Visiting Willard home

Last Thursday we visited Willard home and we sung Christmas carols flow and amèlie played the piano rebbecca played the violin and Libby played the glockenspiel then we read to them and it was fun because I got to share my mirror illusion it was also fun walking there and back.

Art 2016

This year we did a lot of art the fist art we did was the Vincent van gogh sunflowers then charlottes web until now we have done half picture half Colered in and my most favorite is the different shades of green and we have cut 2 circles and the they swapped sides and her it is.

 We have done so much art after all of this I felt great not nervous anymore because it is all over and done with. Also it was fun it made me get excited and I got a bit of help but that is ok.

Purswasive writing

The Dear govermemt  i should own a big Island!

I would build a dinosaur attraction for big moola we will be rich moola moola moola!  With that moola some to bills and also new attractions.

I will be famous I will have lots of safety  restrictions. I will invent knew tech and I will blow people's minds plus I will give you a free tour and I will take you to the control room.

One tiny island would power the big  island so the small island will hold a power source  that is powerful enough to power 8 countries  because the tech and super electric fences would need lots of power.

Plus big boats = lots of tourists it will be so cool that people will faint and we will advance to better Dino's ones that will scare parents  but for safety there will be big acu  staitions all over the park so if something goes wrong they will now there weaknesses and take care of the promlemo.

You don’t want me to be sad  and then I can’t follow my dreams  :( ☠️‍

MARKET DAY

Tomorrow on the the 11th of November is market day!

It was fun shopping and selling. At the end everybody was happy. The market day products I got was so cool and epic. Alex didn't have any money so I bought him a car track ticket that was fun. We chose our products by voting as a class. We used plastic jelly beans and cups. We got 4 beans to insert your favourite one. After voting we had flat packs,candy cane rain deer and popsicle xmas trees!

 (Knock knock! Who’s there? Brain busters. Brain busters who? Brain busters  are having an epic sail at market day.  They are so fruity and delicious...Oh you may be wondering what ‘they’ are?... They are… AMAZING, INCREDIBLE, FUNKY LOOKING CANDY CANE REINDEER! Epic sail they are only $1 come on down to Russell Street School. Think fast or you will be the last.

We also sold Wooden flat packs and popsicle christmas trees.

Mum and I had a wonderful time shopping and we were pretty happy customers. We made $144.10.  It was so cool and it was really loud and everything sold out!

he aha tenai

This is my te reo slide I hope you like it. This was hard but my group helped me to get it done. I learnt a lot of Maori words. I know how to say penerako which means pencil.  

Sport Start

  

WALT Be Creative

Te Reo

This term we have been working with Flou7ish to use Te Reo Phrases.

Our group ran out of time but we did some awesome work.

Lucas grows down

I enjoyed the making plus it was funny when it finished and we published it the reverse feature was cool we got inspired by the book Otto grows down so we entered this iMovie to digi awards.

flat pack

 Design Brief
We want a decorative model that can be put on top of the shelves by the windows. The model needs to be:

• Made from cardboard
• A flat pack design
• Good enough to go in a shop

We had a go at following instructions to make a flat pack Christmas Tree. We used this concept to help us to create our own flat pack using the design process.

As part of the design process we created prototypes and reflected on what worked and what didn't.

Crayon Writing

Lollie cake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We made this Awsome lollie cake here is the recipient and also a

Pit here of it when it has finished. Ryan

Enjoy the treat

Lolly Cake

Ingredients:

120 g butter
250 g malt biscuit crumbs
180 g fruit puffs
1/2 tin condensed milk
coconut – for coating

Method:

1. Warm butter and condensed milk together in the microwave.
2. Add biscuit crumbs and fruit puffs.
3. Stir well.
4. Roll into one log or small balls. Coat in coconut.

W.A.L.T do mass and weight

Week 2 Discovery Reflection

YELLOW HAT

What went well today?

Today something that went well was...

Lots of people filed up my bucket up and me and Elliot made a giant
Snake made of play Dough.

BLACK HAT

What was a challenge today?

A challenge I had... Was making a fort with blankets and
Keeping the Snake from ripping.

GREEN HAT

What do I want to do differently next time?

Next time something I would do differently is... 
Do lots more tasks and try new things

RED HAT

How did I make someone else feel?

How do I feel after discovery today?

I made someone feel … really good and happy when … at blanket fort
Making

During discovery I felt...happy a little touch of anger.

My holidays

The holidays
wake up Ryan you need to get ready for surgery you can't eat or drink but let's go zoom! We were out of the house and into the hospital and we got through the doors and we saw baby pigeons with a mother pigeon out one of the Windows. then we went up the stairs into the waiting room and read my book and Ryan dale please come to the operation room ok I said. And I had to put a court on I breathed trough a mask and thZZZZzzzzzzzz. Boo I waked up really tired  I had a needle poking out of my arm and I had lunch in the wake up room and then went home to rest.

The next day I woke up feeling so much better I watched tv and played video games before lunch and then was lunch and I had I diet of soft food I had samwige's and some juice then I went outside to play a drop drop drop rain no back inside to rest on the couch. I watched TV It was fun until there was no shows left I liked. Then I had dinner and had pudding brushed my teeth and I dreamed about winning lottery of "$100,000 million google" and then i fell asleep waiting to wake up in the morning feeling like a smiling kitten.

TO BE CONTINUIDED

Te Reo Verbs

I have been learning to write simple sentences in te reo. It was a little bit challenging but I still did it. I am proud of what I have made.

Planet Facts

As part of our reading this term, we have been researching facts about our sun and planets in our solar system.

We created this slide show together as a class.

Maths

We have been learning to draw 3D shapes from different points of view. I enjoyed working with Elliot to do this task.

