Camp reflection.

W.A.L.T. upload our camp reflection and write about it on a blog.

Today we had to reflect on the year five and six camp. As above you can clearly see my reflection and why I like/enjoyed it. Last week we went to Aroha island with Kereru. We went to camp so we can experience the nature and what it is like  to be a part of fun experiences and learning. We did alot of fun activities like walking, kayaking, sleeping, Kiwi spotting but my personal favourite was eating.

Have you ever been to Aroha Island?

Do you want to see a Kiwi?

MaItAi BaY bRoChUrE

W.A.L.T: Create and upload a blog post on our inquiry task that we have been working on.     

For inquiry our class has been learning to create brochures about Maitai Bay. About two weeks ago I made a brochure about Maitai bay with Peyton. We had to include some reasonable information about Maitai bay and the rahui that was placed there. Here is my brochure.

My Maitai Bay Brochure.

I learnt that Maitai bay has a rahui.

I enjoyed editing and finding information for the brochure

I could improve by adding more photos.

Have you ever been diving at Maitai bay?

Kiwi Can Lesson

 W.A.L.T upload a post showing what we learnt in Kiwi Can today.

Today we had Kiwi Can. Our focus today was respect, the catchphrase that goes with it is : "We will respect our school we will do it because we're cool". We played two games, the games we played were called Snap, crackle and pop and So,ma,ca,lo. This is how you play Snap, crackle and pop; First you have to get into groups of three and decide who is going to be snap who's going to be crackle and same with pop. Today I was in a group with Mia and Sofia, Mia was crackle Sofia was pop and I was snap. Once you have sorted that out you have to get into a circle with the other groups then somebody has to yell out snap, crackle or pop for instance if they yelled out snap then the people that were snaps including me would have to run around the circle and the other two people would have to put their leg up and then snap would have to run under their legs and get what ever is in the middle of the circle the first person to get it gets a point the people with the most points at the end win! Here is a photo of us playing So, ma, ca, lo:

How I showed respect is not being a sore loser and having a fit.

I enjoyed playing these games because it is nice to run around and have fun.

I could improve on being more careful when running around because it is a hazard.

Have you ever played snap, crackle and pop before?

Trip to Te Puna Wai Ora pools.

Yesterday we went on a trip to Te Puna Wai Ora pools centre so we could learn how to snorkel. My favourite task that we did was when we had to go  under water with the snorkel, and the blow out the water like a whale! The reason we did this was because next Thursday we will be going to Maitai bay to explore the marine reserves for the Experiencing marine reserves program. Our instructor's name is Oliver, Oliver is preparing us for the Maitai bay trip so we can snorkel and discover the different types of fish.

What I learnt was to get all of my hair out of the mask otherwise it would leak.

What I enjoyed was going through the hoop under water.

My one goal is to hold my breath for longer.

Have you ever gone snorkelling?

Maori language scratch test.

 I.A.L.T Upload and create a blog post about my scratch.

Yesterday with whaea Donna we made a scratch project to test peoples Maori language knowledge, here are the steps we had to use.

First we had to write down our questions

Then we had to look at some other scratch's to see some cool ideas.

Next we had to remix one of them and add the questions that we wrote down on the paper.

What did I enjoy?

What I enjoyed was finishing this task because it felt good to get all of the pressure off of my shoulders.

What did I find challenging?

What I found challenging was finding the perfect character for my scratch because it is hard to find one.

Click here to try it out.

Have you created a scratch before?

 

kiwi can

W.A.L.T Create and upload a blog post about our kiwi can lesson from today.

Today at Kiwi Can we played 5 games, I won't say all of them, but my favourite game was "peke peke". The word today was again Accountability. It means taking responsibility and ownership of you actions, the catchphrase was also the same as last time.. How the game went was that there would be somebody would call out peke and you had to jump in one of three different positions and if you jumped in the same positions as your partner you would have to say hei. If you said hei at the same time you had to do siccors ,paper, rock.

Reflection:

What did I enjoy?

What I enjoyed was learning the new games we haven't played before because it was funny.

What did I find challenging?

