Avatar Maker

Shayla, Emma, and Ellie from Kahikatea hub showed Room 1 how to create their own avatar and add cool text. Most of the students found this easy and lots of fun.

Replying to Comments

In this activity I was learning how to reply to blog comments. In this slideshow you will be able to find out for yourself what a reply must, should and could include. Please check out other student's blogs from Room 1's.

Quality Blog Comments

Anglea has been teaching us that blog comments need to be positive, thoughtful and helpful. Taya was the first to finish her comments on four student's blogs in our class. Check out the comments that she made on each of her four blog posts and make a comment. As soon as the rest of the class has completed their quality blog comments they will be uploaded to their blog also.

Taya's Speech - Bullying

Room 1, Room 2, Room 14, Room 12 and Room 11 have been performing poems and speeches in anticipation for our Speech and Poem Recital Week 2, Term 4, Wednesday at 11am. Everyone is welcome to attend. Here is one of Room 1's Year 4 speeches.  Great speech Taya.

 Speech Cards
 P.1 let’s go and punch her because she’s smart’’. ‘‘ let’s go put a kick me sign on her back like we did yesterday’’. Hi my name is Taya and I have one question for you Have you ever been bullied? Bullying is when you or a group repeatedly say or do things hurtful to another person.

P.2 Bullying is an unhealthy habit to get into because if your hurting a person it could damage their life. There are many types of bullying today I’m going to talk about four kinds of bullying. Cyber bullying, Physical bullying, Verbal bullying and social bullying.

P.3 Cyber bullying is when you can get hold of a strangers or a person you knows email or cell phone number and start writing and sending hurtful comments. Those comments can make a person feel bad about themselves.

P.4 Another type of bullying is physical bullying which is when you hurt another person on purpose. This includes kicking, hitting, spitting, tripping, pinching and even frightening another person. If a bully does that to you, you could get badly injured.

P.5 The next one is verbal bullying. This is where you get name called all the time. It may be a nickname that someone gives you that they think is funny but it actually really hurts your feelings. Being called a name one two many times can hurt you more than a punch or a hit.

P.6 Lastly is social bullying. This is when you or groups ignore or leave me out on purpose. When you do that it leaves me feeling lonely and as if I have no friends.

P.7 sometimes these types of bullying can happen all at once like if I hit you and call you names. Remember if someone does that to you or someone you know then you should stand up to them by telling a person you trust like your parents or even your teacher.

P.8 If you let bullying go on it changes you. You become sadder and can affect the way you sleep, eat and get along with others. You may stop doing the things you used to enjoy and you may stop doing your best work at school.

P.9 In serious cases a you may feel so bullied that you change schools or you may think about attempting suicide. I hope you have learnt something from my speech and that you will think about the way you treat others.

A Huhu Grub in my Sandwich

A Huhu Grub in my Sandwich

Some days at school are not so good

You can't remember things you should

Your friends don't help - they laugh at you

Your lunch box is depressing too

There's a huhu grub in my sandwich

And a pukeko in my head

And my brain won't do

What I want it to

And I wish I'd stayed in bed

Your bike has a flat tyre when

You need to ride it home again

And you're not in the team they pick

You eat a piethat makes you sick

There's a huhu grub in my sandwich

And a pukeko in my head

And my brain won't do

What I want it to

And wish I'd stayed in bed

It's stinking hot, you've lost your hat

And someone's nicked your cricket bat

Your friends are mean - you let off steam

The day seems like a long, bad dream

There's a huhu grub in my sandwich

And a pukeko in my head

And my brain won't do

What I want it to

And I wish I'd stayed in bed

Air Raid

Air Raid

The world is full of plastic bags

They're living everywhere

At supermarket checkouts

Or fluttering in the air

Pale jellyfish against the light 

They float across the sky

Or split or torn, like roadkill squashed

On muddy pavements lie

If all these earth-worn groundlings

Should join their friends in flight

They'll form a mighty legion

And conquer earth by night

In parachute formation

Descending in a rush

They'll clog the sun, and stifle spring

And turn the sea to slush

The world is full of plastic bags

They're lurking everywhere

Until the time comes to arise

And suffocate the air

The Kite

The Kite

It's swooping and bucking over my head. When 

I think it will nose-dive, it soars up instead.

It circles and skims in the hazy blue air. 

A red dragon face grinning down

on me here. Pulling the 

strings I keep it in play,

and it plummets and

rears till 

the 

wind

tails

away.

Another Poem

Sandy Song

Down at the beach
In hot summer weather,
Sand, sea, sun, salt -
All mixed together.

Sun all shimmery,
Sea all blue.
Waves brushing over me
With special salt glue.

Sand all gritty
Sticks to my hair.
Sand salty on my tongue,
Sand everywhere.

Sand between my fingers,
Sand between my toes.
Sand crunchy on my teeth,
Tickling my nose.
Sand on the car seats
At the end of the day.
Sea gleams and glitters
As the sun slides away.

Philippa Werry

My Yellow World

I would love to live in a yellow world.
I would live in a yellow house with a matching yellow roof.
My garden would have beaming bright yellow daffodils,
tall dandelions, and small daisies swaying in the grass.

I would eat yummy yellow food.
Cheddar cheese, brilliant bananas, sweet baby corn,
melted vanilla ice cream, juiced lemons, and cold custard.

I would wear a dress with yellow peppers printed on it
and some trousers with a picture of a bee.
I would wear shoes the colour of a fluffy chick.

My yellow world would make me happy,
and I would smile as bright as the shining sun.

My world is yellow because my favourite colour is... yellow!

Re Poem Recital and Speech Competition

If you need any help with your speech or poem please let me know - m.campbell@papakura-central.school.nz