reading

WALT: write a book review.

This is my book review about the book called Elmo n daddy.

muppets

 W.A.L.T Review the reading strategies that we have learnt this term.

This is my slide about the muppets music.

Patience monologue

 WALT: read a monologue.

This is the monologue I made reading about Patience .

Advent

 WALT: understand advent.

We got to watch a video about advent then we had to write what advent means in 3 ways this is what i put.

Face Mask

In room 2 we got to design face masks.

This is the face mask i made using google drawings.   I made the spots red and white because those colours remind me of Christmas. 

 

My symmetrical dragon

 WALT: Create symmetrical art.

In maths we have been learning about geometry particularly symmetry.

Today we got to make some art that had to be symmetrical.

we all got 2 pieces of paper I choose red and orange then we folded one of our papers and drew a symmetrical shape, animal, or logo.

I chose toothless from how to train your dragon.

Then we cut our drawing in half and cut it out being very careful then we stuck the drawing on to a different coloured piece of paper. 

My symmetrical shape

 WALT: make a sculpture that is symmetrical.

this is the symmetrical shape i made using coloured strips of paper.

Miss Pownall stapled the strips in the middle and let us cut and fold the sides.

Whatever we did on one side we had to do the exact same on the other.

Have you ever made a symmetrical shape? 
 

Washing the feet comic

 WALT: Understand the virtue of serving.

This is the comic me and Kalem made showing what happened when Jesus washed the feet of Simon peter.

John: 13.1-17

Saint patrick

 WALT:  understand the communion of saints.

This is the slide show me and Paige made about saint Patrick.

Communion of Saints

 WALT: know who is part of the communion of saints.

This is the google drawing I made with my best friend Olive.

Explanation writing

 WALT: write an explanation.

We have been learning about environmental problems  then we got to write an explanation about the problem.

This is my explanation.

Plastic Pollution

Did you know that 22 billion water bottles are wasted every year?

When these plastic bottles go into the ocean they release toxic chemicals  like BPA that can cause diseases and hormone cancer. This is a massive problem but there are solutions…

These plastic bottles harm sea animals and a lot of sea animals die from getting stuck in the plastic or eating it. As each bottle decomposes it leaks damaging chemicals into our environment.

The majority of plastic bottles get released into the ocean, the chemicals from these bottles cause diseases that are released into the ocean.


Plastic bottles are awful for our environment but metal bottles can be reused and washed. Metal bottles dont get put into the ocean. They can be recycled or taken to the landfill. 

 This is a massive issue hurting the planet.  Using metal bottles will help our environment. 

Metal bottles will help save more sea animals and will stop plastic from going into our ocean.

Catholic Christmas decoration Brief

WALT: follow the design process.

For inquiry we have been learning about technology our first activity was to fill in our brainstorm of making a catholic Christmas decoration for miss Rooney's library. Miss Pownall is getting some fabric so that we could sew. I decided to make a star.

This is my brainstorm

 

Plastic explanation

 WALT: look at problems and solutions. 

Me and my friend Paige created a google slide showing why using plastic is bad for our earth. We put what the problem is why its important and a solution.

Maths

 WALT: Practice our maths knowledge.

This is one of the maths problems i had to solve.

I worked out the answer by counting on from 44 to 47 which has three number in between then I counted on from 50 which was 53 then i did 3 more than 56 which is 59 the last on was 62

 

African culture

 WALT: Reflect on our experience.

Today the whole school went to the hall and met 3 guests, 2 of them were from Africa and one of them was from Christchurch. Our guests were here to teach us some African drumming dancing and singing.There was a lot of lot singing and drumming. 

Some kids got to go up and try out the drums it looked fun but it was very loud.

Waste trip reflection.

WALT: reflect on our experiences.

On Friday the 21st of October room 2 went to the dump.

At the dump we met our instructor Georgina she talked to us about the different bins and what goes in them.We did a few activity's one of my favourites was scooping up worms and soil and gently putting them into a big wooden box that had wet news paper strips.  

I liked going to the dump and trying out new things.

Stewardship

 WALT: think of problems and solutions.

ME and my friennd Paige made this google drawing about are environment. 

KWL

 This is my KWL that stand for what i know what i think i know and what i want to learn about problems in the environment.

Beatitudes

 W.A.L.T Identify the Beatitudes in other people. This is the google slide I made showing three different people and what beatitudes they showed.

Music Signs

 W.A.L.T: use hands signs to match the notes. This is the poster I made showing the music hand signs. These music notes are from the movie called the sound of music.

I got the photos from google images and used google slides to make the poster.

Graphic Novels

WALT: understand by identifying events from the plot.

In room 2 we have been learning about graphic novels. Miss Pownall found two books for us to read on epic and after we read the book we took the quiz to see our score. I liked doing the quiz because it was fun to see my score and what questions I got right.

Whats your favourite graphic novel ?

sourced from google images

Antarctica

 WALT: make comparisons.