What I found challenging was reacting fast enough because it was being said too fast.

Do you like the sound on Peke Peke?

Newspaper bingo

 W.A.L.T upload a blog post about our reading task and write about it.

Today we had Mr Metzger with us! Our reading task for today was to go onto Kiwi kids news and skim through some of the articles then, write the titles in the boxes that we got given.The boxes we got given had specific types of articles that we had to read.For example: there was one box that says that we had to write the title of one article that made us laugh.Here is mine...

What I enjoyed was finding the one that made me laugh.

What I did well was getting them done.

Have you ever done a newspaper bingo?

KiwiCan

 W.A.L.T write and upload a blog post about our Kiwican lesson.

Today we had Kiwican again, Kiwican had to go because of the Covid-19 outbreak. The word that we are now working on is accountability. What accountability means is to be honest and take responsibility for what we have done. Our new catchphrase is ;We are honest we are true, we take ownership for what we do.We played two games what we played  was: high tide,low tide and the other one was impossible connections how you play impossible connections is somebody will play some music and you have to dance as soon as the music stops, you have to stop, look and listen to your instructions for example; four, elbows this means you have to get into a group of four and touch elbows with each other another example is ten, feet this mean a group of ten and you have to be touching feet. Here are a few photos:

 

What I enjoyed was playing impossible connections because it was funny watching every one dance.

What I found challenging was playing high tide low tide because I wasn't fast enough.

Have you played any of these games?

Reading task

I.A.L.T upload a task from either this week or last week.

Today our reading task was to make up 10 true and false statements about the book called reckless. Here are what my statements were;

1. Kane didn't take the long way home. (false)

2. There was about 5000 dinghies in the bay. (false)

3. Kane is not a person to be worried. (false)

4. Kane has been in uncle Max's tinny before. (true)

5. There was a child's scream in the bay. (true)

6. Kane didn't even think about a life jacket he thought he was too old for them. (false)

7. The family got out of the water safely. (true)

8. When Kane got home his dad was sleeping on the floor in his pyjamas. (false)

9. His father really listened and understood Kane. (false)

10. His dad showed Kane the report and it was about cows. (false)

Reflection.

What I did well was think of false questions because we were supposed to do 5 each but I did 7 false and 3 true...

What I enjoyed was reading a new book because it is interesting.

What I could improve on is thinking of less false questions and more true.

Have you done a reflection before?

How to make your very own geometric art.

 I.A.L.T upload a blog post about our art and write about it.

For the past couple of weeks we have been working on some geometric art. The art below is not mine because I have not finished yet, here are the steps.

-First you chose the shape that you desire.

-Then you have to trace/draw the outline of your animal on an A4 or A3 piece of paper.

-Next you make all of the curved lines into edged straight lines with a ruler.

-After that you fill in the inside of the animal with different geometric shapes.

-Finally you can think/start filling in the shapes with patterns,paint,dye,colouring pencils or any other things you want!

When you are done your object/animal should look a little like this.

 

Have you ever done geometric art?

Commas

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Last week we had to learn about commas. We did a couple of lessons about commas to learn about how to use them and where to put them. After those few little lessons, we got given a task to make either a poster or animation with a buddy or two to teach children where to use them. I choose to make an animation with Peyton and Anika here is our animation.

What I enjoyed was adding in Squidward because he looks funny.

What I did well was add in some humour to make it more interesting because normal is boring.

What I could improve on is adding more places that you can put commas in.

Do you like our animation?

Thought message

 I.A.L.T upload a  finished task from this week.

Today for our reading task, my group and I had to make a thought message about what it would be like if we were students from the future and time travelled back to the present. First we had to read the book. Next we went onto the google drawing and customised the background.Then we wrote a quick little fictional story/letter about what it is like in 2020. This is my message.

 

I enjoyed spelling the sports wrong on purpose because it looks funny.

What I did well was the background because I think the colours blend well.

I could improve on making it more descriptive.

What do you think it would be like in the future?

A.L.I.M drawing task

W.A.L.T upload a blog post of one of our learning tasks from this week.

