should the onc-ler chop down trees

I strongly believe that the once-ler should not be allowed to chop down trees.Because it is harmful to the people who live there, and it causes pollution and there will be no oxygen.

Firstly it is harmful to the people who live there can you imagine if somebody destroyed your property? You won't have food and shelter because it has been taken away.

Secondly it causes pollution. Do you think it is alright if your lake, river or sea was polluted? You could probably die! Pollution makes water poisoness and yucky.

Thirdly there will be no oxygen because trees provide oxygen and with no oxygen you will die.

Therefore i strongly believe that the once-ler should NOT chop down trees Because it is harmful to the people who live there, and it causes pollution and there will be no oxygen.

wiremus broken thumb

This happened by me playing soccer on Friday.It was from me standing on the
soccer ball and falling over and landing on.It is badly bruised and the nurse told
me that it was broken too.She said that one of the bones had a crack in it.My dad
was very sad because i have basketball for my school next week and he was looking
forward to seeing me play.I have to have the cast on for 4 weeks.

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

EaRtH qUAkE!

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

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!

Never Shake a baby

Today in Roots of Empathy we learned to Never Shake a Baby. Tanya showed us why by shaking an egg in a jar. We learned that a baby's brain is like the egg yolk. If you shake it, it gets damaged. By Emma

Times tables buddies

What do you think?
Are they cheating?
These buddies are learning different things at the same time - what are they?

Roots Of Empathy

We have started Roots of Empathy!

Here are some photos of our first session with Tanya...

Shannon practicing his baby hold

The Green Blanket that Blake and Miss B will sit on.

After Tanya left we were so excited that Miss B and Blake would be coming to visit us next week. We made some videos especially for Miss B...

Mele and Siaga

Sarah and Jade

Wiremu, Logan and Shannon

For more information on the Roots of Empathy programme click here: http://www.rootsofempathy.org/Intl.html

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Reflections:

Wiremu and Logan. Our voices were clear. We needed to manage ourselves better so that it made more sense.

Sarah and Julia. We wrote a good story. We need to speak louder.

Mele and Mereana. We think we need to speak louder. It was sad that there were people not listening propery in the background.

Siaga and Emma. Siaga had a good loud voice. We both need to look at the camera.

More Oral Language

Today we practised presenting to the webcam. We are going to use our footage to reflect upon:

• what we are already good at
• what we can do to get better

Self Portraits

Mrs J says "Great use of colour here. I love your nose!"

"Wonderful background here. You have managed yourselves very effectively and the results speak for themselves!"

"I love your pony-tail. That must have been very hard to do with a touch-pad mouse!"

"Fantastic eyes - a great use of the paint shape tool!"

"Fabulous hair and fabulous Mainfreight M!"


Beautiful sky effect! Fantastic teeth!

Here are some of our self-portraits using Microsoft Paint

Research Skills - Sharks

Some of us saw JAWS on TV so we decided to research Sharks. We are making 'mini research projects' using SMARTboard software. We are looking for facts about our chosen shark's habitat, food and enemies. We are also learning to add animated gifs to our presentations.