We have been learning about Antarctica and how its different school camps. This is my writing comparing both camps.

In Antarctica there is ice all over the grounds but at other camps like Living

springs or Authors pass they don't have ice on the grounds they have grass

and concrete.Also the other camps are not as cold as Antarctica.

Both of the camps have rosters on who's doing the dishes and who's helping with

the food. In Antarctica they have to separate the poo from the pee.

They use a bucket for poo and a bottle for pee then they get sent off to Scot

base but eventually end up in New Zealand.

Maths

WALT: multiply by 10, 100, 1000

This is my maths work I completed for week 5.

Zoo Debate

 WALT: We are learning to paraphrase to help us understand what we have read.This is my slide show of work about zoos.

Find these words

 W.A.L.T Make inferences about beliefs of people at different times. 

On my slide show I read a article called Listening eyes, speaking hands.

It was about the New Zealand’s First School for the Deaf.

I had to find these words in the article.

Visual Mihi

For reading we have been learning about the different languages of New Zealand.

This is my visual Mihi.

 

Maths strategy

For maths we have been learning our times tables, the strategy we are using is rope learning.

I like using this strategy because it helps me remember what I learnt.

I also like this strategy because I learnt my 4 times table by using it.

Why its important to learn a second language in school.

 WALT: Critical thinking: Is it important to learn a second language in school? Debate which languages, if any, should be taught.

This is the google drawing I made debating why its important to learn a second language in school.

Bible Verse

 W.A.L.T: Make inferences about beliefs of people at different times. This is the google slides I made about how to find a bible verse.

EMMA TWIGG COMES TO NBC!

WALT: reflect on exciting experiences.     

On Tuesday the 17th Of August Emma Twigg came to New Brighton Catholic school. Some of the senior boys did the Haka then we sang the national anthem to welcome her. 

Emma Twigg talked to us about her fails and success she also talked about how she trains and how long she trains for. Then she passed around the gold medal it felt heavy and looked as shiny as a coin.

Have you ever met an Olympic gold medallist ? 

 

Maori dictionary

 W.A.L.T Increase our Maori vocabulary. In room 2 we have been learning about the New Zealand languages and one the languages are Maori.

This is the Maori dictionary I made. 

What maori words do you know ?

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Auty Fluff

 In room 2 we are learning about the Tokyo Olympics. I read a book about the chicken Olympics. In the book one of the chickens is called Aunt fluff this is her Olympic profile I made for her.

The Boy With Wings

 Today the year 0-6 children were lucky enough to watch a puppet show about the Boy With Wings. I really enjoyed this show because they had very detailed props like a box that they made into a pop out tree on cardboard and the castle with doors to get in.                                                                                                    My favourite part of the show was at the end when the apple trees lit up.

Whats your favourite puppet show?

Emma Twigg News Report

 WALT: write a news paper article. This is my news paper article I wrote about Emma Twigg.

Emma Twigg Destroys Competition 

  - By Claudia  

Twigg competed in the Olympics as a New Zealand rower last Friday and won gold. She won with a time of 7.13.97. "I can't believe it. Honestly, crossing the line it was disbelief¨

In the finals Twigg was leading with Canada coming through. They were just a boat away.

Twigg still won gold and Canada won silver.

At the end of the race Twiggs face looked like she was exhausted but she also looked proud.

 Twigg started rowing in 2001 for the Napier girls high school and the hawkes bay rowing club. After 2 years of practice she was representing New Zealand at 2003 world rowing junior champions in Athens, Greece. 

Can't wait to see Emma Twigg rowing in the next Olympics, maybe she could win gold again.

 

All Children Should/Shouldn't Play Sport

 WALT: Make connections to texts. For Reading I made a google drawing about why all children should or shouldn't play sports.

I think not all children have to play sports. This is my google drawing explaining why.

Red hat

WALT: Make connections to texts. This is my google drawing I made about sports.

White hat

 WALT: Make connections to texts.

In room 2 we are learning about the Tokyo Olympics and Emma Twigg This is the google drawing I made about Emma Twigg.

Matariki Stars

 WALT: Understand the seven stars of matiriki. This is the slide show me and my friend Paige made to show the kites that the seven sisters made.

Maths

 WALT multiply with 10, 100, 1000 and other 10 numbers

In my maths group we were to make a DLO (digital learning object) about our maths equations.

This is the google doc I made.

news cast

 WALT: record a newscast about the Canterbury floods.

This is the screencastifiy  me and my friend Olive made.

word art

 WALT: find new words that are related to the Canterbury floods.

I used word art to create this:

Billionare Boy

 This is the billionaire boy book review I wrote for a competition.

  Billionaire Boy! 

´Meet Joe Spud, the richest 12-year-old  in the world. Joe has everything he could ever want: his own formula one racing car, a thousand pairs of trainers, even an orang-utan for butler! 

Yes joe has everything he wants but there's just one thing he really needs a friend...´

Billionaire boy is a fiction book written by David Walliams.

