If I Could Change My Name

Hello Readers, for this Summer Learning Journey activity I had to write about what name I would change my name to and why. But I don't want to change my name. But I still wrote about 2 names I would change it to if I had to.
 

What name would you change your name to?
Bye!

Tennis

Hi Readers, for this Summer Learning Journey activity I had to watch 2 videos about Serena and Venus Williams and write 3 things I learnt and 1 thing I would like to learn.

 

I hope you liked it!
What do you want to learn about tennis?
Bye!

Interviewing Lebron James

Hello Everyone, for this Summer Learning Journey activity I had to write 5 questions for an interview with a famous basketballer of my choice. I choose Lebron James. I hope you like my questions!

What basketballer would you choose?
Is there anything I could improve on?
Bye!

If I had 3 Super Powers

Hello Readers, today I have another Summer Learning Journey activity. For this activity, I had to explain what Super Powers I would have and what I would do with them. I hope you like it!

 

What super powers would you choose?
Why would you choose those super powers?
Bye!

Brave Moment

Hello Everyone, this is another Summer Learning Journey activity. For this, I have to tell you a time when me or someone I know being brave. I hope you enjoy it!

It was in January at the start of the year of 2019... My family and I were going back to New Zealand from our holiday in Australia. It was our last night, but my dad had a Cardiac arrest. He was in a coma for a week. On the 2nd to last day, I went in to see him. But at first, I didn't want to go in and see him because I was too scared to see him with tubes and wires in him. Luckily my Aunty Sue help me become brave she gave me one of her rings, she said it was a ring to help you be brave and it was also lucky. So I went in and I was happy to see him, I wasn't scared anymore!

Luckily now my dad is ok and is getting on well

That is my little story of being brave! I have many more but that is the main one.
I hope you liked it!
Has this happened to you?
What brave moment have you had?
Bye!

Space Poem

Hello Readers, for this Summer Learning Journey I had to make a short poem about me on the moon. I hope you like it!

 

Have you made a poem about being on the moon before?
Is there anything I can improve?
Bye!

Female Aviators

Hey Readers, this is another Summer Learning Journey activity. In this activity, I had to make a Venn Diagram of two famous female aviators which are... Amelia Earhart and Jean Batten. I hope you like my Venn Diagram!

Have you ever made a Venn Diagram Before?

I hope you liked it!

Bye!

SPCA

Hey Everyone, this is another Summer Learning Journey activity. For this activity, I had to choose a charity and write a summary of it. I choose the SPCA. Enjoy!

Did you know SPCA stands for Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals?
I choose the SPCA because I am a big fan of animals! I also wish to work at the SPCA when I am older!

The SPCA helps protect over 40,000 animals in New Zealand every year. Animals who are sick, injured, abused or abandoned. They look after all sorts of animals such as cats, dogs, rabbits, and much more.

In Christchurch, they have lots of animals up for adoption, 1 miniature horse, 2 dogs, lots of kittens, 1 pig, 3 rabbits and 2 cats.

Do you do Summer Learning Journey?
If you do, what charity have you chosen?
I hope you enjoyed and learnt something new!
Bye!

Setting Sail

Hi Everyone, I have been doing Summer Learning Journey. I had to write about what 10 foods would I bring if I got stuck out in the middle of the sea on a boat with no fridge or no Freezer. This is a slide I made. Enjoy!

 

What would you bring?

Bye!

Lorde Poster

Hey Everyone, for Summer we have a Summer Learning Journey that we can choose to do. But since I didn't do surfing and I was still at school I had to do Summer Learning Journey. This is activity one of Teaser Week. I hope you like my poster!

Swimming Task - Holiday Budget

Hi readers, when we aren't at swimming this is one of the tasks we had to do. Here is mine:




Did you like it?
Tell me what I could improve on.
Bye!

