Writing

SOCIAL SCIENCE FAIR

Summer and I took a while to think, but we choose the gold guitars for the social science fair in Invercargill. We were very excited.

I rushed to get a free computer and went straight to the gold guitar website while Summer read the newspaper. We both were thinking “Wow, we got a lot to learn”. Once our books were filled with facts and information, our next step was to think of questions for the people we will interview.

We printed all ten paragraphs and some very colourful pictures. Summer and I talked to Mrs Russell about whom to interview. We choose Nichole Parry and Mrs Hewlett, but sadly she still hasn’t replied to our email. Next we choose the brightest colours we could for our board. We choose sun bleach yellow and sky blue. They looked great. I was very excited to use the guillotine and cut the paper with it.

Finishing wasn’t too hard. All that was left was gluing and I did that while Summer was sick. I even made a model for the fair an also for Summer to see. Both of us were very proud. I couldn’t wait to go to the Scottish hall in Invercargill. The one that stood out was the Milk for Schools cartoon and Bonnie Millers. We learnt so much and now know next time to not worry and have a bigger diorama.

We loved working together and seeing others at their best we hope we can do it again.

 

Social Science Fair

Everyone from Room Five and Nine went to the Social Science Fair in Invercargill.  On the way there, we all went to watch Gore Main’s rugby tournament at the Sports Stadium. While we were watching the game the rain started to fall and fall and fall so when the game had finished we got back on the bus and went to the Social Science Fair.

As soon as we got there, we had lunch.  We got to have a really good look around. In some places people got a merit, special prize, first prize and third prize.

While everyone was looking at the Social Science Fair, they saw really good information and much, much more.

Everyone started on the 19^th May.  I had thought that I would not finish it in time but it turns out that I did, on the last day.

When we started, I was with Keira and Summer for a couple of days but then I changed my mind. I wanted to be by myself so I asked Mrs Russell and she said yes, so I began working and the thing I did my Social Science Fair on was The New Zealand Flag Debate. If the Government changes it now, it will be its second time.

The placing for the Social Science Fair were, Anikah got a merit and Bonnie got two special prizes and a first prize and she also won $200.

THAT IS SO COOL.

By Rebecca

Social Science Fair

“Oh man!”  We (Oakland and Nate) thought we were never going to finish our Social Science Fair project that we began on the 19^th of May 2015. Our project was on the New Zealand flag as were two other projects from our class. The whole of Room 9 were bustling to finish their projects.

Oakland and I (Nate) were planning on a computer copying things from the internet and we had to concentrate very hard to get our plan done.  At some points of our hard concentration, it got very confusing, especially what pictures we were going to use. We also had to figure out if we were going to use the cause and effect, and what information we were going to use of course!

We were hovering round a computer adding colour to our paragraphs fixing mistakes and creating graphs. We had coloured coded different sectors in different colours such as black and white, red and blue. When we showed our work to the teacher there were a few words that even she didn’t know of!

The arranging of the board took about 3 days. It was very tiring. When we were traveling to the Scottish Hall we stopped at rugby to see the Gore Main rippa rugby team.  They won. Yay!!! At the Scottish Hall, we found our board as soon as we entered. We saw many other amazing projects with astonishing models.

 Even when we had gotten back from the Social Science Fair, we were still amazed at some of the projects we had seen there. We both would like to do this again.

By Oakland and Nate

The Social Science Fair 2015

“We’re the most far behind! What are we going to do?” said Jay. On the 19^th May Room 9 decided to do the Social Science Fair. 

We (Josh T, Jay W and Nathan G) did it together and chose deer hunting as our topic. We started getting our information from the internet but it wasn’t enough to use. Luckily we were supplied books by Mrs Russell. It gave us enough information to carry on. When we read the book, we found out that there was a Gore deer stalkers association. We emailed them a couple of questions but they never replied.

We were still far behind! What will we do? Then we realised we had enough information to start typing. It took a while to do but we finished. We managed to print some photos out. We decided ona green background for our board and then stuck the information on it. We finally finished five minutes before the time limit.

