Camp Thank You Letters

 After camp at school we made some thank you letters for the camp.

 

Water Safety

 WALT We are learning to know the difference when there is a rip and when there isn't. We have a little way to remember it too. "If it's white it's alright" But... "If it's green it's mean"  

  

Paddle Boarding

On Wednesday my class Te Manga, Te Puawai and Te Kauru got ready to walk down to lake Ngatu. It took us ages to get there because the length was 1 point 30 k. When we got there we waited for Te Kauru then finally my teacher said we can play on the sand so everyone went running, jumping, sliding and tripping down into the shallows and started to jump into the holes. People started throwing sand balls at each other. 

There was a big hole in the corner on the left that nobody knew about. When it was my turn to go on the paddle board we went out to the deep. We started to jump off the paddle board. I swam the way back when we back on the sand Atama found the big hole. and started to dig it out... Soon we were testing how deep it was and everybody was falling over because it was that deep! Soon the teacher said to come by our bags and we did the school pattere for joe and scott. 

            

Mad About Science

WALT  We are learning to predict and explain what is happening during our science experiments. 

What did you enjoy most about our science experiments? From the first one was when we used the dish washing liquid on a stick. because the fat runs away and starts to find each other. Then I started to mix it around. It started to turn grey with a little bit of red. I mixed it a bit more and turned brown!

The next one was crawling colours. It is made like this. first you get some water, 4 strips of paper and some food colouring. Now you get the cups and the food colouring pour the food coloring into the cup grab the paper, put it in between the cups leave it for thirty minutes and the water should travel into the empty cups. Here are some photos of the day.

Thank You Note to Whaea G

 We made a thank you note to whaea g because she has had us for two weeks. Now she is going to the kaitaia intermediate. She was a REALLY, really, really great teacher. We also made thank you letters here is my one.

  I got to share my one because it was very thoughtful and generous 

What did I do well? My letter.  what was tricky? Nothing is it was really easy. what can I do better next time? Nothing really.  

Raranga Matihiko - Waitangi visit

This is my picture of my pou that I made at the Waitangi treaty grounds. 

I made it on Sculpt GL. Sculpt GL is a type of computer app that allows you to make a awesome 3D computer generated design and print it out of the 3D printer out of an object. There is some other app's that we used to make things. They are tinkercad, book creator, V.R.  

What did I do well? My pou What was tricky? Thinking on how I am going to make it. What can I do better next time? Making the pou because it took me for ever to make it. 

My Coopers Beach Camp 2020

 On Friday my class and Te Tinana went to the youth camp at coopers beach for two and a half days. We did HEAPS of things. As in going to the beach, flying through the the obstacle course, speeding down the hydra slide, playing slippy hockey and going kayaking. This is my slide deck that I made about the camp.    

What did I do well? Finding the shapes to mask these images. What was tricky?  finding the images.  What can I do better next time? get it finished a little bit faster next time. 

Kuaka Poster

 We are learning to use visual language features to support our understanding of the ideas and information in the text.

What did you enjoy? connecting the lines to make the email without knowing. What was tricky? getting the ideas without looking at a example.

Sailing the Pacific

 We are learning about traditional sailing and navigation methods used by early Polynesian voyagers. Here is my collage.

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Reflection - What did you enjoy? Connecting the lines. What was tricky? trying to think of an answer to answer this question. What can you do better next time? do a little bit more

Raranga Matihiko

 WALT we went to Waitangi to learn about voyaging. A few days ago we went Waitangi, team one learnt about kupe's waka and we did this awesome game called the goose chase we went out the revolving door some people almost got stuck in it like me. After that my team did the game activity it was AWESOME!!! Here is some pictures.  

 I enjoyed the V.R and Tinker-cad.

What did I do well? The goose chase. 

What was tricky? Sculpt gr.   
What can I do better next time? mSculpt gr. 

My Speech

 WALT present a persuasive speech.

What did you do well? saying the speech and it turned out

GREAT!!! it was making nervous but I did it. in the end I was really happy.

What do you need to work on for next time? Not laughing to much.

Adding action. Adding more expropriation.

What was your overall feeling about your speech experience? Weird like there was butterfly's in my stomach. Here is my speech. The voting age should be lowered to age 12 and up 

Introduction:   

Tortola lava. Today I am going to talk about the voting age. There is an election coming up at the end of October and at the moment the voting age is 18!  I think it should be lowered down to age 12 because do you want to wait to vote until you’re 18? I certainly do NOT!!! 

Children have challenges and problems in their life that they face everyday.  Children can change the world.  

