DAY 1: In the Beginning...

WEEK 1: A Place to Stand

Welcome to the first week of the Summer Learning Journey. For our first week, we are going to be learning all about the land habitats here in Aotearoa New Zealand. It is going to be a great adventure!

DAY 1: In the Beginning...

Activity 1: The Legend of New Zealand [4 points]

According to Māori mythology, much of Aotearoa New Zealand was formed when Māui, a powerful demigod, fished it out of the sea. Legend has it that Māui created a magical fish hook from the jawbone of his grandmother and that one day he took his hook, boarded a boat, and rode out into the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Once at sea, he threw his magical hook into the water and caught a fish. This ‘fish’ was actually the North Island of New Zealand! In honour of this legend, the North Island of New Zealand is sometimes referred to as Te Ika a Māui or ‘Māui’s fish’ and the South Island of New Zealand is sometimes referred to as Te Waka a Māui or ‘Māui’s canoe’.

To learn more cool facts about New Zealand, check out the Tourism NZ website. Read the fun facts posted on the website and choose your ‘Top 3.’ On your blog, post your ‘Top 3 Fun Facts’ about NZ in your own words.

Fact 1: The Moari name for New Zealand is Aotearoa which mean the long white cloud

Fact 2: New Zealanders are called kiwis, but is not a kiwi fruit. It is New Zealand’s native bird that is flightless

Fact 3: New Zealand is one of the least populated countries in the world with over 4 million populations.

WORD ART

In class we have made some word art on a app . We made it with words that people put in our boxes and we put all of our words onto the picture. So here is mine!

Dorothy

In class we are reading a book called Wringer from Jerry Spinelli. I made a picture of Dorothy with the pigeon on her head. I tried to put as much detail as i could you could comment what I could do to improve. Here are the pictures!

Cricket

On Tuesday 27 November we had a Cricket session with Paddy from Canterbury Sports. We learnt how to catch the ball and also to work in a team. Luckily Mrs Hahn got some photos of mostly everyone participating in Cricket. Here are some photos

Knights

In class we had another teacher called Mrs Meikle. We had to work on things about knights. We made a slideshow about them aswell. My group was Noah and Ebony and here it is!

Athletics Tips

In class we have been working on athletics. We have made a Wevideo for the younger students in our school so when they do athletics they know what to do. I was working on discus. Plus these tips can help you as well. 

SNOWBALL FIGHT

In class we are reading this book call 'WRINGER' by Jerry Spinelli. We are making small scenes, on an App called WeVideo. We made scripts and we picked out names and we did their script. The script me and my group got was Bethiney's script about a snowball fight. If you were wondering what the snowball's were it was just scrunched up scrap paper. It was really fun!

My Pet Day Information Report

We are learning to write information reports. We had to make a WeVideo about our pets in general. My one is about cats and I hope you like it. 

Next year I will make my video better by putting correct timing for the pictures and talking without the words on the screen.

Reading Challenge

Hello Bloggers, I hope your're having a great holiday! In our holidays we had to read and in the reading challenge we had to make a poster about a sentence that described the a feeling about a character. Here is mine!

Song about Refugees

In class we were working on an activity about Refugees but there were other activities  as well. Me and my buddy ,Sophie did a song each about refugees so got to her blog as well. So we hope you like it.

When Refugees 

come from is

land to island

 we see that there is something wrong

We need R E F U G E E

We need R E F U G E E

All i can see is home recage

And sadness all you think is refugees have nothing but hope and sadness we have done this we need less refugees give them a chance and let them be be be we need them to be healthy and wealthy cared for not like other people not like other people other people 

We need R  E F U G E E refugees

We need something something to change my life into a piece of my mind

Just like a little food and nothing to keep me safe there nothing worse than dying dieing love is better than something something

Nah Nah yeah we need something something to take back what was ours

We need hope 

WE NEED R E F U G E E

Josef whacking his father!

In class we had more activity's to do and  I drew a picture of  Josef smacking his father. Here is my picture!

Refugee Poster

In class we were in groups and we had to write down what has happened in the story of Refugee. I was in mahmoud's group.  I have made a poster about where mahmoud family were getting shot at by soldiers.

Why we should have Headphones?

In class we were either making a persuasive writing why we should have headphones, or not have them. I have decided that we need them. I hope my writing is really persuasive and will persuade you to have headphones. Thanks!



Why do we need headphones?
Do we need headphone in class? Here are some reasons why we need headphones!

Why I think we should have headphone’s. Here is the first reason why we need headphones. We need headphone because they are just great  when you want to listen to music and then people don’t want to listen to it, YOU NEED HEADPHONES! 

