What Respect Means

In class we have been having problems and the principle had to come in two times because the first time it just kept happening again so he came in and said if this happens again he'll be taking our fun day. So our task was to make a biteable (at first we didn't know what it was) about respect and what it means.

But firstly we had to make a google doc typing what respect means to us and it had to be really thoughtful so we're going to be doing it in class and in the playground aswell! Then we had to createa biteable saying all of it!

I really enjoyed making it on biteable because it was my first time and I thought it would be hard to use but it was actually simple and easy. And I didn't really find anything diffcult/hard to do because the task was simple!

This is my biteable!

Respect on Biteable.

And the winner is..

WALT: combine prior and new knowledge to come up with new ideas

For reading our group 'Sophie' we read a book called "And the winner is..." which was about four friends having a competition which was who could use the lawn mower to cut the grass the fastest.  

So for our activity we had to design/create a new lawn mower which would be more fun for kids so they could mow the lawn! I enjoyed designing because it was fun coming up with new ideas!

This is my lawnmower

Come and Join.. Summer Learning Journey!!

Today, Emma who is part of the summer learning journey team has come and told us more about summer learning journey so what we had to do is to make a poster advertising people to join it! It has all the facts about it. Like when it ends and when it starts and other things like that. 

Come and Join the Summer Learning Journey Programme!

This is a click to their website: SLJ

This is my poster!

Market Day

For this term our school has been planning to do another market day! So our class has been choosing of what to sell for market day, we have been coming up with lots of ideas like waffles, slushies, spiders, pie face, water balloon throwing, bracelets and more. So we had a good discussion (profits, price and a lot more) about what we were going to sell for market day. Other classes will also be selling stuff.

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Our class will be selling: spiders (fizzy drink with ice cream on top), pie face (you can play the game), waffles, sponge throwing (throw sponges at a certain person), briquettes (things you could put in your fireplace) and lollies in jar (you guess how many are in the jar and if you guess it right you get the lollies. 

In class we have been put into groups of four to plan and make posters about the certain item that we're going to be selling. For our planning we have to include the price, profit and the things that we will be needing after that we had to make our own posters, but we we're still in groups. So we could have four different posters going around. For our posters we had to include the price and a sentence to go with what your selling. 

This is my poster that I did!

My Resloution For Christmas

WALT: Recall how Mary heard the word of God and acted it.

For our RE lesson we have been learning about Mary and for lesson three we had to write a resolution for Christmas, which was to think about something good that we can do for Christmas, and be like the Disciple of Christ. 

Then we had to design a poster putting what we're going to do for Christmas. 

I enjoyed doing the whole thing because it was fun decorating and mostly just thinking about being grateful, and I didn't really find anything diffcult because I enjoyed it!

This is my poster.

My Mural!

WALT: combine pior and new knowledge to come up with new ideas

In our reading group we have been reading a passage called "watch this space." It is about a big wall which is plain and grey and kids draw their ideas on a piece of paper and a artist paints their ideas on the wall. 

So our activity was to make our OWN mural which is like a design on a wall. So we could make anything like a pattern. And we also had to make a flowchart on how to do it, and what you will need!

Something I found diffcult was thinking of what to draw but then I just added shapes and stuff and it turned out to this! 

I really enjoyed making it because you could add anything and you could be creative about it.

This is my Mural!

Christmas Acrostic Poems!

We have been learning about different types of writing this year. So for the past weeks we had to choose a type of writing (category/genre.) For example persuasive, narrative, poems and more. So we had to pick one each day and post it on our blog. I choose to do a poem we could choose any type like a diamante or a acrostic and more!

I chose to do an acrostic poem about Christmas (because it's almost Christmas). But instead of just writing one sentence I came up with sentences so it would be more interesting and not boring, I also came up with some words to do so I didn't just do one word and then I'm finished I wrote about four long acrostic poems! 

These are all my poems!!

- Christmas

Christmas is a special holiday because it’s Jesus’s birthday!

Heaps of presents being given out

Red and white is Santa’s colors
It is a day when you get to spend time with your family

Santa Claus gives out presents when it’s Christmas but only to good kids

The kids all scream happily as they open their presents!

Mostly everyone celebrates Christmas

A lot of people say “Merry Christmas” when it’s Christmas time 

Snowflakes fall down from the sky as Christmas begins

-Snow

Snowflakes softly landing on the ground

No eating the snowflakes!

