Senior Syndicate Mini Market - Camp Fundraising Event

Governor General Anand Satyanand Visits Nayland

Today the Governor General visited our school. In the picture is the Governor General Anand Satyanand and his wife.
The Maori Culture Group can be very proud of the way that they gave such a warm welcome to our visitors.
The haka was done with mana and our waiata was tino pai. Cole was spotted in the group too for giving a tu meke performance!
Kei te pai to Sol and Meihana who spoke so well too with their whaikorero. The Governors wife said that they spoke with excellent pronunciation!!!!!!!
The practice paid off and everyone can be proud for their effort!!!

How To Prepare For a Tsunami

Learn about the tsunami risk in your area.
Plan an evacuation route from your home, school or work to higher ground.
Prepare a 'Disaster Supplies Kit', containing water, food, first aid, equipment, tools, clothes and blankets.
Listen to radio and television programmes that broadcast tsunami warnings.
Follow directions given by officials such as police and fire officers.
Stay away until you are told it is safe to return home.

What evacuation procedures would you put in place for your community?

Breakfast Group #2

MMMMMM......... I think the camera failed us!!!!! I can't find a photo of the group. This group was well organised though. they were the first to get to school and start making their pancakes and smoothies for breakfast. This was another group that had an interesting smothie drink. Again I was invited to have breakfast with this group and by now I was nearly ready to be sick because I had just eaten way too much!!!!

Breakfast Group #6

Table Group #6 had invited me to their table for breakfast too and by now I was really ready to explode!!!! They had an interesting smoothie mix (not) and some great waffles made by Cole.

Breakfast Group #5

Breakfast Group #5 were the second top group.
They had an amazing table spread and even invited the teacher to breakfast. They made me eat too much though and my tummy nearly exploded!!! I was treated to waffles, fruit salad and a fruit smoothie.

Breakfast Group #4

Breakfast Group #4 were organised!!!
They had an interesting breakfast that included mouse traps, fruit kebabs and fresh juice.
I really liked they way that this group organised themselves.

Breakfast Group #3

Group #3 was very organised with Brendon bringing in some pancakes, South African style.
Jamie had also been busy the night before making some giant pancakes for the group.
Great table setting boys and excellent cooperation!!

Breakfast Group #1

Akomanga Wha celebrated the end of term with a breakfast feast.
Each group had to:

set up their own table
write a menu
create a fancy table number
write a list on ingredients for the teacher
organise a theme or extra things for their group


Group # 1 had french toast, berry smoothies and fruit salad and were the overall winners for the morning as each group was marked on presentation and cooperation.

Kahurangi Reading Group - Sunday Market

Sunday Market
By Lisa Fuemana - Foa'i

Sunday Market is a bout a boy called Leroy who goes to his Aunty Fa's house and he makes a photo album.
The next morning he wakes up early to set up his market stall.
Aunty Fa gives him money to buy stuff and he buys a milkshake.

We gave this story a 6 / 10

By Hannah and Brendon

Regionals Cross Country

On Monday 14th September Ben, Danielle, Meihana and I went to the Regionals Cross Country Champs.
Meihana came 15th in the Yr 5 boys , and Danielle, Amiee, Lauryn, Lisa and were in the Yr 5 girls and came 4th, 6th, 17th, 33rd, 34th and 61st.
Lauryn, Aimee, Danielle and I all got silver medals.
The Yr 6 boys got 4th and the places were 9th, 15th, 71st, 60th, and 31st overall. Nayland Primary came 4th it was great day day and we had lots of fun.


From Ben and Emma

Mc Donalds Camp F'undraiser!!

Hi Nayland Primary Senior Syndicate !!!
Rooms 4 & 1 are doing a Mc Donalds Camp Fundraiser, where we will sell tickets to lower the percentage off our camp.
So inform all your your friends. We have each been given 4 adult tickets and 4 children tickets and if we sell all these tickets we will have $32.00 off our camp fee.

By the one and only Jared & Michelle

3 way conferences

This week we had our 3 way conferences . I had mine yesterday (Tuesday) and some others are having theirs today (Wednesday).
Our mum's, dad's and brothers and sisters we invited too.
We talked about our learning and how we are going in school.
On Tuesday it was from 3:20 till 8:30 and on Wednesday it was from 3:20 till 5:30.
During our 3 way conferences some of us shared our Room 4 blog and some of us are going to share it today.
All of us enjoyed our conference and we are going to do it again next year.

By Serena, Holly and Collette

Papura Reading Group - Poem and Jokes

Hey guys we have got some jokes to share with you and a poem we have read today.

THE SINK




The sink is an ocean of bubbles
The sink is a lake full of foam
The sink is a beach lined with froth
The sink is a cloud far from home

The sink is a chest full of treasure
The sink is a reef packed with wrecks
The sink is a tub full of pleasure
The sink is in up to it’s neck

The sink has the warmth of a bath
The sink has a smell quite delicious
The sink has the soft pop of fizzy
I just wish the sink had no dishes

We think this poem makes you think about the adventures and the pleasures of doing the dishes (not!)

