Safe Cycling

                                         Safe Cycling
Yesterday we had to get in groups of four and make a intersection, our group chose to make a round-a bout. 
we made the round-a bout because we had to learn to road rules.
because we have to go biking to Napier soon. 

PBL Model

My PBL Model 

 We had to make a model volcano as a part of our project. 

                                  how to make the art

1. Find something that looks a bit like a dome.
2.  Find a large surface that would be suitable for your volcano.   
3.   Begin to paper mache the volcano and the base (if you want to)
4. Wait for the paper mache to dry then begin to paint the volcano.
5. For the explosion I used crate paper to make the explosion 3D you can use paint if you want to.  

 Volcano Report

Introduction

This report is about what volcanoes are, what different types of volcanoes there are and what impact they have on us. Did you know that in 1816 mt tambora, Indonesia erupted and 92,000 people died. that was the most deadliest eruption ever recorded.  

                  What Are volcanoes?

                               How do they form?

Volcanoes/nga puia are formed when magma from the mantle gets to the surface, when it gets to the surface it erupts/ngutu as lava and the more the volcano erupts the bigger the volcano gets. Tectonic plates always move even though they look like they don't

                               How do they erupt?

Volcanoes erupt when 2 tectonic plates bump into each other.

Tectonic plates are the lines on some maps.

There is one going right through new zealand and if those 2 plates bump into each other an earthquake or a volcanic eruption/whakaheke will happen.

What impact do volcanoes have on the world we live in?

A volcanic eruption can cause many bad things but also some good things,

Volcanoes can cause destruction, pollution and serious harm.

They can help with farming,metals and rocks/stones

How do they help? (Positive)

The ash from a volcano/puia can help with the crops in a farm.

Sometimes after a volcano has erupted people have found metals inside.

Volcanoes/nga puia can make rocks that are quite helpful one of the helpful volcanic rocks is called pumice, pumice can smoothen your feet.

  The negative effects

A volcanic eruption/whakaheke can trigger earthquakes, floods, tsunamis and avalanches. These can be very destructive and can also harm you badly.

A volcano/puia can pollute the air with its toxic and also extremely hot ash. It could get into a lake and pollute it.  

How many different kinds of volcanoes are there?

There are 3 main kinds of volcanoes there are

shield volcanoes- are almost made of magma they resemble a warrior's shield lying on the ground.

Composite volcanoes- are made up of many layers/paparanga, hardened lava, pumice and volcanic ash.

Cinder cone volcanoes- are the simplest type of volcano they look like this.

Calender Art

                               Calendar art 
What is this art?
This art is about what you like doing, or an animal.
The animal that I chose was a cat.
You copy your pictures onto black paper to make it a silhouette.

How did I make the art?
You start out by choosing 5 Images for your art.
When you make your practice background you have to make sure you make the spaces big enough for you pictures.

Which learning muscles did I use?
I used my perseverance muscle and my revising muscle.          

Siapo Art Reflection

The Forest Castle

                                               The Forest Castle

As I stepped into the snow it rose to my knees but I didn't care I began to walk in the forest ,I looked up and The trees were filled with snow just then I fell in a pothole at least the snow saved me. I walked deeper and deeper into the snow took a few turns and walked some more…  and took some more turns and then I realized something I was lost!!!!

                                                   

I started to panic and began walking in random directions hoping that one of the turns would take me home. It started to get dark and I couldn't see where I was going I stopped and thought to myself I should wait to morning so then I can see where I’m going. I tried going to sleep but I just couldn't fall asleep I got up and decided to explore the forest till morning. Its 2am and I was walking around in the dark then SMACK I hit into a tall thick tree I looked up and down side to side. It is 7:00 am and I can see now.

I was in some kind of forest castle there were tall thin trees leaning over blocking the sun from view. There was still snow on the trees even though the sun was shining, then the sky turned from blue to grey clouds and just then it started pouring with rain, there must be a storm I thought. Then a couple of minutes later there was a cackle of thunder and a flash of lightning I better get home.

I started walking around then out of the blue the rain stopped lightning struck the tree right next to me then it set fire, I didn't know what to do so I ran as fast as I could because the fire was getting bigger eventually I ran all the way home. The moment I got inside it started raining again and the fire went out.   

Thankyou Letter

Room 6/7

Parkvale school

Howard Street 4122                                                   

Hastings

25/05/17

Dear - John

I am writing this letter to say thank you for coming to camp kaitawa with us. We are thankful that you gave up your time to come to camp. I thank you because on the confidence course you helped me across the log bridge, I fell of the first time but I got the hang of it after a while.

My first highlight is when we did master chef, we burnt most of our pancakes, we had just enough non burnt ones to plate up. The dinner master chef was really hard because we had to make a meal straight from scratch.

My second highlight was the confidence course, at night I was really hard and scary because every now and then you would bump into a wall of some sort ,we ended up going around all of the obstacles. Then the next day we went on the confidence course during the day it was so much easier but we weren't allowed to go around the obstacles.

My last highlight was the Michael Noonan walk, it was cool because we went out at night it made the walk a lot more scary. I liked having to find all 25 words and having to write them down on a bit of paper luckily our team remembered all the words.    

1 interesting fact about the rata tree is that It takes 21 kids to fit around the bottom of the tree. We all had to guess how many kids it would take I guessed 22 and I was one of!!