When the day finally came, we got to see all the entries and how good we did just to get finished. Room Nine and Room Five went to the Scottish Hall to see how we went in the Social Science Fair. We didn’t do as well compared to some other entries. They were amazing!

The fair caused arguments but at least we had fun seeing them, BUT we DON’T want to do it again!  

By Josh, Jay and Nathan

Social Science

I told Alistair that we might have to do all the work at home and not to muck around! Alistair and I had to do complete a social science assignment that was due on the 26^th of June in the Scottish Hall.

We both sat around a computer for the first week and we looked at diseases. After that we decided to make a bacteria model out of paper mache, a balloon, paint and pink paper. We also made a graph with diseases in New Zealand and how many people have died from them.

We finally got our board and printed our data and finished our graph. I was painting the model purple while Luis was setting out the colours. He came up with the idea of placing small balls of pink paper all around the model. Finally, we folded up the board and placed the model on top and put it in Mrs Russell’s car.

We got to look at the social sciences projects that other schools made. We got lots of information and were inspired by their creations and ideas.

Alistair and I both thought that we should have had more information.

By Luis and Alistair

Social Science Project

“Right Room Nine you have a Social Science project to complete, that will be presented in the Scottish Hall in five week’  time,’’ Said Mrs Russell. She forced us to do it because she said it was an excellent opportunity. 

Then everyone had to choose a topic their assignment was going to be based on, and choose who they were going to interview. I decided to interview nine people and after I had gathered all the information, I put it in a bar graph to sum up and show the results of the answers. I researched 1080 so I knew exactly what it was!

When I started designing what it would look like on the board, I thought of a way to make it look effective. I used lime green card board for my background and also had a glowing red sign on one side where all my ‘For’ interviews went and I had the exact opposite on the other side. To make it eye catching, I put small branches with leaves on around my board and found a rat trap and made pretend 1080 for my model!  It was harder than I imagined.

Room Nine jumped excitedly onto the Jenkins bus ready for a trip down to see our finished results all in big rows! The Scottish hall was packed full with 294 entries. The whole of Southland had a opportunity to enter.  There were 3 different age groups that entered.  Wow! I won a merit and Bonnie won a first prize and 2 special prizes, incredible!

I thought the Social Science Fair was a great experience. Why? Because in intermediate I hear we have lots of school projects we have to complete so it is really getting us ready!

By Anikah

The Amazing Social Science Fair

“Eleven hours and thirty minutes left to finish this.” Mrs Russell screamed. I was terrified because in Room Nine this year our teacher made us do the social science fair in our inquiry time. We had to choose a topic, so I chose the Creamota Mill Complex.

We were told to gather background information and also to interview an expert on our topic. I managed to fit in FIVE of them. I heard there was an exhibition on so I managed to find some time in the weekends to go there.  Behind some of the facts there were some newspapers merged together. So I went around reading all of them.  In my interviews somehow I managed to interview the lady who did them so she photocopied some for me.

When it came to putting it all together, I noticed that my information wouldn’t all fit on my board. I could only fit nine out of thirty two pages on. The tough thing was that everyone else got a title board that fitted in the slots and I never got one. There was a splendid thing though about my board. It was black not white, so I didn’t have to take my time sticking coloured paper all over it.

The hall it was held in was in Invercargill so they had to be taken down.  Mrs Russell allowed us to go to Invercargill in our class time to get some ideas from the other projects and to see if we won anything.  When I went to mine, I saw three tags on my model.  One of them said 1^st in the Year 5 and 6 section and the other two said special prize, 1^st  in the historic section and 1^st in the heritage section. YAY!

After all I am glad that we had to do the social science fair.

By Bonnie Miller

Social Science Fair 2015

“I DON’T THINK WE’RE GOING TO FINISH our social science project.  it’s due in three days. We are only half finished” Josh yelled. We, Josh, Jay and Buster, were stressing about our assignment (Livestock Supplies Fire) and it took way longer than we thought. We had to have it ready for display in the Scottish Hall by the 24^th of June 2015.