Here are some jokes:


Q: Why couldn’t the sailors play cards?
A: Because the captain was standing on the deck

Q1: Why did the koala fall out of the tree?
A1: Because the branch was slippery

Q2: Why did the second koala fall out of the tree?
A1: Because it was stapled to the first koala!

By Stevie and Kaysie

Inter - School Cross Country - Papura & Kahurangi Reading Group

On the 18th of August 2009 some kids represented Nayland Primary School in the Inter - School Cross Country. This is us from room 4.
The participants from akomanaga wha where Danielle, Emma, Meihana, Callum, Rebecca, Kev, and Matthew. We had a great day. Nayland Primary got some very good places .

By Emma.kl and Danielle.H

Speech celebrations

Speeches Hi Ben and Sol here. We are here to tell you about our speeches. Ben and I did our speeches about people we admire. Ben did his speech on ‘DC’ also known as Daniel Carter and I did my speech on Sonny Bill Williams. We were very nervous but part way through our speeches we got more confident. Ben and I got chosen for the top speeches as well as some other people in our class by Mrs Miss Mason. And we got asked to do it again. But Ben was to nervous to do his again so he didn't. I did mine yesterday morning. Today we have just been told the results from the speech finals! A big congratulations to Callum for coming 1st place and also a big congratulations to Jamie on his 3rd place. Awesome effort Akomanga wha! CHECK OUT THE REST OF OUR BLOG!!

FROM BEN AND SOL.

A Wild Ride

A Wild Ride
Kowhai Reading Group

The Wild Ride is about a boy who asks his Mum so many times while they are on holiday to go on a jet boat. At the end of the hoilday's his mum takes him on one.
Brian, the driver does hand signals (which means they are going to do a 360'. They nearly hit the grass, but he turns really fast in time.

By Taine, Nathan and Troy

Te Waka -Kahurangi Reading Group

Te waka is about these young adults who row there waka to different villages. They never stop chanting this haka as they row.

“toi mai”
“te waka”
“ki te urunga”
“te waka”

These particular boys got picked because there ancestors rowed the same waka and they wanted to keep it running through their families.

by Matthew and Cole

Dissolve It!

I worked with Alex and Troy. Our experiment was to see what lolly pop would dissolve the quickest in different liquids. We got Highly Commended Award. It was a lot of fun.
By Nathan - Kowhai Reading group

What Ball Has The Most Bounce?

I worked with Collete and Caitlin this term to do a science board investigation. We scored 26 marks by the judges.
I really liked doing the testing.
By Taine - Kowhai Reading Group

Extreme Acid Overload

Ka pai tamariki ma for all the hard work and effort that you have put into the science fair over the last few weeks. And a big congratulations to Sol and Cole for making it through to the regional science fair competitions.
All of you presented A1 standard work. Kei te pai!!!
Mrs Miss Mason

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

In Papura we are starting to read Bridge to Terabithia which is a book about a boy called Jess. He meets a girl called Leslie. Together they discover an imaginary world of their own, filled with magic and adventure. To get into their magical kingdom they swing by a rope.

This book is a powerful, moving story about friendship.

We can’t wait to read it.
Chapter one is called. . . Jesse, Oliver Aarons, Jr.
By Collette and Emma

Papura Reading Group - Speeches

Dear Diary

Speech writing has started in room 4.We have a time limit of 3-5 minutes!!!!

Our Topics are:
*Get involved.
*Something or someone I admire.
*I’d like to tell you about...

We have already listed lots of ideas and we are up to the point where we are picking our speech topic and brainstorming our ideas.

Akomanga Wha - Don't forget that you need to work on these at home too.

By Sol and callum

Kahurangi Reading Group - Science Fair

Things you need to do for the science fair:

1. You need to think of a question to investigate.
2. You need to have a hypothesis. (predict what will happen)
3. List things I will change. (variables)
4. List things I will keep the same.
5. Test and measure. (you need to test 3 - 5 times)
   
6. Record results
7. Set your board up.

Meihana and Danielle

Kahurangi Reading Group - Story Review

Shine
by Makerita Urale

Shine is about a band and a boy who dislocates his shoulder at rugby before they are just about to perform. The story is based in Auckland. The name of the band is poetic Dynasty.
They enter into a music competition and... you will have to read and see.

Papura Reading Group - Story Review

Taiaha
by Ian Trafford

Taiaha is about a group of boys who go to Mokoia Island to learn about the ancient ways of the Taiaha.
Koro Mita welcomes the boys to the island.
The boys learn to use the Taiaha and work towards doing a performance for their whanau.
Taiaha looks very skillful and meaningful.

