What will the Earth be like in 100 years?

Let's go on a ride into the future! Last week we all started thinking about what the earth would be like in 100 years. We could represent what we thought through art, writing, movies, models and booklets.

Reuse Part 3

Here is the final episode of our reuse creations! We had a lot of fun sharing and showing our fantastic inventions. Every single person in our classroom presented their creation and we all did an amazing job!

Reducing, Reusing and Recycling in Raglan

On Thursday the 24th May 2012 we all arrived at school at 8am sharp. We were off to Raglan for the day to find out about how to reduce, reuse and recycle our waste. We were put into different groups to go to different places around Raglan. We picked up rubbish on the beach, went to the XtremeWaste Recycling centre, walked around town looking for things that had been reused and went to visit an artist called Chris Meek that reuses things to make his creations. We all especially enjoyed visiting the artist and going to the Waste centre. There were lots of things to see and learn about.

Reuse, Reuse, Reuse continued...

A week ago, as you may know, we were given homework about reusing our home waste. Some people turned them in early and have shared them. There were some pretty creative ideas. You may have seen some these in part 1 of reuse, reuse, reuse and now we have more creative ideas to share! The pictures say it all.

Reuse, Reuse, Reuse!

For our topic this term we have had to make creations with waste from our homes. We have had very creative ideas so far from light bulbs to plastic boats. We came up with our own ideas and then put our plans into action. We will be making all sorts of things this term where we reuse waste materials.

 

 

 

 

Disco Time!

Our ear drums felt the loud music! From Annie to Blueberries to Cats, there were a lot of different costumes at our disco last week.  The theme was ABC and you could go as anything that started with those letters. We played lots of games and got special prizes. Five people from our classroom got prizes for freeze game, best dressed and for really cool dance moves. We all loved dancing away to the music.

Feel the Rhythm

Boom boom bang the drums went wild as we walked into the TCC. Today we were going to a show called Rhythm Interactive! Heaps of drums were waiting for us to play them. When we looked up on stage there were lots of different instruments. We listened to the instructors Rhythm and then we would copy it. His name was Johnny and his assistant was called Lucy. For some of us it was one of the first times we had ever been on drums. We felt excited as we drummed away! Our hands started to get a bit sore because we had been banging so hard on the drums. Our whole class really enjoyed the drumming experience.

Yuk! Household Waste!

Waste, waste, waste, it is filling up our landfills! Hey have you ever thought of what happens to your house hold waste? It goes in to a stinky horrible landfill.
In class we got into groups,and found our most commonly used piece of household waste. We found that our most commonly used piece of household waste was Milk bottles and Newspaper, it was good that we could recycle both of these items! You can reuse lots of things like... Milk bottles, newspaper,Plastic bags, Tomato sauce bottles and much much, more!

"REDUCE REUSE COMPOST AND RECYCLE 'CAUSE LANDFILLS ARE STINKY AND BAD FOR US ALL!!!"

We made this chart together that shows what kinds of Waste we have in our homes. The ones that are circled are the ones that we found to be the most common.

Bashing Ballistic Badminton

As we were walking down the path towards the TCC we all wondered what was in store for us! Wow, we were going to play Badminton! We sat down and met Tracey, she was a professional Badminton player. She has even represented Great Britain in the Olympics! After our introductions she told us to get a shuttle and start hitting it around. We tried to hit it as many times as we could without it touching the ground. After that she set a challange. We were to come up with a trick to do with the racket and the shuttle or balloon. Next she challenged us to a rally with a partner which made us all concentrate very hard.

It was a lot of fun playing Badminton with Tracey today!

War

'' Boom'' Tank engines rattle as torpedos are charged through the gloomy fog.
Blood splatters as soldiers flop and fall in wartery mud pits or cruel barb wire.
 Planes make deafening sounds as they bomb the battle feild.
 Gunpowder fills the air as guns fight furiously.
I fear my life is over.

By Hannah-Rose

A Poem of War

I am a soldier
I can smell that repulsive stew we have to eat
I can hear terrifying screams from my former trench mates
I can see death right before my eyes
I can touch fresh blood seeping from my wounds
I can taste the biscuits my wife and children sent me
I can sense sorrow the air is full of it
I can feel the letter I am reading over and over again
War is horror war is death

By Kate

Rippa Rugby

On Friday the 4th of May 2012 4 people from Miro 13 left school to go to a Rippa Rugby tournament at Hautapu Rugby club. We had 3 school teams - the A, B and C teams. Each team had 4 heat games and then semi final games. Team A and Team C made it into the semi finals. Team A didn't make the finals becasue they got knocked out by Cambridge Primary. Team B won 1 of their games in the heats, ALysha got a try though! Team C won 3 and lost 1 of their heat games. In the semi finals they beat St Peters Catholic and went on to play Cambridge Primary in the final. The score was 6-4 to us!

Save the Monarch Butterflies!

Mrs Goodwin came into our class and talked to us about the Monarch Butterflies in our school garden. They are dying and aren't able to make their chrysalis' because it is too cold outside. We brought them inside to keep them away from the cold. There are lots and lots of caterpillars and they are going everywhere.
We found some jars to recycle and put the swan plants in them. After saving the caterpillars we wrote down what we already knew about caterpillars and what we want to find out. We have lots of questions about them.