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

Week 4

Hey all...well as I sit here in the glorious sunshine on Sunday morning, I wish we could still be away skiing...

Homework for this week will be some camp related activities, and mainly only be homework if you don't finish them in class...Mrs Warren in on Monday and Friday - I will see you on Tuesday :)

PARENT INTERVIEWS

Remember that Tuesday is parent/teacher goal setting and time to discuss school reports. Please make sure everyone has a time to come and meet with me. In the hall again as in Term 1.

Week 2 -

 Hi all...this time next week (Sunday) we will be getting very excited about leaving to go to Turangi. This week there are a few camp related tasks to complete for homework.

Perhaps the most important one is the gear list that we wrote is all sorted by you...it isnt ok to not come with something - whatever you don't bring someone else will have to share. It is much better that you sort out your gear early and then if you need something we can ask around for you.

The little things you may forget - TORCHES, Plates/mugs/cutlery etc, LUNCH and snacks for day one and 2 PACKETS baking/biscuits for us to use at morning tea/afternoon tea times.

You will need to have the activities specified in your topic book done on time - the aim is that you have a fair bit of knowledge about the area that we are going so that when we see things you will understand what etc they are...

Welcome back to TERM 3

Firstly we are back to the quiz questions this week, and on Friday Mrs Warren will be checking that they are done...(not done equals one demerit point!).

Please remember that in order to secure your place on camp, you cant have 15 demerits and payment MUST be received by Friday this week (which is also when the current raffle is due).

A really big push on spelling this week, so make sure that you have your blog sorted for you to write/record on it your spelling topic related words which will be used in the spelling bee at the end of the term. 

KIWI KWIZ 2009    
      QUIZ 21

Question One: How did the ancestors of the Little Spotted Kiwi get to New Zealand?
a)   They flew here from Australia
b)   They were brought here by Maori as a food source
c)   They sneaked aboard Captain Cook’s ship when he was in Tahiti
d)   They walked across an ice bridge from Asia
 
Question Two: What did Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin bring back from the moon?
a)   Souvenir T-Shirts
b)   22 kilograms of moon rocks
c)   Six test-tubes full of a strange yellowish substance
d)   A virus that killed ten thousand people
 
Question Three: Why was there a tsunami alert in the Pacific last week?
a)    A fisherman in the Bay of Islands claimed to have seen a huge wave
b)    There was a massive earthquake in the South Island
c)    France conducted a nuclear test at Mururoa Atoll
d)    Hurricane Bruno formed in the Tasman Sea
 
Question Four: What was Rumpelstiltskin’s special skill?
a)   He could solve the hardest riddles in the Kingdom
b)   He could speak to animals
c)   He could turn water into wine
d)   He could spin straw into gold
 
Question Five: In the Tour de France, what colour jersey does the ‘King of the Mountains’ wear?
a)    The yellow jersey
b)    The green jersey
c)    The yellow and green striped jersey
d)    The white jersey with red polka dots
 
Question Six: How many people are living in New Zealand unlawfully?
a)   None
b)   about 17,000
c)   about 1,700
d)   about 170
 
Question Seven: The Australian town of Bundanoon has become the first town in the world to..?
a)    elect a goat as Mayor
b)    erect a statue in honour of Michael Jackson
c)    make it illegal to wear bikinis in public
d)    ban the sale of bottled water
 
Question Eight: About one third of the Earth’s land surface is covered by..?
a)    desert
b)    concrete
c)    the Amazon Rainforest
d)    industrial waste
 
Question Nine: What do tourists do to Ireland’s Blarney Stone?
a)    Throw coins at it
b)    Write their names on it
c)    Kiss it
d)    Swear at it
 
Question Ten: Complete this famous sentence “That’s one small step for man,..?
a)    two steps backwards for women”
b)    and now we shall be free”
c)    one giant leap for mankind”
d)    one thousand years of progress” 

Week 9 Chocolate Fish Challenge...

This Friday there will be the super 100 word spelling bee take place...

All those students who spell at least 90% will receive a chocolate fish...

100% and we may do something a bit better than that.

To prepare for this...

Practice spelling the following...

* 12 months of the year

* 7 days of the week

* numbers between 10 and 100

*measurement units spelt in full eg...cm, m, mm, kg, km, ml etc

*basic school equipment (ruler etc)

*basic 'life' words eg road, avenue, street, 

*basic Martinborough Words (street names)

*geometric / number words that we have worked on this term

So get practicing...:)

Week 8...

Hi all...

