Room 27 Gets People thinking about The Rights of the Child.

Philosophy- Questions I Have about our Rich Task.

9-9-11

Why do people have rights? (Anthony)

Is it fair how people are living in Libya? (Nellie)

Is the world fair? (Phoebe)

Are rights always fair? (Cynthia)

Why do you have to pay to use electricity? (Andre)

Is there any way of helping people get their rights back. (Louis)

Is it fair that people have more rights than animals? (Sophie)

Is what’s good for me good for you? (Rebecca)

Who came up with the idea of rights in the first place? (Marcus)

Do rights help us to make better decisions? (Sophia)

Do rights always give you freedom? (Billie)

Is it fair that some countries are poorer than others? (Anthony)

Why isn’t the world peaceful? (Zinder)

Why don’t all the countries have all the rights? (Archie)

Discussion

I think people have rights because without rights you wouldn’t be free and people might not let you so things that you want to do. (Rebecca)

You will just be a slave if you have no rights. Andre

If you didn’t have rights it would be really hard to live life. Billie

If people didn’t have rights the government wouldn’t do any work they would just get people to do it for them. Anthony

If people didn’t have any rights there wouldn’t be any freedom. Cynthia

I disagree with Andre because the government might not decide that everyone would be a slave. Louis

I agree with Andre because if there was a government that said you had no rights you would become a slave. Zinder

I agree with Louis because the G wouldn’t be mean to people just because they didn’t have rights. Texas

2.I think it isn’t fair how people are living in Libya because the g shouldn’t be able to do what they like. They should be sorting out things not making problems. Sophie

I think it isn’t fair because the country belongs to the people that live in the country and so the person that leads the country should be someone they like and makes good decisions. (Archie)

I think it is unfair the people in Libya have to live with a greedy g. Billie

I think it is not fair because the g shouldn’t rule over the whole country they should have some place where they can be free. Anthony

I think it is unfair because when we were reading the Nelson Mandela book it said that black people can’t vote and white people can vote. Zinder

I think it isn’t fair if there is fighting in Libya you should be able ot go to another country for a year. Texas

I think it isn’t fair because it is mean how they make people stay in the country when there is lots of fighting because it would be unfair to the children because they were not the ones who started it. Phoebe

I disagree with Texas because if there is fighting you can’t expect to go to any country and be allowed in. You have to ask the Prime Minister will let you in. Marcus

I don’t think it is fair because the g is shooting people when they least expect it, invading their homes and when people die it is sad for their friends and family. Nellie

I agree with Phoebe because the g can’t do what they want to. Zac

I disagree with Marcus because what if you didn’t know about the fighting. Emily

I think it isn’t fair because some children in Libya have nothing to do with the fighting and will get badly hurt. Texas

I disagree with Marcus and agrees Texas because you can be sent to another country as a refugee. Cynthia

I agree with Texas and children don’t have anything to protect themselves with when the fighting is happening. Zac

Keep the discussion going by posting a comment.

Book Reviews- Summarisers

I think that this book is awesome because it very funny and if you like funny books this is the book you should read.

Sophie is the guardian of the magic gateway . Its her job to keep the horrid creatures that live there from getting into our world can she save the day. ( from the back cover)

It is cool as.

Our Visitor

JOHN

STRAWBRIDGE THE PROJECT MANAGER FOR THE WORLD CUP

John Strawbridge came to Whetu assembly to talk to us about how people are going to get to the world cup. He said that 15,000 people are going in their cars, 1,000 by bus, 3,000 are going to do the special walking route, 2,000 are going in private coachs & 17,000 by train

"Train will be the most populur trasport," said John. Probably 15,000 people will go in each door at the world cup. There are 60,000 seats in the park.

We hope people are able to get to the World Cup smoothly and we really enjoyed Mr. Strawbridge's visit.

By R Room 27

"Eden Park!' By Emilie, Sophie and Jessie.

On Tuesday we went to Eden Park.
They welcomed us by putting our Balmoral logo on the screens.
We felt very welcome because our logos were EVERYWHERE!!

When we went into the changing rooms, we saw nets on the roof in front of the lights

so they could practice without damaging the lights,but they don't have nets in front

of their TV.

We weren't allowed on the grass because the grounds keeper would get MAD, and there were patterns on the grass that were just the light or the way that the mower mowed it. On the grass someone had painted "World Cup 2011".

You should go to Eden Park its all WOW WOW WOW and one more WOW.

Going Global

Today we were very fortunate to have two teachers from Switzerland visit our class. We learned so much about their culture and how it is to communicate with people from other places that speak a different language and are learning about English.

We practised how to welcome them and it went very well. At the end of the visit we presented Eveline and Simi with a piece of collaborative art that showed some of the special treasures we have in New Zealand.

Spelling Investigation- Long and Short 'u'

We are learning about the long and short 'u' sound. Can you find a pattern that tells you when a 'u' will have a long or a short 'u' sound?

Here are some words to help you.

Long Short

utility utter

use up

university ugly

We are learning about writing about characters in a way that makes them come alive for the reader.

We decided that we wouldn't tell you who we are writing about and hope the language that we have chosen to use helps you understand who it is. Please post your guesses below.

With its spherical body, stick like beak and milk chocolate feathers it is a rare sight. It's talon like feet make it really unique. If you listen very carefully you will hear it peaking like a gentle tap at the door. It feels as soft as clouds with aeroplanes soaring through them. It mines deeply, like it is working towards the core of the earth, in search of tender bugs.

Have you measured today?

I just pulled my famous raspberry white chocolate shortcake out of the oven. I had to use lots of measurement skills to tackle this project. I had to measure the mass and quantity of the ingredients using scales and capacity, remember when we did that in class, measure the temperature of the oven and measure how much time it had been baking for. Have you had to measure anything yet these holidays? Make a comment below :)

Oh, there's the door. Good thing I can think about fractions confidently because I am going to have to share these out equally. Maths, it's all around you!

Archie's Chilli Plant

Our Radishes

These are the radishes that we grew as part of our Rich Task learning. We are learning about plants and growing these from seeds demonstrated the life cycle of a plant.

How we took care of our radishes

We gave them soil and lots of sun by planting them in a box out on our deck. We watered them daily and monitored their growth. We found it very interesting to check on them almost every day.

How they changed

It changed from seed, to seedling, to a much larger plant. It was an interesting experience because it grew so fast.

We found it interesting to learn that you eat the root of this plant. We have not eaten them yet, but we look forward to doing so in the future.

Some more great flower art from Room 27

Spelling Investigation of the Week

Why do some words double the last consonant if you add 'er' or 'ing' and others don't? Can you find the pattern?

bat - batter- batting

run-runner-running

trim-trimmer-trimming

push and jump don't double their last consonant.

Add examples and thoughts below.

Flowers : inspired by Georgia O'Keefe

Kawakawa tea

We are learning about medicinal native plants and how to use them. On Tuesday March 22nd we made Kawakawa tea from Kawakawa leaves that someone from our class brought in from home. We could really taste that it was made from a plant. Some of us didn't like the taste at all and others enjoyed the taste. It can be helpful for tummy aches and the tea is good to drink if you are getting a cold. It was a really interesting experience.