Tuesday 25 September 2018

Multiplication poster


This is my Multiplication poster.
All the questions are word problems that are all 6x7

Healthy drinking poster



A few weeks ago me and one of my friends made a healthy
drinking poster in health.  We wrote amounts of sugar
in some unhealthy drinks and then on the other side we
wrote down how much sugar was in healthy drinks like
water and healthy all fruit smoothies.





Weather Graph




In room 6 we picked Countries and once a week in math class
we would check the temperature and put it onto a slide show.
At the end of the few weeks we put them on graphs, that you
will see at the end of the slideshow.

Monday 24 September 2018

Mini BB fair



A few weeks ago we held a mini
 Books and baking fair.I bought
 books and some baking it was 
lots and lots of fun.  I hope we 
can hold another fair soon. 
You could buy cupcakes brownies 
lolly cake and much much more.
There were so many books as well.

Mandarin class



   Every Friday Miss Lee comes into every classroom 
 and she teaches us mandarin.  We have learnt songs
 phrases and conversations. It has been so much fun
 learning mandarin this term and I hope we continue
next term.

Writing competion



Mollie the Mermaid

Mollie the Mermaid sits by the ocean on the sand every day for 
hours. She dreams of what it would be like with legs. She wishes
 as hard as she possibly can with her magic pearl, but still does 
not have legs. She dove back into the water and swam deep 
in the sea to her underwater cave. She lay down on her luxury 
seaweed bed and dreams of having legs. When she awakes she
 still has a tail, she swims up to the surface and as soon as she
 reaches land she has legs. She does not believe it, she dives
 into the water then she has tail she goes on land, she has legs.
 She decides to wander on land, She reaches a small town. 
Wobble to the right wobble to the left! She realizes legs are 
very hard to use indeed. She fell right into a shop window
 and the glass shatters. She runs back to the ocean as fast as
 she possibly could so she would not get into trouble! She 
dives into the water and BOOM she gains her tail! She is
 so happy and she sneaks back up to the beach and realizes 
she did not get legs. It seems the wishing pearl only gave
 her a day as a human. I guess she preferred her tail anyway.
 She lay on the beach and watched the sunset as she fall asleep.

Whakatauki poster


This is my poster of Whakatauki. This is what my
 poster says:

Nau te rourou                       With your food basket
NaKu te rourou                     With my food basket
Ka ora manuhiri                    The visitors will be fed

Hangi Diorama



For the past few days my partner I made a diorama of the hangi.
I made clay food and clay fire.  I had help making a Marae and
a food basket.  We glued people into the diorama and this is
the finished result, but we also wrote how to make a hangi.

Cultural week






Last week everyone was sorted into a country or place. I was put in Brazil,
we made masks, we learnt samba dancing and it was so much fun.  I am
 looking forward to next years Cultural week.

Kiwi Writing



New Zealand's Native Kiwi Bird 
I am learning to inform my audience using an information report


What's brown, soft, and native bird to New Zealand? Yes, you guessed it
 the Kiwi bird! The Kiwi is a flightless bird and it just so happens to be 
one of New Zealand's native birds. Did you know that the female kiwi 
is heavier than the male kiwi, and the size of the kiwi egg is about 6
 times the size of a chickens egg! The closest relatives to the kiwi 
today is the Elephant bird from Madagascar, Emus, and the
 Cassowaries of Australia. Kiwis are one of the smallest and 
rarest birds in New Zealand. Most people think there is only one
 Kiwi specie, but actually there are 5 different species. The Great 
Spotted Kiwi, Little Spotted Kiwi, North Island Brown Kiwi, 
Okarito Kiwi, and the Southern Brown Kiwi. In order to 
understand the kiwi we need to explore the importance of
 their diet, their habitat and take a look at the population of the kiwi.


Diet: Kiwis have a wide range of food that they like to munch
 on such as, worms, grubs, bugs, berries, and seeds that they
 find. Did you know Kiwis are the only birds that have nostrils 
at the end of their beaks so they can sense food from far away. 
 They also may eat fruit, small crayfish, eels, and small amphibians. 
Kiwis have a highly developed sense of smell, unusual in a bird.
 For a kiwi to survive they need to have food and water, that can 
be provided in their habitat. 


