In the Beginning

Day 1 - The first settlers
Summer Leaning Journey


1: Maui had four foster brothers

2: When Maui's brothers went fishing he hid in the bottom of their canoe

3: Maui caught a fish (the great fish) and his brothers  cut into its flesh with their paddles and the fish turned into the north island

4: Maui carved his fishing hook out of his ancestors jawbone

                    

   

Plastic Pollution

Last week in Te Ngahere we did some persuasive writing about plastic pollution and why it is bad for the environment.  Our WALT: was use the correct persuasive structure we also have our own personal WALTs, what we needed to learn. I think I need to work on using more interesting describing words. Here is my writing . . .

Last week In Te Ngahere we made our term 4 writing goals. First I looked at my last terms writing and checked them against last terms goals. All the goals that I had not achieved I put onto a google drawing I  also added other goals that I wanted to learn. I choose my goals because I want to move to a higher level in writing. Here are my goals . . .

Math Goals Term 4

Last week in Te Ngahere we made our term 4 math goals. This term I am working at Stage 7. We filled in a I CAN sheet and copied three goals on to a google drawing and decorated it with images. I choose  my goals because they are what I need to learn most to finish stage seven. Here are my math goals

At the beginning of term 3 Te Ngahere did a reading task called Man in the Mirror, we read the song lyrics and then used a doc or a presentation to display our answers, I made a presentation. Our WALT was WALT: Identify the meaning of song lyrics.

The Curse of Being Pharaoh

This term in week one Te Ngahere  did some reading called the curse of being Pharaoh. Our WALT: was we are learning to answer a variety of questions. I really enjoyed this reading because it was on a topic that is was interested in and I would certainly do it again.

Informational Report Writing

For the last 5 weeks in Te Ngahere we have been writing Informational Reports. Our class WALT has been write an Informational Report but as we have been going to other workshops it has changed to WALT use semicolons and hooks in my writing. First we choose any country we wanted (mine was Cambodia) then we choose 4 subtopics- population, leaders, currency and language. After that we wrote other reports on our country including: Native animals, Climate,  landscape, Historic events, Sport, Natural disasters and  native plants. I choose Cambodian animals, climate, landscape and I am now doing one on sport.

CAMBODIA
Do you know much about Cambodia? If you don’t this is the perfect piece of writing for you to read!  It will tell you all sorts of facts in including Cambodian money, population and current leaders.

Cambodia is located in Southwest Asia. With  a Longitude and latitude of 12.5657° North, 104.9910° East. The capital is Phnom Penh.

Over the world different countries use different currencies, in New Zealand we use the dollar but in Cambodia the use money called Cambodian Riel. The Cambodian Riel is very different from the NZ dollar.  You could not use NZ money in Cambodia because the amounts of money are not the same. For example the NZ dollar equals 3066.56 Cambodian Riel.

Cambodia is a small country about 181,035 Square km in size, with a  population around 16,098,161. Cambodia has a density of 85 people per square kilometer.

Norodom Sihamoni is the leader/King of Cambodia, and  has been since 29 October 2004. He was awarded many awards: Grand Cross of the Royal Order of Cambodia, Grand Cross of the Royal Order of Monisaraphon, Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor,Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor, Grand Cordon of the Order of the Chrysanthemum, Honorary Citizen of the City of Prague and Silver Medal of the City of Paris.

Around 16 million people speak Khmer. Khmer is commonly spoken in Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand.

common and proper nouns

Last week in Te Ngahere we were learning to use common and proper nouns our WALT was we are learning to use common and proper nouns in the correct places. We had to buddy up, I was with Freya we made a 3x4 table down the side we wrote person, place, and Thing. Across the top we wrote Common or proper noun then we put in examples of that. So say we had a person we would write gymnast without a capital and then in the proper noun column we would put Simone Biles with a capital.

Math goals

Last week in  Te Ngahere we made our Math goals.We were learning to identify our math goals.To do this we had to select what we wanted to learning off an IKAN sheet.Then we made a drawing to display our goals, we also provided an example.Here are my are learning goals.

Writing Goals

Last week in Te Ngahere we made our term 3 writing goals. Our WALT was to identify our writing goals. We got our goals from looking at a writing rubric. For organization I am rubric 6 and for sentence structure I am rubric 5. We also looked at our  term 2 goals and updated  them, checking if we have achieved all of our goals and if we hadn't we could put them on the term 3 writing goals.Some of mine are metaphors, alliteration and complex sentence structure. Here are my writing goals.

My learning

On Wednesday Te Ngahere had Student LED Conferences. We had to make a google drawing to showing our learning in reading, writing, math, inquiry and art. Then we where given my report , I am well above in reading and I am at in math, writing( I really need to work on writing).Considering it is only half way through the year i think it is pretty good.Here is my google drawing.

Waitangi Treaty Grouds

Last week on Tuesday Paihia School went to the Waitangi  Treaty Grounds.The senior school went in the afternoon, we were split into three groups. My group did planting first and I planted a Manuka. Then we did weaving and Freya and I weaved nikau palms.Lastly we played a game called maui  matou and Ki waenganui , it was really hard because the caller called out maui matou or Ki waenganui I won the second round with Lily.It was really fun and I hope we get to do it again.

Paihia School Triathlon

                                                     

Last Friday the whole School did the Paihia School Triathlon. We walked to paihia beach and watched the year 7&8 girls then boys swim out to the marshal then across to the cone and they ran up the hill toward the road. When it was my turn (the year 6 girls) everybody dashed forward sprinting into the water out to  the marshal and across to the cones  and  ran up the hill toward the road. As we crossed the road everybody started running toward school on the footpath. When we got to school we all put on our shoes and helmets and started off around the field twice and through the rugby poles and finished with reward of a muesli bar and applause from the juniors.

I have learned...

My Tangelo

“Squirt’’amazing smells of citrus filled the air as I split open my dark orange tangelo, the sticky juice dribbling down the back of my hand. Slowly peeling away the bumpy skin to reveal the luscious fruit inside. I pulled of one of the  segments and bit in half, juice running off my chin. It tasted as sweet as a strawberry. Eating them one by one making them last as long as I could, when I finished I wanted more, wishing I could eat them for ever and . . . I can, we have a tangelo tree at home.

Our class was learning to write a piece of descriptive writing about some tangelos that our teacher bought in. We had to write about what they looked like, smelled like, tasted like, sounded like and what they felt like. On this piece of writing I was focusing on good use of adjectives describing the four senses. I used similes, onomatopoeia and adjectives. I think I need to work on alliteration and metaphors.

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