Secondly, we need headphones because we need to concentrate on things like reading, writing and maths, and not other things like people talking about their motorbikes and their cool new thing they bought. 

Headphone’s help when you are working, they help you listen to words that you can not pronounce, because you can go on to the ‘Collins Dictionary’ and then you can listen to the word and no one will ever notice that you were trying to pronounce that word.

Lastly, if you need to watch a video and people don’t have headphones, the classroom will be booming with loudness and you won’t  be able to concentrate on what you are working on, like your reading plus. That’s why we need HEADPHONES!

WHY? They help so much with work, even try it, I have, they are AMAZING! Everyone needs HEADPHONES! Like literally you need them!

In conclusion
In conclusion I think that I have made it clear of why we need headphones and why they help people with hearing things on their chromebook/computer and concentrating on their work. You can also type faster and also you can do a heap of work.
 SO I SUGGEST TO GET THEM! :)

Minecraft Activity

In room 6 we got to chose which activity and I did the minecraft project. Me and Sophie made a train station.

Multiplication

Hey bloggers

In class, I have made a multiplication task. So I made a Screencastify about it and so I hope you will look at my Screencastify and please comment if I need to change something or if i did something wrong.

Thanks!

Missing Child Poster

Hey bloggers 
In Room 6 we have been doing some activity on a book we are reading called Refugee.  So far I have done about 4 activity's on the book. I have made this poster of Hana.
Thanks for looking at my poster.

If you can't see the details here they are but don't ring the phone number
Missing Child
Name:Hana
Age:Child unknown age
Gender: Girl
Origin: Syrian ,going to Europe
Please ring: 0278224678

Minecraft Reading Activity

Hey Bloggers!

In class we are reading a book called Refugee. There are three refugees, we a made a boat on Minecraft for one of the refugees that is escaping Cuba to get to Miami, her name was Isabel. This is mine!

Look into his eyes

In class we had to make a post about Look into his eyes. We had to write about it here is my writing!

It is nighttime:

A boy walks on a road:

He sees a figure:

He feels happy:

In the nighttime the moon lit up the outer space and you could hardly see all the buildings which looked like a blur. The boy slowly moves down the harshly lit street. “ Where is my dad?”

The boy watched a faint, dark figure pass by as he

starts to wonder why the figure looks like his father. He springs back down the street towards the figure and his father that he thought was dead was standing right in front on him.

He feels ecstatic but also angry because it was four years since the day he saw him and waited so long and he didn’t come back to him the day he left and thought he was dead but no.

My Reading Challenge

HI BLOGGERS!
In the school holidays we had to do a describing sentence. First we had to find a sentence in a book and tell what the page number was and who the author was. We had to put some photo's on our DLO  from what was happening in the sentence. If there is something wrong please comment down below on what I should improve. 

Pukapuka Advertisement

In class, we made a poster about Pukapuka. We hope you enjoy this so please put a comment if we need to fix up anything. We read about Pukapuka in Infobytes. We had to persuade people to go to Pukapuka. 

Please do not ring and email because it is not real!

Divide and Remainders

Hey Bloggers

As you know I always post so be sure to check my blog posts out. In class we had to do a DLO about dividing and remainders, we had to have a buddy and Sophie was my buddy. We have some problems for you to solve and it might help you with math's hopefully. There is also a quiz there waiting for you in the ending. Please put a comment to see if we need to fix up anything else.

Pablo Picasso Portraits

In class, we have been learning to do self portraits. We had to make one like Pablo Picasso's pictures in his cubism period. Our whole class made one so be sure to go to the class blog then to the individual blogs to see them all. You can comment down below if I need to work on something.

My Reading Plus Progress

Hi Bloggers!

In class we had to do a Screencastify on Reading Plus Progress. I made mine and I think I have done so good that I am reading more often. Here is my Reading Plus Progress Screencastify.

Worm Farm

In class we have been reading Infobytes and we read about how to make a worm farm. We made a worm farm DLO and my buddies were Isabel and Sophie, but Sophie was not here so we said her part. We also put the main parts about making a worm farm and where to put them. Then we made our screencastify and here it is.
(Be Warned!) 
You will need headphones on!

Self Portrait

In class we are learning to draw self portraits. It was quite hard but I got over it and it was fun. We had to put our eyes,ears, nose and mouth in the correct position of where they are supposed to be like the eyes are in the middle of the face. 

This is my self portrait.

