Google Expedition

On Monday we had a very exciting day at school.  We rock climbed, and went to see the Great Wall of China, and the London Eye, and the Taj Mahal.  We swam with sharks, and we saw the rice fields in Asia.  Please watch our video to see how we did it!

Please comment when you have watched.  The class with the most comments and likes on our facebook page will win a Google Cardboard!!!

Swimming today

Today we had our swimming lesson.

Our times are Tuesday and Thursday at 10.10.  The pool was pretty cold but the kids were brave.

We decided to take a time lapse video of what we were learning and it looks like we were busy as!
We did freestyle breathing and backstroke skills.

Techno Titan Musical Showcase

Last week on Friday Rowandale School had a musical show and each class had to perform a music item that they'd learnt.  We had done Jellybeans music over the term and learnt about rhythm and beats and playing the recorder and the xylophone.  In class Miss J taught us a bit about reading music, and how to write some.  We came up with a plan about 3 items we were going to perform.
1) a group got together on garageband and wrote a piece of music and mashed it together to make an original.
2) body percussion - we used stomping, clapping, and other noises to make percussion
3) bucket drumming - we made some patterns and beats and worked together.

Here is our performance.  We were the last class!

Puzzle of today

Mrs Tolley likes

* apples but not bananas
* daffodils but not roses
* skiing but not snowboarding
* running but not walking
* swimming but not water
* tennis but not squash


See if you can solve the pattern and leave a comment below with something else Mrs Tolley might like and not like.  Don't tell us the pattern though - let other people solve it for themselves!

:-)

2 tokens for each right answer!

Narrative writing - Morris the Mankiest Monster

In R22 we are learning to be fantastic narrative writers.  Today we used Morris the Mankiest Monster as our inspiration.  He is going to be the main character in our narratives, but we can choose what happens to him. 
We read about Morris and how filthy and icky he is, and used the book and our prior knowledge  and vocabularies to create a class brainstorm of descriptions.  

We learnt that the first part of a narrative is the introduction or beginning.  This is where you introduce your main characters and describe your setting.   Please see our first go at our beginnings.  Feel free to leave us feedback on what we could try and work on!  

Here's a video of the story we watched:

One day there lived an ugly crusty monster. His name was Morris. It was sunny. Morris is hot so he took his swishy, muddy blanket off. He was so went outside for swim.

 By Jodeci

The beautiful golden sunrays hit Roseville, the small village north of New York. The sunrays were heading towards a little old smelly poo house. As soon as they saw it, they turned away and vomited some yellow sparkles. He woke up and a big grumbling sound came from his stomach. It scared the lovely sounding birds away from the trees.  Crunch, crunch, crunch. That was the sound of somebody munching some crusty old boogers from their hairy, hairy nose. But who lives here? That would be Morris - a yucky looking monster with warts on his back and long sharp, black nails. He’s hideous.

“Hi I’m Morris,” he or what said.   Oooo a big whiff of his stinky breath just hit me and it feels like a slap in the face.

 By Amy

Yawn, yawn as Morris slowly waked up in his compost bed. He slowly stood up and put on his yucky t-shirt with holes and mud stains everywhere. He went to his cupboard and grabbed a big jar of bogeys as he put his hand in the jar and grab a big fat bogeys and chucked it in his green smelly mouth. That bogeys must of made him strong for the start of the day.

 By Unique

Slop, slop. The front of Morris’ revolting house was falling apart, but Morris didn’t care, he liked his house being smelly and disgusting. Morris lived in Star Village, a beautiful place and anyone who lives there has lovely houses but not Morris. His bed is made out of compost, he has a billion fleas in his eyebrows and he also flosses his teeth with slugs.

 By Afizah

There once lived a monster called Morris. He lived in a house made of dung. He stretched his hairy legs and opened his mouth. As he went for a stroll through the Arggghh forest, he felt unhappy and he went to visit his mother. As he huffed and puffed up the hill he saw his mother. His mother lived in a small place called Manurewa. He walked for half an hour. As he arrived at his destination huffing and puffing, he saw his mother as clean as he ever saw her. His mother’s name is ____________. She is a tidy person. When he entered her house he felt very tidy. Then he thought to his self ohhh where’s my mother gone, what kind of monster is she as every tear that dropped out of his bung eye, he left with a trail of mud and yellow oozing wax falling out of his ears. His mother was shocked she had to follow it until it came to a stop. Ohh does my son live here, ohh what have I done. The bright shining light hit his window arghh I hate seeing sunshine yuck I really need a bath that will make me better.

