Storms

We are learning to use specific vocabulary to help create a vivid picture in the readers head - so they can imagine themselves in the story!

To help create a vivid picture for the reader we can describe what we hear, see and feel. We listened to the sounds of a thunderstorm then wrote about what it would be like to be in the storm, what we might hear, see and feel.


Author Holly

Drip drop was all I can hear as the rain crackled down from the clouds. It started to get heavier and heavier until BOOM! BANG! It's not a little shower anymore it's a big lightening storm. Oh no! There's a puppy outside, someone has to go outside to get it! It's too wet and windy for me to go outside and get it but it's wet and shaking. Ok, I unlocked the door and got the puppy. It was soaking wet so I got a towel and dried the puppy off and lit the fire so the puppy could stay warm. Achoo! Achoo! The puppy was sneezing a lot so I gave it a blanket and cuddled it to keep it warm.

Author Maddie

Boom! Flash! Flash! Swish! Swish! Woosh woosh woosh! The rain is so hard now that I don't think we will be going to the farm tomorrow. Boom bang flash bang neigh flash bang! What? I thought that sounded like a horse. Where could it be and what could it be doing in the country? Boom bang. I want to help. But you can't I gasped, you don't know one miniature tiny thing about the absolute best best thing ever which is animals. Without one more word I ran out to find out what was going on. The noise of the rain and the animals got louder and louder. I think I need to turn right one more time....Oh wow, I am going to have a gigantic problem to take one pony, one dog, one calf and foal home with lightening bolts that would be attracted to the bridle of the horse besides the animals will also get spooked. This is the most gigantic amazing troublemaking problem in the world! Well, I thought I only had one idea, it is a bizarre troublemaking idea but it just might work!! So, I did it. I broke off some flax and weaved it into a bridle again. It took determination and trust but I did it. Now I will ride the horses leading the foal calf in front and the pup in the back. Oh, I just spotted a very little duckling. I thought I will take it in my pocket and I did. I rode and rode and rode all the way to the farm. Then when I reached the horse paddock.... boom bang swish flash flash. It was still very stormy in fact it was raining even harder so I quickly dropped off all the animals except the duckling. To get to her place I had to run and run and run then I jump and stowaway on the trailer of a fancy tractor. It was dark and thundery. Lightening and rain was closing in on all angles. All I could do was wait. Cheep cheep said my chick sadly. "Out now," I whispered. I snuck out and sprinted to the pond. There was lots of ducks. I put the duckling right next to one of them. Now that I know that all the animals are safe I curled up in the barn for the night. I wonder when the horrible storm will end.

Author Bailee

Plip plop plip plop BOOM! Hail started to come bucketing down. BOOM BOOM slush. Aahh everybody started to gather around to keep safe but a tree fell over them. It nearly hit them. The tree caught on fire and everybody started to scream. I heard my cat in the burning tree. Meow meow meow. I quickly grabbed a fire extinguisher and pushed so I grabbed Meow and put the fire out. The people cheered for me. We all had a big crazy mess to clean up but we had to leave the clean up till later when it stopped raining. It was hard work cleaning up everything and it took us hours. Everybody was so tired. We had to sleep outside.

Author Janice

Plop plop the rain was sprinkling down onto the ground but suddenly BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! it's thunder. So I covered my ears CRASH! CRASH! here it comes. The lightening was flashing. Suddenly, the roof came off the house and the lightening flashed smashing onto my window. Crack! Quickly, I rushed outside and climbed one of my apple trees. It had a tree house. I got some apples, opened the door and then I shut the door and ate the apples. Finally, the rain and the thunder were gone so I went back into my house but my window was still broken. I called the builder to fix my window and he arrived one hour later.

Author Damarco

Scratch scratch scratch. I can hear the car going fast with the rain on the road. Outside the dogs were howling and howling because they are scared of the darkness. The thunder goes boom bash boom bash and the lightening goes crack crack. Swish swish swish the wind makes the leaves blow down. I was in my bed and there was a loud cracking sound and the glass from the window fell on me. Now I am stuck in my bed because I am surrounded by glass. I need to climb down the bottom of the bed.

