Summer Leaning Challenge

VE Party: 

Who I would invite: I would invite all of my family and some of my friends, some family friends. 

What Would I do: If I planed a VE party we would go to the beach and have and swim then have a BBQ and maybe play cricket.

Summer Learning Challenge

St Joseph's Cathedral.

This Building is in Dunedin.

The Cathedral was Built on 24th of December 1885.

Summer Leaning Challenge Bonus Activity

My favourite performance was: Tamatea Arikinui because I just liked it more that the others

My second favourite performance was:Te Puku o Te Ika because it was not as cool as Tamatea Arikinui

My least favourite performance was:Te Iti Kahurangi because it was a bit weird and the music was bad

Summer Leaning Challenge

MY FAV FOOD

My favourite food if probably nachos with out cheese because I don't like cheese. Nachos are so good so that is why Nachos are my favourite food. :) 

Nachos Recipe:

Nachos Chips

Mince

Optional:

Sour Cream

Beens

Summer Learning Challenge Bonus Activity

Mum: Going to the beach and have bbq's.

Brayden: Go swimming at the beach, and Christmas Eve when we go to the beach and play cricket.

Riley: Go swimming at the beach with our family, and also play outside on sunny days.

Summer Learning Challenge

Why I would not like to be in a Family of 7 - 9

• First of all 2 brothers are enough.
• It would be so loud all the time.
• If I have 9 brothers and Sisters they would follow each other around all the time.
• I just really would not like to have 7 - 9 brothers and sisters for those reasons. 

Activity 1 Summer Learning Challenge

Survivor Reflection Term 4

This week we started doing our Survivor activity's. My groups first activity was to imagine that one person had a broken arm, with that person we had to make a sling out of old cloths or towels. We also had to make a tent, we did this easy. Finally we had to make a stretcher to carry a person in our team. 

Shantytown Reflection T4W7

Shantytown

This week on Thursday my class and the Mamaku 1's year 6's went to shantytown. First of all went when we got there we met the two teaches the lead us up to the old school, that is were we put on the old fashion clothes, we dressed up like people would in 1866. 

After that we went into the old church. Then we split up into Boys and Girls the boys went to the watch a short movie and the girls had morning tea, then we swapped around. 

After morning tea we went on the steam train. We had fake gold and then we we got of the train we got fake robbed. We had to hand over the fake gold and the teacher had to give him her watch. We then split up to try and find the robber and then tell the inspector. We found him and put him in the jail. 

After that we did a court case I was the defendant lawyer. Going to Shantytown was fun if you can I thin that you should go to Shantytown.  

Fossils

4 Tips for a awesome bog post

Numeracy Reflection T3W8

This week or numeracy we did position and orientation. I found this really fun and quite easy. 

Numeracy Reflection T3W5

WALT: Use different problem solving strategies to solve word problems. This week for numeracy we did a problem solving slide, I was not here all week so I have not finished. I found this a bit hard because I didn't know what strategy to use to solve them.  The best strategy I used was drawing a diagram. 

Literacy Reflection T3W5

This week for literacy we did something called a Anticipation
Guide. Here mine is, I found this easy. Before we read the text we had to think about the statements made by the teacher and decide if we agreed or disagreed.  What do you think about these statements?

Numeracy Reflection

This week it was maths week so we did heaps of maths, we even did our own little westamaths tournament. That is when we get into groups and see who can get the most points in a certain amount of time.  My team did not do very well. We also did a lot of maths week activity's.  Here is one of the activity's that I did it with Franklin, we found this easy. We had to find hockey stick shapes. 

Literacy Reflection T3W4

This week for literacy we have been doing a something around Damion McKenzie. We had to do two perspectives of McKenzie doing a conversion. I did this with my friend Franklin. I found this fun and easy. We also have been working on something about Whitebait and Inaga. I found this fun also and quite easy.  We also did a PrEP letter here mine is. 

