My calendar art - Term 4 Week 3

                                   Calendar Art!!!!
Not so long ago our class started our calendar art.  My calendar art was a picture of two ghosts and a dead tree.  For the dead tree I painted my hand and some of my arm then I put on the paper.  For the ghosts I put my on the paper upside down because the ghosts face is on the heel bit and then I got a black coloring in pencil and did two black dots for the eyes and one for the mouth. Before I did any of this I dyed the background black.

Here is a photo of me and my calendar art

Here is a photo of my calendar art close up

 

Disgust

WALT entertain the audience

Success Criteria:

1. I plan for the writing task
2. I write sentences that make sense
3. I have colour, taste, smell, look, sound and feel each on a new line.
4. I use specific words in the poem.
5. I attempt to write words I don’t know by using my sound/letter knowledge or a dictionary.
6. I use commas, exclamation marks, capital letters and full stops correctly.
7. I will present my poem on an A4 paper from the tote tray.  I need to think about making sure the reader will be able read my writing.

Disgust.

Disgust is dark green

It tastes like mouldy dark green broccoli

It smells like freshly mown grass

Disgust looks like somebody that has a scrunched up face.

it sounds like somebody who is chopping up veggies

Disgust feels disturbing.

Disgust makes me awful!.    

My poem week 10 term 3

WALT entertain the reader with an onomatopoeic poem

Success Criteria:

1. Use a dictionary and our sound/letter knowledge to write words I don’t know.
2. I will make sure the content relates to the title and creates a picture in the reader’s head.
3. I will make sure each word is on a different line.

Cinema

Pop pop

chew chew

rattle rattle

yay yay

laugh laugh

he he he

Goes the cinema, the movie and the popcorn machine

10 facts about me - Week 8 term 3

10 facts about me!!

1. My favorite animals are kittens, bats and parrots .
2. My favorite food are apples and salt and vinegar chips. 
3. My favorite sport is netball and rippa rugby.
4. My favorite books are Diary of a wimpy kid.
5. My favorite TV shows are regular show and adventure time
6. My favorite colour is light blue and yellow.
7. My favorite game at school are bomb.
8. My favorite ice cream flavour is cookies and cream.
9. My favorite take away place is Burger King.
10. My favorite pattern is vertical stripes.

This is my favourite kind of kitten.

Persuasive writing #2

WALT persuade other students to agree with our opinion.  This the purpose for my writing.

Success Criteria:

1. I plan for a writing task
2. I write a variety of sentence lengths with different sentence starters
3. Give reasons with detail - use specific words
4. I write most topic and high frequency words correctly.
5. I use capital letters, full stops, question marks and exclamation marks correctly.
6. Use persuasive language

School days should start later

In my opinion I think that school days should start later.

In my opinion if school started later people wouldn't be late for school. Another point is if school started later people wouldn’t miss out on their learning or important instructions.  Another reason is you don’t  need to switch your etap from ? to L anymore (L means late and ? means away or don’t know where he or she is)

For example: If you had something important on at 8.00 you wouldn't be late because if school started at 9.00 it wouldn’t matter much.  I think 9.00 is a good time because a parent is really forgetful and can forget the time because 8.45 is a really random number, but if it was 9.00 they probably won’t forget because because it is the first number.         

Another reason is that if somebody forgot their library book and their mum and dad went to work at 8.30am and then there mum could quickly get it for he or she without being late for work.  Therefore if somebody forgot their book packet and it was 8.40 there nana or dad or mum could quickly drop it of.

And that is why school days should start later.

Animal band reader's theater - term 3 week 7

Walt performe to an audiience

Success Criteria:

• speak clearly
• speak loudly
• speak with expression
• speak together as a group

                                                              The animal band! 

  

Today Room 12 had an assembly item called 'The animal band'.  The characters were the donkeys, dogs, cats, roosters, readers, narrators and robbers.  
We started practicing on Tuesday and we performed on Friday.  When we just started we didn't do the best, but when we got used to it we got better and better and by Friday, I thought it was a 10/10.  
I was an actress as a cat, there was one actor in each group.  
When it was Friday I was a bit nervous because there were 600 people watching us. After the show and after assembly Mrs Miller gave us a fruit burst.  Then we got changed back into our uniform.

This is a photo of me and my group in our costumes. 

This is a photo of me in my costume.

We should allow pets in school - Term 3 week 4

WALT persuade other students to agree with our opinion.  This the purpose for my writing.

Success Criteria:

1. I plan for a writing task
2. I write a variety of sentence lengths with different sentence starters
3. Give reasons with detail - use specific words
4. I write most topic and high frequency words correctly.
5. I use capital letters, fullstops, question marks and exclamation marks correctly.
6. Use persuasive language

We should allow pets in schools.

I believe that we should allow pets in school because they can help in lots of ways.

