Goodbye 2014.

Goodbye to Mrs J,Mrs Garden,Mr S and Mr Goodwin thank you for helping me and class 6,7 and 8. I hope you have a cool holiday and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.And good luck for next year.

   

Middlerun Farm.

We are learning to identify the key words and main ideas in the text. We found out that daffodils are bright or pale yellow and have an orange center.

Kawau island.

This is about Kawau island.  The year 6 are going to camp there.

Jeff Thomson Art

I have be reading about 'Any old iron'. It is about Jeff Thomsons art, He makes his art out of corrugated iron. I made a volcano out of rocks and flax. I made a volcano because Auckland is full of volcanos and I live here. I used rocks and flax because they are natural like the volcano.  

School Holiday Basketball tournament

I woke up on the last Sunday of the holidays all excited because I was playing in a basketball tournament at the ASB stadium. My team is called  

I woke up on the last Sunday of the holidays all excited because I was playing in a basketball tournament at the ASB stadium. My team is called

The tournament went the whole day. It was tiring. Some of the teams we played were, Otara Oats and East Dragons.We played 6 games during the day, we won 4 and lost 2. There were some really good players.

Tamaki Tornadoes U/11’s made it to the semi finals. We played hard. I scored a goal because Stevenson passed me the ball when I was free. I put up the shot and it went in. At the end of the game we had won, the score was 10-9 to us. Woohoo we were in the FINAL!!!!!

The team we were supposed to play in the final had already gone home so we played a different team. I felt really happy we didn’t have to play them because they could shoot 3 pointers. The team we played instead beat us but we all had fun.

After the tournament I went to Judah’s house because when they dropped me off there was no one at home. Judah and I played games on the X-Box 360 until it was time to have dinner.  We had pizza and it was yummy as.  I had heaps of fun at the tournament and at Judah’s house.

Creative Spring Writing

Today in class we have been doing creative writing. We had to write a sentence about this picture. As a class we chose the sentence we liked to best and then added to it. Here is my sentence and the sentence I added to.

In the sunny day I saw the bright light and it saw me.  

Under a tree, kicked back by the beach from a view, chill going down your spine, the bright sun light on you.

Continents.

Continents.

Did you know there are 7 continents (landmasses). They are Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe and Australia. Each continent is made up of lots of different countries. The biggest continent is Asia.

The continent I am looking at is Asia. I know it has the biggest landmass of all the continents. Some of the countries in this continent are India, China, Mongolia, Japan and Nepal.

Use my Brain, Use my Heart, I'm going to be Cybersmart.

For part of our writing we had to explain what Use my brain, use my heart, I'm going to be Cybersmart means to me.

Use my brain, use my heart, I’m going cyber smart was made up Mr Burt to share at an assembly. It was the korero for the week. The korero was to help us remember to do the right thing on our netbooks!!

Use my Brain means to have self-control when I’m working on my netbook. If l am on the wrong thing then l need to use my brain and stop doing it and close the tab before I get in trouble.

Use my Heart is when I can feel my heart beating faster because I’m on the wrong thing on my netbook.  It starts beating faster because I’m scared of getting caught and being put on detention or get my netbook taken off me and put away.

I’m going to be Cybersmart is when you have a bad Email sent to you. You have to take a screenshot of the email then send it to 3 teachers including Mr Burt. After you have done that then you can delete it from your email.  

Boxing.

For writing we had to pick a sport from the Commonwealth Games and find out some information about it. I picked Boxing, here is what I found out.

Boxing

What is Boxing?

Boxing is a sport that has 2 people trying to punch each other with gloves on their hands. It shows strength, speed and how fit someone is.

Equipment.

The equipment you need is boxing gloves for each person, a boxing ring, mouth guard, boxing shorts, shoes, a referee and a trainer.

How do you win.

To win a boxing match you must knock your opponent out or you can win by getting the most points. To get the most points you have to land lots of punches and hardly miss.

