Kakapo Christmas Extravaganza

During our school wide craftyt kids week - Kakapo class decided to create a christmas experience for the whole school to come and visit on Friday afternoon.
This involved a short christmassy dvd inside our classroom that was completely blacked out except the 6x christmas lights (thanks Paris!). Around the walls were large paintings of the nativity scene, santa and his sleigh as well as the reindeer and some elves. We made a christmas tree from toitoi 'flowers'and decorated it as well as put up another christmas tree.
Some of our boys also made rice crackles to give to all 164 children in the school. Ms D also made lots of shortbread that some of our girls iced. Everyone in the school got a small christmas decorated brown paper bag that contained the rice crackle and the shortbread.
It was a great experience and the Kakapo kids worked really well independetly for most of the week.


Check out this (dark) video for what it was like...

Natalie and Sophie's blog

http://kakapo-class.blogspot.com/

Kayla and Hannah's Space Blog

Check it out!
http://planetnames.blogspot.com

Kieran and Christian's Space Blog

Check out Kieran and Christian's space blog at:


http://phegsspaceparty.blogspot.com

Space

Space is a place that's gigantic. The sun is a massive thing. Galaxies are huge and earth is so small compared to the massive waste land called space. It has no air and is massive to us beacause compared to space we're all midgets.

By Sam Pahina

tiny tiny tiny am i

tiny tiny tiny am i

the earth is big i am tiny

tiny tiny tiny am i

our solar system is enormous

earth is tiny

tiny tiny tiny am i

our galaxy is ginormous

earth is microscopic

tiny tiny tiny am i

space is ginormous, enormous

everlastingly big

earth is micromini, microscopicly small

tiny tiny tiny are we all

nuri kaya

SPACE

Space is such a big place
But tiny compared to our galaxy
With 8 planets in it
Not counting Pluto
With a mnemonic that goes with it
My Very Elderly Mother
Just Sits Under Netball Poles

BY CHRISTIAN RISATI

Space poem

Space is...
fullof massive planets.
Its ginourmous and
enormous.
Compared to space
we are micromini.
We are tiny compared to the giant planets in space

By natalie

space

New Zealand is tiny
The earth is huge
The sun is enormous compared to pluto
Pluto is mini
Galaxy is big but not as big as big asthe universe
Universe is tremendously gigantic
So space is a place sarounded by starsand amoung those stars there is the sun
The sun is our star
The sun sun is immensily

Taumaia Schuster

Microscopic tiny little stars surrounded by many planets. Massive planets, huge plants, tiny planets, titanic planets . The sun lighting planets midget or large. twinkling bright stars shining in the night giving to all a bit of light.

BY JACKSON SHERVEY

'GALAXY' (:

The Galaxy itself is made up of many things.
It's very enourmous.
People would think how this Galaxy was formed.
The solar system was formed by a big ball of gas and dust.
If could travel the universe , you would see tonnes of huge groups of stars - these are called 'Galaxies'.



By Jaelyn .

Space Poem

Space is gigantic compared to the planets,
if space was a human it would call us,
microscopic, miniture, midgets.
Space is so gigantic it probably goes on forever.



KIERAN

BIG SPACE!

Space is ginormous,

but not enormous.

Space is telescopic,

but not microscopic

Space is humungous,

compared to my

uncle fungus.

Space gigantic

compared to my

aunty who is a

space fanatic.

by Thomas Smith!

SPACE AND SIZE

Saturn, a ginormous part of the Solar System
Pluto, now called a Dwarf Planet
And Jupiter, the biggest planet in Space
Can the huge Uranus, have a more outrageous name?
Earth is the 3rd planet from the sun

And Mercury, the nnumber 1 planet
Neptune, one of the Gas Giants
Dwarf Planets, the baby sister to Earth

Sun, the biggest star in the Universe
In space, big Mars is a force to be reckoned with
Zero Gravity in our gigantic Universe
Enormous Venus, the LOVE PLANET!!

SPACE IS A BEAUTIFUL THING

BY ALBERT

Space

Space is enormous,
It is massive,
We are tiny,
But space is massive,
space is vast and gigantic,
We are miniscule,
Space is gimormous.

By Daniel

Rigie's space poem

SPACE
Enormous is the world,
Midgit is me,
Telescopic is the sun,
Tiny is me,
Gigantic is the solar system,
Miniscuel is me,
Biggest is the Universe,
Micro-mini is me

kieran hunter

hunter on Dipity.

Jaelyn , Taumaia and Alysa's (:

taumaia hunter on Dipity.

How to upload your dipity timeline into our class blog

How to upload your dipity timeline on Dipity.