Firstly, If I could change anything by increasing the number of police so there is less crime and so the people are safe and by doing that we have increase the money because the lower the money is the less people will want to sign up. So the shootouts will be smaller and robberies will be less.      

Kids are very clever. They know a lot about science. If they could vote, they might be able to encourage the government to make a vaccine for covid 19 and other viruses.  

Creating equipment for jobs creating new jobs to fix the plastic problem. Did you know? Every second a plastic bag or bottle etc is being made. Kids can stop more pollution in the air and in the ocean. We can have  more schools, hospitals, hand sanitizer bottles, electric cars and less polluting.         

Making new entertainment things like basketball, soccer and rugby. Here is a new one that I made up speed this is how you play. You run around in a maze with a paintball gun and there are other people in the maze and if you get shot on the pad on the chest you are out.   

Thirdly, you can make people happier and make our country even better! Our earth even better, soul, friends, family and the  community!  If I could vote I would vote people should stop doing crime and then we would have a better planet. 

That is why the voting age should be lowered to age 12 and up.   

 

Telling the Time

 WALT tell the time o'clock and half past.

What did you do well? telling the time. What was tricky? creating the jpg.

Keep lake Ngatu clean

 WALT we were planting native tree's at lake Ngatu. The types of tree's were manuka and kanuka. We also cleaned up at lake Ngatu. Next, we went on a 4k walk and I pulled a back muscle.  

What did I do well? Plating tree's. 

What was tricky? Finding plastic. 

What can I do better next time? Look out for more rubbish.

Unwanted Visitors

 WALT use different strategies to understand what we are reading.

Reflection - What did you enjoy? The word find What was tricky? The word find. What could I do better next time? Tidy writing.

Problem Solving

WALT solve word problems using different strategies.

What did you do well? the math questions. What was tricky? I don't

I don't believe it!

WALT use our reading strategies to find information in the text and explain it to others. Before you go to sleep at night, do check under your bed for monsters? If you do, don't worry you're not the only one! People everywhere tell stories about monsters. some monsters are huge and scary creatures that roam the countryside. Others lie in wait in caves or rivers ready to grab anyone who comes to close. Some monsters look frightening but can be caring and friendly. Here are two examples.

My first favorite is the kraken because I like octopus and big things. many sailors feared  kraken because they swallow huge ships [that was a metaphor] and destroy anything in the way but now they are extinct because it is also folktale. my second favorite  monster is the dragon because some breathe fire and ice some have powerful wings. In england, there are stories about Saint George, a brave knight who rode out to fight a dragon that was terrifying people all over countryside. However, not all dragons are bad. chinese dragons look fierce but many people say they bring good luck On special      

Animal X factor

 WALT use our reading strategies to find information in the text and explain it to others.

Reflection         What did you enjoy? learning about the royal southern albatross.What was tricky? Explaining What could I do better next time? Explaining things better.

Level 2 Covid 19 Writing

WALT explain what the rules are at Level 2 and what we think about it. This is my covid 19 writing. What happens at level 2: physical distancing, eating inside/outside at school and sneezing/coughing into your elbow. [No change there though] I feel annoyed because I get bored at home in lockdown. [Apart from watching movies] I love watching movies. lockdown + movies = happiness lockdown + no school = boredness do not panic buy.  At school: junior lunch and  junior morning tea. Then senior morning tea, at lunch no touching faces washing hands. [basically everywhere] Everywhere: not bumping people, not  touching people because of covid 19, not buying all the toilet paper  in pak n save. I mean nobody likes covid 19. In America 5000 people are dying in America each day! That is because  they are not going into level four lockdown because Donald Trump said they don’t  need to.  Silly right? I think it is because if they don’t go into lockdown it will mean total extension. 

 

Diabetes

 WALT use our reading strategies to find information in the text and explain it to others. click on the link class site to listen the diabetes video and read the book. What did you learn from reading this text? I learnt about the pancreas, that there where 2 types of diabetes, I learnt about glucose and insulin.

learning Reflection - What did you enjoy? the video, the book, the URL and the other URL. What was tricky? The 2 URL'S the link and the blog post What could I do better next time? adding more fact's in my learning more about diabetes

Why do our muscles get tired?

WALT we have been learning about muscle fatigue and how to beat it. How do you get muscle fatigue you ask? I will tell you how it can be triggered.  One reason is running really fast because your blood carry's oxygen to the muscle's and when you run real fast it starts pumping more oxygen into your muscle then the blood can supply it.  Here is a fact to help: your body needs oxygen to work. 

