Term 2 hollidays

My Term 2  Holiday

On Saturday I drove all the way to Wellington! When we got there we stayed  with our cousins. Fraser got an upstairs bedroom, well I slept downstairs on a futon with my cousin.

The next day it was a cold and stormy day so we went to a cafe. The cafe was right next to the sea and we were looking out of the window, when way out at sea a circle of water was coming closer and closer. We realised it was a water spout so we thought it would stop at the land but the scary thing is, it didn’t.

It came up onto the beach, swirling the sand round like a washing machine, then it came into the car park,(smashing two windows as it went) and there were some chairs outside the cafe that were picked up and dumped onto the road. As quickly as it came, it was gone.

After that I was super scared, so we went back and watched the movie Trolls (they have an apple TV)

And that was the scariest thing in my holidays.

🎉🎉Celebrating my learning🎉

 Something I have achieved this year is getting every single one of my book club tasks done on time and up to the highest standards. The reason this is a celebration is because some years, I do not actually do it because I did other things.

Another achievement I have is my mural. To me this is a celebration because I got a certificate for it in front of the whole school.

Something I really need to work on is my 10 quick questions in AWS. They say they are quick, but really you have to work with your book for ages to work it out, and then after all that you might get it wrong.

Maths has been surprisingly fun because I am building a zoo. I am in a group with Emily L, and Erin-Jae. We are not doing a zoo for fun but to work out the area and perimeter. It is called ……(drum roll please)..........................................💥💥ZOOTOPYLYS!💥💥

THE END

2017 buddy

Friday 2017 . My learning buddy is... JENNA LOWE!!

term 4 reflection

TERM 4 REFLECTION.

I have enjoyed😀

• Working on homework challenges because I like to paint cut and glue.
• Making a lego costume for the christmas float in the santa parade because it was fun.
• Making and selling things for the garage sale because I like to see that people like our products.

This has been challenging😟

• Completing some maths IXL tasks because they are hard questions (example complete the pattern 1,    3,    7,    13,    21,    31,    43,  ?)  
• Completing some literacy tasks because they are hard when I do not know the meaning.
• Sometimes it is getting my sticker because I do not get things marked off on time.

What I am looking forward to next year 😳

• The bike trail because when the year 6’s did it it the photos looked awesome.
• SRA because I am curious about it.
• Book club because I have enjoyed this terms book club

HOMEWORK CHALLENGE

🏣👷OUR MILK BOTTLE HOMEWORK CHALLENGE🏣👷

For my homework, this is what I will do:

1. I am going to have a big stick, then I will cut the spout off a few one liter bottles
2. Then I will put the stars that I made on them
3. After I have done that, I will attach them upside down to the stick and put lights in them
4. After I have finished that, it will look like a stick with lanterns with light that shines through except for on the stars so the shadow will have stars!

I am up to finishing off the stars and getting one litre milk bottles. The biggest challenge I have had has been coming up with what I wanted to do. First I was going to do a fairy house, then I was going to do a christmas tree but grandma suggested a lantern stick.

LABOUR DAY

 In New Zealand, we  all have a public holiday on the fourth Monday of October. Labour day celebrates when the eight hour working day and the 48 hour working week became the law in 1899, primarily because of carpenter Samuel Parnell refused to work more than eight hours a day. He encouraged other tradesmen also to work for only eight hours a day and in October 1840, a workers meeting passed a resolution supporting the idea. On Labour day, I went biking with my family from Kopu to a few Km past the Matatoki cheese barn and into a tunnel. On the way back we stopped at the cheese barn. The animals there were: A chicken with chicks, budgies, finches, a sheep, goats, llama, bunnies with babies, and a guinea pig with babies. The little goat got out of its paddock,(even though the goats are on a chain) and butted a little todler.  Then my brother walked up to it and touched these little bits hanging down from its chin and said, what are these? Then it butted him. Well, that is all I have to say about labour day.