This week at A.L.I.M learning time one of my tasks were drawing so this is what I did.

The first thing I did was draw the mountains. Next I drew the snow on the top and shaded it. After that I did the rocky stuff.Then I added in the clouds, river and grass.

Reflection:

What did I enjoy? 

I enjoyed shading and blending the snow because it was fun getting my fingers messy.

What did I find challenging?

What I found challenging was drawing all of the grass because my hand got sore from doing each little strand.

What should I draw next?

Kiwi Can

W.A.L.T upload a blog post about when we went to kiwi can

Today for our warm up we played stop, walk, clap and jump which was funny to watch when I was out.

Next we played Red light Green light (it's a bit like sneak up on granny).

Finally we did an activity which was, you got into a group of 3-4 and got given a piece of paper by kiwi can. My group did Bad choices and you had to write at least 20 bad choices to make.

What I enjoyed was playing stop, walk, clap and jump because it was really enjoyable.

What I found challenging was to think of heaps of bad choices.

Have you played one of these games before?

Description writing

W.A.L.T create a blog about our descriptive piece of writing we did today.

Today's writing task was to describe a person or object with our senses. The person I choose was Shrek.
-First we had to think about who we were going to write about.
-Next we had to describe what/ who we were writing about.
-Finally we put our name on it then handed it in.
Here is my writing:

What I think I did well was describe Shreks looks

I think I could improve on my handwriting 

I will use this in my writing when I am describing a character or person.

Do you have any feedback?

Matariki star art

W.A.L.T create a blog about the art we have been working on lately.

For the last week we have been working on our matariki art this is how we did it.
-First we got given one big star and one small star to trace on a piece of A3 paper.
-Next we had to draw some patterns and designs on our stars in pencil.
-Then we coloured in the designs (as you can see I left some of mine blank).
-After that we cut them out and stuck the on a A3 black piece of paper.
-Finally we cut the black piece of paper into a centimetre boarder.
Here is my star.

Reflection
I enjoyed colouring in the patterns on my star and getting it done.

Have you done matariki art yet?

Climate change poster

I.A.L.T upload a learning task from this week.

For our task we had to use the text and the Antarctic links in the "explore more" column we had to find out more information about the work scientists are doing in Antarctica.

Next we had to create a poster answering the following questions:

• What else are scientists learning about the risks of climate change and global warming?
• How trustworthy are their findings? How would you critique this?
• How would we share this information with other people?

Reflection time:

Something I enjoyed about this task was fining out more info and facts.

Something I found interesting was how BIG ice sheets can get.

Finally something I learnt was that snow didn't melt when it fell in Antarctica.

Would you want to go to Antarctica? Why? Why not?

Find the definition of these words.

I.A.L.T upload one of my reading tasks from this week.

For this task I was given three words to find the definition of and the put it into a sentence. The words I had were ancestors, geothermal and vapour. Ancestors are old family. Geothermal is things that are produced by the earths internal heat. Vapour is a liquid that is turned into a gas. What word do you like the most?

My online reading book.

I.A.L.T clean out my online reading book.
  Over lockdown we were given out own Online reading book so we could upload our learning, so miss Thompson can check if we have been on task or not. Here is my reading book. In our reading book we had to include the Date and a screenshot of our working like our reading book.Did your class use an online reading book?

My online math book.

I.A.L.T clean out my online math book.
  Over lockdown we were given out own Online math book so we could upload our learning, so miss Thompson can check if we have been on task or not. Here is my math book.
In our maths book we had to include the Date and a screenshot of our working.Did your class use an online math book?

Cancel the invasion wordsearch

W.A.L.T create a blog post about my reading task and write about it.
Today we had to complete a word search. All of the words were from a book we have been reading called "cancel the invasion".


Here is my word search as you can see I have gotten every single word but "reassuring" the easiest three words to find was message,launched and invasion. The hardest words to find was Vampire,exhausted and obviously reassuring  I liked today's task because it was fun,simple and enjoyable.

What word do you think is the most interesting?

Cancel the invasion story board

I.A.L.T upload our writing tasks to my blog and write about it.