Our Reading Profile

In class we have been learning to make our own reading profile and I decided to do it with a buddy, Isabel. We had to put what books we read and what our reading goals were and also our Reading Plus goal. Here is my Screencastify of Our Reading Profile.

Paul Beavis

In class we met an author/illustrator and his name was Paul Beavis. We made a DLO about him and what he does and other things about him and all the books he has made. We really like all of his books and all of us want him to come back.

What is Blue?

In class we had to make a poem about a colour. My buddy was Sophie and our colour was blue. We thought is was easy but at the start it was a bit hard then we got use to it. Please comment how we could improve.

What is Blue?

Blue is a bluebell,

A blueberry,

A diamond,

Shining in the box,

A peacock,

The most vibrant colour out of the lot, 

Say Hi not good-bye,

Let the deep blue ocean fly 

Just like the sky,

Blue is for sad

But is not bad,

Blue covers the sky 

So bold, so high,

Blue balloons pop non-stop,

Should we stop?

No we should not,

Blue rivers flow,

Just like the blue whale blows,

Blue icy water crushes threw my teeth,

The blue candy floss melts in my mouth,

Like the snow melts in the summer,

Our blue t-shirts ,

Nanas light blue eyes dazzle,

Like crystals shimmering in the sky.

Mysterious Beach Trip

In class we have been learning to make an alliteration poem, my poem is based on when these four girls go to the mysterious beach. Please leave me some comments down below about how I could improve. An alliteration poem is where you have to put as many words as possible starting with a letter, we used the letter M.

Mysterious Beach trip

Molly,Mary,Marcie and Miranda

Marched to the mysterious beach .

Mary moaned from hunger

wanting macaroni and cheese.

Molly moved to the monstrous shack

looking at the magnificent full moon

she magically turned into a malachite Malaysian tiger

moving towards the mysterious marble moon

as if compelled.

Miranda looking mysterious

Molly moved to the green majestic mushrooms

As she murmurs to a marvellous maroon mosquito.

Marcie marched to the log and moaned

Mary moved and was heading

to the macaroni.

”Hey Mary, that’s my macaroni,!”

mumbled Marcie loudly.

As Mary took the first bite

she pulled out one of the green mushrooms.

Miranda munched on mouth-watering marshmallows

Getting messy

With white magnolia marshmallows

In her marvelous maroon hair

She murmured in a melancholy voice

She pulled the moshed marshmallows

Out of her maroon hair.

The End

Angle Measurement

In class we had to make a screencastify with a buddy. My buddy was Isabel, we had to talk about angles with our angle indicator and we were describing each angle. Here is our screencastify about angles!

Reading Challenge

During our Term 1 holiday we have to make a Google drawing. Years 4-8 have this challenge in our school. We have to select a sentence that describes. We have to put the name of the book, author of the book, write the sentence and everything has to be correct and there are prizes for the most effort in the Google drawing. So here is my Post!

Book Review

In class we had to write a book review on what book we have been reading. We had to put title and author, the type of story is it, what the book is about, the setting, something about the character, main problem, your opinion, my favourite part of the story. Here is my Book Review!

Safe Cycling

At school Constable Joss helped Room 5 and the year fours in room two, to learn how to do the hand signals for biking on the road. Our main focus was to put our writing in present tense not past tense. Here is my writing!

Cycling
Finally, it’s time to go,  I am a bit scared, but really excited at the same time. I’ve been waiting forever though, it’s time, let’s go!  Come on guys, keep going.

  I’m dodging around the little orange cones. Oof! I just hit one of the orange cones. Racing up the straight, I feel as if I am flying through the air. As I’m going round the corner I have no hand on the wheel, see, AHH, ow that hurt I just fell off my bike, but at least I’m okay. I have to look back and that is a RED CAR  keep on going lets go on. Stop at the yellow line, let’s park up here and OOF next time I should slow down more. 

“ I will set up the ramps and ladder” Yells Constable Josh. Ramps and ladder! What I don’t think I’ll be able to! . As I come to the ramp I’m getting really anxious that I’m going to fall down the side, but OOF…..  I made it YES I actually made, know for the big ramp up I go down I go. As I whirl around the curve.  The ladder,  I pedal fast then BUMP! BUMP! BUMP! That is so FUN! As I slowed down for the next corner. AHH! Stop PHEW that  lucky I didn’t crash into you! Know I have to turn around and BLUE CAR , through the cones, round the corner over the small sea saw the over the big sea saw then over the bumpy broken ladder. This is so fun! 