We made progress during the first week by making background information and typed it on a black computer. The file was called for some reason the Social Science Fair. On the second Friday, we went through a lot of stress calling the fire department for an interview. On like the 100^th call it paid off and we had finally got an interview, on Monday 10:30 am with Steve Lee the Gore fire chief. After the interview, Josh summed up our notes and we all got a whole lot of information.

Firstly, we went down to Invercargill on a Jenkins bus. It was an excruciatingly long trip but we made it. We went down to Rugby Park to watch the rippa tournament. Gore Main was one of the first teams playing. They were awesome! After that we went to the Scottish Hall to look at the Social Science Fair projects. There were 294 entries. We were there for an hour. There were some pretty amazing entries in there. 

By Buster, Jay and Josh

Our Social Science Experience

Did you know never to click on pop ups because people can steal your identity? This is one of the many things we learnt while researching our social science assignment. Mrs Russell said “11 ½ hours to complete your social science fair project!” Which got us freaked out!  Alisha, Tayla and I (Jaleesa) worked on our social science fair to achieve our goal to get a prize but we didn’t win any prizes.

Tayla and I (Jaleesa) had the idea of doing internet safety.   After our experiences with John Parsons, we got inspired to do this topic. Alisha was away at a funeral and asked to join us. We made a decision to let Alisha in. We were going to interview the police, but we didn’t follow through because Tayla, Alisha and I (Jaleesa) didn’t have enough time.

A colourful debate was involved in the phase of putting together our information because Alisha wanted different colours. We searched the net for information. Typing was mostly done by Alisha so it wasn’t a problem because she was fast.

The Social Science Fair had over 250 projects in the Scottish Hall. We had lunch and morning tea at the Social Science Fair expedition and we found ones we were interested in and ones that we weren’t. Sadly, Tayla was not involved with this experience because she was at a leadership course.

When we were at the Social Science Fair we got inspired with ideas for the future. We learnt a lot and are looking forward to next year.

By Alisha Jaleesa and Tayla

Our Social Science Fair

Did you know that the Gore New World throw out about $200 to $300 worth of bread a day? This is an amazing fact that we found out in one of our interviews. Greer and I did the Social Sciences Fair, based in the Scottish Hall in Invercargill, on food wastage.  We traveled by bus down to Invercargill.

When we were planning, we came up with lots of different topics but fortunately we picked food wastage.  Then we sorted it out.  Our interviews were Supermarket Manager, Mount Linton Station, Mrs M and parents from Gore Main School. When we were about half way through Mrs Russell said that we had 11 hours and thirty minutes, then Greer and I started stressing out that we weren’t going to finish it! We still had a model to finish! Greer wanted it her way and I wanted it my way so there was a bit of arguing and trust me, it ended well, because it ended up my way.      

At the incredible Social Science Fair there were over 200 projects entered and everyone put lots of effort into their project.  

There were lots of disagreements, but it was fun and confusing at same time.

By Emily and Greer

Social Science Fair

Room Nine had thirty seven days to complete their social science projects. Room Nine students at Gore Main School were doing Social Science Fair projects.

It was difficult to select a topic to work on for the Fair, but we chose the New Zealand flag change. The hardest part was choosing the colour, model, size   and who we were going to interview.

On the last day, we were struggling to get the positioning and gluing right.  It       was difficult to do the hot gluing and cutting the images and facts.

On the twenty sixth of June Rooms Nine and Five travelled to Invercargill by bus for the Fair. Many other boards didn’t have very much information on them, also some had boring videos.

We had a great time, but we wish we gotten a place, but it was still entertaining.

 By Shakaya, Katelyn and Tegan 

GABBY, LACHIE AND SAFFIE’S SOCIAL SCIENCE FAIR EPISODE

“15 minutes to go people, you should be on to gluing by now!!!” said Mrs Russell.  Saffie Lachie and I (Gabby) had to hand in our project at the Invercargill Scottish Hall by Friday, 26^th June. Mrs Russell forced us to do the Southland Social Science Fair because she thought it would be a great opportunity!

