Immersion Assembly by Sylvia

As I walked into the assembly hall it was like I had stepped into a fairytale book. I saw all the teachers dressed up in fairytale costumes, I was getting confused. The person I was most shocked at was Mrs Nua she was dressed as a sympathetic fairy godmother with a wand as well.
Suddenly Mr Burt came walking in and yelled out"Has anyone seen my beautiful princess"? All the kids replied back"NO". He was holding a glass cup pretending it was the glass slipper and was dressed in a green and white funny costume with white and black shoes. He told all the teachers to come on the stage.
The teacher I loved the best was Ms Vaafusuaga she was dressed as Puss in boots . She had boots, hat and was dressed in black. She looked cool. It was amazing she even spoke the kind of language that Puss in boots spoke.

My next favourite teacher was Mrs Nua she was really pretty, she had a fabulous and beautiful dress and her hair actually matched her clothes. She had a wand and she looked magical and mysterious.

It was an awesome immersion assembly, one I would never forget. I feel very happy about this terms topic 'The Art in Storytelling'. It is really cool that we are learning about fairy tales more and more. I love it.

Earthquake Info.

The extension group were lucky enough to have a video conference with a well known New Zealand geologist the other day. The were able to ask many questions about earthquakes and found out a lot of information. They wrote about their experience on their blogs. Here is Selena's recount.



In the morning the whole extension class had a video conference with a famous Geologist named Hamish Campbell. We were talking to him about the earthquake that happened in Fiordland this year. To prepare for our conference with Hamish Campbell, we made Seismometer.

He told us that it happened at 9pm and it was on the 16th of July. On the north island the Pacific plate was going underneath the Australian plate , but on the south island the Australian plate was heading underneath the Pacific Plate. It lasted 30 seconds and no one was killed, but it was measured by a Seismometer and it measured 7.6 in magnitude , the biggest earthquake worldwide in 80 years.

Speaking of earthquakes I am going to tell you about an earthquake that happened in China in the city of Tangshan in the year of 1976. It lasted 15 seconds and it killed 242,000 and around 50, 000 people were injured. It was recorded as 7.8 magnitude. The reason that so many people die in earthquakes is because they are really dangerous because they happen so fast and they do not have warnings like for e.g Volcanoes , and Tornadoes. Other kinds of disasters have warnings.

The facts that I mostly liked was when Hamish Campbell told us that in the earthquake was felt in New Plymouth. Another fact that I want you to know about is that the Plates that are covering New Zealand are not in a circle shape they are in any different shape.

Last term we were learning about Dinosaurs and Joan Wiffen was part of our important project but just today Hamish just told us that she passed away. She passed away on Tuesday at the Hastings Hospital.

Thank you to Diana Grace and the Te Papa Museum. Huge thanks to Hamish Campbell.

To find out more try clicking on any of these links:

Hamish Campbell

Fiordland

Joan Wiffen

Seismometers

Te Papa Museum

Glossary:

Seismometer: A Seismometer is a instrument that records the intensity of an earthquake.

BLOGS OF THE WEEK

These are some of the blogs you might want to go on because these are some people that have been working so hard to get people interested in there work well finally they have managed to do it. (Chosen by Mubasshira and Toreka; Class Blog Committee)

Firstly you might want to go Angela's blog, she has been writing about how she loves to go to church.  Maybe you might like to share your thoughts with her.

At church I love learning about God he is the one special person that gave me this day to live he gave me a lovely  spirit. He heels a lot people so does his  his son Jesus. God was the one  that made this beautiful world for us. Come  and join me so we can be a follower of God. I love praying and talking to God,  some priest say that the answer to your prayer is in the bible.The bible tells us about the history back when Jesus was alive. We also learn about the bible in CRE Mrs Clark runs ir for us. If you want to find more information don't go on the internet go and read the bible that would be a fantastic thing to do.  Don't forget to visit my blog agian Thank You. Thank you very much for this beautiful photo.

Secondly we recommend you go to Joshua`s blog

Hi there I am here to tell you some
important news you have to do before an
earthquake/During an earthquake/And after an earthquake.

Well first of all before an earthquake get ready and hold on to something so that when the earthquake comes you know what to do.


During an earthquake get under something and hold
on tight such as a table , your bed and all other stuff.

After an earthquake quickly check if anyone is injured or hurt
and if they are quickly call your nearest
hospital.  Turn off any fire,gas or any fire equipment.

This is Joshua reporting  for safety.
I'm out.

