The Incredible un-edible FART PROOF UNDIES!

Fart proof undies invented in UK

Created on October 31, 2013

A company based in the UK has invented fart-proof underwear designed to hide those awkward smells.

The hi-tech pants contain the same technology used in chemical warfare suits.

The good news is that the technology that stops the smell is ‘reactivated’ every time the undies are washed.

A spokesperson for the company said they are trying to combat a problem which they say affects “millions of people”.

The company has put the price for their new product at $39 for briefs and $45 for boxers.

Article written by Editor

1. Do you think fart proof undies are a good idea?
2. Who would benefit the most from having these (what kind of person needs them)?
3. Why did someone decide to invent these?
4. Do fart proof undies block the sound of farts?
5. What problem affects millions of people?
6. what technology did they use to create the undies?
7. In what country were the undies invented?
8. Why do you think these undies have not been invented before now?
9. Would you buy a pair if they came to NZ?
10. Draw and design your own pair of fart proof undies.

Reading Comprehension activities

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Term 3 Week 3 Online Reading Activity

NZ ambulances turning yellow

1. Who is painting their Ambulances?
2. What are they hoping the change will do?
3. What is the most noticeable colour on the road?
4. Do ambulances travel very far?
5. Are ambulances used often in NZ? How do you know?
6. How long will it take to paint all of NZ's ambulances?
7. How much do you think it will cost to paint all of St Johns Ambulances?
8. If yellow is the most visible colour what colour do you think is the worst?
9. Have you ever had an experience with an ambulance? - Explain.
10. Why are they changing the Ambulances colour?

Escape artist completes skydiving box escape

Watch the clip

1. What is this news article about?
2. Who is the article about?
3. Why would someone do this?
4. What do you think was going through his mind when he was thrown from the plane?
5. How fast is 130mph in Kms (find out)
6. What is the secret?
7. How did he train for this?
8. Do coffins make you nervous?
9. What is the coffin really?
10. WHy do the tv hosts say "see you in 2038?

Handwriting Activity

To get a Gold Star you need to have to the best of your ability

1. Sloped your letters to the right (don't slope too far)
2. Have all of your letters sitting on the line
3. Have all of your letters even sized
4. Make sure your letters are not too wide
5. have a tidy border that relates to the text
6. keep all of the handwriting consistent (this means that all of the writing looks the same from start to finish)

Our Teacher's multi-talented

Our teacher's multi-talented.
He plays guitar and sings.
He paints impressive pictures
and can juggle twenty rings.

He dances like an expert,
he can mambo, tap and waltz.
He's also quite a gymnast,
doing airborne somersaults.

He's something of a swimmer.
He's a champion at chess.
It's difficult to find a skill
that he does not possess.

He speaks a dozen languages.
He's great at racing cars.
He's masterful at fighting bulls,
and studying the stars.

He's good at climbing mountains.
He can wrestle with a bear.
The only thing we wish he'd learn
is how to comb his hair.

--Kenn Nesbitt

News Comprehension Activity

New Zealand 12th most overweight country

Created on July 12, 2013

New Zealand has been named as one of the fattest countries in the world.

A new report by the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation has ranked New Zealand 12th in a list of countries with the highest number of overweight and obese people.

The study found 27 percent of New Zealanders were obese, just behind Lebanon and alongside Slovenia. The average Kiwi was estimated to weigh 81.3kg last year.

The US, which did hold the top spot, has been overtaken by neighbouring Mexico, where 70 per cent of adults are overweight and a third obese.

Australia was the 17th fattest nation and Britain 19th.

Comprehension Questions

1. Who are New Zealand just behind in the study of obesity?
2. Why do you think New Zealanders are getting fatter?
3. What do you think could be done to solve the obesity issue?
4. Which country is the most obese in the world?
5. How much does the average Kiwi weigh?
6. Do you think it is important to know which country is the fattest?
7. Who do you think is responsible for the overweight people in NZ? 

News Comprehension Activity

The world’s most common pin number

Created on August 6, 2013

A study by scientists have found that the world’s most popular PIN number or password is the number – 1234.  Infact a staggering 11% of people have this as their number.

This number was closely followed by 1111, 0000 and 7777 as other most popular numbers.

The study found that people generally use important dates or information as a guide when picking their PIN  number. The most popular of these is a pet’s birthday or the date of a wedding anniversary.

Research suggests that many people simply opt for the most memorable code they can think of.

Using the digits zero to nine there are a total of around 10,000 possible ways to form a four-digit PIN code.

