Aroha island camp/crab finding

 W.A.L.T write about our camp and upload it.

Last week we went to Aroha island camp. We stayed there for  two nights and three days. My favourite part was when my group was on the beach. It was near the mangroves so there were a lot of rocks so we found a lot of crabs, so we were pretty much crab hunting.

This is me helping James, Callen, and Robert building their tent because I already finished my tent. That's why I helped them with their tent. 

   

  

limerick poem

 W.A.L.T upload our limerick poem and write about it.

This week we are doing a funny limerick poem. I could not find any thing funny any way my one is about God of War. God of War is about a boy and the father had to run away because a bad guy named Baldur that almost killed the father and had to scattered the mothers ashes.

What did I learn ?  I learnt that limerick poems are easy to do.

 What did I enjoy ? What I enjoyed was drawing the pictures on my limerick poem. 

What could I improve on ? I could improve on adding more detail in my words.

have you done a funny limerick poem ?     

maitai bay brochure

 W.A.L.T upload our maitai bay brochure and write about it.

last week we did a maitai bay brochure it was about what sea creatures there are and where is maitai bay is in new Zealand.

What did i Learnt ?  What i learnt about is maitai bay is the most proteced by well i don't know. 

What did i find challenging ? it was very confusing because I didn't know for first.

What could I improve on ? I can improve on adding more detail in it.

 Have you been to maitai bay ?  

Kiwi Can week 2 term 4

 W.A.L.T upload a post showing what we learnt in Kiwi Can today.

Today we went to Kiwi Can. We learnt about respect. Our catch phrase was we respect our school, we do it because we are cool. 

Our games were Snap Crackle Pop and So, Ma, Ca, Lo. 

How did I show respect today ? I was saying nice things to people like good job or nice try.

What did you enjoy ? I enjoyed playing the game because it helps you  get fitter

What could I improve on ? I can improve on by getting even fitter.

Do you know what So, Ma, Ca, Lo is and how to play it ?

   

water practise

 

 Our lesson at a big pool was for snorkelling. We are going to matai Bay for snorkelling so we can see the wild life or saltwater wild life and coral. The hardest thing was putting the wet suit on. The man that was teach as was named Oliver.

what did you learn? I learnt that swim suits are very hard to put on.

What did you enjoy? What I enjoyed was swimming in the pool because it is warm.

What is one goal you have to do with your ability in the water? I can learn better at not getting water in my mouth.

Have you done snorkelling before?  

     

need for speed payback

 

Waitangi trip

 W.A.L.T reflect on our class trip.

On Tuesday we were at Waitangi. If you don't know what Waitangi is then I will tell you right now. Waitangi is a place in paihia waitangi treaty grounds. You do walks around the waitangi and look at old staff like boats, kauri tree stamp and carvings. Then we do an codding app called scratch. And then we had something to eat.

What did you enjoy? What I enjoyed was the drive from school to waitangi treaty grounds because I like having a talk to Rusty one of my best friend.

What did you find interesting? What I found interesting is the kauri tree stamp because when Monica Sayed three kauri tree make one waka.

Have you been to waitangi before?

reading activity from today

 

W.A.L.T skim read by playing newspaper bingo. 

Today we were doing newspaper bingo. If you don't know what a newspaper bingo is well I didn't know ether? So my suggestion is search it on google. We looked at an app called iwi kids news on our device. 

What did you enjoy? I enjoyed looking at the article's because some are interesting.

What did you do well? what I did well was searching for article because it is cool to look at it.

Do you know what newspaper bingo?   

   

Kiwi can week 8 term 3

 

W.A.L.T play games and be good role models.

Today this week we went to Kiwi Can. If you don't know what Kiwi Can is it's about where you play games and we do catch phrases. The games that we played today was high tide low tide, impossible connections, and GKQ witch sands for general knowledge questions. The catch phrase was. We are honest we are true we take ownership for what we do. Today we were learning about Accountability it means being honest and saying the truth.      

What did you enjoy? I enjoyed playing the games with my friends because I like hangout with them.

What did you find challenging? What I found challenging is playing high tide low tide, because it was confusing. I wasn't sure what to do. 

Which game was challenging for you?

My geometic art

 

W.A.L.T upload our art work and write about it.

In class we were doing art. The art is called geometric art. Geometric art is an animal made with shapes and all the curved lines are turned into straight lines.   

