Week 5 onwards...

Hi All...

Apologies for not writing on here recently, but the students should have known that they lots of class tasks to take home and finish. IT appears though that this message hasn't got home as there are lots of students with unfinished work...

However here is a run down of the next 2.5 weeks

Thursday (tomorrow Week 8) - a normal day!!!

Friday: Road Patrol Party for 21 students, rest of students expected at school

Week 9

Monday: Technology

Tuesday: ERO arrives

Wednesday: ERO here

Thursday: Girls Self Defence all day

Friday: Girls Self Defence half day

Week 10; SWIMMING may begin this week...

Monday: Normal Day

Tuesday: Year 8 Formal Leavers Dinner 5.30pm

Wednesday: Formal Prize Giving Assembly

Thursday: 2pm End of Year Assembly

Friday: Last Day of Term - till 1pm. No buses running today

Congratulations to our new school councillors for 2010 - Latesha Smith, Isaiah Davies, Dylan Taylor and Caitlin Harley - I'm sure you will make us proud next year!!!

Give me a ring or email if you have any questions dp@martinborough.school.nz

Kia ora

Trish

Week 4 Homework

Hey everyone...

This week there are quiz questions, spelling language words and reading required. The language words are 1-5 in Maori and French...tahi, rua, toru, wha, rima, un, deux, trois, quatre, cinq...Remember to get 1.5 hours of reading done and signed. 34/34 kids doing homework and we will organise an end of year overnight trip!

KIWI KWIZ 2009
QUIZ 34

Question One: New Zealand is technically..?
a) three times the size of France
b) at war with Germany
c) a state of Australia
d) part of Micronesia

Question Two: What is the busiest night of the year for firefighters across the country?
a) Christmas Eve
b) Guy Fawkes
c) Halloween
d) Chinese New Year

Question Three: From 2011, the Police will be allowed to..?
a) shoot first and ask questions later
b) inject suspects with a truth serum
c) take DNA samples from anyone they intend to charge with an offence
d) pay witnesses two million dollars to testify against gang members

Question Four: According to the saying, ‘People who have supper with the devil should..?
a) laugh at his jokes’
b) leave before dessert’
c) tip the waiter’
d) use a long spoon’

Question Five: Which of the following carnival acts is not an illusion?
a) Swallowing a sword
b) Sawing a woman in half
c) Catching a moving bullet in the mouth
d) Making an assistant float in the air

Question Six: To avoid offending their hosts, what did the All Blacks do in Japan last week?
a) They shaved their beards
b) They did a Japanese version of the haka
c) They covered up their tattoos
d) They left their wives and girlfriends back at the hotel

Question Seven: In New Zealand, which flavour of ice cream is more popular than Hokey Pokey?
a) Hokey Hokey Pokey Pokey
b) Vanilla
c) Cookies and Cream
d) French Vanilla

Question Eight: If you throw a coin twice and it comes up heads both times, what are the odds of it coming up tails on the third throw?
a) One in ten
b) Fifty-fifty
c) Two-out-of-three
d) Zero

Question Nine: Why did New Zealand send a frigate to Mururoa Atoll in 1973?
a) To deliver plutonium to the French Navy
b) To protest against French nuclear testing in the Pacific
c) To rescue French sailors who were caught in the fallout from a nuclear test
d) To invade French Polynesia and stop the nuclear tests

Question Ten: What is the ‘race that stops two nations’?
a) The Melbourne Cup
b) The Tour de France
c) The Coast-to-Coast
d) The Hamilton 400

Week 2

Here is this weeks quiz...I will write up the 10 language words on the board tomorrow. Also remember that you need to prove 1.5hours of reading signed as well please.

Hi everyone. Here are the questions for this week.
KIWI KWIZ 2009
QUIZ 32

Question One: In the 1990s, why was the Calicivirus deliberately (and illegally) introduced to New Zealand?
a) To enable New Zealanders to develop an immunity to bird flu
b) To destroy the weeds choking North Island rivers
c) To assist in the mass-production of golden kiwifruit
d) To reduce the rabbit population

Question Two: If you’re trying to save a beached whale, you should..?
a) sing sad songs and shake the whale’s dorsal fin
b) place sheets over the whale’s eyes and pour water down its blowhole
c) cover the whale with light coloured sheets and pour water over its body
d) pull the whale’s tail and try to drag it out to sea

Question Three: Who is not allowed to go to the 2010 ‘Big Day Out’ in Auckland?
a) People who attended the 2009 ‘Big Day Out’
b) People who get a pension from the Government
c) People with visible tattoos
d) People who are under fifteen years of age

Question Four: The ‘Hobby Horse’, the ‘Velocipede’ and the ‘Boneshaker’ were..?
a) early versions of the bicycle
b) professional wrestlers who entertained Queen Victoria
c) energy drinks given to children in the 1950s
d) old names for the helicopter

Question Five: What does Labour Day commemorate?
a) The creation of the New Zealand Labour Party
b) The campaign for an eight-hour working day
c) The pain of childbirth
d) The end of World War One

Question Six: In the movie ‘Up’, how did the old man get his house to fly away?
a) He created a wind tunnel and the house blew away in a storm
b) He tied tens of thousands of helium balloons to the roof and the house floated off
c) He jumped up and down so many times the house broke free and drifted to South America
d) He threw ropes around an aeroplane and the house was carried into the sky

Question Seven: Who cries ‘crocodile tears’?
a) A person who pretends to be sorry
b) A person who is extremely happy
c) A person who cares about endangered species
d) A person who has no friends or family

Question Eight: In which game could you score a triple twenty, a bull’s eye and a woody?
a) Yahtzee
b) Curling
c) Darts
d) Snooker

Question Nine: iSnack 2.0 was the name of..?
a) the robot inventor from the movie ‘Robots’
b) the cream cheese version of Vegemite
c) the secret U.S. spy base in the Wairarapa
d) the supercomputer that almost caused a nuclear war thirty years ago

Question Ten: Which cheese is ‘made’ backwards?
a) Edam
b) Feta
c) Blue-vein
d) Mozzarella

Welcome to Term 4

Wow...Term 4 already!! So much to do and so little time.

