Frankton Primary School - A ROOM 15 superstar singing Ave Maria

Here's our item!!

So on Monday we performed our item for production.  Lots of room for improvement but a good start and we've been receiving good reviews.

What do you guys think??  How'd you feel before you went on?

What is the SURFER or DOLPHIN thinking??

Post your fabulous ideas in the comments section!  Have a great weekend team.  Mr. D

INDIAN PAPER ART!!!

On Thursday we had Mr. Kumar from Jaipur, India come and visit our class.  He showed us some amazing designs you could do with just a few rolls us tissue paper.  I will get some newspaper on the weekend and we will see if you guys can make them next week.  Here's a photo of them.  We bought tons of those booklets so if you make one this weekend, take a picture and email it to me at:  cdaily@franktonschool.ac.nz



Yeehaw Grandma, what a great time to be in Room 15!!

Food for Thought

Heyyyy team

Here's us at Pak n Save with Andy. She was super friendly and knew a lot about the foods we should eat Everday and Occasional foods. What are some of the things you learnt during her visits or our trip to the supermarket??

GOOD BYE SAHAR!!! Best of luck on your new adventure!!!! :)

On Friday, we said "See you later" to Sahar before her big move to Iraq.  We wish her and her family our best wishes and hope that she can stay in touch on our blog.

Look how GREAT we look DREAM TEAM, what a fantastic looking class!

Bonus: What are some captions you can give these pictures?

So, how's your holidays?

I'm in the middle of a South Island adventure, doing some fun snowboarding and looking at some fantastic scenery. Here I am at a place called Lake Ohau on a ski lift. Let the Dream Team know what your up to and what's a highlight of your holidays so far. 

Be safe and have fun!! 

What could these keas be saying?

Hey Dream Team! 

I'm down in Wanaka (do you know where that is? If not, look it up!) and I took this pic of some awesome keas looking at some majestic scenery. What do you think they could be saying to each other?? 

Ps. If you don't know what 'majestic' means, look it up as well :)

Sound of the Week

Can you think of words that end in ND??  Try to put your words into sentences!!

WRITING!!

I know we are a class of AUTHORS and some of you just love writing.  Here is an opportunity for you to write some stories on the internet over the holidays.  I will post a few more things since I have my laptop back working.  We are using the picture from Ruapehu's Eruption a few years ago.  I have shown you in class how to use it.   

Remember - Read the hook, put your name and then hit ENTER a few times and start writing your story.  Make sure you:

- Don't forget your full stops
- match your spelling to the sounds you hear in a word
- have fun!


CLICK ME, CLICK ME!!!

What an interesting village!

Hey team

Check out this very interesting village in the Netherlands. 

Giethorn, Netherlands

It would a very interesting place to visit or maybe live one day.  

Get your thinking caps on:

What would be different about your life if you lived in this village?

What would be some of the positives OR negatives about living in a village like this?

Let us know what you think in the comments sections!!

Hang on a second...

What do you see?  There's two different options.

Room 15 - Whanau Awhina Video

Hey Dream Team!!

Check out our amazing video we did for the Whanau Awhina Evening we had on 27 June.  It is so cool that we can sing so many waiata without the backing music.  Wow, we really are the DREAM TEAM!!

Tell us what you think in the comments sections.

Check this guy out!!!

This is the feat of the day.

Do you think he was right or wrong to do this??

Was this a good idea??  Why or why not??

CHUNK of the Week

Hereee's the CHUNK of the week!

Can you come up with some words that have this CHUNK??  Then put those words into sentences.  :)

Commonly Misspelt Words

Here's round 2 of COMMONLY MISSPELT WORDS!

There will be a test on Friday.  Good luck!

What could these dogs be saying to each other??

Here's your chance to show us that you  know how speech marks work.  

Can you think of something funny/interesting that these dogs might be saying to each other? 

What's happening here?

Can you guys guess what's happening in this picture? Use your imagination: fiction and non-fiction guesses are acceptable. (Fictional is encouraged!!)

Picture description time!

Can you describe what's happening in this picture in an EXCITING way?? Go!!

MATARIKI!!

Come on people, our Matariki post is looking pretty lonely.  Can we add to it?  Lets see if we can get to 10 more additional facts!!


Lets see if you're up to the challenge.

Game 6 Highlights - Who's winning GAME 7 tomorrow?

Massive Game 7 tomorrow.  Who's going to win? Predictions go in the comments section.

Part 2: Are these lines straight??

Are these lines straight?

