Strike day!

this week we've been focusing on fact and opinions based on the strike day, held on monday. Heres a short film to show our facts and our own opinions about the day.

Colour Code

My friends are very important to me. Each and every one of them have been a
great friend to me even when things are not good. So let me explain to you in
the next 3 paragraphs what being a good friend means.

Being a good friend values you to care for one another. That means showing
respect or aroha to show that you care for them even when something is hard.
For example when your friend is going through a rough time you should always
be there to show aroha and be kind-hearted towards them so they can feel
better and know that you will always care for her/him.

Another way of being a good friend is having trust in your friendship.
Yes, that means having trust between you and your friends whether its a boy or
girl. That shows you know that if you tell them something personal you can trust
that they won’t apprise anyone.

Encouraging your friend is another way of being a good friend. Meaning you are
always there to encourage them in doing something they’ve never tried before
or when they are in a game. E.g if you are at their rugby game you will be on the
sideline encouraging him/her to either do a big tackle , score a try or get the kick
over the goal post.

And there you go, 3 ways of being a good friend. I know that my friends care
and trust me. They also encourage me, especially to try something new. Even
if it was me trying to play a sport like football and I fail the first couple of times
there still there to help me out and encourage me to keep going. I hope you are
one of those people.

Colour Code:

Yellow - Key: Statement

Green - Key: Explanation

Blue - Key: Example

Today we got the opportunity to mark our own writing test ( the writing above). as part of me marking my writing we did colour coding. As you can see yellow represents you statement , green is your explanation, and blue is for your example.

Rhyming Poems

WALT: Rhyming Poetry

This week we've been doing Rhyming poems. we were give in the task to make up poems about what we do in our Senior Block,We learnt that all poems don't need to rhyme as long as they have rhythm.

Muddy Fields Poetry

MUDDY FIELDS

Playing in the morning

As it feels a little boring

Running around the field

Muddy places all around

With my foot stuck in the ground

Having pins and needles

I see a black poodle

Get a bowl

I want some noodles.

Dancing with the Stars

WALT: connecting - I make sense of new information before , during and after reading by connecting it to myself , texts I know and my world

This week we've been on the roll to learn about "Dancing with the Stars" our task was to create a poster that will help others with what ever their going through, weather its good or bad. and this is what I came up with for people to Conquer their goals and to never give up.

Not Nice Stories - Podcast

For the past few weeks, we have been learning how to do podcasting. We each had to pick a book, and explain to us what the book is about. We then had to pick partners to work with, so that they could interview us. Lately My partner samoa has been reading about a book called, Not Nice Stories by John Parker. This book talks about a boy who is smart, he wants to get smarter, so he decides to eat sheep brains. Overall I found this book really interesting to read, and we suggest that you read it for yourself.

This is my first time making a podcast. It was a really good experience to understand, more about what this book is talking about. we really hope you try this out, because it was really fun to read about this book.

Rugby for Rosie - Podcast

For the past few weeks me and my buddy having been working on how to do podcasting. We each had to pick a book, and explain to us what the book was about. We then had to pick a partner to work with, so they could interview us for this podcast. I've been reading about a book called "Rugby for Rosie" , this book was written by a New Zealand author named Frances Adlam and illustrated by jenny cooper. This book was about a girl named rosie that wanted to play rugby for school but the only available team was the boys team , and in order for her to qualify she needed to bring along three other girls. But none of the other girls wanted to play, then the coach said she could trial an during the trial she scored a lot more try's then the boys did.  Then after all of this she was happy to say to everyone that she made the team

The last chapter of holes!!

WALT: Summarising - i make effective notes and condense ideas to summarise

For this weeks activity we got to do the last chapter of Holes. At the end it was interesting to find out what happened to zero and Stanley at the end. Unfortunately the book holes has now ended, i am looking forward to a second part of holes. I suggest that they should make a second one with them from what they are looking like now, I also suggest that you read this book and you will enjoy it as much as i did.

Interacting with decimals

WALT: work collaboratively to solve word problems.

In my group we were learning about decimals.As you can see there are problems that we had to work out, and beside those problems you can see a paper that has black writing on it and that is our working out. In my group I had, Uasi, Ana.l, Anna and Bryana. It took us a while to figure out what the answers were, but we still managed to work hard and get the answer. The letter A that was beside the Number stood for (Answer). we had only three problems that we had to work out and one of these problems that we found easy was the first one : 

4.26 + 7.54 =11.8

11.8 + 3.90 = 15.7 - A (Answer)

Our second problem it took us a bit longer to get. :

30.77 + 94.65 = 125.32 - A (Answer)

30.77 

+        

         94.65        

125.32

And last but not least was our third problem :

                                                              $9639.66                                           $11872.31

                                              +                                                           -

                                                             $2332.65                                            $1780.30

                                                                     $11872.31                                    $10191.91 - A (Answer)

Holes

WALT: connecting- i make sense of new information before. during and after reading by connecting it to myself, texts i know and my world.

I recommend that you should read this book because it has interesting facts about animals we didnt even know excised and how it is at Camp green lake.

Word problem

WALT: work collaboratively in maths 

In my maths class we got given this presentation with different word problems which were pretty easy. for the past few weeks we've got given subtraction and addition equation.

Seat belts

WALT: finding evidence in a text.

In this text it talks about how seat belts can save a life and even if you feel like wearing a seat belt it's uncool, make a decision between life or death!If I was in a car I would make a decision and wear a seat belt whether people think its uncool or cool,because little do you know seat belts can save your life.