Who can circle the cat?

Circle the CAT....


Give it a go. For those of you learning lines for the Production it may be just the break you need...


Mr Theobald

Kakapo Project "My Family - My Culture"

I hope your holidays are going well, Just a wee reminder about your assignment that is due the first day back.... Make sure its in!
Ka Kite

Mr Theobald

Collective Work - Kakapo

Kate Sheppard Timeline on Prezi

New Netball link

We now have a link to the Hutt Valley Netball website where we can check the times of our netball games!

No excuses for not knowing games times now!
It's on the right hand column of this blog and our class blog, check it out netballers!

Moving

On Friday 29th of April my family moved houses to Johnsonville. We got to have our first sleep. The good thing is that it was much bigger and much quieter. The bad thing is that we are far away from this school and we have to wake up early to get away from the traffic and not to get late for school. I also might be moving schools because of that reason. I don't want to move school's during this year I would rather just stay here and move next year.

Angelica

The Fish Net

On Saturday my uncle asked me if I wanted to go put the fishing net out. i said yes so I was standing on the beach watching him go out. When he got back he asked me if I wanted to get it in the morningat 6 o'clock. I said yes and so we ended up getting 5 fish they were all really big and it gave us a good feed. The fish that we actuallygot were 2 Karwi and we caught a red cod but we had to throw it back because it had been munted by a shark.

Dad's birthday

On April 25, it was my Dad's birthday. We set up the cooking on the table, as well as the plates, forks and spoons. The party started at 12:00 pm and it was 11:25 am when my friend Gian came. At the same time, my Mum's friend came and gave my Dad a gift.
At 12:00pm all of the guests came at the same time, including Angelica, Kyla and Jericho.
When the guests started to leave, I went upstairs to sleep. When I woke up, it was 7:30pm and just in time for dinner!

By Paul

My sleepover

On 30/4/11 I had a sleepover. I invited some people from our class and some other people. We melted some chocolate to dip apples in. While we waited for the chocolate to melt we played tag. I got some awesome presents like Silly Bandz, glitter and a gold necklace which is supposed to make the wearer have safe travel. My dad bought some glow sticks. We had singing competitions and made stuff with the glow sticks.
We stayed up until about 2.40 am!                                                  
4 girls came                                                                                                                                                          3 balloons were blown                                                                                                                                        2 people were late                                                                                                                                              1 chair broke

Karen

Baby BBQ Shower

Last weekend me and my brother went to our auntie’s baby shower she had her baby 5 weeks early and it was before the baby shower so she was their our first baby cousin Jean she is so tiny she can barely even fit into premature baby clothes. The uncles even came to the baby shower they stayed outside and cooked the BBQ because a baby shower is a girl thing but jean got a lot of presents but she was good during the baby shower she slept through the whole thing even when everyone was holding her
It was nice to hold her she looks just like her father but has her mothers nose and I cant wait till our next visit

Kayla

RUGBY

On one of my rugby games in the holidays my team played Hutt Old Boys Marist. I knew that it was going to be a hard game, they were the only team to have beaten Eastbourne.
We lost by a lot, our team was very disappointed because we knew we could play better then that.

HAKALIA

Movie Time

In the holidays I went to the movies with my brothers and cousins. After we brought our tickets to watch Fast and Furious5 we went to Countdown to buy some food to eat while watching the movie. After that, the movie started,it started at
4:00-6:30pm. The movie was so funny and cool. When the movie finished we went to buy some fish'n'chips for dinner and ate it at the beach. After dinner we played a game of touch. Then we had to say good-bye to our cousins.

Thomas Smith

Prince William and Kate Middleton got hitched

In the holidays I didn’t do much but watch the royal wedding. On Friday 29th of April Prince William and Kate Middleton got married at Westminster Abbey. There was a big group of guest in the church approx. 1600 guest when Kate Middleton arrived at Westminster Abbey the crowd began to roar. Kate’s dress was described as the stunning modern dress. 3 young bridesmaids and 2 groomsmens were at the ceremony. When the wedding reception was finished the couple got in the carriage that William's parents rode on to Buckingham Palace. The crowd ran to Buckingham Palace to see the couple at the balcony. About 1 billion people watched the royal couple get married.

SHONTALIA

The Game Of Two Halves

On Saturday the 30th of April, I went to the Hurricanes vs Reds match at the caketin.

We caught the train to the stadium and then we got the tickets and got into the stadium. We went to support my cousins relation Albert(Alfred) Anae who plays for the Reds. The Hurricanes were leading 22-5 after tries to Aaron Cruden, Faifili Levave, Neemia Tialata and Andre Taylor.

