Carving - Whakairo

For the last 2 weeks we have been leaning about carvings. We had to create a DLO to show our work. Here is our work.

Hypothermia

This week our classroom is going on camp! The year six's are going to Arthur's pass and the year fives are going to Shantytown. So we want to be safe. We have been learning about safety and hypothermia. This is my group's work.

Quick Writes Term 4

This term we have been doing Quick Writes. A Quick Write is were you are given a picture and you only have 10 minutes to write a piece of descriptive writing. Here is my writing.

1) Fire Works

Fire works

As I walked through the Karaka-orange smoke, I blew up with excitement.  The smell of fresh smoke from the fireworks smashed against my face! The yelling from the crowd got heavier as they watched in amazement. The beautiful colours mixed together and made it look like a rainbow.   

2) Tomato Pulp

Tomato pulp

As I ran through the red mushy tomatoes, I feel it getting deeper and deeper. The smell of the sweet fresh tomato flying through the air. I can hear the people screaming with laughter as they squash the tomatoes until it is like sauce. As I wear my goggles to keep my eyes protected I start to pulp the tomatoes one by one. More tomatoes fly to and fro until everything went whero (red)!   

3) Spider Man

Spiderman

As I walk down the street I see something whero (red) and kikorangi (blue). Then all of a sudden lots of colors full in front of my face, and I see spiderman. The smell of the petrol from the busses, trains and cars blows up in my face! I can hear the screams of happiness as I walk closer and closer. All the colors look like a aniwaniwa (rainbow) that is raining down on top of my head. A soft breeze blows in my face as a big bus goes past.    

4) Stormy Day

A Stormy Day

As I looked out my window  all of a sudden there was a BIG flash of lightning, then a LOUD clap of thunder. The loud thrashing rain on the top of the roof sounded like clapping. As I stepped outside to see the waves crashing against the rocks. Then another flash of lightning hit me with a fright I felt the electricity hit with light. Then all of a sudden everything went black.  

The Beekeeper

Quick Write Number One - The Beekeeper

For the next two weeks we are going to work on ‘Quick Writes.’  This is where you are given something to write about (a writing prompt) and you only have 10mins to write as much as possible using this writing prompt.

For our writing prompts we will use either images or short videos.

The purpose of this is to practise writing fluently.

When we look at our writing prompt we will have about 10-15 mins to discuss it and brainstorm some ideas and vocabulary.   

Our learning goals are to:

-write a description, using powerful words and phrases

-include some Te Reo Māori

-carefully check that our sentences make sense and have correct punctuation and spelling.

When we are writing we need to think about…

1. What do I want my reader to see?

2) What do I want my reader to hear?

3) What do I want my reader to smell?

Tips:

-look closely at the picture or video

-think about the three key questions and the learning goals

-give yourself time to plan and write

Do your writing here

As I ran towards the bee hive I heard the buzzing of the bees working hard and the rustling of the leaves in the wind.  The sweet smell of the deliciously fresh honey. While the blossoms glow ever so bright! Thousands of bees buzzing and humming while they make the honey, ever so delight. The honey glistening in the sun just like a light in the dark.

Robot Rampage

This term we have been doing narrative story writing. Here is a story I made about a robot.

Narrative Writing Term 3 2017

Click on the link below to watch the story starter for this week.

http://success-for-boys.tki.org.nz/Teaching-learning-resources/Story-Starters/Runaway-Robot-Rampage

Story Starter = Runaway Robot Rampage

Your Name: Grace

Story starter: Every weekend there was one job Molly hated doing: mowing the lawns. She'd much rather be building her latest robot invention in the shed. That was it! What if Molly could build a robot to mow the lawns?

WALT: write a narrative that entertains or tells a story about people,places or events.
S.C:
Our Story will...
-have a title that captures our reader's interest
-Have an orientation/beginning that has a hook and establishes the setting and characters.
-Have a complication/problem that needs to be solved
-Have a conclusion where the problem is solved.
-Use interesting language, words, adjectives, language features such as similes, onomatopoeia
-plan our story so we know what to write about
-proof-read and edit
-make sure our sentences make sense
-use a range of punctuation
-Use some Te Reo Māori words

My goal is to use paragraphs and make my sentences make sense.

