Mannequin Challenge

The Mannequin Challenge is a viral internet video trend where people are frozen as a camera moves through to film them so, of course, Kahikatea HAD to get on board. 

We headed outside to do our usual Friday Dodgeball match and this is what happened... 

2016 Leavers Video

Year 6 Leavers 2016

This week, we farewelled our year 6's in what was a busy but exciting week!

Tuesday saw our year 6 students dressing in their finest to attend the leavers dinner. We had photos, ate dinner together and shared achievements and awards.

 Friday was the final assembly for 2016 where we re-awarded the awards with the whole school, teachers and extended family. 

Below is the leavers video for 2016! It's a bit of laugh.. feel free to watch and share with loved ones.

To the year 6 students of 2016.. this is an end to an era. Your next journey is about the begin! Good luck with what lies ahead. 

Be kind, be great, be you! 

Eat, Sleep, Swim, Repeat!

The last two weeks of Term 3 have been busy with swimming lessons! 

We have had instructors taking us for lessons in both swimming and survival. During the second week we had to bring extra clothes and get into the pool in our clothes! This made them super heavy and hard to swim in, but was also really fun to do and we learnt lots in case we were ever caught out in trouble! 

It's been fun being able to go to Kings Swim School and show off all our skills! 

Potato Planting is upon us!

Potato Planting 2016!

For weeks we had been chitting potatoes! This meant that while potatoes rested in Kahikatea they started to grow little nodules. 

The first week of September is potato planting week! We headed out to the garden with Mr. Rob and listened to how to grow the best potatoes! 

Mr Rob dug some rows for us and we dropped a potato in each, 
making sure that they were about a hand apart AND chits up so that they don't grow sideways. 
Once we had all put our potatoes in the ground Mr. Rob covered them in a mound like shape. This helps them grow, according to Mr. Rob. 

It's awesome getting out into the garden with Mr. Rob! We're super lucky to have the garden and him around to give us awesome life skills! 

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Swingin, slidin, climbin our way to Wigram Primary

San Diego Zoo - Leo

Have you ever wanted to go to San Diego, because our class traveled through the virtual tour to the San Diego zoo. We'll  take you on a trip with the virtual world. I really like the Polar bears, the Panda and the Lion cubs.

 First  Susan told us that unique Polar bears in San Diego zoo live in Polar bear plunge. The day that I watched the video when it was snow day for Polar bears. One Polar bear named Takek, slid down the hill almost slid down into the little river. When the polar bears play in the snow they turn the color that the bacteria is.

 The next thing I watched was Chinese,and he loves to eat Bamboo. It's the Panda. Pandas have giant amounts of curiosity. The Panda cubs come out into the Panda exhibit. Pandas are chubby black & white four legged animals. 

Last I watched The Lion cubs' CUTE!' and playful.Ken & Dixie are the newest Lion cubs. Ken & Dixie weighed 3 pounds when they were born, in a few years the 2 twins could be 300-500 pounds. They both have sharp claws and teeth that grow as they get older.

The San Diego zoo was great. I loved watching the videos of the Pandas, the Polar bears and the two Lion cubs. It was stupendous watching the videos.