The Reds came back to lead 26-25 but in the last minute Albert gave away a penalty and Aaron Cruden kicked the penalty to win the game 26-28. we were guttered but we got autographs so that was cool.

Albert

Birthday

In the holidays i went to my auntys birthday and it was her 60th we had her birthday at a bar and their was alot of happy people and some gave us money! We stayed out from 2;00 to 12;00 at night. Across the road from the their was a water fall all the kids were climbing right to the top.

IHAKA

Our netball game

In the holidayson the 28th of April our school year 7 & 8 girls had a netball game against St Orans.It was a tough game because they have some great skills and most of them are fast.Only 5 of our girls turned up which was me,Sophie,Taumaia,Hannah and Natalie,so Caitlin had to play for us and we had to get a girl from St Orans to play for us as well.We had no subs so we were all tired.St Orans won 23-10.


Paris=)

IRANZ

In the holidays my family went up to Palmerston North because my brother made it into this programe called IRANZ. It stands for Intanational Rugby Academy of New Zealand,it was created by Murry Mexted there were also alot of famous rugby players.They trained for a week in their positions then they had a game against Palmerston North Boys, my brother played lock and he scored a try the end score was 97-0.

TAUMAIA LILLIAN SCHUSTER

Foxton Camp

On the 27th of April, I went to a camp in Foxton with my Mum and Dad.

At the camp there was two trampolines, a big playground, a flying fox and a small rugby field. Every single day we had a yum breakfast, lunch and dinner. They were big feeds as well. I was there with two other kids. We played on the trampolines alot until the table tennis table came and we kind of halved that time with the trampoline. Every night we played on the piano and sang. We even had the guitar with us.

On the 1st of May, all of us got money. That was my fun holiday.

Christian

Randwick Womens Rugby League Game!!

Sunday 17th of April, my Mums team played Norths (North City). At Te-Whiti Park at 2.30,the weather had been raining with a cold wind. One of the players had fell on someone's knee, which made her bruise her rib. Randwick won 132-0. They were all very happy!

Jaelyn. ;D

The Octopus

During the holidays I went to Castlepoint for 1 week. While I was there I went swimming also I went to the shops, One night we had a bonfire.
Then one day we went for a walk, Jacob stopped at the sand dunes and I stopped at the rock pools while my Mum and Dad kept walking.
While I was wandering around the rock pools looking for stones to hit with a stick I came across an octopus. Next when my Mum and Dad came back I told them what I'd found, so then my Mum got it on a stick and put it in the sea.


Daniel

RUGBY AND MY MOUTHGUARD

On Saturday 30th April, I played my second game of rugby at Petone rec. The only problem was that i wasn't accostomed to having a mouthguard and you can guess what happened i forgot it. 5 mins before the game i got a spare mouthguard but i had to mould it. Some guy offered to take me over to the club in his golf cart to get some boiling water. After i moulded it we raced back to the rec, we got there just before the game started. I sprinted to my team. The score was 49-17 to us. Oh and by the way i scored my first two tries of the season.


Nuri Kaya

Spectacular Movies

In the holidays I went to the movies, I went with my friend called Max, his mum and his cousin called Callum. We got a whole box of popcorn each and a large coke after that we went up stairs and waited for the movie to get ready. The movie was called 'Mars needs mums', while we were waiting for the movie Max punched some popcorn out of my hand and half of it fell out then these little kids started eating the popcorn that fell on the ground.
Then the movie started it was about marshians stealing mums and injected them and took their memories out and gave it to the nanibots so they could raise the baby marshians
Kieran

Anzac day

On the 25th of April it was Anzac day the school leaders went to a memorial service at Frasier park we marched with the army, scouts,there were some people from Hutt intermediate, st Bernard monsignor cooper was attending the memorial service.Heaps of people fainted one of them were Hannah.
So that is some of the things that i have been doing in the holidays
Rigie Rich Abadies

Marshmallows and dead dinosaurs

On the 19th of April I went to Te papa with my family we saw some dinosaurs. Two Velociraptors and a Pteradactyl that James keeps telling me is not a dinosaur its confusing. I have not seen them in the awsome forces place before im not sure why they were there but they were cool!!!

On the 27th of April Ellen Quin came over we spent most of the night watching scary movies and eating melted marshmallows. Our faces were covered in the melted marshmallow mine was especially they tasted good though.

Nats :P

Kakapo at Wellington Zoo

On Saturday 24th of April I went to the Wellington Zoo with Hannah and her mum Mary Ann.
During the day they have sessions where you can see people feeding the animals and they give a lecture where you can go along and find out information about an animal.

