Comparing My Photo

We have been learning about high jump. I learnt that we have to have bent knees and arm to legs. It was really hard to do a couple of things such as the toes pointed. We had to compare our photo with a athletics photo and to see what we have to practice on.

Super Smog in China - Reading

This week for Reading we had to make connections about Smog in China. We found out there are 3 types of connection there is 1. Text to self. 2. Text to world and finally there is the text to text. We then had to use the comment tool to make a connection that we had. Since we were talking about smog we had to write a comment about a time that we remember when we read this story about smog. I remembered my friends and I were walking through the fog when read smog.

Reading

This week we have been comparing Ping-He school with Panmure bridge school. We had to include that Ping-He is a boarding school and how they have dorm moms. We had to include the difference's and the thing that are the same. We found out that in Ping-He school for PE you have to do 100 Sit up's 100 Push up's and they had to run around there track 50 times. 

Synthesising

Today in reading my partner and I have been synthesising about gorilla. First we had to start off with what we already knew about gorilla then we wrote down what we found out and then what our new thinking was. When we started we thought gorilla were just hairy fat eating banana's apes were just aggressive but when we got to learn more we found out that they were endangered. When we heard that they were endangered we thought we should care and respect them, show how important they are and prevent them from extinction. In this activity I learnt to synthesise about gorilla's.

Inquiry

This Term LS1 and LS2 will be joining together to discover more about our global neighbour, Asia. We will be working in a rotation, with mixed LS1 & LS2 students. Every two weeks you will learn about a new Asian country with a teacher in LS1 or LS2. We have created a information report that gives others 5 facts about India. 

Writing

Blue Whale The blue whale is a type of mammal called a cetacean and is a type of baleen whale. The scientific name for the blue whale is the Balaenoptera musculus. Blue whales are by far the biggest animals in the world. Even the biggest dinosaur that ever lived doesn't come close in size to the blue whale.

Diet To eat, blue whales filter their food through stiff, bony, comb-like teeth called baleen plates. Their main diet is krill (small creatures that are less than 2 cm in size). A blue whale can eat up to 3,600 kilograms of krill a day during its peak consumption period. Blue whales catch their food by diving down to about 500 meters below the surface.

Habitat Blue whales are found in open oceans from the icy waters of the extreme Southern Hemisphere to the Aleutian Islands off Alaska at the northern boundary of the Pacific Ocean. Summers are spent in polar waters because food production is higher there.

Appearance Blue whales are simply enormous. Their heart is the size of a small car. A blue whale aorta (the main blood vessel) alone is large enough for a human to crawl through. They can weigh over 200,000 kilograms! Female blue whales are generally larger than males. Blue whales are light bluish gray on their dorsal side and mottled gray whitish on their bellies. Some have yellowish bellies.

Endangered species The worldwide blue whale population is not known, however, blue whales are considered endangered according to the U.S. Endangered Species Act. For many years blue whales were hunted extensively for their large quantities of baleen, blubber, and meat. Although blue whales are protected, their populations show few signs of recovery.

Blue whales are large mammals that spends their time in the icy oceans.  They only eat krill and are not a threat to any other creature in the ocean.  Blue whales face the risk of extinction if humans continue to hunt them for their baleen, blubber and meat.

We have been learning to understand the structure for a information report. We needed to highlight the different kind of features different colours.

Writing

Sub: Paragraph

The submarine submerged into the sea at a subzero temperature.As the submarine was leaving the water it crashed into a subject in the water. Meanwhile the subway had just left the station and the passengers were reading subheadings and subtitles of their newspaper. The subway also had a subnetwork so that people could entertain themselves….

Today for writing we worked in a group of 4 to create a word wall and a little paragraph that has 8 prefix of sub. We had to make sure we were working collaboratively which means to work together. We were doing prefix which is when the word has the same beginning Such as SUB this is a prefix because it can begin in several words, such as Subtitle and Subheading. 

Maths - Juanita & Afu

Yesterday we did an activity which help us on our maths time tables. We found it abit hard doing our 6,7 and 8 time tables hard so we tried to split the number into 5's to make it easier for us. After we did this activity we found our time tables way easier.

The Remembrance Of Private Ted

There’s a bottle of beer in the Waiho Forks bar,

From the rest on the shelf it stands out like a star.

For its shape is old fashioned and it just might be purple

And the label proclaims that its “Ballins Four X”

It was bought a long time ago by a young soldier brave;

On his final leave home, these are the instructions he gave.

“Don’t break it or sell it, just keep it in store,

And we’ll drink it when I come back home from the war.”

He was killed overseas on the Island of Crete

When they battled it out with the German elite.

There’s a headstone but nobody knows where he lies,

If he sleeps his last sleep ‘neath the sea or the skies

But the bottle still remains at the Country Hotel,

A memorial stands to a soldier who fell,

And travellers and locals take time out to think

Of the soldier who never came home for his drink.

And somehow a glow by the bottle is shed  

As poppies surround it and edge it with red,

For each Anzac Day there’s a new one to put there

And they lie like a wreath round that bottle of beer.

There are many stone cairns scattered over the land

But I wonder how many are polished by hand.

Though the cap is all rusty and outshines the chrome,

As it waits for the soldier who never came home.

Anonymous

We have been remembering the soldiers that fought for us in the World War 1 and 2. The main idea of this particular peom is, Not All Soldiers Return From The War.