This book is about a boy whose name is Joe and he had a very very rich Dad. They were so rich that they used their money to blow their noses or when they got bored they would scrunch up their money.

¨I will give you 50 quid for you to let me win the cross country¨

Joe Spud uses money to get friends and he pays people to do something or not to do something.He is fat and slow. The Grubs are the school bully's and they bully Joe and Bob. Even though they are twins  no one can tell the difference between them. Mr Spud is  rich and he uses his money for most things like paying people to be friends with his son Joe. Mr Spud wears a wig and he is very fat and short.

Joe Spud´s house is a manssion because he's rich. In his mansion he has a butler that drives him to school and cleans his house, their dinner table is as long as a giraffe's neck and Joe has heaps of rooms so when he gets called to his room Mr spud would say ¨go to your rooms¨.

I think that this book is for ages 8-12. 

In conclusion I would rate this book 4 stars out of 5 because…

I really enjoyed reading this book but there are more books that David Walliams has written which I enjoy more. 

Robots

 W.A.L.T Find information in texts. In my reading group we are learning about robots and if they should or shouldn't take over the world.This is the slide show me and my friend Paige made to show that robots shouldn't take over the world.

Mass

 WALT: understand oarts of the Mass.

In room two we have been learning about the four parts of a mass.

This is the work me and my friend Paige completed.

 

Where is syria

 In room two we have been learning about refugees in Syria.Today we learned were Syria was and the places around it. 

This is the google slide I made.

Robot Timeline

 W.A.L.T Find information in texts.

In my reading group we are learning about human robots.

Me and my friend Olive worked on this timeline together, its about robots the name of them and what year they were created.

Have you ever wanted a robot if you did what type of robot did you want?

robots

in my reading group we are learning about robots this is the KWL me and my friend paige made.

The Huia

W.A.L.T. Draw inferences from a piece of poetry. 

in room 2 we are learning about the huia and what happened to them.

This is the work me Olive and Sam did.

We think that the huia got killed and used for hats.

Trustworthy

 W.A.L.T Understand the meaning of being 'Trustworthy. In room 2 we are learning about the virtue trustworthy.We made a google drawing or a google slide showing someone being trustworthy and someone not trustworthy.

This is the google drawing I made about being trustworthy.

Haiku poem

 WALT: write a haiku poem.

In room 2 we are writing haiku's about the autumn leaves. This is the poem I wrote.

Jumping on the leaves.

Like bubble wrap under shoes.

Its like snow falling.

 

Bad Advice

 W.A.L.T Decode the meaning from poetry 

For reading this week we had to look to the poem called bad advice.
I liked how it was funny and sarcastic.

I think they could have made the name more interesting.

I felt happy when I read this poem because it was really weird and funny.

If I could change one thing about this poem I would have added more rhyming words and changed the title.

in this picture i highlighted all the ryming words and conjunctions i could find.

A conjunction is two words joint together like do not as don´t or who would as who´d.

Refugee Experience

 On Monday 10th of May the senior syndicate went to the red zone.There were 4 different activities like eating rice out of our hands and having to build shelters for ourself.My favourite activity was shelter building because we had to use sticks and dirt to hold up our shelter.

The teacher that was running the shelter building was Mr Gray. We had to use big long pieces of material and string to tie material on trees and dig holes.

We went on this walk and pretended to be refugees.We did this because there are heaps of families where their houses are bombed or there country is at war.

Limerick Poem

 WALT Identifiy different poem styles.

We made limerick poems, we also learned that every limerick poem has the first and second sentences rhyme with the last sentence. 

This is the limerick poem I wrote.

    

There once was a boy named Bob. 

He wanted to make a door knob.

He fell into a very small well.

He hit his head on a big fat bell.

he ate a blob of corn on the cob. 

Summer Learning Journey

This is my art that I coloured in using Art colouring book.

The top one is the original and the second is coloured in.

Mass

 WALT: identify the 4 parts of the Mass.

This is the google drawing I filled in about the 4 main parts of a mass. I Think I did this task well but maybe next time i could work more on the writing than the pictures.

Dear diary

 WALT: think critically when we read.

In reading we read about the maori waka then as our follow up task we filled in this dear diary sheet from google slides.

This is the sheet i filled in:

Travel Past VS Present

 WALT: Think critically about what we read.

In my reading group we have been reading explorers of the sunrise. Miss Pownall made a google drawing about Afu and what he did this is what i would have done.

Washing feet

 WALT: use thing skills. This is the slide show me and Kyan filled in using the thinking hats. about the washing of the feet.

Woodpeckers change in the environment

 WALT understand the life journey of animals.

Woodpecker using a hammer: When the woodpecker makes holes in trees to find food, the holes are left behind. What do you think the holes do to the tree?

I Think that the trees might die or stop growing. I also think other animals like squirrels will use the holes as their home or a place to stay in. I think this because lots of living things use holes to live in and to keep warm.