Literacy Reflection T3W1

This week we had to do a persuasive piece of writing. I decided to record it using screen castify. We also had to make a persuasive person about the same thing as our writing.  Next time I will try to get more arguments to try and persuade the reader.

Literacy Reflection

This week we have been working on a description. We had to choose one family member to describe. I chose my cute and funny 1st cousin Ben. We also did the main ideas of a Journal story called the VEGE CAR. This week I have also been reading a book called the bad guys episode one.  

Topic Refection

This week we have been doing Matariki for topic. I worked in a group with 4 other people. I found this easy  and fun. 

Literacy Reflection T2W7

This week for literacy we have been reading a journal story called the big game. We had to write a summery about the story here mine is. We also did a description about our literacy teacher Miss Reissmann here mine is. I found this easy.

Literacy Reflection T2W6

This week for literacy I did my word work. Here are my sentences, origins and definitions.   I did some writing and reading but my writing is not finished. 

My Art Reflection

Last week we were doing Robert Delaunay art. We used all different sized circles and stuck them to paper. I was pretty happy what it turned out like.  My whole syndicate have been doing this.  I did paper  collage. There is also pastel and paining. I felt happy when I was doing this art work. We used paper and also tissue paper.

Cross Country

This week we had the Grey Main School cross country. I got 5th equal with my friend Alex. I wrote a story about it. Here is a picture of my writing.  I was not looking forward to this but I ended up getting 5th place, I was so happy with my results. My WALT was to write a story about the cross country. 

Numeracy Reflection T2W4

This week we have been working on two by two digit multiplication. We also did maths protect and maths buddy I found some of this hard and other stuff easy. Here are a few answers of the 2 by 2. 

 

Literacy Reflection T2W4

This week for literacy we have been writing a story. I chose to write about a sleep over that I went to at Franklin's house.  Here is my first few paragraphs.  I also did word work and I found this easy. 

Bonus Reflection

This week for the bonus reflection I did the typing test because Kiwi Kids Test did not work. I think that my typing is good. When my finger has healed I think that my accuracy will be better.

Literacy Reflection T2W3

This week for literacy for writing I have been doing Rugby Profiles. Me and my friends Callum, Oliver, and Franklin made a mistake and did it together it was meant to be a individual task.   We Also read a book call Harakeke we had to write the main ideas from the story. I found this easy.  I also did a book advertisement. I found this easy. The WALT was to persuade others to read this book.

40BC Reflection

Title: Ratburger

Author: David Walliams 

Illustrator: Tony Ross

Rating:⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Ratburger is a book about a girl named Zoe. Her real mum died when Zoe was little.  Her step mums name is Sheila. All she does is sit around watching TV and eating crisps.  A man named Burt makes burgers out of rats and Zoe thought that he would make her little pet rat into a burger. Zoe sore a cages of rats and her and her dad let them all go. 

40BC Reflection

Title: Dairy of a track and field titan

Author:  Shamini Flint 

Illustrator: Sally Heinrich 

Rating:✡✡✡✡

This book is really cool. I like it because there are different characters. They had at track and field competition it was a draw. At the end Marcus likes Track and Field but his dad says he was born for swimming.  I recommend that you read this book it is awesome.

40BC Reflection

Title: The Boy in the dress 

Author: David Walliams

Illustrator: Quentin Blake 

Rating: ✡✡✡✡✡

I really like this book because it is about a boy who likes football, he gets into the final and scores the winning goal. It says stuff about how it is good to be different. So he makes friends with a girl that he likes named Lisa, she is 2 grades older than Dennis. I recommend this book it is really cool. 

40BC Reflection

Title: The Midnight Gang

Author: David Walliams 

Illustrator:  Tony Ross

Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆

This book is my favorite book by David Walliams. This book is about a boy named Tom, he gets hit in the head by a cricket ball, he has to go to hospital. He meats people in the hospital and they have some pretty cool adventures. I recommend that you read this book, it is awesome. 

Welcome Back

Welcome back to term 2, I hope everyone had a great first week back. This week I was lucky enough to find out that I was in the Rippa Rugby Team. I have learnt alot already this week and we are doing some different things. We have started doing power writing.   