Author Tyler

Pitter patter pitter patter went the rain as it poured down on my rooftop. I was tucked up in my bed. I heard loud thunder and lightening. By the middle of the night the rain got louder and louder. The rain grew heavier and heavier. The lightening struck the house. Just then I heard a loud SMASH. I looked up and I saw a big hole in the ceiling. Water was pouring down onto the floor. Just at that moment there was a strike of lightening in the sky. One minute later..... The house was 3 meters under water. I had to swim to stay alive. I held my breath and swam down to the bottom and when I was at the bottom I grabbed the rug and swam back to the top and pushed the rug into the hold and then I told Mum to open the door. When the door was open all of the water poured out and I fell onto hard ground. "Ouch," I said. "Well at least all the water is gone," said Dad.

Matariki

At Parkvale, we are celebrating Matariki. 

We were very lucky to have the Kahurangi NZ Maori Dance Theatre visit and perform for us. They were very funny and talented. The taught us about legends and told us some different ways we could celebrate Matariki.

We learnt that Kia Ora can mean hello, goodbye, be well and thank you. 

The Kahurangu Dance Company performed a legend that is special to the people of Hawke's Bay, Pania of the Reef.

Matariki from Kieren Moriarty on Vimeo.

The Rataka reading group read a book aboout Matariki.

Ashley and Sienna read the book to us all. They did a great job reading for the audience with clear voices and expression. 

During the performance we were taught a game called Paki. Paki means clap. Watch the video to find out how much fun it is. Who else could you teach to play?

Paki paki from sansam on Vimeo.

Kia Ora Kahurangi Dance Company, we love this game!

Blending

We have been learning to blend colours.

When we blend colours we overlap the colours just a little bit.

We use one colour to pull another colour into it.

We use colours from the same part of the colour wheel, for example a dark blue, medium blue and a light blue. With any colour we blend with we use white. 

We have been learning about how important it is to reuse. We reused magazines and used paper to make out bugs.

Artist Mac

Artist Ruben

Artist Jack C

Artist Niamh

Artist Caitlin

Artist Naomi

Artist Whetu

Artist Coopa

Artist Rain

Artist Sam

To make our flowers we reused old CDS and plastic bags. When we went to the landfill we noticed how many plastic bags were in the landfill. 

Artist James

Artist Tyler

Artist Nevaeh

Artist Joseph

Artist Chahat

Artist Emily

Artist Riley

Artist Bailee

Artist Louisa

If you would like to see more of the fantastic art and blending the children from Room 1617 have created come on in to our classroom. 

Overarm Throw

We have been learning to throw overarm.

We learnt a saying to help us remember how to throw overarm.

Side and point, smiley face, step, turn and throw. 
When we do this we stand side on. Our throwing arm is nearly straight behind our body. Our foot steps forward- the opposite one to our throwing arm. Our body turns to face the front. Our arm follows through. 

Overarm throw real from tracey hill on Vimeo.

3 R's Challenge

Room 1617 3 R's Challenge on PhotoPeach

Sadie's butterflies made from toilet rolls

Rippa Rugby

Last week Parkvale entered 9 teams in the Rippa Rugby tournament held at Ron Giorgi Park in Flaxmere. It was a great day of sport with awesome team work, good sportsmanship, competition and lots of fun!

Every player gave it their best! Parkvale H got into quarterfinals in the championship round and Parkvale C won the cup final game!

A big thank you to all the parents, family and whanau who managed and supported teams on the day.

Rubbish, Rubbish and More Rubbish

Mrs Versey, from Hawke's Bay District Council, set us a challenge when we visited the landfill. She challenged us to 'make our big pile of rubbish smaller'. We decided to write about the landfill and persuade readers to change what they do with their rubbish so we can all help to

'make our big pile of rubbish smaller'.

Author Caitlin:

What happens to your rubbish? I can't answer that yet. But, listen to some of my writing and you could visualise what its like at the landfill. Hidden away behind a couple of trees is a foul, giant mountain of rubbish. Probably 2000 seagulls are gobbling up rubbish and getting stuck in plastic bags and other types of bags. Oh, and the next thing I want to say is that 46% of the waste that is there should not be there. So, if you want to stop this pile of foul rubbish here is two things that you could do to stop this. One way you could this is to recycle the paper to make more. Or, you could start a worm farm and feed the worms your scraps.

Author Ella:

Do you know what happens to your rubbish? At the back of Hastings and Napier there is a valley filled to the top with decomposing and disgusting rotten rubbish. There is a problem! Plastic is flying around Hastings and the landfill. There's seagulls diving down to the rubbish and one of the seagulls swooped down to get food but there was a plastic bag. The seagulls choked on the plastic bag. Soon we will not have anywhere to put our rubbish because the rubbish pile is enormous. Half of the landfill is food scraps. People need to make a worm farm so the worms can chew the food. Worm wee helps the plants grow. We have a job to do. We have to make our rubbish pile smaller create less rubbish.

