Summer Learning Journey activity 2: My Hometown

Hello! Today we have to describe our hometown. Well here is my story:
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Summer Learning Journey activity 1: Top 3 Things About NZ

Kia ora fellow bloggers! It is finally the summer holidays. For the holidays to keep me busy I have signed up to do the Summer Learning Journey. In this you have to do as many activities as you can throughout the summer holidays. Every task is worth a certain number of points. At the end you get prizes for the amount of blogs and comments you did. Today's task to write your Top 3 things about NZ. Here are my three:
1: NZ is nicknamed Aoeteroa because it means land of the Long White Cloud.
2: Our capital is Wellington, but the biggest city in NZ is Auckland.
3: Our Bird is the Kiwi. The Kiwi is a flightless bird.
Well, that was it for today. See you again tomorrow with another blog post.
Good Bye!

Venn Diagram

This week we have been learning to make a Venn Diagram. We did ours on Christmas in Sweden compared to Christmas in NZ. Here is mine:

Geometry Maths Taks

For the last few weeks our focus on maths has been Geometry. We got to choose geometry tasks to complete.

Star Test Results

Kia Ora Fellow Bloggers

Here are the results of my Star Reading test. At the beginning of the year I scored 43\50. This week I scored 47\50. I improved by 4 marks. My score means I did well above average. I improved the most in Sub-Test 3, the cloze activity.

Next year I need to work on vocabulary.

Term 4 Mats Results

Kia Ora Fellow Bloggers
Yesterday, (6.11.18) we did PAT test and I got a score of 19\35. The last time I did this test I got 15\35. SO that concludes that I got 4 more than last time. We did our PAT maths test in the morning before morning tea. Here are my results.

Our Comic Strip

This Thursday (November 1st 2018) we made comics. We read the book The Legend Of Rock, Paper, Scissors. We could make our comic from characters from the book or two class room objects. We had to make a duel. A duel is a battle or a fight. My comic is about a pen and a pencil fighting over who will get picked. Give me some comments about other comics that I could do. Here is mine. I hope you enjoy.

Explanation writing T4

This is my explanation writing for Term 4. Our prompt was to write to describe one environmental problem and explain what people can do to reduce its impact on the planet. I think I did better this time because I have better spelling, grammar and punctuation. You could give me tips in the comments on how to improve my explanation writing. Here they are:

      Old one:

              What a good friend is

Have you ever wondered what a good friend is?

Well a good friend is someone who looks after you,

has fun with you and you can protect each other from

the bullies around the school. Good means you are a kind, loving  person.

Firstly, having a good friend is great because they can

look after you. So when your hurt your friend will take you and look after. Also when your feeling down

they can make you feel better by cheering you up.

Secondly, having the best friend is awesome because

they have fun with you. Having fun is good because

having fun is important when you are a kid. When your

sitting around on your own your awesomely best

friend comes along tells some jokes with you.

Finally, when you have a good friend you can protect

each other from the school bullies. So if a bully says

something mean to a friend then you can protect them or they can protect you.

So having a good friend is great because they can look

after you by cheering you up if your down. Having the

best friend is awesome because they have fun with

you by joking around and telling jokes. Also when you have a good friend beside you can protect each other when you get bullied.  

New one:

Pollution

Do you have any ideas on how to solve pollution on the planet? Well if not this explanation is full of ideas how solve the planets pollution. A problem is where for example you are mowing your lawn and the lawn mower breaks. That is when you have a problem. Environmental means relating to the natural world and the impact of human activity on its condition.

One thing someone could do is reduce their use of fossil fuel. We burn coal, oil, natural gas, and gasoline to produce electricity and power our vehicles. When we do this we are creating fossil fuel. Fossil fuel is useful but very very bad to earth.

A second thing someone could do is recycle everything you can. You can recycle: Glass bottles, jars, paper, cardboard, milk bottles, ice-cream containers, margarine and yogurt containers. You can also recycle aluminium, such as soft drink cans and foil trays and steel cans. By recycling everything you can, you are helping the planet.

The last thing someone could do is reduce the use of plastic bags. Not all plastic is recyclable, you know. Because plastic bags aren’t recyclable, we just put them in the bin. And when we put them in the bin, we just drop them. That causes it to get stuck on the top of the bin or not even go in at all. When we just drop it in it flies out when the wind comes and lands in the trees or the ocean. That is how earth is polluted.