Train pets to do jobs for you: For example if your pencil is stuck up somewhere high then your pet bird will fly up and get it for you.  Another reason is if you get stuck up a tree your cat will go up the tree and then go back down and then you can follow the cat down.    

Pet fitness: when you get tired of running your pet dog can run for you.  Furthermore if your dog can’t run you could walk it each day and then it would be fit and then it would be able to run for you.  

Pets can make you happy.When you are doing a test and you don’t know a question your pet can calm you down.  Finally when you have no one to play with you can play with your pet like if you had a dog you could play fetch with it or with a rabbit you could play hide and seek on the field.

That is why pets should be allowed in schools.

Skimming reading strategy - Term 3 week 2

WE ARE LEARNING TO SKIM!!!
Walt skim an unknown text so that we can quickly get an understanding of it

• I can decide if a book has useful information I need,or whether I want to read it for pleasure.

These are the things I can do to skim

1.look at the title

2.look at the blurb

3.look at the chapters

4.read the first sentience to see if you like it

5.look at the pictures

See more and watch the video about skimming!

Matariki - Week 10

This is my reflection.  
Yesterday it was Matariki and we all had a workshop to go to and these are the workshops that you could choose from: Sewing, rakau, mural art, poi making, weaving Matariki stars, gardening, cooking and kite making.  
But if you want to do sewing , mural art and kite making you need to stay there for 2 sessions because they will take longer to make.  I chose sewing and at first it was easy, but when I started to make the proper thing it started to get harder and I pricked myself with a needle when I was pinning.  But after all that drama I was fine.  After sewing we did hand games, they were fun and tricky and my buddy was Emma for the hand games.

This is a photo of Emma and me sewing.

This is me

Emma and I enjoyed using the sewing machine especially the big one

      This is Emma.

Little Alchemy - Week 8

This is little alchemy.  
Little alchemy is a very cool game.  When you start little alchemy you start with these items - fire, water, earth and air.  You can make all sorts of stuff.  There is cheats which come up in the top left hand side but wait till it says this - "Are you stuck? Do you need a hint," then click on it.  You can make about 530 items.  You can also make funny items like underpants. He He!

  This is the look of the app.  You can get this game on your tablet , computer , phone , and many more.  This game is even free.

Area - Week 6

In room 12 we are learning about Area: 

Area is very important because when you need a plane that has 20 rows and 15 columns you would not know which one is the one you need. Lots of us didn't know Area yet so we got our chairs and made a bus that had to be 28 s.u.  Then we had to make a bus with 24 s.u and we needed to take away 4 or 5 chairs for it to work.  It was really fun and learning it was fun too.  We were learning about rows and columns.

Example

If you wanted a shape with 10 columns and 2 rows this is what you can do:  You can get the 2 and the 10 and x them like this - 10x2=20 square units and there is your total value of the area inside the plane.
    

Birthdays - Week 5

My pet's birthday!a
On new years day it is my cat's birthday and she will be 5.
In July, it is my kitten's birthday (her name is Milly) and she will be 1.
Spot and cuddles (my rabbits) birthday is in June but I don't know what day.

My families birthdays!
Harlow's birthday(my little sister) is on Boxing Day and she will be 4.
My mum's birthday is on October 28th and she will be 27.
My dad's birthday is on the 30th of December and he will be 32.
My nana's birthday is on the 3rd of October and she will be 54.
My cousin Alyssa's birthday is on April the 10th and she will be 9.
Dianne's birthday is on the 18th of May and she will be 34.

Other people's birthdays that I know.

Ruby.L's is on Christmas Day which would be December the 25th.
Ruby.H's birthday is on September the 14th.
Maiya's birthday is on May the 7th.
Emma's birthday is on November the 12th


AND MY BIRTHDAY IS ON THE 12 OF MARCH!

The Summarising Strategy - Week 4

Keywords help us make big story's short and make boring texts into awesome texts.

You can choose a keyword from a book and you can put it in your writing, but you can't copy all of the story because it is called plagiarism.

Here is an example:

Keywords - Extinct and fossils 

Sentence - Most animals are now EXTINCT because they were killed by people that lived 100 years ago or they were eaten by other birds.

Sentence - Scientists search for FOSSILS to see what sort of bird it is and if it is extinct or not.

And there is an example of keywords!

Thanks for reading! :)


Here is photo of some fossils!

   

     

Maths sticks - Week 3

We are learning about measurement.  We need to make our name out of 50 maths sticks.  We needed to make each one of our letters 20 centimetres tall or our name one metre long.  I did the one that you need to make each letter 20 centimetres tall.  We need to have a starting point and a finishing point which means you need to have your name starting at cm which stands for 0 and the finishing point will be at the end of your ruler.  A little ruler would be about 30 centimeters long.  With our name we had to count up how many of each colour maths sticks and then we had to work out what was the total value of your name.  But we didn't do our name, the teacher gave us a sheet for us to work on.  So say there were 3 blue, 4 red and 5 yellow we had to work out what it was.  And just say the yellow are $10, the blue $5 and the red $2 and we had to work it out so here is an example, so there were 5 yellow and they were worth $10 and 10+10+10+10+10=50, so now you have 50 and now the blue are worth $5 and there were 3 blues so lets count 5,10,15=15, now we have 15, now the red. The reds are worth $2 and there are 4 of them.  Lets count again 2,4,6,8,10, now we have 10 so 10+50+15=75 so the total value was $75.

