Thanks for the iPad Jesse!

Follow the link:

Monster Making Competition

And we will learn to use it for more and more cool stuff!

Mr M :)

HC2: An Unexpected Foe

Congratulations to Jesse who won the nationwide Hanable the Canable writing competition against over 300 entries and won Room 18 Parkvale School an iPad! There were actually three entries from Room 18 to make the finalists! Here is the link to Jesse's winning entry: HC by Jesse. Below is Jesse's long awaited sequel to his HC story!

HANABLE THE CANABLE continued...

AN UNEXPECTED FOE

BY JESSE

"SMASH!" HC crashed into the hot concrete, face on fire with embarrassment. A colossal litterbot had erupted from a secret door within the pathway and overwhelmed the two heroes with a blast from his nuclear powered cannon. "Distract him while I take him from behind!" Agent Environment yelled trying to dodge the capsules flying past him. HC nodded quietly as if shocked from the pain going through his 'body'. "ZOOM!" Agent Environment flew around the robot and on to his back, as HC started his hurricane diversion. Distressed by all the confusing events, without Agent Environment having to do anything, the litterbot crashed lazily to the ground! "Wow! That was a mission or two!" panted HC, "Anyway, onwards to Unable's lair!!!

02036, HANNABLE THE UNABLES LAIR, fort pollute

"So…this is the villains' safe house aye?" HC said, studying the beautiful golden doors with admiration and disgust all in one. Giant clouds of smoke rose from the chimneys which towered above; rubbish lay all around, the colour of the sky was pretty much just black, and all of this just for Unable's wealth. This was not acceptable! HC was ready to rumble! The two blasted the door open to find humming voices among a huddle of villains and the one that stood out the most…Hannable the Unable! "Ahhhhh, brother you decided to visit…come, sit with my friends and I, let us discuss our plans together," Unable said with a smirk.
"Yeah…right…as if I'd do that…You're so dim-witted sometimes."
A number of gasps erupted from the crowd. "Do you want to just say that one more time?"
"You're…so…DIM-WITTED."
"THAT'S IT! No more Mister nice guy! GET HIM!"
And from there a tremendous battle broke out between the two sides, flashes in many different colours went throughout the room like birds taking flight. Until after a while… "STOP THE FIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!" HC panted with frustration, "This is a matter to discuss!"
"As much as you say so, I'm not going to change what I'm going to do! How much is it going to take to get that into your head?" Unable shouted, anger written all over his face.
"Look, if you just listen to what I'm trying to say, and then I'll leave!"
"Arrrgh, fine but make it quick!"
"Thank you…so, it's about time you thought about time you started thinking about what you've been doing…Have you not noticed that if you carry on the way your going, all you'll be known as is a selfish pig who doesn't care about anything, or anyone but himself. Everything that you're doing and that you've done has absolutely scarred the earth. If you want to make the earth's life span shorter than it's up to you but I say stop NOW!"
There was a moment of silence. "Now, I guess I should be going!" HC said with a deep breath.
"Wait!!!" Unable yelled, "I just want to say, thank you…I've never really thought of it that way…So I guess I'll just stop,"
"Guess you should!"

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

Jackson Pollock

We were thinking about how cool spilled paint can look today (mistakes in our calendar art). So we quickly investigated the American artist Jackson Pollock. Then some children created some Jackson Pollock type artworks on the whiteboard using this website. Here are a few:

Ayaan

Jesse

Jackson

Caitlin H.

I AM (part 2)

Morgan

Greer

Shamara

Jesse


Jackson

Hanable the Canable by Jesse

It all starts here, 1^st of January, 2000. The year…Of the opening …Of the 21^st Century. Also, the year of the release of the new superhero league, the GREEN TEAM!!! And their leader Hanable the Canable A.K.A. HC.

2034:
HANABLE'S SECRET APARTMENT, CANZRUS, CANTEBURY 2010.

"Agent Environment! Check this out! Michael Recycle just sent me a friend request on facebook!" proclaimed HC excitedly. "Sweet!" replied his loyal sidekick "He'll be a great link to get our message across, YOU CAN RECYCLE. Oh, and by the way I've written a character profile about you that we could share with others that are curious about what we do! Here, have a look!" Agent Environment handed HC the paper:

HANABLE THE CANNABLE

ORIGIN: CANZRUS LABORATORY, CANZRUS

STATUS: HERO

PURPOSE: IN THE YEAR 1998, SCIENTISTS BELIEVED OUR PLANET AND PEOPLE NEEDED A HERO. MORE AND MORE POLLUTION WAS OCCURING. THEY NEEDED A HERO WHO CARED FOR THE ENVIRONMENT, A HERO OF GREAT BRAVERY. AND OF COURSE THAT HERO COULD NOT HAVE BEEN HUMAN. IF WE WERE EVER TO FIND A HERO LIKE THAT THEY WOULD DEFINITELY HAVE TO BE OF ALIEN DESCENT. SO, IN 2000 OUR SAVIOUR TO BE HANABLE THE CANABLE WAS RELEASED!

