What Christmas Means to Me

What Christmas means to me - it is spending time with family, having a good time, eating delicious food and fishing.    

                                             

Thank You Letter for Camp

Last week we went to Tui Ridge in Rotorua for camp. We did some fun activities like slingshot paintball, high ropes, rock climbing, laser tag then Nerf Wars and very last Spotlight and Survival. I liked slingshot paintball the most because it was both fun and painful!

This was my first time on camp. Have you ever been on camp?

This week we have been writing letters to the people who helped us. I wrote mine to one of the bus drivers.

40 Campion Rd

Gisborne 

5.11.2020

Dear Don,

Thank you for getting us to camp. We had so much fun. 

We had fun at all of the places and we had amazing food like sandwiches, chips and water.    

 

Thank you so much for making me feel safe on the trip when you drove us everywhere. I hope you enjoyed being our driver. 

Thank you.

Mā te wā

Savenaca

Mrs Marigold's Menagerie

For Reading our book was about a lady with her pets and her house was different to everybody elses because their houses were all the same. Some people said her house was the centipede's leg. They tried to get rid of her by sending a letter to the mayor. The mayor came into the neighbourhood and went to Mrs Marigold's house. WHen he opened the gate and went inside, he saw Mrs Marigold and some kids sitting on the steps. He decided that he wouldn't get rid of her because her garden was a relaxed place and he felt like he got away from all his hard work. Our task was to go tp page 24 and make the billboard to tell the neighbours her garden was protected.

Camp Rules and Camp Goals

Next week on Monday is Labour Day and then we have four days of camp. We are going to Tui Ridge in Rotorua. We are going to do laser tag, indoor rock climbing, flying fox, gondola rides, the luge and heaps more. I am feeling excited because it's kind of like a field trip but we will be staying there.

Today, we set some Camp Goals. It was hard to think of them because I stopped in the middle and couldn't think of anything more. The Camp Rules are like our school rules - respect yourself, respect others and respect the environment. We just thought what that would look like, sound like and feel like at camp.

Pop Art

 Today we were doing pop art for Cybersmart. First we went to our room one class site, then you clicked on the pop-Art link , linked below. Then we took a photo of ourselves and loaded it to the Pop-Art link. I choose scribbled ,sketch 2, pen and pastel art effects . After that I saved it to my drive, when you have saved all four photos open them in a google drawing to space them out and resize them into a square. Here is my finished pop art.

R.E. Challenge

 This week we have an R.E challenge. We had to create a poster about our Term 4 value. It is service. This is when you do things for other people without being asked.

Here is my poster

Te Wiki o te Reo Maori

Last week was Te Wiki o te Reo Maori. We used Book Creator to make books to help people that don't know Maori. I chose to do Maori colours. We also used audio in case they didn't know how to pronounce it. At the start I didn't really know what I was doing because we have never used Book Creator before. At the end I knew what I was doing.

Click on the picture below to read my book.

Maara Kai

We had a Maara Kai competition which was like MasterChef and everyone in my class was doing it. Willie, Shone, Sam and Ezra were in my group. We made spaghetti bolognese and meatballs with a mint water drink. I chopped up flat leaf parsley and squished all the meatball mixture together. We used kawakawa leaves because they taste like pepper. The food was delicious. There were two judges who tasted our food. and like it then they tested the others and after at we won bye explaining our dish and the taste. 

Speeches 2020

We have been doing persuasive writing for our speeches. We will say these in front of the class next week. It was easy to write because I didn't make many mistakes. It was tricky putting the Screencastify on my blog because I couldn't remember how to do it. Miss Mikayla, Catalina and Mrs Naden helped me with it.

I strongly believe being able 
to control plants is the best 
superpower because you can 
grow food quickly, you can make 
the vines come out of the ground 
and you could make trees grow quickly.
If you can control plants you can 
grow them quickly. This would solve 
hunger and starvation. You could 
also sell the fruits and earn some money.
If you could control plants you can 
make the vines come out of the ground 
you can slow down bad guys. 
It would also be great to climb up the 
plants and play. 
If you could control plants then you 
can make a big tree to climb up and 
make a treehouse. It would be fun 
to play in.
So hopefully I've convinced you that 
being able to control plants is the best 
super power. How would you feel if you 
were playing in that tree?