We went to a feeding time where they were feeding a sick Kakapo that had been rescued from Codfish Island. The Kakapo is the worlds heaviest parrot. They were telling us about how the Kakapo is in danger of being extinct. There is just over 100 kakapo left in the world. They told us about their website thay have to help save the kakapo www.kakaporecovery.org.nz where we can find more information about the bird. I found the talk interesting because I didn't realise how endangered the Kakapo is.
Sophie

On Saturday the 16th, my brother Xavier played a game of rugby at Wellington College. I wish I didnt go because it was so rainy and muddy and I got soaked. His team played really well and they won 66-O.

KAKAPO HOMEWORK TERM HOLIDAYS

Kia Ora Tatou,
I hope some of you have remembered your homework..... Its pretty simple and can be as interesting as you wish...
1. Your Duffy Book review. If you have forgotten your review sheet you can create your own.
2. Post something that you have been doing in the holidays on our blog. If you can access a computer, try and record your thoughts about or simply recount something that you have done in the holidays. It could be visiting a family member, playing at a friends, cooking a nice meal for your family.....
Hopefully you have remembered how to post on our blog.
If you cant access a computer, write something down on paper and i will give you time in the first week to publish it online.
All those who complete this will be in for a great surprise in week one!

Mr Theobald


Ps. I hope you are having a great holiday and i wish you and your family a great easter.

Palm Sunday Liturgy

On Thursday 14th of April the whole school did a reenactment of the Easter story. Each class had their own part of the story that they had to act out. Here are a few pictures. Sophie

Kakapo Kerfuffle

An Australian professor has caused a bit of a stir in NZ by saying that looking after endangered birds like the Kakapo is a waste of money.... click on this text to take you to the news article. There is a link to a short video about the news story in the article. Post your thoughts in the comments section below

Papura's Jigsaw

48 papura

Welcome to Papura's jigsaw puzzle.
We have made our cool as mascot into 48 pieces.
Give it a go !!!

Kikorangi's jigsaw puzzle

48 Kikorangi


This is Kikorangi's jigsaw puzzle, see if you can do it under 2 mins!

Welcome to Kakariki's Awsome Jigsaw Puzzle!!!

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This is Kakariki's Mascot we have made it into a jigsaw puzzle. Please have a go and write your name and time in the comment box.
Thanks Team leaders of Kakariki Sophie, Sam and Nuri

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Welcome Team Kowhai!
This is Team Kowhai's mascot, we have made him into a puzzle. Please give it a try.
Write your name and time taken to complete the jigsaw in the comments box below.

KOWHAI KOWHAI KOWHAI

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Welcome to Karaka's jigsaw puzzle.
Here we have a 30 peice jigsaw you can try at home. Please give it a go.
Thank you Karaka Team Leaders Shontalia, Albert and Daniel.

This is called the scariest path in the world. I think it is scary because it is a long way down if you fall.
I have learnt how to use html which is a code that is used to put images and videos on a website.
Karen

Norm Hewitt's Visit

Norm Hewitt the famous former All Black hooker and Dancing with the Stars Star (champion of the first season) came to Sacred Heart Petone. He told us about his life as an All Black and how he got there. He presented some Duffy books and made our class get up and stand in front of the whole school. Mr Hewitt did this because he knows that we need to stop worrying about being cool and be better role models. Then he came to Kakapo class and showed us some dance moves from the cha cha, but he needed a girl to dance with..... Karen bravely put up her hand to dance with him. He was a real inspiration.
  Shontalia and Hannah

Reminder.....

Kakapo students,
Make sure you remember your P.E. Gear on Monday! We need a better percentage than last week.
Mr Theobald

HRSA Athletics

Interview with Mr Pennington

Check out this video, we are interviewing Mr Pennington who built our class steps.
Thank you Mr Pennington, Our steps are great!

Thanks also to the PTA for funding the materials for our steps.


Nuri and Kieran

New Zealand Symphony Orchestra Visit

Last Friday the 18th of March, the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra came to our school to play some music and show us how to use their instruments.

Shontalia

Homework

Homework information will now be found at Mr Theo's blog (link to the right) under the tab..... Homework.
Simple!

Kakapo Class jigsaw challenge!

If you click on the image below, you can complete a jigsaw puzzle of a photo of Snr Constable Blue with our class. After you have finished you will be told the time you took to complete the puzzle, add a comment below with your name and time.

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How to leave a comment on our blog.....

Here is a video put together by Albert and Paul, It is not perfect but is the best of the 93 attempts it took to get it almost right! Good work Albert and Paul, now everyone will be able to complete their homework this week.

