab stuff
His hands were closed
He fell a lot
He couldn't balance
He had no hair
He was sometimes scared




NOW HE

Relates to people (see video)
Interacts with us
He can communicate with his Mum
Now he knows everyone
He can grab lots of toys
He is getting stronger
He can sit on his own
He's not that tiny anymore
He can crawl
He can point
He can stand up
He doesn't want his mum ALL THE TIME
He reads book that are appropriate for him (with his mum)
He bites his Mum
He moves around heaps
He talks
He can feed himself

Toasty Maths

How many pieces of toast?

What other maths questions do we have?

Our questions:
Is it a tidy number? - Nope
Can you put it in a media player and slow it down? (good question, good thinking)
What is the number before? (ha ha nice try)
They don't start until 7 seconds. What is 1:34 - 7?
How many seconds in 2:34?
How many pieces of toast in 10 seconds?

The Gnu/Linux Adventure- What is that?

In celebration of open education...

The concept of open source and free sharing of technological information existed long before computers. For example, cooking recipes have been shared since the beginning of human culture.

For the rest of the term we will be looking at recipes as a part of our writing programme.

We would like any kids or teachers of any level of any schools or ECEs to post their favourite (inexpensive) recipe as a comment and we will try to replicate it for you. We will be filming our process and posting your recipes as a cooking show.

Many Thanks :)

Get Blogging

Child Labour / Labor

Today we discussed Child Labour in the context of chocolate production.
We discovered that:

Child labour means 'children that work'
They have no running water
They use Machetes and Hazardous equipment
Their houses are poor
The chocolate people tell lies
They hadn't eaten chocolate before
They have no electricity
They work hard (6am - 4pm)
They are our age
They have no sanitation
They dont see their families
They are not allowed to go to school

30 sec sunhat ads

Which ad do you like best?

Sun-Hat Ad Challenge

WALT - Script and Film a 30 sec ad for an authenitic purpose:

Now that it is after Labour Weekend it is Sunhat time at our school.

We are very busy today scripting our sunhat ads to share with the rest of the school. Watch this space ...

Our Favourite Things ... Chocolate?

We would like to know WHY ARE YOU USING THE KIDS TO MAKE CHOCOLATE FOR THE WORLD?

Here are the brands of chocolate we know:

Cadbury
Whittakers
Nestle

We will be checking ...

An important warning ...

PLEASE REMEMBER to write your name on your uniform.

Otherwise we have to watch Mrs T-J do THIS!!!!

Camera Operator - Jayden

Roots of Empathy - Communciation

Today Tanya came to school and talked to us about communication.

She read us a story about a girl who could not hear without her hearing aides. The story was called "A Screaming Kind of Day". The girl in the story felt frustrated with her brother and mother because she felt like they didn't understand her.

Babies communicate without using words. Nursery Rhymes are a good way to teach babies how to communicate.

While Tanya was here we made up some of our own Nursery Rhymes for Blake...

Here are some of our first attempts

Skyping

Today we are going to Skype a school in Geelong Australia. We have been looking at their blog this year and have noticed that there are small differences between NZ and Australia. We will be asking them some questions and making some statements.

Check out their latest news.

Immersion - Where is it from?

How is a cartoon made?



What do you think that this means? What questions do you have about this?

Nooroa's Alien Story

Last night I was in my room and then I saw a bright light out my window. I was surprised. It was my first time seeing an immense alien ship on the ground taking my family away from me. I was sad. I had noone to play with me. I was all by myself at home crying in my room. I had noone to cook for me.

Which miner first??

We watched this video and wondered how we could decide who should come out first...

Alphabetical Order (Moana)

The one with the most children (Taylor)

Skinniest to Fattest (Jesame)

Youngest to oldest (Laurielle)

Priority to the ones with a medical condition (Moana)

Long hair to short hair (Jesame)

Short to tallest (Ofa)

Ladies first (Jae)

Or play games!

Paper scissors rock

Pea-knuckle

Arm wrestle

Maths tiggy

BUT MARY WANTS TO KNOW WHY CANT THEY MAKE MORE ELEVATORS???

Financial Literacy

We are learning some financial words before we start our inquiry of "The Real Cost of Pets" (FIO)

Here are the ones we know:
NEEDS mean items you must have
WANTS what you would like but dont really need
DECISION selecting a choice
GOALS what you want to acheive
INCOME - Money you earn
CHOICES - Options you have before making a decision
SAVINGS - money you put away


Here are the tricky ones:

DEBT - what you owe other people
LOAN - money you borrow and have to pay back
CONSEQUENCES - what happens after a decision you make


We had a discussion about PROFIT - the children wondered if PROFIT was ILLEGAL

What do you think???