Writing a Narrative - Juanita and Jessie

“Get off the road!” shouted the man in the taxi. James was on his morning jog on a busy road, not caring about what he was running into such as the cars. As he was running he turned his back and saw a man standing on the edge of the bridge wanting to jump.

As James saw the man he ran as fast as he could  trying to save the poor old man’s life, but sadly he was just an inch away too late. The Scotland Yard ran to the scene wanting to know what happened. James sprinted, thinking he would get arrested. He hopped onto a motorcycle driving fast, over the limit anyway. “What will happen to me if they think it was my fault?” he said to himself. They chased after him wanting to know why he ran..

He went home thinking that no one would ever know it was him sadly the Scotland yard   knew. He had no choice but to skip town. He said his last good bye to his family and he said I love you and went on the run. Little did his family know, that James would never return.

He left the city and his family had no idea about it. All they knew was he was being “awkward” around them. They knew something was up so they followed him. Sadly they lost his tracks and they never saw him again.

These past 2 weeks for writing we have been learning how to write an narrative using TOPES-Title,Orientation,Problem,Explain,Solution,Mood words, HCSP-Hook,Character,Setting and Problem. Our Learning Intention is to write an narrative story,my partner Jessie and I were writing about a man being innocent but he was blamed for the event.

Mathletic Run

Today we played a game called mathletics run. Luckily Evelyn and I came first. We had a lot of fun. It was a game that you got a lot of maths questions then you would have been running around the courts. We then had to run back with the correct answer to get the new question. We had to keep answering the question until we had finished our bag fulled with maths questions. We looked carefully at the question. We went to look at our maths tumble to remind us what we learnt this term. We learnt about basic facts and place value.

Home Learning - Statue Of Librety

For home learning we were studying about the statue of liberty and this is my DLO showing what i found out about it it. I answered the 5 W's questions and made my owns ones. i found this home learning easy because i already knew a little about the statue of liberty

Music

This week we have been dancing in music. We have really enjoyed it because it was fun and funny. Our inspiration was our sience experiment. We made elephant tooth paste we notice that the tooth paste foamed and was really hot so we weren't allowed to touch it.

Current Events Conversation - Bias

LI; To understand a side to the provocation. We had fun experimenting with  Ifaketext. It was interesting to find out how me and June worked Collaboratively. I have learnt that there is 2 or more sides to a story which means Bias. We also learnt that the bus strike cause  a lot of harm but not intentionally. They went on strike because there bosses weren't paying the right amount of money.  

Current Event - Juanita & Jessie

This afternoon LS2 got into pairs  and given an  instruction. Today we were learning about the Bus Strike in Auckland City, we were learning everything we learnt from article's and video's about the bus strike in Auckland. Our learning Intention is to Identify the 5 W's of a Current Event, we had to think about the 2 Point Views clearly so that it was a correct statement. This is an Link to thearticle.

Writing - Quick Write - Juanita & Micaiah

Your challenge:

Using the 4 sentence starters, come up with the next 5 sentences, and include some dialogue.  Make sure your sentences and dialogue match mood. You will have 5 minutes on each task

The wind howled through the window. The girl sat huddling her knees waiting for the storm to be over. She watch as the trees scratched against the window. She carved herself in the bed sheets as the thundered filled her ears with tear drops. 

We have been learning to write a narrative.

We did a quick write and then we DRAFT it. We really liked doing this because it was giving us purrsure and we really was focused.  

Writing

      We have been doing our writing as you can see. This is just the plan out. We used our imagination and we just said what we thought. We had fun but then again we were focus on our work.
Our Learning Intention was to write a plan for a narrative story.

Writing

• Tite
• James Bond the Innocent man
• Orientation\
• Hook: “Beep Beep” The cars Honked at him.
• Characters: Who are they? What are they doing?
• Jame Bond
• Innocent Person
• Secret agent
• Setting: Where are the characters?
• London
• Traffic Jam
• Problem:  What is the problem? Hint at it
• A man jumping off a bridge
• He's trying to save someone

• Problem
• What is the characters problem? Why is it a problem? What was the character/s doing before the problem happened?
• James Bond tried to save someone but his hand slipped and the man fell of the bridge.
• The FBI thinks it was his fault
• He  is  now on the run
• Explain
• How are the characters going to solve the problem? What happens next? What are the events?
• He jumps on a motorcycle and drives off
• The FBI continues to look for him
• He goes to his house and stays there for a little
• The FBI Goes to his house
• He Takes his motorcycle in the truck and hides

• Solution
• What is the solution? How is the problem solved? Did the characters learn a lesson
• The FBI goes straight past him
• Then when they go past him
• He comes out of the truck and drives off
• He founds a way to prove he didn’t do it

      We have been doing our writing as you can see. This is just the plan out. We used our imagination and we just said what we thought. We had fun but then again we were focus on our work.
Our Learning Intention was to write a plan for a narrative story.

Spelling Games

We have been learning to play trying to improve our reading skills by playing spelling games because in our class we have quite a number of people in our class in their reading test the teachers can tell what we need work on. The think that we need help on our recognizing with big words. I have been playing the word find game and I really liked this not just because it is fun but also because it helps me in reading.

Informed Decision

L.I:To Make an informed choice based on information.

We were all taking part and putting in reason why we could change the flag Or Why we shouldn't change the flag.  One of the reason to change the flag was that this is a new generation but one of the good reasons for the flag not being changed is that there is a piece of history meaning. We had to listen and show respect to the speaker. We also had to research some reason why to change the flag. We had to really respect each others opinions we really did not want our class mates to get offended.