Pirates

One group in reading read a story about Jolly Roger the Pirate so we thought we'd have a pirate day. We read the books, Margaret Mahy's The Man whose Mother was a Pirate and Joy Cowley's  The Fierce Little Woman and the Wicked Pirate. We sang sea shanties as we made pirate stuff. All morning we chopped, glued, stuck and coloured and in the afternoon we asked the seniors to come and view our models.

Enjoy the photos as much as we enjoyed the making and pretending. Isn't make believe wonderful.

The sides of the pirate galleon.

Ready to attack.

Every pirate needs a parrot to sit on the shoulder.

I'll make the chain and anchor, 

is it long enough yet?

Treasure chest with Cryptic initials. 

Treasure map with the spot marked with a bloody X.

Pirate Hat

Cutlass and eyepatch

The Jolly Roger at full mast.

This cannon making is really serious business, complete with fuses and cannon balls ready to fire.

A barrel to keep the bottles of rum safe.

We made Jamie walk the plank (off the end of the table).

These are the Powerpoint slideshows that Erica and Alexis wrote as part of their reading and writing.

They found it hard not to copy from the books they had read but in the end were able to compose their own factual report.

They are both getting really good at sorting the facts, seeing the groupings and then planning how they will present their ideas.

Link to Seniors Blog

Horse Camp Photos

Thank you Anne for being the photographer at many of our school events.

Photos are an excellent way to evaluate the learning objectives  and the outcomes of any activity.

What did we want the students to learn at Horse Camp?

1.  Social skills of getting along together, sharing, helping and compromising.  When we are tired (as we were at Horse Camp) it is so much harder to manage our social behaviours.  
2. Personal behaviours around challenging oneself, resilience, setting goals and coping with disappointment. Eating what we are given. Entertaining ourselves. 
3. Gross motor skills of getting on and off a horse, making our way along the very slippery stream bottom, swimming in a water hole and climbing up and down a track avoiding blackberry.
4. Following instructions not only from our school teacher but other adults. Learning to accept authority when it is appropriate and when appropriate showing leadership. 
5. Managing our property and possessions and being organised. 
6. Sharing the joyful moments with our friends, supporting our friends that might need support. 
7. Learning to take some responsibility for our safety.

As you view the photos please evaluate the horse camp with the above 7 bullet points and give us a rating for each in the comments. Use the photos as evidence and proof.  

Big Brave Ben

We were not allowed to swim today until Ben did a bomb.

The photo was taken on Mrs Carmichael's iPad.

He did.

We had our last swim of the season today.  Mrs Carmichael didn't go with us to the Matiere Swimming Sports so she didn't get to see what wonderful swimmers we all are.   But she has reminded us that it is Lillian that teaches us how to swim. Well done Ongarue kids and well done Lillian.

Next Friday, Sammie, Martin, Grace, Dawni and Herewini represent our school at the interschool at the high school pool.

Post 2 8 March

Not a photo of the juniors but of the seniors on camp.




We are still busy writing about horses.

here are the stories we wrote. To help us create a narrative, poetic text we needed to think about which tense and person we would write in.

We have chosen to write in first person, and past tense. You will see our writing is in first person because the authors tell the  story and call themself I.
And you can tell the story is in past tense because the regular verbs end in ed, looked, jumped, walked.

The Stallion

One day I saw a beautiful horse it was a stallion.  I said ”stop stop “. I saw a stallion. It had no water .”Dad we have to take it to a waterfall”, said Anne. “Come on dad”. “Ok then”, said dad. The stallion was very thirsty. While we were there we said bye to the horse. Then it drank the water. And it was a happy horse forever. Then we went home. Then I had a dream of a horse, I loved and loved until I went to sleep. When I woke up in the morning we went to see the horse. The horse saw us and the horse came running up to us and it gazed over the fence and we ran away but we ran back to the horse and I calmed it down and I said to the horse you are beautiful horse.

Erica Oliphant year 3

Elisabeth

One day I was driving to my house. I saw a horse, it  was caught in wire. I stopped the car and ran to the boot, I  got the clippers.I let the horse  go. I climbed the fence and I drove all the way  home. Half way home I  saw six horses they were all ok .When I got home I saw my horse. I fed my horse .Then I rode  my horse. Every day I rode my horse. I never stopped riding my horse. I loved my horse but then it died. I bought some new horses. There was a beautiful horse called Elisabeth.

 By Alexis Hughes 

Post 1 Monday 7 March

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Ongarue School juniors are
William
Alexis
Tiriti
Erica

Georgia Tatham
Dakotah (Daisy)
Benjamin

Skyla
Jamie  


So we will start with some writing we did about horses.

We looked at how authors wrote transactional texts (non fiction writing), then all by ourselves we wrote our own horse reports.

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Horses get angry when their ears go back. Their eyes when they are blinkered can’t see to the sides. The farmer uses a tractor to bring things to decorate the horses.

Jamie Hughes

Tell the horse you are coming before you brush them. Tell them you are coming so that they don’t get a fright.

Skyla Rata Smith

Don’t go by the horse's back or the horse might buck you. The horses name is Ghost, his friend was Poppy. When you ride horses put the blanket and the saddle on.

Dakotah Smith

Horses knock your head and if you give them a fright they will step on you and it will hurt and you might need a plaster and I hope you don’t get kicked by a horse. Be careful around the horse.

Georgia Tatham

Horses have a really good hearing and they have a really good smell and they have a really good eye sight.

Benjamin Lee

Horses have big hooves and foals have long legs too. Almost every six weeks you have to trim your horses toe nails.

Horses have very sharp hooves, you won’t want to sit by a horse because it will be too dangerous.

Foals have long legs also when a horse has a broken leg you have to shoot it. Horses need to have exercise.

Horses eyes can look in the front and to the sides too. Horses are scared of the noises in the grass too.

Horses have heaps of jobs to do too. They have heaps of jobs.

Erica Oliphant

Horses have many parts to their bodies.

Horses have very sharp hooves. You need to clip their hooves in six weeks. Sometimes you need to use hoof oil. Foals have long legs. They try and try until they get up. Some horses have feathers.

When horses’ eyes are big they are scared. If you scratch the horse it will scratch you.

You need to be careful in case the horse kicks you.

Alexis Hughes

Exciting horse camp photos to come.