William Pike

Last week Te Ngahere was learning about William Pike’s. We got to watch a half an hour webinar about his adventures all around the world. After we watched the webinar we had to create a google drawing to answer questions. Here is my link to my google drawings.

Holding My Breath - Missy

A few weeks ago in Te Ngahere my reading group and I have read a book called Holding My Breath. I was learning to

Answer Inference questions.Our success criteria was,   

The answers are in full sentences, use words from the question.

Your answers also include keywords from the text.

The reaction question is your own thoughts feelings based on what you have read.I think that I can improve on putting the answer into the question.

A few weeks ago in Te Ngahere we were writing Informational reports about countries. My country was Australia because I really like that country a lot but it was really hard to find out information about it.

WALT: Write an informational reportAustraliaHave you ever been to Australia before?Because if you haven’t did you know that Australia is the world's 6th largest country around. You will get to know about Australia’s history, culture, tradition and the Capital. TraditionAustralia celebrates some of the world's celebrations like Christmas and Easter. But also Australia has there own celebrations that they celebrate themselves like, Australia day, Melbourne cup and Eureka Stockade.HistoryThe first person who discovered Australia was an englishman called William Dampier in 1688. But then in 1770 a british sailor named Captain James Cook found a piece of land on the east coast of australia. He named it New South Wales and said that It was For British citizens.  CapitalAustralia's Capital is Canberra, Canberra has forest’s all around it. Canberra’s focal point is  Lake Burley Griffin, that has many sailboats and kayaks in it. On the lake shore is a modern parliament house and Museums as well as a National Gallery.ConclusionAs you can see, Australia has a long history and also has it’s own Culture and Traditions. If you would like to find out more about Australia, there are some books that you can find like 30 Days In Sydney, Claiming A Continent and more.    

For the last couple of weeks Te Ngahere has been writing Informational reports about countries. My WALT was we are learning to use topic sentences in our writing, and my country is Australia. I wrote about three of Australia's  most played sports and they are Australian Rules Football, Netball and Rugby league.

WALT: Write an informational report

Australia

Have you ever been to Australia before?

Because if you haven’t did you know that Australia is the world's 6th largest country around. You will get to know about Australia’s history, culture, tradition and the Capital.

Tradition

Australia celebrates some of the world's celebrations like Christmas and Easter. But also Australia has there own celebrations that they celebrate themselves like, Australia day, Melbourne cup and Eureka Stockade.

History

The first person who discovered Australia was an englishman called William Dampier in 1688. But then in 1770 a british sailor named Captain James Cook found a piece of land on the east coast of australia. He named it New South Wales and said that It was For British citizens.  

Capital

Australia's Capital is Canberra, Canberra has forest’s all around it. Canberra’s focal point is  Lake Burley Griffin, that has many sailboats and kayaks in it. On the lake shore is a modern parliament house and Museums as well as a National Gallery.

Conclusion

As you can see, Australia has a long history and also has it’s own Culture and Traditions. If you would like to find out more about Australia, there are some books that you can find like 30 Days In Sydney, Claiming A Continent and more.    

Common Nouns and proper nouns

Last week Te Ngahere was learning to use common nouns and proper nouns, we learnt that the difference of a common noun and a proper noun is that a proper noun is specific and has a capital. We got to chose if we wanted to work in pairs or by ourselves, but I worked with Arihia. Here is our google drawing.

Last Week Te Ngahere was learning to Identify our Reading Goals. We chose our reading goals off our progression sheets from our groups Reading. We needed to chose three goals that showed what we needed to learn that was highlighted red.

Last week, Te Ngahere had to choose three maths goals that we needed to learn. We had to chose the three maths goals from the Ican sheet that Whaea Chrissy and Mrs Pou set up for us. Our WALT was to Identify what we have achieved in maths and our next learning steps. We then had to make a google drawing to show what our learning goals are, here is a photo.

Writing Goals

Last Week Te Ngahere made google drawings about our Writing Goals. The first thing that we did was to open up our Learning Goals slide and copy what we needed to learn into our google drawing. We then had to go on to our Term 2 Learning goals to copy what we  needed to learn from that onto our google drawings. Our WALT was WALT: Identify our learning goals.

Art

Last Term on Matariki Day Te Ngahere and Te Maunga were designing koru and kowhaiwhai Patterns to learn the meaning of them. The first thing we had to do is sketch the koru and kowhaiwhai patterns on a piece of paper. We then got to use metallic paint to make our art look colorful. We then waited for them to dry. After they had finished drying we had to go over the pencil with Vivid, here is my amazing art.

Student Led Conference

On Wednesday Te Ngahere held a Student Led Conference. We had to make a google drawing about our learning that we learnt this term. I evidenced my Writing, reading, maths, Te Reo Maori and Inquiry. But I didn't end up showing my mum at school, but I was able to show her at home.

Matariki Day

Last week on Thursday Paihia School had a family day to celebrate Matariki. We got to do fun things such as planting trees, playing fun activities and doing art in class, and also at lunchtime we had a big shared lunch with our families and teachers. But even before we had lunch, some people even managed to get up early at about 5.00am in the morning and went to see the Matariki stars. Then about 20 minutes later the people that went to see the stars were lucky enough to get a delicious breakfast from our wonderful teachers. It was so amazing on Thursday.

Waitangi Treaty Grounds

Last week on Tuesday Paihia School walked to the Waitangi Treaty Grounds. The Junior kids walked early and then later on the senior kids walked. Why we walked there was to celebrate Matariki. When we got there we got to do fun and awesome activities, It was a lot of fun at Waitangi.

A few weeks ago Te Ngahere and Te Maunga got to design our very own Fidget spinner art. We were learning to use space, crayon and dye. We used a big piece of A3 paper to draw our fidget spinner art. We had drawn our fidget spinner art so we could match it with our Fidget spinner writing. But it was quite tricky to make the fidget spinner art because there would be lines that were smaller than the others and circles that were bigger than the others.

Ice Cream

On Friday, (week 7) Te Ngahere got to make Ice Cream if we got 100% right on our learning Plans. We got 100% so we got to make Ice Cream. We had to work in pairs and my partner was Hope. On Monday we then had to write a recount on how we made It. I was learning to use metaphors and parentheses. It was fun making Ice Cream.

Recount Making Ice Cream

On Friday Te Ngahere got to make Ice Cream if we had 100% right on our Learning Plans. Then on Monday we had to write a Recount on how we made it. We had to work in pairs, and I worked with Hope.

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WALT: Use the correct structure of a Recount and metaphors.

Title:Making Ice Cream

Last week on Friday, Te Ngahere made some tasty Vanilla Ice Cream. We had to work in pairs, I worked with Hope.

This is how we made the vanilla Ice Cream. The first thing we had to do was get ½ a cup of cream and pour it into a plastic bag, we then added 2 tablespoons of sugar into the bag and then added 2 teaspoons of vanilla essence.

Then we had to get an even bigger plastic bag and then added Ice and 6 tablespoons of salt into it. After we did all of that, we had to take them outside and Shake them fast until they get thick.

After we had finished shaking them, Alexsis and Freya took them up to the staff room and put them in the fridge. We then got to eat them at lunch (YUCK). The Ice Cream was an ocean, because all the salt from the big bag had gotten on the outside of the little bag.

Celebrations

This term the seniors are learning about celebrations. Yesterday we were learning about Easter. We learnt  about what is Easter and why we celebrate it. I used google drawing to show what I learnt.

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