Planning

Title:	Molly & Her Robot.
Orientation/Beginning/Hook Characters	Every weekend there was one job Molly hated doing: feeding her pets. She'd much rather be building her latest robot invention in the shed. That was it! What if Molly could build a robot to feed her pets?
Complication/Problem	Her robot malfunctions and wrecks the house. It puts turtle food in their food, and spills the dog food everywhere, and squirts the bunny milk everywhere. And the robot grabs Molly’s sacred Pounamu and berries it in the grass.
Conclusion - How does the problem get solved?	\She rebuilds the magnificence pet feeder and adjusted some things and it was back to normal. And luckily she finds her Sacred pounamu  and it is not broken.
Language Simile (He was as tall as a giraffe/ She was like a wild, angry gorilla that had been released from its cage!) Onomatopoeia(sound words) Interesting Adjectives (describing words) Te Reo Māori.	The robot was as fast as lightning, Bang, smash, crash. Whero, Mā, Ponamu

Write Your Story Here

Molly & Her Robot

Every weekend there was one job Molly hated doing: feeding her pets. She'd much rather be building her latest robot invention in the shed. That was it! What if Molly could build a robot to feed her pets? After Molly had finished feeding the pets she headed straight for the shed! She found 2 old smoothy machines, 1 old computer, 2 big bits of metal, 2 metal grabbers,  and 2 metal pips. She put them on her desk and went to the kitchen she got the 2 dog bowls, the 2 turtle cups, the 2 red hay boxes and the 2 bunny milk bottles. She went straight back to the garage with all the stuff she put them all together and this is what it looks like!

Front

Back

It took her all maruāpō (night) to build and the next ata (morning) she found herself lying on the garage floor, her mum came in with a hot chocolate and helped her up. Her mum saw her invention and said “my word how did you do that?” “Well I just got some stuff and put it all together” said Molly. Molly went to see her horse, turtle, bunny and two dogs. She got her invention and turned it on, she typed dogs in and it got the dog bowls out ready and they filled up with dog biscuits. IT WAS SO COOL!!!!!!! Then she went to the turtle tank typed in turtle and all of a sudden big robotic arms popped out, with the turtle food clinged to it, it tipped some turtle food out into the turtle tank. Then she went out to the lawn to feed the bunny, she typed in bunny another pair of arms popped out but this time with milk for the bunny. The bunny hopped over to the robot and drunk all the milk. Then she took the robot to the paddocks and typed in horse and it turned around and at the back there was hay in the big red buckets and the horse galloped to the robot. ‘This robot is amazing’ she kohuki (thought).

She took the robot back to the garage and went to the house, she had dinner and went to sleep, so did her parents. Why everyone was asleep the robot woke up, it wheeled into the house and had seen that nobody was there because he didn’t know that there was bedrooms, he got angry, his eyes turned red and he started to shake, he got his robotic arms out and started ripping the curtains down, he ripped all the curtains down in the living room and in the kitchen! He tipped the turtle food in their food, took the lids of the smoothie machine and started spinning around which made the dog biscuits go everywhere, squirted the bunny milk everywhere as well as all of that he tipped the hay out all over the carpet. Molly heard a loud bang and woke up straight away she went straight to the lounge to see what was going on. She seen the robot chucking some pillows around BANG SMASH! The robot faced the wall and wheeled straight through it, Molly ran to the shed got the rein for her horse and ran straight out to the paddock where her horse was, she was going to have to chase her robot!!

It has been an hour and I still haven’t found him she thought as she was riding her horse down the street. She looked down alleyways, down streets and even down driveways! She hoped that she would find her robot before dawn. Her parents would start to worry because she won’t be there. She saw something lurking in the shadows, IT WAS HER ROBOT!!!!!!! She started galloping on her horse and got a rope out of her jersey and chucked it around the robot and brought it back to her house. The next morning Molly heard fire sirens going she looked outside and seen that her neighbors house was on fire she ran to the garage and the robot wasn’t there she looked outside the window and seen that her robot was wheeling back towards the garage.

As soon as it got in Molly grabbed it and took it over to the desk, she turned it off and went inside to grab an old credit card. Molly went back and started working on the card.  She wrote inside all this stuff, there is bedrooms and that is where we sleep, BE GOOD OR ELSE. (This would work because she made a little card that made the robot alive, so with the new card it can still be alive as well as being good). Two Days Later/ There was a fair on and Molly took her robot to it and she was in the parade and everyone brought their bunnies, dogs, horses, and even their turtles. At the end of the parade the robot fed everybody's pets, and the people loved it so much they gave Molly millions of dollars. Now everyone pays her $50 to feed their pets with her robot. She paid her neighbour enough money to fix their house and Molly, her sisters, her parents and her robot became rich!       

How did you go? I did ok but I think I did better on my last one.

What do you think you did well?  I think I did well on my punctuation.  

What could you work on next time? Put some more maori words in my story.

Teacher Feedback:

Kia ora Grace

What a great story. I really liked the way you described what your robot was made out of and the picture you included.

I thought your story showed that you have a good imagination and you used some interesting language. I enjoyed imagining Molly chasing down her robot on her horse.

