PES survivors

Revival survivors from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.
This is my animation about how the seals survivors in Antarctic. Seal are really
good at swimming, they are seal animals that are mammals and warm blooded.
Seals have short arm on the side of there bodies. They can handle cold underwater.

End of the year Reflections

Introduction:
This year it was fantastic to be a year 6. I have three teachers which are, Mr Goodwin, Miss Lavakula and Mr Somerville. I come to school to learn because it is fun, I love coming to school everyday. Our team leader for team 4 is Mr Somerville. Mr Goodwin is my home teacher, Mr Somerville is my math teacher and Miss Lavakula is my Literacy teacher.

Reading:

For this year I started from 8 years old for reading and went up one level to reading at 9. Next year my goal is to improve more of my reading and read harder books during the holidays. I would try my best to reach 4 more levels up. Reading has help me to spell and learn new words. Reading is my second favourite subject.

Writing:

Writing for this year was fun, I got to writing about the amazing year 6 camp to Kawau, the chocolate game and the blindfold game.  What I have been learning about is  to write interesting paragraphs for the audience to be interested in. For the years 6 we have to write six to eight paragraphs. In each paragraph we have to write about 1 main idea and use punctuation in our paragraph. During the term we learnt about recount, recount is retelling what you have just done.  

Math:

I love math!! Math is my favourite subject. I like doing xtramath and math whizz on my Chromebook. In my first report I was well above. I hope I have improve progress. I have Mr Somerville as my math teacher. He is fun to learn with and funny. He has made me learn new math problems. I enjoy math and always have fun with it. This year’s math has made me even more better then last year. Math is the best!

Inquiry:

What I liked the most was trade and enterprise. We got in business group and made different products. Yvonne, Lani and Vinolia were my business partners. We made products out of loom bands. They cost 50 pieces and 20 pieces.The best part was buying from other shops. We sold all of our products and made a lot of Pts. It was over 55 pt. There were 6 groups. We even had auction that we could trade our pts in for real staff.  Also we had our own online bank to keep our Pts safe. Trading can be fun. Just so you know the red one is 20 pieces, the white is 50 pieces, the blue is 1 pt and the green one is 2 pts .

Conclusion

This year was the  BEST year ever. I even made new friend and new teachers. We had a three room class with three teacher. They were awesome! I hope to reach all my goals next year and make more progress.  I am looking forward for school next year.

Year 6 camp to bentzon

Introduction

Have you been to Kawau Island? The year 6 campers went to Kawau island on the 17th of November. Every year the year 6’s go camp at Kawau Island. We stay there for 4 days and 3 nights.

Day 1:

On the first day of camp it was exciting. We all meet in the hall around  7:00pm.The teams were called Kat's, Kawau, Bentzon and mention. First we went on a long ride on the bus and loaded our  bags on. Once the bus had stop at sandpit we had a little break before we went on the ferry. We had our morning tea and then made a line to carry the bags from the bus to the ferry. When we get on, we went up stairs so we can sit on top of the ferry.

When we arrived to Kawau Island we lift all the bags on the deck then we went for a long walk up steep hills and killer hill. Before we get half way my legs started to get tried. We stop at this big hill of rocks so Hendrix can says his speak. This rock hill his been growing since. Once he had finished his speaks we take another long walk until we stop at this big field near the sea. We played there and eat our lunch there. It take 30 minutes until we get back to the cabins. Some games we had played was bulrush and throw the farthers in the water.

Day 2:

I was in Yvonne, Venetia, Lani and Rosalina cabin. We had a five beds cabin and one cupboard .When I wake up Yvonne and Venetia were fast asleep, the other two were talking with me. It was the first day of the actives and my team Kawua  went bivouacking.  bivouacking is building a houses with your team. We went off and started looking for some wood and leaf to cover the house. We collected all the wood and leaf we need and build our house. It was halfway finished so we collected more and more wood and leaf. We added more wood on the house and we were done.Then we went to our next actives as time went past it was morning tea.

Day3

When I woke up it was early and it was my 11th birthday. They song happy birthday to me at breakfast time.Plus it was concert night .During that night some people won some award. We all finished our item and it was time for the judges to announce the winners. The winning team was mention. My team come 3rd places which was great.

Last day

We eat our last breakfast and went off to brush our teeth. We clean our room and put up our beds. We play a little actives before we went. When the fairy arrived we loaded our bags on the fairy and said goodbye to peter and Erin which are the owner of the camp.

conclusion

We had fun on the last day and I hope to stay there for a little more days. The best part of all was sleeping with my friend, playing with my classmate and doing no work. Also I learn how to do thing that I don't know how to do such as sailing and being a leader for my team. I was glad coming back to see my family but I would rather stay at kawau Island with my friends and teacher.

Unwanted Visitors

WALT: Read and understand facts about wasps
I have been learning about wasp. There are insects that are omnivorous. Omnivorous
are insects or Animals that eat plants, fruit and veges. They make there house out
of paper from decks, buildings, tree and woods. They have dangerous stinger that
can infect peoples body or skin.

Haiku poem

Can you guess what I was? I am a cheetah that has spot. I am
brown too.Did you get the answer right or wrong.

