Danny the Champion of the World

DANNY THE CHAMPION OF THE WORLD

Author: RONALD DAHL

setting: The story takes place at the Gipsy caravan, in the woods and at Danny's school.

Recommendation: I recommend it for the ages 8 and up. If you like birds, plans and tricks this is for you. It scores 10 out of 10.

Danny’s dad – is a man who smiles with his eyes so you know it is real. He poaches pheasants and he learned it from his dad.

Characters: Danny, Danny’s dad, Mr victor hazel and Doc Spencer.

Character descriptions:

Danny – a boy who is persistent, and always tries his best.

Mr Victor Hazel- a grouchy old man, who is rich beyond your wildest of dreams.

Plot: Danny’s mum died before he was five months old, his dad has been looking after him. One night by accident he discovers that his dad poaches pheasants. They plan to poach all the pheasants in the woods. Will they get caught?

by James Pascoe

Musical Instruments

We are making musical instruments for our Takahe class band.
First we had to bring in all the equipment that we needed to make our instrument. Lots of us have had to do experiments to see if we could make a better noise.
For my instrument I taped 8 straws together. After I was allowed to decorate the tape. Everyone put effort into them and I think the Takahe class band will be great!
By Abbie.R

The Rubbish That Was Left At Mt Manganui Beach

On Thursday 13th October 2011 , my family and I went to Mt Manganui and saw five containers. Three were floating on water and two were on land. One white container had meat patties in it and a red one had long logs.
There was a heap of oil mixed up with the water , you could even see the oil in the pattern of the waves on the sand.My mum got oil stuck on her shoe, the oil looked like grease.

The Life Cycle Of A Butterfly

The Monarch Butterfly is an amazing creature-Caterpillar or Butterfly. Here is it's life cycle:

Stage 1: The Egg

A butterfly lays an egg on a special plant called a Milkweed. It will lay up to 700 eggs in a range of 2-5 weeks.

Stage 2: The Caterpillar

After 2 weeks, what should hatch, but a Monarch Caterpillar! This is the baby Butterfly, or Larvae (pronounced lava). When it hatches it is very hungry, and will eat anything in sight, including the egg.As it eats, it will become 270,000 times it's original weight!
This will force it to shed it's skin. But don't worry. There's always another skin underneath! The average Caterpillar will do this about six times.

Stage 3: The Pupa (Chrysalis)

After shedding all of it's skins, the Caterpillar will curl up in the shape of a j. It will now shed it's skin one last time, except  instead of the skin falling off, it will turn inside-out. The skin will climb up the larvae until it has formed a sort of protective hard shell around the larvae. A butterfly will slowly form, and as it does so, the pupa, or chrysalis, will become thinner and more transparent, until it splits.


Stage 4: The Caterpillar Butterfly


It cannot fly yet as it's wings are wet from the skin, but once it has dried them in the sun it will fly away...






So that is the Monarch Butterfly Life Cycle! Butterflys are so amazing!




Joshua Cross
Takahe

The Monarch Butterfly Life-Cycle

Butterflies are small, pretty insects. They have thin , black bodies and antennae. The biggest part of them are their wings. Monarch butterflies have orange and black wings.

First, an adult butterfly lays an egg. Adults can lay 700 eggs in a few weeks. Monarch butterflies lay their eggs on milkweed plants.Then the egg hatches. The small caterpillar is called a pupa.

The larva eats everything in sight. Sometimes he sheds his skin. This is called moulting.
The larva becomes 27,000 times the size the weight he was when he hatched.

Once the caterpillar is very big, it curls up in the shape of a J. It moults and the old skin turns inside out, covering the larva. He is now in his coccoon, at the pupa stage.

The coccoon begins to become transparent. After 9-14 days, the coccoon splits and a butterfly comes out. The butterflies' wings are soggy so it pumps liquid into them. Then it lets them dry. Then it can fly away, and lay more eggs.

After the butterfly has laid all it's eggs, it dies. That is
the amazing life-cycle of a butterfly.

By Elena.

our class art

On the 12th of September takahe did some art for sport. We had to draw people doing any sport but we had to do the people moving and we had to paint the people and the background from the photo. but we could only draw two people.

Chalk Art

On Monday 5th September 2011 Ramarama School walked happily to the Court. When we arrived Katie and Elena grabbed the Chalk and they started making a rough outline. Our book was "Where The Wild Things Are"!
About 10 minutes later the rest of Takahe got to go to the court. After that we got to colour the picture in. The sea was the hardest bit because we had to use a lot of blue.

All the classes did a book. It looked amazing!

by Abbie

Speeches

For the last few weeks we have been doing a speech competition. We had to put together a good speech on any topic of our choice, then say it in front of our class. The best went to a speech-off against 2 other classes. The best 5 went to a school final, the best speech went into city finals. Then comes the New Zealand finals of witch will conclude the competition. The lengths were: 2:30 =just long enough, 3:00=perfect, 3:30=Maximum length. It has been a lot of fun and I know we have all learnt a lot. Here are some of the speech topics we chose: I did mine on planets. Others included horses, Earth, Electricity, and being a 12-year-old girl.




By Joshua Cross

Our Learning Model

BY Sam and Larissa

Hector's world

Hector's world is all about keeping your personal information to your self and keeping safe on the internet.

