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Friday, December 9, 2016

We have been learning about the mountain to the sea.

Wednesday, December 7, 2016

Procedure Writing





We have been learning how to write procedures. We made smoothies and then I used google draw to write my procedure on how to make a banana smoothie.


Geometry

This term in math we have been learning about geometry. We have been learning about all the different shapes and what the faces,edges and the corners are.

Monday, December 5, 2016

Art sample

   This year we did Hundertwasser art for they Waimate North Show. I did a pink, white, black, gold  fish with a yellow bow on its fin.

Friday, December 2, 2016

Friday, November 18, 2016

Flatback turtles

For writing we have been learning how to write animal reports. Here is one I have written about turtles.

            Flatback turtle
Flatback turtles are reptiles and are endangered.

Appearance:
Flatback turtles have a flat shell which gives its name.  The shell is pale-grayish green. They can grow up to 99cm. Adult flatback turtles can weigh up to 90kg.

Habitat
They are very limited that they are only found in Australia in sandy shallow waters. They can be found sitting and chewing on soft coral reefs.

Reproduction
Flatback turtles meet 4 times per season but sadly some of them do not survive. Flatback turtle eggs are pretty large.

Diet
They love to eat sea cucumbers, mollusks, prawns, bryozoans, other invertebrates and seaweed but most of all they love jellyfish.


Flatback turtles are such amazing animals we should start looking after them.

Friday, November 11, 2016

Pet Day

This is TimTam the Goat.
                              Pet Day                                                                             
Today was so exciting. The whole school was excited to see who was going to come first. I brought a dolphin made out of banana and berries and I made a mini garden. I won second for my fruit animals and third for my garden.






                    

















Friday, September 23, 2016

Maths term three


Here is my maths for the term.The arrows point to what I need to work on.

Maori sample.

This term we have been learning about Maori action words.

Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Art sample musical instrument

This term we made musical instrument for art.We did a song called three little birds from Bob Marley.

Friday, September 9, 2016

How bees make honey

We have been learning about bees and explanation. Here is my bee animation I created in google slides. I used screencastify to explain how the bees make honey.

Thursday, September 1, 2016

Honey Bees


For reading we have been learning about Honeybees. I have created a google drawing to explain the role of the collector bee.

Friday, August 26, 2016

Olympics Thinglink

We have been learning how to create a Thinglink. I have created a Thinglink with facts about Rio and the Olympics.

Friday, August 5, 2016

The Sun


We have been learning about taking notes.We took notes on the sun using a video, a journal story and 2 webpages and here is some of my information I learnt.

Friday, June 24, 2016

Partly cloudy

                                 Partly cloudy
Slowly the white birds glided through the air as the clouds danced across the sky.The gold ball tiptoed over the town as the birds delivered peaceful gifts like small pretty puppies and tiny kittens. After they delivered the little gifts they flew away.
Flap flappy flap the white birds flew high up to the fluffy, puffy clouds. The puffy clouds came alive and happily the candyfloss clouds made the gifts. Sadly the grey cloud was left out and could not make nice things. Suddenly a bird flew up to the grey sad cloud. It did not look like the others it looked different. It had been hurt. The bird  took the gift and flew away.The cloud tried again and as he was trying the bird came back. The bird looked hurt even more.Zap! The cloud made a ram then off went the bird. Bang! Finally when the bird came flying back the grey storm cloud made another animal. It was a prickly porcupine. The white bird flew with fear to the other candyfloss cloud. The pink cloud laughed and gave the white HURT bird a bag. The storm cloud gained anger and shot lightning out of his cloud and started to cry. Suddenly the white bird flew over with joy and opened the bag.  It had safety gear. The stormy grey cloud jumped with happiness and they hugged with joy until the sun set came down.
          
          THE END

Math goals

This is my basic facts goals !!

Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Writing goals

I am at level 2a but I want to get better and get to a higher level by the end of the year 

Multiplication and Division

I have been working in a group. I have been learning how to work out Multiplication and Division in a group. 

Friday, June 17, 2016

Clay pots

We had to do pretend we were stuck in the wild with nothing. We had to make something that would hold water using the materials around us. We used clay because it is found close to rivers.
Here is the clay all set up ready for us.

Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Handwriting

This is my term 2 handwriting sample. My next goal is to work on my neatness.
                                         


I can type words 18 per minute.

Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Maori sea animals

With Matua Ken we learnt the names of sea animals .We had to try to name them with out knowing the names of the sea animals .I think I was ok at naming the sea animals .It was a competition who got the most points THE GIRLS WON!!!! 

Friday, May 27, 2016

Shipwrecked

We have been learning how to write narratives. Here is a narrative I have written.

SHIPWRECKED
One morning Phoenix found herself floating on a piece of wood in the middle of the sea. Luckily Phoenix saw an island ahead so she swam like she meant it. As she got closer she could see the island more clearly and it looked clean like people had been looking after it. It had trees, coconuts and some little houses.

