Carving - whakairo

The last two weeks we have been learning about carving. We had to practice our carving on soap and do a DLO about our learning.

Hypothermia and Safety Tips!

This week our classroom is going on camp!  The year six's  are going to Arthur's Pass and the year fives are going to Shantytown. So we want to be safe. We have been learning about safety and hypothermia. This work is what we have learnt.

Quick Write

In room 7 we were working on ‘Quick Writes.’  This is where you are given something to write about (a writing prompt) and you only have minutes to write as much as possible using this writing prompt.



A Stormy Night

The Stormy Night!

AS I was laying in my bed a wild dash of lighting forked over me, then after  I heard a crack of thunder. I couldn't help myself but get up and look at the wild sea. Tāwhirimatea was roaring and howling like a angry dog.The Moana sprayed the wharf making the wharf all soggy. Then I suddenly got up and opened my lounge door the wind wrapped around me making me shiver from my toes up to my neck.I stood up straight and the wind slammed the door shut as now I’m scared. I ran up to my bedroom and look out the window,  I  could see the forest hari( singing and dancing). The song of the wind, the sea and the crackle of the lighting  made me drift off back to bed and fall asleep.



Fire Works!




As I walk along the long  karaka(orange) ribbon of road, a popping sound tingled in my ears. As a stroke of colours came out of the museum like a gunshot all the people around me was screaming in excitement. Suddenly, the smell of ash shot me awake. I felt my body tensing up as I couldn’t see a thing. The sound of people around me were frightened as they thought it was a bomb but they really new it was fireworks. As I look at the orange, pink and a tinge of purple and white.

As I walk through the shimmering New York City, I see a whero(red) moving shape, It's Spider Man! As I follow him there is an amazing confetti of colours. It’s a confetti aniwaniwa(rainbow). I smell the noxious smoke and petrol in one gust of breath. The sound of the busy traffic makes me dizzy as I’m still following Spiderman. He looks down at me and says” It's time to be a hero” and flung his web to another building. As I watch him in amazement!



The Tomato fight!
All around me was tomatoes. I could smell tomatoes everywhere I go. AS I walk down through the crowd of people they throw the hot red tomato at me. AS I was rīrā(strongly) Holding my ground as I was feeling sticky and slipping over.The tomatoes were in between my toe ( Toes). I felt like I was drowning in food.

The Time With Missy

Sometimes in Room 7 we get to have Free Time Writing. I have been working on a piece of writing about my horse, but she is sadly not mine any More . Read My Work To figure out what happens. This is a true story!

The Time With Missy

Hi my name is Billie and I got a horse for my  9th birthday.

The day before my birthday was a swimming meet, I like to swim.  As I swam my last race I got changed and my friend asked if I wanted to come to her house.

When I was at my friends house we had fun but I was extremely excited for my birthday. As my Mum, Dad and family drove up to the house I was confused. AS I hopped into the car my mother told me we were going to pick up my birthday presents. My family told me what that present was. They told me we were going to pick up a horse. I nearly sprang out of my seat!

As we drove to Gloriavale we parked the car and met with John. Then we saw a black horse with a bright red bridal. I rode her and I loved her. John told us why they had missy: “ Missy was in the truck to go to the meat works but the driver thought she was in full, that means going to have a baby. Then Gloriavale wanted to have the foal instead of the horse and it turned out that Missy wasn’t pregnant she just ate too much grass.

So then we hooked up the rusty float to the car, then put the horse in there. Then we drove to my Gramp's farm. As soon as We got there we unloaded my horse.

We started to think about her name. At first  we wanted to call the horse Flicker but then as we started to ride the Horse and we realised that she was stubborn. So I wanted to call her Missy. Everyone liked the Name. As the sky turned pink, I realised we needed to say goodnight to Missy. I was at my grandparent’s farmhouse. Then I had to go to bed. The house was warm and cosy .

The morning came slowly. It was my birthday and I got some small presents.I had breakfast. I was determined to see Missy.

AS weeks went by I tried to see Missy every weekend. Soon I started to realise that I wasn’t very good at walking Missy and lungeing her. Sometimes I would be scared and run away. Sometimes I didn’t want to go and see her but when I was with her I loved every second.

One night I told my mum that I didn’t think Missy was good for me or I’m not good for her. So we both decided to take her back to Gloriavale. When we finally got to Gloriavale John was very happy to see her. As I was so sad to see her go I knew it was  the right thing to do. The next couple of days were sad and happy at the same time.