So, to stop pollution we can reduce their use of fossil fuels, recycle everything you can and reduce the use of plastic bags. I really do hope that my explanation has given you some thoughts about trying to stop pollution. I am not saying you have to, i’m just giving you ideas.

By Georgia

Free Writing About GrandParents.

This Friday (19.10.18) is our Greats and Grands day. We wrote poems about our grandparents. I did two poems because I have two sets of grandparents. One on my Nana and One on my Grandma. Here they are: 

Explanation writing about Grandparents

This Friday (19.10.18) is our Greats and Grands day. On Monday (15.10.18) we did a Pear Deck activity on explanation writing. In the activity we wrote 4 things about our grandparents problems and then chose one to write about. One of my reasons was Poor Eyesight. That is what I did my explanation on. Here is my Explanation:

Grandparents Explanation

Grandparents are people who have had children and those children have had their own children. My explanation is about failing eyesight. Do any of your grandparents have poor eyesight?

Firstly, a lot of old grandparents have poor eyesight. Like my Grandad. He has poor eyesight, and that is why he wears glasses while he reads. Grandparents shoul8d (if they have poor eyesight, otherwise what's the point) wear glasses while they read, cook or do regular day activities.

Secondly, grandparents should write in large writing so that they can see it better. They also can read books with large text so they don’t always need their glasses on while reading.

Thirdly, they could get a dog to help them walk around. Guide dogs are very helpful to the people that need help with walking places or loss of eyesight. Guide dogs will walk you around to places so that you don’t have to find your way around by yourself.

Failing eyesight is bad. I hope that my ideas have gotten you encouraged to try one of them. In the future there should be more ways to help blind people or people that don’t see very well, get around, read and do regular activities.

By Georgia

Tongariro National Park

In week 6 in Term 3, we went on  a Ski Trip down to Tongariro National Park. When we came back we made a factual slide on the things we learnt down there. Because it was Te Reo Language week when we did this, we translated every slide into Maori. Here is my friend and I's google slide about the Tongariro National Park.

Ski trip diary

This is my personal recount about everything I did during our school ski trip to National Park in September 2018. It was a blast! Mine is too big to put on here. Here is the link:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A1k904YbDJzQ7aFY0uGcfjU6j6JWhtZmavo3QlDMLWI/edit

Maths-Temperature

This term we have had Miss Dixon in our class on Thursdays and Fridays. We have been doing a Multi Model for math. This is it completed:

Penguin Report

For the past three weeks we have been doing animal reports. I did mine on penguins. In our animal reports the structure was, Classification, Appearance, Diet, Habitat, Reproduction and Threats. This is  mine:

Wacky Wednesday

Kia ora! Last Wednesday we had our Wacky Wednesday. Wacky Wednesday was a successful fundraiser for our Ski Trip. My stand was called, Mystery Box. Mystery Box got a very loooooooooooong line. We raised lots of money just by ourselves! We got 78 tokens. Altogether we raised about $500 dollars. In my group we had, Kelly, Leonor and Me. Here are two photos of my group during Wacky Wednesday.

Pear Deck Activity

Kia ora

We have been using Pear Deck to help us learn more about sentence structure so that we can get better at noticing where one sentence ends and another one begins. This should also help us get better scores for punctuation. This a screenshot of an activity we did: first we had to highlight the noun and verb parts of the sentences and then we had to decide where the full stops and capital letters should go.

Progress Journal 2018

Silly Sentence

This term we have had Miss Dixon in our class on Thursdays and Fridays. We have been doing a Multi Model for math. In our Temperature Drawing, one of the tasks was to do a silly sentence to help us spell the word ‘Thermometer’. My friend Saphera did it with me. We did our silly sentence and when we read it, it spelt ‘Temperature’.  After that we had to do anther one. We did it though. Here are our silly sentences.

A new blog post

Kia Ora fellow bloggers!!! It's the first week back at school and I'm not actually at school. Because I've got the chicken pocks. It sucks having the chicken pocks. Bye!!

Matariki Blog Post

Kia Ora, Fellow Bloggers!!! I'm back and ready to post. Yesterday we had a Matariki activity day at school. In room 9 I worked with a lady named Tracey. I also worked with our school librarian, Mrs C. We made these paper mashe dolls. We first cut everything out. Then we glued our mouth, eyes and nose on. Then we paper mashed our cardboard people. After morning tea we put beads on our dolls. Then after lunch and play we painted. It sure was fun!! I'm so amazed. It went so well. Well, see you in my next blog. Bye!