What did you learn while you were reading? that when you exercise a lot it can make you tired and sore.

What did you enjoy?
the experiment where Oscar and Moana see who has the fittest fingers.

What was tricky? trying to find the right width on the embed code.

What could I do better next time? understanding things better.

Matariki

We are learning all about Matariki and I have made some Matariki Object's. I shall show you my favourite one will be right here.

What did I find interesting: that there is 500 Matariki stars but you can only see seven with your naked eye. Why did I think it was interesting: because I thought that there was only 50 Matariki stars. Was there anything that surprised me in my learning: yes that a kite has to have a weird piece of string to make your kite/manu-tukutuku go the right way but first you have to test the wind this is what it look's like and click on this link to make your own manu-tuktuku. Here's my presentation.  This is my kite and my star.

my third one is my most favourite one 

I have one more too 

 

This is my unfinished scratch project click on this link Scratch and if you are a allowed you can make your own! Learning Reflection - What did I do well? my kwl chart because I know a lot of Matariki fact's. What was tricky? my scratch project because I am not at coding What could I do better next time? try and finish it because as you can see I am not finished.

Moment in Time

WALT use descriptive vocabulary to describe a moment in time.

Learning Reflection

I described the elephants in the picture like sentinels on burning hot magma, I thought I did well!

What did I find tricky? describing a moment in time because I could not make up my mind which colour will be the really good in my colour combination.

How can I extend myself next time? try to write another paragraph because could not write one.

SJ L2 2017 - Celebrating Puanga at Ramanui

WALT  find out what students at one school do to celebrate the Māori New Year. To use the main ideas to summarise the text.   Ramanui school celebrate the Maori new year by inviting there friends to the hakari [feast]   and koro bill is the hangi master he know's how to make a really good hangi,  after the hangi the evening starts with a mihi [speech] and a karakia [ chant ] led by Matua Louie. He greets the whanau of Ramanui school.     

What did I enjoy?: the time capsule paragraph because it can hold thing's of what the had in there class.
What surprised me?: In 2053 when the school celebrate's it's 100th birthday by most of the students will be in there 40's What was the most interesting thing I learnt?: the class have to look Puanga because they can't see Matariki.

The plastic free challenge

We have made a presentation about why is plastic bad?You can read some facts that I learnt and a link to a video about plastic.
 I found it interesting that 80% of the world is not recycling
plastic.



Learning Reflection - What did I do well? adding information. What was tricky? fitting the bird pic in How can I extend myself next time? finding out more information.

Rounding and Compensating

WALT solve addition equations using the rounding and compensating strategy.

My maths group has been learning about rounding & compensating maths strategies.

The reason why is because  it is the most efficient strategy for maths.   It is my favourite strategy. I will show you a example that I have made. 

What did I do well? doing writing really quick & fast. What was tricky? as a jpg putting my example. How can I extend myself next time? adding more detail.

My Bubble Memories

We are sharing our lock-down memories.

First we did our bubble memories in our writing book,   we wrote about our bubble memories like who was in our bubble and what we liked most,  I had to find snapshots from explore to tell my bubble stories.


Learning Reflection - What did I do well? getting started. What was tricky? finding transparent pictures. What could I do better next time?

The Striped Invader

hi my name is nico I have been learning about the striped invader. I will tell you some things

WALT find out some interesting facts about wasps.

A wasp starts of as a egg  next  they become larvae  then they turn into pupae after that they mite turn into a worker [female]  drone [male] queen [female] wasps will raid  beehives fore pollen  because they eat all kinds of things.

 

Learning Reflection - What did I do well? What was tricky? How can I extend myself next time?
I did well at embedding my presentation. I need to make sure I have correct spelling and punctuation.

DESCRIBE A MOMENT IN TIME - Diving

WALT to hook our reader in with our first sentence.

A curious diver is searching for a KRAKEN in a beautiful turquoise cavern but instead of finding a kraken he found a skeleton.   There are RAZOR SHARP ROCKS  EVERYWHERE,
a GREAT WHITE SHARK is lunging at the diver  and the diver almost LOST A LEG!!! Just kidding.
He found a school of haku [kingfish] and some colorful kina, [sea-urchins]  huge rock-fish then it swam into the deeps of the unknown and little did he know that it led to a shipwreck.
When he got in the shipwreck, the water was even more turquoise inside than he imagined. There is dangerous jellyfish,  some crayfish, a school of flounders,  a school of snappers, the rockfish he seen before, a little seahorse, A MEGAMOUTH SHARK AND A KRAKEN

 

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