                                                           Today for reading we read a story called Cancel the invasion. After we had read the text we had to start our writing task. Our writing task was to create a storyboard of the main ideas. In our storyboard we had to include the:
-Title and author
-Setting
-Characters
- Ideas at the beginning
-Ideas in middle
-Ideas at the end.

I think the main idea was: Don't judge a book by it's cover because...
In the middle when the kid came in she thought just because he looked like an mean scary weird alien he was actually a really nice guy!

In your opinion what would you rate my blog out of ten?
(please explain why)

Newspaper report

W.A.L.T Create a newspaper report about a book we have been reading

Vocabulary Poster

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Today we read 'My name is Rez' then we got asked to make a vocab poster based on some Interesting or unfamiliar words in the book, on the poster we were given three words to find the definition and put the words into a sentence. There was also three extra spaces for us to pick three more words from the book and find the meanings of them too. 

Here is a picture of my poster.

Do you have any feedback for me?

Bok Choy summary

W.A.L.T upload our learning tasks and write about them.

Today was our last day reading Bok Choy. Our writing tasks for the last two days have been to create a storyboard and a summary. Below is a picture of my storyboard and summary.

Bok Choy is a story written by Paul Mason, and is about a young boy called Jacob smith, yet when Jacob gets mad he immediately  has the urge to go fishing. Then suddenly his boot slips and Jacob falls into the river!The current was too strong for him so he panics.before he knew it he was lying in a mysterious  hut he hadn’t recognised,IT WAS AH SUMS HUT!a bit later on his mum appeared,and took him home to make some…..BOK CHOY!!!!!!

My favourite part of bok choy was that bok choy is a food😅.

Have you ever read bok choy before?

Art drawing of a butterfly

W.A.L.T create a quality blog post that explains our learning.

Our reading task for today was to draw a picture of the animal we would like to research as you can see I have picked a butterfly.the first step was to copy the outline of the butterfly next I drew the purple parts after that I did the flowers then the background and little details finally I done the colours.

I really enjoyed drawing this.
Have you ever tried digital drawing a butterfly?

Zentangle art

W.A.L.T make a zentangle art.
A week or so ago we were asked to make a zentangle art for sea week. Here is how we created it.

Step One: Get the outline of the animal that we choose, I choose a hammer-head shark.
Step Two: Draw zentangle patterns of your choice.
Step Three: Cover Our patterns in Vivid.
Step Four: Dye a piece of paper.
Step Five: Leave it to dry.
Step Six: Glue your animal to the dyed paper.
Step Seven: Make a blog about it!
Heres a picture of mine

What I enjoyed about this was dying.
What I found hard and challenging was thinking about the Patterns to do.

Maths Strategy O_o

W.A.L.T:Write about a maths strategy we have learnt.
The circles have been learning to use place value partitioning to solve addition and subtraction problems it helps me cause it makes problems more easier to solve and remember E.G
Sindy $192 and was given $67 for her days work. How much money did she have altogether?
so you would go $100+$0=$100 next you would do $90+$60=$150 After that you would add $2+$7=$9 and Finally you would put together $100+$150+$9=$259 That's how it works!

Have you ever used Place value partitioning? 

How Do bees Make honey?

How do bees make honey?

W.A.L.T  write an explanation about how bees make honey.

this term we have been focusing on explanation writing the writing below is my "how do bees make honey?" explanation.  

Did you know that one bee has to fly up to 90,000 miles 3 times around the

globe to make one pound of honey? The average bee will make about 12/1 of

a teaspoons of honey in its lifetime! A honey bee visits 50-100 flowers

in one collecting trip and as fast as 15 miles PH!

Honey bees collect nectar in the spring. They use their straw like tongue

(aka Proboscis) to suck out all of the nectar and pollen they can.

 To carry the honey to the hive they store the honey in one

of their stomachs to make sure they don’t drop it anywhere.

Now they have to MAKE the honey the bees spit each others mouth

so it's nice and sticky next they spit it into the honeycomb,flap their wings

so it dries ,the seals the honey with a nice layer of wax

One the honey is produced and ready finally the keepers can prepare

it for sale! :D

I enjoyed writing this because it was fun and interesting to learn more about

bees!

