Week 9 Reflection

This week for writing we look at race horses names to make a 3 lined haiku. Heres some names I came up with.

Bionic Boomer Benji

Manipulator mickey

Doctor Dimond Darhling

I do guitar lessons for 30 mins on a Thursday, This week we were working on Bar chords. Here are some I have learnt...

week 8 Relfection

This week We started a book called Millions. We read the chapter then made a summary about it.

Heres My summary for chapter one...

Chapter 1.

In this chapter we meet Anthony and Damian. They live with their Dad and just moved houses to 7 Cromarty Close in England. They started at a new school called Great Ditton Primary. Damian has lots of knowledge and knows alot about saints and Anthony is interested in money real estate. 

Also we worked on limericks for our poetry anthology. Heres mine...

There once was a kid with no hair

He gave everyone quite a scare

He grew it out

Just like a sprout

And now he looks like a brown bear

Week 7 Reflection

This week for homework I worked on conversions like metres to hectares and kilograms into tonnes. Heres are some of my results from Maths buddy. 

Also in class I've been learning naming angles. This is my DLO about it...

For writing we have been doing a poetry anthology. This week we did colour poems and mine is the colour red. Here is my writing...

Red

Red looks like Fresh strawberries sleeping on a bed of soil

Red smells like crisp toffee apples ready to be devoured

Red sounds like a crackling fire slowly burning away after a hard night's work

Red tastes like juicy raspberries fresh from the garden

Red feels like a bleeding scar running down your leg

Week 6 Reflection

This week we explored different publishing websites. I created a pic collage of our camp in curious cove this year. If you want to have a go here's a link to the website Fotor.com

Also we learnt about bartering and the different tribes in New Zealand before money was around. People used to trade things like trade clothes, nails and equipment for fresh food and green stone. When the whalers came to New Zealand they started trading blankets, guns and more modern equipment. Now we have money so bartering is no long needed.

Week 5 relfection

For writing this week we did a poem based off Rodger McGoughs poem The Midnight Skaters. Here is a link to the poem we based it on The midnight skaters. For this poem we focused on the use of personification which is giving an object a human quality. This is what I came up with...

The moon was shining bright

It was starting to get late

The wind was whistling quietly

There was no sound, But wait

A break of silence occurred

They all came out in a heap

The toaster popped,nothing stopped

While every person lays sound asleep

Then suddenly some cutting knives

Started jumping up to fight

As forks watched the action

The spoons flickered the light

Spatulas swam in the sink

While plates piled one by one

Oh what fun they were having

But wait, they’re on the run

The forks jumped in

Ready to be washed

The plates were like Frisbee

In the cupboard they squashed

They hear footsteps of children running down the stairs

It alerted them of the presents of people everywhere

As parents laugh and talk it couldn't help to wonder

Why the spatulas lie and wait with a little tear

Earlier this year we went on a camp to Curious Cove which is near Picton. Our art was based on an activity or scene from camp. Mine is a gurnard in the sea because I was lucky enough to catch one !  

We did more Chinese this week. We worked on writing different characters, here are some we practised...

Week 4 Reflection

For our reading this week we started a new movie with subtitles.

The activity was called surprise subtitles. The movie would get stopped and we would have to remember the subtitle we just read.Here are my results...

Surprise Subtitles

Movie- Charlotte's web

1. Have a good one buddy
2. Good night
3. That’s going to leave a mark
4. Here pig, pig, pig
5. No mud
6. mouldy cheese oh yeah
7. I know brooksie. Just be patient
8. I suppose it does

Also If you are interested in watching the movie here is a summary of what it is about...

The movie Charlotte's web is a story of a pig named Wilbur who was born a runt. Mr. Arable wants to kill him when his daughter Fern asks him to let the little pig live. Her father decides to let Fern keep Wilbur as a pet. Wilbur meets new friends including Charlotte.

We have been learning mandarin for  few weeks now. here are some of the sentences and words we have been learning...

Where is your home?

Nǐ  jiā  zài nǎr?

你 家 在 哪 儿？

My home is in____.

Wǒ   jiā   zài____.

我  家  在_____。

Very glad to meet you.

Hěn gāo xìng rèn  shī  nǐ.

很   高   兴   认   识 你。

Me, too.

Wǒ  yě  shì.

我  也  是

For maths we use a site called Maths Buddy.The task I did was to identify different types of triangles here are some of my questions I answered...

Week 3 Relfection

In maths this week we have been working on multiplying fractions. This is my understanding of how to do it.


For a few weeks now we have been doing an activity for reading called avilll. This is where you watch a movie with subtitles and do activities to go with it. This week we did an activity called take a book to the movies.To do this activity we get into groups of 4 and have a dictionary ready. The movie will get stopped and the hardest word on that subtitle will get looked up by one person in the group. These are my results...

Take a dictionary to the movies

Word (Perfectly Spelled)	Definition (Choose the best, which is like the way the word was used in the movie)
1.Misinterpretation	Interpret wrongly
2.Queasy	Having the feeling that one is about to vomit
3.Indistinctly	Unable to be seen or heard clearly
4.exhales	To breath out from the lungs
5.Squeal	A prolonged shrill sound or cry

We are currently having mandarin lessons once a week.These are some words we were practising...