Habitat: Where do Kiwis live? Well kiwis can be found throughout
 New Zealand, across the North Island and South Island, right down
 to Stewart Island. Kiwis prefer natural habitats and would not make
 a good house pet. Kiwis don't require a pristine habitat but prefer
 the native forests of New Zealand. They can be found in scrub
 and rough farmland, exotic plantation, sand dunes, and snowy
 tussocks. Kiwis live in a huge range of habitats. However not
 every habitat is safe for the kiwi this leads us into the predators
 of the kiwi.


Predators: There are many threats to the kiwi as their habitats
 are on the forest floor. Some of these threats include stoats,
 cats, wild pigs, dogs and ferrets. At one point there was an
 average of 27 kiwis killed every week! That impacted on the
 population of the kiwi with around 1,400 kiwis dying every
 year. At this rate kiwis may disappear in our lifetime. A single
 roaming stray could take away an entire kiwi population in a 
matter of days. Luckily there are Kiwi sanctuaries where 
kiwis go and get protected from predators.

In conclusion Kiwis may disappear in our lifetime with the way
 where heading. But with Kiwi sanctuaries, and if we all set our 
minds to it we can all help save The Kiwi, and keep them for a
 long, long time. To do this we need to keep them in their natural 
habitat, have food and water and keeping them far away from
 predators. I hope we will all save the Kiwi so that future 
generations will know and love our national bird.

Thursday 13 September 2018

The Duck Billed Eagle

In Reading we each made a bird. We choose the head, beak, tail, and feet.
  Once we finished we wrote on the poster why we choose the body parts,
 What our bird eats and its environment it stays in. We also said why we
choose the colors. I called my bird The Duck Billed Eagle. I had lots of
 fun designing my bird.

Wednesday 12 September 2018

Art crosses




In room 6 we have been painting our crosses for the fence. We first had to draft our design on a piece of paper 3 or 4 times. Then we did our final copy with colors. This is how it turned out...









Tuesday 11 September 2018

Science Experiment

Pointed beak, flat beak and pelican beak are all the types
of beaks we used for this discovery.But these things are
 also known as forceps, tongs and cups. First we learn
t about the meanings of the words we need to know like,
aim. Aim means trying to achieve something
hing in the experiment we were trying to see what
shape beak is the best for picking up food. And we
learnt what will we change( the equipment), What
we will measure ( the amount of food) and how we
will keep it a fair test. The way we can make it a
fair test by having a nice steady surface, by having
the same person doing each type of food also by
having the same amount of time of 30 seconds.
We had an amazing time experimenting with
rice, peppercorns, gummy worms and skittles
and after we got to eat LOLLIES. Thank you Miss
Down for the amazing experiment.







The M&M challenge



Last Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
 we did the M&M challenge. The class 
got into groups with one leader in
 each group. Miss Down gave us some
 M&M’s and we had to count how many
 we had and next figured how 
much M&M’s our group had. After we
 found out how many M&M’s we all 
had many people realized that some
 people had a very small amount of 
M&M’s while others had about 50.
 The next thing we did was counting 
how much of red we had then blue
 then yellow until we had
 finished all the colors we had.
 When we did everything
 Miss Down told us to share all
 the M&M’s equally with
 our group and everyone in the 
class got 41 M&M’s each!
 We have put our information on a poster.

Grandparents Mass






Grandparents Mass

On Friday 24th August 2018 we celebrated Grandparents Mass with
 our grandparents, family/whanau and the whole school. We first 
went to mass to celebrate with Father Bernard Kyle, who blessed
 our dear Grandparent with a blessing and we sung a special song
 to them. When mass was finished our PTA team prepared a treat
 for us. There was lots of sweet and coffee/tea to sip on. By the
 time the that all the food was finished it was then time to perform 
some dances for our audience. The groups that performed were the 
Sheridan Kapa Haka, Choir, folk dancing, okulele and Irish Dancing
. That was a joyful day that we would always remember. We are
 blessed to have such special people in our lives.