Limerick poem

Limerick poem

There once was a puppy named spotty(9)

He was a poppy that coped me (9)

He was also naughty (6)

He was skinny and fast (6)

He was bossy and look spotty(8)

I have been learning about Limerick poem I have describe a puppy.

He is spotty and naughty and fast . He is a little puppy boy. The 

first, second, fifth lines are longer then the third and fourth line. I write 

9, 6 and 8 lines in my poem.

Acrostic poem

I have been learning about Acrostic poem. What I have highlighted in blue is my
name going down. I write sentence and some are just words. Check out what I
have been learning.

Food chain

I have been learning about food chain. I first start with an sea creature and then
something that can eat that. Here is an example of my food chain in Antarctic.

True seals and eared seals

WALT: Read and understand facts about Antarctic Seals
This is what I have been learning about, true seals and eared seals. They are both
mammals. Mammals can feed it pups with it own milk. They spend more time under
water because it is warmer for them to stay in. Eared seals have arm which uses them
for feet. True seals have short arm and hump or wriggle themselfs to move. Every
summer they grow new layer of skin.

Lesser short tailed bat

WALT: Use clues from the text to accurately answer questions Read and understand facts about the Lesser Short Tailed Bat.

For this week I have been learning about Lesser short tailed bat. The key thing is
we have to find out how the bats survive. Feel free to check my presentation  for
more information.

Antarctic seals

WALT:Read and understand facts about Antarctic Seals
Antarctic seals are mammals which means they are warm blooded and can feed it baby with milk. One of the thing for the seals to adapted is to stay underwater. The seals are much more warmer underwater, comparer to people it is cold. There are many different seals but the most in common seal is the crabeater.

Diamante poems

WALT: Write a diamante poem using nouns, adjectives, verbs, synonyms and antonyms.
We have been learning about Diamante poems this week. We used nouns, adjectives,
 verbs, synonyms and antonyms. I write about winter and summer.

Writing Test

Eat I yelled to my partner! Team 4 have been eating cream weetbix and apple. There were apples and a plate of weetbix cream on the table.

When it was my  partner turn,I shave all the cream weetbix and apple into her mouth. She chew as fast as she could until her turn was over.  There were whip cream on my finger and on other classmates faces and everywhere there were apple rolling off the table.

Once it was time for me to eat I take big bite and chew, chew and chewed. It was a disaster I had to eat my whip cream weetbix with my apple. It was YUCK! I almost threw up the thing that had eaten right in front of me. Right after that I couldn't chew so I spat everything in the bin. I still have bits off apple stuck between my throat.

Some people eat like big hungry pigs. They eat faster than me. It was embarrassing to watch, I laughed while watching the others.  In the end we tidy up the big mess that we had made.The table look like an ugly zoo.

It was a messy and embarrassing game, I never want to play a single game like that again. Now I know what not to eat with my weetbix, one thing that could made it better is banana or strawberry.

Tui in a tree

WALT:Read with fluency




I am writing facts about korimako because that is what we are learning this week.
We had to research new things about korimako, I learnt a lot of things that can happen
to this bird. Such as the diet habitat, there interesting lives and many more things about
 them. Hope you like enjoy my blog.

Revival,Rosalina,Venetia,Yvonne Problem Solving: Week 3 - Term 4

WALT: find a fraction of a number
For our tasks this week we are learning to find a faction of a number. I read this 
problem very carefully so I can understand of what I am trying to solve. I find the
answer and it was 16/64 but I simplify it again to see if the answer was different. 
The answer was 2/6 but then again I half 2/6 and it give me the final of answer of 
1/3. That's how I solve this equation. I used division and times table to solve the 
problem.

Math problem solving

WALT:find a fraction of a number
This week we are learning to simplify fractions. If we can simplify we can half it
and see what your final answer is.

Math problem solving team 4 week 1

Walt:find a fraction of a number
The key for this week problem solving we are learning to simplify. We see if we
can have the fraction to see if we can simplify if not there will be remainder.

NZ Native Animal Report

WALT:Walt: Report factual information about a New Zealand Native Animal or Creature

Here are some facts about Native kiwis. Kiwi have only 25 to 50 years of life if they continue to die more.

Habitat:

They are found in many different places such as shrubs, rough, farmland, plantation forests,sand dunes, snowy tussocks, forest or the jungles.They especially like places with wetland and where trees that has river edge.

Description:

They have two legs, one long break with a nostrils at the end,  two eyes, coloured brown. There fur look’s like hair. Kiwi are honorary mammals animal. Kiwi are the only bird in the world that has a nostril at the end of it beak that help them smell and look for food.

Characteristics:

kiwi are shy, animal that sleep during the day and go hunting during the night they are called nocturnal.

Diet:

Kiwi eats seed, grubs and many varieties of worms. They also may eat fruit, small crayfish, eels and amphibians.

Interesting facts:

Kiwi predators are stoats, ferrets, weasels,  rats, cat, dog and possums. Sometimes kiwis accidentally get ran over from vehicle.

Tuatara

Walt:read and understand new facts about a Tuatara
We have been learning about lot of Tuatara information. We learn about there
habitat , description , characteristics , diet , life cycle and interesting facts about
it.

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