To be able to put our project together, we had to type up our background information and our interview information.  We decided to do our project on bus safety because we wanted to find out why buses do not have seatbelts. We sent out surveys to the children who go home on the bus. Their parents had to answer the questions which were, “Do you think buses should have seatbelts?”  Some said yes and others said no.

Splink, splosh splash went the paint on our model. We were making a mess, but we think it was looking affective. To make the board come together, we had to collect all the data and glue it on our board.  But of course, we had to make it look good, not just gluing it anywhere or throwing it on.  Saffie bought a yellow bus to school and there was our model complete. I think it looked pretty good from my point of view.

“COCONUTS!! 294 entries crammed into a little hall,” I screamed. There was a big milk carton with a giant straw on top. That display was very talented. There was an enormous amount of projects about technology. They were actually all really good and Bonnie Miller actually won. She did hers on the Sargent Dan mill.   

This wasn’t the best project ever that we have done.   We could have done better on our model and gluing but it was our first social science fair. We learnt a lot from our research. 

Social Science Fair

“Are we going to finish?” said Rueban frantically.

We, Reuben and Rueban, were worried we weren’t going to finish the Social Science Fair entry!  We had to enter our assignment in the Social Science Fair in the Scottish Hall in Invercargill. It was due on 26^th of June Friday 2015. Mrs Russell said it was a good opportunity for us to improve our writing skills.

Reuben struggled as he heard we needed to plan and make and enter a social science board into the Social Science Fair. We had to choose a subject for the Social Science Fair.  Rueben and I, choose “Are we using water wisely and how?”

Putting all of our work together was really hard because the black paper wasn’t sticking. We took 30 minutes to stick it all together. It was really challenging trying not to break the display board. The board was really sticky with glue at the end, which was annoying.

The Social Science Fair was in the Scottish Hall in the fantastic Invercargill. This year the outcome was amazing with many entries came going through. There was one certain entry that stood out and that was Bonnie Miller’s board. It was based on Sgt Dan. Her model was massive and it had amazing detail and we could tell she put a lot of time and effort into it.

Last year not everybody finished, but this year all of us did. We were really proud of what we had done and that we finished.

By Rueban and Reuben

                                            

 Quick  Writes

This big, blue and green tongued amphibian is hiding in the water laying its eggs.  It has dark red eyes and is green and orange and has dark red webbed feet with a yellow tummy. It uses its small legs to jump around earth.

By Summer

It has a red, yellow and green body and he is an amphibian.   His stomach is yellow with sparkles. He has eyes like an angry cat.  Its webbed feet are dark red and are nearly bigger than his body.

By Luis

Splash, the tanned gold bellied frog sprang into the navy circular pond with his dragon fly friend.  Its light lime green back, camouflaged this frog wonderfully well.

By Anikah

The small creature has soft green scaly skin with a yellow sparkly bottom half.  The amphibian has a big long pink tongue that snatches flies ten centimetres away.  It has short red flippers and black eyes.

By Alistair

This pink, black polka dotted amphibian splashes in the water with its long webbed feet and poisons other predators with its slimy tongue and jumps from tree to tree and back into the water.

By Josh T

This big, blue and green tongued amphibian is hiding in the water laying its eggs.  It has dark red eyes and is green and orange and has dark red webbed feet with a yellow tummy. It uses its small legs to jump around earth.

By Summer

Splash! This two toned belly amphibian is jumping from rock to rock with his springy webbed feet.  He has a slime green back and brown googly eyes that glow in the dark, with a long black tongue.

By Gabby

This is an animal that has slimy webbed feet and a long sticky tongue.  It has got blood red feet and is lime green from its head all the way down its back.  He’s got yellow from his mouth to his back legs.  This amphibian has wine red, muscly back legs to help it jump.

By Reuben

This amphibian has webbed feet and brown eyes.  It has a yellow underneath and a lime green back. This creature lives on land and breeds in water and jumps from lily pad to lily pad.  Its diet are flies which are disgusting.  What an amazing creature.

