Merry Xmas

Yasmine 's Post on Monday, 28 November 2016

Reading 

WALT: listen to a novel and reflect on the story as we think about the characters, setting, plot and the authors purpose

Yasmine 's Post on Monday, 28 November 2016

WALT: develop fundamental skills required for athletics WILF: - Correct technique for throwing the discus and shotput Correct technique for long jump and high jump Passing the baton accurately in relay sprints I am proud of coming 3rd It was a challenge for me to do high jump but I surprised myself when my t shirt instead of me knocked the bar down at a quite high hight My next step is to get better at high jump Next year I would like to come third again My best event was long jump because I jumped about two metres and came first in that event WALT: develop the skills or batting, bowling, throwing, and fielding in cricket WILF: - overarm throwing when fielding - catching with hands held like a basket - straight arm bowling - eyes on the ball and move the bat all the way through when batting The skill I am best at is overarm throwing when fielding because I am good at throwing My next step is to bat the ball further

Excellence

WALT:  display excellence in all that we do

WILF: has been 'me' displaying 'my best, a can do attitude' in different situations, environments and in my learning.

Next Step:  I believe I still need to work on showing excellence in gymnastics I will do my best to do this in 2017.  

 

Production

Writing Term 3

Kapa haka festival

On Monday 19th September the elective kapa haka group performed at a festival at bay city. We performed for 15 minutes and we got called awesome. I felt very proud of myself.

Reading

WALT: work collaboratively to have a better understanding of what we read.

What we have been doing; reciprocal reading taking turns at ; clarifying, summarising, predicting and questioning. We take one week to read one story.

Next steps: I need to find out the meaning of what I clarify.

Writing week six

Angry

The naughty little 5 year old boy stuffed his fingers up his ears and tried to ignore Miss Northe. Miss Northe screamed at the to of her lungs. Her hands started to stiffen and went all tense. All the blood rushed up to Miss Northes face making her look like a red faced baboon. Her eyes were narrow and her mouth was wide ; will this ever stop. 

Olympic writing term 3

Holiday writing

During the second week of the school holidays my sister and I went to stay at my grandparents for a whole week because my mum and dad were both working. My grandparents lived right next to Guthrie park so I was happy to be away from home.

We had finally arrived. Cinnamon and raisin muffins wafted into the lounge. I could hear my grandad fixing things in his room. At last the muffins came out of the oven. They were caramel brown and looked tasty.

My grandma said in a cheerful voice “the muffins are still quite hot but wait a few minutes and the muffins will be fine.”  A few minutes later I got a muffin. I went and split a muffin in half. The muffins were spongy; also mouthwatering. I bit into a muffin, it was delicious.

When Alice arrived mum was well gone. Sophie questioned “do you want to go to the park?”  “Yes” said Alice. Then we went to the park. At the park we played on the swings. There were only two swings so Sophie ran close to the swings trying to miss them while Alice and I  swung on the swings. After an hour it got dark so we ran home. 

We had a tasty dinner of wraps and onion soup. At nine pm we went to bed. At about ten pm my grandparents went to bed. At that time we were still away; my sister and Alice talking loudly about boys until Sophie begged to play subway surf. By the time  Sophie stopped playing it was twelve thirty. Finally we went to sleep.

Yasmine 's Video on Monday, 1 August 2016

Reading

This term for reading we did poetry. Here are some examples.

Art T2

This term for art we did pictures about space. We practiced shading. Here is some of our work.

Before that we had an art compition where we could draw anything  about space. I came first in the compition. It is the one with a black backround. Here is my space art. Next steps: to make Jupiter more realistic.

 

Earth to Jupiter

Task: write a set of instructions on how to get from Earth to a planet of your choice.

WALT:

- a chosen planet’s location in the solar system.

- a chosen planet’s distance from earth.

- planets you will pass by to get to the chosen planet.

- obstacles that may be on the journey, e.g. Atmosphere, moons...

I was an expert.

I always communicate about my Inquiry learning.