Yours Sincerely

Sienna 😀

Visal Art 2

Inventing tenting

My Special Place

                                     My Special Place

Crash The sound of the waves slowly drifting smaller and smaller as it reaches the beach , Just then i run through the ocean splashing it around. Just after I can hear a voice saying “WAIT, wait for me” oh it was my cousin. We dive into the freezing cold water , my dad comes and teaches us how to dive under the big waves and over the smaller ones. Once we got the hang of it we hear a voice yelling “LUNCH”

We all scramble out of the water and onto the hot sandy land , the sand looks like a giant sizzling bbq I could see hot steam floating up from in the deep within the sand . Once we get to our tent we found that there was food lots of food hot food, cold food, sweet food , sour food it was delicious. I felt so full I thought I would POP!!!.

After lunch we ran around until we found a good spot, then we started to dig and make lines Wala!!! I had just completed well half completed a fort now all I needed was sticks! I quickly scrambled to the nearest pile of sticks, snatched them all up and ran back. Finally I had finished my fort.it looked like a gigantic castle!!

My little sister was yelling at me “I want to go to the lagoon” so that's what we did and I mean all of us ashleigh , dad , harlow (my little sister) , alyssa (cousin) and me all went to the lagoon. It was a lot warmer than the ocean, and a lot deeper. “EWW there's something on my foot” alyssa yelled “oh it was only seaweed” she said, alyssa told me it felt like a slimy eel slowly wrapping itself around her feet .  we saw a little stream coming from the ocean and into the lagoon we digged a hole right bye the stream and made a mini pool.

The beach is my special place     

      

 

    

All About Me

All About Me

One of my bestest memory was 2 years ago when I was coming out of the school gate , Mum walked up to me and said “ I have a surprise for you” ,That's when I got got really excited. When we got into the car I was jiggling around so much i thought i would POP!!! We were driving for about 2 minutes but it felt like 2 hours. We finally pulled up our driveway I opened the door and stepped onto the wet,dewy grass. I ran to the door pulled it open and stepped inside. “ stop being so loud” My mum whispered to me “ you will disturb her”. Mum leaded me to the laundry and omg I was going to DIE WITH CUTENESS , there were 5 cute little baby kittens, 2 were ginger and 3 were tabby. When they got older we sold 4 of them and keeped 1 tabby one.

Much loved hobby

            My Much loved hobby is Swimming, I have been doing Swimming lessons for 5 and a half years. I go to flaxmere swimming lessons on monday afternoons at 4:00. I have a Swimming chart at home it says what group i'm in , I’m in the sharks group which is the last group on the chart. My Favorite stroke is Freestyle.

              

What makes me laugh

What makes me laugh is when I was over at tias for the day.  We got board so we asked tia's mum if we could bake, she said yes. We decided to make Afgans. it went well sort of. when we were about half way through we had to pore in the dry ingredents and I tured on the mixer and OH NO!!! the cocoa poofed everywhere and the kitchen was trashed!!!    

1 Fun fact about me  

1 Fun fact about me is that I get up at 6:30am on the weekends and 7:25 am. Maybe it's because on the weekends I like to play on my device :3 , because my mum kicks me of my laptop when she gets up :3. I get up late on school days because when I get wake up I like to stay in bed for at least 25 minutes.  

Visual Art

5 Things About me

                                     5 Things About me >3<

1 -  My Favorite Food is Candy Floss 🍬 I like it because its looks like a Pink Fluffy cloud and it melt's in your mouth. and my Second Favorite Food Is Meat Lovers Pizza 🍕!!!   

2 -  My Favorite Color is Violet & Light blue

3 - My Favorite Animals are 1st Cats 🐈 2nd bunnies 🐇 and 3rd Pandas 🐼

  

 4 - My Favorite subject at school is Art 🖌

5 -   my Favorite sport is Soccer ⚽

Life Education

Story 1: sam and jane are classmates sam borrows jane's new skate board without asking.

How is jane feeling?

What would she say and do?

Jane would be feeling sad because sam took it without asking.

She should say that next time that he wanted to use the skateboard that he should ask first. And then she would sort it out heself.

Story 2:  lucia is in mrs parata’s office she wants to ask mrs parata if she can have a turn As the library Monitor.
What would luncia say?

What would lucia do?

Lucia would say can i please have a turn as the library monitor

Lucia would leave politely if mrs parata said no.    

Story 3

Naomi is new at the holiday programme and does not know anyone she  wants to join the group playing basketball.

What would she do?

What would she say?

Naomi should go up to them and not yell.

Naomi should say “can i please join this basketball game”

P.E Reflection

                                        Blind Throw

Today we played a game called blind throw. some of the people were teachers and the others were learners. we had to sit on a chair and it was backwards so then you can't see the hoops and you have to throw a bean bag, there were 3 hoops you had to try to throw your bean bag into one of the hoops and each hoop is some points, you also got to chose a country to play as. I Thought the teacher did a good job and everybody else listened. 


I used mostly the Imagining  muscle because you had to imagine were the hoops were and how far they are. Also my l listening muscle because my partner tells me what to do you have to listen properly of else you might not get it in the hoop.      


  

                                         Here is a photo of the game 

Thank you poem

Dear Mum 😃

  I liked making the drive in movie car. The food was ice cream  but then it melted and turned  into soft serve and we had popcorn. I also liked looking at other peoples cars because some of them were really cool and they were all different shapes and sizes and they were all colored nicely.  

T-thanks for all your help on camp

H-happy always happy,even when things don’t go her way

A-always gives me positive thoughts  

N-nice to me whenever

K-kind and intelligent

S-she is really good at making the ice cream

S-Sarah you are a very very good cook

A-always helping make the lunch tea and all the other meals

R-really good at river crossing

A-awesome at spotlight

H-helps people when they get stuck

Again thank you for going on camp with me.

Many thanks Sienna G.😃

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

 

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

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.

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.