1: We had to draw or sketch a head or a whole body.

2: Then outline it with a black pen.

3: Fill the animal with shapes by using a ruler. 

4: Then colour your art in.  

 I didn't know what to do it and it was hard to find something to draw but I did a boar.

What did you enjoy? I enjoyed drawing my boar and putting the shapes in.  

What did you do well?  I did well by drawing and colouring.

What can you improve on? I can improve by adding more detail in my art.

Have you done geometric art before?     

My Comma Quiz

W.A.L.T upload it and write about it. 

Last week we were doing a comma quiz to teach little kids to learn where commas go in sentences. It was a true or false questions. Xavier was being a little evil. For example if you get it wrong you then had to  go back on the first question.

What did you enjoy ? I enjoyed making the quiz 

on my slide.

What did you do well ? What I did well was writing my slide quiz.

What can you improve on ? What I can improve on is adding more writing.

Have you did this before ?

   

My step dad Matt

 

 

W.A.L.T upload something from last week or Mrs Hall's art.

Last week I wrote a description about my step dad Matt. In my writing I wrote about what he looks like, his hobbies and his personality.

1: What did you enjoyed: What I enjoyed was writing my descriptive writing. 

2: What did you do well: What I did well was writing my publishing my writing.

3: What could you improve on: What I improve on is and in more descriptive words.

Have you done a descriptive writing?  

        

kiwi can week 3

W.A.L.T write about kiwi can this week 

At kiwi can we were playing traffic lights and stop wake jump clap and our catch frays you say right is right wrong is wrong even if every ones doing it.

What did you enjoyed: I enjoyed playing traffic lights.

 what did you found challenging: I found challenging is playing stop wake jump and clap.

what are the teachers names ?

my writing task for this week

W.A.L.T learn about descriptive little sentences.  

We did little descriptive sentences from last week we did a elephant and a baby.

What did you do well: what I did well was my little sentences.
What could you improve on: what I can improve on is write more descriptive words.
How will you use in your writing: I will try and use descriptive words to describe something. 

Does this baby have autism?          

The start of my inquiry art

WALT upload a learning task and write about them.

For the last couple of days we have been designing and planning a symbol that represents us and our family for our inquiry art. Once we have got a symbol when I done my trace my drawing I will place shells.

1: What did you enjoyed : So far I enjoy drawing the image which is a bull if you can not see.
2: What did you found interesting : What I found interesting is that I did a good job on it.
3: What could you improve on : I can improve on getting good at my writing.
How is this related to me ?    

What I did In Kiwi Can on the first one of term 3

On my first day of Kiwi Can in term 3. We do a catch phrase and then we play two games the games. The games we played are master tag and good side, bad side. Then we all do general knowledge questions. While we are doing GKQ the kiwi caners decide the points.       

my favourite car

matariki art

W.A.L.T upload our art task about it.
Last week I did a star this is how we did it.
1 We had to do pattens in our four stars. 
2 Then we outline it black. 
3 Then we coloured our stars.
4 Then get a black peace of paper. 
5 Then get your stars and glue them on top of each star. 

1 what is your favourite part. My favourite part was drawing the patterns.

2 what did you enjoyed the most. I enjoyed drawing my patterns 

what could you improve on. I can improve on my drawing 

how many stars on my star?
  

The Muddy Paddock

 W.A.L.T about recount writing.

At my place I was on my bike with my step dad and we were doing skids in a paddock with the dogs. We had to write a level three recount writing about what we did at home. 

Reflection
1. What did you enjoy? I enjoyed writing about my recount. 

2. What could I improve on? I can improve on making better writing.    

 What type do you think my quad bike is?   

Kiwi Can

  We go to a thing called Kiwi Can.
At Kiwi Can we do catch phrases to learn things to focus on.
At kiwi Can we play games. Mostly we play games that involve getting out.
We play GKQ which stands for general knowledge questions.       
At the end people get rewards and you are called Kiwi Caners.

Lego Master

My Space Art Work

W.A.L.T We are learning about space and art.

I did my space art very well because I took my time drawing it.  
I can improve by being good at drawing and learning more.
My favourite part was drawing it and making my background.

 Can you guess my favourite colours by looking at my art work ? 