For the next 3 weeks we will be doing 2 main things - Camp Prep and Spelling Facts...yes you read  right - spelling facts. We are going to try doing spelling word recall just like we do basic facts recall...lots of repetition and focussing on firstly recalling accurately and then quickly. 

We hope that parents at home will be able to get involved.

A big congrats to all the speech finalists. The judge from Kuranui was so impressed that she is taking ideas of what she saw us do back to her Year 10/11/12 students!!. 

Also congrats for the x.country efforts!!

Only 24 school days till most of us go on camp....yipppppeeeeeeeeeeee

Week 4/5 2009

SPEECHES and CROSS COUNTRY....

These are the two focuses for the next fortnight...Speeches will be presented in Week 6 in class and Cross Country is Week 7 (so is Speech Finals).

Both of these things require you to train and practice...

So there aren't any quiz questions this week, we want you to have the chance this week to finish writing your speeches and start learning them to present and amaze us!!

From the marty78camp blog...

As mentioned in previous class newsletters, in class we have a behaviour tracking system. Any students getting to 15 times/demerits on this system will not be coming on camp. Demerits are given when students can not follow instructions, or interrupt others learning. They may get them for not treating their peers or adults with respect. Students who have over 5 demerits will get a letter in the post to explain to them what is happening, and as I mentioned, anyone who gets to 15 before we go on camp is not permitted to come.

A number of parents expressed ideas about fundraisers, but I have not heard back from many people. Sausage sizzles on Fridays are a great way to make some money, but no one has organised with myself and Sandie to do these. If you want to do a sausage sizzle then you must contact Sandie by Tuesday, and you are responsible for getting all the food etc for it. There may be food there left over from previous ones that you can use. PLEASE DONT WAIT FOR ME TO CONTACT YOU TO ORGANISE YOUR FUNDRAISING...it is your responsibility.

Final camp costs, timetables, gear lists etc will be out in the next fortnight - we are just waiting for the BOT to meet to check through the plans for camp.

Thanks so much to TRACEY who applied for and got $1000 for us to go towards the cost of camp.

ALL MONEY FOR CAMP MUST BE RECEIVED BEFORE WEEK 1 TERM 3...feel free to start paying off camp now.

PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU ARE CHECKING THE CAMP BLOG REGULARLY - www.marty78camp.blogspot.com

Thanks

Trish

Week 3 Term 2

Hi Everyone...

Well I hope your fundraising for camp is going well, at this stage it looks to be around $360...a final budget and timetable will be sent out in a fortnight.

Reminders - 

Cross country in Week 7...and don't forget speeches from week 5 and week 6 for school finals...

Have a good week

KIWI KWIZ 2009   

       WEEK 13

 

Question One: What is the southernmost point of all the territory claimed by New Zealand?

a)    Waipapa Point, Southland

b)    South West Cape, Stewart Island

c)    Campbell Island

d)    The South Pole

 

Question Two: What’s been banned from the central business district of Wanganui?

a)   Chewing gum

b)   Gang patches

c)   Mini skirts

d)   The letter ‘h’

 

Question Three: How come the Great Fire of London saved thousands of human lives?

a)    The fire destroyed the plague rats and their breeding grounds

b)    The people who escaped the fire managed to avoid the Great Earthquake of London

c)    The fire exposed Guy Fawkes' gunpowder stash

d)    The French called off plans to invade England because of the fire

 

Question Four: The West Coast of the South Island has just got its first..?

a)    overseas tourist

b)    set of traffic lights

c)    Police station

d)    frost of the decade

 

Question Five: Which of the following claims is true?

a)   No Australian Super 14 team has beaten the Blues in Auckland

b)   No Australian rugby league team has beaten the Warriors in Auckland

c)   No New Zealand netball team has won an ANZ championship game in Australia

d)   No New Zealand soccer team has won an A-League game in Australia

 

Question Six: Why were Chicken Licken, Henny Penny, Ducky Lucky and Turkey Lurkey going to see the King?

a)   They thought Foxy Loxy was chasing them

b)   They thought Drakey Lakey was a spy

c)   They thought the King would grant them three wishes

d)   They thought the sky was falling

 

Question Seven: Which small British car had its fiftieth birthday last week?

a)    The Mini

b)    The Limo

c)    The Beetle

d)    The Kiwi

 

Question Eight: What is the main job of rodeo clowns?

a)    To distract the bull riders

b)    To protect the fallen riders from the bulls

c)    To make balloon animals for the crowd

d)    To sell junk food and merchandise

 

Question Nine: In the sequence ‘Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta.., what comes next?

a)    Commando’

b)    Echo’

c)    Foxtrot’

d)    Yankee’

 

Question Ten: What is the nickname of the New Zealand men’s national ice hockey team?

a)    The Ice Blacks

b)    The Ice Blocks

c)    The Ice Bergs

d)    The Ice Fernz

Term 2 Week 2..

