Room10 @ Morrinsville Intermediate School

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Fieldays - Your thoughts #4

After Fieldays a group of students got together and decided to interview one person from each of the 5 focus groups (Technology, Dairy Farming, Milking, Livestock, and Horticulture). Here is the interview with a person from the Milking group. They asked general questions to do with Fieldays, what we like about studying farming and how do we find working in groups.

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Fieldays - Your thoughts #3

After Fieldays a group of students got together and decided to interview one person from each of the 5 focus groups (Technology, Dairy Farming, Milking, Livestock, and Horticulture). Here is the interview with a person from the Dairy Farming group. They asked general questions to do with Fieldays, what we like about studying farming and how do we find working in groups.

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Fieldays - Your thoughts #2

Fieldays - Your thoughts

After Fieldays a group of students got together and decided to interview one person from each of the 5 focus groups (technology, dairy farming, milking, livestock, and Horticulture). Here is the interview with a person from the Technology group. They asked general questions to do with Fieldays, what we like about studying farming and how do we find working in groups.

Friday, June 19, 2009

Room ten attacks metaphors'

Definition: Metaphor is when you use two nouns and compare or contrast them to one another. Unlike simile, you don't use "like" or "as" in the comparison.

I like to call a metaphor "similar to a simile but not!"

The sky was a blanket of blue paint (Te Hautakiri)

My dog is a stubborn donkey (Shenae)

The gangstas ego was a raging elephant (Quinn)

Summer is a hot oven (Regan)

The hail is needles falling on my back (Saro)

Bonnies hair is the dark night sky (Jade)

The sand is on fire (Tyla)

My Brother is a blaring radio (Nicole)

The trees are having a seizure (Leo)

Our cow is a fat sumo wrestler (Nicole123)

The goat was a rubbish bin (Hadley)

Summer is a tsunami of heat (Geordie)

Cows are bulldozers (Callum)

The cats were flames, leaping and bounding,

wild and free (Jessica)

Practicing similes and metaphor - Nicole123's Poem

Summer

Warm air surrounding you
sun shining
brightly like a goldfish
the sky
plain blue
no white puffy clouds to be seen
beach packed with people
canter down the soft brown sand
the ocean is a flat pancake
boats soaring through the clear blue sea
dolphins diving and making a racket
and children laughing, soon to be back at school.

Practicing similes and metaphor - Saro's poem

Swimming

Stroke

Three laps completed

the water is lapping into the

side of the pool

My arms are slipping into

sleep like a lazy sloth

My flippers are super jets

Cheering

10 Laps done!

Practicing similes and metaphor - Nicole V's Poem

Savannah

Is like a movie - interesting and unique.
Savannah is random and she loves pencils.
Savannah is like a lolly, sometimes she turns sour...
hardly ever!
Savannah is like a radio, sometimes ..
you have to push mute or turn the volume down.
Savannah is my friend, she is very caring and talented.

Savannah is a door - to a whole new perspective

Practicing similes and metaphor - by Savannah

Summer

Summer reminds me of three things

sun, surf, and sand.

sun: slowly drifting through the

pale blue sky, wandering around the

world day by day.

Surf: rough waves are walls of water

glistening as people rip through

them on their surfboards or when it

drifts onto the sandy beach.

Sand: like glitter sitting silently on

the beach shimmering in the sun as

the salty water soaks slowly into the sand.

Another thing summer reminds me of is

the flowers, trees, and buzzy-bees.

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Practicing similes (and personification) - Jessica's poem

Tapping at the windows,

begging for someone to let her in.

She's seen all the ads, "escape the winter

worries, install a heat pump!" or "keep off

the rain and buy one of our amazing

umbrellas!"

Like an outcast, unwanted.

No one understands or cares that all the

rain wants is,

a friend ......

Monday, June 15, 2009

Room Ten attacks Similes

Room Ten is looking at similes.

Definition: Simile is when you compare two nouns (persons, places or things) that are unlike, with "like" or "as."

Here are some that we wrote today, we would love you to leave your own similes to share with us.....

My room is as messy as a pigsty - Saro
Her glasses were as clear as her future - Danielle S
Her top was as blue as the ocean - Dandarra
The music was as loud as an explosion - Josh
The boy was like a raging bull - Quinn
The snowflake was as lacey and complicated as a doily - Jessica
Miss F's day was like Fieldays - busy and jampacked! - Miss F

Friday, June 12, 2009

Fieldays - The day after

Yesterday was Fieldays and Room ten came into class today looking tired but happy. Yesterday was absolutely fabulous and so many new ideas and learning experiences came from it. Miss F had never been to Fieldays so the students were more than happy to show her things which she was very grateful for and appreciated the insight. All students were perfectly behaved and parents commented on how interested and on task the students were with their inquiry. Today we wrote in our inquiry journal and reflected upon how we are going with our inquiry and where to next for us. WOW ... and the brochures, magazines, business cards, pamphlets and handouts were piled high!, we shared them and are going to make resource folders for each topic area. Some students decided to change their inquiry questions because after talking to experts at Fieldays realised they needed to refine them and some just found another topic along the same lines as their previous one that intrigued them more. Well done to all students for representing our school so well. Ka Pai!