But using data from security breaches and previously released or exposed password tables, the bloggers found that 11% of the 3.4 million passwords they looked at were 1234 – a proportion they described as “staggering” and betraying a “lack of imagination.”

Questions

1. Why do you think the most popular pin number is 1234?
2. Which pin number closely follows 1234 as the second most popular?
3. how many possible ways are there to form a four digit code using the 0 to 9?
4. What percent of people have the pin number 1234?
5. Why do banks tell people not to use their birth date as a pin number?
6. Why do you think people would choose important dates as pin numbers?

Term 3 Week 2 Handwriting

Focus for handwriting
Remember: When you pick up your pen
1. Slope your letters to the right.
2. Make sure your letters sit on the line.
3. Make sure all of you lower case letters are the same size
4. Make sure all of your tall letters go from the bottom line to the top line.
5. Make sure your letters are not too big (meaning you can fit more words on a line)

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Term 3 Handwriting sample for the wall

http://www.poetry4kids.com/poem-364.html#.UfWedBbLitg

one small moment by Jyneika

one small  moment

I feel the sun on my face.I hear  yelling and drilling hoses as well .

I get my turn.. I'm going  to shot .I stretch my arms it slips out of my hands nooo! I had missed the goal. I still had  go.Sadness flows in my body when i walk in side.

by Jyneka

Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur

Week 7 Reading Activity

Handwriting - This Weeks focus: Linking, Have a go at linking your writing.
Have you...
Note: when you mark your handwriting do it on a different sheet

• Got your letters sitting on the line 1-5
• Are all your lowercase letters taking up half of the space and your capitals all of the space 1-5
• Have you slightly sloped your writing and is it leaning the right way 1-5
• Are your letters too big, you should not find it difficult to fit all of the words on a line 1-5
• are the spaces between your letters too big or too small 1-5
• Does your title stand out 1-5
• Does your border and picture (if room) relate to the writing 1-5

Tally up your total score 

Now get a buddy to score your handwriting - write the two scores down on your handwriting. What do you notice about the two scores?

kylie houkamau

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oceanas poem

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By ThE BeSt OceAna

revas poem

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One small moment by Laura

        Netball

Finally! its my turn to take the shot.I step up to the challenge.The suns in my eyes. I bend my knees, stretch my arms out and release the ball.Its so close to the hoop  I am sure its going to go in an no!!!  I missed.Sadness flows through my body as i slowly walk back inside.

written by Laura

one small moment by oceana

I was far away from the goal ready to kick

the ball  all i could hear was the drillers drilling hammers

hammering the nails and my heart-beat. I was running and i kicked
the ball my heat was going so fast i didn't know what was going to happen
its right by the goal.

JYNEIKA IS THE BEST

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By Jyneka

GEMINI TAYLOR

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Hannah Lee is the best person in the world!!!!

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if you find a rock by sophie

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by sophie 

shrimps by laura

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by laura jc

Jhonee

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destiny is cool

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shaniqua casey

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Mr McNaught is Awesome

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Week 6 Video reading

Week 4 Reading Activities

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Video reading task T2 WK2

Watch and read the cartoon

Homophones

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murder ball instructions

object of this game:

the object of the game is to have a good game and play fair

equipment:

balls

a boundary

players (a class full)

method:

1. some people will have balls but some will not

2. if you got a ball you can start throwing when you are told to start

3. if someone throw the you to get you out but you catch it on the full they are out

4.if you throw the ball to get someone out but they catch it on the full you are out

5.if you throw the ball at someones head you are out 

6.you can have teams but if you make them to big it will become boring so its better to be an individual player

7.if you got out make sure you got your eye on the person who got you out because if they get out you get to get back in

8. if you got someone out then you get out there back in

9.you can not get your team mates out but if you do there not out

10.you can be the first to come out of your team but i wont do that if i was you because if you do the are already close to you so then they can easily get you out so ill will well across the boundary

11.you can run out of the boundary to get the ball if it is out of boundary
12.you cant get a ball out of boundary if some one has already got you 
13.do not cheat because if you got out and randomly try to get back in,the person who got you out will catch you  cheating 

message
remember to play fair and don't cheat in this game


by sophie

murder ball

what you need:

balls at least 10

people to play with

a spot to play in

people to play with:

at least 15-20 people it's important

you don't have to much people playing

Murderball


how to play
Record music with Vocaroo >> by Teariki

murder ball what you need: balls at least 10 people to play with a place to play in where to play: find a nice place to play in not to big and not to small who can play: a least 15-20 people it's important you do not have to much people playing rules: when you step out of the boundaries you are out steps: 1.find a nice place to play and get your balls 2.if you get hit on the full by the ball you sit down till the person who  got you gets out 3.if someone hits you on the head you are out until the person who hit you get out