Spanish

Hi readers, at school we've been learning Spanish here is what I've learnt:

Alphabet (The letters that we learnt)
B - Bey
C - Sey
H - Hache (The H is silent)
Y - eegriega (For short ee)

Basic Conversation
Hola - Hi/Hello
Como Estas - How are you
Bien - Good/Fine
Mal - Bad/Poor
Asi-Asi - So-So
Hasta Luego - See you later
De Donde Eres - Where are you from
Yo soy de ... - I am from ...
Adios - Bye

Colours
Azul - Blue
Rojo - Red
Rosa - Pink
Amarillo - Yellow
Anaranjado - Orange
Verde - Green
Negro - Black
Marron - Brown
Blanco - White

Days of the week
Monday - Lunes
Tuesday - Martes
Wednesday - Miercoles
Thursday - Jueves
Friday - Viernes
Saturday - Sabado
Sunday - Domingo

Months
Enero - January
Febrero - February
Marzo - March
Abril - April
Mayo - May
Junio - June
Julio - July
Agosto - August
Septiembre - September
Octubre - October
Noviembre - November
Diciembre - December

That's most of the stuff I learnt.
Have you learnt Spanish before?
Has this helped your Spanish?
Bye!

Look what maths I can do

Hi readers, at maths, we have been doing very hard BEDMAS equations.
Look what maths I can do!

-10 ÷ (20 ÷ 22 x 5 ÷ 5) x 8 - 2 = -18

Can you figure it out?

(I didn't search this up)
Bye!

How to work out BEDMAS

Hello readers, at maths we have been working on BEDMAS, our task was to make an animation on how to work out BEDMAS. I hope you enjoy my animation!

Did you learn anything?
Comment if you did.
Bye!

Inquiry - Japanese Art and Culture

Hi everyone, this is a slide for my Japanese Inquiry Art and Culture. Enjoy the slide!

 

Did you learn anything?
Comment what I could improve on.
Bye!

Ernest Shackleton Slide - Literacy

Hey readers, this is my Ernest Shackleton Slide that we had to make in my literacy group. We learnt about Ernest Shackleton, and you may see on the last slide it shows a mini-bio of Ernest Shackleton that I made. Enjoy!
    
That's it. Have a nice day!

My Easstle Story

Hi guys, this is my Easstle Story. It was Halloween when I made this story, so I made it kinda creepy. Here it is, I hope you like it!

It was Halloween, at midnight and it was dark and stormy. There was thunder and lightning, and that’s when I saw it, the creature, he was wearing a black cloak, and that’s all I could remember of him. There was a flash of lightning and I saw him through my bedroom window. It was like that time in the movie Jurassic World where the dinosaur opens up the door and creeps into the girl’s room. Well, this was different, instead of opening the door he teleported into my room. But this was impossible! How could he have teleported? Who was he? There was a flash of lightning and he was gone. I’ve never seen him since.

A year had passed since I last saw the creature, exactly a year. It was Halloween again. I was outside bringing in the bins watching everyone trick or treating. They were lucky, my parents didn’t believe in Halloween. As I pulled in the bins I looked up at the hot and humid sky, I sweating so much that I felt as though I would faint. Then suddenly out of the blue, there was a flash of lightning. What was happening? Why was there thunder coming from the sky when it was a hot humid day? The lightning struck and headed for the bins. I jumped in fright and let go of the bins. He was back. Imagine that things start to mysteriously disappear… One thing disappears, then another thing has gone, and another… Well, that’s what was happening to me. Kids where disappearing leaving the lollies on the side of the road. Houses were even disappearing! I ran inside to the lounge room where my mum and dad were, sitting watching tv. As I sprinted in I just caught my mum and dad disappear into thin air.
“Mum! Dad!” I yelled. I could help them. I ran over to them, but it was too late, they were gone. I fell onto my knees and started to cry. What was I going to do? They were gone, my only family, all gone, I had nothing left. I lay on the couch waiting to disappear, but nothing happened. Then I fell into mud, the house had disappeared. The whole street was empty, nothing was left. I was the only one, it felt like I had to start a new generation of life, a new civilisation.