Literacy Reflection

This week for literacy we have been working on something called plastic fantastic, it is a journal book.  We made a goggle doc and wrote some facts about plastic that we learnt from the book.  I found this easy.  

40BC Reflection

Title: Mr Stink

Author David Walliams 

Illustrator: Quentin Blake

Rating: ✡✡✡✡

This book is about a man named Mr Stink, there is a girl name Chloe who lets Mr Stink in there green house, when there mum finds out who is running for mayor, so when she finds out that Mr Stink was living in there green house she says that she knew that so then she thinks that is a homeless in lives with then she will get selected for mayor.  

40BC Reflection

Title: Awful Auntie

Author: David Walliams

Illustrator: Tony Ross

Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆

Awful Auntie is a great book it is about a girl named Stella Saxby. She wakes up after being in a coma for months. When she woke up she was covered in bandage and her awful auntie told her that she had broke all her bones. Later on in the story she finds out that she was in a accident with her parents, they died, Stella thinks that her auntie put poison in the pot of tea that morning, she was right. I recommend you read this book I am sure you will like it.

40BC Reflection

Title: Dairy of a Soccer Star

Author Shamini Flint

Illustrator: Sally Heinrich

Rating: ✡✡✡✡

This book is about a boy named Marcus Atkinson. His Dad thinks that he has a gift for sport he doesn't. Marcus is a maths whiz but he is very bad at sport.  I recommend this book for people who like sport. 

Numeracy

For the past few weeks we have been working on a two by two digit multiplication slide and video, here my finished work is. 

Summer Reading Challenge

I did the summer reading challenge in the summer holidays. Today if we did the summer reading challenge we got a book I was lucky enough to get a David Williams book. I got Awful Auntie. 

Bonus Reflection

This week I was not able to do the Kiwi Kid News test because we don't know the password. I did do the typing test though here are my results.

Top Team Games

This week we were lucky enough to do the Top Team Games. At the Top Team Games we did lots of different fun activities. There were 2 water activities where we got soaking. My favorite activity was one where we had to pour water into a big tube with holes in it and our team had to stop the water getting out of the holes. There was also a ball in the tube game and the aim of the game was to get the ball out by using water.  Here is a image of my team doing the super ski.

Numeracy Reflection T1W10

This week for Numeracy we have been doing a 2 by 2 digit multiplication slide, were we do step by step of how to work these sort of questions out. I have not quite finished but I have done the first 4 steps. We have also been doing maths buddy and maths protec which is basic facts website.  I did not know how to do this but now I understand, I found this hard but I have learnt a lot.

Literacy Reflection T1W10

This week for literacy I did word work, I chose to do a spelling paragraph where I use all of my words for a paragraph, here is my fun activity.  We also have chosen a topic of a really cool website called wonderopolis, my topic was why can't we feel the earth spin. I used a coggle.it to do my planning. I have also started the writing, here it is. It is not finished yet though. 

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40BC Reflection

Title: Dairy of a Cricket god

Author: Shamini Flint 

Illustrator: Sally Heinrich 

Rating ✡✡✡✡✡  

Diary of a cricket god is about a boy named Marcus Atkinson, his Dad thinks that he has a gift for sport... He does not. His crazy dad thinks that cricket is his sport. Marcus is a Maths whiz who is not good at sport. I recommend you read this book if you like sport, it is really cool and funny.

40BC Reflection

Title: Dairy of a Basketball Hero

Author: Shamini Flint 

Illustrator: Sally Heinrich

Rating:✡✡✡✡


This book is about someone called Marcus Atkinson, his dad thinks that he has a gift for sport. So far he has tried Soccer, Cricket, Rugby, Taekwondo, Swimming, Track and Field and also Golf. Now his crazy dad makes him play basketball... In a girls team. He hates it at the start, but then he think one of the girls in the team named Kobe likes him until another boy walks in and she say it is her boyfriend. Then at the end he won the game for his team. Then he loves playing basketball, so he says to his dad I guess basketball is not so bad, even playing in a girls team. So then his dad said to Marcus you were born to play tennis. I recommend that you read this book it is really funny, and I really enjoyed it.

