What to wear at a crime scene

At a crime scene, it is important you don't contaminate evidence with your own DNA. You can see here Caitlin is wearing gloves, booties, a hair net, a face mask, plastic sleeves and a full body suit. This is to protect her fingerprints, hair, skin and footprints from being left behind...

Look what I've got....

 I had a visit from Miss Matich today... She has a bag FULL of letters for us V3!

A visit from Constable Duncan...

Today Constable Duncan came to chat to us about his role in a Crime Scene. Tomorrow we'll add some of our new learning we gained from Constable Duncan!

 

V3 Authors

Hey V3!
Check out a new link on our page..
"V3 Authors"! Click on this link and you'll see a new blog where we are going to keep all of our wonderful stories. This week you'll be asked to publish your FAV piece of writing (as part of our must do's) and put it on the V3 Authors blog.

Get thinking about what you would like to publish as your first piece and have a read of the few that are up already. :)

Spider attack! By Jimmy

Snore, snore. Click, click, click chimes 12am. 

"I can't get to sleep mum!" No answer because she's asleep. My eyes droop down like blinds and my eyelashes link together. 

Tick. Tick. Tick. "Stop Tom!" I repeat myself, however my idiotic brother does not hear me.

That's it! Like lightening I come out of my bed to kill him! My hands ready to choke! 

Suddenly something distracted me... I saw a massive spider ripping at my flesh! "Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Mum! A spider, A spider ripping at my flesh!

In the morning I see a massive red lump on my leg. That was vicious! 

Huia - Travels of a flower

Travels of a flower

The pohutakawa flower fell from its tree

where it was stood on by a child

it was carried to a classroom by the child’s boot

there it lay

on the floor

until a gust of wind blew it out the window

on to the street

where it fell into a gutter

carried by the stream

to the sewer where it came out in the ocean

socked clean

it washed up on a sandy island

where one of the natives picked it up

and wore it in their hair

where it grew old

and fell out

there it died a happy flower

By Huia

Everywhere we leave our mark - We left our mark on you!

One of our Deep Understandings for our Forensics inquiry is "Everywhere we go we leave our mark". We wanted to hook the children of Tapatoru Team in with a little lesson showcasing this understanding...

 We presented the kids with an amazing ball that sends out electric currents and is attracted to your hand when you touch it. We told the kids they had to figure out how it worked and that it would be on show at lunchtime. Under NO CIRCUMSTANCES were they to touch it!

However, this was too tempting! And this is exactly what we had planned... This ball was left unsupervised at lunchtime but was secretly covered in glowstick. After lunch children were pulled away to the staffroom toilets in small groups.

Children were then pulled in and in a blacked out space were put under black light! We could tell pretty quickly who had touched the ball and who had not!

Here are some of criminals (with their hands up) later admitting to the crime - after we'd caught them red handed! Or purple handed as the case may be! 

What a great lesson on leaving your mark behind!

Memories

“Look out there..” I mumbled with a mouthful of ice cream. We study a super yacht in the distance with boats like a school of fish surrounding it. People cover the foot path like buildings covering the city scape. Cars slowly drive past to glance at the boat.

As we continue our drive along the bays we pass the war tunnels. My dad tells me stories about the tunnels and his childhood in Seatoun. “Seatoun was my favourite place to live...” he remembers. I’m not really keen to go there because it might collapse on me. Dad brags about his life and I wish that I was him, what cool memories he has I think.

By Joseph

Note taking - detective styles...

Our CSI Notebooks

Recording Clues

Recording suspects

We watched the dragonfly clip today to practice note taking as detectives. We had to use lots of details and ONLY record relevant suspects and facts. 

Sorry some of these pics are on the side - still learning how to rotate them!

Great detective work V3!!

Crime Scenes

Today we are practicing how to take notes when coming across a crime scene! Before we come across our own crime scenes... We are going to use this youtube clip to practice being a real detective!

Congrats V3! 1000 hits!!

Fingerprinting

This week we are learning about fingerprinting! We have learnt that there are different types of fingerprints like the loop, whorl, tented arch and arch. 

The loop is the most common fingerprint. When forensic scientists try to uncover fingerprints they dust the area, the dust sticks to the fingerprint and shows what is left behind. 

We learnt that some people used to use skin grafts to hide their fingerprints! We will post more of our learning as we uncover new facts... Watch this space!

No two fingerprints are the same! We are all unique!!

Children showcasing understanding through movies

It is so great to see Huia, Jaymie and Ryan create Imovies and Animotos showcasing what they have found out about blood! Check them out. Above is Huia's Imovie and below are the links to Jaymie and Ryan's animotos! Very cool!!

Jaymie: Jaymie's Blood movie

Ryan: Ryan's blood movie

Ryan's Animoto

Check out this link to Ryan's animoto showcasing his trip to Singapore Zoo!

Awesome stuff!! 

http://animoto.com/play/sv6RT2j5ds17hX5gn6VctQ

Animoto

Having a play around with Animoto! Visit http://animoto.com/ to have a go making your own videos using your photos!

Anne Hare Training

      

Some of us keen runners are competing in the Anne Hare Challenge on Monday afternoon! We practiced some sprints and baton changes down at shore land park on Tuesday! Tomorrow we'll head to Wakefield Park for some more training on flatter ground!

Sent from my iPhone

 We are LOVING reading to the kindy kids each Wednesday after lunch! We are building strong relationships with the little people who will eventually come to our school AND working on our expression, fluency and confidence while reading. The kindy kids were a little shy at first, but we made them relaxed and had a great time!

Joseph's Diving Moment

Diving at Stingray Bay

Splash! As we dive in all of the fish shoot past us. We swim towards the current to reach a rocky reef. I tried to swim through a cave to see if a crayfish was there but I was too scared. We crawl on the reef to find a good spot to dive. As we swim fast towards the sharp rocks, the sea glides me to shore.

I wait for my uncle and dad while I’m trying to catch mullet  in a big, open rock pool. I use my red net as the mullet shoot past.

“When are they coming back?” I wonder to myself. 

“Yes!” I say. I see fins, snorkels, two orange floats and spears pop up.

“What did you guys catch?” I exclaim. 

By Joseph

Our penpals received our letters!

Great to see our penpals recieved our letters! Can't wait until we get letters back from them!

Another lovely poem from Ben!

Erskine best kept secret,

Rusting gates open a vine garden,

Cracked paths wobble as we walk,

Old windows, cracked walls and graffiti,

New parts scatter in between old,

Old soggy news paper from 10 years ago,

Beer bottles skater the window sills, 

Erskine best kept secret, 

Ben Baker

Check out Nick's beautiful poem!

The Past

Rusted fences shiver my flesh,

Ripped newspapers makes past stories,

Past,rusted suitcase tells unknown stories,

"R.I.P,Mr Redwood,May 14th"

Broken windows echo my mind,

Graffiti artists takes art to the stage,

Erskine Wellington's best kept secrets.

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We are loving Volleyball this term! We are learning a whole range of new skills and you'll see some of these in our portfolios this year. 

Here are a few pics of us having fun playing Volleyball! This week we are peer assessing one another on how to 'set'.