Calendar Art

WALT present a piece of artwork for our parents to buy.

Success Criteria

• Take our time, show patience (GRIT)
• Plan our piece of artwork
• Take care with the painting and dyeing
• Research for our inspiration
• Explain the steps you took to make your artwork on your blog
• How do you feel about your artwork?  
• What was  a challenge?

Calendar Art

In Room 12 we decided to do footprint and hand print Art.  We decided to do different things to each other. We got  these ideas from the internet. My art was two owls in a tree. The hand print on the left is my hand print and the one on the right is my little cousins Renees. The nose and the eyes are made from paper. The nose is made out of orange card and the eyes are made of white paper and two vivid dots. My challenge in art was when you had to carefully paint in between the little spaces.I was happy because it was better than I thought and it looks better in real life Another challenge for me was making the eyes look right. Also you had to show GRIT, and this is what grit means:

the “G”  means give it your all

the “R” means redo if necessary

the “I” means ignore giving up.

the”T” means take time to do it right

Effort

It makes Sense

WALT entertain the audience

Success Criteria:

1. I plan for the writing task
2. I write sentences that make sense
3. I have colour, taste, smell, look, sound and feel each on a new line.
4. I use specific words in the poem.
5. I attempt to write words I don’t know by using my sound/letter knowledge or a dictionary.
6. I use commas, exclamation marks, capital letters and full stops correctly.
7. I will present my poem on an A4 paper from the tote tray.  I need to think about making sure the reader will be able read my writing.

Effort

Effort looks like a red face from trying hard.

Effort smells like sweaty armpits.

Effort feels like your heartbeat thumping in the back of your head.

Effort sounds like puffing and loss of breath.

Effort tastes like the relief of wetting your dry mouth.

Effort is trying your best even when times get hard.

It doesn't matter about the outcome, it is the effort that counts.

You know you have put in lots of effort when mum and dad are proud!

                             

Persuasive Writing #2

    Dogs are better than Cats

WALT persuade other students to agree with our opinion.  This the purpose for my writing.

Success Criteria:

1. I plan for a writing task
2. I write a variety of sentence lengths with different sentence starters
3. Give reasons with detail - use specific words
4. I write most topic and high frequency words correctly.
5. I use capital letters, full stops, question marks and exclamation marks correctly
6. Use persuasive language

Dogs are better than cats!

In my opinion dogs are better than cats!

For example: Dogs are better than cats because cats just sit, eat, sleep, drink and poo. I mean dogs on the other hand ,dogs play, sleep with you and may be like you . dogs give you company so that you do not get sad .

Furthermore, dogs are better than cats because cats just sit, eat, sleep, drink and poo.  I mean dogs on the other hand play and sleep with you and will like you. If you be nice to them and you can give them a walk every day and a doggy biscuit . Dogs give you company so that you do not  get lonely and sad.  

Dogs are better than cats because they help sick people.

Dogs can help blind people to guide them through the busy traffic, sometimes it leads them to shops that you like and the car that they own.  
Dogs help diabetic people when their insulin has dropped, the dog will shake you until you take your medication. Dogs can sense when you are going to have a seizure.

Greyhounds race. You can bid sometimes and if your dog came in for you, you win money. Cats can't  be bothered to move. 
Dogs can sniff scent, drugs, food and plants.

Dogs can fetch and carry your mail in when you can't be bothered to get out of bed. Dogs are stronger than cats. Dogs are stronger animals. Dogs can work for the police and farmers.  Dogs can fetch balls and you can teach them tricks like they can sit, roll over, shake hands and cats can’t get teachers anything. They just lay around all day long. Dogs can pull small cars and dogs can track possible baddies.

Therefore, I think I have persuaded you that dogs are better than cats.

Animal Band Reader's Theater

Walt perform to an audiience

Success Criteria:

• speak clearly
• speak loudly
• speak with expression
• speak together as a group

On Friday September the 4th 2015, our class performed in front of 600 people.
Some of us got stage fright and some did not get stage fright. I got butterflies  in my tummy and they were annoying me so much .
Looking at 600 people seriously looked like a whole lot of seagulls waiting for you to throw food at them.
Boston had funny teeth and Liam had little eyes, they were wearing masks as robbers.
I hated it on stage because everytime I said a sentence, I got nervous.  Mrs Miller said I showed GRIT by being on stage and being a part of the team.  We had to practise again and again everyday to get better and better.   The performance was good and seeing all the people walk past was funny because they were laughing and excited.
I achieved all of the success criteria.

Country life is better than city life - Term 3 Week 2

WALT persuade other students to agree with our opinion.  This the purpose for my writing.

Success Criteria:

1. I plan for a writing task
2. I write a variety of sentence lengths with different sentence starters
3. Give reasons with detail - use specific words
4. I write most topic and high frequency words correctly.
5. I use capital letters, fullstops, question marks and exclamation marks correctly.
6. Use persuasive language

I recommend country life is better than city life!

Country life is better than city life because it has more area  so you can have fun and play in the bushes and we can make huts and climb trees.

Making huts can be fun because you use different material in the fields.

Huts are cool because you can sleep in them and you can play in them.

I know positively that there will be more animals to ride on or play with in the country. There will be different animals like deer, chickens and roosters, as well as sheep, cows and pigs.The cows can give you milk so you can have fresh milk in the morning on your breakfast, and hens can give you eggs for scrambled eggs and baking. Sheep give you wool so you can have a warm bed and a comfortable pillow. The pigs can give you pork and bacon.