These are a few of our favourite things ...

Where are these from?

Tuseilda - My Elmo Sandles
Zanitha - My Rainbow's end Teddy Bear
Nelson - Halo (PS2 Game)
Conrad (PS 3)
Shannon - Sky tv
Tupou - (PS 3)
emma - My Jandles
Mrs T-J - My iPhone

Where is it from?

This term you are going to be exploring many of your favourite things.

It could be your favourite computer game, your favourite sport, your favourite food, your favourite ANYTHING!

Once you have chosen the thing you are going to explore you are going to find out for me:

WHERE IS IT FROM???

WHO MADE IT???

HOW MUCH DID THEY GET PAID???

WHAT IS THEIR WORK PLACE LIKE???

WHAT COULD THEIR HOME BE LIKE???

How can you tell other people about what you have discovered?

IS IT STILL YOUR FAVOURITE THING???

DEAR ROOM 12

Hi!

I have noticed our blog stats are going up and up over the holidays. I thought it might be you looking at it. If it is leave a comment and tell us what you are up to :)

Today I am off to meet Mrs Wills for coffee and I will get to see her new baby!

Remember if you are posting a comment from home or the library to post as name/url (see the picture below) only write your first name and leave url blank

Happy holidays!!!

Mrs T-J xx

culture groups

I'm a little bit nervous about the performance tonight because we are doing it in front of dozens of people.hopefully my boys can do the haka good

CULTURE GROUPS

OMG!!! I'm so scared of doing the dance in front of dozens of people .
hopefully Iget some money $

cook island

when i was there Mrs Wilson from room 9 was recording us while were dancing
but when we were finished we looked at the video and i said to my self
i need to fix my dancing when we were finished i said i can do it.

Jayden's cultural performance

Video taken by Mrs Wilson in Room 9
Here I am introducing the Cook Island Cultural group.
Who the? What the ,where the , yes ow yeah what is it? It is the culture festival i totally forgot about it. Did you know that it is tonight? That is so boring, no it is not! The cultural festival is about sharing your tradition with others like Samoa,Tonga,Fiji,Tahiti and Hawaii that brings us together and that is a symbol of life and that's the best thing you can ever have.

cutural festival

i think that cultural groups are a great way to interact with people and to learn about other cultures i bet that our cultural performance is going to be the best

jade, tuseilda and julia

here is the photo peach we made for you to watch answer our quiz

hope you enjoy it!!!

Nature shots on PhotoPeach

PIPA VISIT

PIPA came to our school! They played cool games with us and then we got to perform in front of each other. It was cool. We can't wait to see them again next term!!!

St Clair Wordle

What have we learnt about St Clair?

WEEK 10 NEWS!!!!!!

St Clair looks fun

1) what do you think St clair is like?

I think st clair is a place where there are alot of changes happening like bedford street-when they use to have candy shops and hairdresser shops and now they changed it to cafe's and houses.

2) what places look interesting?

The places that interesting to me is the camp store because I love lollies and ice blocks alot!

3)what would you do if you visited?

if i visited st clair i would first go to st clair and see what they have been learning in school and if they really are inspired by our blog.

4)do our post-cards make interested in our place?

yes because I can see how much fun you guys have in st clair!

St clair - by Emma

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I think St Clair is really nice (more than before) and I think that it has got more colour. I think that Esplanade is really a nice place. I like how its set. I would go to the beach and I would visit bedford street. I really like your post cards. It makes me want to go to the beach.

wow st clair

I think that St Clair is a great place to go because of the beaches and schools.

The things that look interesting are the before and after photos and the history

and the shopping centers

If I visited I would go to the beaches and then I would go to

the shop and get the 50 cent lollies.

Yes i haven't even been there and I all ready love the place.

St Clair - by Zanitha

What i can see about St Clair is that they have alot of lovely cafes and i love seeing heaps of cafes.
I think that the beach is very interesting to hang out at because I can see that st clair's beach is very calm.
If I would go to st clair to visit,the first place i'd go to is ....
St Clair's school because it looks very lovely.
yes, St Clair's post cards make me very interested and I think that my class will agree.