On the snow making a snow angel

Walking on the hard ice that used to be snow

- Decorations

Decorating for Christmas 

Everyone helps to decorate around the house

Constantly putting Christmas lights all around the house

Outstanding decorations that was everyone did

Reindeers being put on the Christmas tree

Always helping to decorate

Taking the star and putting it up on the Christmas tree

Icy decorations being put on the Christmas tree

Only the good decorations get put around the house

Newly put decorations on the Christmas tree

So much options to choose from

- Merry Christmas!

Making Christmas more joyful by saying “Merry Christmas!”

Everyone always says “Merry Christmas”
Running around the whole house greeting family
Rushing around greeting family while trying to make presents

Yay! It’s Christmas “Merry Christmas”

Christmas is in December and when it is Christmas, you always need to say “Merry Christmas”
Heaps of people greeting other people

Running around the town greeting other people
In the house underneath the Christmas tree while your family greets you

Saying “Merry Christmas” all day long
Talking about Christmas
Merry Christmas is what you say when it is Christmas

Always saying the greeting whenever it’s Christmas
Santa saying “Merry Christmas” to his elves

Why isn't the world covered in poop?

WALT: critically analyse texts. 

This week we did something a little different for reading. We had to learn about why the world isn't covered in poop, so we had to go onto a certain site to look at all the information and videos and the next thing we had to do is either create a google doc or a google slide. I made a slide and then we had to do activities, so we had to post three of the activities.

This is my main slideshow of the activities that I've done.


This was my first activity that I did. I had to answer these questions:
How big is a Dung Beetle? (long)
Why do you find lots of Dung Beetles on the African plains?

This is the second activity that I had to do which was to create a picture of how dung beetles move their ball of dung (poop). We also had to add labels and add some information. 

This is my last activity which was to write about a dung beetle's physical features I decided to do mine's on mindmup!

The TRUE story of Hansel and Gretel

Last Friday, our class and some other classes from our school was lucky enough to see the ballet performance "Hansel and Gretel" we only got to see half of it when Hansel and Gretel were going to the gingerbread house, because the real bit was going to be for two hours but it was one hour because we had to get to school.

So for this week we had to make our own version of Hansel and Gretel since there are a lot of versions and the one that we saw (ballet performance) was a bit different to what we expected and so, we could make the ending different or anything different we could also add plot twists which could make the story seem more interesting, and we could also make it so it's different perspectives.

I found it a bit difficult to make the story different because I had no idea how to make it my own version but then I thought of a way to make it seem really interesting! I enjoyed making my story seem intersting with adding all of the plots twists and different perspectives.

This is my story.
(It's not finished yet but I will be finishing it)

“Hansel did you leave a pile of bread crumbs?” 

“Yeah”

“Now, how about if dad finds us?” 

“Don’t think so let’s keep going.” 

“Hansel, look a cool gingerbread house!”

“Well..I am feeling a bit hungry, let’s go inside?”
“I guess”

I need to see if Hansel and Gretel want bread. “Hansel, Gretel?” hm, why aren’t they replying?
Maybe I'll just see if there- What!? There not here..maybe they just went outside, yeah! I’ll go look
I guess. “Hansel? Gretel?” There not here..wait! There’s bread crumbs maybe I could follow it..

I opened the door quietly as I could so no one would catch me,
I wondered if anyone was here anyways I thought about what mum always said
“Never talk to strangers” but no one would be here right like I mean it looks very empty anyways.
I walked in and the house was very dirty It was so different to the outside everything was rusty
and it almost looks like if a witch lived here but I didn’t mind, I was really hungry but then suddenly
the door opened and made a little squeaky sound. I was afraid and quickly ran behind Hansel in fear. 

“What are you kids doing here!?” 

“W-we need some help!” Hansel yelled

“Eh! No need to yell I could get you some food.” 

“Psst, Hansel remember what mum said?”

“Well we don’t want to starve to death right?” Whispered Hansel

“Right..” whispered Gretel

“Well, I'll be right back to get you some food.”

I looked a Gretel and said “Everything’s going to be okay, she looks nice.”
But Gretel looked away and headed straight for the door I didn’t want to be
here alone and before I even knew what I was doing I grabbed her arm
and hugged her I knew she liked hugs and it would probably persuade
her to stay here with me. I stopped hugging her and she said “Fine, but promise that we’ll be safe?”
I didn’t reply for a second but then I said “yes, promise!” so after I said that the lady came back with
a lot of food, it was mostly dessert but I didn’t mind.