Author Christina:

Where does all our rubbish go when you are finished with it? Do you just throw it in the bin or do you recycle it? Squawk! Squawk! squaked the seagulls as they swoop down into the valley. They shouldn't be there because too many people are throwing out food they are supposed to eat. If that valley gets too full they will have to store the rubbish some place else. That is not good! If you make a worm farm and feed the worms compost that is how to make less rubbish. So put all your banana peels and apple cores in the worm farm but don't give them orange peels because your worms will get sick. Eucalyptus perfume sprays the valley to stop the smell spreading near the houses. One by one the rubbish trucks drop off a truck load of rubbish and picking up rubbish each day and dropping it off to the landfills all around the world!

Author Jessica:

Do you know how much litter your family makes in a day? I don't even think you want to know. Ok, fine, I'll tell you. Your family makes around about one hundred pieces of rubbish a day and it all goes to a revolting place called .... the landfill.

It looks like a bomb has gone off because of the humongous never ending pile of disgraceful rubbish that was a valley with sheep once upon a time. The landfill didn't have a terrible smell which was quite nice because of the eucalyptus perfume. You could hear the trucks roaring when they moved and went passed. There was a compactor that makes an even bigger roar.

You should help the environment become HEALTHY again. Here's some tips to help you do that.
1. Make a worm farm
2. Sort your bins out
3. By and use what you need.
Please, please try these tips. I'm begging you. If you do this you'll see a big difference in the world and I'm sure you'll like the big difference. It would cost you less because you're not buying food and throwing it out!

Author Angus L

Do you know what happens to your rubbish? We put our rubbish in a wheelie bin and the rubbish truck comes to get your bin. Off it goes to the other houses, then to the landfill. Squawk squawk! Hundreds of seagulls are swarming above a heap of rubbish that's it in a big meadow out in the country side. This is the landfill surrounded by trees and fences. I saw hills and valleys made of rubbish. There were rubbish trucks leaving and coming and dumping their loads. We saw a big orange digger, There was also a big compactor pushing down the rubbish down to the ground. You must recycle so there is less rubbish at the landfill. Half the rubbish is food scraps so to stop all these food scraps from going to the landfill you could make a worm farm or you could make a compost bin or put it in the ground and put some soil over it so the trees can grow bigger. We need to recycle, reduce and reuse so we don't have so much rubbish in the landfill. That means you reader!

Author Katie

Do you know what happens to your rubbish? It goes somewhere that has an immense dump there and seagulls surrounding the sky. The seagulls are going squawk squawk!because they want food scraps. Do not put lots of apple cores in the dump or food scraps they go in the garden. The rubbish trucks bring rubbish everyday and dumps it in the rubbish pile. the pile gets bigger and bigger and bigger. Soon we will not have nowhere to put our rubbish because we have lots of mountains of rubbish already.

Author Blake

Do you know what happens to your rubbish? You will see a compactor slowly driving across the revolting dirty rubbish while the green truck drives around the landfill dropping revolting dirty rubbish. the compactor squashes all the dirty rubbish so the humongous pit can get smaller. the green rubbish truck comes alot of times each day with our rubbish from wheelie bins. You will have to wear a orange shiny coat when you go to the landfill to keep safe. Seagulls are swarming in the blue sky like a big aeroplane fighting around the food scraps. Don't throw food scraps in the landfill make a worm farm and throw your rubbish into it and the worms will gobble it up. you can also recycle your plastic containers and your glass bottle. Stop sending rubbish to the landfill.

Author Erin

The amount of rubbish at the landfill is unacceptable. the landfill looks like a big swimming pool that is made out of rubbish just rubbish that has come from every ones home. The landfill used to be a valley that didn't have rubbish in it but now it has lots and lots and lots of rubbish. Also there is thousands of seagulls swooping around fighting over the food scraps "Kor Kor" yelled the seagulls. There was a digger scooping up the rubbish and putting it on to the pile. I smelt horrible food scraps! The food scraps are in the pit. The compactor looks like a giant car with bulky huge spiky wheels that crushed the rubbish until it was puny. On the front of the fence there is bottles of perfume. It smells like peppermint and eucalyptus perfume. It sprays when it is windy so it doesn't make the close neighbours stink. Because the landfill will fill up in 10 years and over flow then soon we will not have a place to live.