Salt and Pepper

Today is my activity 3 for day 4. I have completed this activity. For this activity we had to create what our hotel of one of our rooms would look like, and where we would build it. I would build my hotel in fiji because it is really pretty in fiji.

DAY 4: More than Meets the Eye

1. How did you get up mount Everest? 
2.  How long did it take to climb up the mountain?
3. What else was your big dream other then climbing up a mountain?

Today I have to list 3 questions that i would like to ask Sir Edmund Hillary. My 3 questions are right above my blurb that i would like to ask about his life.

Activity 3: The WWF: World Wildlife Fund

LI: to find what the animal the WWF is trying to save
 WWF Builds snow Mountains to keep the Seals alive. The WWF People is trying save the Fresh Water Seals and Tiger.

 

Activity 2 : The Secretive Skink.

LI: To give our opinions about being or not being a DOC RANGER.
Today i am on my day 3 for summer learning journey. The good things about being a doc ranger is discovering animals. A bad thing about being a doc ranger is handling animals.  

DAY 3: Awesome Animals | SLJ

LI: To describe your beast. 

This week we had to decribe what our beast would look like for SLJ day 3. I would describe my magical beast a colourful snake. With peacock feathers and a long Beck. He lived upon a dark cave. He's name was Loyal Shadow. His personalty was sleeping he believes that sleeping makes him grow more colourful scales. 

Weird and Wonderful

LI: to solve a equation about cactus. 
Today we have been learning about Weird and Wonderful things such as cactus. I have solved this maths equation: 3ML x 365. How much water would you give to your cactus/plant each day in a year? The answer is 1095    

Basic Fact Boxes

Today i have completed my basic fact boxes 8,9 divided by and time tables. This was an activity for our maths that we needed to complete.  

 

Fabulous Ferns | SLJ

1. Silver Ferns (Netball)                       Football ferns (Football)

 


 Black Ferns (Rugby)









Today I have talked about teams with the word "Fern" at the end of them. I have there names and the sports. 

Mahatma Ghandi

 LI: To present our interactive notebook on our peaceful activist.

 This week for inquiry we finished off our interactive notebook on our peaceful activist. This week was presentation week. We presented our interactive notebooks on our peaceful activist. Sakina and I did Mahatma Gandhi. We presented our interactive notebook secondly. After presenting our work, we got feedback from the class and the teachers. Our feedback, was to speak loudly, don't repeat words and to not just talk about one thing.

Tane Mahuta tree | SLJ

LI: to tell our opinions about Tane  

Today we had to write why we want to visit tane mahuta tree on our blog. I want to visit this tree because it is a one of a native tree in New Zealand. Also i want to explore more about this tree and spread my news about It.     

Footprint | Summer Learning Journey.

Today this is my 3rd activity I have done for my summer learning journey. This activity is called ice ice baby it is about safety online. 

North and South | Summer Learning Journey

LI: to describe our hometown 
My hometown is Auckland Panmure. I enjoyed living in panmure because it is a busy place to live in. It has lots of community's and such more.       

In The Beginning | SLJ Activity 1.

1. The Maori name of New Zealand is Aotearoa which means the land of the long white cloud. 

4. New Zealanders are also called kiwis but kiwi is not a fruit. It is New Zealand’s native flightless bird.

10. The largest city in New Zealand is Auckland although its capital city is Wellington.



LI: to learn history of New Zealand. 
Today LS1 has began the Summer Learning Journey activity's. Our first activity is called in the beginning. I chose 3 fun facts about New Zealand history from this site to finish this activity. I leaned history of New Zealand. My DLO above my blurb is the 3 facts i have chose.I really enjoyed my work that I have completed and looking forward for the next activity.           

Idioms

L.I to learn a whole bunch of idioms
This week for reading we had to find idoms from online stories or books. If we found an idiom, but wasn't on any of the 2 lists than we get 1 point. If we find an idiom that is on one of the lists you get 2 points. The catch is that if you cheat or look for idioms online then you will get minus 1 point of it is bad or you will get 0 point for that idom if it wasn't that bad. We enjoined this activity about idioms because I learnt a new thing or 2. 

Nga Taone

We had a document that had New Zealand places that we had to find in English. We had to write if they were located in the south island or north island.

 

Kiwi Can | Respect

LI: To Respect Others. This week is our final day for kiwi can. Our First Catchphrase from this term was " Kiwi can says, Take pride, To who you are, Respect your school, And you go far. Our second catchphrase was " Kiwi can says, Come and unity, For our community. And our last Catchphrase was
" Kiwi can says, Respect our waters, Air and trees, Keep it tidy, Keep it clean". For this term it was about respect.  We had to look out for these: Respect our school, Respect our community & Respect our environment.

Commenting.

