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