Keep working on having good punctuation and making sure that your story makes sense to the reader. It got a little bit confusing in the part with the credit card.

Well done for writing an entertaining story.

Ka pai tō mahi tuhituhi!

My political party

For the last few weeks we have been learning about the elections topic. We had to make a political party with two or three other people, we could also choose to be by ourselves.

My Dream Action plan

We have been working on thinking about dreams we have that we would like to achieve. We wrote up a 'dream plan.' Here is my plan for my dream.

My Dream Action Plan

This action plan is to help me achieve:

My Dream for myself: My dream is to become a professional slalom skier (water skiing). I also want to become a good squash player, and I want to be a vet when I am older.

My Dream for New Zealand: My dream for NZ is that the animals in and around NZ are safe, and NO rubbish in the sea.

Why is this dream important to me?

Ever since I was 1 I have been bandaging my toys and that gave me a real  passion to be a real vet. I have always liked squash, and I LOVE  water skiing and I have already gone so far that I can’t stop now.

Who within my family, friends or community can I ask for support or advice to achieve my dream? My dad, mum, uncle Gary (he is a vet), Erin (Sasha’s mum).   

In order to achieve my dream I will need the following skills and knowledge

1.  Learn the skills I need to learn.

2.  Train and get better.

3. Not to give up.

4. Always be confident.

5. Don’t let any take away your dream

6. Maths skills

7. Reading and writing

When do I want to achieve my dream by?

I want to achieve my vet dream when I am an adult (20s), and my squash and slalom skiing when I am a teenager.  

What are some things that might go wrong and how will I fix them?

I will get injuries and I will wait until they are fixed. But I will always get back up again.

The first seven steps I need to take to turn my dream into reality are:

1.  Practice

2. Train

3. university

4. study

5. Keep fit.

6. Do well at school

7. High School - take science, maths, English, P.E

Maths Place Value

We are learning to.....

-recognise how many tens and hundreds are in numbers.
Here is my work.

Maui Legends

As part of Matariki we re-read the legends of Maui. We then retold a legend and created artwork. Below is my work.

Long, long ago, there lived a man called Maui. One evening Maui was sitting by a fire, wondering what it would be like to have no fire. So that night when everyone was asleep, Maui took jars of water and put out every fire in the village. The next morning everyone in the village was furious with Maui.    “You annoying person,” they cried. “Now you have to go south to the volcano and get us more fire!” Nobody wanted to go with Maui, but as he walked towards the volcano his friends the birds joined him. Piwakawaka, Hihi, Tui, Rupe and Huia flew to be with him and Pukeko and Kiwi wanted to come too. The volcano was many miles away from the village. The landscape was dry and bare. Deep in the heart of the volcano Maui saw a flicker of flame. He told his friends the birds to wait for him by the stream and he went in alone. He climbed over the boulders and saw an old woman sitting by a fire. ‘She has to be my Aunty Mahuika, the Goddess of fire Maui thought. “Kia ora Aunty,” said Maui. “All the fires in the village have gone out, so can I have one of yours?” Mahuika lifted up her gnarled hands. At each tip of her fingers there burned a flickering flame. She removed a flame from her thumb and gave it to Maui. “ Be very careful with this flame, it is sacred” Mahuika said. Maui cupped the flame in his hands very carefully. Surprisingly it did not burn him. “I have got some magic fire, but I still don’t know how fire is made” said Maui to the birds. “So I will go back”. Maui threw the flame into the stream. “Aunty Mahuika, the flame went out. Can I have another one, please?” Mahuika sighed, “Take more care of this flame Maui, these flames are very precious”. So Maui went back to his friends and threw the flame into the stream again. Every time Maui was given a flame he got rid of it and made up an excuse. “Oh Aunty, I dropped it! The wind blew it out. A bird flew down and took it. It started to rain and the flame went out. I sneezed and it went out. A Taniwha stepped on it.” When Mahuika was down to her last flame she was very furious. “Maui!” She cried. “No more. You have nearly taken all my flames. There is only one left now.” Maui tried to take the last flame from the tip of her finger. Mahuika flew into a rage. She stamped her foot and flames roared up out of the earth. Maui fled as fast as his waewae (legs) could take him. Mahuika erupted into flames like lava pouring out of a volcano. Maui said the magical karakia and changed into a hawk, as Mahuika threw her last flame far into the tops of the kaikomako trees. Later when the flames had died down, Maui came back to the kaikomako tree and climbed up high to the top of it. He snapped of a few branches and carrying them in his hands he took them to his home in the north. “I am absolutely sure that Mahuika’s last flame is in these branches,” said Maui to the people of his tribe. Maui took a kaikomako branch and rubbed it against a piece of mahoe wood. “Come out flame” Maui said. “I know you're in here.” He breathed on the wood and rubbed it harder. Very slowly a flame started to appear. The people of Maui’s tribe never had to worry about losing fire ever again!