Today I have been doing my commenting on Angelica's blog post about her reading. If you want to check out her blog post you can viset her on here. In a blog post there is a greeting-(Hello Angelica's) and then a connetion-(i have stopped on your blog post to see on what we have been doing) then a question-(How did you get this learning?) and then a fare well-( nice job and keep it up)  

SSR Selfie

Today I have finished my SSR Selfie activity. We had to read a book at lest 15 minutes. And then retail it. Or you could Describe it.  

Basic Fact Boxes

This week I did my basic fact boxes. For this activity you have to get everything right under 20s. Here is an example of mine. We did this for our maths and this is also a maths subject activity that we use for our number bonds. I did time tables that will be good for me. 

Athletics Day Interschool.

On Wednesday PBS went to lloyd elsmore park for athletics day for the people that qualified for one or more items. I qualified for 75m sprint, Relay ,discus, long jump and 400m. Some people did more and less then me.

When we first got there we started off with the yr 5,6,7,8 400m. I was in the 400m sprint. When i got there I was very nervous racing with other school because i wouldn't know if they would bet me or not. First was the boys. I was cheering for our boys. Then it girls yr 5's turn. When i went up my friends from the hill was cheering on for me. Then they said " Read Set Go!" When i was running i could see everybody behind me. Then we did the relay. Yr 5 and 6's PBS went up to the tracks. Then we made it to the finals and we came 5th. 

Mahatma Gandhi

LI: To create a interactive notebook about a peaceful activist. This week for inquiry we made a interactive notebook of a peaceful activist. First we got into partners or groups. My partner was Charlize. In our groups we chose a peaceful activist. We decided to do Mahatma Gandhi. Mahatma Gandhi was a peaceful activist who stopped British from ruling over India. Mahatma Gandhi's protest was fasting for 21 days and non violence. Here is the link- Mahatma Gandhi (Notes)

20 Verbs

LI: To identify verb tenses.
LI: To identify the verb tenses: Past perfect,Future Perfect,Present perfect.

This week for writing we did another session of learning about verb tenses. The verb tenses were , Future perfect,present perfect and past perfect. Me and my partner Kaitlyn needed to come up with 20 verbs and do 7 videos of them. All of our verbs didn't have too have videos. Our last one witch was our 7th video , We took a photo of me smelling a red flower by Room 4. The rest of the words just needed photos. The tenses had to be used in the video so people know what tense we are doing.

Find, Draw, Animate, Act

LI: to learn a whole bunch of new words.
This week in Reading Mr Wong linked a list of words on our class site. On the list of words we had to either Find, Draw, Animate it or act the word out. Mr Wong Done an example on the word Thwart. Thwart mean's stopping someone from succeeding something. After this we had to get into groups of three from people from different reading groups. I was with Sulia and Liane. For act and animate it was verbs because it would be more easier.

Place value

LI: to identify the values individual numerals.

This week we are learning our place values. We first started with the ones,tens and hundreds houses and then moved up to the thousands. I wrote the number i have done on the left side to tell me what i have to do on the left hand side but moving on. In the middle we had to split the numbers into there houses. And then on the end we have to tell how much hundreds there are in the whole number. And then how much tens there are in the whole number too.

Kiwi Sport | Boxing

LI: Putting all our combos together.

Today is our last Session with our coach Pax. My partner was Kaitlyn. We were partners for the whole  Session. Before we got into our combo we first got twarmed up by doing punches up to 10 if you make it up to 10 then do a burpy then do it again but up to 20 then keep doing it over. Our first combo was Jab,Cross,Guard,Right uppercut, Left hook. Pax showed us before we got to do it by ourself.
Our next combo was jab,jab,cross,bridge,cross. We would like to give a special thank your to pax for teaching us this term.

Peace

LI: To explore some definitions of peace./LI: To investigate and recognize characteristics, actions and symbols of peaceful activists. This week for inquiry we learnt about what peace is. First we got into groups of five. In my group I had Sakina, Victoria, Florence and Alayah. In our groups we wrote the antonyms and synonyms of peace. After we did that, we split ourselves in one group of three and a pair. I was with Sakina. In our pair or group we looked at photos and wrote down one to three words that describe the photo, what each image makes us feel and what we think the peoples perspectives are. We also made sentences using the word we used to describe the image. After that, we made a google draw and wrote what we think that peace means.

Basic Fact boxes

This week I did my basic fact boxes. For this activity you have to get everything right under 20s. Here is an example of mine. We did this for our maths and this is also a maths subject activity that we use for our number bonds.

SSR selfie

This week we had to summarise a book. We had to read the book for at lets 15 minute. Then we had to summarise it. I did the book Energy. This book is about how energy works. This book tells you what Energy is and it explains.

Kiwi Sport | Boxing

LI: To Learn Counters and come backs after somebody has throwed a punch.