Our score for Taiaha is: 3 1/2 /5

A Disaster - By Sol

On a hot sunny day at the local skate-park in Nelson, the ‘youths’ were chilin out.
All the cool kids were doing all sorts of tricks and then I heard something from behind that made me stop what I was doing.

I looked over to where the noise was coming from. It was a bulldozer! It was coming straight for the skate-park. We quickly rushed over to it waving our hands and telling it to stop.
“What are u doing?’’ I said.
“Well I'm turning this skate-park into a mall,” said Jake. “Dont ask me, ask the council”,said the old man.
So the boys and the pet pig named Kuni Kuni rushed down to the council.

Half an hour later the youths arrived at the council building all feeling rather wound up about what was going on.
“You speak to them Jake”, said Amon “What do I say?” said Jake
“Just tell them like it is Jake!” “Thats our skate-park and we need it to stay there” “Kuni Kuni needs this park too!” “Where else will he get to practice for the world Kuni Kuni skateboarding competition coming up next month?”
“Go do it Jake” I said
“Auk” said Jake.
Jake smashed his fist on the desk and said. “I want to see the manager of this place!”. The secretary said “You will have to make an appointment”.
So Jake got the earliest appointment he could and the appointment was 1:00pm So they went to Mc Donald's and ordered 3 big mac combos and 1 extra large bowl of chips for Kuni Kuni. While they were waiting for time to go by.

They were halfway though their Big Mac Combos when they realized that it was 1:00pm and time for there meeting with the manager of the council.
So they quickly skated ,scooted and boxed down to the council building.

They got to the building and went up to the receptions desk and she said he was waiting for us in room 2 so she showed us ho to get there.

When we walked into the office I noticed something out of the corner of my eye. There was a photo of Hemi on the desk.
MMmmm..... I thought , thats the kid who got second at the Top of the South Champs last year.
“Nice photo” I said to the councilor.
“Why thank you!”
“Who’s that in the photo over there?” “He looks really familiar!”
“He’s my son Hemi”.
“Well didn't he come 2nd in the Top of the South Champs”.
“Yeah he did. I was very proud of him”.
“Well he could come to our skate-park and practice for this years champs”.
“And probably come 1st”.
“Auk I suppose”.
“Ill just take down Nayland Primary School instead”. “There’s lots of other schools in the region”.
“NO!” screamed Ms Gulbransen smashing through the door.
“Here it goes again” said the councilor.

THE END

Home School Partnership - Matariki / Active Schools

Matariki and Active Schools was celebrated on Wednesday 24th June at Nayland Primary School and what an awesome night it was.
We had over 150 people attend our Home School Partnership evening and everyone enjoyed the night.
Naylands Active Schools plan was presented and children from Room 4 presented their Matariki power point and showed off the amazing art work made by students.
We had an expert astronomer called Robert talk to us about the stars in the sky and he brought the biggest telescope ever to look at the stars and Saturn.
Armed with torches and glow sticks we then walked up to the Reserve where our Sports captains had organized games for us to play in the dark like, Battleships, Dark Dodge Ball and a giant tug of war rope for us to all test our strength.
After a big walk we headed back to school for the whanau prize draw and a kai karakia to bless the food we were about to eat. The hot soup and sausage sizzle went down a treat.
It was a great night and thankyou to all those that attended the night and helped to make it happen.

Museum Trip - Fossils

The Nelson Museum is an amazing place and we were lucky to have a back up plan when the weather came in really wet and our trip to Natureland was cancelled.
We have been learning about living creatures that are endangered, so this was quite exciting to look at the fossils of animals and creatures of the past.

Akomanga Wha - 2009

Kia ora koutou and welcome to Akomanga Wha's Blog.

Our goal this year is to be the best that we can be and to give all things ago! We are a dedicated crew who are working towards being life long independent learners.

To date we have 27 students in our classroom with a recent new addition this week all the way from South Africa called Brendan. Nau mai haere mai!

This is the first time that my self and some of the children of Akomanga Wha have used a Blog site and a goal for us all is to be confident 21st century learners and use our Blog daily.

The term is nearly coming to an end and we all cant wait for the variety show coming up in two weeks time. The tamariki have all been very busy dancing, creating costumes, learning lines and being very patient with each other as have worked through the process of putting together a show that reflects our learning. Kei te pai to mahi!!

Term Two Events:

• Mihi Whakatau for Marty Grant - NZ Black Sox Softball Player
• Tree planting in Monaco
• Matariki art competition
• Home School Partnership - Matariki / Active Schools
• Rippa Rugby Tournament
• Winter School Tournament
• Museum trip - Nga Iwi
• Museum trip - Fossils
• Natureland Trip - Postponed until Term 3

Nicky Mason - Classroom Teacher

Mihi Whakatau

On Friday the 29th May the Maori Culture Group welcomed Marty Grant to our school with a special ceremony called a mihi whakatau.
A mihi whakatau is a welcoming ceremony.