Do you have any feedback for me?

Written by: Desiree Hosking

How to Convert celsius to fahrenheit

Heres an example.

 say your number was 35 so you would divide it by 5 which is 7 then you do 7 times 9 and then you get  63 then you add 32 and your total is 95 degrees fahrenheit! 

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PATRICIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (VINES LIKE THE GOOD OLD DAYZ)

Harry potter (W.I.P)

When Ron shouted ‘’Wingardium Leviosa!’’ The trolls bat went flying up into the air and then comes flying down then hits his head and knocks him out, the troll drops Harry just before CRASH! The troll hits the floor still confused about his bat.”Is it dead?’’ Hermione asks ‘’no i don’t think so just knocked out’’ says harry, harry grabs his wand out of the trolls nose’’egh troll bogies'’harry speaks. As professor Quirrel mcgonagall and snape come running in, next professor mcgonagall says ‘’oh my goodness explain yourselves both of you’’ hermione jumps in before Ron or harry can say anything, ‘’it was my fault’’ ‘’miss Granger’’ whispers mcgonagall. Hermione starts to speak again ‘’I went looking for the troll I read about them and thought I could handle it by myself but I was wrong if harry and Ron didn’t come to find me I’d probably be dead’’ 

‘’be that as it may it was an extremely foolish thing to do, I expected more rational behaviour and am very disappointed in you five points will be taken from Gryffindor...for your serious lack of judgement.As for you two gentlemen… I just hope you two realise how fortunate you are,Not many first year students could  take on a fully grown mountain troll and live to tell the tale. Five points will be awarded to each of you...for sheer dumb luck. said professor mcgonagall ‘’Prehaps you ought to go, it might wake up he-he" Quirrel stutters. ‘’take a bit of toast, mate go on.’’ Ron stated ‘’Ron’s right Harry you’ll need your strength today.’’ Hermione urged ‘’I’m not hungry’’ Harry Pointed out ‘’Good luck today, Potter you’ve proven yourself against a troll. A little game of Quidditch should be easy work even if it is against Slitherin. Snape complemented ‘’that explains the blood’’ Harry exclaimed ‘’Blood?’’ Asks Hermione

‘’Listen last night, I’m guessing snape let the troll in as a diversion so he could get past that three headed dog but he got bit that's why he’s limping.’’explains Harry ‘’But why would anyone want to go near that dog!?’’Hermione questioned ‘’the day me and hagrid went to Gringotts hagrid took something out of one of the vaults said it was Hogwarts business very secret’’Harry pointed out Hermione starts to say ‘’so you’re saying’’ ‘’that’s what the dogs guarding that’s what snape wants’’ As mail starts bursting through Harry gets an unusual shaped package kind of like a broom ‘’it’s a bit early for mail isn’t it?’’exclaims Hermione     

catch of the day (IT'S A JOKE DUH!)

HEHEHE (this was in meh free time) heh

HEHEHE

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Goals for 2020

 Goals For 2020

W.A.L.T set and achieve our goals for 2020. 

Stretch Goals:  I will become more focused  when doing my work.I will know when I have some spare time once i have finished my work.I will: Work harder and not talk to my friends.        This goal is realistic because I can get my work done and it will help me focus on other things in life too.I will have achieved  this goal by the end of term one.

Strength goals: I would like to learn a bit more about maths like how to square numbers. I will know when I can work it out in my head and not in a book or drawing. I will:to think well and focus on my maths.This goal is realistic because I can get smarter and i can use this information for my future.I will have achieved this goal by the end of the year???

Do you have any feedback for me? 

About Me

Hi my name is Desiree! I am a Year 6 student In Tui Whanau at kaingaroa school.

Some of my hobbies are Fishing,Soccer ,Eating and of course sleeping!

My favourite foods are Pizza and cake. My Favourite colour is aqua my best-friend is Peyton. My ethnicity is Maori European i am originally from Christchurch and I have two siblings.