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