Retold By Grace & Rebekah.

This is Grace’s artwork.






This is Rebekah’s artwork.

My Mihi 2017

Here is my mihi video.

Classroom Kupu

We have been learning how to say the names for classroom objects in Te Reo Māori. Here is the slideshow I did to show my learning.

Science Term 2 2017

This term we have been doing science. We have been learning about the water cycle and states of matter. Here is some of my learning.

Persuasive Writing-Why We Should Have Pets

We did a persuasive writing on pets, whether we were against them or for them. Here is my work please leave a kind, positive and helpful comment.

Title A Short Statement about the topic. eg. ‘Rugby League Is A Great Sport’	You Should Have Pets.
Overview/ Statement of position A brief statement of your view about the topic.  What you believe or want to argue.	I believe that having pets is a great thing. You should have pets!
Series of Arguments Reasons Your points supporting your view about the topic.  Your arguments to support your statement and information to support these arguments. Remember -argument -supporting detail, reasons, examples	Primarily, pets are fun to play with. When you are feeling down, they give you company and like to cuddle you. Pets are good for people because they can keep you fit, by taking them for a walk. Having pets are awesome because they like playing with you. It is fun walking pets, cuddling and playing with your pets.
	Secondly, pets are great for people with disabilities, like blind people who find it hard to shop for food and walk around. There is lots of other things pets can do, like they can sense people that might have cancer. They can also tell if people are low or high in sugar (if they have diabetes).  Pets are a lot of help for blind people because they can help them walk around. Pets are also great with sensing things,like  diabetes and cancer. They can sense someone with cancer and they can tell if someone with diabetes is high or low. Pets are a great thing to have.
	In Addition, pets keep you safe. They guard you from all sorts of things, like people that want to rob your house, they can guard you from other animals that are trying to attack you. Pets like to   stand by you and keep you safe. Pets also look after you. Like when you have a fall your pet will be there and do anything to help. They also like to keep an eye on you to make sure you are safe. YOU NEED TO GET A PET THEY ARE GREAT!
	Finally, Pets are GREAT because they can give you food! Cows can give you milk that you can make into cream that you can turn into butter then that you can turn into cheese, and then you can have any of those to eat. Goats can also give you milk but it is a little different, Guess what you can also make goat cheese! YOU NEED TO GET A PET!
Concluding statement Summing it up.  A summary of your arguments and your view on the topic.	In conclusion, I think having a pet or pets is a great thing. I think that you should have a pet because they are fun to play with and hang out with, they can help with disabilities like diabetes,  They like to keep you safe like guarding you, They can give you food like milk. These are my reasons why you should have a pet.

Persuasive Writing-Why Should We Fix Our Field

We have been having a go at writing a piece of persuasive writing. Here is my piece of writing about why we should fix our field.

Title A Short Statement about the topic. eg. ‘Rugby League Is A Great Sport’	Fix Our Field
Overview/ Statement of position A brief statement of your view about the topic.  What you believe or want to argue.	I strongly believe that our field should be fixed now and farst! These are the reasons why we need our field. We have tournaments that we need to train for, our equipment is going to waste while the field is out of bounds, our field takes up a lot of space and now there is less space to play games, and with our field out of bounds we are losing equipment over the fence. For these reasons our field needs to be fixed.
Series of Arguments Reasons Your points supporting your view about the topic.  Your arguments to support your statement and information to support these arguments. Remember -argument -supporting detail, reasons, examples	Firstly, we need our field to train for sport like soccer, rippa rugby and lots of other sport. We need to train for our sport so that we can get better and learn more, and with out the field it is hard for us to train for our hakinakina. We have to train for our sport on the concrete because our field is out of bounds.
	Secondly, we need to make use of our sports equipment which cost a lot of money and is now going to waste. Most of our sport equipment is more fun to play on the field but there is no field to use that equipment. We won’t the field so that we can play with the hakinakina equipment.
	Thirdly, our field takes up a lot of our space to play and without a field there is less space to play games. The school is overcrowded with only the court area to play games like soccer and lots more. We want our field back and we want it now!
	Finally, with the field out of bounds, we are losing our equipment over the maihe, and the teachers are the only people who can get them. We have to wait for ages to get the teachers and for them to get the equipment back over the fence.
Concluding statement Summing it up.  A summary of your arguments and your view on the topic.	In conclusion we need to fix our whira because we need the field for training for our sport, our sport equipment is out of use because the field is out of           bonds, we don’t have enough room to play, we keep on losing our equipment over the fence and onto the field. It is vital that we need a pai whira for our school!