Day #1 - SUMMER LEARNING JOURNEY

- In the Beginning
For my first activity of the summer learning journey was to write 3 fun facts . Here is my 3 fun facts. Some I didn't know about so that's why I chose most of them.
found out that....

 1. Aotearoa is the Maori name for New Zealand, which means the long white cloud.
2. Its one of the 3 countries in the world that has 2 official national anthems of equal standings. The first was God save the Queen and the other is  God of nations New Zealand.
3. New Zealanders are called Kiwis, but did you know... Kiwi is not a fruit, it's New Zealand native flightless bird?

What do you know about New Zealand?

- North and South


This is my secound activity and here is my reasons why were I live is the most wonderful place to live...

In the south Island its and amazinly fanstasic place. You here the birds singing to eachother, which is ratherly a soothing sound. We get quit a bit of rain and as I said with the birds the rain hits on the roof and its makes a soothing sound. We are really close to a park so we can go play some active games to have fun with my fanstaic siblings.
So thats why I would stay and never leave this house!!!

What would be your reasons to have a place like yours?

- Ice, Ice Baby


This is the bonus activity! I had to make a footprint and write the things you should not share to be cyber saftey.

Day #5 Coming to an end - VE Day

If I was to throw a VE Party I would probably throw a pool party and include a baraque as well. I would invite my closet friends and my family. We would play dress up. Boys would dress up as girls with wigs, and girls will dress up as boys. What would you do if you had to throw a VE Party?

Summer Learning Prep 1

United Arab Emirates.
The name of the capital city is Abu Dhabi.
The population of the capital city is 1.206 million.
In January, the weather in the capital city is usually 24 degree Celsius.
The capital city is located in the south west.
The languages most commonly spoken in the capital city are Aribic and English.

2 facts 
Abu Dhabi produced 93,075 tons of dates in 2015
The capital gate building leans more than the tower of Pisa

Summer Learning Journey Dream Prize

The Summer Learning Journey is all about keeping your knowlegde high and also to help the teachers out so they don't have to teach you what you alredy knew at the start of the year. This year for the Summer Learning Topic is "Around the World". There are little topics, which are, sustainibility, air, land and sea.

If I had to win a spot prize or come the top 3, I would very much like 

1. $10 PlayStore Girftvoucher    
2. $40 Warehouse GiftVoucher

Word Search

For the last 1-3 weeks, I have been doing a word search. These word finds are not an ordenery word find.You have to find words with a starting. My 3 letters are ation, cation, ition. I have completed this word search today.
Here is a photo of my progress....

Pyramids of Giza - Egypt

For literacy our focus is working on different styles of writing. For our information report we had a choice between the pyramids of egypt or the extreme weather. The most challenging thing for me was finding the facts. The easiest thing was planing what I was going to write.



Information Report - Egypt Egyptian Pyramids The ancient Egyptians built pyramids as tombs for the pharaohs and their queens. The pharaohs were buried in pyramids of many different shapes and sizes from before the beginning of the Old Kingdom to the end of Middle Kingdom. There are about eighty pyramids known today from ancient Egypt. Egyptian Mummies A mummy is the person of a body ( or an animal ) that has been preserved after death. They were any Egyptian who could afford to pay for the expensive process of preserving their bodies for the afterlife. The Egyptians Believed in life after death. How old is Egypt? Introduce. Archaeologists believe Egypts large pyramids are the work of the Old Kingdom society that rose to prominence in the Nile Valley after 3000 B.C. Historical analysis tells us that the Egyptians built the Giza Pyramids in a span of 85 years between 2589 and 2504 BC. 

How to Brush your Teeth

For Health we have been learning about keeping yourself clean. The first thing we did was we watched a video about importance of brushing your teeth. We had to create a slide of how to teach others to brush their teeth. I loved when I was making this slide show it reminds ourselves that we have to brush 2 times a day. The challenging part was making the slides and creating it into the slide show, because after making my character I struggled to find something that little ones can understand. What other skills could I use? How do you know when the 2 minutes are up? Do you sing while brushing?

Halloween Word Search

For Literacy we are able to chosse what ever we would like but it has to be done. I chose a Halloween Word search. The challenging part was putting all of the letters into the grid because it has to be 20x20 squares. The easeist part is finding words to put into the grid. Can you find all of the words?

Life Education - Learning with Harold the Giraffe

This week we have been learning about Teams. We are learning with Harold the Giraffe. Harold is a funny and a little cheeky Giraffe. The most Challenging part of Learning with Harold is that we have to remember to talk to Harold a special way. The easiest part was meeting Harold.

