A Diorama Of London

As you know I have done a blog on what a passport 
task is so if you dont understand go and read that!  
A few days ago I finished a Diorama of London.  It 
was extremely fun to make and plan.  In my 
Diorama I made a paper big ben and a park bench 
and a person in the rain.  For the Diorama you could
 make it look like anywhere. Some people did the 
beach, underwater, Australia, Paris, Bakery and so many
 more possibilities.  It was so fun.  Here is a picture of my Diorama!

3D Shapes

In Maths we have been learning about 3D shapes.  Today we made some 3D shapes. I made a 3D cube and a rectangular prism.  The way we made them was we got a shape net. We then cut along the sides and then folded all the lines and glued it all together.  I even made my cube into a dice! It was really fun but also a bit difficult.

This is what a shape net and my 3D shapes look like!

Haiku Poem

Snow day

Wearing Pajamas

Relaxing whilst your in bed

Sipping hot chocolate

 That was my haiku Poem!  Haiku's are easily my 

favourite Poem.  In class we all wrote 3 Haiku's.

Then we published our favourite Poem. My other

two poems were about School and Art.  I really 

enjoyed doing these.

Passport Tasks

This Term we have started our passport tasks. We do 

them every year in Term 4. A passport task is when

 we get a sheet of paper and there are a bunch of

 different activities. Each activity earns you a certain

 number of points, but, your teacher can add or 

deduct points due to the standard of your work. All

 the activities are in a column that earns you a 

number of points. Different activities can earn you

 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 or 60 points. I’m really excited

 to do the Passport tasks!

Product for the Fair!

This year is the school fair! The fair is once every 2 years.

 This year we all got into groups in our class and now we 

have to make a product to sell at the fair. My group are

 making bookmarks! On each bookmark we are going to 

do a theme and colour it in. The themes are all gonna be 

different so they appeal to different genders and ages. We

 are gonna sell 2 bookmarks in a pack and tie them 

together with a ribbon. Right now we are only planning 

our product. I'm so excited for when we get to make the

 real bookmarks!

The Pacific Ocean

This week in Room 5 we have chosen an ocean to 

study. I chose the Pacific Ocean. I learnt heaps of 

new and interesting facts like, What the deepest 

point is and what sea creatures live in the Pacific 

and the size of the whole ocean!

It was also really fun creating the poster. Here is 

what mine looks like!

My Revolting Recipe

For the past few weeks we have been doing instructional writing.  We have all done a recipe on something. My Recipe was on Mashed Potato cake.  Here is my Mashed Potato cake Recipe!

How to make a Revolting cakeThings you will need:1 baking Pan1 pot1 knife1 baking bowl

Equipment you will need:12 potatoes1 cup of milk½ a cup of flour1 teaspoon of baking powder1 bag of marshmallowsFondant1 bag of skittlesGreen dyeIcing sugarhot watercocoa

Method1. First you need to peel the potatoes and chop them into  thirds.  2.  Put them in a large pot and boil until soft.  3.   Once they are soft place them in a baking bowl and mash them up and add your milk.  4.  Mix for 5 minutes and then add your flour, baking powder, and green dye.  5.  Mix until the dye is evenly spread. Grease a baking pan and put your batter in.  Let it set in the fridge for 1 hour till it has moulded into a cake shape.  6.  Once you take your cake out of the pan, it's time to start the icing.  Put your hot water, icing sugar, and cocoa into a bowl. Mix it until it becomes soft.  7.  Spread it evenly over your cake.  Put your marshmallows on the outside of your cake and put the whole block of fondant in the middle of the cake.  Sprinkle the skittles on top.Voila! You now have a delicious  potato cake.

Pumanawa

This Term is Pumanawa.  Pumanawa is when we go to a 
different classroom to do a special option.  It is every Monday
after lunch.  I am in Cartooning. Cartooning is 
really cool because sometimes we draw realistically and sometimes we merge animals!  I cant wait for the next 
lesson.  I really enjoy it when the teacher teaches us new techniques to draw well. Here are a few things I have drawn.

Cook Island language week

This week was Cook Island language week.  It was fulled with heaps of fun activities.  Here is a picture of one of the activities we have done so far.

That activity was my favourite.  I have really enjoyed Cook Island language week.  It was filled with a bunch of super fun activities!

Religious Education

In R.E we have been learning about "Who is God?". 
We have been learning about what God is like and 
we also did an acrostic poem about him. We also 
learned about the Good Samaritan and we also did
 "The stages of centering prayer," We also did some
 things on the Assumption. I have really enjoyed
 these particular sessions in R.E. 
 This is what My title page looks like.