Creative writing

This week I chose to do a Adventure Path Story. Mine was about Night Thieves.  THe night theives are very small. Read my story to find out more. You click on the writing picture if you need to see it better.

Here is my Picture that goes with it:

Autumn Cameo

Yesterday we had a nature walk through the school. On the court we sat down and started to sketch the stuff that we thought was autumn-related. I sketched a tree, a leaf and a bird. We also had to write some key words down too. This is my Autumn cameo:

Our Commonwealth Games

We had to do a Commonwealth Games day report. Check out mine! It involves all of the stuff that happened during the Commonwealth Games day. Here it is:

Flying Fish

Yesterday my Granddad went fishing. He caught all sorts. He even caught some Flying Fish! I've never seen them before, only on TV. Flying Fish Drawing:

Flying Fish Photo:

The Learning Journey Evaluations 2018

This is my learning from term one.
I have learnt a lot and I'm pretty sure you'll be interested in my learning.
This is my slide to show what I've learnt this term.
I have learnt the following:
Main Ideas in paragraphs
Basic facts, Such as gaining speed and answering more questions
Similes and Metaphors.
Here is my slide

Weather Poem

We did a weather poem last week. I chose mine on snow. Snow is so cool so I chose it. Here is my poem:

Lamb Poem

This is my writing from the similes that we have been doing. I chose the photo of the lamb.

Than Similes

This is Abby's and I Than Similes

AS Similes

My year 6 partner, Abby did some simile work with me. Here is one of our similes for AS.

The rubbish bin smells as stinky as a smelly sock.

Swimming T1 2018

This year we have been practising streamlining our arms and legs. We have also been practising our breathing skills. I am good at my rainbow arms. I can’t swim the length of the pool but I am so close to swimming the whole length. We also had the Swim Safe ladies come to teach us our survival skills.

DLO COUPLET POEM

Reading poetry lesson No 3

Learn:

1. That rhythm is a main clue that a piece of writing might be poetry.

2.  What rhythm is.

Humpty Dumpty

We learnt about Prose and Poetry last week. Prose is just a ordinary piece of writing, Poetry is the poems like Humpty Dumpty. This is my Prose and Poetry Illustration.

Bio poem

We have being learning about poems. This is my Bio poem.

Yellow Butter

Reading Task: Treaty of Waitangi

Reading week  2 Term 1 2018 This week’s goals: Learn: How to recognise, ask and answer literal questions. Success criteria: Read texts and be able to think of a literal question based on that text. Use the key words What, Where, Who and When as sentence starters for your literal questions. Answer literal questions posed by other people. Create:   DLOs on which to record answers to questions/activities based on the Treaty of Waitangi. (from several sources). Scroll down for more information and links

On Monday of this week you will be working independently. Go to this document and follow the instructions. You need to read texts attached to the page so that you can answer the questions and create your own DLO to show your learning.

Tuesday: Waitangi Day-You will not be at school.

Wednesday:  You will have a workshop with your teacher. In order to show that you have met the learning goals above you need to do 2 things with this sheet. Step 1. Find your named box and write a literal question that could be answered by someone who has just read your text about the Treaty of Waitangi. Step 1 will be completed while you are with the teacher.

Dulcie - Who first began writing the treaty document? W.H was the first to start writing the treaty

Ronan - When was the treaty signed? 6th Feb 1840

Lawrence - Who was the first Maori to sign the treaty ? Hone heke was the first Maori to sign

Georgia - Why did Britain decide to protect the Maori? Because the French wanted to take over New Zealand

Sky

Leonor - How many chiefs signed the  T.O.W? The treaty traveled around New Zealand and about 500 chiefs signed

Jessica -What is the founding document of NZ? The Treaty Of Waitangi

Louisa - Who gave advice to W.H?James busby gave advice to W.H

Sara - What does rangatira mean? Chiefs

Indi - Who translated the treaty into Maori? Henry williams and his son translated the treaty

2. Once all of you have written a literal question in your own box, you each need to make a copy of this document.  Put your copy into your Reading folder in your Google drive. Using your new document, you need to answer each literal question until every box on your new document includes a literal question and its answer.  You will complete Step 2 independently after you have left the teacher. Tomorrow you will have another session with your teacher and your work will be marked.

My Published recount

This is my fixed up recount. I corrected my spelling and made it make more sense.

Draft Recount Writing