Hi all...

A reminder that you should have a fairly good idea now what you are going to do your speech on. These are in week 6, but we aim to have it written by the end of week 4 so that you have week 5 to learn it. 

Also remember that there is cross country in week 7 :).

KIWI KWIZ 2009   

       WEEK 12

 

Question One: What did Tom Ah Chee open in South Auckland in 1958?

a)   New Zealand’s first movie theatre

b)   New Zealand’s first supermarket

c)   New Zealand’s first Chinese restaurant

d)   New Zealand’s first internet cafe

 

Question Two: Why were schools across Mexico closed last week?

a)    The teachers were on strike for better pay

b)    A series of earthquakes rocked Mexico City

c)    Swine flu is sweeping the country

d)    Most children of school age have full-time jobs

 

Question Three: Under New Zealand law, the only people allowed to get a tattoo with a Maori design are..?

a)    Maori

b)    New Zealand citizens

c)    people over sixteen years of age

d)    people who have lived in New Zealand for ten years and learnt to speak Te Reo Maori

 

Question Four: According to the saying, ‘A picture is worth..?

a)    a lifetime of make-believe’

b)    fifteen minutes of fame’

c)    a summer of songs’

d)    a thousand words’

 

Question Five: Which bird swims the fastest?

a)   The Penguin

b)   The Black Swan

c)   The Trout

d)   The Pelican

 

Question Six: Dr Banner turned into the Incredible Hulk when he..?

a)   fell into a cauldron of magic potion

b)   was bitten by a radioactive spider

c)   was struck by lightning on top of the Empire State Building

d)   was exposed to radiation from a gamma bomb test

 

Question Seven: A city that has more than ten million people is called a..?

a)    megacity

b)    monstros-i-city

c)    global city

d)    city-city

 

Question Eight: What does an omnivore eat?

a)    Anything

b)    Anything that moves

c)    Plants and animals

d)    Nothing

 

Question Nine: As Jack was going to Wellington, he met a man with seven wives. Each wife had seven cats, and each cat had seven kittens. So how many living creatures were going to Wellington?

a)    400

b)    401

c)    None

d)    One

 

Question Ten: One out of every three people in the world is..?

a)    living in China

b)    a Christian

c)    surfing the internet right now

d)    in jail

DONT FORGET...

Raffle tickets for our great mothers day prize are due back to Sandie by Friday please.

Have a good week :) i'm sure we will...

Mrs R

Term Two Begins....

Hi everyone...

I hope you have had a great holiday, I have been busy for the last two weeks getting ready for this term and planning camp. A huge thanks to Tracey Smith for helping get some quotes and to POPPY COLTON who put in an application to Martinborough Lions for camp and they have provided us with $400 to go towards our camp - thanks :).

This term we have a huge focus on improving our spelling and editing skills, so as well as the quiz questions, there will often be short activities to work on your spelling and editing. 

We have now analysed the basic facts progress for last term, and the results are great!! We now want that same progress with our spelling results - so everyone needs to work just as hard on spelling as they did on basic facts. 

Just one wee thing - do be careful what you write on an email that gets passed around - e.g your name and a comment that you then forward on, I was pretty disgusted at what some of the students in our class wrote on an email that got forwarded around over the last week...come on guys, what you write becomes public and lasting knowledge...imagine if you're going for a job or into a College next year and the people in your future see this.

Here is the quiz...i have heard that you can actually do this quiz online so I will look into that too!! www.kiwiquiz.co.nz for anyone who wants to do that for me!