Maori Art

In Room 5 we have been doing art.  We have been 

sketching ideas inspired by Peter Gossage for quite

 a while.  I finished my art on 2.7.19.  It was really

 interesting trying out a different style of art.  I did my art on some Green Stone necklaces.  

This is how it turned out:

Book Week!

This week was Book Week! One of the best weeks
 of the school year! Today is the last day of book
 week!  There were so many activities to do!  I even 
won a book cover competition.  You had to design a
 NEW book cover for one of your favourite books.  
I made a Ruby Redfort book cover.  Ruby Redfort
 was written by Lauren Child.  My prize for winning 
was $10.00 to spend at our book fair.  The book fair 
is when they get loads of NEW books and people 
can buy them.  I really enjoyed Book Week!

Maths Co-ordinates

In Room 5 for maths we have been learning
 about co-ordinates.  We all got the exact same 
sheet for the co-ordinates. It was a bit difficult
 at first but as I went on it became easier and
 easier!  It was very fun and the picture on our
 sheet was a a panda doing the floss!  When we 
finished our first co-ordinate sheet we got a
 new one that had decimals. I'm still working
 on my decimal one know!  The decimal one
 I got is a dabbing pug. 

My Book Review

In Room 5 for Book Week we had to write a book review.  I wrote a review on the Ruby Redfort series.  The author is the well-known Lauren Child.  Here is what my book review ended up like:

This is what Ruby Redfort was about.  Ruby Redfort was a 13 year old girl who got recruited as a code cracker for a secret agency called Spectrum.  Ruby has to solve a lot of codes and mysteries that end up putting her into great danger every time.  I highly recommend this book.  

Water filter experiments

In Room 5 we have been learning about water safety.

 We had to do an experiment with one other person 

and try to create a water filter out of any 4 materials.

 These were our options: Cotton balls, Sand, Paper

 towels, and Bark. Me and Kayano used Cotton balls 

and paper towels. What you had to do was have two 

containers one with a hole on the bottom and one

 with no holes. You had to place the one with the

 hole on top of the other one. Then you had to put in

 your chosen materials and then pour water on the 

materials. The water had Cooking oil,Paper, and

 Compost in side. Me and Kayano's filter worked

 OK. All the bits didn't go through but our end

 result was a bit yellow. I really enjoyed doing

this experiment.

Cross Country

Today was Cross Country.  We have been training
 hard for a few weeks. The track we ran was long
 but we had to do it twice!  It was exhausting.  I
 came 8th out of 11 people.  Lucy came 1st,
 Jemima came 2nd, Soeun came 3rd, and Hannah 
came 4th.  Here are some photos of Cross Country. 

Samoan language week

This week was Samoa week.  We did lots of fun and
 cool activities.  One of the activities was about a 
myth. You had to read it and then do activities on it. 
There was also a worksheet titled 'All about Samoa'. 
 You had to fill it out and then decorate it.  This is 
what mine looks like.

Country posters

In Room 5, we have all been making country posters. My country was
Spain, I had to research lots of facts about Spain and then make a
poster.  There were lots of countries to choose from. It took a while to
get them finished but the end result was great! I'm very proud of my
country poster and I think I put a lot of effort in.  The most difficult part
was colouring in the Spanish flag because there were so many little
details. I really enjoyed making the posters and researching lots of
interesting facts!

ANZAC Brouchures

It was the 5th of May.  ANZAC day had arrived.

 To celebrate this day we made ANZAC day

 brochures.  I partnered up with Allessandra.  Our

 brochure was about Middleton Beckett, A man

 who went to war at 18 years old.  Sadly, he

 died when he was 19, caused by his wombs. 

 Here is a picture of our brochure.

My goals

In Room 5 we have all chosen some goals for the term.
We had to make one for Reading, Writing, and Maths.

My goal for Reading is to understand the main idea of the text.
My goal for Writing is to use a variety of creative describing words.
Also, my goal for Maths, Improve my multi digit subtraction.

I hope I can improve on all of my goals this term.