On Friday the 14 of October my four workshops were: Funky corner bookmarks,Fun with flax, Flax weaving,and Fishing knot tying. F.F.F.F. (Funky, fun, flax,fishing) My favorite was funky corner bookmarks. I like them because they are really cute and mine have funny little faces. I learnt how to make: bookmarks that slot onto the corner of your book, woven bracelets out of flax,a flax flower, and how to tie fishing knots. In the funky corner book marks, I am pretty sure I muck up because they come apart unless I put something in the middle. In fun with flax I had to use a mussel shell to get the edges jagged.

My Holiday recount

My Holiday recount

In the holidays I stayed in Papamoa. I went to the air force museum and then we saw some awesome things. The thing that I liked the most was this awesome plane that had heaps of compartments. There was the gun room, the living quarters, the radio operator's room, which had a second level which was really just a seat with windows and millions of buttons. Then there is the cockpit which was pretty cool, and in the footwell, it kind of got real big and there was a table and chairs but the roof and walls were made of glass.

term 3 reflection

Term 3 Reflection

What have you enjoyed the most this term? Why?

• Literacy IXL because there is cool prizes.
• Our calendar art because I like the art that I have done.
• Our workshops that we did with group one group two and group three. I like it because we had science, rad rhythm,and dodgeball.Each day, every group did something different.

What has been challenging this term? Why?

• Maths IXL because most of them have quite hard questions.
• The Block run because I wanted to stop but I had a goal not to.
• Getting my IXL done sometimes because I don’t go on it until Tuesday.

What are you looking forward to next term? Why?

Swimming, because I really love to get out into the water and learn new things.

Athletics because I enjoy long jump and competing against others.

My speech

MY SPEECH

My speech topic is about Dance. I chose this topic because I know a lot about it. I think it was really easy to write this topic because I did not have to research anything, it was all in my mind. I did not have to change my topic because I was happy and pleased with my topic I already have. I do not feel nervous at all because I really want to see how people react. I think the hardest part of presenting a speech is because some people,(not me) get really nervous.

Term 3 goals

I am really looking forward to Cross Country, because I am curious to see if I make it into Hauraki plains. My favourite part of this year has been the block run because I enjoy running round the block. My three goals for maths are:

• To get better at degrees

• To get better at Meanings and place values.( I usually get mixed up between the two)
• To get better at measuring capacity

My literacy goals are

• To get better at editing in my writing
• To make sure that I understand what I read
• To make my writing more interesting

I think I am improving on my maths goals because sometimes these are on my MDR and I think I am improving my MDR.

I do not know if I have improved my literacy goals.

cross country

MY CROSS COUNTRY

On the day of the Cross Country, everybody in my house was, as usual, rushing around. It was so busy that we missed the bus. When I got to school I was quite nervous. The roll was called and I thought I was going on the bus. As it turned out though, I was going in a car. The girl we were going with, I don’t think she was there, so, my brother and I  went in a car with spare seats. We got there and I put my bag down were it was supposed to go. It took forever for my race to come, but it finally came. I came in fourth place. My goals for HP are: to get to Thames Valley,and at least come in the top 10. My training helped because last year I came 7th or 8th.

 My Fun Holidays

The BFG	Finding Dory

In the holidays, I watched Finding Dory, and the BFG. In the BFG, my favourite part was when the BFG and Sophie went underwater and all the dreams were there. It was really cool when Sophie caught a dream about herself! In Finding Dory my favourite part was near the end when Dory was sad because she had lost everything. Then Dory  found a beautiful purple shell. She swam down to it mumbling I like shells, Dory then saw that there was a trail of shells. She said to herself loudly “I like shells.!’’She followed the shells and saw a little house with heaps of shell trails. Just then a female and a male of her kind swam towards the house with fin-fulls of shells looking sad. When they saw Dory then they stopped, they both had surprised looks on their faces. Dory said to them, “Hello, Im’’… before she could finish, the two fish yelled “DORY!’’ And rushed towards her.