Next time I need to present my thinking in a different way.

Writing reports

We had to write a scientific report about space and which planet was the best. I chose Saturn as I thought Saturn was the best. Here is the report.

                                                                WHY SATURN IS THE BEST

Scientists say the solar system has its own amazing, unique things and planets. But some want to know what planet is the best. Imagine if you could adapt to any planet. Which one would you choose? This will inform you why Saturn is the best.

Saturn is the best planet because it has a thick force field of rocks, dust and ice (rings). It has an atmosphere of gases e.g hydrogen, helium, ammonia and methane. Saturn is not very dense; Saturn could float in a bathtub if there was a big enough bathtub for Saturn. Saturn is a gas giant. It is the second biggest planet in the solar system. You will have lots of room to explore and have bigger properties and gardens. The only bad thing about Saturn is that it has storms about three quarters the size of Earth.

                                                                  MERCURY

Mercury does not have an atmosphere. It is very small; two moons are bigger than Mercury. It ranges from very hot to very cold. Mercury gets scorched by the sun. That is why Mercury is not the best planet.

                                                                    VENUS

Venus is very hot and has an atmosphere of CO2. Mr Sparks says “ the longest time a spacecraft has lasted on Venus is twelve minutes and the rocks are gooey.” Venus is the hottest planet. Venus has no moons and it is all orange. That is why Venus is not the best planet.

                                                                 EARTH

Earth, well our own planet, wouldn’t we be a bit bored of it, wouldn't it be a bit plain? Earth only has one moon and is blue and green. Officially Earth doesn't count in this vote because we all know Earth is the best planet. 

                                                                MARS

Mars has big sand storms and is the second smallest planet. It has two moons and is a plain redy-brown. Mars has four main volcanos that might erupt. That is why Mars is not the best planet. 

                                                          JUPITER 

Jupiter is too big. It smells like rotten eggs. Jupiter has huge storms. Jupiter has thin rings and sixty seven moons ( possibly more). That is why Jupiter is not the best planet. 

                                                         URANUS

Uranus is cold and gets made fun of. Uranus is light blue. Uranus has twenty seven moons. That is why Uranus is not the best planet.

                                                     NEPTUNE

Neptune is dark blue and very cloudy. Neptune also has storms; one named the big blue spot. Neptune is the smallest gas giant and only has fourteen moons. Neptune has thin rings. That is why Neptune is not the best planet.

Therefore Saturn is the best planet. All the features are in the right place ( apart from the storm). Go Saturn!

Maths nets

Walt construct a net to hold a set volume. 1\8 was three cubes. We had to times three by eight which equals 24. My net was not to scale but it was proportion. Here is my net.

Poetry T2

Before we opted into work shops we went out side to look at leaves. The seniors went onto the field and found a leaf to study. We smelt the air, listened to the birds, touched the leaves and looked at the scenery. Next we chose our work shops. There was a choice out of poetry, factual or weather reports. I chose poetry because I like writing poems and I wanted to get better. Most people chose poetry. The first day of work shops we had to brainstorm as many words to do with Autumn as we could. After that we started writing poems. We had to write rhyming poems. Finally we wrote the poem that we would publish with our art. We had to edit and rewrite parts of our final poem to make it perfect. Once we finished we got to go outside and take a photo of something to do with Autumn. I took a photo of a ruined leaf and sketched it. Here is my poem and leaf.

Duck key and Jandals

 We had to write about a duck a key and Jandals to expand our ideas.

This is my story.

Ducky came out of his very fashionable house. All the house was, was a dirt hole under a rock. It was sheltered but all it had in it was a mossy floor and what Ducky called an oven. The oven was a small cave-like dirt hole with lots of ash and maybe one or two flames.

That day Ducky decided to go and have a look at the town notice board. The notice board was filled with paper.

Ducky looked hard thinking what he could do for the lost key. There is a rip where planet Jupiter is on the rocket day notice. Probably stolen. thought Ducky. “I am going to find that silly little buggler,” laughed Ducky. That night he packed some fish, wood for fire, money(probably thinking that he’d have to pay for a ride), a moss blanket and three rocks.