KIWI KWIZ 2009   

       WEEK 11

 

Question One: Why did a Canadian tourist complain about New Zealand’s Eskimo lollies last week?

a)    She found maggots in her packet of Eskimos

b)    The lollies broke her two front teeth

c)    The term ‘Eskimo’ is considered racist in Canada

d)    She thought the marshmallow lollies contained alcohol

 

Question Two: What is the official name for the South Island?

a)    The South Island

b)    The Southern Island

c)    Te Wai Pounamu

d)    There is no official name for the South Island

 

Question Three: Who is buried at the National War Memorial in Wellington?

a)    Lieutenant Colonel William Malone

b)    Captain Charles Upham

c)    New Zealand’s first four Prime Ministers

d)    An unknown New Zealand soldier from World War One

 

Question Four: Scotland’s Susan Boyle has become a celebrity after appearing on which television show?

a)    UK Idol

b)    Miss Scotland

c)    Britain’s Got Talent

d)    Eurovision Song Contest 2009

 

Question Five: Why did gladiators in the Roman Empire eat onions?

a)   They thought onions made them invisible

b)   They thought lions would be repelled by the smell

c)   They thought onions gave them super-human strength

d)   They thought the God of the Onions would save them

 

Question Six: Where did the Phantom of the Opera live?

a)   In the giant organ at the Paris Opera House

b)   In the ticket booth at the Paris Opera House

c)   In the sewers beneath the Paris Opera House

d)   In the abandoned warehouse above the Paris Opera House

 

Question Seven: New Zealand scientists have invented an apple that..?

a)    doesn’t go brown when it is cut

b)    grows back when you take a bite

c)    is the size of a netball

d)    tastes like white chocolate

 

Question Eight: Auckland’s new super-city will include..?

a)    Auckland, Waitakere, North Shore and Hamilton

b)    Auckland, Papakura, Coromandel and Rodney

c)    Auckland, North Shore, Manukau and Waitakere

d)    Auckland, Rodney, Whangarei and North Shore

 

Question Nine: If you’re ‘riding shotgun’ in a car, where are you sitting?

a)    in the driver’s seat

b)    in the front passenger’s seat

c)    in the boot

d)    in the back seat

 

Question Ten: In which musical movie does an Australian schoolgirl date the leader of the T-Birds gang?

a)    Grease

b)    Underbelly

c)    Hairspray

d)    High School Musical

 

Last week of term...:)

Hey guys...we will be doing a huge check of homework on Thursday morning, so if you have missed any - you have until then to catch up :) ...

Easter raffles are due in by Thursday and remember that we are picking grapes on Tuesday.

Thanks to all for a great term - youre an outstanding class who everyone enjoys teaching :)

Make sure you and your families have a safe and relaxing holiday...

Trish Rankin

Week 9...already :)

Hi all
Firstly, thanks to all those who came to the camp meeting, or let me know that they couldnt...its great that you support your child :) and show them that you are interested in getting them to camp. A few parents are not getting involved (with parent goal setting or camp meetings) - if you know someone who is a little daunted about getting involved, maybe you could act as an intermediary so that they can get the information from you - getting the info from someone is much better than not getting or responding to anything...:)

Spelling has been going home, but parents are being told its not...so on Tuesday when we do our new lists, I will also write the words for each group on here :)

KIWI KWIZ 2009
WEEK 9

Question One: Which of the following events was not an April Fools’ Day joke?
a) In 1998, Burger King introduced the Left Handed Whopper
b) In 1999, a town in Taranaki elected a goat as its President
c) In 1972, zoologists found the body of the Loch Ness Monster
d) In 2008, the BBC filmed penguins flying over Antarctica

Question Two: What did people around the world do last Saturday night about climate change?
a) Flushed their toilets every ten minutes
b) Turned their lights off for one hour
c) Threw their televisions in the dump
d) Closed their airports and power stations

Question Three: In Shakespeare’s era, who acted the parts of women in his plays?
a) Boys
b) Girls
c) Shakespeare himself
d) Shakespeare didn’t write any parts for women

Question Four: Why do New Zealanders get an extra hour of sleep this Sunday?
a) The Government is introducing the nine-day working fortnight
b) The school holidays begin
c) Daylight saving ends
d) Sunday is International Sleep Day

Question Five: What is the ‘Golden Rule’?
a) Always look on the bright side of life
b) Keep a stiff upper lip at all times
c) If you don’t take an opportunity, someone else will
d) Do to others what you want them to do to you

Question Six: In netball, a ‘wing attack’ cannot..?
a) score goals
b) captain the team
c) intercept the ball
d) step in the centre third of the court

Question Seven: What is Helen Clark’s new job?
a) Leader of the Opposition
b) Head of the United Nations Development Program
c) Chief financial advisor to Barack Obama
d) Guest Judge on New Zealand’s Next Top Model

Question Eight: Why does the army refer to three o’clock in the afternoon as ‘1500 hours’?
a) So the enemy won’t know the time of the attack
b) So civilians will be impressed
c) So soldiers know when to have afternoon tea
d) So 3:00pm is not confused with 3:00am

Question Nine: Which controversial farming practise is set to resume in New Zealand?
a) Live sheep exports to Saudi Arabia
b) Battery-farmed kiwis
c) Genetically modified pigs
d) Catching horses for human consumption

Question Ten: What does the Japanese word ‘Karaoke’ mean in English?
a) Happy Singing Box
b) Empty Orchestra
c) No Shame
d) One Thousand Voices

Homework Week 8

Hi all,

Apologies for last week, I had a family member unwell and needed to go to Palmy North. 