DING! It’s lunch time

Global Warming Task

In class, Isabel and Sophie were my buddies for our global warming task. We had to pick three challenging words and had to write what we thought it means, the dictionary meaning and we had to make a sentence meaning that word. Here is our Screencastify!

Things about Wasps

In class, my buddy Isabel and I had to write about wasps since Miro and Solly brought a nest to school. Here is Isabel's and my Screencastify!

Glorious Autumn

In class we had to write a haiku. It needs three lines. Line one has 5 syllables, line two has 7 syllables and the last line has 5 syllables. Here is my haiku about autumn!

The Digestive System

In class we have been learning about the digestive system. My buddies were Sophie and Isabel. We made a Google drawing and put some things that happen in your body and made a screencastify. Here is our screencastify!

Swimming Reflection

In class we had to copy a slideshow and write what we do in swimming lessons, what we are learning to do, what we enjoy in swimming, and how we improve. We are reflecting about what we do in swimming lessons. Here is my slideshow of swimming!

Hunting & Fishing

In class we had to write a description about hunting and fishing in present tense. If people weren't at hunting and fishing competition they had to think and look at pictures our teacher took that day. Here is my writing about hunting and fishing and also there is a photo of what we caught.

Hunting & Fishing
As I jump out of the truck, heading towards the trout and eel weighing to weigh our trout, out of the corner of my eye I spot a line of carcasses hanging up on a red and blue truck. As we weigh our dead animals, we have to weigh a hare for the combined weight of animal which could be an eel, goat hare or a possum. Hopefully we win. BEEP! BEEP! Goes the weigher “This is 3.22 kg” says the weigher. That is a big hare.  As I watch the people chuck our hares away I wonder what they do with the hares everyone catches. My friends and I watch the man put our trout on display so everyone can see them. The biggest trout is 8kgs which is massive. They have won.

The smell of the wind lingers up my nose, it smells like death. By looking around and hearing everyone it looks like everyone is trying to say that they got the biggest deer. As I walk over to the marquee to get our number and spot prize I only just notice there are about one hundred people standing and talking looking around like they have never seen such a big competition. We decide to go to the big truck with the deer,chamois and boars. I try to pass everyone to get to the big red and blue truck. As the men open the bright orange fencing they let all the people in to see the dark brown,black and light brown coloured deer and different dead animals. I feel happy and excited about hunting and fishing but quite nervous at the same time, although there is nothing to worry about. By looking at the deer it looks as if it is fresh from watching the rosy red blood trickle out of its mouth to the dirty ground. As I walk over to touch the deer antlers with a sudden touch I feel the warmth rush through me. 

Walking back to the trout I press lightly on one of them and I push my finger down the scales and they feel smooth one way and rough the other way. While I watch the trout I spot wasps and flies entering the fish into the insides laying eggs and eating the fresh flesh of the trout. I look in a chilly bin and I spot an eel twirling around inside trying to slither out.
 This is what I caught: 53 hares, 3 goats and 1 magpie.

The End

The Bellbird

At school, Miro and Solly brought a Bellbird to school. We had to describe about it even though it was dead. We had to flip it onto it's sides so we can describe about it. Here is my writing!


The Bellbird
Today Miro and Solly brought a bellbird to school that got caught in a radiator on the front of their parents car and it sadly died. The Maori name for the bellbird is Korimako. 

The whole school got to see the bellbird. We got to feel the soft deep yellow, green feathers and  underneath the feathers were light grey and they also had a charcoal tail and wings. The bellbirds claws were not as sharp as I thought, but they were pointed. The beak of the bellbird is long and curved and the nostrils are at the end of the beak. Bellbird beaks are curved because the bellbirds drink nectar. The length of the bellbird is roughly 17-18 centimetres long.


I was sad to see that the bellbird had died from the radiator. Question: What is the Maori name for a bellbird? Look for the name up the top and comment on my blog post what the name is.

Wasp Nest

In class, Miro and Solly, two of the students from our class, brought a wasp nest to school and we had to write what it looked,felt and what we thought about it. Here is my description of the wasp nest! 


Wasp Nest
Today, Miro brought a wasp nest to class. He got his dad to pour diesel to poison the nest because wasps are pests. He had been picking raspberries, and had spotted it sitting inside a tyre in the back garden.

The wasps have been chewing up wood to make their wasp nest. The outside of the wasp nest has patterns. When we opened the wasps nest up we only saw three columns, but we only opened it up halfway. Only two wasps survived the diesel attack, while the rest died.

When I felt the wasp nest it felt like old shriveled up leaves. The cells in the wasps nest were shaped hexagonal. Surrounding the wasps nest were roots. 
I saw a wasp grub come out of one of the cells.