San Diego Zoo - Kieran

San Diego Zoo

1. Introduction	Have you ever wanted to go on a virtual trip? Well we went on a virtual trip to the San Diego zoo. We watched videos about the animals there. I liked the clever Egyptian vulture, the cute Armadillo and the humongous Komodo dragon.
2. Body Paragraph 1	Egyptian vulture The first animal that I had interest in was the Egyptian vulture. The zoo keeper Jenny taught me a lot about Egyptian vultures. All vultures eat rotten food and love eggs but not all vultures have no hair on their head. The Egyptian vulture is not like other vultures because it has feathers on it's head and also eats cleaner food than normal vultures like worms, insects, lizards, rats, rabbits and rotten fruit. With no vultures the world would be a smiler place because they eat smelly rotten meat that is left over from other animals. Egyptian vultures would crack an ostrich's egg by hitting it with a rock a couple of times. As you can see Egyptian vultures are really cool and clever how it uses a rock as a tool! And is really interesting.
3. Body Paragraph 2	Armadillo The next thing that interested me was the cute armadillo. The zoo keeper Kyn taught me a lot about armadillos and how their scales are made out of the same material as your nail. Did you that the armadillos are hard on the outside and soft on the inside and the pattern on it's head is different to others. On the armadillos proper body are long hair like wires that help them feel around at night which is really helpful because the armadillo has really bad eye sight. To protect itself it turns into a ball with only it's armor is showing. When it's time to eat it uses its little claws and good sense of smell to find and get food. Armadillos eat special pellets,vegetables , fruit, and meal worms. Armadillos are cute and very friendly as you can see.
4. Body Paragraph 3	Komodo dragon The third animal that I liked was the Komodo dragon. Zoo keeper Ken taught me a lot about Komodo dragons. Komodo dragons are like the king of lizards because it can get up to ten feet long and way up to 175 pounds! Komodo dragons have a fork like tongue just like a snake so it can smell one mile away. People say that the more Komodo dragons smell us the more it will want to eat us! .Komodo dragons eat anything they can find in the wild but their main priority is dear but at the zoo they eat rats, rabbits and beef shake and for a treat he gets eggs. Komodo dragons eat food in one giant gulp. Komodo dragons are so fascinating and extremely intelligent.
5. Conclusion	I like the San Diego zoo because it has so many cute and fascinating animals that I love!

My Trip to the Hospital - Micah

My Trip to the Hospital

Today was the day I was going to Saint George's Hospital. My mum told me I’m not allowed to eat after 7.30 or to drink after 11.00.

When garden club went out to Rob we did some work in the garden. Rob said “go and pick some berries and carrots to take home” so we all ran over to do exactly that. I had forgotten about what mum said and picked 3 berries, 1 tomato and a strawberry. I was just about to get a carrot when I realized that I had eaten some food.

I ran like the flash and headed straight for Mrs Boswell who was at the office with a whole lot of little kids and one of them had fallen over (I think).

Mrs Boswell asked me if I was okay. I replied, “I ate some food by accident”. So she rang mum and told her about it. Mum said she will call later. About 15 min later she came to pick me up.We drove through town and into my room but we didn't smash through the whole thing. That would be CRAZY.

The lady led me to my room. Room 5 was my room. It was my room until 7.00 in the morning on Thursday. There was a T.V. that I could watch if I wanted to. After 10 min’s the nurse came in and put some cream on the top of my hand so I could get a blood test. At 4.30 it was time to go have my surgery . They put a warm blanket on my bed to keep me warm so warm like the sun. They pushed me to this room that I had to wait there until they were ready for the surgery. About 10 minutes later I was able to be pushed into the theater to have surgery. They put some gas into me so I can go to sleep.

After I woke up I was given a ice block to get my taste back to normal.I had a bandage on to stop the blood. I was taking back to my room to chill and watch TV. I had to stay there for the night so I didn't have any problems at home. In the morning my surgeon came to take off my bandage and it hurt so much. About an hour later I was able to go home….and sleep. When I got home I slept for about 3 hours. When I woke up it was time to pick up my sister from school. When It was tea time I was not able to eat so I didn't eat anything for a week…. Almost.

I got back to school on the following Thursday. Everyone wanted to see my ear. This is a end of a long life mistake.

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Knowledge: List 5 facts you learnt from the text.

1. The first person to walk on the Moon was Neil Armstrong in 20 July 1967.      
2. The surface on Venus is 187c.
3. Scientist think that there might be water under ground on Mars.
4. Mars is so far away that it will take messages four minutes and twenty seconds to reach us.
5. Venus air pressure could crush a human body.

Comprehension Why do spacecraft go to Mars and not Venus? What are the problems with sending people to Mars?

Spacecrafts go to Mars because the pressure on Venus could crush them. The surface on Venus is 187C hot enough to melt lead. Mars is one of the planets that people can survive on. At night the temperature seldom reaches 5 c. On Mars dust storms can last for months.

Application Choose four specialist words from the text and find their definition.

1. Spacecraft means a vehicle used for travelling in space.
2. Astronauts means a person who is trained to travel in a spacecraft.
3. Oxygen means a colourless, odourless reactive gas, the chemical element of atomic number 8 and the life-supporting component of the air.
4. Temperature means the degree or intensity of heat present in a substance or object, especially as expressed according to a comparative scale and shown by a thermometer or perceived by touch.

Analysis Would you like to go on a trip to Mars? Why, or why not?