Another optical illusion.  Have a close look at these grey lines.  Are they straight?

What's another word for jump?

Here's the slam dunk contest of 1987.  Yes that's a super long time ago.  (Hey, not that long ago, I was still a kid.)

Some say that this is the best SLAM DUNK competition ever and where the name Nike Air Jordan's came from.

Can you come up with another word for JUMP in the comments section?

CHALLENGE:  What are some other VERBS you can use to describe what is happening in this picture?

A BIG call for some BIG men...

In the comments section of the picture of Michael Jordan, Roy has made the big call that Lebron James is better than Kobe.  After watching this video on YouTube, its hard to argue.  

HAVE A LOOK!!

In an EXCITING sentence can you describe what is happening in this video in the comments section??

CHUNK of the WEEK!!

In the comments section, can you write a sentence with a word that has -ION in it.  Try to add a few words.

VOCABULARY -- SPELLCITY

Here's a really cool website to practise your spelling words.  You put your words into the list on the left and pick an activity right below it.  

CLICK ME, CLICK ME!!

COMMONLY MISSPELT WORDS!

This the first post of our new weekly series of COMMONLY MISSPELT WORDS.  

Practice these at home,  we'll see how you go on Friday with a test.  

How many can you get right the first time?

Count Again

This is harder than it looks. 

National Geographic for Kids

Over on FUN STUFF, I put up the link for National Geographic for kids.  Its a very cool website with fun quizzes, word searches and lots of other AWESOME stuff.


GO OVER TO FUN STUFF AND CHECK IT OUT!

Colours, Colours

Strop Effect

Check out this cool website about how we see and read colours.

HERE IT IS!


Go to RUN EXPERIMENT.  There's two parts to the test.  Make sure you read the first part out loud and then hit FINISH (write down your time).  Then go to CONTINUE EXPERIMENT and the board will change.  Compare your times.  The second board should be much harder.

Sid vs Max vs Dryer (Reebok Commercial)

Here's that really cool video we watched on Friday about Sydney Crosby, a famous and very talented hockey player from Canada.  (obviously)

What is something that we can learn from this commercial/video?  Is there an activity or game that you can think of that could help you in the same way?

Matariki - What a good time for a celebration!

On Friday morning, we learnt a little bit about Matariki.  Here is a something we wrote as a class:

Has anybody learnt anything new about Matariki?  Please share in the comments section!!

Here's a helpful link about Matariki if you wanted to learn some new things:     CLICK ME!!!

Counting the Fs - Its harder than you think.

Let us know how you go in the comments section.

Face to Face

Here's a little trick of the eye, how many faces can you see in this photo?  Tricky tricky :)  I look forward to reading your comments!

What is this pug thinking??

In the comments section, write 1-2 sentences on what this pug could be thinking??

Who's this? Why's he such a famous athlete?

Have a look at some of his videos if you have the chance.  He was quite the SUPERSTAR of his time.

WELCOME TO ROOM 15'S BLOG

Hi there,

Welcome to our blog!  If this is the first time you have visited our site please go to the CYBER SAFETY section of our blog to have a read.  Make sure you have your PARENT'S PERMISSION to be on here.  Have a look around.  

It will be added to regularly.  Please check back!

Cheers, have a nice day
Mr. D

CHUNK of the WEEK

For our very first chunk of the week it is:

In the Comments section, can you write a sentence with a word that has UNK in it.  Try to add a few words.

So Chris Hadfield has finally returned to earth.  You can still keep updated with him on his TWITTER account.  He keeps posting some of the 1000s of amazing photographs he took while in space.


Here's the link to his Twitter account.

Also here's a page with FAQs (frequently asked questions) from the Canadian Space Agency that is really interesting.  (Click on the picture).

http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/astronauts/qa.asp

In the comments section, share a thought about what you think of Chris's adventure.  

FROG TEST

Are you a good problem solver??  Here's an oldie but a goodie.  Something you can challenge your parents and friends on.  Have a read of the instructions and have a go!

Enjoy
CD

Link for the FROG website

Come on in for some HANGMAN!

Here is a great website for some hangman if you wanted to practise your spelling.

HERE'S THE LINK FOR HANGMAN :)

Hey team,

Chris Hadfield is living in space.  He is on the internet a lot and posts a lot of pictures from the International Space Station (ISS).  Have a look at what he's been up to.  There's tons of cool videos if you're interested in space.

Cheers

Chris Hafield's Facebook page(this is a link, put your mouse over it and click)