By Billie

Quick Write

Quick Write Number One - The Beekeeper

For the next two weeks we are going to work on ‘Quick Writes.’  This is where you are given something to write about (a writing prompt) and you only have 10mins to write as much as possible using this writing prompt.

For our writing prompts we will use either images or short videos.

The purpose of this is to practise writing fluently.

When we look at our writing prompt we will have about 10-15 mins to discuss it and brainstorm some ideas and vocabulary.   

Our learning goals are to:

-write a description, using powerful words and phrases

-include some Te Reo Māori

-carefully check that our sentences make sense and have correct punctuation and spelling.

When we are writing we need to think about…

1. What do I want my reader to see?

2) What do I want my reader to hear?

3) What do I want my reader to smell?

Tips:

-look closely at the picture or video

-think about the three key questions and the learning goals

-give yourself time to plan and write

This is my Writing:

The beekeeper

As I walk a though the winding blossom trees a strong smell climbs up my spine and  into my nostrils. Behind a blossom rakau (tree) I found my bee’s working away quietly. Suddenly, the breeze blew me off my feet and I landed in a puddle of blossoms. They were as soft  as  slime melting. I heard a crack  and the beekeeper was picking the soft piece of delicate honey off the hive. The beekeeper gave me some crispy honey, It tasted like Te Rā brightening my body.

Elections work, poster

We were learning about the 2017 elections. We got to pick a group to make our own poster and political party.

Robot Rampage

We have been learning how to write our own narrative writing. We had a sentence starter to help us write.

Narrative Writing Term 3 2017

Click on the link below to watch the story starter for this week.

http://success-for-boys.tki.org.nz/Teaching-learning-resources/Story-Starters/Runaway-Robot-Rampage

Story Starter = Runaway Robot Rampage

Your Name:Billie

Story starter: Every weekend there was one job Mākoko hated doing: mowing the lawns. He’d much rather be building his latest robot invention in the shed. That was it! What if Mākoko could build a robot to mow the lawns?

WALT: write a narrative that entertains or tells a story about people,places or events.
S.C:
Our Story will...
-have a title that captures our reader's interest
-Have an orientation/beginning that has a hook and establishes the setting and characters.
-Have a complication/problem that needs to be solved
-Have a conclusion where the problem is solved.
-Use interesting language, words, adjectives, language features such as similes, onomatopoeia
-plan our story so we know what to write about
-proof-read and edit
-make sure our sentences make sense
-use a range of punctuation
-Use some Te Reo Māori words

My 2 key goal: Punctuation and ending of words .Planning

Title:	Lazy Bones
Orientation/Beginning/Hook Characters	Every year there was one job Mākoko hated doing: doing  the spring cleaning. He’d much rather be building his latest robot invention in the shed. That was it! What if Mākoko could build a robot to  whakarau the house? Characters: - Mākoko-clever boy who created the  robot -Wai Nekeneke -robot- town people
Complication/Problem	His robot goes really good and does the house spring cleaning and then he goes  and cleans every house in town. One day the robot has a upgrade and starts getting really lazy
Conclusion - How does the problem get solved?	Then when Was Keneke is sleeping his owner comes and shuts the robot down and makes the robot turn good again and then goes and cleans every body's house.and Mākoko gets rich from his amazing robot.
Language Simile (He was as tall as a giraffe/ She was like a wild, angry gorilla that had been released from its cage!) Onomatopoeia(sound words) Interesting Adjectives (describing words) Te Reo Māori.	The town people were yapping in disagreement of Wainekenek. THe town people were angry as a shark ripping up it pray.

My Story 

Lazy Bones

Every year there was one job Mākoko hated doing: doing  the spring cleaning. He’d much rather be building his latest robot invention in the shed. That was it! What if Mākoko could build a robot to  whakarauiri( clean)the house?  

Mākoko was very intelligent and smart so he thought making a robot would be easy. Mākoko stayed up all night creating this new robot spring cleaner. It was going to be a long night! Suddenly, the sun shot up from the east side of the land and shone brighter than a lamp in your eyes. Mākoko knew it was going to be a good day.”Before I turn you on, I have to give you a name,’’ exclaimed Mākoko.” “I’m going to call you Wai Nekeneke.” Wai Nekeneke rattled and shook as Mākoko gently turned the on button on!