HOW HE GETS HIS MESSAGE ACROSS: HC ALWAYS PUTS CONFERENCE BEFORE ACTION,AND UNFORTUNATELY SOME VILLAINS JUST CAN'T SEEM TO LISTEN TO WHAT HC TRIES TO SHOW THEM. SO HC JUST HAS TO USE THE APPROPRIATE PUNISHMENT. NOWADAYS, HC HAS BILLBOARDS, PUBLIC SPEECHES AND LOTS OF COMMUNITY AND COUNCIL CONFERENCES. THIS WAY EVERYONE WORKS TOGETHER TO MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE.

0538: HANABLE'S APARTMENT

"Beep, beep, beep," HC woke suddenly. What's that noise? He quickly realised it was his Green Team emergency comlink. Swiftly, he picked it up and glanced at the satellite image. It indicated to go to the green team HQ ASAP. HC immediately reacted, "To the Recycle Mobile… after breakfast."

And so, as HC finished up his can of baked beans, he woke Agent Environment and they both manned the recycle mobile and zoomed out of the secret docking bay.

0803: GREEN TEAM HQ, LOCATION UNKNOWN

'Ah….HC I was hoping you'd turn up!" Commander Green said with a sigh of relief, "We've been secretly tracking Hanable the Unable's movements for the past month, and have found something incredibly dangerous for our Earth."

"And what is that sir?" HC said curiously.

"Come with me"

The three slowly made their way over to the conference room, throwing nervous glances at each other. "Unable is planning to invade Wellington and transform the city into his own wasteland, and it's all up to you two to stop him," Commander Green finally said, "You'll need to go to his lair at Fort Pollute, but be careful. There are litterbots completely surrounding the lair!"

"Don't worry, we'll teach him a lesson or two!" HC replied.

And on that note, the two friends set off!

0813:
UNABLES LAIR, FORT POLLUTE

Clonk! A litter bots crashed right in front of HC. "Lucky!!" laughed Agent Environment, "I think that's the last of them,"

"Thank goodness, for that!" HC said staring down at the minion.

The two continued down the tremendous path to the lair just to find something they weren't expecting at all…

TO BE CONTINUED…

By Jesse Tinning

Building Bridges

Interview with Howard Carter

Tiger

I sat there, slumped on my cold desk, staring out the classroom window. The same old teachers' orders, deafening to the ear. Yet out the window, an amazing sight met my eyes. A Tiger sat there, staring into my eyes mysteriously in the shadowy, damp jungle. Birds take flight at the sight of its burning eyes. It wades in the murky water, head hung high with pride, stripes as hypnotizing as the moon. Trees stand high above gazing down below.

Then, crack! There was a yelp. A cold dead silence filled the air. The menacing tiger fell to the ground, its blood glistening sickly crimson in the sunlight. I take one last glance into its fiery eyes as it has its last breath and farewells the earth.

As I choke back my tears, soon enough I have to return to the real world. I open my eyes to see my teacher staring back at me. "Sleeping in class are we?" she barks. "Detention now!!!"

By Jesse

Where do Bumblesnouts come from?

We used our imaginations and enhanced our maths skills creating maps at the end of term 2. Click on a photo to have a closer look.

Our Photostories (Part 1)

These are some of our first attempts at creating a Photo Story - using the photos from our production. A lot of learning and a lot of fun!

By Christian and Jesse

By Ayaan and Emily

By Greer and Hollie

By Jamie and Jackson

Auckland

Auckland

Cloudy days,

Bright lights,

Tall buildings,

Starry nights.

An awesome day,

At the shore,

Finding shells and much, much more.

Frosty mornings,

Planes are soaring,

Through the summer air,

Auckland is the place to be when life seems so unfair!

By Jesse

Football Fever!

(Photos by Morgan)

The Team 5 World Cup is heating up! While New Zealand gives it their best shot in South Africa, a smaller tournament is entertaining the Parkvale massive every lunchtime at 1pm.

So far Room 18 has defeated one unlucky class 5-0 and lost 3-1 to the pre-tournament TAB favourites, Room 19.

I also just want to shout "Go the All Whites!!!"

Mr M