De Bono's Thinking hats

Walt: use De Bono's thinking hats to critically examine a current event.

Kiwi kids news

WALT: use De Bono's thinking hats to critically examine a current event.

Why people borrow books from the library

Why do we borrow books from the library.

T	Title - What you will be explaining
I	Introduction - Tell your audience what the topic is about and what is to be explained.
I	Information - Explain the elements or steps in a logical sequence
C	Conclusion - Final summarising statement, an evaluation or comment about what you have explained.

Title	Why do you borrow books
Introduction	These are reasons why people borrow books
Information 1st element	People borrow books from the library because it helps keep their brain going. They also borrow books because it can be very interesting to read. There are different types of books like, adventure,fantasy,romance,history,our days and excitement. There are also chapter books, comics,short books,novels and ordinary books.
Information 2nd element	People borrow books from the library because it helps them in their general knowledge. They also borrow books because it helps build up their vocabulary. People borrow books from the library because they enjoy reading and it’s free. The can borrow books from different author’s. Also because the library has many books to choose from. The nice thing about borrowing books from a library is that you can get as many books as you like for no cost (free) as long as you are a member of that library.
Information 3rd element	It’s good to get books because you can learn new words from it. The main thing about a book is that you have to understand it and you have to know the meaning of the words. When you are getting a  book from the library you have to make sure that you can read
Conclusion	Sometimes people don’t know what they are reading so that means that they could be reading it too fast, they can’t read it, they don’t know what the words mean and they don’t understand the whole meaning of the book.

Maui and the Sun

A Piece of Paradise

A whale child

A serious game

Similarities and differences across 3 texts

WALT: Identify the similarities and differences across different texts

Best PolyFest EVER!!!

Have you been to the ASB polyfest before? Well yesterday the team 5 block went to the polyfest to watch other schools perform, to represent the school and their whanau. The stages that were at the polyfest were the Diversity stage, Maori stage and cook island speeches.

Many people over the country aren’t confident with their culture, that’s why some people like that join the one of the polynesian groups so they can be more confident with their culture. Heaps of people over new zealand have joined the polynesian groups to represent their whanau.

On the maori stage all the people that joined Maori group were proud of who they were and were confident with their culture, and people on the Diversity stage were proud of themselves as well. Also at the polyfest there were food stores, games and competitions.

Well we were walking around we saw one current pt englander that was performing on the diversity stage for the fijian group. Well we were at the maori stage we saw a lot of confident and proud people there, even some of them were representing their whanau and their school and some were just representing one.At te wananga o aotearoa the dance competition was held there.

So next time you do consider going to the polyfest please do because the people that perform there could help you or other people that aren’t confident with their culture could help you get confident .

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Maths word problem

Walt: Illustrate (draw/show) the steps we used to solve each problem.

Place Value

WALT: We are learning about place value

Place Value

WALT: strengthening our knowledge in Place value

In class we have been learning about place value. The value of where the digit is in the number. example 352, the 5 is in the tens position, so it show a value of 50

Visual Mihi

This is my Visual Mihi. As you can see on the top left corner you will see a Maori flag, The Maori flag represents my culture. Then on the top right corner you will see a Netball, It shows that I love and enjoy playing netball. Then on the bottom right corner there is another ball but that ball represents rugby, this shows that Enjoy playing rugby and going to tournaments at different parks and reserves. Finally on the bottom left corner you will see letters that spell family, that shows that I love my family very much and they mean a lot to me.

Sequencing - Finding a rule

WALT: continue a sequential pattern and find a rule.

Number of the week 3 term 1

WALT: Illustrate (draw/show) the steps we used to solve each problem.

Who is my role model

Why ___ is my role model
Remember the T.I.I.C structure.

T	Title - What you will be explaining
I	Introduction - Tell your audience what the topic is about and what is to be explained.
I	Information - Explain the elements or steps in a logical sequence
C	Conclusion - Final summarising statement, an evaluation or comment about what you have explained.

Title	How to have a fun weekend
Introduction	My mum and dad are my role models because they help me whenever I need help with anything at home.
Information 1st element	My mum and my dad are my role model because they look after me and my siblings and they always encourage me in every sport I do.
Information 2nd element	My role model is my mum and dad because they keep our family safe, and they always come to watch me play my netball games and always Encourages me when i’m playing.
Information 3rd element	My mum and my dad are my role models because they buy me and my siblings nice things when it’s our birthdays or christmas.
Conclusion	Last but not least is, my mum and dad always takes care of me when I am sore or sick and she feeds  me and looked after me since I was born till up to this very day,And one day I would like to follow their footsteps so that i could be like my mum and dad when I grow up.

Letter to the council

WALT: support all my answers with evidence from the text

Dear council we are writing to you because we have had worries about our water supply. People have been complaining about this and we need you to help fix this problem. People have been getting sick because of this problem.

Our people over here in New Zealand have been complaining about this because of their children have been crying and crying because they don’t have any water so we are asking for your help. This water supply is really serious because people over the world in Africa , Jamaica and India have died because of this. This could be deadly because people in different countries have tried to survive but because this is serious some of those people have moved on and has gone to a better place.

We are just asking you to give us and other countries more water so that we could survive through the years that go by. We would be really thankful if you gave us enough water for each country so that our country and other countries can have a better life and no water supplies ruining it for them and us.


This is my letter to the council which is an activity from our water worries presentation.

Water Worries

WALT: support all my answers with evidence from the text.

Water Worries poster

WALT:support all my answers with evidence from the text.