 By Tina

There was a mankiest monster called Morris who lived in a filthy house made of dung. The walls were filled with rusty old slugs and windows cracked with caterpillars crawling out of them. When the curtains light out threw the holes onto Morris’ bed, he opens his slimy old eyes and eyes and yawns loudly. When he yawns you can see little bugs crawling out of his mouth.

 By Meleana

One sunny and shiny day, sun shined into a little monster’s window named Morris he lives in a house full of dung and sleeps on a bed full of old compost and he is so gross when he gets up he likes to go in his bathroom and give his scabs a good pick.

 By Paris

 One day there was a monster named Morris.  The monster lived like it was creek and his house smells like poo because he is paru and it smells like sewage.

 By Rawiri

 The bright, shining sun glowing inside Morris’ eyes. Surrounded by dirt and also compost over him. He tossed and turned on his dirty bed with lovely bird tweeting at him but really the bird are tweeting “your house stinks really bad, go live somewhere else”.

By Natalie

A few months ago the government had heard that there was an ugly and filthy monster living in a dump that looked just like a wharepaku. This monster’s name was Morris. M for monster, O for odour, R for rugged, another R for rashes on his body, I for icky and S for silly monster.

 By Sela

 900 years ago there was a monster called Morris, he lived in a mud village. Morris was the only monster that lived in that village. He had a disgusting and a filthy house. No one would even go close to where he has been living in a house made out of cow dung and he wore potato sacks and you could smell the dung from 600 metres away. He had showers in the sewage pipes. He kept his clothes in the portaloo. He washes his clothes in the toilet.

By Ayush

 One shining and bright morning a little cheeky monster lives in a disgusting, terrible and smelly house in Auckland. The giant sound that was stomping around his house and everyone waked in the city. No one even liked Morris in Auckland because is smells like a rotten egg. He wanted to start his day very good but when he went to his mirror and yelled “good morning” to everyone and everyone hear it in New Zealand in Australia.

By Neha

 One hot summer’s day as the sunlight struggled to shine into Morris’ filthy dung house. He would wake up and sigh, who to share day with? No one to play with me - just me, myself and I.

 By Charlotte

One sunny, hot day there was a monster who was the most messiest, most disgusting monster you would have ever met. His name is Morris and he is yellow and has some orange patches. Morris’ eyes are very different, one eye is small and the other is huge. His house is just like walking into a house full of rubbish, but to be honest Morris thinks that his house was beautiful (it is so not beautiful).  One day Morris’ mother, Mary wasn’t messy, she was so clean, she had a sign on her door saying “no dust”. Mary expected Morris’ house to be perfect.

By Ella 

One day I was walking to the theme park with my friends Jodeci and Rawiri.  We went on the Stratosphere, then we got off and we saw Connor our enemy. He didn’t see us, he went to the back.

 By Brianna

One dark and stormy night, lived a beast called Chacho. He lived in the sewer and his house was made out of number 2, also called poo. Chacho was green beast with hairy, snotty nose with freaking yellow glowing eyes with disgusting yellow teeth filled with slugs and slimy bugs. His bed was a water bed, but it wasn’t filled with water and next to his bed was buckets of yellow and green water. Then one day the crocodiles heard a huge growl but all Chacho can hear was his yawning and up he got of his number 1 bed.

 By Tiana

 There is the mankiest monster called Morris. He lived in a village called Morrisville. He lived in a house made of dung. Ding Dong someone is here. He goes to open the door, it was his mum for a visit to came and see him. But there was a twist.

By Merekara

One hot day Morris awoke and didn’t feel dirty enough so he bathed in sewage water inside his crusty old house. He lived in a village called Morrisville. That’s because everyone is named Morris. Morris is the most ugliest, most hideous, most stinkiest ogre in Morrisville. He has potato sacks as clothes and has holes in everything.

 By Sanford

One day a hairy, fat, smelly monster woke up with a giant death sprea of it was called the yawn and it was the most terrifying thing in the world but that’s not it, there’s more to come. He got out of his lovely muddy bed and walk outside to his brown green swamp.   But when he walks he leaves a trail of death! You had to be 600 metres away just to be safe from his deadly stench.

 By Christian

Once in a house made of dung there was a little monster named Morris. One day Morris was bored so he took a bath in sewage water. He still felt bored. Since he still felt bored he went for a stroll through the woods but then… He tripped on a roof sticking out of the path and fell directly into a crystal clear puddle and as he got up out of the puddle to his surprise he was…. clean!

By Connor