Riddles

Answer as many of these riddles as you can in the comments box and the winner will be the one who gets the most right.

1. What goes up and down stairs without moving?
2. Give it food and it will live; give it water and it will die.
3. What can you catch but not throw?
4. I run, yet I have no legs. What am I?
5. Take one out and scratch my head, I am now black but once was red.
6. Remove the outside, cook the inside, eat the outside, throw away the inside.
7. What goes around the world and stays in a corner?
8. What gets wetter the more it dries?
9. The more there is, the less you see.
10. They come at night without being called and are lost in the day without being stolen.

Think hard about number 7 you may know it!!!!!!!!!

Just for fun

Well done everyone who posted a comment on the close up picture puzzle.  The correct answer was an ice cream cone.  I think it was a bit too easy so here is a What as I riddle which may challenge you and make you think.

I have an eye but cannot see. I am stronger and faster then any man alive but have no limbs.

What am I? Clue.Think about our natural disaster learning

Spaghetti towers

                                                                                      In room 8 we have been learning about Natural disasters.Some of us had to make a structure out of spaghetti and marshmallows, we had a budget of $400 with the spaghetti costing $5 a piece and the marshmallows costing $10 each. The tower had to hold something that is 200gms. The winner is the one who's is the tallest and can hold the weight of 200gms.

These were the winning towers



Sport

Love the moves. 
In our syndicate we are practising our soccer skills. This is a great example of great soccer!
WELL DONE!!!!!!!!!!!                      

Joke competition

We are hosting a joke competition
What you have to do!
Post a joke in the comments and we will choose the winner in a few days so comment now!
You can enter as many times as you would like!
The winner will be announced on Thursday.
Example: Why didn't the skeleton go to the party? Because he had no body to go with.
Sian and Michal

Just For Fun!!!

What Am I?

Can you name this everyday object from it's close up photo?

Post your answer as a comment.

Audacity

This term we are learning to use the software program Audacity in the computer suite.
What is Audacity? It is a free and easy-to-use audio production and mixing program which enables students to record, import, edit, and add effects to sound files.
This week we listened to a narration of "Beowulf" which had sound effects in the background.  We identified the sounds, then we tried to reproduce the narration.  We learnt how to add the narration, add background sounds, change the pitch, add silence and use fading in and out. 
Next week we will learning how to make a short, scary movie trailer.
Audacity is free to download and has many educational uses;- recording your poems, speeches, practicing your foreign languages, adding sound tracks to your movies, animations and PowerPoint presentations.  We will be using it as part of our "Facing Disaster" unit by creating a radio broadcast from the scene of a disaster that we have studied.
It would be fantastic if you downloaded Audacity onto your home computer and practiced using it's many functions. (you may be able to teach me something new). A good way to use Audacity is to record yourself practising your poem for the poetry recitals and add some sound effects in the background.
Free Audacity Download
A great site to download free sound tracks is Partners in Rhyme, I particularly like the spooky laugh.
Partners In Rhyme Website

Poetry Recitals

At the end of this term YOU will all be performing a poem to the class.  The top three presentations will then take part in syndicate finals.  The winner will then represent Nikau syndicate in the school finals.

Each week I will post a poem on our blog which will show you a good example of how to present a poem, give you ideas and hopefully inspire you to find a poem which you enjoy.  See the links down the side for poetry websites.

This weeks poem is The Ning Nang Nong by Spike Milligan 

Quinn's Disastours story.

Mrs Lee told us to explain the meaning of the words. Cataclysm, Apocalyptic, Ruin, Pulverised, Catastrophe, Path of Destruction, Hardship, Destruction, Mishap, Emergency, Survival, Danger, Aftershock, Community, Misfortune, Traumatic, Liquefaction, Richter Scale, Crushed, Flammable, Deadly, Crisis, Calamity, Collapsed and Devastation.

They are all disaster words because we are starting a new topic called Facing Disasters. We also had to put them in a sentence and draw a picture.

Ellie's Disastrous story

The ground shock beneath me violently, the roaring sound grow louder and louder throwing all my thoughts out of my head and replacing it with the word EARTHQUAKE! How many seconds past I don't know. the world became a blurr fading into nothing. I grabbed hold of a hard object and squeezed it tight. Applying more pressere each time the ground shock. All of a sudden everything froze, "survival" cried the voice in my head, then the ground beneath me caved in and I thrust myself aside and it left a gapping big hole right beside me. It was a complete an utter crisis all that was left of our town was ruins. Ever since the quake happend our community has collapsed in hope of rebuilding our town back up around us. 

Music with Ms F

Every day 2 in the afternoon we go to music. At the moment half of us are learning the ukulele, and half of us are on garage band on the computer making music (after 5 weeks we swap over). On the ukulele we are learning a song called El Condor Pasa from South Africa. It is loads of fun and our music teacher is awesome!

By Shanee and Morgan

Term Two