A reason why I don't want to go to Mars is because of the dust storms and how cold it gets at night. I can't breath oxygen. A reason why I do want to go to Mars I'll be the first kid that went to Mars. I get to experience a different planet. A might get to prove that there was life on Mars.

Synthesis- New Ideas Create a poster/infographic/google drawing about what you have read to put up in the classroom. Include information you have learnt from the text.

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Buzzy Bee a choking Hazard - Kayla

Knowledge:List 2  fact from the text  

1. The buzzy bee toy is only known because of when Prince William came to New Zealand and had a buzzy bee toy.

2. Did you know that there are heaps of babies that are choking on the toy buzzy bee.

Comprehension

The main thing is that the people that make buzzy bees should make sure that no one can eat anything off of it and make it more safe so if babies but it in there mouth nothing would fall off and choke them. This story should be called the buzzy choke.

Application:Draw three frame picture strip

Babies normally put stuff in there mouth but

You should watch your baby everything it put in its mouth!.

If you buy this test it be for you let your baby have it because parts might fall off and your baby might put it in it mouth.

When you get a toy for your baby make sure that the toy is made so no wheels are going to fall off.

Analysis: Make a flowchart with at least 4 things in it

Synthesis: New ideas write one thing you would changes

The one thing that i would change is that the people that are buy it get to see how's it made and if it made correctly.

Evaluate: Make a judgement and rate the story

I rate this story 8 out of 10 because i don't like reading stuff that have babies choking and that the people who make them should make them better.

India By Shanix, Kieran and Franchesca

India

1.

2 population of India is 1,326,801,577

3.Pranab Mukherjee is the 13th and current leader of India since 2012 he was born in December 11, 1935.

4.The capital city of India is New Delhi

5.Mumbai is the most populated city India with 16,368,00 people.

6.The longest river of India is the Indus River.

7.Kangchenjunga is the highest mountain in India with (8,586 metres) and (28,126 feet).

9.

10.India is the seventh largest country by total  In west Bengal,India,cows must have a photo, in india they have more mobile Phones than toilets,one of India's most deadliest animals is the black scorpion.    

       By:Shanix, Franchesca and Kieran

The fantastic Margaret Mahy playground By Kieran

The fantastic Margaret Mahy playground

The Margaret Mahy playground is directly in the middle of the city of Christchurch by my dad's work. The playground has a big slide, a climbing hill and a big spider net longer than a bus. The playground is designed big so everyone can have fun and the adults can join in with their child.

The big slide is the feature of the playground because it uses a massive space and it is the most popular place. At the top of the slide it looks extremely steep and dangerous. When you go down it is super cold on a cold day but on a warm day it is unbelievably hot.

The climbing hill is designed with special lizards to help you climb it when it's slippery. The climbing hill is made out of rubber and on top of it is fake grass. The slide leads up to the peak of the hill where the big slide and two tunnel slides are. On a wet day it is slippery and on a warm day you can walk up it with no problems. The climbing hill looks enormously steep from the bottom but at the top it does not look as steep.

Within the boundaries of the magnificent Margaret Mahy playground the spider net sits right next to the big slide. The spider net is made out of thickened rope and metal hinges shaped as a sphere. Under the climbing net there are ropes with tiny platforms to stand on and some super uncomfortable hammocks.

Everyone goes to the Margaret Mahy playground because it has a ton of exciting things to go on. You can  have family picnics on the big hills in the Margaret Mahy playground. The Margaret Mahy playground is extremely safe and stable. I like the Margaret Mahy playground because it is humongous and safe.

The Fishing Boat. - Greg

The Fishing Boat.

By Gregory

"How's your swimmin'?" My Uncle asks me, his loud, firm voice echoes in my ear. "If I fall in the water, I won't drown!" I yell back, I swiftly slide myself down the towering ladder. We were at the fishing dock, I was lowering myself carefully into my Uncle's boat. If there was no boat there, I would be soaking, wet and swimming with the fishes in the seemingly infinite waters.