40BC Reflection

Title: Tom Gates 

Author: Liz Pichon 

Illustrator: Liz Pichon

Rating: ✡✡✡

This book is about a boy named Tom Gates, he loves doodling allot more than his school work.  He hates his teachers one of the teachers is Mr Fuller man who he calls Mr Fullerbotter, he also has a sister who he thinks is really annoying. Read the book to find out more. 

Literacy Reflection

This week we have been doing a camp reflection, here are 4 of the paragraphs, I have not finished this piece of writing, I need to do 1 more paragraphs, we have been using the 5 w's in our writing. Here is my introduction. We have also been doing word work here is my fun activity. 

Numeracy Reflection

 This week for numeracy have been doing allot about 2 by 2 digit multiplication on maths buddy and we also did step by step, here is the first step.  We have also been using maths protect witch is a basic facts site.  Here is my certificate. 

40BC Reflection

Title: The Bad Book 

Author: Andy Griffiths

Illustrator: Terry Denton

Rating: ✡✡✡✡✡  

The Bad Book is a book with lots of little riddles and story's, my favorite one was about a boy, he said to his Mum, Mummy can I jump into the volcano, Mummy said I dont know it seams dangerous, then the boy said please, please, please, Mummy then said OK but be careful so he went and jumped in to the volcano.  

If you want to see more of the story's read the but book, I recommend that you do because this is a really funny book.

40BC Reflection

Title: Diary of a Super

Swimming.

Author : Shamini Flint 

Illustrator : Sally Heinrich

Rating : ****

Dairy of a super swimmer is book about someone called Marcus Atkinson.  He is useless at sport, so far he has tried only sports on hard ground, so far his dad has made Marcus try Rugby, Cricket, Taekwondo  and Track And Field. If you want to know more read the book. 

40BC Reflection

Title - The 52 story Tree House

Author - Andy Griffiths 

Illustrator -  Terry Denton

Rating ****

The 52 story tree house is a story about two boys named Terry and Andy. The needed someone to help them her names was Jill, they needed her so she could talk to a caterpillar but, Jill was asleep and she needed to be kissed by a prince to wake up, and the also were trying to find Mr Big Nose who is there publisher. They went up to a vegetable kingdom and dressed up as vegetables and they the asked the prince to kiss Jill, he did. After that when Jill woke up she took of her costume and then the vegetables got mad at them and put them in a dungeon. Luckily there was Mr Big nose who was there to, and then even better the caterpillar came and ate through the door so they were free.   

40BC Reflection

Title - Demon Dentist

Author - David Williams 

Illustrator -  Tony Ross

Rating *****


Demon Dentist is a story about a boy named Alfie and a girl named Gabz. One day at there school at a assembly a new dentist came in and walked around the hall and touched only Alfie and Gabz teeth. After that the dentist we around getting peoples teeth and putting bad things underneath there pillows. She got the teeth so she could make her evil layer out of them all, her evil layer was were Allie's Dad used to work in a old coal mine. I recommend this book to people who like David Williams books.

40BC Refection

Title -  65 Story Tree house 

Author - Andy Griffiths 

Illustrator - Terry Denton 

Rating - *****

The 65 story tree house is about: There was a inspector that came and knocked on Andy and Terry's door, then he went in a told then that they needed a perment for there tree house. After that they went to there time machine so they could go back in time to get the perment but... They went back in time way to far. They keeped on going to far back and then they finally got back to the right time but they forgot to get there perment.

Literacy Reflection T1W7

This week for literacy we have been writing a introduction about Shanty town. We learnt how to do a good introduction by using the 5w's.  Did you know that shantytown was re-opened by a groups of local enthusiasts in 1971, the idea came in to them in 1968.

I also did word work this week here it is. I learnt meanings to words that I did not know.