Wild and Wacky

I have been reading about a man called Fraser Williamson who is an artist. He draws pictures for the School Journals that we read in class. We had to look at the picture and describe some things in it.  Here is what I saw.

I see a spotted dog on a bridge sliding along like penguin. I also see a blue man riding a blue horse with fire on his back.

Culture.

What is Culture?

Culture is where you come from. It is when you speak in their language. I come from Samoa in a little Island called Savaii. Samoa is in the pacific ocean is unique. And what culture do you come from?

Do you know that in Japanese culture the older ladies wear Kimono’s, these are very beautiful dresses. Some of  the Japanese people have tea ceremonies. Japanese culture is very different to our culture in New Zealand.

Making the team 1.

For reading my group read a book about a girl called Ruby who didn't make the school rugby team because she was to unfit. This is my training schedule for Ruby to help her to get fitter.

Making the team.

For reading my group read a book called Making the Team. It is about a girl who was not fit enough to make the rugby team for school.  This is my advice column to give her some tips to get fitter.

Area of a Garden

We have been learning how to find the area of a square.

Fast Feet.

Fast feet is about a boy coll Esela. And his mum brought him some new shoes. His friend Solomona said at the labelled on shoes will make him faster.   

The world war 1.

This morning at school we had an assembly. I thought it was funny because it wasn't Friday. Mr Burt and Mr J were telling us about World War 1. It happened 100 years ago today. We saw some videos of  soldiers going to war, and some pictures of what the place looked like where they were fighting. There was lots of mud and no trees r grass. We saw  a photo of Mr Burt’s and Mrs Flavell’s Grandads who went to the war.  

When the assembly was almost finished we watched the flag in our school get raised, there was a bugle playing the Last Post when it was going up and then they took it down to half way. We had to leave assembly quietly and not make noise so we could remember all the people who died in World War 1. 


I have been searching about the world war 1 I hope you like. In 1914 the world war 1 began it started on  28 of July and went until the 11 of November in 1918. There were more than 9 million fighters that were killed in the war. About 100,000 New Zealanders served in the World War 1.

History of the Commonwealth Games.

When the Commonwealth games started they were also  called the Friendly games.The first games were held in Canada in 1930. 11 Countries sent  400 athletes to compete in 6 sports and 59 events. Since then The commonwealth games were held  every  4 years but not in 1942 and 1946 because of the second world war.

The games have changed a lot over the years even it’s name has changed. From 1930 to 1950 it was called the British Empire Games. From 1954-1966 the were called the British Empire and Commonwealth games. In 1970-1974 they were the British Commonwealth Games. Then in 1978 it was named The Commonwealth Games and that is what it  is called today.

Going to the movies

For writing we had to write about something we did in the holidays. I went to the movies and this is my writing.

In the Holidays I went to the movies with my aunty and cousins, we wanted to get out of the house because we were bored. We hopped into Aunties car and drove to Sylvia Park, it took us forever to find a parking space.

When we got to the movie place, we were all really excited. Aunty got our tickets and told us we were going to watch Transformers. She also got us some popcorn, ice  cream and drinks. YUM!!!!

During the movie there was lots of swearing in it. I didn’t like it when Optimus Prime was swearing. I enjoyed the movie heaps even though it had lots of bad words in it.

My favourite part of the movie was when the Autobots were fighting against the Decepticons to stop them from destroying the Earth. Optimus Prime got stabbed and I felt scared that they wouldn’t win the fight. Lucky the Autobots were too strong and in the end they saved the Earth.

When the movie finished I was feeling really tired, but I was also happy that we got to do something exciting during the holidays. We walked outside to go home. It was dark as, Aunty said “when you get home, you go straight to bed.” I couldn’t wait to get home and go to sleep.

I hope Aunty will take us to the movies in the next holidays.

My pace.

Am I a square?

In math today we used different strategies to find out if we are a square. These are my results.

Hoiho verse.

Hip hop, Hoiho. Go for a find feed

Hip hop, Hoiho, This is what you  need

Flippy floppy seal - here he comes.

