Hot spots.

 W.A.L.T Review the reading strategies that we have learnt this term.

This we we have been doing hot spots here is my hot spot!

Writing

W.A.L.T Write a narrative

The day the children would never go through short cuts again.

Once upon a time Me and my Friends Claudia, Dakota ,Olive. were going somewhere. But when we were walking we found the forest and it said do not enter but we didn't lisen cause we thought it would be a shortcut to where we were going to. So we went through the forest. Some of my friends thought it would be really scary and a slender man would pop out but me and Claudia didn't believe them until.. This big creepy black and white clothed guy comes out from behind a tree.. We all scream ¨AHHHH¨. Wait.. if he's been behind the tree the whole time that means.. ¨HE'S BEEN FOLLOWING US KNOW WE KNOW WHY IT SAID DO NOT ENTER!¨ We all just keep walking and not thinking about the black and white clothed person we just thought was an old man going for a walk. So we took care of walking. Where nearly there! But the black and white clothed man walks out of nowhere and says `` Peek a boo I found u´´ Claudia says  It cant be it can't!! ITS SLENDER MAN!!!´´No it's not we all yell with fair. No little girls, it's me, a slender man.. We all scream the loudest we have ever screamed to maybe signal someone to tell them that we are in trouble. But we could not scream loud enough. We all ran as fast as we can and than we saw light and we all said  YAY we found a exit. And then we never ever went that way again.

Reading- Spelling work

W.A.L.T Review the reading strategies that we have learnt this term.

This week for hot spot we had to make up a hole work using those letters. The word ended up to be celebration.

Reading-Muppets

W.A.L.T  Review the reading strategies that we have learnt this term.

Today i had to fill out this Muppet reading slide! We had to write when the Muppet song was made and what year. Here is mine!

R.E-Advent.

W.A.L.T Understand advent.

Yesterday we had to write 3 things about what advent is, Here are the things I write!

 

Positive Thoughtful Helpful blog comments!- Reading.

W.A.L.T Review the reading strategies that we have learnt this term.

For reading we had to write 2  Positive Thoughtful Helpful blog comments! Here are my blog comments!

Comment 1:

Hello Lexi,

I like how you chose a heart for your symmetrical art. Maybe next time you could make it a little bit wider or bigger! What was your favourite part about learning about symmetrical shapes!

From, Paige

Comment 2:

Hello Claudia,

I really like the dragon masterpiece you made! I like how you based the theme on a movie! I also like how you explained how it was made and what you have to do!

From Paige 

Reading.

W.A.L.T Review the reading strategies that we have learnt this term.

This week we had to make a mask that is themed of Christmas or something personal.

R.E

 W.A.L.T Understand Gods covenants.

For the past  3 days we have been learning about what covenants are. Here is my slide show on what covenants people have made 

maths

 W.A.L.T Create Symmetrical Art.

The past 2 days we have been learning how to make symmetrical art! This is what we made today, I made a dragon from one of the movies ive seen!

Maths

 W.A.L.T make a sculpture that id symmetrical.

At maths time we had to make sculptures and make them look symmetrical.

Here is mine

R.E-Serving other.

W.A.L.T Understand the virtue of serving! 

 Today we have started learning about serving and what it means. We had to read though a bible to find John 13:1-17 and then we had to pick 3 sentences and make them into comic strips! 

Communion Of The Saints.

W.A.L.T learn about the saints.

This week we have started to research about some saints and me and my buddy picked to research about St Patrick! here is our research!

The Communion Saints.

W.A.L.T Know who is in the part of the communion of saints.

Today we  have started learning about Communion Saints. I made this thing to show the 3 things that means Ur a saint ;)

 

Maths.

 W.A.L.T Year 6 Revision

The bar graph shows the students favourite fruit.
Which tally chart was used to make the bar graph?

The answer would be none above because if you count in 5 none of them are right!

Plastic Pollution writing.

 W.A.L.T Write A explanation.

The past weeks we have been learning about bad things for our interment and what is hurting the animals! Here is what i write about how it is hurting animals and ways it can stop.

Plastic Pollution.

Every year there are more than 200 million tons of plastic being made. But if there were only 200 million tons of fish right now and there were 200 million tons of plastic.. There would be more plastic than fish and we don't want that to happen because then there will be more sea creatures being extinct.