Spelling words and Reading Mileage work will be sent home Tuesday :)

Wairarapa Swimming - Evening of Thursday 2nd April: Notes will come out as soon as Mrs Draper has collated information. As this is an evening event, transport is the responsibility of the family, though car pooling makes sense ...:)

CAMP FUNDRAISING MEETING - This Thursday 7pm at Circus...

All parents are asked to attend this meeting so that we can discuss raising funds for our camp. In total, the camp costs about $20-$22k, with each child being responsible for paying around $400. You have 5 months in which to raise the funds to pay for your child's camp. This will be the meeting to plan how we are all going to go about doing it.

Weekly Quiz Questions...

KIWI KWIZ 2009   

       WEEK 8

 

Question One: What did a cleaner at Auckland Airport find in an aeroplane’s rubbish bin last Thursday?

a)     Enough uranium to make a nuclear bomb

b)    A briefcase full of one hundred dollar bills

c)     Ten poisonous snakes

d)    A newborn baby 

 

Question Two: For winning the 2009 New Zealand Vegemite Spelling Bee, Christopher Jury of Hamilton Boys High School gets..?

a)    one thousand tubs of vegemite and six hundred loaves of bread

b)    two years off school and a walk-on part in Shortland Street

c)    the chance to compete in a spelling bee in the U.S.A. and three thousand dollars worth of dictionaries

d)    a trip around the world and the opportunity to be Prime Minister of New Zealand for one day

 

Question Three: Which New Zealand city is known as ‘The Edinburgh of the South’?

a)    Nelson

b)    Dunedin

c)    Wellington

d)    New Plymouth

 

Question Four: What is unique about one of the models that appeared at the recent Tokyofashion show?

a)    She is seventy two years old

b)    She designs her own outfits

c)    She is seven-feet tall

d)    She is a robot

 

Question Five:  Taste buds are arranged into five groups, including..?

a)   spicy, fizzy, bitter and sour

b)   hot, cold, bitter and sour

c)   salty, sweet, bitter and sour

d)   Eastern, Western, bitter and sour

 

Question Six: What sparked a Tsunami warning for New Zealand last week?

a)    An earthquake near Tonga

b)    The fallout from the global recession

c)    The collapse of an iceberg in Antarctica

d)    A massive whale stranding near the Equator                                                                                                                 

 

Question Seven: Where does ‘Today’ come before ‘Yesterday’ and ‘Tomorrow’?

a)    Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory

b)    Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity

c)    The Oxford English Dictionary

d)    The Wonderful World of Disney

 

Question Eight: Complete the proverb, ‘People in glass houses..?

a)   should wear clothes’

b)   should buy curtains’

c)   shouldn’t complain about the weather’

d)   shouldn’t throw stones’

 

Question Nine: Who named more than twenty cities after himself?

a)    Alexander the Great

b)    George Washington

c)    Donald Trump

d)    Robert Mugabe

 

Question Ten: Which creature’s name comes from the Maori word for ‘The God of Ugly Things’?

a)    The Tuatara

b)    The Kangaroo

c)    The Takahe

d)    The Weta

Week 7 Homework

Thanks to all who came to goal setting last week - if you didnt get a chance to come last week, then please do make a time to catch up.

RUGBY 7's THIS WEDNESDAY in Greytown (tackle). Notices gone out today.

Thanks for feedback about homework...what Sarah (Room 10) and I have done is stagger the weeks so that Room 10 have a different set from Room 8. This may help brother/sister/sibling problems hopefully.

Room 8 from Wednesday will have new spelling words and also a reading book to take home to read to parents each night. Our focus is on building vocab, so are having an intensive 4 weeks on improving our reading and vocab knowledge.

HOT CROSS BUNS forms and orders due in on March 25th (next Wednesday) please.

Camp Fundraising Meeting - Thursday 26th 7pm at Circus.