Slip slop, wibble wobble

drip drop.


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Titanic Movie

This is my movie about how the Titanic sank. I hope you enjoy watching it.
Promise Titanic from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.

The Endevour.

In 1768 there was a ship called Endeavour. It’s got 12 sail did you know that captain Cook from french was travelling around the world for 3 years? But then he saw New Zealand and then he became the first palagi.  

Boat buoyancy

I designed a boat to see if it would float. When I put it in the water it floated at first but when I put marbles in it, it sank.

Fish andchlps in Tokelau.

In Tokelau Lino and his mum, dad the had a holiday. Want to Tokelau and Lino like fish and chips. Then mum said we are have fish and chips for tea.

My brother.

My younger brother is Sam. I don't like my  brother because he is bossy. He thinks he is the man.He is too much spoilt.

Mini raft.

We were making a mini raft, here is our project. I hope you enjoy it, and maybe even learn something!      

Displacement Experiment

Prediction

We will be doing an experiment to show how water goes up or down with three shapes in it.

Sink or Float?

Sink or Float ?

Object	Prediction s-sink     i- in between      f-float	Result
orange	f	f
bolt	s	s
orange no skin	s	s
lemon	f	f
no skin lemon	s	f

Why do some things float while others sink?

Some things sink because they are heavy but lite things float.

Super tankers

Super tankers a one of the bigs posts in the word. They carry crude oil and other things.Crude oil is a car oil, other petrol like your lawnmower and plastic.did you know plastic is like your chromebook and your netbook?
 

Deep Sea Submersible

Submersible have wing, to fly not in the sky in the water.

They make deep flights in the water.

Sometimes the scientists use these for submarine exploration.

They are like miniature submarines with only one person inside.    

Swimming

I love swimming! This term i had 8 lessons with some amazing instructors. They taught me lots of skills, and my technique is getting better and better.

After getting changed,but before we get into the pool,we have a little rinse. We have to wait for our instates.when we were waiting we were shivering like an ice block.

When we were in the pools the instructors gave us a flutter board to  use.sometimes the instructors tells us to do arm circles, rocket arms and fast little kicks. Rocker arms is when you put your arms above your head and behind your ears, hands together. When you do this your body looks like a rocket and it will help us float.   

On the final day of swimming we had a relay race to see how much we had improved the instructor call six people at a time to see how good we are had. Learned of swimming lesson.

Thank Mr Burt for paying for professional coaches to teach us.   

Pohutukawa tree

Too many possums

Here is a  Presentation  abut a possums

What make an Effeclive paragraph

	1	2	3
Punctuation
Make sense
Juicy words
1 idea

To many possums

Did you know that Possums were brought to New Zealand from Australia over 100 years ago?  People wanted their fur to make into clothes.

Here are some possum fur clothes that I have designed.

What do you think? Would you wear it?

maps

We have been learning to give directions.

What makes a effective sentence?

When you are crying your friends can help you cheer them and they can cheer for you.             

	1	2	3
Has only 1 idea in it.	yes
Juicy words	yes
What makes a good sense	yes

Dancing bees

We are learning about Bees in Reading. 

This is a presentation about how bees communicate by dancing.

I hope you enjoy it.

Statistical Investigation

Wetas With Backpacks

A long time ago there were lots of wetas in New Zealand.

But rats and mice eaten the wetas.

Now they live on the islands.

Scientists study the giant weta so they can survive.

They put radio on female.

My stem and lear.

The big is 30 least amount is 20..

The person that did the least was 20 out of 30.

Spider’s Web

We have been reading about sticky spiders webs. They can make them in half an hour, and fix them if they get broken.

My holiday

This story is about my holiday.
 In the holidays I went to my cousin house and played on the PS2. The game at my cousins and I were playing was Alone in the dark. Alone in the dark is a zombie game and no game is so hard on the game we have to save a girl in the elevator. My cousin and I was playing the game. And we ate some food. Finally we went home and had a big nap and then we had a good day at my cousin house.