In the ocean there are sea animals and they are getting harmed from plastic bottles and bags. They are getting stuck inside of turtles and fish. The sea animals don't know that it's plastic so they ashroom that it is food for them to eat so they go and eat it. And then the next day they would have trouble staying alive or even breathing because they have plastic stuck inside their lungs or even their body.

If you were a fish or turtle would you like it if that happened to you?

There are tons of solutions to fix this problem like recycling plastic bottles and not leaving them on the ground. But there are even cooler things you can do with plastic bags or bottles. You can make scopters of different things by just melting the plastic bag or bottle down! There are many more ways but there is 1 really good one. Recycling plastic things would save tons of sea creatures because instead of just throwing stuff on the floor or out the window you could just throw it in the trash so it can be made into something else.

Conclusion: If you could do that it would save tons of animals from not becoming extinct! “ If you were a fish would you like having plastic stuck in your lungs so you can breathe and maybe not live again?” Imagine this you where a fish just going around in the sea and you see something and you don't know what it is so you go look at it and then you think its food so you eat it and then a couple more days latter you don't feel very well you feel ill and you can't breathe very well. Well that is what heaps of sea creatures go through a lot of the time.

Catholic Christmas decoration Brief!!

 W.A.L.T 

For inquiry we have been learning about technology our first activity was to fill out our brainstorm of making a catholic Christmas decoration for Miss Rooney's library!. Miss Pownall is getting some fabric so that we could sew. I decided to make a star.

Plastic/Reading.

W.A.L.T look at problems and solutions.

The past 3 week we have been learning about our interment and what is wrong and bad for the earth me and Claudia have made a slide show about plastic and how it is bad ;)

Inquiry.

W.A.L.T follow the design progress.

 

Waste trip reflection.

 WALT: reflect on our experiences.

On Friday the 21st of October room 2 went to the dump.

At the dump we met up with our instructor Georgia and she tough  what the colour bin represent and what goes in each bin and how to make compost bins.We got to make compost bins and learn what we put in the compost bin!My favourite part was learning new things about and finding out what things goes into each bin.

 

African culture

 WALT: Reflect on our experience. 

Today the whole school went to the hall and met 2 people from Africa and 1 from Christchurch. They showed us  how to use African drums and how they work my favourite part was getting to go on the drums.

Stewardship.

WALT: think of problems and solutions.

Me and my friend Claudia made this google drawing about are environment. 

Reading/Red Hat

 WALT: Identify prior knowledge

This week we have been learning about stuff that have been hurting the earth like pollution wild fires,

Music DLO.

 W.A.L.T  Learn music signs.

This past week we have been learning about the sound of music movie. We learned the signs to the song. 

Do Re Mi fa Sol La Ti Do.

Beatitudes

 W.A.L.T Identify the Beatitudes

This week we have been learning about the Beatitudes. What we did was we watch The Good Samaritan. And we had to write what Beatitudes he showed

Zoo Reading work.

 WALT: critically analyse text and form opinions.

We have been learning about if we should have zoos or not. I thought this reading work was easy because all we had to do is write what the people opinion.

Do you think animals should be trapped in zoos or live in the wild?

Maths

This week we have been learning about Add and subtract using compatible numbers here is some working I have done using this strategy!Here is a the strategy we have been learning to do. 

Here is what i have manged to do by using this strategy.

(Wednesday)

a) 7 + 3 + 4 + 3 + 7 - 10 -10 = 4

b) 1 + 5 + 2 + 4 + 8 + 4 - 9 - 7 = 8
c) 7 + 18 + 9 + 2 + 3 - 12 - 20 = 7
d) 28 + 12 + 5 - 40 = 5
e) 24 + 16 + 4 + 3 + 5 - 7 - 40= 5
f) 12 + 15 + 8 + 6 + 7 - 20 - 21 = 7

(Thursday)

a) 7 + 3 + 4 + 3 + 7 - 10 -10 = 4

b) 1 + 5 + 2 + 4 + 8 + 4 - 9 - 7 = 8
c) 7 + 18 + 9 + 2 + 3 - 12 - 20 = 7
d) 28 + 12 + 5 - 40 = 5
e) 24 + 16 + 4 + 3 + 5 - 7 - 40= 5
f) 12 + 15 + 8 + 6 + 7 - 20 - 21 = 7

The Spookiest Week Of My Life ..