“Here you go make sure to finish it all.” said the stranger 

“Okay then.” Hansel said

Couple of hours later, Hansel ate a lot while Gretel only finished one plate.
Hansel began to get fat, but he didn’t care all he cared about was eating soon later
after five plates he fell asleep right on the chair, Gretel did too.

“Hansel! Wake up.” Yelled Gretel

“What What!” 

“Your in a cage, and you promised me that we’ll be safe but you lied!” Shouted Gretel 

“SHH! I’m sorry look. I thought we could trust her..” Whispered Hansel

“Now she’s going to cook you alive, because you ate a lot of food!” 

“W-What..how do you know!?” 

“Uhh..what do you mean?” 

“HOW DO YOU KNOW ALL OF THIS!?” yelled Hansel

“H-heh, I don’t know anything I swear. It was a lucky guess!!” 

“Your not Gretel are you…?” 

“Of course I'm not!” 

“Who are you?”
“You can call me Ketel!”
“W-Wait your our long lost sister!” yelled Hansel

“Yes now I can finally get my revenge!” 

“What have you done with Gretel!” 

“Don’t worry I just thrown her back in the woods.” 

“WHAT!” 

“Eh, now let me just turn on the oven..” 

“Huh?” Why am I back in the woods and Hansel..NO! He’s still in there with the stranger,
I need to go save him what if he’s in danger? but how am I going to get back, there’s
no breadcrumbs and I can’t even see the gingerbread house..wait.. 

“DAD!” 

“Gretel!” 

“I’m sorry dad, we just wanted to see the magical forest you were talking about.”
“Magical? Haha! It was just a joke.”
“Oh…”

“Where’s Hansel?”

“HANSEL! He’s in danger. The gingerbread house!”
“Why!?”
“Well we went in the gingerbread house and then we met a lady that gave us a lot
of food but then Hansel began to get fat and then I woke up here and I don’t know
what happened next but he’s in danger!!”

“Gretel! Take a deep breath..” 

“Sorry, but I don’t know where the gingerbread house is!” said Gretel taking a deep breath

“Don’t worry, let's just keep walking straight.” 

What am I going to do, Gretel might be in more danger than me how about if she’s thrown in
the lake!? I’m going to be cooked and she’s going to be drowned!? No..no...no! I knew it
I should have just trusted her. Wait..Is that key on top of the cage? Hmmm maybe be I could..grab it. 

“HEY, what are you DOING?” Shouted Ketel

My Own House Bus

WALT: combine pior and new knowledge to come up with new ideas

For this weeks reading task we had to do another synthesis questions, relating to the book were reading called "Breakfast on the bus" it's about a grandad, a boy and a dog who all have their breakfast in a house bus that grandad lives in. And the problem is that grandad and the boy thinks that Five the dog swallowed his hearing aid but it was on the seat the whole time.

So we had two tasks to choose from. The first one was to either create something that would stop Five from eating another things than food, the next task was to create a house bus that you'd live in! I did the second task!

My idea was to make things that you'd usually have in a house but not all the things like a toilet! 

This is my house bus!

Habitat For Eels

WALT: combine prior and new knowledge to come up with new ideas. 

This week for reading our group has been reading a new passage called "The Tame Eels Of Anatoki" It's about this girl who has been feeding eels for over fifty years and now everybody in now feeding the eels. 

So for our activity we had to do the synthesis question again. And so we had to create a new habitat for the eels so people could go and see them and even play with them. We could use a google drawing to do that, I made mine with it. And we had to explain it and also use labels to show what's it's for and how it's going to be use!

This is my google drawing!

Penguin Hospital

So today we are reading a non-fiction, text about a penguin hospital which mostly penguins go there and birds and dogs as well, so we are still doing the synthesis question instead of making a information web. So for today I have to desgin or make something to protect penguins from dogs so this is what I have made!

The Mousetrap

In class for reading we have been doing informations webs but this time we had to create something else. It was to make a mousetrap! (for my group) we have been reading a fiction text called "The mousetrap" so instead of doing a information web we had to make a mousetrap, we could do it on anything I choose to do mine on a google drawing. 

When we are making the mousetrap it shouldn't harm the mouse it should just keep it trapped.

This is my mousetrap!

Come and Learn My Culture!

WALT: Investigate cultures and traditions within the class. 