Chapter Chat

chapter chat

Chapter Chat is when you tweet on Twitter about a book. We get to do fun tasks like making a dog kennel. It is cool because we get to share our work with schools from all over NZ.

This video will explain Chapter Chat in more detail:

We have to write quality tweets. Here is a tweet I wrote to the question What is Winn Dixie's talent? And what is yours?

cross country

cross country

At the cross country my heart was beat just watching everybody else. Then I heard "year 4s come to the starting line". Then "on your mark, get set, honk". The hooter went. Everyone was off like a herd of stomping elephants running from their predators. The challenging bits were the mud and stairs but the good bits were the down hill and the big big field. At the end it was sad because I came last but at least I tried and I will keep practising until my breath is out.   

World of math

world of math

17/6/2016

on the 17th of june room 6 went to the hall to do world of maths we went with flourish and poutukumamua and watch the video to find out more.

Dance.nz.made

We did learnt a dance for Dance NZ Made. It was fun but I decided not to enter the competition because I don't like dancing.


Visit the site to find out more click Here to visit.

sport start

This term our class has been using Sports Start. We are getting better at these skills:

• running
• catching
• passing
• throwing
• jumping
• fast reactions
• batting
• 
  

Our class has been playing Diamond Ball which is like Baseball/Softball.

I have improved with passing.

I really enjoyed playing Force Back.

I need to keep working on hitting the ball with a bat.

planet facts

our class made a slide about planets here it is oh please oh please whatch our slide it is a great guide
for beginer scientis 

Assembly

I am so excited for assembly I could just do it 100 times it is a heaven for me but I will need to practise a lot and you can jump in the learning pit to thats the bonus. it is so fun its a good time i wish i could just make it so that every single time it is assembly it is our turn.    ;] 

I love assembly because I can share my learning with everyone but I don't like speaking on the microphone.

I will be standing up and teaching the school our dance.
This is the dance we have learnt.

Planet Earth & Beyond - Pre Assessment

This was a bit challenging for me it was fun learning about shadows and the rotation of day an night.
I think I can improve by getting to learn more about planets and shadows.

Death and the moon

A long long time ago in the dark ages

My Learning Goals

Description:

Today we looked through our reports from last year. We identified a next step (goal) for reading, writing and maths. Here are my goals:

Maths: my next step is to make connections e.g 1/3 of 12 is the same as 3x ? = 12

To achieve this goal I will: practice at home and get better and better. I need to learn all my times tables.

Reading: his next goal is to take time to work out the meanings

To achieve this goal I will: practice getting the meaning. I can use the clues in the story to help me.

Writing:my next step is to use a range of sentence starter

To achieve this goal I will: I will practice my sentence starter. I will use my writers notebook to collect ideas on ways to start sentences.

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We also looked at our STAR results.

• Word recognition I got _10__ out of 10.
• Sentence comprehension I got _10__ out of 10.
• Paragraph comprehension I got _12__ out of 15.
• Vocabulary I got __10_ out of 10.

I am going to focus on: Paragraph comprehension

To improve in this area I will: Use the links on our blog.

Active Listening

We are learning about different types of listening. There are 3 main types of listening that we learnt about. Busy Listening - When the person listening is busy doing something. They are too busy to concentrate on what is being said. Me Too Listening - When the person listening has a story that they feel is more important than the person talking so they interrupt and share their story instead of listening. Active Listening - When the person listening looks at the person talking, concentrates, gives non-verbal feedback (e.g. nodding) and asks questions about the story. To learn about the different types of listening, we watched this video:

 

 As a class we created our own video to help us understand the different types.
After practising each type of listening, we realised…

• Busy listening makes us feel like you’re not listening to us. We found it really hard to keep talking. 
• Me too listening makes us feel frustrated and sad that you think your story is more important. 
• Active listening makes us feel valued. We know you are listening because you are looking, nodding, asking questions. 

 As a class we are all trying to get better at being active listeners.

My Family

We are learning to introduce our family in Te Reo.

My Reflection: I need to practise my family names and all the Maori types

hailstones in music time

In music with Jenny we are learning to play in a band. We are all learning different instruments and we are working on our rhythm. Check out our videos:

My Reflection:

at music we did a hailstones it sounded epic there was a glockenspiel tambourine drums 
wooden stick have a listen        

Swimming goal

My reflection I think I should work on keeping my chin down and work on my floppy floppy legs
And try not to stand up half way through I think I need more practise and sticky glue

Van Gogh Styled Art

We are learning to paint like Van Gogh. We have read lots of books and watched some tutorials. We've experimented with painting our portraits and now we have had a go at painting sunflowers.

Our paintings needs to have

• short brush strokes
• bright colours
• positive & negative images (Main object with a complementing background)

We watched this video before starting to help us with our painting.

I am proud…

The most challenging part was…

If I were to do it again I would...

Hexagon maths - My maths learning

I like doing maths this way using my five times tables it is much easier

Swimming sport

                                                 Swimming sport at the ledo.                                                                 first thing we were out of school and at the lideo I was scared then I was on freestyle. It was great I didn't feel as scared as before now it was time for backstroke.It made me feel even better.It was the best day ever hoooonnnkkk! The hooter went I new that was the year 6's doing breath stroke my favourite I new that I was up next then my name was called I new that I was going to get in the water. Honk and I was swimming faster than a cheetah! At least I was better than last time. The scores were backstroke 4,freestyle 2,breathstroke 2! Wow then we went to th esplanade. Then we got back to school this was the happiest day of my life I wish I can do it again tomorrow. The end

My Speacial Person Poem

 i liked the week because it has been a great week swiming

I love writing

 I like writing about lots of cool stuff and all about my learning.its fun to write about what ever stuff you want.and it's all about me        [!]