Thursday, March 29, 2012

Quotes of Courage

We have chosen these quotes from War horse which we think illustrate courage from various characters in the book.

Use these to inspire the pictures you choose to illustrate your poster next week..


We’ll come out of this all right - don’t worry‘   (p46 Capt Nicholls to Joey)
“I want to join up and stay with him”  (p 28 Albert to man looking after horses)
“I’ll do everything I can”  (p30)
“He died leading the charge and you finished it for him”   (p47)
Each night we spent in the lines up to our hocks in freezing mud   (p90)
He pulled out his rifle and shot his mount before falling dead on the wire himself.
“I just hope I’m up for it when the time comes”  (p34 Capt. Nicholls talking to Joey)
“I can do anything now.  Fell like one of those nights in armour when I’m up on you”
But the squadron galloped inexorably through it all all towards the wire at the top of the hill and I went with him
His eyes told me all the pain he was suffering and I puled all the harder to enable him to ease up.
“Father” said Albert with resolution in his voice, “I’’ll train Joey but you must promise to never raise a stick 
to him again”
As we waited for the bugle calls, the air was electric with anticipation
That night with the rain sheeting down relentlessly on our backs I stood over him as he lay down in the mud
“I’m just lending them to you, these are my horses.  They belong here “ (Emilie to Germans)
Like Topthorn before him he seemed to sense that I needed a continual reminder that he was with me 
and protecting me.  
But Albert was always with me and so I was never afraid of the guns anymore
“You’ve got the right spirit of a soldier young man”
I found Topthorn was always by me and would breather his courage into me and support me
... I saw, out of the corner of my eye, a man in a grey uniform, climbed out of the trenches 
waving a white flag above his head”

Monday, March 26, 2012

Science Task 2

Task 2
Choose  a part of your body system. Look into it in more depth. Find out about what it does and how it works then complete the following task..... 




Body Management System Alert!!!
It has become apparent that we cannot go on as we are- Cuts will need to be made and body parts will have to go! You will need to write a letter to us  ( The Body Corporate) to convince us of your importance in the human body. 
Why do you need to stay? What makes you so special? What would happen if you were to be taken from the body! You are fighting for your life - so try to persuade us to keep you in. Letters to be in by next Wednesday, or face the chop!

Use the following guidelines to help you;


Sunday, March 11, 2012

Dear Kea...

Dearest Kea Class!!
Just writing to let you know that the operation went well and I am back at home recovering! Feeling a wee bit woozy still and suprisingly tired all the time! My neck looks lovely! NOT. But I will be left with an impressive scar- Great!! Just to let you know daytime TV is so dire
I have resorted to watching the Lord of the Rings trilogy! That should keep me going a while in between sleeps! Hope you are all well and behaving for Mrs Brinsley- BE GOOD.
Miss you heaps.
Look forward to hearing from you ( use our usual password to create a post but dont publish them- i can access them and publish once i have read them here!)
Take Care
Mrs T XXX

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Explanation text link

Please use this link to refer to when writing your explanation text
Explanation Text

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Whenua-iti Transport Info

Transport for Whenua-iti,
 A big 'Thank You' to the parents who have offered to help with transport next Wednesday. Here are the transport arrangements . We will aim to leave soon after 9.00am We are due there to start at 10.00am so we will have plenty of time. We will leave at 2pm to get back for 2.30. Look forward to seeing you then.
 

War heroes we have researched



eg
Florence Nightingale was a truly amazing and inspirational nurse. She changed the face of nursing from an untrained career to a highly skilled profession. She was born on the 12th of may 1820 in Florence, Italy and was brought up in Derbyshire and Hampshire and was named after the place of her birth.

By Grace




Edith Cavell
Born 4th december 1865 in Norfolk, UK. Edith entered the nursing profession at the age of 20. She was a British nurse who moved to Belgium and was appointed matron at Berkendel medical institute in Brussels, 1907
By Sheena



Jack Simpson Kirkpatrick
Jack was born in 1892 in England he came from a family of eight children. When he was young he worked with donkeys, later he deserted a ship in australia when he heard of the war in Germany. He feared the Australian army would not let him join because he deserted his ship so he went under Jack Simpson and left off Kirkpatrick he was accepted.

By Riley





Charles Upham was born on 21 September 1908, full name:Charles Hazlitt Uphams. He's probably one of the most famous NZ soldier because he has earned 2vc {Victoria cross}

By Sam

kea class french!!!

French in kea class!!! on PhotoPeach


By Morgan!

Our Placemats are Finished!!

Our Decorative Placemats on PhotoPeach



By Sam S and Grace

The Human Body

In class this term we have been looking at the human body and how it works. We have been doing many different activities that have  been really fun and we have really enjoyed taking part in them. We did an activity where you have to draw around a body and draw and label the organs inside. Here are some photos of the finished product.


We also did an activity called alpha ladder. We had 13 minutes to get a body part of each letter of the alphabet, we did this in our table groups. It was a competition to see who could get the most original words! Click this link to check it out.
Human Body Alpha ladder group activity

Purple Cake Day @ St Paul's....

Purple Cake Day
On Friday the 2nd March we had purple cake day. Purple cake day is to raise money for Nepal. Everyone had to wear one purple thing and bought in a gold coin donation in our class we made $36.00!!! The junior syndicate made purple cupcakes.
Ajay made his own purple cake to share with our class! Thanks Ajay!


By Ajay Ben Jamie and Abby

Lent Cross



This lent
kea class have been writing prayers and messages to God about trying to stop (fasting) certain behaviours, to be more like God and how he wants us to be.

We have also written a letter of love to a family member to show how much we appreciate and love them. This represents us giving ourselves to someone else.
By Brydie and Hannah