Check this out:

Homework Term 1 Week 6

REMINDER: NO SCHOOL THIS FRIDAY 11TH MARCH --- TEACHER ONLY DAY!

Homework this week:
>> Maths workbooks have arrived! Maths pages will be set by your math teacher.
           (Once you have been told by Miss Martell what pages you are doing let me know so it can go online.)
>> 1 Taskboard  activity completed to a high standard
>> Learn spelling words for test on Thursday,
>> Complete spelling word activities:

1. Odd words - Use the letters of your longest 'odd word' to create as many other words as you can

2. Even words - write each of your words out 10 times.

>> Read for a minimum of 40 minutes each evening. Complete reading log
>> Bring your signed homework diary in on Thursday.
>> Complete DARE homework. Books need to be completed by Thursday
>> Bring PE gear Monday
>> Add a comment to one of our blog posts at http://mrtheobald.blogspot.com or http://kakapoclass.blogspot.com

Mufti Day for Christchurch

We are currently constructing a "wallwisher" wall where our class will leave messages for the people of Christchurch. We hope to send the link of our Wallwisher wall to some schools in Christchurch who have been affected by the quake. We also hope that they will see this short video that we have made......

Thanks for taking time to check out the blog, make sure you leave a comment.....

The total amount our school raised for the people of Christchurch was more than $500

Homework Term 1 Week 5

Homework this week:
>> Maths workbooks have been ordered, Maths homework should start next week
>> 1 Taskboard  activity completed to a high standard
>> Learn spelling words for test on Friday,
>> Complete spelling word activities:

1. Odd words - Use a thesaurus to find five synonyms for your spelling words

2. Even words - Write your words in a sentence that shows your understanding of the word

>> Read for a minimum of 40 minutes each evening. Complete reading log
>> Bring your signed homework diary in on Friday.
>> Complete DARE homework
>> Bring Togs each day
>> Bring PE gear Monday
>> Wear Red and Black mufti and bring a donation on Monday
>> Add a comment to 'Wallwisher' wall that is on the class blog. (we will spend time in class to do this but     you  may wish to do this in your own time)

Christchurch EarthQuake Fundraiser

RED AND BLACK MUFTI DAY ON MONDAY!
Bring a donation for the victims of the Christchurch quake.

Smoking Sucks!

Today, as part of our DARE programme we looked at the thousands of chemicals contained in a cigarette.


Snr Constable Blue showed us how a bottle could smoke a cigarette.

The bottle had a small hole in its lid through which went a tube. At one end of the tube was a cigarette and at the other end inside the bottle was a cotton ball. After the cigarette was lit Blue squeezed the bottle repeatedly to show the action of lungs inhaling and exhaling the smoke from a cigarette.  Blue then showed us the amount of tar collected on the cotton ball. There was a huge amount and that was after only one cigarette!

(Photos of Snr Constable Blue talking to Kakapo and showing the tar inside the cotton ball.)

Interview with Mrs Wilson

Mrs Wilson

Interview by Alysa Simi and Kieran Phegan.

Mrs Wilson came to our School to observe how New Zealand schools work.

She will be with us for the next two weeks observing what we do and asking us questions.

Q: What part of South Africa are you from?

A: A little town called George in the Western Cape.

Q: What do you like about New Zealand?

A: The people are lovely and the cultures are very interesting.

Q: How long have you been teaching for?

A: Three months and before that I was a graphic designer, personal assistant/administrator.

Q: What made you come to our school?

A: I know Mrs Whalen and it’s a really well renowned school.

Q: Have you noticed any differences about New Zealand schools and South African schools?

A: Yes, you have computers in the classroom for one, which is very nice.

Q: Why did you decide to come to New Zealand?

A: I married a New Zealand man.

Q: How long have you been in New Zealand for?

A: Two and a half years.

Q: When you were younger what job did you want to do?

A: I wanted to be photographer/nature photography.

Q: The reason why you changed your mind?

A:  I enjoy teaching and when one gets older your objective and goals in life change I still do photography and all sorts of other things. My passion is still in art, which I have now combined with teaching.

Homework Week 4

Homework this week:
>> 1 Taskboard  activity completed to a high standard
>> Learn spelling words for test on Friday,
>> Complete spelling word activities:

1. Odd words - write an acrostic poem for each

2. Even words - repeatedly write the word out with increasing amounts of symbols in place of letters

eg: Idiom, Idi*m, Id^*m, $d^*m, $@^*m, $@^*&, Idiom.

>> Read for a minimum of 40 minutes each evening. Complete reading log
>> Bring your signed homework diary in on Friday.
>> complete DARE homework
>> Bring Togs each day
>> Bring PE gear Tues / Thurs