Pacman - Week 3

This game is called pacman. The Orange circle is you and you need to collect all the orange spots to complete the level. But you need to look out for all the other things that walk around the maze if you bump into one you lose a life. You have 3 lives and if you lose all your lives you start again. And at the ends of each sides you can go through them and then you end up on the other side of the maze. You can collect big things that make all the other things go blue and then you can eat them and they will disappear, but they spawn in the middle of the maze.

Rabbits - Week 1

This is a photo of little baby rabbits.  When the bunnies are first born they are pink because they don't have any fur and they can't see yet, but when they grow up a bit they start to look like these rabbits, still small but they start to grow fur.                                                                         

This is a much older rabbit that is standing in the grass.  He or she has grown all its fur and is now somebody's pet.  Rabbits come in any shape and size.

These are little rabbits eating yummy vegetables.  Rabbits eat fruit and vegetables and drink water, they also eat grass and flowers and sometimes they eat their poos, yuck!  

  

Minecraft - Week 2

This is a herobrine, the one that is flying.  He is a boss and he has powers that can destroy everyone and anything.  He can fly and pick blocks up and throw them at you like in this photo.

These are diamonds.  Diamonds are the rarest items in minecraft and they can make a sword, a pickaxe, an axe, a shovel and that is all the tools you can make with them, but you can make armour and you can do a a helmit, a chestplate, pants and boots.

Swimming Reflection

I learned how to…scull on my back because if I hadn't learned that I wouldn't be able to survive in the ocean.    

Something I found challenging was…trying to bob up and down in breaststroke.

At the end of the year I would like to improve on…my diving

Mrs Miller, Mr Kenny or Mrs Lowe could help me by…

nothing really, I was happy with everything you taught me.  

The best part about swimming was…grabbing a bucket and floating  to the end of the pool!

Ormie the pig Writing

We watched  a video of a pig called Ormie and this is what I thought happened...

Ormie gets in a plane to get the cookies that lay on the top of the fridge. As he gets closer and closer to the door of the plane, the more excited Ormie gets.
When he gets to the plane door, Ormie slid it open and then woosh out of the plane he went.
He started to see the fridge and the jar of cookies on top, he was about to flick out the parachute but Ormie forgot it...crash! 

Ormie fell to the floor.

He sat down and had a long long think until he jumped with excitement, "I've got it" he said, "all I need is a tiger". 20 mins later he got the tiger from the zoo and got on top of him, right take me to the fridge and put your paws on the top, then I can climb on top of you and grab the cookies. But the tiger wasn't listening and kicked Ormie off and he ran back to the zoo.

Now I need rocket shoes, Ormie set again out to town, back again with new rocket shoes.
"Its time to get these cookies" said Ormie. Woosh, up in the air, then whosh back down landing on top of the fridge. He sat down and ate the cookies one by one. Yum yum!

Superhero Sienna

Today is dressing up as a superhero day and I am cat women.  My super power is that I can swing from house to house with my climbing hook.  I can also use it when I'm on top of a house and there is a robber about, I can grab them with my hook and send them to jail.

My buddies from Room 6 & 7

Today our class went to meet new girls and boys that have just started school, we are going to Room 6 and 7.  My two buddies are both girls, one is Victoria and the other is Xanthia. Victoria likes to play in the sand pit and Xanthia likes to play in the family corner in her class.

When we were done we went outside to line up for a photo near the pride wall, then me and my buddies went to the big kids play ground. The whistle blew and we sat on the netball court, then it was time to say good bye.

Here is a photo of my buddies and I.

My Amazing Story

My superhero lives in an underground cave in Australia. The cave is dark and misty. The walls are made of hard stone that crackles and crumbles. The floor is made out of cracked brick. The cave has glass cabinets to hold all the secret weapons and gadgets in. There is an elevator that blends in with the red rock to open the elevator and there is a secret button you push to get the elevator to open the elevator.

My superhero's name is Shadow, she has black wavy hair and light blue jeans and a dark red t-shirt, also dark dark dark black boots. She has white metal gloves that protects her hands from getting hurt.

She is kind and helpful and saves the day.

She can jump from tower to tower by using an invisible rope. She sneaks into villains secret bases and takes all of the villains down to china town because they are willing to take over the world! mwahahahahaha.

Helping Hands

 In room 12 I have been learning about translation (sliding), rotation (turning) and reflection (flipping). It was cool.