Here is my pepeha in Fijian. I will say this at the start of my speech. I didn't record my face because I was too shy.













I strongly believe being able 
to control plants is the best 
superpower because you can 
grow food quickly, you can make 
the vines come out of the ground 
and you could make trees grow quickly.
If you can control plants you can 
grow them quickly. This would solve 
hunger and starvation. You could 
also sell the fruits and earn some money.
If you could control plants you can 
make the vines come out of the ground 
you can slow down bad guys. 
It would also be great to climb up the 
plants and play. 
If you could control plants then you 
can make a big tree to climb up and 
make a treehouse. It would be fun 
to play in.


So hopefully I've convinced you that 
being able to control plants is the best 
super power. How would you feel if you 
were playing in that tree?

August Student Reflection Newsletter

This is our August Reflection. Every month we reflect on our learning. Have you ever done a Reflection  Newsletter?

 

Sacraments of Initiation

 We are learning about the Sacraments of Initiation. They are Baptism, Confirmation and Eucharist. We had to add a symbol and a ritual for each for them. The symbol I chose were a candle for God's light, a dove for the Holy Spirit and the bread and wine for Jesus' blood and body. It was easy to find the Sacraments of Initiation because they are written in our classroom on the board and on our Word Wall. I liked searching the pictures because there were lots to choose from. It was kind of fun making the slide all at the same time because people kept changing everyone's background.

Moa Report

 For the past two weeks we have been researching an extinct animal from New Zealand. I chose the moa because it looked like a fun one to do.

My success criteria was to use some short sentences, some sentences with joining words (and, because) and to use some sentences with extra information. I think I did all of these.

What did you learn about the moa from reading my report?

Moa were from the Dinornithiformes family.

It had rough feathers which were brown and black. It looked like an ostrich because it had a small head, long neck, large body, strong legs and no wings and it could run fast. The females were bigger than the males. It was 3.6 meters tall and it lived in the wet brush grassland and forest. His diet was made up of small stones, pebbles and plant parts and twigs and shrubs. The maori people killed moa for its meat and made fish hook jewelry from its bones. They also cut down its habitat and ate all its eggs.

Maths Times Table Check-up

This term we have been learning our times tables. Today we had a check-up.  I have been learning my 2x and 5x. Red means you got it wrong green means I got it right Orange means I didn't answer in time  

I enjoyed the maths times tables because it was challenging.

I  found it tricky to answer because the timer was short.

I found out I still need to learn a lot of times tables.

Faith GIF

 Listen to my learning reflection here 

Here is my GIF

Matariki Star

This week we made a Matariki star.

I found it hard to punch a hole at the top of the star.

I found it easy to glue the star together.

Matariki breakfast

This morning we had a shared breakfast to celebrate Matariki. It was the best and most amazing breakfast ever. There were soft fluffy pancakes, golden syrup, crispy bread and golden fried eggs. It was fun and delicious.

I enjoyed everything.

Pattern Ball - P.E.

We are learning to communicate and work as a team.

We worked out the pattern by helping each other and reminding each other who went.

Ball 1 - Chest pass

Ball 2 - Bounce pass

Ball 3 - rugby pass

To communicate we had to call each other's name.

I found it easy to making the pattern at the start.

I found it hard when the ball hit each other in the air.

Pattern Ball video.

Hail mary

We are learning the Hail mary sign language.
We found it tricky to do the actions.
We found it easy to record the video

My digital learning object show that I can make a video. 

Gravity

In Writing we are doing explanations.

We are learning to use paragraphs.

I found it easy to write about the experiments.

I found it tricky to spell.

Next time I would write more.

Gravity is a force that keeps us on the ground when we jump.Its like invisible super glue, you can’t see it but it's always there.Boinks are like chinese finger traps, but they're stringy and fun. Dropper poppers actual self. Force is an action acting against an object.We did Dropper popper in class. We dropped them and then the ping pong ball went up into the air.Gravity brought it back down.The boinks went up when you squeeze them.Then went down.No matter where the ball goes it's going down                                

Blinging my Blog

Today we are learning how to change to the new blogger, and design the background of our blogs. It was fun and exciting'  the textures were colourful, I choose a mixture of colours because it looked colourful and I really liked the colours. We learnt how to change the header and background to our Koru art.

Here is a screenshot of what my blog looks like now.

Before I changed my header