Would You Rather...

For this Term (Term 4) we are learning to create a fun and funny little story called Would You Rather?. I have done some. The challenging part of this is trying to find good reasons and we needed 3-4 reasons why we chosse the one. Here is my Would you rather....

Activating Prior Knolegde for Reading

We are learning to ask questions, before and after reading to engage with the text. What do I know about narratives? I know that narratives are a story, a fiction. Fiction means made up. For an Example: The Harry Potter Books they are made up.
What do I know about Characters? I know that characters are sometimes made up people or someone trying to be a character from something. Characters are a real person trying to funny, Adventures, Exiting and More.
What do I know about questions? I know that questions can be asking a certain thing about something. For an Example: It could be a right there questions or Think and Search questions.

If you know anything else that I have not told you guys please comment it down below. It will be SOOO Helpful for me.

Animation of how to make a quality blog comment

For Cybersmart we have been learning to make a animation of how to make a quality blog comment. The challenging part was making the animation and trying to find something easy to use. My Favourite part was using my friends and my sister.

Share to Celebrate our learning

 

This term I have been learning about Chemical reactions in the Kitechen. A chemical reaction is when you mix simething together and it either changed color or it can't become what it was before. I found it challenging when we had to write down what we did for our obsverations. I really liked the part where we could eat the food. We made a few chemical changes and here are some of the things that I had wrote down for our chemical Reaction...

Poem - Tongue Twister

For  term 3 we have been learning to create some unique poems. We have been learning to do Limeriks, Acrostic poems, Triplet Poems And a new poem called Cinquian Poems. But this is not really a poem it is a weather tongue twister. Here it is, also it is anonymus which means we/I don know the auther.

Whether the weather be fine,

Or whether the weather be not,

Whether the weather be cold,

Or whether the weather be hot,

We'll weather the weather

Whatever the weather

Whether we like it or not.

Tell me if you mucked up or if you got it right remember there is a word that Mr Breachs class got wrong. Can you find that word?

Calendar Art

For calendar art this week we have learnt to blend colours with paint. I really enjoyed painting, but I found it difficult to get crisp lines. First we sketch an outline. We started at the top and worked down.

Maori

For Maori we have been learning about Maori words for weather and sentences to say to each other. For an example: Kei Te Pehea Te Ahau O Te Rangi???

How's the weather???

Kei Te  Wera

It is Hot

We also had to add some pictures of the weather. Since I chosse Hot I put a picture of the sun in, because the sun is hot. I have made a slideshow...

Poem - My Discusting Dinner

For  term 3 we have been learning to create some unique poems. We have been learning to do Limeriks, Acrostic poems, Triplet Poems, Cinquian Poems and we have seen a Roald Dahl poem. We had to create 3 verses and 4 lines in each. The poem was Called.... The centpide from James and the giant peach.  Here are my 3 verses of The centipede.....

Poems - Acrostic

For  term 3 we have been learning to create some unique poems. We have been learning to do Limeriks, Acrostic poems, Triplet Poems And a new poem called Cinquian Poems. I have choosen one of my best Acrostic poem. Here is a poem one of the Acrostic that I have done..... ( Its about me of course )

Phonics

For the last 3 weeks I have been doing a word search. These word finds are not an ordenery word finds.You have to find words with a starting. My 4 letters are COM, SUB, PRO and EN.  I have completed this word search today.

Poems - Cinquain

For  Term 3 we have been learning to create some unique poems. We have been learning to do Limeriks, Acrostic poems, Triplet Poems And a new poem called Cinquian Poems. I have choosen a few of my best Cinquian poem. Here is a poem, it's of the Cinquian poem that I have done..... 

Poems - Limericks

For  term 3 we have been learning to create some unique poems. We have been learning to do Limeriks, Acrostic poems, Triplet Poems And a new poem called Cinquian Poems. I have choosen one of my best Limerick poem. Here is a poem one of the limericks that I have done..... ( Its about me of course )

Poem - Triplet Poems

For  term 3 we have been learning to create some unique poems. We have been learning to do Limeriks, Acrostic poems, Triplet Poems And a new poem called Cinquian Poems. I have choosen one of my best triplet poem. Here is a poem that I have created

Lift up The Lips, Don't use glued beads
Show your teeth 
A Smile is all you need!!