Immersion Assembly

We have been learning and practising some new vocabularly. These are some of the words we have been learning. (If you click on the word it will take you to a dictionary to find the definitions of them)

sinister
envious/envy
furious/furiously
vain
consumed by jealousy
hunchback

BLOGS OF THE WEEK

Room 15 has so many enthusiastic bloggers it's hard to choose those to be our bloggers of the week. Nevertheless we have had a few who have worked exceptionally hard and have been the lucky ones to get to choose a skin or bling for their blogs.

Erene has been publishing some wonderful writing. Here is a piece he wrote about a road trip with his family. If you want to read the rest of his story click on his name to take you to his blog.

Holiday at ROTORUA and GISBOURNE

On the second week of the holidays my Mum, my Dad, my little brother, my little sister and I went in a car for a road trip, we went from Auckland to Rotorua. We left our house on Tuesday and it took us about 2-3 hours to get there. On the way we saw heaps of trees and that reminded me about how we all breath fresh air from the trees. As for other countries, it's really hot and you could get really sunburned. In other countries they can hardly breath because of all the pollution in the air. Pollution is when; not many trees are around, there are heaps of people living in that country, or that there are many factories around the city making clouds of smoke in the the air.
When we got to Rotorua it smelled like rotten eggs and my dad said that was called sulphur. We had already checked in online and all we had to do next was get our card, take in all our luggage and think of what plans we were going to do next. The Hotel we checked in was called Rydges. We all decided that we all should go swimming of course because if we would vote in our family about which town is the best to go swimming at... we would choose Rotorua.
We went swimming at about 7-30 and swam for 1-2 hours. I backstroked really well and I also freestyled really well, but the swimming style that I'm not quite good at is breaststroke. I haven't practised that style so that not why I'm good at it. I met a friend and he said he likes to breaststroke. So he told me a few tips and I learned quite a lot from him.


Sylvia has also been working hard. Here is an acrostic poem she has written about the Megalosaurus.

Megalosaurus

Megalosaurus is a meat-eating dinosaur.

Enormous dinosaur that hunts for meat.

Gets up straight away and runs for it.

Away it goes sprinting for his meat.

Large and huge.

Over and under it goes to chase it's dinosaur.

Saurichian and lizard-hipped.

Allosaurus and Megalosaurus fighting and biting.

Under hiding so his enemy does not see him.

Running to catch it's prey.

Under already dead dinosaurs.


Toreka has been doing some wonderful writing. Here are her thoughts when she found out Michael Jackson died.
If you want to read some more of her great writing click on her name.

Man in the Mirror

This evening we watched the news and I was saddened. The news reporter said that Michael Jackson has passed away. The news reports told me about how young he was when he became famous - 10 years of age - my brother's age. Also that he kept changing his face as he got older, his Dad and all the many concerts they had to do as children. He was an extremely talented musician as well as a very good - actually excellent dancer. My favourite song of his is Thriller. My Dad likes it so much he knows the whole routine. He taught me the moves so now I know it.
I was very very sad when I heard this. To me there will never be another MJ.






Cruz went to see the Warriors at the GI Courtyard. He is telling us about what happened. If you want to read the rest of his story click on his name to take you to his blog.

The Famous WARRIORS at the GI Courtyard

On Wednesday 22ND of July the Vodafone WARRIORS came to the Courtyard in GI. They were walking around and people would go up to them and say "Can I have your signature?" Then more people came it was heaps of fun. The DJ said "O.K. Don't forget we will be giving away this beautiful jersey signed by all of the WARRIORS" (To your right) It had everyone in the Vodafone Warriors' signatures it looked cool.

You should also check out KPE to listen to some podcasts Jarna, Mubasshira, Selena, Toreka, Angela, Ala, Seini-Mino, Joshua, Erene, Matthew and Lepa have been recording. They are about books they have read by New Zealand authors.

Blogs of the Week

This week we think you should check out Matthew and Lepa's blogs.
They have been working really hard on them and because of this Mrs Burt has let them choose new skins for them. They are both keen rugby league players and wrestling fans. They have been writing about some of their rugby and wrestling heroes.


Ala has also been allowed to choose a new skin for her blog as she was our best blogger last term.

Dinosaur animations

Here are Room 15's title page animations they have been working on for their information stacks about their chosen dinosaur. When they are complete these information stacks will show what their dinosaur's different body parts were for, what its habitat and diet were like and how it became extinct.

Keep watching this space.