More postcards

i looked at the post card with the lifesavers. In the past they tied the rope to the life-savers but
now they get in a motor boat and rescue people.
i like the esplanade and the cafe and bars
are cool.
If i were there i would explore their neighbourhood.
by nelson

St Clair Post Cards

St Clair sounds like a cool place. It has lots of shops at the beach

It sounds like the beach is a cool place to go to because I love to go to the beach.

If I were there I would vist the...

Beach

St Clair school

Shops.

I am really interested now that i have seen the post-cards. I think My class will agree too.

Now there are lots of shops at the beach and the houses are new and fancy. But before there were not many shops at the beach - just houses

The houses were old and made of wood.

From Phoenix.

PS Thanks For the chocolate We will send you something back.

Green Screen

We made a green screen out of crepe paper...

St Clair's postcards

Hi St Clair School!
Your postcards arrived today.

Speak to you soon ...

Blake can do...

Term 3 Round-Up

Here is a slideshow made in PhotoPeach.

Some of the titles are quiz questions. Press the correct answer!

Term 3 Round-up on PhotoPeach

Old Oak Footage

Hi Room 12

I know that you think that the Oak tree will NEVER grow, but look what I found in my picture files ...

What month do you think this footage was taken?

EaRtH qUAkE!

What can you see in the picture?
How did it happen?
"What if ..."

The Leadership Club (T.L.C)

An exciting message from the leadership team!

The Oak Tree - Day 1 photographer Nelson

Today is the first day of Spring!

We are going to take a picture of our marvelous tall old oak tree that has been at our school for years. We will be taking a picture of it every day. We are hoping that we can put all the pictures into a movie so that you can see it grow!

"The Oak Tree is a great symbol of BMPS" - Jayden

Day 2 Photographer: Conrad


Day 3 Photographer: Zanitha

Day 4 Photographer: Julia


Day 5 Photographer: Jayden



Day 6 Photographer: Emma


Day 7 Photographer: RJ

Easi-speak mics

We are so excited and lucky because our easi-speak mics arrived today. It is taking us a while to get used to them but we have found that they will help us to have better sound on our news. There are heaps of other things that we will be doing with them as well... If your school has done something cool with them please let us know!

New Look news

We were inspired by our friends at BPS in Geelong, so we got out of the classroom and reported about the school, around the school!

Things could be worse

A shared story by Room 12


CRUNCH! I looked down and saw, to my horror, an abundant amount of tinsy winsy little spiraled cracked shells. They looked like a mozaic, but this was not art.

The little shells were moving in a pool of slimy goo. It looked like the inside of caramello chocolate but it was way more slimy and disgusting. The blood was melting down and spreading across the wet concrete.

I looked at my new white shiny hi-topped Nikes. There was slippery slime all over them. I felt sad and angry. Stupid snail, how dare you get in my way and ruin my new shoes.

But then I realized, the snail was far more worse off than me. The snail was DEAD. I started to think about the snail's family...

What if the snail was a kid? would its Mum and Dad be worried about it?

What if the snail was a mother? The babies would have no mother or food (unless they found their uncle or auntie).

What if the snail was about to get married? Would there be a confused snail wife wondering where her fiance was and what she had done wrong?

Suddenly I thought, I don't really care about my brand new shiny shoes. There are far more other people worse off!

Jayden's personal writing

My First Cut

By Jayden

Crash! Sling slice flop, aaahaaaah, blood racing down my leg like hungry gazelles reaching the tip of my toes. Everyone rushing down the stairs trying to see what happened. Blood spreading everywhere. It was like a blood pool. You could see the inside of my leg. My cousin laughing at me. My skin stuck on the carpet. All the pain and blood.

Round and round and round the bandage goes. I tip-toed up the stairs. Scrubber scrubber, scrubber everyone trying to get the blood stain off the carpet. Bounding, bending, blood spreading everywhere.

I could feel the cold blood surrounding me and whispering to me. The cold blood pool was like the water in Antarctica…

Voice Thread Activity

Click Here

Logan's Personal Writing

Vegez

By Logan

“Disgusting! Please don’t make me eat that!”.

Spat slip, little devils coloured orange, yellow and green. I quickly shoved the whole thing into my mouth. It tasted so yuck I almost vomited. I said I needed to go to the toilet. I ran quickly to the back door throwing the demon out of my mouth. As soon as I walked through the door my Mum said,

“How were your veges?”

I didn’t know what to do so I power-walked into the kitchen.

Six more little demons left to eat.