Comment if you think that you got the Chills, Shivers or Goose Bumps!!!

Jelly Method Of A Chemical Reation

For the last 2 weeks we have been learing about Chemical Reations in food.
Our topic of food that we had used was ( Jelly ). We had to go threw a few steps.
There was a lot of Washing your hands prosess. Here are the steps that I had to take.

1. Watch a video
2. Talk about the sinenticfic words
3. Wash Hands
4. Have a bowl of jelly crysals in there.
5. Talk about what you can see.
6. Touch it .
7.  Write the method of the chemical reation in the jelly 
8. Pour boiling water into the mixture
9. Mix and talk about what is happining when being mixed
10. Let It set for 1 - 1 week ( 1 day for you because we only do this on Thursdays )
11. Touch The jelly
12. Us a different batch of jelly to eat
13. Then ¨Lets Eat!!!!¨

My Anthology

For the last 2 weeks we have been learning about Limericks and Anthologys. Mr Breachs whole literacy class had to make an anthology and call it there name and anthology. For an example : Chloe's Anthology.  Our task was to make 2 or more limericks that we made. Find 5 or more poems from the sites he gaves us. Link will be at the end. For the experts ( That finished everything ) they have to write 2 - 3 more poems about The Rain. Here is my Anthology that I have made....

Tree Art

For Our art we have been creating some amazing trees. These Trees tel us of the 4 seasons that we have. Winter, Summer, Spring and Autum. I made an amazing Tree. I am very proud of what I have made. We started these trees on the last week of term 2. I have always loved making art. The most challenging part of the prosess was to do the scrating on the seasons because you have to scratch very carefully. The easy part was making the tree Black because you only use one color and color that tree black. Here is my tree that I had finished.

Comment below what seoson you are in??

Phonics Meanings!!

In phonics we have been doing word finds. These word finds are not an ordenery word finds.
You have to find words with a starting. My 4 letters are IN, EX, RE and DE. My 4 words  that I chosse for my activity are Ink, Deflate, Explore and Replay. I chose these words because they are things that happen, do or use. I have made a slide show with my sister Haylee on defentions of those words. Have a look at our slide show we have made.

Weather

This is what I know about weather. Please comment and share your knowledge about weather so I gain more information for my learing.

Visual Art

For the last term we have been learning about tattoo's. Tattoos have to be small, simple and somewhere you can put it. When you think about your tattoo you have to think about what it is. For an Example -  If you like fortnite, in about 20 yrs time you might not like fortnite and you liek something else. Once that is on you, you'll look like a fool. Tattoo's will be on you till you pass away of die. We had to look at different sites and differnent desgins. We had desgined a tattoo and inprivised the desgin. The most challenging part of this whole prosess is to create the desgn, keep it simple and make sure it fits from where you want it. The easy part was to write the description of why I chose that tattoo. Here is my design of the tattoo...

This is the description...

I Choose The Harmony sign for our voices. My family has great voices and its sounds so great when we sing together.

The energy Is for energetic. My Family has each been in a race. Because we run everyday.

I choose this one because It is simple and very easy. I'm going to have it on my wrist because its small and if you imagine it small you can still put it where you what to.

Hangi

On Friday we had a hangi. We have been learning about hangis and Matariki. Matarkiki is the Maori New Year.
Hangis can be made wusing either railway irons or hangi stones. The most challenging part for me was when we had to peel the veges. When we were peeling, I was in the carrot peeling group. After we had all finished the carrots we moved on to help the group of people that were peeling the potatoes. We got it all finished in time. We got it done before the time we had to get ready. The most easy part, was the peeling carrots, because carrots are long and the potatoes are round. We had to bring our own peelers.  Here are some photos of the Hangi being prepared, ready, and getting cooked:

Mars Habitat

In Reading last term, my reading group and I were learing about " Becomeing a martion". I learnt that a martion is were you live on mars. Our activity was to make a mars Habitat. This is how my one turned out.

Measurement

For our strand Maths we have been looking at measurement.

We have learnt that 1 metre equals 100 cm and that there are 1000 metres in a kilometre.

We have also learnt how to measure objects around our school.

The most challenging thing about measuring is to use the correct equipment.

The activity I enjoyed most was the Measurement because we get to measure something that we could reach outside.

My group measured the width of the cubby holes and it was 3 metres and 51 centimetres wide. This measurement can also be written as 3m and 51cm.

