Fantastic Fact!

Have a look at this weeks fact!

Parrots and Rabbits can see behind them without
looking behind them!

Amazing!

Stay Tuned!

I-Clean

It was a very normal day, we were doing maths when “Hannah, go and tell Miss Hughes that we are having an very important pod meeting and to drop everything and come to room 17” When everyone one was in room 17, Miss Davies  put us one I-Chat with a very important man from The Apple Bus Tour called Stuart Hale this is what he said “ Anawhata pod, I have had a look around the school and I don’t think it is looking to good. Your mission is to get it looking nice and good!” So that was that, we were going to clean up the school within one day.


First we had to get into our star groups then put two star groups together to make super groups!
After that we got to choose what part of the school we wanted to clean up, my group chose to clean up the gardens.
We then had to make a action plan and organise who will bring what and what would we would need.
The day after that it was Friday the I-Clean day! It was a lot of work but in the end we got there. It looked great in the end!
Mission complete!

Uni on Wheels!

For Uni on Wheels I did Forensic Science, Meet the Great Artists and Word Wizardry. We did all of the classes in the school prefabs. For Forensic Science we were studying crime scenes and we had groups to work in my group was Courtney, Aashay, Lisa and I. For Word Wizardry we worked on the history of language.  And last of all I did the Meet the Great Artists! It did not go the way I thought it would cause most of it was history and a bit of art! I thought it all was so fun and would do it again! 

The thing I liked about it was that it was so fun and I learnt so so much! 

I loved it and felt really happy that I was doing uni on wheels, 

but to be honest I got board at some bits!

Annie

On Monday the 6th of September 2010 the Anawhata pod went to a production of Annie at Henderson Intermediate School. We got their by bus, the bus was bigger than normal because it had a bendy bit in the middle! Once we had got there we were greeted by the head of the school and lead into the school hall. We got seated in big rows, I was lucky because I sat next to my friends and I was in the front so I could see the most! Annie is an old movie taken place in 1982 and it is about a group of sad orphans; Annie, Molly, Kate, Tessie, Duffy, July and pepper. Annie is the one who most wanted to get out of the orphanage so she trys to run away but gets caught, but to her advantage she gets invited to spend the christmas withy a very rich man called Mr Wallbucks. To find out what happens you will have to watch the movie but it is a really good musical!

Fire! Fire! Fire!

Thursday 21st October 2010

"Come on guys get FIREWISE!"
Was my class, room 17's reaction to our teacher Miss Davies telling us that we were going to learn about fire safety. We had a big brain-storm about different types of fire, how a fire can start, what to do in a fire and firewise tv ads! This is what we learnt:

1. Get low, get down, get out!
2. That the smoke from a fire can kill you
3. Make sure your family has a fire meeting spot
4. Call 111 for help
5. Don't grab all your toys and things! Just get yourself out

And heaps more...

Today the Henderson Fire Men came to our school to teach our pod about fire safety. They came and
showed us a slide show about how fast a fire can spread and showed us what to do in a fire.

Once all of the talking was done we got too see the fire truck and have a go spraying the hose.
One of the fire men got on top of the truck and used the big hose and sprayed the whole school car park, one poor man was getting out of his car and got really wet!

Fantastic Facts

Hi Everybody!

I am now going to have a Fantastic Fact every week! Have a look at this weeks fact!

The most dangerous animal in the world is the common housefly. Because of their habits of visiting animal waste, they transmit more diseases than any other animal.

Stay tuned for next weeks!

Hoani Waititi Marae trip

On the 28 of June  2010  Anawhata  and  Piha  went to  The  Hoani Waititi Marae. We did this for our term 2 topic, Maori.

When we got to the Marae  the Kuia did a special Karanga  to welcome us in. When we got in the Marae the Tangata Whenua, Mr Morris and Mr Cross  did their special mihimihi, to support that we did ou two songs: Te Whenua o Raumati and Ka Waiata.

When we were at the Marae we learnt a game called Nga Whitu. Nga Whitu is a game where you count up to 7 in Maori and make actions for the numbers, it is a really  good way to learn how to count in Maori! We were told three Maori ledgens and were given colouring-in sheets to colour in about the Maori Ledgens. Overall I learnt at lot at the Marae and had heaps of fun!!!!