Khiel's Louis Sachar questions and facts

Kamusta readers,

Today I am posting my Louis Sachar facts and questions. For the past 5 weeks our group the Aztecs have been reading There's a Boy In The Girls Bathroom. 3 weeks ago we have started to find out facts and questions we can ask him if we meet him in real life and what he said about our questions.

Here is my Facts and Questions about Louis Sachar.

Did you learn something new about Louis Sachar?
Thank you for reading my blog post I hope you enjoyed and have an enthusiastic day.              :P

Capturing You!

Kia ora you stunning group of humans,

This term we are working on creating a strong narrative. It has to be believable, consistent and descriptive. It has to have a strong structure... and now we are learning to capture the audience by showing not telling.

Yesterday, we were learning to show and not tell. We looked for all our action words and highlighted them. Then we changed the weak action words to strong actions words by looking them up in the thesaurus.

Here is he link to the thesaurus: Thesaurus

This is how we did it:

Here is a weak action word sentence: Al gave Miss D coffee.

This is the sentence we changed: Al kindly rewarded Miss D with a delicious, hot cappuccino.



Thank you for checking out my blog today. I hope you learnt something about strong adjectives and how to change them. Please give me an example of a strong adjective you have used before!

Have an awesome day!

Making a Strong Narrative

Kia ora readers,

Today we will be showing your what we have been doing in Term 2 for writing. This term we have been learning how to write a strong narrative. A strong narrative is believable, descriptive and consistent. We can describe the setting and the characters.

Today we did Sick Sentences. We changed boring sentences into strong descriptive sentences.

Here is one of the boring sentences:
Anna sat down.
Here our changed descriptive sentence:
Anna sat down on her knees on the cold, uncomfortable concrete floor.

We have also been writing a story this week about a girl called Anna. Here is the picture we used.


Some of us started stories and would like to share our favourite paragrphs.

Here is a paragraph from Eddie's story:

 Anna was in a weird place when she put her finger on the clean, smooth glass but she was in the middle of nowhere but she could feel something burning beside her. After awhile she could smell smoke and wood burning, she found out that she was in a day dream but couldn't exit.

Here is a paragraph from Divine's writing:

 Chapter 2 The New Scary World!

As Anna was in a new world everything in the new world was the opposite of the world Anna lived in before. The rich were poor and the good were evil. Everything there was BAD.

This is Isaac's story:

She got sucked into the mirror and on the other side there was an old deserted house.She had not looked at the rooms but next to her she could see the mirror she tried to get back in but it would not let her so she had a little look around the house. She found the door but it was not only a deserted house or deserted town. she said to her maybe there's another mirror in one of these houses. So she looked in every old house but the big mansion. She looked in the rooms and the basement. In the basement there was the mirror. She touched the mirror and then it made the ripples and then it  sucked her back into the normal world.

Thank you so much for coming and visiting our blog. Did you like our stories? Was it entertaining?

Please comment below with your thoughts.

Word of the Week: Confident!

Kia ora readers,

I am sharing with you another word of the week.

My word of the week today is Confident! I found out that confident means to be sure about something. it means to know what you are doing. If I am confident I am not afraid and I know what to do next. I have made a slide to show you what the word confident is all about.



Thank you for reading my blog. i hope you learnt a new word. How would you use the word confident in a sentence? Please comment below.

The Amazing Room 9

Kia ora! This is Room 9!

Today we are letting you know more about us.

We have really enjoyed checking out Ruapotaka and Awapuni school. Thank you for your great posts and comments. We have finally gotten around to getting our classroom up and running.

We have all recently moved into our classes at the beginning of the year and our entire school now consists of new or upgraded prefabs.

Here is what our classroom looks like.



And this is a it about the cultures in our class.

We will keep the blog posts coming!

Have a great weekend!

:) Room 9

Into our Learning

Malo e lelei!

I hope you are all enjoying a great Waitangi weekend!

We had a fabulous start to our school year with the children enjoying our school swimming pool and getting into their learning. 

We are starting to get used to our new classrooms and set the expectations for how we want our classroom to look and feel like.

Working on our classroom design and expectations together.

Fun times at the pool.

Thanks for checking into our blog.

Kind regards, 

Miss D

Find Info Here!

Kia ora whanua,

Miss D here! Just thought I would share with you the information that went out in the parent letter
as another place to locate anything you might think is important or would like to find out.

Our Learning

All our learning is chromebook based, however it is expected that the children can write,
design, draw, and create with as many ‘tools’ as possible. Our concept for this year is Kaitiakitanga,
caring for our environment and each other. In our class we will be focusing on critical thinking,
questioning and listening to each other through collaborative learning. 

Our Class Site

All of the learning in our class is accessed through our class site. Please take a look around and
see the tasks that have been set for them and the groups and subjects which are their focus for the
week. This includes an outline of the daily timetable on the home page (ie. when swimming lessons
or lunch times are.) You can also access all the class blogs from here too.

https://sites.google.com/hornbyprimary.school.nz/room-9-2020/home

Accessing the Notices

Much of our school communication is by email and notices are also emailed out to parents through
a system called Hail. All school information can also be found on the school site which is linked to
Hail. Facebook is a great way to keep track of what is happening in school too!

http://hornbyprimary.school.nz/

New Block Expectations

This year our new senior block ( the bright red one!) is up and running ready for the beginning of
the year. We want to give our children the best including teaching them how to sustain and respect
their environment. This will mean that the children will need to remove their shoes before entering
the classrooms.

Some important things to remember at the beginning of the year.

Sunhats must be worn during Term One and Four. 

The school stationery fee is $20 and this covers all subscriptions for online education sites.

We are a ‘Water Only School’ and encourage healthy choices for lunch, e.g sandwiches, fruit, 

vegetables. Fruit should start in Week 2, on Monday 11th but it is helpful to add an extra snack

 or fruit to your child’s lunch box to eat at fruit time.

Please bring dry togs, a towel, swimming cap and goggles everyday. Swimming is an important 

part of the curriculum and it is expected that just like other school subjects, all children participate. 

If your child is unable to swim due to illness, please write a quick note to explain this to the teacher. 

A shower is available for those children who have skin allergies.

If your child has their own chromebook, please ensure that it comes to school fully charged and this 

is brought everyday.

It is expected that your child is dressed in the Hornby Primary School uniform. Please leave any 

non uniform items and jewellery (studs, sleepers and cultural necklaces excluded) at home. Please 

also ensure that any undergarments are tucked in and cannot be seen. 

The classroom is not open for children to enter until 8:30 am. We strongly encourage that children 

do not come to school before this time as there is no formal supervision available for them. If your 

child arrives at school earlier than this they wait at the picnic table area.

Formal home learning is not set in Room 9. We would however love you to encourage your child to 

read for at least 10 minutes every day, practice their basic facts (+, - and x), read and comment on 

other’s blogs and carry on with any learning they haven’t completed.

All cellphones brought to school by your children need to be dropped into the office upon arrival 

at school and collected when school has finished.

If you have any questions or queries please do not hesitate to contact me at school or pop into the class.