It is so you don't put your self in danger,like if you gave your address,phone number or your user name or password you never know what they could do with all that information!

If you find or see something you are not sure about on the internet you should ask someone you can trust.

by Mathew

Sleet!

Today there was sleet at school! We all went to see it at the window. We could see little white things floating to the ground. We found out that sleet was rain and snow together. Sleet turns into water when it touches the ground, but we could see it in the air. Mrs Mackereth and Mrs Macmillin went outside and they said sleet felt like thick rain. It's been a long time since it has snowed in Auckland!

By Elena

The new Takahe learning space!!!!

Takahe's new learning space! on PhotoPeach

The learning space Takahe is very lucky to be in one of the new learning spaces. We moved in the new learning space at the start of term 3 and have been settling in well.

The class room is very colourful and bright! The walls are all different colours and the wall is made out of felt.W e have the x4 board they have a tv inside the whiteboard it's very cool.

And on the side of the x4 boards you can keep laptops in the sides it is very flash!

By Ciara

Chopper Challenge

Today we did a new fitness programme named chopper challenge.

The whole entire school took part in this amazing event. Room Takahe , Tui and piwakawaka were the 2nd class to go down to chopper challenge.

The event was held in the court and the bus shelter.The 1st thing we did was some skipping skills 2ndly we did some stretches, 3rdly we did some carrying on the stretchers then we did running drills lastly we did some medicine ball.

WE HAD A REAL FUN DAY.


BY Thomas

YouthTown Rugby skills

Today Takahe and Tui did YouthTown and learnt rugby skills.

One of the drills was you ran to the yellow cones do 2 star jumps ran to the post do 3 push ups and run back.
A different one was run to the white cone run around it go to the green cone run around it run to the yellow cone and run to the post do 2 star jumps and run back.
We played ball tag one rule was if you got touched by a ball you were also out.

We played 2 games the first winners were Cody and Paige and the second winners were Aimee and Amber.It was really awesome to do.

BY James.P

My Trip to Singapore

Last week I went to Singapore with my family on holiday. It was a long plane ride and took nearly 11 hours to get there. It was lucky we had tvs to watch.


It is very hot over there. It was about 31 degrees every day. We went swimming in our hotel pool lots.


We went to the Singapore Zoo. We got to feed the elephants bananas. We saw a show with the sea lion doing lots of tricks and it splashed alot of people. We also saw a show with cats and dogs doing tricks too. We also went on boat and tram rides there.






This spider monkey was walking around outside its cage by itself.






We went to Universal Studios. We went on alot of rides. My favourite was the river raft ride. My Dad and sisters got really soaked and it took them ages to dry out. My Mum and I didn't get wet at all. We went in the fairy castle to watch a Shrek 4D movie. We stayed there from when it opened to when it closed.

There was a lolly shop outside Universal Studios.

We went to Chinatown to the night markets. It was hot and very crowded. There was lots of shops and we bought lots of stuff.

Here I am by the Merlion which is half fish half lion. We went on a boat cruise that went past it.

This is the Marina Bay Sands building behind me. It has a boat canal running inside it's shopping mall. We went skating in the rink in the mall. The whole building lights up at night.

We also went to the Singapore Childrens Science Discovery Centre. There was lots of things for us to play with. In the afternoon we went next door to Snow City. We slid down the mountain on tyres.

We had to fly home overnight and it was hard to sleep on the plane. The food on the plane was gross.

I really enjoyed the trip!

ZumbAtomic Routines

In our class we got to create our own ZumbAtomic routine. ZumbAtomic is a DVD zumba programme for kids.

We also got to perform live in front of the class and then put it on film.

We had to bring some costumes and Video-Cameras to School.

I know we all had a lot of fun and all of us showed great effort.

My favourite part was when we got to make up the routines and I really do hope one day we will get to do it again.

A Free Fish

Diving down!
Enough sun!
Ever so many fish!
Pleading for
Some cold water.
End of torture!
Away from the fisherman's net.

Our Spur-Winged Plover

A spur-winged plover has made a nest on the top field! It has laid four eggs. The plover is also called a masked plover or a masked lapwing. The plovers were brought from Australia in the 1930's.

The Spur-winged plover is 38 cm leisurely and heron like in flight, with an upright walk and tip- toeing run, this plover congregates in fields of root crops.Its wing spur is usually hidden.We have decided to call it .By Katie:) and Elena

5W's

A 5w poem is a poem which has the 5w's in it.The 5w's are:

Who,when,what,where and What.

Michele

Goes on gmail every day

At her house up the street

6:00 in the morning

Wants a good chat on gmail

Doctor Who

Kills aliens with his companions

In space and different planets

In the past and the future

Because he's a time lord.

BY CIARA.M AND ABBIE.R

TAKAHE'S OPEN DAY

On Wednesday 22 June our class had an open day.

We were showing our parents and grandparents our inquiry ( migration )

Mrs Mackereth had set tasks for each group:

1.Mrs Mackereth had got a picture from google images and put it on a laminated card and made up fake info on the people:Health,Job,Criminal records,Name and age.

2.Then we had a table were we had to show our parents our knowledge net pages and acount.

At the end we had Chontelle and Mitchell say a thank-you for coming speech.

By Analiese