“I’m not finished yet…”

I was just sitting there looking at my food. I couldn’t stand it so I quickly ate it, chewing chewing. I suddenly swallowed it trying not to vomit.

“Finished!”

“How was it?” Mum said.

“It was delicious …”

Melville Intermediate's movie

Melville intermediate have made their movie :)

It looks great!

Good Luck Bradley!

Click here to see it

A message for our robbers...

Emotions - Roots of empathy

Getting in touch with our emotions. Thank you to Malakai for editing the titles on this film :)

Maths

How many rectangles can you find in this picture?

Can you calculate the perimeter and area of these shapes?

Bridge to Terabithia Quiz

We will be finished the Bridge to Terabithia this week. Check out these quizzes!

http://www.funtrivia.com/playquiz/quiz611307023b8.html .

http://www.quibblo.com/quiz/4GnBNK/How-well-do-you-know-Bridge-to-Terabithia

Voice Thread

Developing our thinking skills

Click Here

Roots of Empathy Blake is 7 months

Wow! Look how much Baby Blake has grown! He can lie on his front and he is NEARLY crawling!

He showed us how he can display many more emotions now. When babies cry it is interesting to see how other people around them react. There were many emotions going on in our class when Blake was upset!

When he felt safe he showed us how clever he is getting. He managed to get a toy out of the fishtank. We were so impressed with his learning and we can't wait to see him again!

Melville Intermediate School's Maths Problem

Today in Maths we had a look at Melville Intermediate School's Problem: Here it is... Here is our video for them

Our Book

This week we made a book about nature in Otara. The first thing we did was get a camera and we turned it on and put in on zoom. We took close-up pictures of things at BMPS. We had fun taking the pictures. Then we downloaded the photos onto the computer. We put the pictures on powerpoint.

Here it is

Can you guess the emotion? 2

How about this one?

Can you guess the emotions?

We are demonstrating some emotions - can you guess which ones?

Nooroa and voice thread

Check this out

Personal Writing

Hi Room 12

We are going to have a go at some Personal Writing this term. Check out this new presentation tool that Mrs T-J has been playing with today ...

It's REALLY cool!!!

World Cup Facts

This week Mrs T-J was away in Christchurch so we are doing some research on the world cup.

Our mission is to make a mini-world cup report about the countries in NZs World Cup group (Group F).

We can work on our own or in 2s or 3s.

We are presenting our project as a poster.

It must include the following:

What are the names of the countries NZ played in the 2010 world cup?

Using the Atlas’s what do the flags look like (colours etc) for these countries

Using the internet (or your parents knowledge for homework) What were the scores of the games

NZ vs Italy

NZ vs Slovakia

NZ vs Paraguay

Complete the word-search and include it in our poster

Find any other interesting facts and include them in our poster.

Some Facts We Have Found So Far are ...

There was not world cup in 1942 and 1946 because of the World war (Rionne via Emma)

David Beckham's Favourite food in the USA is Chicken and Waffles (Wiremu)

I learned that NZ drew all their games in this world Cup (Mele)

Brazil got to get the original World Cup Trophy because they won it 3 times in a row (Rionne)

The Allwhite uniform was made by Nike (Tuseilda)

Jeremiah's reading adventure

Jeremiah :-)

I like fish and this is the way we catch them.

The exhibition

We Framed It!
We Appreciated It!
WE EXHIBITED IT!

WE OWNED IT!

Outlining in Black

16 June

Art intensive Monday 14 June

Art intensive learning.

Shannon finds a how-to-sketch programme (he found ferns and kiwis)


Yesterday we learned to use chalk before we paint, because when you paint over pencil you can still see the lines but when we paint over chalk it melts.

Today we were researching on the computers for kiwiana symbols. We enjoyed looking at the beautiful pictures and symbols of kiwiana. We saw Hokey Pokey ice cream, Pavlova, Kiwi fruit, Kiwi, L&P bottles, gumboots, jandals, buzzy bee, rugby ball, pohutakawa trees, marae, paua shells and the NZ map.

We found a movie on how to draw a kiwi, and how to draw a silver fern.

We learnt how to make cold colours and warm colours in our dye wash. The warm colours were red and orange and the cold ones were blue and green.

Art Intensive

This week we are doing an Art Intensive. We are learning about Aboriginal Art. The theme of our Art Intensive is Kiwiana so we are mixing them together.

We have made a dye wash for our backgrounds and we are learning (by making HEAPS of mistakes) how we would like our final piece to look.