This is my group working

My Celebration

For the last 2 weeks we have been learning about celebrations in different cultures. I wrote about my birthday. I wrote it as a recount. The hardest thing was to put the paragraphs in order.

My Birthday at Home

“Happy Birthday Sweetheart “ Says my mum as I wake up extremely tired.

In our house we Celebrate mine and Haylee's birthday. We like to open our presents in the morning. Most of the time we have to have our birthdays at home because Mum can’t afford to go out anywhere.

Our birthday is at home. Sometimes our birthday is on a school day that makes it more fantastically amazing. When my birthday is a school day I go to my friends, and say “It’s my Birthday today” Usually I shout it out loud so that some people know its my birthday.

Mine and Haylee’s birthday is on the 9 of April. Nothing that I know of is on the same day. The only thing that I know is that I share a birthday with a older sister which doesn't like to share. When I saw the presents she got I ask to share she shouts “ No “.

We celebrate our birthday because it’s a celebration. Haylee and I like celebrating this one day because the day before our birthday we spend the whole day playing with each other. I will always remember this day, Now and Forever.

I like to spend with my sister because she usually plays with Caleb and not me. So that is why I like the 9 of April.

By Chloe

S.T.E.M Bird Feeders

This is how it worked how      

This term in STEM we have been learning about how to attract birds to our school. Process of learning was to complete the steps of the our design. We had to use quite a few things to get our bird feeder how it is know. The challenges we had to face was to get the right tools, get it the same as the picture/ drawing of our design. I really enjoyed painting and decorating our bird house.  I enjoyed it because when we paint I like to try and avoided the paint splashing on me. I got a few drips on me but my Mum will wash is out. Here is my design and how it worked out...
This is the design

Danny's Truck

On Friday last week we got to see Danny's Truck. This is my slideshow of maths and facts about the truck
 

Using Our People Powers - Make Their Day

Today we talked about how we can make people's days. During this week I will make people's days by:

• Complimenting others
• Greeting others
• Being kind to everyone
• Give big smile's
• Including others in games and converstaions

I will catch up with you next week to let you know how I got on.

I Complimented Mrs McLeod as she went passed and I said "I love your earrings." She said "Thank You."
I felt Amazed inside to make a teacher's day by Complimenting them and making them feel good inside.

Time Travel

This week we have been learning about time travel. Our teacher Mr. Breach gave us two books per group. In my group I was with Matangi, Divontae, Mark Tyler and I. We used two chromebooks and 3 people trying to solve questions. Mark and I were on the chromebooks and was writing down what Divontae, Matangi and Tyler was solving.

Anzac Day

Today we have been learing about world war 1. Our Teacher Mr Breach handed us out an item from a box. Mr breach gave us a link for the site to find our item and we had to read the story that was there. For most items there were a link to a story. 

Night light

This week we have been learing about night light. We have been learing about how the moon goes around earth.

Bunyip Staying

This week we have been learing about persasive writing. perswasive writing is where we are trying to convice somebody to do something. We read a book called "A Bunyip in the billabong". We had to persade the villagers to stay in the billabong if we were going to be the bunyip. If we were the villagers we would be trying to convice the bunyip to move out of the billabong and move.

Dear Villagers

Please don’t make me leave my billabong. I have been in this billabong for over 110 years and nobody has been here to tell me to move out of my house. If you leave me here I will do and be:

a famous super star because I can get photos taken by the tours I will be really famous. I could even have all of my favorite foods when I get so famous.

If you let me stay I will be a real help for birthday parties and how they will be the best parties your kids could ever have. Parties are my thing I make it so that the kids have rides without  buying any rides.

I believe that I am able to not be so annoying  and make loud noises that wake up the Villagers. I don’t want to get everybody to wake up and scream.” It's a Bunyip. It is after us all!!!

AHHHHHHH.”

So you see I am really good. Please leave me in my billabong. It is nice how I like it. It does not need to be clean and clear, I hate that type of cleaness. So you can see I am a big help to the village. Please can I stay?

Sincerely

Sofie the Bunyip

Saving the Maui Dolphins

This week we have been learing about Maui Dolphins and how there are only 55 left in the wild.  My poster is about the dangers they face.

Video 1                                                                                             Video 2

Warch these 2 videos on how the Maui Dolphins are endangered

The Door in the Wall

In Literacy I have been learing about using wow words in my writing. We looked at a piture and thought crtiically about it. We used lots of reflective quetions to think about the pitcure. What I thought was challenging was trying to get it finished by today and I got it done yesterday.