Monday 28 October 2019

What I Like

What I like

I like being the first person to get 100 blog post for my year. I like my school and I enjoy school. I like being nice. I like being my self and I don't care what other people say about me. I like enjoying my life and being there for people that needs me in there life. I like sticking up for myself also my family and friend. I like working hard. I liked blogging and writing. I like creating things on google drawing, because its a chance for you to see how good you create stuff on a computer. I like butter chicken and it is my favourite food.

Food that I like Poster


I Respect My School Poster


Friday 25 October 2019

Times Table Shift

Today in class we played a game called time table shift,  and I got one number wrong .

Thursday 24 October 2019

Night in the Forest

Night in the Forest


The old man Shuffled along the footpath.
Shuffle mean walking but dragging one feet


The children heard the distant sound of the school bell.
Distant mean Far away


The roof of the building  collapsed during the fire.
Collapse means when something falls down.


The children were punished for using offensive language in the
playground.
Offensive mean being mean or being rude to people.


You can not enter the building without permission
Permission mean asking your parents or someone older than
you if you can go to
a place.


There was lush undergrowth on the forest floor.
Lush mean a grass under the ground.


We could hear the girls talking as we approached the room.
Approached mean come near.

You must take precautions to avoid getting hurt.
A measure taken.

Flea Feast

Flea Feast 
LI – rhyming scheme, nouns, verbs

Rhyming scheme – What lines rhyme with each other in the first two verses
Lead - Greed
About - Shout
Powder - Louder
War - More
Shed - Bed
Quiet - Diet

Name the characters in this poem
The Flea 
The Dog 
The Boy

Identify some of the nouns 
  • Bed
  • Shed
  • Pills
  • Powders
  • Victim
  • Spray 

Identify the verbs – use a thesaurus to find a synonym for each.
  • Bark - Woof 
  • Shout - Yelled
  • Think - Imagine 
  • Sleep - Nap
  • Nip - Nibble
  • Made - Make

Wiki Rua

Wiki Rua:

Nō hea koe? Where are you from? 
Nō Tamaki Makaurau From Auckland 
Nō …. From Christchurch
From Hamilton - Hamutana
Nō …. From Nelson
From Wellington - Whanganui-a-Tara, 
From Gisborne - Kihipene
From Dunedin - Tanītana
From Palmerston North - Papaioea,



Nō hea koe? Where are you from?

From England Nō ...
From Wales
From Japan Nō ...
From China
From Australia
From India
From Sri Lanka
From South Africa
From Canada  
From Mexico
From Scotland 
From Ireland
From France  
From Spain
From Russia  
From Italy
From Samoa
From Tonga
From Cook Islands
From 
From
From

The Simpson

Simpson Family Tree







Ko wai te whaea o Homer?                                     Ko wai te kuia o Ling?
Ko wai te papa o Lisa? Ko wai te mama o Patty?
Ko wai te koro o Maggie? Ko wai te papa o Marge?

Write your own questions using : kuia, koro, mama, papa

Ko wai te  mama o Marge?      Ko wai te kuia lisa 

Ko wai te  papa o homer?       Ko wai te koro Bart

Setting Goals


Night in the Forest

Night in the Forest


Read the poster and use the information to complete the following tasks. 



a)  Use the ideas from Night in the Forest to explain how birds, insects, and bats find food at night.     
Fill in the chart. Write one idea for each bullet point.     
The first one has been done for you.
Animal
How does this animal find food?
Kiwi
Can smell food / worms through its nostrils at the end of its nose.
Morepork
At night its big eyes help it to see.
Glow worm
It lures insects with its light and then it catches them in its net. 
Bat
Echolocation

b)  Give the meaning of the word that is underlined in these parts of Night in the Forest.
     i)   "...and makes a net of sticky, dangling threads."
          dangling means to hang down
     ii)  "...many native flowers are white to attract night flying moths and beetles."
          attract means something that connected to something
     iii) "The kiwi is special."
          special means unique

Kiwi Can

Today at  Kiwican we learned what unique mean. We did activity called vs and if we picked something we liked then we have to pick what is mean. Then for  our last activity we did drawing and we had to write what I am good at.

Tuesday 22 October 2019

Complex Sentence

Complex Sentences

Simple sentence -  Amanda took her time getting
ready for school.


Amanda took her time getting ready for school,
although she was running late.

Although she was running late, Amanda took her time
getting ready for school.

Today we wrote a simple sentence from our
library books then we used an AAAWWUBBIS to
change the simple sentence into a complex sentence.

Pie Chart

Today I made a pie chart about how many people liked the colour red, blue, green, yellow and purple. This is how many people liked those colours.

Friday 18 October 2019

Whale Watcher

Whale Watch




  1. Max hoped to see a whale.
  2. Lester put the hydrophone in the water so they can
hear the whale.
3.Lester took the whale watcher five kilometers deep because
its deep and the food is there
4.Two reasons why the hydrophone wasn’t picking up any sounds
was because the whale might be
asleep under or the whale is not at the surface.
5.The reason why Max waited and waited because max was
getting tired.

6.The first clue Max has the rush of air.

Needs and Wants

Today I made a drawing about what the difference between the things we need and what we want. We watched a video and then made a sketchnote in our books before we made the poster.

Blogging






Today I wrote a comment on   Marcaiyla's, O'ninesha's and Kawakawa's blogs and I told them what I liked about their blogs.














Thursday 17 October 2019

What is Money?


We watch a video and after the video we made poster about what is money.

Word Cline - Friendly

Today in writing we did  a word Cline activity and we picked any word like fast, slow, big, small. I picked friendly.

Storm in a Teacup

Storm in a Teacup
L.I. - Identify literary device - Simile and Metaphor and rhyme


Read the poem


Identify the two metaphors in the poem
Marshmallow boots - This refers to Marshmallow - Floating in the hot chocolate.


Identify the simile
Like a silver typhoon - refers to a spoon.


Write down the pairs of rhyming words
Pink - Sink- Drink
Sea - Me
Wobble - Bobble

Today in poetry we did a poem called Storm in a teacup. Here is the poem we did.

Wednesday 16 October 2019

Kotahi

Wiki : Kotahi

Kupu - Te Tinana
The Body
mahunga
Head
arero
Tongue
ringa ringa
Arm
matimati
Finger
makawe
Head
poho
Chest
taringa
Ear
ngutu
Lip
pokohiwi
Shoulder
turi
Knee