Keshavleen and Eleanor both entered their work into the Lion's Peace Poster competition.
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| Keshavleen's winning poster. |
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| Eleanor's poster |
Wednesday 26 October 2016
Tuesday 25 October 2016
Introduction to What is Happening in Our World and the Need to be Sustainable
As a class, we watched this video to understand via a cartoon, the need for us as humans to be more aware and be sustainable in our actions with our planet.
The students were warned beforehand that there may be some points that they did not like.
It is the basis from which, we all need to be more aware of our actions and apply sustainable ones to everything that we do.
Monday 24 October 2016
Room 17 in the Beatles Pose After a Visit to the Havelock North Library
Room 17 Students, Nimon Street, Havelock North, 2016.
We were just returning from an EOTC experience at the Havelock North Library when the opportunity arose for a replica of the Beatles pose while crossing the road.
As many of the students were reading whilst walking back to school, it seemed apt to have a copy produced, of the famous photo.
No traffic was stopped in the production of this shot!
It was actually a very valuable experience going to the library as everyone learnt something about the resources and opportunities that the library provided for young people. Lynette, the librarian was very informative in sharing facts about our valuable community resource.
The library is more than just a place to source books, it is a community asset.
Everyone came back with a new book to read and share with others
| The Beatles, Abbey Road, England, 1969, |
Friday 14 October 2016
Changemakers in Action
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| Emilie, Dr Horsfall, Janice and Keshavleen after the assembly. |
As part of their Changemakers Inquiry task, Emilie, Keshavleen and another student were raising awareness of Cranford Hospice and the need to support it.
The three girls have visited the Hospice and the Cranford Hospice shop to find out what happened at the Hospice and how they could help it out.They then asked students and teachers at HNI for donations which they will take to the Hospice shop.
In order to inform the students, teachers and parents at HNI, they shared a presentation at this week's assembly. Janice, the manager of Cranford Hospice and Dr Horsfall were present at the assembly as well.
The girl's next step is to take the donations to the Hospice Shop and to find other ways that they can support it.
It has certainly been a huge learning curve for the girls during their inquiry-based programme.
Monday 10 October 2016
Further Science Fair Projects from Room 17
Thank you to these students for sharing their projects with us.
There has been some detailed work and reflection gone into their presentations
The above project was based from a technological perspective as the student saw a need the could be resolved. Her mother had dry hands and needed a moisturizer that could fix the problem. This was created and was used. That is how a science fair project can be recognised as a science or technology-based research.
HNI Science Fair Project Entry
Keshavleen's science fair project was chosen to go into the HNI school section. Hers was selected as she had followed the set criteria in the science fair programme. She had carried out fair testing and researched her topic well. Science does not sit alone without maths and Keshavleen applied her maths alongside her science work to anaylyse her data.
Many of the students in Room 17 who carried out their investigations also applied maths and science extremely well.
Back to Front Poems
BACK TO FRONT POEMS
These poems are read down the page and then back up again.
the meaning changes as the reader moves down and back up the lines.
Everyone in the class was asked to choose a topic and then set out their poem as the criteria shows alongside their work.
The next step is to publish to the poem alone, without the numbers and frame surrounding it.
Have a read of the poems and enjoy the turn around in meaning.
Thanks to Emilie, George and Bec for your poems.
Format
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Poem by Emilie
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And now read this up from the bottom.
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Soccer training is absolutely pointless.
No one will ever say
It is amazing and improve your skills
It helps me get really fit
Thats a lie!
If it starts raining then everyone's hands freeze up
It just starts to get boring doing the same thing every practise.
While everyone is practising their stretches and routines everyone's legs start to hurt
What's great about it?
No one wants to repeat a boring shuttle run every Thursday or the same exact routine every week.
Why would you say?
It helps you to learn the rules
It just bores everyone to death
Don’t you ever tell me
Soccer Practise is important.
George
The beach is horrible
No one will ever say
It's a great way to great
Spend the day
that's a lie!
Its windy
It's wet
It's really cold
What's great about it
It's a bad way to spend a day
Why would you say?
Waters a great experence.
Don't you ever tell me
The beach is important.
Bec
Sunday 9 October 2016
Class Examples of Their Own Uncle Tu Poems
A wide range of ideas, vibrant vocabulary and specific language were required for this task. The students were all encouraged to use 'Show Not Tell' as well with their writing. The following examples contain some of all of these. Kate, Em and Eleanor have created poems while Josh's is formated slightly differently, but the ideas are clearly just the same.
Have a read and enjoy the writing that is happening in Room 17.
Sir Rodney Gallien
Have a read and enjoy the writing that is happening in Room 17.
Sir Rodney Gallien
If you want to see him
Go to the lake
With foot prints in the sand
And trees slouching in the gale
He is like that
If you want to see him
Look in the school
With kids needing help
Thirsty and lonely
He is like that
If you want to see him
Go to the court house
With wooden benches
Harsh judgment
And new beginnings
He is like that
If you want to see him
go to the cottage
Overlooking The lush bush
With the constant chorus
of the birds
He is like that
If you want to see him
go to the highs peak
With hair of white snow
Pesing blue lakes
Sparkling like eyes
He is like that.