By Emily

This majestic beast with a green back and a yellow tummy can jump from lily pad to lily pad. Its emotionless red eyes strike fear into its opponents heart when it catches them with his tongue and tears them apart with its webbed feet.

By Nathan

The frog has a yellow belly with sparkles. He has got blood red feet with sparkly yellow on the top. The big frog has got a nice highlighter green back. The sparkly frog has big cute bulgy eyes like my dogs.This beautiful frog is an amphibian. The frog has got red around his eyes and black in the middle. He loves to eat flies. He has got a nice long pink tongue to catch his dinner. The frog is nice and smooth. He has big green eyebrows.

By Rebecca

Lime green covers every piece but its tummy. This amphibian has a yellow tummy. Red webbed feet can’t stand up. Rose, pink eyes show a smile.

By Alisha

This cute amphibian has shiny sparkles all over its green and orange curved back. Its bright pink eyes glow in the dark when trying to leap over the water. When walking, his feet look too big for his body.

By Bonnie

This happy creature has a light green body with blood red feet and a tongue. He has a sunny yellow stomach.  The hopping creature’s eyes are brown. It’s breath smells like flies because its favourite food is flies.

By Shakaya

This warty skinned amphibian has large webbed feet and a large rough tongue that can easily catch a few insects in less than a second.  His black eyes stare out at you from its shiny grass green skin. He can leap ten centimetres in one giant leap.  The plump belly of this creature is filled with flies, mosquitoes and gnats. Amazingly this creature has a friendly look in his eyes.

By Nate

This silky creature has beautiful silver sparkles on its flat orange belly. Its bright green eyes glow in the sunlight. The green back of this amphibian is as green as grass. He is so pretty!

By Tayla

This amphibian has sparkles on his tummy and hands.  He has red and yellow hands with a yellow and green head and the rest of his body is green. He has smooth, slimy skin and people love him.

By Jay

His eyes are as brown as a log. The top of his body is as green as grass. The bottom of his body is as yellow as the sun. His mouth is as red as a rose and he has feet as red as blood.

By Lachie

This webbed creature has dark velvet eyes with green skin and a pastel yellow belly.  He has springy legs with the same velvet red under his toes as his eyes.  The frog has glitter on his belly and a fluffy body.

He eats fat flies and juicy grubs. Strange right? He chills out on his grey spinning chair and acts cool forever. The webbed creature never moves. Good luck playing with him!
By Keira

The shiny green, red and yellow amphibian leaps from pad to pad as its sparkly skin shimmers in the morning sun.  Plonk goes the frog as it falls in the squared shaped pond and then it squeezes back up on the pad.

By Greer

Splash went this amphibians long skinny arms and legs as he leapt in the green mossy water.  His curved green back, yellow spotted face and a long bright tongue  camouflages him in the weed.

By Saffie

Splosh goes the red, green yellow sparkly frog into the circular pond. He splashes around while trying to fling his grotty tongue and eat flies. He’s got red and green eyes that are so wide!

By Buster

As he jumps from lily pad to lily pad, he uses his red webbed feet and sparkly tummy.  His green back is shining in the sun as he stares with his rosy eyes into the water to think about what is really down there.

By Jaleesa

The yellow, green and red amphibian lives in the wildest most deadliest jungle in the entire world.  He is an amphibian, so he lives on land and breeds in water.  Everywhere it goes, it sees things like a magnifying glass because he has shining red googling eyes just like a grey elephant.

By Rueban

Red toes sticking out of this amphibian’s green back protects him from his predators but not all his predators.  His pink tongue catches his ‘fast’ food!  Brown eyes glow in the dead of the night.

By Oakland

This beautiful specimen has webbed feet and a bright green hide.  Its eyes are dark brown with pitch black pupils. The underneath of it is as orange as the flame of a dragon. Its strong hind legs have the power to propel it from one end of the room to another. Its tongue is like elastic. Perfect for catching flies and other insects. The bottoms of its feet are blood red.

By Jay B