Wai Nekeneke had 4 arms, two on each side. On one side there was a sponge and a rag, also on the other side there was a duster and a spray bottle. Wai Nekeneke’s legs were his Mum’s work vaccum cleaners. Wai Nekeneke was mainly gray and black. He had a digital face.

That day while Wai nekeneke was cleaning, Mākoko caught up on his sleep. While he was sleeping his Robot suddenly walked off to the village/iwi whenua houses and started to  whakarauiri( clean). “Yay!’’ “Wahoo!” screamed the village people. “ Is my robot being a pain?” said Mākoko. “No”, said the village people in excitement. My house is as shiny as glass freshly cut, beamed one person. ”Can I please borrow your robot for a night to  whakarauiri( clean) my house” shouted another town person. “Yes, sure’’ “said Mākoko in excitement.” Soon Mākoko became rich and happy because every one wanted Wai Nekeneke to whakarauiri their houses.

One day Mākoko got a call from a customer telling him that his robot had gone lazy and when you tried to grab it, it would  walk away.”Don't worry,” Mākoko said quickly. Mākoko ran over to the customer’s house and grabbed Wai Nekeneke. “What do you think you are doing,” screamed Mākoko! The Robot replied: “I would answer but I can't be bothered to. “As fast as Mākoko could he operated on this lazy robot with Anger. As he ripped the parts open then he realised that someone had turned on the lazy button. It was going to be a long night .

The next morning Wai Nekeneke was good as new. Mākoko had done a great job. Mākoko turned lazy himself, and didn’t have to do any more cleaning. “Mākoko,” yelled his Mum, “do the dishes.” Ouph! Time to make another robot exclaimed Mākoko. No, yelled his mum, do the dishes and don’t be lazy. “But Mākoko means lazy,” snorted Mākoko…….

How did you go?

What do you think you did well?  I think I did better my speech and Punctuation.

What could you work on next time?More exciting words.

Teacher Feedback:

Kia ora Billie

I really enjoyed your story about Mākoko and Wai Nekeneke. I think you did do a good job at your punctuation and using lots of speech correctly. I also enjoyed the Te Reo Māori you used and I thought you used some great language to entertain your reader like, “Suddenly, the sun shot up from the east side of the land and shone brighter than a lamp in your eyes.”

I also liked how you described your characters.

You are doing some great writing work this year.  Keep developing your punctuation skills and your use of interesting language and your writing will just get better and better.

Ka pai tō mahi tuhituhi.

My dream Action plan.

We have been working on thinking about dreams we have that we would like to achieve. We wrote up a dream plan.Here is my 'dream plan.'

My Dream Action Plan

This action plan is to help me achieve:

My Dream for myself:

My dream is to do go to art school in Christchurch and do my own T.V show.

My Dream for New Zealand:

Is to help the children to have a good education and warm clothes.

Why is this dream important to me?

Because lots of people say I am funny and because I like to show my feelings in acting.Also i've always wanted to do my own tv show.

Who within my family, friends or community can I ask for support or advice to achieve my dream? To share my ideas and and act around my family, friends and do shows around the community.  Family.

In order to achieve my dream I will need the following skills and knowledge

1. I need to have a good education.

2.Share my idea with art school.

3. Move somewhere with good opportunities.

4.To watch and learn from other people’s shows.

5. Be resilient and try hard.

When do I want to achieve my dream by?

When I go to arts university in Christchurch. I want to make a show to try  to get my goal done.  When I finish art school in Christchurch. Late teens and early 20’s.

What are some things that might go wrong and how will I fix them? I will try  to be resilient and learn from my mistakes.

The first five steps I need to take to turn my dream into reality are:

1.go to arts school.

2.try hard to get a good education

3.share my ideas to good people.

4.be funny

5.to like what I'm doing

6. Find out what courses I need to take at art school and how to get into them.

7. Take drama at high school.

Math Place Value

WALT....
Recognise how many tens and hundreds are in numbers. Here is my work.

Maui Legends

As part  of Matariki we re-read the legends of Maui.We then retold a legend and created artwork.Blow is Sasha and my work.