Safely on the boat, my uncle opened his boating log and wrote down something. (I wasn't looking… Or caring.) Once done he placed the log down, walked out onto the deck and told me a fact about the "pesky little" seagulls. It felt awkward… Very awkward. Jokes were and still are, my Uncles great talent. "I will now make a container MAGICALLY appear," he announces. Yet magic wasn't his great talent, I had an eccentric look on my face…

He then proceeded to pull a container out from under a trapdoor on the boat. I clapped sarcastically and said "WHOA, WHAT!" My uncle opened the container, and I nearly puked. It was full of literal… FISH MUCUS! No gloves on, he started filling a transparent bag full of said mucus to use as bait. That's why he said the fact about seagulls, the fact was that "the (pesky little) seagulls swoop in and steal fish bait thrown into the water."

Seagulls were squeaking and squealing around our boat, this could mean only one thing. They had smelt the fish bait! I was about to take cover until my Uncle scared them away. Hizzah! I have now embarrassed myself... AGAIN. I groaned in despair, 'till suddenly he asked me if I had wanted to see over 20 oysters caught in one cage. He then states, "I will now pull this magic rope..." I sighed. It was going to be a long… day.

Angry dad description - Micah

His eyebrows are cringed when he looks at you.

His head shook like a wrecking ball flying through the air.

He was holding his stomach like his heart was pounding like a frog

Blood vessels squeezed out of his head like a creek.

The terrifying face turned to a tomato Dad,s hand was clenched like he was going to punch me.

His finger was pointing at me like that they could fly. Blood was rushing through his veins like a red river.

His clothes turned to sweat every time he screamed my name.

Micah and Thomas

The fantastic Margaret Mahy Playground - Hayley

W.A.L.T. write a descriptive recount.

Yesterday the 16th of may 2016 we went to the fantastic Margaret Mahy playground. At the park there was a big gigantic slide up a hill. To get up the hill there was some things that you could hold on to to get up because it was so huge and steep ish.

Some people like me could get up without holding on to anything! We went on the school bus and on the bus it was super noisy.

I was in Nina's group with Hayley HB, Gloria, Kyla and Chloe T.

First we got out of the bus and lined up in our groups and waited for a bit then we went to go sit down on the blue mats to have our morning tea.

After that we went for a walk to the Gap Filler and played for about ten minutes to see if we could get any ideas for what we want at our new school in wigram. There was lots of obstacles there to play on.

Then we walked back to the playground and had lunch then we got to play well the juniors went for a walk as well.

Next the juniors got back and we all played together and had lots of fun.

Finally we all got back on the buses and I fell asleep on the bus. Then we got back to school and had some playtime and then we talked about the stuff we liked.

My favourite part was the two flying foxes, the big metal slide, the sandpit area and the trampolines. There were two flying foxes so you could race each other on them. I raced Adelaide for a bit. It was funny because Mr Barrow went on the flying fox and raced someone which wasn't Adelaide or I. I think he versed someone younger than Adelaide and I. I really wish I could go back to the playground.

I think that the Margaret Mahy playground was the best playground ever! I love it. Thank you to all the parents who gave up your work to help us be able to go. It was awesome!

Scpf site 61 Chris

S.C.P.F. Site 61

By Chris

WARNING MUST READ: this is a scary writing doc it's about keeping the world safe from MONSTERS!!

Chapter 1

Getting a job.

One day i was in Class-D the prisoners class but then it my name was called out of the most loudest speaker ever! The crazy speaker said Chris Chambers Class-D Member report to the MTF Commanding Officer now i went with a SCPF Security guard to his office.

Chapter 2

Being part of the MTF

Then the commander said hey there Chris you are now part of the Mobile-Task-Force and my new title is now Chris (MTF) (MVP) it was crazy xD and i was never un respected again!

Chapter 3

Geting are weapons

I was welcomed to the Mobile-Group and the Mobile Security two but the first thing I was told to go to was armoury to get a are weapons they were a P90,Cloak 17,Mp5 and that was all of them and the coolest part was me getting a heavy duty armour and heavy duty helmet and my IvI 1 Key card IvI 2 Key card IvI 10 Key card and that was all.

Chapter 4

Going in the Heavy Contaminant area

So when I got my stuff I went to the  Heavy Contaminant area and only the Mobile-Task-Force were the only Team who had access but the Mobile-Administrator and access to every room.

Chapter 5

Mobile-Administrator's Job

His job is to make the Mobile-Task-Force and the Mobile-Security even and when a SCP Test escapes he will sand all the alarms plus he gets to go to all the Mobile-Meetings with all the Administrators and  Commanders.