      

My Favorited Animal

1 I enjoyed learning about my favourite animal. It is called a Gila monster. I enjoyed finding facts about it like the size, weight, lifespan, and litter size.
2 What I found interesting is that they can lay 13 egg at a time.  The Gila monster is 20 inches long.
3 I could write more about Gila monsters like what they do and where they live and how fast they are.
Where does a Gila monster live do you know ?       

Maths

I.A.L.T  we have been macing decimal numbers. 
I have in enjoyed doing macing decimal numbers because I am good at maths.
What i found interesting is it is fun doing decimal numbers.
Be better at maths like decimals.
What are decimals ?      

Online Reading Book

W.A.I.T upload  our tasks and write about them.
This is my online reading book. We did this in lock down as well to do writing and stuff.
We did this so miss also doesn't have to try and look for our work.

Wreckfest

Minecraft

Math Online Book

W.A.L.T upload our tasks and write about them.




This was our  online maths book we used over lock down, so miss Thompson could see all of our math work. Over lock down we had to learn to be smart with our devices, and couldn't really do it on paper otherwise our teacher couldn't see it and give us feedback. If we did it on paper we had to take a photo and upload it.

Do you think my maths is easy ?

Cancel the Invasion

I read the story.
Its kind of good. I didn't finish the whole story but I read the first part and half of the middle part.
I don't have a favourite part because I am not good at reading.
The author could add more characters into the story like the kids family.

Do you think it is scary ?

  

Word Search

I.A.L.T create a blog post about my reading task. 

Today we made a word search of Cancel The Invasion I did this with Beau , Regan ,Brook , Seth , Tawa and my teacher aid Amanda. I got 11 words in 30 minutes. It was fun doing the word search. 

Cancel The Invasion Story Board

I.A.L.T upload our writing tasks to my blog and write about it

Today for reading we read a story called Cancel The Invasion. It is about 3 kids one girl and 2 boys. They we're playing cricket in the park until the ball hit on a guys head. The kids thought he  looked like a alien and he thought they were different people. He thought she was a vampire and he thought one of the boys was a wizard and he thought the other boy was a warrior so then he sat under a tree on a bench and he saw a wizard who turned into a hawk.

Philae news

hi my name is Danny maw I'm 11 years old in new Zealand at kaitaia

Free writing

 

Where do I live ?

W.A.L.T uploading a free writing task 

My name is Rez

Story Board Bok Choy

 

I did a story board about a story called Bok Choy. I choose the poses of the people. It is our last day of about Bok Choy. It was fun making a story board of Bok Choy. You can make the backgrounds different like the sky and the the colours on like pots and and all sorts.  

Who are the characters ? Can you name them ?     

Ah Sum's Note

W.A.L.T upload our reading tasks and write about them.

What does the words say in my letter? 

This is a note from Ah Sum.  So in the story he saved a boy name Jacob - a boy on a rock in the sea and he took him to his hut and Jacobs mum came to his hut to take him home where he belongs.  Below is his letter from me. Do you like it?

                                                                                         

Ah Sum's hut

What does the door lead to ?

I made a google drawing of a hut. I used  poly lines and then to colour click and choose a colour.  I put in a bunker door and grass and rocks and a sun. and a cloud and smoke coming out of the bunker and a bear on top and a lookout and two people. One of them on the  lookout and one by the door.  A clothes line is connected on the tree and a rock. The books is name is Bok Choy.     

Poem

Who is knuckles ?

My poem is about sonic the Hedgehog. Sonic is my brothers favourite show. I got sonic and tails. Tails is the yellow fox sonic's  hobbies are run as fast as he can sails hobbies are technology i think im pretty shore thats what he is good at is technology.   

dog man

this book is from Dav pilkey  name dog man it is a comic book the one that i have is called dog man lord of the fleas it has 8 big chapters or there is 226 pages   they have four  characters  are dog man cat kid  80-HD and petey  the robot and the villains are crunky piggy and bub .

story broad

what are the names of my two pig hunting dogs in the story broad ?

to get a  background you go to the scenes and if you what a forestry or something press out doors and the animals and the people you press characters there are people animals sea animals and all sorts of characters animals have different poses like a lion can roar a lion can sleep a lion can run thats all i know.     

favourite youtuber

My favourite you tuber is brave wilderness he goes all around the world for example Australia america japan and all sorts of county's   and continents what he does there is find animals like lions hippos reptiles elephants and all sorts he is 38 years old his five feet and 11 inches he is on discovery on TV.       