Once, a long time ago lived a man called Māui and he had 5 brothers. They were all tūpuhi (skinny)and hiakai (hungry) but were very generous. Māui and his brothers worked hard all day and night for the village people but the problem was that there were really short days so there was no time to do anything. The brothers and Māui didn’t look after themselves they looked after the village people. The village people were very demanding. Māui and his brothers were out every day hunting because crops weren't growing. The crops needed the ra (sun) to grow. One day a  woman entered the village, she called herself Wahine o te Moana. Wahine o te Moana was caring but told her opinion. Wahine o te Moana made the village people help Māui and his brother. Now Māui and his brothers can sleep and eat but they still weren't happy. Māui wasn’t happy because there wasn’t enough time in the day to do things. The next morning Wahine o te Moana had to leave. She gave Māui a special jaw bone from a whale. When Wahine o te Moana gave Māui that jaw bone she said, “Do something that needs to be done with this jaw bone Māui”! That morning Māui decided to slow the ra (sun) down, so he started to prepare. When Māui told the village people what was going to do they all laughed. But that didn’t stop Māui. Māui started plaiting strong flax rope with his brothers. They were up all night and day. Then they finally went to slow the ra (sun) down. As they started walking to where the ra (sun) set and rises the ground was as hot as fire. Māui and his brothers hid behind a small rock wall that they had made. When the ra (sun) started to rise Māui and his brothers threw the ropes over the ra (sun's) fiery hair, Māui said, “Hold on and don’t let go”! Then Māui got his jaw bone and smacked the ra (sun) over the nose. Māui yelled in anger, “You will slow down and make our days longer!’’ “Okay,”  said the ra(sun),  “but don’t kill me”! The brothers let the ropes go and the ra (sun) was in pain but he held his promise .When Māui and his brothers got back to the village everyone was hari koa (happy) at last, and all sang around the fire. That's how Māui slowed the ra (sun).

Retold by Sasha and Billie

Here is our artwork

My Mihi 2017

Here is my Mihi video.

Classroom Kupu

We have been learning how to say classroom object in Maori. Here is the slideshow I did to show my learning.

Science Term2 2017

This term we have been doing science. We have been learning about the water cycle  and states of mater. Here is some of my learning.

Persuasive Writing - Why we shouldn't have pets!

We have been working on a piece of persuasive writing. We got to choose if we wanted to write for pets or not for pets. I chose to argue agents pets. Here is a piece of my writing.

I don’t necessary believe that we shouldn’t have pets.

Title A Short Statement about the topic. eg. ‘Rugby League Is A Great Sport’	I am Against Pets
Overview/ Statement of position A brief statement of your view about the topic.  What you believe or want to argue.	I strongly believe that having pets is a really bad idea.
Series of Arguments Reasons Your points supporting your view about the topic.  Your arguments to support your statement and information to support these arguments. Remember -argument -supporting detail, reasons, examples	Primarily, pets can be dangerous! I am against Pets because they can be well behaved and then they can just attack you. I would be scared. For example, dogs can be vicious. This is dangerous . We need to do something about. Sometimes Kids can pat dogs and then they can take the poor child’s hand off! Another example is, my mother was walking along the footpath one day and a dog shot out of the house and bit her on the leg.
	Secondly,pets make a mess! They can rip sheets and do their business on the carpet or in the house. I am certain that you don’t like coming home to torn up pillows and broken furniture. I know that puppies are cute but they make  a mess. We should keep pets outside or under a shelter outside! Or even better don't have pets at all.
	Thirdly, they cost a fortune to look after. They need food and they need a kennel  and they need TLC. TLC cost a lot of time and money. Kennels can costs up to 100 dollars but small kennels can cost about 90 dollar .Also big kennels cost around 200 dollars!!!! I would not want  to spend that much money. Some people love their animals so much they take them to have their feet massaged and pedicures.I understand if they are sore but sometimes they do it to make them look good. What a ridiculous thing to spend money on!
	Finally, they take a lot of time to look after. Dogs especially are energetic and I am certain that pets would want to go for a run or a play with the owner at least once a day. Pets are energetic animals and they need to go for a run every morning and night. Also sometimes owners think they can fit time for a play and a run with a pet but they don’t have time sometimes and that's bad. It's better not to have a pet because they take a lot of time.
Concluding statement Summing it up.  A summary of your arguments and your view on the topic.	In conclusion, I think that people shouldn’t have pets because pets can be dangerous, pets can make a mess,  and they can cost a lot of money. Also they take a lot of time. I don’t believe that people should have pets!