Another reason is more space can be good because you can have more animals. You can climb trees and you can run up the mountain and you can stay fit and healthy so you do not get fat.  Mountains can be fun to climb and explore the open instead of sitting at home eating lollies and playing video games. The mountains are fun to find huts and find holes.  Mountains are cool because if you live in a cold place there might be snow.  

I  believe that country life is better than city life!

SKIMMING READING STRATEGY TERM 3 Week 2

.                             SKIMMING!!!!

WALT skim an unknown text so that we can quickly get an understanding of it.

• I can decide if a book has useful information I need or whether I want to read it for pleasure

These are the things I can do to skim read...

1. look at the title.
2. look for chapters
3. look for key words
4. look at the pictures                       
5. look at the blurb

Matariki Reflection - Week 10

I weaved a matariki star out of paper. It seemed easy but it wasn't. If the paper broke you had to start again even if you were half way through. I liked weaving the paper until it was finished to see what it will look like . I found it hard to tuck the paper under lots of the other paper.  

Ten Facts About Me - Week 8

1. I have a two dogs at home called Sage and Lola.

2. I have a brother and a sister called Hannah and Liam.

3. I have blond hair.

4. I am a girl and I play Mixed Martial Arts and Netball.

5. I am 8 years old turning 9.

6. Subway is my favourite food.

7. My favourite colour is turquoise.

8. My best friends are Tyler and Emma.

9. I am from New Zealand.

10. Mrs Miller told me that she enjoys our conversations about my animals because she loves animals too.

AREA - Week 6

We are learning about AREA in Room 12

AREA

Area is a shape with square units inside. 
Area helps builders to build homes, gardens and pools.
This is how you find area:
5 x 5 = 25 square units.




Rows mean right across.
Columns mens come on dowe
You can find area anywhere - in your house, in your back porch, to lay tiles, to get the right sized mirror for your wall.

Sage, Lola and Charlie - Week 5

I have two dogs that are called Lola and Sage. Sage is a Staffy and Lola is a labrador pit bull cross. Lola is from the SPCA. She was in a box on the side of the road with 12 other puppies.We brought Lola because our other dog Pearl died. Lola had mites .Mites are really really little bugs and they eat the skin off dogs and some times humans . She lost her fur so she was patchy but now she has grown her fur back . Lola's birthday is the 3rd of may. Sage was for sale. We brought Sage to bring Lola out of her shell. Now Lola is a big sister. Sage's birthday is October 24th.

Charlie is a cat, he is from the SPCA . He used to suckle on Hannah's blanket because he was taken away too soon . He is flufffy and cuddly, Charlie has a hammock on the window.

The Summarising Strategy - Week 4

Key words!

Key words can be found in many different books.

Key words help you to shorten a long text .

Key words help you summarize a long piece of information.

Key words are words that shorten parts of a text

Key words make your own work once you have written it again.

Match Sticks - Week 3

This is my name Ruby.  My name is one metre long. You could make it one metre long or you could you make it 20cm high. It  has to have 50 match sticks. It was  hard because my name has 4 letters and I had to make my letters bigger.

The learning in the activity was that you had to have a good starting point and a good finishing point. That you had to measure accurately and the number learning was that when we were finished we had to add how many colours there were.  I will give you a hint, say if you had 10 yellows and on the piece of paper it said that the yellow cost $10, then this is the working out: 10 x 10=100.

I was at the Dawn Parade, there was roughly 2000 people.  The four army trucks went past with two people in each army truck.  The army people marched down the road and then they turned and went towards the cenotaph.  All of the public marched behind the soldiers and they were wearing their medals. The four gun shots didn't give me a fright because you knew that they were coming.
Henrietta's sister Thea said a karakia, we had to have a silent moment to remember the soldiers that had fought for our country.  The flag went up the pole.  Three planes went past in a line, they came back around and went in a row, sometimes they had two at the front and one at the back.  At the end they said that we will remember them.  
I was feeling a bit tired, I couldn't really see Thea talking but there was a big screen.  My great grandpa was in the first world war and my other great grandpa was in the second world war.
I thought about my great grandads who died in the war to help our country.

Guinea Pigs - week one

Guinea pigs like to eat carrots, apple, parsley but the only thing they are not allowed to eat is rhubarb, they will die. Oranges and Mandarins help with their health.

Guinea pigs come in many colours, brown, black, tan and white. Some guinea pigs are long haired and some are short haired.

You can make a hutch or buy one. They like to have a clean bed or maggots will get in their bed and lay eggs. They eat the flesh of your pet.

Babies are born with fur, they have teeth and eat grass after four minutes. The mothers milk can protect the babies from mites.  

When the mother is pregnant they are fat.

This guinea pig is pregnant.

Some guinea pigs swim.

My Swimming Reflection

I learned how to…backstroke properly.

Something I found challenging was…breathing from both sides while doing free style.

At the end of the year I would like to improve on…diving in to the water.

Mrs Miller, Mr Kenny or Mrs Lowe could help me by…

nothing.

The best part about swimming was…working with the life jackets.

Black Fury

Black Fury lived in a pitch black rocky mountain in a hole near the city.  

Black Fury was born in an eagles nest

Black Fury has black wicked wings that she uses for flying around town.
At night bats help her to catch the baddies. In her room there is another hole full of zombies, around the hole it has rocks.
Black Fury stabs baddies and hangs on her wall to scare the zombies.

Black Fury has black lips.

My Buddy from Room 6 & 7.

Today I went to room 6 &7 to meet my new buddy called Anita.  She has one brother and he goes to this school.  I read a book called how to catch a falling star.  She has a twin sister.

Here is a photo of my buddy and I.

Jazz Hands

 Room 12 is learning  translation(sliding), reflection (flipping) and rotation (turning).

Please look carefully at my hands on my poster.