Tyla's Stegosaurus

We've been learning about dinosaurs. Here is a movie about Tyla's favourite dinosaur a stegosaurus.

Isara's Parasaurolophus

We've been learning about dinosaurs. Here is a movie about parasaurolophus by Isara.

Esrah's Tyrannosaurus rex

We're been learning about dinosaurs. Here is a movie from Esrah about his favourite dinosaur Tyrannosaurus rex.

Rubbish Hunters

We are Going for Green and keeping our Pt England beautiful. We thought our school was clean but were we in for a surprise! Why not read a rubbish hunt recount from Mary and find out what she saw when she took a closer look.

Truffula Trees

Room 11 are learning about writing reports. Reports provide information by stating facts and describing a topic.

We learnt that reports have a set format.

That means they have:

• A title that explains about the topic
• A general statement explaining if it is a living or non-living thing
• A description explaining what it looked like, where they are found and how they behave.
• An evaluation about how you feel about the topic

We also learnt that we must state facts and not our own feelings unless you are writing the evaluation.

So this week we read The Lorax by Dr Suess with Miss Bycroft and then wrote down all the facts we could find about Truffula trees in a brainstorm. If you're wondering what a Truffula tree is here are some facts we took from the book.

• Truffula trees have long skinny trunks
• Truffula have tufts softer than silk
• Truffula trees come in many bright colours
• Truffula trees grow Truffula fruit
• Truffula tree smell like fresh butterfly milk
• Truffula tree fruit is eaten by Bar-ba-loots
• Truffula tree's give shade to the Bar-ba-loots
• Truffula tree tufts make tufts for Thneeds

After we found our facts we wrote a short report together.

Truffula Trees Truffula Tree lived a long time ago. Truffula Tree came in many bright colours. Their trunks are long and thin. They had silky tufts that smell like butterfly milk. They once grew at the far end of town.

We wish there were still Truffula trees, because they looked beautiful.

Here is a illustration of a Truffula tree by Makayla.

Hunting for Rubbish

We are learning to reduce, reuse and recycle. So here is a recount from Potaua.

Hunting for Rubbish

We're learning to Go for Green this term so we went on a rubbish hunt to see what we could find around our school. We were surprised at the amount of rubbish we found! Here is a recount from Waata explainng what happened.

A Graphic Introduction to Room 11 Kererus

Meet the Scribes

The Kererus are a writing group in Room 11. A kereru is also beautiful native New Zealand bird.

The Kereru group are David, Osana, Oshania, Ray, Starford and Unaloto.