A silly story about a cat and a dog

Once there was a cat called umm cat that lived in a big hat. One day the cat went under a mat and a dog sat on the mat where the cat was. When the dog left the cat moved the mat and the cat was sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo flat. Then the cat got up but the cat was still flat so the cat lived the rest of its life flat. Then one day the cat wanted revenge so the cat put the dog under the mat while it was sleeping. It took an hour to put the dog under the mat because the cat was weak because the cat is flat. So then the cat sat on the mat then the dog got flat. Then the cat walked back to the big hat. Then the dog woke up and removed the mat then the dog got mad because he was sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo flat. Then along came a goat the dog went under the mat to hide from the cat. Then the goat sat on the mat were the dog was.THE END

Retelling The 3 Little Pigs

This is Hayley's version of the story ...

🐽The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs🐽
Once upon a time I was making a cake for my granny because she was too old and too fat to make her own cake. I was sick with a cold. When I was making the cake I realised that I had no sugar because my neighbours took all of it. So I went down to my neighbours -house to trade back some sugar.
He had made his house out of straw. When I got there I knocked on the door and I said “Stupid little pig, stupid little pig are you in?” and the pig said “ Go away you old bag of bones I’m shaving here.” I got a little mad but I was getting old and you can’t interrupt a man when he is shaving. Then I felt a sneeze coming on. I puffed and snuffed, Achoo.
Then the little pig’s house fell down with the pig in it. He  went down like a door nail. The pig looked dead so I ate it with some salt. “Maybe I will put some pepper on it next time” I said to myself.
So I went to his smarter brother's house. When I got there I said “ Smarter little pig, smarter little pig are you in?”  There was no answer.  So I started to walk away when  I felt a little sniffle coming on. I puffed and I snuffed and I blew that stick house down. That pig looked like it was in the same place as the other pig. So I ate it and put some pepper on it.
I went to the third little pigs house. He was the gifted one I guess, because he made his house out of bricks. I said “Little pig little pig are you in, you dummy? You know what that rude little idiot said?  “Go away you big fatty.” Now, I was going to go home and maybe make a nice card or something. But then I felt my cold coming a long, I puffed and I snuffed. Achoo. Then the pig said “You are as fat as your dumb granny.” Now, I am normally a pretty nice guy but when someone says something bad about my granny I lose it! “You are an idiot little pig.” I said

But then I heard the sirens and I tried to run away. But then the Air Force came in. When I was at jail I got a newspaper and you know what those pigs did. They put me as the shady person to make the story more juicy. “When I see that pig again I will hurt him  like I have never hurt something before!” When I get out of here!

Office Art

Last Friday Rooms 1 and 2 at Kumara School made triangle art. Each child had two triangles and chose a 'warm' and 'cold' colour. Once they were completed they were pasted on to large pieces of black paper. The art work is displayed in the foyer of the office. We have had lots of positive comments. The children worked very hard during this project and are proud of their effort.

Transformation using grids

This week we found an accredited image on Explore and selected it to use on our page. We then put a 5x5 grid on it so we could copy the image and make it original. Mrs Minehan selected the first two images so we could understand the process, then we got to choose our own image. We found the first one of the korus quite challenging to get the shape correct and while the second one of the tree was an easier shape, the colours needed to be explored but that part was a lot of fun. The students chose their favourite image and blogged about it, so please have a look on their individual blogs to see their amazing efforts. Have you ever tried to transform an image using a grid? How did you find the process?

Working on Animated Slideshow of an Environmental Disaster.

Room 1 are working on making their own animations of an environmental disaster in their community. This photo shows the humorous part because the class are currently facing their own environmental disaster with over half of their classmates down with the flu! Yes this is their whole class and it's been like this for the last week. They are working through a slide show of instructions and will be posting their animated slideshows on their blogs when they are completed. Watch this space ...

Google MyMaps

Over the last couple of weeks we have been learning how to use Google MyMaps and then we got to look closely at our own environment and locate landmarks. For each landmark we found we had to name it, write something about it and find an image of it so that the pin on our map had information on it. This is one of our finished maps of Kumara. We have posted them on our blogs so we hope you will have a look at them. Have you ever used myMaps to locate places in your community?

We're showing the Kawa of Care

As a class we have been looking at the Kawa of Care rules. We read all the rules and highlighted them so we could see what was very, very important, what was really important and the rest were important. Then we chose one of the rules and we made a poster on the |Google draw tool. We have made a class poster with links to our individual posters. We hope you follow our rules. Smart blogging from Room 1.