For home tasks this term, current events will again feature so that we remember to look at what is going on around us. These are due in Monday - either on your blog or on paper. Plus basic facts and spelling bee will again be a big push.

Reading and Languages are another focus this term, so there will be weekly language quiz's and reading logs so that we get again into the habit of pushing ourselves to do our best in all our work even if it is out of school hours - we have to remember that LEARNING is something we can do all the time!!

KIWI KWIZ 2009
QUIZ 31

Question One: During his recent visit to New York, the Prime Minister..?
a) had dinner at the White House and appeared on the Oprah Winfrey show
b) gave a speech at the United Nations and rang the bell at the New York Stock Exchange
c) inspected a nuclear power plant and threw the first pitch at a New York Yankees game
d) visited Michael Jackson’s grave and spent a night in a maximum security prison

Question Two: What caused the tsunami that struck Samoa and Tonga on the 30th of September?
a) A volcanic eruption in the 'Ring of Fire'
b) The collapse of an ice shelf in Antarctica
c) A massive earthquake in the South Pacific
d) A large typhoon near the Philippines

Question Three: In ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’, which line follows ‘Fee-fi-fo-fum’?
a) ‘I feel a rumblin’ in me tum’
b) ‘Equations always end with the sum’
c) ‘I’m going to end up in the Tasman’
d) ‘I smell the blood of an Englishman’

Question Four: What present did the makers of The Simpson Movie give the South Island town of Springfield?
a) New Zealand’s first Kwik E-Mart
b) A lock of Marge’s blue hair
c) A giant pink doughnut
d) A monorail linking Springfield to the nearby town of Shelbyville

Question Five: In a recent poll, who was surprisingly voted the ‘greatest living New Zealander’?
a) Sir Edmund Hillary
b) Jason Gunn
c) Shrek the sheep
d) Winston Peters

Question Six: What do the New Zealand ‘All Whites’ have to do to qualify for the 2010 Football World Cup?
a) Beat Fiji by more than four goals
b) Score at least one goal against Argentina in Auckland
c) Defeat Bahrain in Wellington
d) Pay the International Football Association a bribe of five million dollars

Question Seven: Which name comes next in the sequence 'Edward, George, Edward, George..?
a) Edward'
b) George'
c) Barack'
d) Elizabeth'

Question Eight: After an eighty year absence, Winnie the Pooh is back in a new book. The title of the book is..?
a) Pooh goes to University
b) An eyesore for Eeyore and a win for Winnie
c) Return to the Hundred Acre Wood
d) Christopher Robin and the revenge of the honey thief

Question Nine: Which of the following claims is false?
a) Dust mites can live for one year without food
b) A female dust mite can lay up to 300 eggs
c) Dust mites eat dead skin cells from humans
d) Dust mites can measure ten centimetres in length

Question Ten: What was the winning score at the 2009 World Hamburger Eating Championship?
a) Two Big Macs and three Whopper burgers eaten in one minute
b) 93 hamburgers consumed in eight minutes
c) 1001 hamburgers gulped down over a twenty-four hour period
d) 34 cheeseburgers and six chicken nuggets swallowed in half an hour

Week 9 and 10

Hey all...remember to come in and look at our great learning this term, if you cant make the Open Evening, then do try and pop in at another time...

Concept Book Due to be completed this week...list of what should be displayed in your book is on the board.

Spelling Bee confirmed list...

TOPIC WORDS

Turangi, Whakapapa, Ruapehu, Tongariro, Ngauruhoe, volcano, wonder, skiing, snowboarding, mountain, geothermal, volcanic, range, magma, chamber, tectonic, erosion, disaster, Tangiwai, explosion, caldera, andesite, Taupo, volcanic zone, steam, mud pools, Taranaki, lava, lahar, vent, crust, core, magma chamber, camp,

 

LIFE WORDS

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday

 

January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December

 

Eleven, Twelve, Thirteen, Fourteen, Fifteen, Sixteen, Seventeen, Eighteen, Nineteen, Twenty, Twenty-one, Twenty-two, Twenty-three, Twenty-four, Twenty-five, Twenty-six, Twenty-seven, Twenty-eight, Twenty-nine, Thirty

 

Martinborough, Greytown, Featherston, Masterton, Wairarapa

 

Kuranui College, St Matthews College, Rathkeale College, Wairarapa College, Solway College

 

 

83 words (but some are more than one word in each phrase so that is fine)

REMINDER...

CAMP PHOTO SHARING NIGHT...

Thursday 27th 5pm-6.30pm SAUSAGE SIZZLE/SUPPER night (no cost as we have a few dollars left over from camp that we didnt need as we were able to get the 'free' shuttle up to the ski field).

Hope you can make it...

Trish and Nicola

Week 5-8 Homework

Hi All...

For homework, there will be work related activities that may need to be worked on at home in your own time...these will form some of your homework. I will also post the whole term spelling bee list - remember to score above 80/100 means that you are demonstrating excellence and for some of you with demerit points this may help you to earn one off.

Teachers in your own maths/english classes may also have tasks for you to complete nightly so do keep up with those. From now, I will also have photocopied basic facts sheets for you to help yourself too as well.

Remember WEEK 9 is our big open afternoon/evening event that we will all have an active part to play, and can leadership groups make sure that they are checking in with their teachers in charge to see what needs to be done :)

Thanks

Mrs R