Chapter 6

Having lunch with all the Class-D Members

L went to go have lunch and when I got there PRISONERS were looking like they were going to take over the LUNCH ROOM But that would never happen 1 There were 40 Mobile-Security Officers and 80 Mobile-Task-Force People they were all geared up that's for sure!

Chapter 7

Killing one of my friends

Having to sadly Essu Acute one of my best friends when l was part of the Class-D :( but l wasn't shooting him or whatever they do l was still on the job so I never saw him again.

Chapter 8

SCP 991

So when I was in the lunchroom with the prisoners the hole Mobile-Group was could by Administrator First class said all  Mobile-Task-Force members immediately report to Heavy catamint SCP 991 right now so I rushed to the Heavy catamint and cell 991 when

L got there SCP 991 WAS GONE!!!

Chapter 9

They were gone

When we all found out that SCP 991 was gone the security went up and the mobile-Group went up two

But on that day lots of the security officers started to go missing and then we all seted up a trap and then we waited and waited then we heard a bang and a crash so we all went in are place's.

Chapter 10

Catching SCP 991

Then we got him so everyone stood up and aimed there P90's and Aug A1, Aug A2,Aug A3 and Aug HBAR were ready to shoot and then the MTF leader said FIRE!!! We all shoot and it was mayhem then SCP 991 was knocked out so we put him back into his cell.

Chapter 11

Getting Fired!

So l went to my MTF Cando and then when I was just about to get in my condo I was called and it said chris chambers is fired so I left the building for ever!

The end.

Nippers-Chloe

NIPPERS  

Article and photographs

By jill macGregor

Knowledge  

1.  didn't you know that there were junior surf clubs. 2.

2. I didn't that in the junior  surf  club they had to clean the beach.

Comprehension

They had to smooth out the ground for the lifeguards to clean the beach.

 

All about writing-Juleana

All About Writing

By Juleana Nacian

Writing is all about putting ideas into sentences and talking about what you did, when you did it, who you did it with, how you do it, and why you did it.These things help you explain your writing.

You can do it in a writing book, on a whiteboard, or if you have a google account, you can do it in docs. Writing can be about your favourite movie/book character, write about anything in your imagination.You can also draw a picture above your writing or below. When you are writing in a book, use a pen. But when you're drawing, use a pencil.

To make a very descriptive and accurate writing, you add adjectives.These little fellas are important to add. Adjectives are about making boring words into great words. For example, you could describe the word "good" like this: fantastically good, and that's how you do it! Isn't it wonderful!

There's another thing that's also important.Full stops and capitals. At the start of each sentence, there is always a capital! No capital is a stupendous fail.The last thing is the full stop.The full stop is always at the end of a sentence. If you can't find one at the end of a sentence, you are a big failure.You should never forget these things.

The last thing is to stay calm and focused so you can finish straight away. If you make a mistake, don't panic!

I love writing!

Extraordinary Earthworms - Nikita

Knowledge.1 .There are more than one thousand kinds of seaweed.2. The biggest seaweed in New Zealand can grow up to 70 metres high.3. The smallest seaweed is as small as your little finger nail.4. Seaweed is an algae that grow in the sea.                                                                                                                                                                             ComprehensionThis book is about undersea gardens it has seaweed,coral,fishthere is more than one thousand seaweed types in New Zealand the smallest seaweed in the world is the size of your little finger nail and the biggest seaweed is 70 meters high. Air bladders help to hold the blades upright in the water the blades are the leaves of the seaweed they take in sunlight to help the seaweed to grow.

Camping down the line week 8 Cody

Knowledge: List all the characters in the story and what they are.

girls

Mum and girls

boys

Dad baby and boy

Comprehension Retell the text in your own words. (At

least 4 sentences)

They were going camping when it was pitch black like this box. But they did not know they were right beside the railway tracks.They lit up the gas lamp and they had tea the twins put their lettuce on the ground.they went to bed.

In the middle of the night a train went past they thought they got run over but they didn't. The kids slept in the car.  

Application Draw a three frame picture strip of one part of this story. Include speech bubbles

Analysis Create a FLOW CHART of the main events in sequence - (there should be at least 6 idea

Synthesis- New Ideas Create a new front and back cover for the book. Give it a new title and write a short summary.