Today for kiwi sport we learnt defences. But first we played a warm up call stuck in the mud. We had 4 taggers with noddles if you get tag then you have to be still like a starfish. To be unfree someone has to go under your legs to be free. The first taggers where Kaitlyn,Fau,Leroy,Oscar.

The first drill we did was guard,cross,Left hook,Cross. Guard is in rock potion and then bring your hands up to your head. Cross is left hand punch and then left hook is when you have to get loaded on your left side. Our next combo was bridge. Bridge was slide back slide forward jab,cross,left hook. 

Maori

Today we had our Maori lesson. We got handed 2 pieces of paper and we had to label it. The labels where food they were panana,Tomato,Aporo,Oaniaporo,Inu aporo,kanga,tihi,tohi,ika,hei,hei,retihi,hua whenua,paraoa,poaka,poua,taupoki,hanawhiti. These lables are food. We labled them on our 2 piece of paper and then we had to color it how ever we want.

Kiwi Can

Today for kiwi can our new topic is respect for our environment. Our theme is respect.

We first talked about what respect for our environment means.It means care for our property. 

Our first game we played was called 4 corners. For this game one person has to be in the middle and when miss paidge says 4 corners we have to get to a corner and the person in the middle has to pick the corner that was the loudest. 

Then after that we played a game called invisible tag we got split into 2 groups. one group on one side and the other group on the other side. When miss Paidge says a number that number amount of people goes up and goes around the basket ball hoop. Then miss paidge says someones name and they have to try and get the try. 

Infering

LI: to infer thoughts and emotions.

This week we learnt how to pause a video and infer from that video. We had to discuss with our group for our first infer. Then we had to go off and made our others. 

Exchanging

Today for maths we had to learn how to exchange money to make our stack of money thin and he had to make videos of how to exchange 1 dollar notes to exchange for a 10 dollar note but we had to give him 10 1 dollar notes and then we could exchange all of our money. Same for 10-100. For this maths i worked with Juel.

Commenting

Today I have been doing my commenting on Sione's blog post about his maths about time. If you want to check out his blog post you can viset his blog on here. In a blog post there is a greeting-(Hello Sione) and then a connetion-(i have stopped on your blog post to see on what we have been doing) then a question-(How did you get this learning?) and then a fare well-( nice job and keep it up). 

Infering

L.I is to learn how to infer by looking at a image.
This week in Reading we have been learning about Inferring. Mr Wong made a slide with Images on them. On those Images we had to Infer about that image. He also did an Example for us so that we would have a better understanding for what to do. We also had to get into partners so that we could talk to each other about our inferences that we make. My partner for this was Suila. It was good to have a partner so that we could talk about our ideas and get to share them.

How to tell the time.

This week we have been learning about time. We got taught how to tell the time and how to use it. But today i made a poster of an example and what time is and how to solve it.

Basic Fact Boxes

This week i did my basic fact boxes. For this activity you have to get everything right under 20s. Here is an example of mine. We did this for our maths and this is also a maths subject activity that we use for our number bbonds.

Verb Tenses

LI: To identify verb tenses./LI: To identify the verb tenses: past, future and present continuous. This week for writing we made videos of the verbs. First we watched a 30 second clip of a owl. Before that we told each other our predictions. After we watched the clip, we told us other 10 verbs. Then we told the teacher the past, future or present word for the verb. Once we did that we got into partners. My partner was Sakina. In our partners we made a google slide to add in the videos of the verbs. We had to do 20 verbs and we couldn't use the verbs that we said before. The present continuous tells us about what something is happening now. The past tells us about what happened before. Lastly the future tells us about what will happen.

Kiwi Sport | Boxing.

Today we had our kiwi sport (boxing).  We got into partners Mine was Juel. We went over what we did last week. But today we are defending we did many skills. The first skill is the guard. For this skill we had to be in our rock position. And our hands just go up to our head to block our hole face. Our next one was when our partner has a noddle and they have to place it down on our shoulder  while we slip to the side. Then we did another one it was when the partner with the noddle has to swing the noddle and we had to slide back. Then we did the last one it was when our partner has to place a noddle on our shoulder and we have to make a "U" with our whole body. Then we went over it again. But at the end we all had fun.

Kiwi Can

Today for kiwi can our theme was respect, And our topic was respect for our community. We first got into our game it was called Tunnel ball. For this game we had to get into a circle and this game included a ball. Our legs had to spread open and then we put one of our hand behind our back. Then people have to try and get the ball through your legs. Then we got into our activity it was called hand soccer. For this game miss paige put us into to groups and we had to form a line. We got numbered of to 1-10. I was 8 for this game. This game also included a ball. Its like soccer but with our hands. We also got points. After that game the points were 12-10 we had a tough game.