In class we have been learning cultures and traditions and so we had to create and DLO about our culture (mine is the Philippines) which we had to include: family traditions, family recipe, national flower, traditional song folk tale and anthem. But if we didn't have one of those we didn't have to include them. 

What I enjoyed about this was making the whole thing because I get to say things about my culture!

What I found difficult was my family tradition because I had to ask my parents about it and the recipe.  

This is my DLO! 

Here are some questions!
Q: Where do you come from? 

Q: What's your family traditon?

Q: Would you do this if you would then why? 

Farmer Chas And His Dogs

WALT: Increase speed when unpacking sentences using ITTM.

In class we had to do another information web again, for another passage. I'm reading "Farmer Chas and his dogs." I choose to do mine on a mindmup again!

So we had to do a mindmup (but you can choose to do it on anything) about the information that we learnt in the story. We were still reading a non-fiction passage which is a real story. 

This is my information web!

Stop, Slow, Go!

WALT: Share what we explored with whanau.

Last term the school was learning about exploration. So last term we were looking at acids and bases and then experiments.

We were put into groups of three and we got to choose an any experiment to do from the four experiments to share to our parents for the celebration of learning! Our group choose the volcano one. This is the method of the experiment; Put dishwashing liqud into the cup then the food colouring and baking soda into the cup. Slowly start pouring the vinegar into the cup and then...STAND BACK!!

This was a first try we were trying to make it look like the a traffic light from the colours. But it was a fail and it ended up looking like diarrhea!! And it didn't really fizz much.

This was our group's second try it was much better than our first try and it also fizzed more and the colour was also much better and it didn't look like diarrhea..

This was my group at the celebration of learning day with all our stuff ready!

Last of all this is our group's slideshow it has all the information about the experiment, what we learnt and so on!

What I enjoyed about this was doing the experiment because even though it seems boring it was actually really fun but it was quite messy..

Learn my Taonga!

WALT: Define and identify our own 'Taonga'

In IL (Integrated Learning) we just started learning what Taonga is, if you don't know what it is, it's something that is very precious to you like treasure that belongs to you. But it doesn't always has to be an object, for example it could be for family, friends, country and more. 

So then after we learnt what it was we had a task which was to make google drawing or either draw on paper. But I choose to do it on google drawing because it was easier for me. So then we had to show what our Taonga is with pictures no words only pictures! We could do how much we wanted because it was our Taonga! 

I choose the two flags which one represents my country (Philippines) which is the blue and red one. 

And one represents the New Zealand flag. The reason why I choose this because those two countries are VERY valuable to me because in Philippines that's where I was born and in New Zealand that's where I live! 

I  choose the cross because Im Christian and I believe in God. And I would feel very offended if someone said something really bad about it because that's what I believe!

I also put in the three people which represents my family, the reason I choose this is because their my family of course but because their very precious to me and they also care for me very much. And their the reason why i'm alive on this earth! And they always make me smile!

I also choose the box full of hearts which are going out of the box, I choose this image instead of a heart because it shows my love for my friends and family it's also like i'm giving each one of them love.

I choose the symbol with the two people because it represents my best friends who care for me and because they remind me of my family. 

The last one I choose was a teddy bear, the reason why I choose that because it's actually very precious to me even though it's just a 'stuffed animal'. I also had it when I was five years old. So that's a lot of years that I have kept the bear and I still have it!!!

Anyways this is my google drawing! 

What's your Taonga?

Free Range Hens - Information Web

WALT: Increase speed when unpacking sentences using ITTM. 

It's term 4, and we are doing reading! So for this we had to read a passage which is a non-fiction text called "Happy Hens" but we had to call our information web "Free Range Hens" because they are. 

So I decided to do an information web on mindmup. This time it was pretty different because we had to put information not like the 6 elements which are: feelings, outcome, characters, settings, action and problem. We had to just add information about the passage. 

 This is my information web!

3 Famous People in the early Christian Community

WALT: Identify significant people in the early Church and explain their roles in the community. 

Some weeks ago, for RE we were learning something new. It was about the Church, and we were up to lesson two, which was about famous people who were in the early Christian Community. And we had to read about six people who are called; Peter, Lydia, Aquila and Priscilla, Stephen, Phoebe and Paul. Then after we had read all of them we had to choose three people to write about. I choose Stephen, Aquila and Priscilla and Paul. Because there stories were intresting!

Then we had to use animaker telling all the facts about them. 

Like what was there role in the Church, and how did they help the Church and also how they were in important in the Church.

This is my video! (We had to screencastify it!)