SLJ Day 1 Activity 1

Fun facts about New Zealand,

30% of the country is forest.

New Zealanders love cars with 2.5 million cars for 4 million people making them one of the countries to have the highest car ownership rate in the world. 

To become a New Zealand citizen, you must swear an oath of loyalty to Queen Elizabeth

LUNCH EXPECTATIONS

This weeks value is Lunch expectations. Most of the school get up and move around during eating time and school is trying to improve on that.

Ambition

Kia Ora , This week we are learning about ambition which is about what you want to be when you are older. I wanna be a Air hostess or I wanna be in the silver ferns netball team.

Homonyms, Homophones, Homograph.

We have been learning about Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs and what the difference is between them ! 

Mystery doug.

Yesterday we did mystery doug writing we had to chose from . Were or are dragons real. Or why leaves change color in autumn. Then we picked what type of writing we did from the pie. Then we wrote a story. Ka kite everyone blog you later !

Honesty

Kia Ora, This week our value is honesty we have been making slides to show what honesty means. 

Tolerance

This week our value is Tolerance. Me Mischa and Keisha have been doing a collaboration slide about Tolerance.  Here is my slide !
Here is what I have learnt.
1) Its not judging people.
2) If people are different to you still treat them like everyone else. 

Kupu ahua

Merryn & Aliyah Digestive system

I really enjoyed doing this art it was really fun to do. If we ever do it again I would make sure that I was not muking around and got stuff finished more quickly. We also need to be a bit more carefull with the paint and the pva glue we made quite a big mess with it. But thats ok its how we learn. The things that were hard about it was when we had to tie the strings together to show were the facts were . When we had to work together was when we were painting it and it was going everywere we worked together and it worked. Thanks for reading!

The best and worst things about winter

~The best and worst things about winter~
 ~ Merryn ~
:The things that make winter so great is…..
It snows and I love snow
 I get to play my favourite sport ever, Netball
I get to make snow men
 It’s my birthday
 :The things I hate about winter is…...
It’s cold and I can't go to the beach
You can't play in your backyard
Or go to the playground
You can't do the simple things outside

Robot Rampage

WALT write a creative story using a story starter.

‘’O no” what has this crazy robot done “I need to go have a look”. Hemi leapt out of his chair nervously and followed the shouting noise and it led to a giant farm. On the farm lettuce was being grown as well as orange carrots, and Orange and Green pumpkin. The robot was cutting all the baby lettuce from the ground. The farmer was not very happy. The angry farmer was running as fast as a cheetah around chasing the robot.

What was he going to do. He needed to get to the robot and press the button on his right arm that makes him power off. But how was we going to get to the robot the robot is to fast. He needed to think of a plan. He needed to get to his right arm. He rushed home and grabbed supplies from the garage to make a flying fast robot that can hopefully catch the robot Hemi worked and worked as fast as he could. Imagine if by the time he gets back all the lettuce,Carrots and pumpkin were gone that would be terrible.

 He hopes that this robot machine will work. If it doesnt he is in deep trouble he is probably already in deep trouble anyway. He ran back to the farm listing to the shouting noise and it sounds like evan moor people. The Farmer's wife was yelling as well. Hemi set the robot free. The robot is basically attached to red buttons. The robot crazily chasing the robot won't stop until he gets to the red button. The robot presses the red button and the robot turns of a fell to the ground. Everyone new it was my robot so what was Hemi going to do. He ran and ran until he got home with a bunch of grannies and grandpas that love there beautiful gardens chasing Hemi.

 Hemi locked myself in the shed and stayed in there until I thought everyone was gone. Thankfully everyone was gone. Hemis Dad pulled up the Drive and all the lawns were mowed “WOW” dad said “I can't believe it you normally hate mowing the lawns”. “I'll have to get you to mow the lawns more often.” “Oh noo”

Travel Brochre

WALT design a travelbrochure

Creative writing

WALT create a piece of writing which includes 5 words that we have been given. This week the words were: Pink,Huge,Bridge,Sprinkled and daffodil.