KIWI KWIZ 2009
WEEK 7

Question One: What is the name of the Royal New Zealand Ballet show that is travelling around the country?
a) Tutus on Tour
b) Ballet on Bikes
c) Crusty Demons
d) Culture Vultures

Question Two: Where was the ‘Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’?
a) One hundred years in the future
b) Hiding in an abandoned gold mine
c) In a World War Two concentration camp
d) Living at the end of the Yellow Brick Road

Question Three: Which New Zealand beach is fifty five miles long?
a) Ninety Mile Beach
b) Hot Water Beach
c) Shelly Beach
d) Long Beach

Question Four: If people tell you to ‘rattle your dags’, they want you to..?
a) clap your hands and scream out loud
b) hurry up and get a move on
c) smile and laugh for once
d) admit defeat and go home

Question Five: Which fifty year-old has been an astronaut, a rock star, a doctor and a presidential candidate?
a) Hillary Clinton
b) Madonna
c) Barbie
d) Marge Simpson

Question Six: What happened when a crocodile met a shark in Australia’s Wildman River last week?
a) They teamed up to attack humans
b) A dolphin swam in and broke up the fight
c) The crocodile ate the shark
d) The shark bit the crocodile in half

Question Seven: Why is the Chicago River dyed green once a year?
a) To celebrate Saint Patrick’s Day
b) To protest about river pollution
c) To promote vegetarianism
d) To destroy noxious weeds

Question Eight: In 1930, Mahatma Gandhi broke the law when he..?
a) picked up salt from the sea
b) changed a light bulb in a public library
c) spoke English at the dinner table
d) joked about the English cricket team

Question Nine: Which of the following countries is not in the ‘Commonwealth of Nations’ (i.e. the British Commonwealth)?
a) Kenya
b) Jamaica
c) Malaysia
d) Argentina

Question Ten: What is the most prestigious award at the annual Crufts dog show?
a) The ‘Top Dog’
b) The ‘Golden Scooby’
c) The ‘Best In Show’
d) The ‘Loyal Companion’

Week 6 - Yes Already it is Week 6!!

Hi everyone...

Halfway through the term, and well done to everyone who has worked hard over the last fortnight to get their timeline finished - I am really proud at the effort that many have put in and cant wait to see them all.

A reminder that Parent/Teacher/Pupil Goal Setting Meetings are this Thursday (school finishes at 12.30pm). Please make an appointment.

Also ROUND THE VINES is this Sunday (15th) and I will let senior students who are asked to help just what they are doing by Tuesday.

Also - congrats and good luck to all those in the swimming sports this coming Wednesday - Try your hardest...

Question One: Why were sparrows introduced to New Zealand?

a)    To remind English settlers of home

b)    To provide food for cats

c)    To eat crop-destroying insects

d)    To provide feathers for hats

Question Two: What is causing heated arguments in Wanganui?

a)    A proposal to open a casino on Victoria Avenue

b)    A proposal to build a monorail to Palmerston North

c)    A proposal to pull out of New Zealand’s Top Town competition

d)    A proposal to add the letter ‘h’ to the name of the city

Question Three: During the Academy Awards, what happens to winners who talk for more than 45 seconds?

a)    Their Oscars get thrown in the rubbish

b)    They receive a standing ovation

c)    They are not invited back next year

d)    Their words get drowned out by music

Question Four: Where did Napoleon meet his ‘Waterloo’?

a)    ABBA

b)    Waterloo

c)    Trafalgar

d)    Gate Pa

Question Five: Why did the townspeople of Hamelin hire the Pied Piper?

a)   To baby-sit the town’s children

b)   To rid the town of its rats

c)   To make it rain on the town’s barren crops

d)   To bring music and joy to a weary people

Question Six:  Why couldn’t New Zealand golfer Danny Lee keep the prize money for winning a tournament in Australia last week?

a)    Danny is an amateur golfer

b)    Danny is under 21 years of age

c)    Danny forgot to tee off at the 18^th hole

d)    Danny missed the prize-giving

Question Seven: A lawyer who specialises in representing accident victims is called..?

a)    a gold digger 

b)    a witch doctor

c)    an ambulance chaser

d)    an early worm

Question Eight: What was the outcome of the ‘Battle of the Sexes’ tennis match in 1973?

a)   The woman won

b)   The man won

c)   The match ended in a draw

d)   The game was called off after protestors ran on to the court

Question Nine: Which of the following creatures is actually a fish?

a)    Jellyfish

b)    Starfish

c)    Silverfish

d)    Dogfish

Question Ten: Half of half of half a pizza is..?

a)    half a pizza

b)    a quarter of a pizza

c)    one-eighth of a pizza

d)    too much pizza for anyone to eat