 W.A.L.T use a similes

 The Spookiest Week Of My Life…

One day 5 girls were walking to school and they got there and they didn't see anyone so they went to their classes they all scream and run outside what was that they say with no delight.. I don't know says Mayah. It can't be, It was as loud as a elephant .they can't be, they all say! Is it a ghost...? Oh no what do we do all our parents are at work! We should mabey look inside? Ok..they are all Claudia Ocea Dakota Emilee. No says Mayah and PaigeThey walk in and the door closes oh my gosh what was that! OoOoO! AHHHHHH. How will we get out now see I told you this wasn't a good idea..

Zoo work.

WALT: We are learning to paraphrase to help us understand what we have read.

Here is my reading slide show i have been doing for reading this week!

 

Maths strategy.

Maths strategy.

strategy we have been learning is place value place value is if we had the number 2534 there is 2 thousands 5 hundreds 3 tens 4 ones. My favourite part about learning place value is actually learning it and finding out what it means.

Maori dictionary

 Maori dictionary

 W.A.L.T Increase our Maori vocabulary. In room 2 we have been learning about the New Zealand languages and one the languages are Maori.

This is the Maori dictionary I made. 

What maori words do you know ?

Bible Verse

 W.A.L.T: Make inferences about beliefs of people at different times. 

This is the google slides I made about how to find a bible verse.

Why its important to learn a second language in school.

 Why its important to learn a second language in school.

 WALT: Critical thinking: Is it important to learn a second language in school? Debate which languages, if any, should be taught.

This is the google drawing I made debating why its important to learn a second language in school.

Emma Twigg Came To Our School!!

 W.A.L.T  Reflect on exiting experiences.

Today we meet Emma Twigg a rowing gold medallist. Emma walked into the hall and everyone was amazed that they got to see Emma. We did a welcoming haka that the kappahaka performed. Then we sang the national anthem.  Emma Twigg came up onto the stage and told us about what she does in her life and how she is so good at rowing. Emma told us that she trains 5 hours everyday. After that people asked her questions like why did you start rowing and heaps of other questions. 

Reading/Māori Dictionary.

 W.A.L.T Increase our Māori vocabulary 

We had to write down some Māori words and then write the Definition.

Just like Banana in Māori is Panana.

Reading/Anty Fluff.

 W.A.L.T WALT: Make connections to texts

In room 2 we are learning about the Tokyo Olympics.We had to read this book and it was called Anty Fluff she is in the chicken Olympics.

Reading / All children should be involved in sports? Yes or no?

W.A.L.T Make connections to texts

This week we have been learning about the Olympics.

We had to answer this one question and it was All children should be involved in sports? Yes or no?

And i picked both because ... 

The Boy With Wings Show!

 W.A.L.T Reflect on our experiences.

In room 2 we are really lucky to have people from Nelson to come preset to us "The boy with wings". We are really thankful for you driving all that way to come and show us this show! My favourite part was

When he had the dream and tried to fly of a tree and find his the treasure. I like how the added special effects to the show.

 

News Paper Article about Emma Twigg!

W.A.L.T Write a News paper Article!

 Emma Twigg Proves People Wrong

By Paige M                                                       .

Emma Twigg won the Olympic gold medal for New Zealand in Tokyo Japan last friday. 

"I can't believe it. Honestly, crossing the line it was disbelief,"

When the race started, Emma Twigg was coming 2nd. When they got to half way some of the other countries started slowing down so Emma Twigg went off and took over! It was really unexpected when the other countries started to slow down and Twigg went into action and came 1st.

Twigg was born in Napior on March the 1st 1987.She was 2014 world champion and won gold in her fourth Olympics in Tokyo July 2021.Previous  Olympic appearances were in 2008 (ninth place), 2012 (fourth place), and 2016 (fourth place).She is a  New Zealand Olympic women single scull medalist.

In conclusion…

We can't wait to see Emma back in the Olympics. She did a great job this year!Hopefully she can add to her colton of metals when she crosses the line again!