The big week

By Merryn

We decided to go to the park at the park there are beautiful daffodils there is also a Bridge going over a lake. When you get to the end of the bridge there is Pink, gold, yellow, orange, green, glitter sprinkled all over the ground. There is also a row of trees and on the other side there is a huge playground that has 5 things of everything like 5 slides 5 swings 5 seesaws. It is pretty cool and it is free to go to and it is normally packed with people and the good thing is that it's just across the road from us. Anyway it was time to head back home now and have dinner Mcdonalds was for dinner I was really excited. It was really yum. I asked my Mum if my friend Aliyah could come and stay the night she said you have to ask her Mum. So Mum grabbed her phone and rang Aliyah's Mum she said I will be 15 minutes away. In 15 minutes she was here we didn't have much time till bed so we watched a movie. We had to go to bed because it was getting late. We woke up the next morning and had pancakes for breakfast. So we went back to the park and when we were on the tallest slide in the park Aliyah fell to the ground on the concrete and broke her nose. I had my phone and called Mum she said call the ambulance so I called 111. She said 111 what's your emergency I said my friend just fell off a slide and broke her nose. I told her my location and they were her in the next 5 mins. She didn't want to go in the ambulance by herself so I came with her.Her nose was pretty yuck It had blood dripping down. We arrived at the hospital then Aliyahs Mum arrived but I still wanted to stay with her. We went inside a room apparently they were gonna click her nose back in place. “AOOWWW’’ I looked over and her nose was straight I was daydreaming for a bit until I heard her screaming. Me and Aliyah were allowed to go home now which was good. We got home. Aliyah didn't want to go to that park again and I can see why :) she had to go home now and have dinner there was school tomorrow so we had to go to bed at 8:30 and it was 7:00 anyway so she drove to her house when she left I ate my dinner and went to bed. The next morning it was school I woke up at 7:30 I was lucky I didn't sleep in. Aliyah came to school today which was weird I would think that if I broke my nose I wouldn't come to school the next day. Aliyah had a big bandage on her nose how could she breathe. Everyone was asking if she was ok “what happened” “Did it hurt” that's all people have been saying to her ALL DAY. Even the teachers. I feel bad for her Aliyah was relieved the day was over and know more questions were asked until we were walking home everyone else that was walking that hadn't asked her even some people that did ask her “what happen” “does it hurt” “How did that happen” Finally we were home she was at her house and I was at my house. Well that has been a big week for all of us especially Aliyah. The end

My Magical Creature 100 WC

Walt descibe a Magical creature that lives in the pink lake or a animal hospital

 There lived a magical unicorn her name was Shimmer she lived at a animal hospital for unicorns all the unicorns had something wrong with them. Some of them had had their leg taken off. Some of them evan had one eye. Shimmers isn't as bad as the other ones but it is bad enough to go to the hospital. It has been 3 days since she has had her surgery. A special thing about her is she has magical powers her horn can heal people but only little cuts not huge ones. She can fly, She has invisibility, she has super speed.

Californian Native Americans.

Walt gather information about the Cahuilla tribe.I really enjoyed learning about this tribe and something interesting I learnt was they used musical instruments such as flutes, whistles, and rattles made of turtle shells, or empty gourds.

Rata and the waka

We have been doing critical thinking with the story of Rata and his waka.

100 word challenge

Walt: use 100 words to write a story.
At the playground me and my sister asked our Mum if we were allowed to have a play on the playground across the road. Since that was the only one we were allowed to go to because it was close to our house. But it was a little creepy because it had a graveyard next to it. I slid down the crimson slide and and climbed up the purple ladder. It was starting to get darker. Our Mum rang us for dinner but our phones were in our bags and we couldn't hear the phone ringing. We decided to go to our Nana's grave, it was misty. I thought it would be funny to prank Aliyah so I shouted “RUN” and Aliyah frantically ran around screaming and ran home. =

Art Attack

This term we have been creating pieces of art as our Kaupapa has been art attack. We have done:

• Self portraits
• pastel and dye
• 3D construction  

Take a look at some of my creations.

Paikea and the whale

We have been using higher order thinking skills to complete our maori myth and legend slide presentations.

Maui catches the sun.

We have been using higher order thinking skills to complete our maori myth and legend slide presentations.

100 word challenge

Gaint cup

My family and I decided to go to a forest far, far away. It was a little bit scary. At the forest as we were walking I saw a white, giant cup. In the cup is gold, shiny designs that look like leaves that fall off trees in Autumn. There was also a gold line on the inside with a little line beside it and on the handle was a little bit of gold. On the outside were two lines of gold. I was really confused when I saw the cup in the ground I wonder how it got there?

100 word challenge

This week we were given a story starter but what if I was in charge? My focus was on making my story interesting and staying within 100 word limit.

….If I was in charge….
 My Sister and I were on our way to KMart to get me some new clothing . We arrived and walked into the shop we walked over to the clothing section but there was no clothing. My sister said “lets go and get a chocolate bar instead.” So we went to get a chocolate bar and they were all out of chocolate bars. I was thinking of something else we needed I thought of hair ties but they were all out of hair ties. If I was in charge of KMart I would make sure there were lots of chocolate bars, lots of girls clothes and lots of hair ties.

My learning goals for 2018

Today I brainstormed a new goal for panui pukapuka, tuhituhi, pangarau, hauora and a key competency goal. I have created a google drawing and I am sharing it on my blog to prepare for our goal setting conversations next week.