Te Aramoana Assembly

On Wednesday 26 August we had an assemble especially for Te Aramoana.
Here are some photos Mr Corlett took.  We shared our Pasifika Art with everyone.

Friday Funny

Egypt has been the inspiration for our latest piece of writing and Mrs Cameron came across this joke!

Archaeologists digging in a pyramid in Egypt have found a mummy covered in chocolate and hazelnuts, and believe it to be Pharaoh Rocher.

Narrative Structure

How to Use Speech Marks

Room 10 Winners!

Way to go Room 10!!!
We got a commendation award for our entry in the Camelia Art show.  A $40 book voucher for us!
It was a class effort and I'll post a photo of our entry when it is returned to school :)

Queen - We Are The Champions (Lyrics)

This is our school song for production :)

Can you find the rabbit?

Jack managed to find the rabbit after most of us started to give up.  Way to go!!!  Perseverance!!!

SCIENCE Evening - TOMORROW Night

Hi all,

SCIENCE CELEBRATION:

To celebrate the science that is being taught in school, we are having a Science evening full of exciting experiments on Wednesday 19 August in the school hall from 6-7pm.

Teachers will be running a range of science experiments for children and their parents to come and have a go. There will be all sorts of things to watch and try like trying to blow up balloons using vinegar and baking soda, fun with static electricity, paper boats and cars with ramps.  All welcome.

Gymnastics

Never Say Can't

We watched this clip after our gymnastics session today.

Crazy, Mixed Up Story...

We have been looking at how we can 'extend' our sentences and today we wrote a Crazy, Mixed up Story in our class groups.  Each person had to write one sentence and one sentence only before folding over the paper ready for the next person in the group.  The final stories are hilarious!

Here is the story from Group 1.

One day in Mexico...

It is lovely here with busy streets and I live out in the city.

We find a place called pizza land and pizza's start falling from the sky.

A boy named Bob who was 3 years old, had chubby cheeks and 'adorableness'.

I sit down on a hay bale, I take a nap and wake up feeling weird.

Up in the clouds there were two giants named Rob and Bob.

As I was trapped in the toilets, I tried jumping out, climbing underneath but I was stuck.

A clown said "Honk my nose"! and everybody stopped what they were doing and laughed.

Exploding and bangs in the houses destroyed.  Buildings falling down and burning lava in the background.

"And now there is one problem left". "What?" said everyone.  "I haven't cleaned the house in days!!!"

Suddenly Tom saw his worst fear, a dog!  A bulldog!  He hated bulldogs so he ran as fast as he could.

Bikers ride anywhere.

People are calming down but some are still very worried about it.

I was so emotional and everyone cried.

Sophie was shaken after the series of earthquakes, but really glad she was alive.


Here is the story from Group 2.

In a city called Madrid there was a little boy called Cristiano Ronaldo.

Sun shining on a farm.

In the fancy room in Australia that cost $2000.

He was a tall, bald man with a little moustache.

He was running away from a big fat bear that was trying to eat him.

There was a big explosion in the distance and he didn't know why.

Suddenly, a big spider jumped out of nowhere and was the size of a building!

He finished eating all of the blue cotton candy and slowly limped back but when he was walking home he fell off a cliff and landed on a pile of potatoes but a magic pig came and saved him.

It had been a while since the sun was up.  Stars were shining in the night sky, and the pale green grass was hardly visible.  Lights could be seen in the distance if you looked far enough.

It had been a while since the dragons had been released.  600 years in fact and the black knight had been worried as the dragons were after him.

The dragon soared through the sky with Winnie on his back.  They towered over buildings as his scales glistened in the sun.  It was a beautiful sight.  Just BEAUTIFUL!

I had McDonalds for breakfast.

After I had finished what I wanted to do I got happier and happier.

I am standing in a silent, dark lonely room staring at my feet.

When they got home they ate some waffles and it was poisonous so they died happily ever after!

This week in History - The Bombing of Hiroshima

Click here to watch us making paper cranes.  It links in great with our geometry unit :)

“If there is to be peace in the world,

There must be peace in the nations.

If there is to be peace in the nations,

There must be peace in the cities.

If there is to be peace in the cities,

There must be peace between neighbours.

If there are to be peace between neighbours,

There must be peace in the home.

If there is to be peace in the home,

There must be peace in the heart.”

- Lao Tzu

SADAKO AND THE 1000 PAPER CRANES

On August 6th, 1945, World War II’s Allied forces dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of

Hiroshima. Instantly the city was destroyed. When the dust had cleared, people’s shadows remained

frozen on footpaths and the sides of buildings. The people themselves simply vanished. On that tragic

day it is estimated that up to 180 000 people were killed.

The Sasaki family lived one mile from where the bomb went off. The couple and their two-year-old

daughter, Sadako, managed to survive the nuclear attack, though soon after the explosion, thick black

clouds of radioactive soot and dust began to fall like snow. Though the family tried to protect

themselves, they could not avoid breathing the contaminated air.

As time went on, they tried to rebuild their damaged lives. The Sasakis had three more children. As

Sadako grew older, she became a strong, healthy young woman and was the fastest runner on her

school athletics team.

But when Sadako was twelve years old, she noticed that her lymph nodes were becoming swollen. A

doctor’s visit confirmed her parents’ fears: Sadako had radiation poisoning from the atomic bomb. She was dying of leukemia. Soon, Sadako entered the Hiroshima Red Cross hospital for treatment. She spent months there with her disease worsening by the day. In August 1955, residents of Nagoya sent a gift of colored origami paper cranes to Sadako and the other hospital residents as a get-well

present. The gift brightened her day and it gave her an idea.

She believed in a saying that if you fold a thousand cranes, you’d get over your sickness. She folded

paper cranes carefully, one by one, using paper from newspapers and medicine wrappings.

Though she was very weak, Sadako dedicated hours each day to folding cranes out of whatever

materials she could find. She insisted she had to keep folding because she had a plan. When she

got to one thousand she kept on going, hopeful that the paper birds might magically cure her illness.

But it was not to be: Sadako died on the morning of October 25, 1955, surrounded by her family.

As for Sadako’s thousand paper cranes, her mother gave some of them to her school friends,

and put the rest of them in her coffin so that she could bring them to the next world.

Although Sadako’s thousand paper cranes could not save her life, they took flight in another

way, serving as a symbol of the growing movement for peace on Earth.

The following year, an Austrian journalist, Robert Jungk, travelled to Hiroshima, where he heard

the story of young Sadako and her one thousand cranes. He was so moved by her

determination that he told her story in a book, ‘Light in the Ruins.’ In the years since, variations

of Sadako’s story have appeared in hundreds of other publications.

After Sadako’s death, her classmates wanted to honour their friend by creating a monument to

mourn all the children who died from the atomic bombing. With support from more than 3,100

schools around the world, the students created a nine-meter high bronze statue, topped with a

figure of a girl holding a folded crane. Beneath the pedestal, there is an inscription:

“This is our cry. This is our prayer. For building peace in this world.”

Each year, people from all over the world travel to the Children’s Peace Monument, bringing

their own folded paper cranes as a gift to Sadako’s memory and as a symbol of their desire for

peace. In hundreds of other cities around the world children have become involved in projects to

create paper cranes as symbols of peace.