Red Hat/Reading

This week we have been learning about the Olympics/Emma Twigg. We had to answer how we feel about sports and add what our favourite sport is!

White hat/ Reading

 WALT: Make connections to texts

This past week we have been learning about Emma twigg and learning about how many medals she has won and how good she is at rowing.She came 1st on heat 6 but will she make it on the finals.

Here are some facts about her :)

Reading work/The floods

 W.A.L.T Learn new words!

This week for my reading I have been learning about the floods and how they started and we had to find some words that we didn't know about the floods!

Are robots Foes or friends

 W.A.L.T To draw an opinion using various texts

In my reading group we are learning about robots and if they should or shouldn't take over the world.

This is the slide show me and my friend Claudia made to show that robots shouldn't take over the world.

Party/mass

    W.A.L.T Under stand the part mass

                                              

Introductory rites When you welcome the people to the mass or the party

 

Liturgy of the word  When you say happy birthday to the birthday person

The eucharist Is when we receive the body and blood of God

Concluding rite  Is when you say goodbye and the mass has ended

Reading slide show.

 W.A.L.T To draw an opinion using various texts

This week in my reading group we have been doing a slide show about robots and how realistic they can look like!I finished all my slides!

Reading work

 W.A.L.T To draw an opinion using various texts.

In my reading group we had to make a time line on robots!

Here is the one I made with Emilee!

Reading work!

 W.A.L.T To draw an opinion using various texts.

In the Kiwis group we have been learning about robots!

We had to complete this task about what we know about robot and what we don´t know about robots

and what we think we know.

Reading :)

 W.A.L.T Draw inferences from a piece of poetry

We were reading books about Huias and how the last Huia to bee seen was in the 19´s.

There were questions we had to anser about the Huia and here were the questions!

Structure How is the poem organised? How many verses are there? What do you notice about the punctuation? Does it rhyme? Is there repetition? Does it have a sense of rhythm?	From Being alive to death. 5 verses. Some of the words rhyme. Yes there is repetition. I think it does i'm not sure tho.
Meaning  What is this poem about? What is the poet’s message?	The story is about the Huia and how it is not alive anymore and the last Huia to be seen was in the 19´s.In the Poem they talked about how the Huia could sing really goodly.It also talked about how amazing and beautiful there feathers were.
Language  What words did the poet use to create an image? What was the effect of the rhetorical questions?	The singing part because like it says that there was just once bird singing and the rest were all dead.
Imagery What pictures do you get in your mind when you read the poem? There are several metaphors in the poem – what are they? Why do you think the poet included these? What are they saying?	A really nice bird that sings really well and its beautiful feathers and the colours but they all got shot for their feathers and also money.The last Huia to be seen was in the 19´s.
Effect How did the poem make you feel? What did it make you think about? What effect did the poet’s choices have on you as the reader?	It made me feel sad because they are extinct. It made me think about a bird getting killed and used to decorate a hat or a coat.

Reading work :)

                        W.A.L.T Draw inferences from a piece of poetry!

The past week we have been working on the Huia and the facts about them and how they past and what happen to them!In the 19's there was a bird called the Huia. It was a beautiful black and white bird.But something bad happen to it..Won of the Maori tribe leader wanted a nice coat.So the people in his Pack looked for a really good bird to hunt down and use its feathers for the coats.Sometimes people just use the feather to sell them and earn lots of money beacuse when they found that bird everyone wanted to so when someone saw a Huia they would shoot it and use it feathers to get money.

                       Yellow hat.

What did you like about the poem ‘Huia’? Why?

I liked how the Huia had amazing feathers and the sound of them was amazing.It felt amazing listening to the sound of the Huia.

                       Black Hat.

What parts did you not like about this poem ‘Huia’? Why?

I would change the part where they were singing a song because 

There could of been other Huias around singing to and they could of had 

Made a sound to..

                     Red Hat.

What emotions did you feel when reading the poem ‘Huia’’? 

What made you feel this way? 

I felt  bad for the poor Huias because they wanted to have a good  life like us.

 

                   Green Hat.

What would you change about the poem ‘Huia’? Why/Not would you do this? 

I would change the part where it says  lived among you once and now I can’t be found

I’m made of things that vanish a feather on the ground. Because there could of been other bird left like another Hui not just that one Huia.