In the morning set off on his adventure. He walked for miles. Soon night fell. In the middle of the night Ducky felt a wet nudge.

“Wha, who what are you?” Ducky stammered. “I am a pink fluffy unicorn dancing on a rainbow,” snorted the unicorn. “Where's the rainbow,” answered Ducky. “Nowhere! Now what do you want?” snapped the unicorn. “Well,” Ducky started, “there’s a lost key with a gambl-,” “ Got it! There's a gambler with a key dancing on my rainbow,” said the unicorn.

After three days, they got to the rainbow and stole the key. The gambler got grumpy and chased after the unicorn but it was too late, the unicorn had flew off the rainbow.

One month later Ducky returned the key to Merea and got a free pair of Jandals.

Maths

WALT: rounding using  addition.

Next steps: rounding using subtraction 

Writing

W.A.L.T: to write an introduction for a narrative by describing the setting.

 Next steps: to write a different style of an introduction.

Here is my story.

                              100 YEARS AGO

The ice glimmered across the ocean. Topaz was ice skating. She slipped down to an unknown island called Crystalyna, The land of Tears. Topaz died years after leaving all but a powerful gem.

         

                              100 YEARS LATER

The daffodils made the garden colourful, welcoming the first day of Spring on. Birds chirped in the trees and the pink roses finally opened! Trudge Trudge. Emerald walked across the dewy grass. Her boots damp, she found what she was looking for. The Topaz lay still, lying in a bed of leaf litter. Emerald picked it up and examined it.

“What a nice bit of work,”she said. “Yes, very nice,”out of the crystal came a voice, “you can find me in the river next to your place, the river of time. It will take you to the land of tears but beware Rogwart lurks around that area.”

Emerald put the Topaz inside and wrote mum a letter.

Gone to river for an hour 

                               Love❤️ Emerald 

Emerald ran to the river,ice skates in one hand.

                                                              ✨

Ten minutes later she was at the river. Emerald jumped onto the ice and fell down, down, down…

Suddenly she jerked. All around her were glimmering crystals. Topaz,Opal,Amethyst,Emerald,Sapphire,Quartz and more.

“Wow” said Emerald amazed. She walked passed tall crystals and people came out of them.

                                                              ✨

Soon she felt completely lost. There was a huge Topaz tower in front of her. Emerald walked into it. A little Arctic fox stood up. The fox wasn't speaking but its came into her brain.

“Emerald you are the first human here. Any way I am Blizzard.”

Blizzard stepped aside to show the most beautiful gem. A Topaz mixed with all other crystals of the world.

                                                           ✨

It was now evening. Emerald lay down in a crystal bed and fell asleep.

                                                           ✨

On black island Rogwart knew it was his only chance. He went to the land of tears and finally got the gem.

Arts

W.A.L.T: to play a full beat

 

Next steps: to play a song together.

Values

Honesty is our value this term.

It means telling the truth

Yasmine 's Video on Friday, 1 April 2016

Reading Term 1📚

Walt: identify main characters and key information. We have been learning to read in our head.

Next steps: To read chapter books in a group together.

Writing

We had to read the text and draw of what we thought it looked like.

W.A.L.T: write adjectives and nouns.

P.E.

W.A.L.T:This term for P.E I have been in the Sharks swimming group.

Goals:

High lights: doing butterfly,coming first and getting faster.

Next steps: getting to beyond sharks.

Thanks 

Inquiry description

W.A.L.T: keep ourselves safe.

W.I.L.F: Identifying possible hazards and explain how to keep safe.

How I made this, was I got coloured cardboard and made a hazard road sign. I wrote the hazards.

I made a traffic light sign how to keep safe and then I made a map showing where the hazards are.

 

   My next steps are: getting more fours.

  The next inquiry task we did was about water safety.

Here is my poster:

Next steps: complete the rubric