Poems

In Room 5 we are learning about poetry.   We all had to write a poem about an object.  We all wrote our poems on post cards and today the postal service are picking them up and they are going to another school in New Zealand and we will also be receiving poems as well.
These are my poems, The first poem is about a rock and the second poem is about a gem:

Erosive   -   Anagram
Small Stone
Scratchy hard solid tangy
short stubby sleek and firm
Detailed oval polished clean
Soft and smooth
Rock   -   Item

Emote   -   Anagram
Small dazzling
Smooth with sharp edges
Hard solid serine motionless shimmery
Glistening in the sun
Red like blood
Gem   -   Item

Animal Poster

A few days ago we made animal posters. We had to pick an animal and research that species. I chose the Giant Panda. It was really fun finding out interesting facts that I didn't know. The giant Panda is such a cute and interesting animal. The things we needed to find out was Their Diet, Habitat, Are they endangered, Features and Breeding.
This is my Poster:

Tabloid Sports

Today we did Tabloid Sports. Since I am a House Captain I had to do a event. My event was a obstacle course. I did my event on the turf and set up cones. They had to Hop to a cone and then switch legs and hop to the next cone. Once they got to the end they had to

 do 5 jumps and then 5 spins, then run all the way back. Tabloid Sports was really fun and I am glad i got to do an event.  It was my last ever Tabloid Sports.  

Shine Week

This week is shine week, we are dressed in orange 
because we are fundraising for family violence. 
 If you wear orange to school on shine day then 
you have to donate some money.  Mostly everyone
 was in orange.  The whole school went on to the 
field to take a picture of the whole school.

Shrove Tuesday

Today is Shrove Tuesday.  This Morning we burnt palms and now, in the afternoon we are making Pancakes as a class with Room 1.  All the Juniors took turns mixing the batter and now the teachers are cooking the pancakes.  They smell so delicious!  Everyone can't wait to eat some!  Right now at 2:20 the little kids are filling in a work sheet and the Seniors are doing a blog posts.  The Seniors help the Juniors with their work sheets.  Shrove Tuesday was really fun!

Growth Mindset quotes

If If Doesn’t

Challenge You,

It Won’t Change

You!

 I chose this quote because if you don't challenge

yourself then you won't be learning anything new 

and it won't change the way you think about things.

Lent

Today, in Religious Education we brainstormed
 words or quotes about lent.  We came up with 
lots of ideas and then we had to copy them all 
into our book.  We had to decorate our work 
neatly and have lots of colour because our R.E
 books need to have good presentation. On 
Tuesday we also learnt about Faith, Hope and
 love. Here is what my book looks like:

Swimming sports

Swimming Sports, Yesterday was really exciting. It was

 my first task as Shepherd house captain. I cheered

 for my team and they did really well. I did three races 

and I placed 2nd in two of them. I had to make a 

poster and make sure my team did well. My team 

came 2nd in the relay. It was my last ever swimming 

sports and I had a really good time. 

Sun Smart

                                  
This week we learnt about Sun Safety. We watched a video of somebody 

who had skin cancer. They talk about what happened to them and what it

 was like. It was really interesting. We all got into groups and made Sun

 smart posters. My group's poster was set on the beach with the hot hot 

sun in the sky and two people.  One person was sitting under an umbrella

 with a bottle of sunscreen. The other person had NO umbrella and 

NO sunscreen. We drew the second person's skin completely red! It was

 super fun making the poster.

Back to school

In Room 5 we have done lots of different

 activities through out the week and these

 are a few things we have done.  We all

 decorated a piece of paper that looked 

like a puzzle piece. We had to write our 

name in BOLD letters and draw a few

 pictures of what we like doing our

 favourite food and our favourite animal. 

 It was really fun and I enjoyed 

decorating it the most.  We also made

 dragon masks and coloured them in for

 Luna new year. You could either do a

 mask or a lantern, I made a mask and I 

used lots of bright colours and It looks 

really good.  We did a back to school mad

 Libs worksheet. These are the questions 

we had to answer:  Emotion, Famous 

Female, 2 Number, 2 Noun (thing),  

2 Food, Famous land form, 2 adjectives,

 colour and verb ending in-ing.  Then we 

put all our answers into a story and it was

 really fun!  This week has been great!

                                                       

                                                       

                                                                                   

Camp

Camp was so much fun and I think it’s safe to say that mostly everyone did
not want to leave. We did so many cool activities it’s hard to keep track of
them all! Here are a few of the Activities: Mountain biking, Surf Kayaking,
Sailing, Snorkelling, Abe sailing, rock climbing, Archery, Giants ladder, 

Stack em, and Dinghy games. My legs got completely covered in bruises!
We stayed at camp for 4 nights and 5 days. We had to cover ourselves in
loads of sunscreen because it was so hot! On the last day at camp we
went into the rock pools on the beach and saw so much marine life, it was
so cool! We also had ice blocks while the teachers told us what car we
were going back to school in. I was sad to leave camp but happy to see

my family again.