In conclusion, I really like how they brought the wasp nest to school for everyone to see.

Swimming Sports

In class we had to write what happened in Midland Line swimming sports in present tense and tried not to put past tense. Here is my Swimming sports writing!

Waiting ,waiting, waiting. Oh no, it’s time to swim, although I am a pretty good swimmer. Number 6 is on the board now, “Let’s go Sophie.”

I feel the rough concrete as I walk over to the queue.“ Jess, Autumn, Areah, Leah and Sophie, all here!” yells the lady. I think everyone is here. I’m in lane three and as I hop on the diving place, I feel like I am at the Olympic Games.

Is it one length of freestyle?  “ON YOUR MARKS, BANG!” I have to go. SPLASH! 1 2 3! Breathe 1 2 3! Breathe! Now I’m getting into the rhythm of freestyle. Suddenly, there’s a lot of confusion, everyone is in front. I need to get my arm more into the water and push it back to get faster. The little waves are pushing me from side to side near the red and white lane ropes and I try to go the other way. As I get closer and closer to the end I touch the wall. Yay! I came first! I really feel like I am in the Olympic games now.

My next race is coming up close, number 14, I have to wait eight races for my next race, but at least the races go by quite fast.  I look over to the whiteboard. Is she writing number 14? As I go back to the queue it feels like lining up at my swimming lessons for my instructor to see what strokes I can do. As I look around there is a variety of coloured swimming togs. Hopefully I  will win this race. As I jump up on the edge of the pool all I hear is cheering and clapping. 1 2 3 GO! As I look to the side I see the racers zoom ahead to the end. As I touch the end I turn around to go back to the other end of the pool to finish two lengths of freestyle, all I have to do is to get to the end and touch. I try to push myself to the limit. As  the level of the water gets deeper and deeper I touch the end. All I can hear is people cheering. Second is fine, at least there is still a heap of races to go through to the end. I wonder if anyone thinks our school pool is big or not?

As the lady bangs the light pieces of wood, there are splashes of water everywhere. This is race number... oh it’s Olivia’s race! “ GO Olivia GO”.  She gets her rhythm of her freestyle and she comes first place. Now my race number is on the whiteboard. I need to get ready for my race and it’s underwater swim. As I get up from my seat I squeeze past everyone to get in line. As I get up onto the diving position all I hear is shouting from metres away. Bang! As my fingertips hit the water I know I am going to lose the race. After halfway through the pool I feel like I can’t get to the end, but with only just centimetres away my breath starts to run out and as I touch the end all I hear is cheering. I start to get a headache from holding my breath for a long time. What? I am at the end and I’ve won! This is the first time I actually got to the end and it was so fun. It’s time to get dressed, but at least I had a good time swimming.

About Me

Mrs Idle shared us a slideshow and she picked us an individual slide to work on for our about me. We had to put all our favourite things we do. Then once we were finished we took a screenshot and then we had to put it on our blog. Here is mine!

Summer Poem

In class we have been learning to do a Poem. We had to write a poem about our summer. We had to start with "Remember that time" and at the second to last sentence we had to put "remember how". Here is my Summer Poem!

Summer
Remember that time

When you went to the beach

And saw the waves hit the rocks and splash everywhere

And you smelt the ocean’s salt water

And as you looked over the sea
you saw the sun’s reflection in the calm water?

Remember how you tasted the KFC
that you ate on the beach
after licking the ice cream first
(because it would’ve melted in the sun).

That was summer.

Remember that time

When you did gymnastics on the warm lawn

And you smelt the soft silky grass

As you did a back walkover?

Remember how you were gazing
at the glistening sun

and listening to wind whistling

while sitting in the sand pit

pushing your tired feet through the warm relaxing sand?

That was summer.

Remember that time

When you sat on the motorbike going down the farm

And when you went to the paddock,
the calves would chase you down the fence line?

Remember how one time your mum sped

over the bump round the corner

on the motorbike

in the hot sun

and you nearly fell off

That was summer.

How to be a Successful Learner

In Room 5 we had to make a slide of how to be a successful learner. Here are some ideas of how to be successful with learning. Here is my slide!

Statistical Investigation

In class we have been learning to do a statistical investigation. 

My Reading Profile

In Room 5 we made a Reading Profile about what we are reading, what our goals are, what book we would want to read next and who our favourite author is.

Jumps In Room 5 in a Minute

In class we are learning to carry out a statistical investigation. I have made a stem and leaf graph.