When Phoenix landed on the island she ran around the looking for someone, anyone that was around. Phoenix found two people in a house cracking coconuts. Phoenix thought she knew the people somehow, then it clicked the two people in the house were Tessa and Ariana. They were Phoenix’s best friends all through school. Phoenix decided to stay with them. They made something to sail back to the island that they sailed from.


From that day she went fishing and swam while the others cooked and cooled coconuts and mangoes. One day a strange ship was heading for the island. They got ready for battle and created weapons. 

When the strange ship arrived they headed for them and began to ambush them on the shore. But then one yelled, "STOP! we have brought you presents. They dropped their weapons and said looked up. "Who are you?" said Phoenix. I am Bob, I'm Steve. I'm Stowy. I'm Gary. I'm Kevin. “You guys were my crew mates,” said Phoenix. "Yes we were,” said Bob. "Come and have some mango and coconut water with us," said Phoenix.

After a couple of days exploring the island Phoenix and her crew mates sailed home.



 

Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Math learning


In maths we are learning multiplication. We did an activity called sky line arrays. We had to create a city using arrays and write the fact on each building. I did llx9, 4x4, 5x6 and 9x5.

Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Maori




I like the why I did my mountains and I think I need to work my family korus .

                 

Friday, April 15, 2016

Pepeha



I think that I'm good at speaking loudly and clear :)

Thursday, April 14, 2016

Autumn - camoe

Showing our Writing Process - Write Draft / Edit and Polish / Publish
Written Language - Cameo
Learning Intention: I am learning how to use appropriate and effective similes in my cameo writing.

Success Criteria:
I am able to find and highlight similes in a cameo and explain why they work.
I am able to write appropriate similes for objects in my cameo.

Here is an example: WINTER
Winter blows its cold breath everywhere.
The early morning frost greets you like being welcomed onto the marae.
The wind howls in the freezing air like a stray dog hungry for a bone.
Snowflakes flutter like leaves falling from autumn trees, covering the ground with a white sparkling blanket.
The trees become bare, brown bones standing like statues admiring the view.
Heavy rain falls from the sky like a thousand hooves pounding against the ground.
Chilly bitterness in the air, winter is here.
Here is my draft piece of writing!
 
                                              Autumn
The leaves make a colourful  blanket across the ground.
The leaves flutter to the ground like a piece of paper.(Do you need this one!!)
The leaves crunch under my feet as I run like a tiger.
Leaves skater everywhere in the wind.
Frost covering the ground slowly
Leaves flutter to the ground like a snowflake making a blanket.
The wind holes like a wolf that has lost it’s pack.
The trees stand like a statue.
Dew spotted everywhere like the spots on a spotty dog
Frost everywhere,  has finally come!!!!
Here is my published piece of writing
                                 Autumn

The leaves make a colourful  blanket across the ground.
The leaves crunch under my feet as I run like a tiger.
Leaves scattered everywhere in the wind.
Frost covering the ground.
Leaves flutter to the ground like a snowflake, making a blanket.
The wind howls like a wolf that has lost it’s pack.
The trees stand like a statue.
Dew spotted everywhere in the grass.
Frost everywhere has finally come!!!!
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Thursday, March 17, 2016

Volcano explosion

Here is my moment in time writing about the Volcano explosion that we did.


Grrrrrrrr!! The volcano rumbled and grumbled. Suddenly it exploded. Red fire rock spread out the top of the volcano and tumbled down the hill like clothes in a washing machine. Sizzle. A red river of lava raced down the volcano as fast as light. It kept spreading ash, lava and rock everywhere. It destroyed everything in its path as it continued to spread over the land.

Friday, March 4, 2016

Te auhauh

Eekkk! The bus parked on the dusty metal road. We all stood in a line like trees and started walking up the mountain. It stood tall and proud. We started moaning as we got to the first hill. “It’s so hot,” Sara groaned.  “My legs are sore,” moaned Cerys. “We’re almost there,”Mrs Craig announced . “I can see Indis house,” I screeched.  “That means we’re half way up the mountain, YAY!” we all yelled. We ran up in front. Finally we got there. We sat down to rest and check out the view. Suddenly a black truck pulled up on the lush green grass. Tena koutou, tenakoutou,tena koutou katoa.
My name is Honie. Here is a story about the mountains long ago. Once the mountains were all together. One day they got mad with each other so they exploded. Question time
Ok everyone, it's lunchtime! “Yay!” I shouted as my tummy rumbled.  We went down the mountain a little bit to eat. I was starving we munched my lunch  and zoomed down the mountain first ,second third we yelled as we raced to the bottom of the mountain .
Here is my writing about Te ahuahu.  Our focus was to use verbs and adjectives.

Thursday, February 18, 2016

Chromebook Day

                           Chromebook Day

Have you ever had a chromebook? I have and here's my story about getting my chromebook. I was so excited. Today was the day we got our chromebooks. It was a nice day.  The sun was shining into the room. Matua Ken stood up and said his speech.  Then the countdown started.  “10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 Go!” shouted the school. We tore our ribbons and boxes. Finally we got into our chromebooks. “Yeah!” shouted room 1 again. What does yours look like?


                    I  love my chromebook!

Tuesday, February 9, 2016






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