 

diary entre

how would you feel if we were in world war 3?

if we was in world war i will be sacred if i got shot dead and never return or if my step dad or my dad from Australia if there was i hope that the war doesn't be more then 5 years like 7 years. i am glade that there is no world war 3.

anzac day

how long was world war 1 ?

i learnt that nz and Australia came together in 1915 fraught for 8 months where 1000s of lives were lost  and the official holiday was made in 1916 on the 25th of April as that was the day they started their fight together as one

Anzac ted day

what did the people at war eat at the time and how ?


on the 25th of April me and ted stood at the end of our driveway at 6am and we remembered all the people who lost their lives at war
we then had a breakfast with bacon and eggs all of us sat down together and mum told me about her granddad who was in world war 2 and great grandad who was in world war 1 he passed away at 103 when mum was only young he lived in kaitaia grandad Arthur passed away when mum was 11 they were hard working people

in the war their were camps set up everywhere and bunkers to help protect themselves from gun fire and to stop and have a 5 second breather and maybe some tin food and water to drink

we always need to think of everyone who serviced our country lest we forget

my drawing

they live in mexico in the north west of mexico in the desert they eat small mammals lizards frogs insects carrion's birds and birds eggs   


where does the Gila monster live?

vocab 2

gila monster

                           it told me about facts about the animal [for example] the size of them

                          how big they are how many eggs they can lay at a time and they incubate 

                           them for four months. 

                         

                          I want to know where abuts do they live in mexico I want  to know about the                                         difference  of a female and a male and different types of Gila monsters 

so does anyone know how many eggs they lay at one time? 

rising seas

WALT: create a quality blog post that explains out learning.

There are the answers to my comprehension questions. 

1. Because the climate is changing so the ice caps are melting earth is going through its 100 year cycle

2 Neither better or worse yes they are rising but its in earth's cycle they are higher at the moment because the earth is warmer so ice is melting one pole is melting where the other pole is freezing at the moment

4. as the sea rises the sea takes out the banks sand which then if homes are on or below sea level it can cause flooding and other natural disasters

5.2003 20

6. Australia goes years without rain which causes drought then they have a lot of rain all at once which causes flooding and damage


7.there is no physical way i can prevent this as the world has a natural cycle and its warm at the moment so the ice is melting only thing i can do is clean up after myself which i do

Vocab

Vicious A dog fighting another dog is called being vicious or someones tongue can be vicious for example when you say something mean and hurtful.


My mum was vicious when she said to Matt that she wasn't going to cook his dinner, he cried.


Carnivorous they are meat eating mammals that feast on meat

Me and my family are carnivorous tonight because we are having steak for dinner


Herbivorous they are fruit and vegetable eating mammals.
My best friend named jack is a herbivore and his family to.


Stealth you can be sneaky and hiding
Tigers can be camouflage in long dry grass to jump on another mammal.


Impossible it's something that you don't know a clue what it is
This animal is really really hard to find i have know clue where it is i give up.



Camfuzeing i do not get it
I do not get this because it makes know sense at all.

Research about Australia

They have had a drought for three to four years because they hardly get any rain alot of australia had bush fires over the last few months Australin animals homes got destroyed by the fires homes trees everything also alot of animals have lost their lives from the bush fires

The eucalyptus trees never died the brunt out and then grow back better than ever before last month austrlia had great rains and now alot of the land has grass and the trees are all growing back fast



1. where does my dad live

2. what is the name of the big mountain in the middle of Australia

3. i hate the sound of bats screeching at night

4. i hate the heat from the sun

5. i hate Lizard making me jump

6. what are the most famous animal is Australia

7. what is the most dangerous animal in Australia

zentangle animal art.

       

W.A.I.T  we are learning to do zentangle animals.
                                                                                                           

1: you can ether traced the animal or do the printed vershen.

 

2: you do patterns in the zentangle animal.

3: and you vivid the patterns.

4: then you cut it out.

5: dye the background.

6: and glue your animal on your background.

maths problem solving

WALT solve subtraction problems by going back through a tidy ten.

I am in the squares math group and for the last few days we have been learning how to go back through a tidy ten to solve subtraction problems. This is when you take away the ones column to make a tidy then, then take off the remaining number.
Here is a picture of how to do it above.

Challenge yourself and solve these two problems below.
1. 47 - 8 =
47 - 7 = 40
40 - 1 = 39

2. 67 - 9 =