Kate
Cousin Hazel
If you want to see her go to the beach.
Small footprints on the shore
Waves lumbering up the sand, wet.
Trees dancing with the wind.
A fledgling learning to fly
She is like that.
If you want to see her go to the top of the smallest slide.
Look down the smooth slip and off the end.
Find the grass at the bottom,
The eyes of watery mud, lips soft as marshmallows.
Her soft, milky skin, cheeks brushed with pink.
The face of spring.
She is like that
If you want to see her go outside.
The trees frolicking, the rain starting to play.
A ball springing up and down.
A tui flying swiftly home.
A lively puppy.
She is like that
If you want to see her go to her room.
See the toys tossed out along the floor.
Watch the wind-up toys coming to a stop.
The curtains dropping shut,
watch the rain and dark sky disappear behind them.
See her teddy tucked up warmly, sound asleep.
She is like that
By Eleanor
If you want to see her go to her room.
See the toys tossed out along the floor.
Watch the wind-up toys coming to a stop.
The curtains dropping shut,
watch the rain and dark sky disappear behind them.
See her teddy tucked up warmly, sound asleep.
She is like that
By Eleanor
MARGARET Name ommitted.
If you want to meet her, go to the pebbled beach.
Have a picnic, search for smooth, colored sea glass.
And she will be there.
If you want to see her, just knock on the door of her house,
she will greet you with a neighbourly smile.
Look around the block; spot the red and white polka dotted figure in the distance, walking towards you;
Instantly, you will be reminded of minnie mouse.
Watch over cautiously, as the veggies in the pot turn soggy.
Witness the kindness she has towards children and people.
Share her smile, as she tells the stories of playing with her sisters as a girl.
You have just met my nana.
Em
Uncle George
You can see the thick, bushy forest laying on top of his head. The hairs spurting all about in random places as is he had just rubbed a balloon on his head. The jungle continues down onto his legs with the vines sticking out of his skin. Get him to make a face and you will see the little wrinkles appear on his cheeks and his face will scrunch up like a prune.
‘He is like that.’
I you want to see him, look up, way up above the thick, white clouds and you will see the towering giant standing above the short stubby dwarfs. Watch his colossal legs lunge towards the bulbous football, as he get’s ready to slam it into the goal. You will see him duck underneath doorways, so he doesn’t end up with an obese lump ontop of his forehead.
‘He is like that.’
Go to the snow and you will see him, slipping and sliding at speed down the mountain, on board of his long, slim snowboard. If you don’t find him there, go on a long, treacherous journey to infamous house. If you look through the transparent windows you will see him all comfortable sitting down in front of his T.V, he should have a controller in his hands…
‘He is like that.’
If you want to hear him, listen, your ears should be filled with the sound of his voice, he should be babbling out immature jokes at his friends. They won’t be laughing. You will hear him talking in different voices all of the time, one moment he sounds posh, the next he sounds Australian. But behind all of this weird behaviour there is a brainy kid who his as smart as a carrot. I don’t know if carrots are smart but…
‘He is like that.’
Josh
Interpreting the Poem, 'Uncle Tu
This is Dylan's interpretation of Glenn Colquhoun's poem, Uncle Tu.
After reading and responding to this poem, the class was then asked to create their own relating to a person they know or knew.
Uncle Tu
Glenn Colquhoun
Walt: interpret figures of speech in a poem.
If you want to see him go to a river,
Look under the round water. Yellow= Personification
Find the rock carved bluntly. Blue= Similes
It should be greenstone. Red= Metaphor
Green= Word I don’t know
Its eyes may swim to the surface like fish.
He is like that.
If you want to see him go to the top of a mountain.
Look down through the clouds.
Find the ground’s face.
This is Personification because the ground doesn't actually have a face
The eyes made of water. The volcanic nose.
This is Personification because water don’t have eyes
His bush lips and unshaven stubble.
Find the deep lines that a stream makes-
the skull of rock at his temples blown smooth
by wind and rain and the falling of trees.
This is a mixture of Personification and a Metaphor because rocks don’t have a skull.
The immediate distance.
He is like that.
If you want to see him, go to a church.
The walls should be made of wood.
The pews will be oak.
Stand inside on the smooth floor.
Breathe in the smell of the polish.
Wait for the bell to be rung.
Listen to the strong sound of the hammer on the iron.
It should be clear.
He is like that.
If you want to see him go to a place where treasure is kept.
Stand over a glass box.
Look inside for things that are worn.
The blunt tiki.
The smooth handle on a walking stick.
The old korowai sleeping
with a head tucked beneath her feathers.
Find the stone mere chipped around the edges.
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And he is like that.
Definition for words I don’t know
Stubble: Short, Stiff hairs growing on a man’s face when he has not shaved for a while
Immediate: Occurring or done at once basically instant.
Korowai: A korowai is a cloak with feathers and tassels.
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