murder ball

Voice Recorder >> by niqua

Murderball

Murdeball what you need: 9 balls or more 15 or more people boundaries?cones Instructions/how to play step 1: Find a big place to play. step 2: Your teacher throws out the balls. step 3: Throw the balls at the full and you have to throw to the shoulders and down. step 4: If you throw the ball at the face you need to sit down until the person you hit in the head gets out. step 5: If you get hit, you have to sit down, then the person that hit you got hit you can stand up. Until the person that hit you gets hit. step 6: Roll the ball on the ground to move around, if you carry it and run with it you sit down. step 7: You can deflect with the ball when someone might hit you. By: Jhonee

kelsey teneti

Voice Recorder >> kelsey teneti roxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx!!!!

kylie houkamau

Equipment:
10 not so hard balls

rules:
no head shots.if you have chucked the ball at their heads you are out.
do not run with the ball you must roll the ball as you go.
you are not allowed out of the boundreis unless you are getting a ball as soon as you get it you must come back in the boundries.

instructions:
step.1:get together the people that will be playing.
step.2: make a boudrie suitable for the amount of people that will be playing
step.3:we do not have propar teams however you can form a little team of your own.
step.4:start playing. If you are taged you must sit down. When the person who got you out gets out.
you now stand up and start playing again.

by kylie

murder ball
aim
The  aim of the game is to stay in for a long time.
Things you need
1.6 balls or more
2.7 people  or more
3.A wide place to play
rules
1.No headshots or the person who threw it out.
2.If out sit down until the person who  hit is out.
3.Don't go out of bounddres / unless getting a ball.
4.Don't run with the ball or you'r out.
5.Roll the ball along the ground to move.
6.You can make small teams.
7.If you catch the ball on the full the person who threw it's is out.
8.you have to get hit on the full to get out.

hints

You can deflect the ball with one thrown.


BY FLINN HIGGINS/MAKURIA ARNTHONY COOK

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King Ball/King Dodge

TITLE: King Ball?King Dodge

EQUIPMENT: 
2 teams
8 Cones 
8 Balls

WHERE:
Play on a court or a field.

HOW:
 Set out the 8 cones on a court or field. And divide into half.  

Outline the sides with the chalk.

The teams need to be even and start off with 4 balls each.

Before you start choose a king of each team and they will go to the 
opposite end of the court .

Throw the balls at the opposing team to get them out. If 
you hit their head with the ball you are out. If  they catch the ball on the full 
when you throw it you are out.

When a whole team is out, the king will get all the balls and try to get 
out as much people from the opposing team left. 


Hannah Lee 

murder-ball instructions

murder ball

you will need:

15-40 children
10-20 balls
half of a netball court
cones if there are no lines

instructions:

1.give out all the balls to the children 

2.the children with the ball have to lightly throw the ball at other people shoulders or below.If it hits them they have to bob down.However if you throw the ball and it hits the other person on the head you sit down.Or another way for you to get out is if they catch the ball on the full.

3. The other children (who is bobbing down) can only get back up and play when the person who got you is out (or down)

4.You MUST NOT run with the ball if you want to move with the ball you HAVE to roll the ball

5.Do not go out of the set boundaries unless you are getting a ball

(HINT: you can team up in doubles or threes any more and the game isn't fun anymore)

WRITTEN BY LAURA C

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Week 11 Independent Literacy tasks

Sleepy Koalas _ Get from Mr McNaught
Record your murderball instructions using Vocaroo and publish them to our literacy Blog in one post.

banana suit by teariki

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by teariki

water man

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luke riwaka

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reva hakopa

Voice Recorder >> reva hakopa

shaniqua casey

Voice Recorder >> shaniqua

kylie houkamau

Voice Recorder >> kylie is sooooooooooooooo awesome

jhoneee

Audio recording software >> I hope you like it

Laura

Audio recording and upload >> this poem was recorded by Laura on the 4/4/13

Term 1 Week 10

This weeks independent tasks
Handwriting Banana suit
Record you reading poem using vocaroo
post the recording on the reading blog

Term 1 Week 8

Literacy activities
Handwriting 

Studyladder

Word jumble (how many words can you make out of the word KINGSTOWN?

Comic strip about the most embarrassing moment in your life (at least 6 squares)

Term 1 Week 7 Reading Tasks

• Handwriting Activitiy
• Online reading activity
• 4 pictures One Word (at least 5)
• Inferencing Cards (at least 2)