I spent hours in the mud sobbing, but that’s when he came… The creature that was in my room last years Halloween. He removed his hood, his face was all wrinkly and he had lots of pimples all over his face, instead of hair he had nails in a style like one of those boys that think they’re cool so they have one side of their head shaved and the other not. He was tall and had long fingers with no nails.
“Where’s has everything gone!” I shouted.
“Gone to another world!” I hissed “But I can’t seem to make you go!”
“Why?” I asked.
“I don’t know, but it’s your fault I need you gone!” He shouted. He pointed his hands to me and a black aura wrapped around me, but nothing happened. The creature screamed, “WHY!!!” The black aura disappeared and I fell into the mud. I quickly ran away and hid in this old shed that had seemed not to have disappeared. Thoughts went through my head faster than ever that I couldn’t think straight. What was I going to do? What was going to happen? Was I going to survive? Or was I going to disappear like everyone and everything else?

I hope you liked it!
Did you think it was good?
Do you have anything ideas on what I could improve in my writing?

Bye!

My Easstle Practise Story

Hi everyone, this is my story that I have written in 1hr for a practice of Easstle story testing. ENJOY!

It was a hot summers day, it was my birthday, I was turning 12. I heard a whisper but no one was there. I looked around thinking it might be my mum. ‘Skye! Happy birthday!’ A women’s voice announced. ‘I believe you are going scuba diving today! You should go now you might be late.’ I love going to the beach and swimming in the sea, so I decided for my birthday present from myself I could go scuba diving. I could see all the fish and coral and much more living creatures in the sea. It would be a lifetime experience. I had always wanted to go scuba diving ever since I was young. So I walked on down all geared up in my wetsuit. I stopped at this small wooden shed that looked as though it would collapse down any moment.
‘You must be Skye.’ A deep voice boomed. I looked up and saw a man with barely any hair but a very bushy beard. ‘Yes, I am.’ I replied. He beckoned me to follow him, I followed him into the old shed. The man grabbed a pair of flippers, goggles and a snorkel. ‘Try these on.’ The man said passing me the gear. I tried them on, ‘They fit me perfectly.’
‘Good, come with me.’ He replied. We strolled down to the sand, ‘Do you know how to use the gear?’ He asked.
‘Well, I know how to use the goggles and the flippers.’ I replied. He sighed as if he didn’t like his job and wanted to quit. ‘You connect your snorkels here.’ He pointed to something on the goggle that looked like a handle. ‘Then put the goggles on and then you put the breathing tube in your mouth like as if you were sucking a dummy.’ I did what he said and we went down to the water and jumped in. ‘Now, you take a breath through the tube and go down, then once you’ve run out of air swim up to the surface and blow through your mouth to get the water out of the tube. If you can’t do that then take the tube out of your mouth and let the water come out.’ I took a breath and dived down. It was so majestical, it was like an underwater wonderland. There were fish everywhere and the coral looked beautiful. I was losing air so I swam up to the surface and tried to blow out the water but it didn’t work so I just took the tube out of my mouth and water came rushing out. I put it back in my mouth and dived down again, as I was looking at the beautiful fish something from behind nudged me I turned around thinking it was a shark, I was frightened it would be. But when I looked I say a little dolphin. I patted it on the nose and it jerked it’s head to its fin. I guess it wanted me to ride it. So I grabbed tight onto its fin and it pulled me along. It was so enjoyable and lively, but I was out of breath so I let go and swam to the surface. The dolphin looked back and followed me up. Someone tapped my shoulder and I turned to see a familiar face it was the man, ‘Your lesson time is over but you can stay out here until four o’clock when the lifeguards pack up.’ I nodded my head. I took a deep breath and dove down. I swam with the dolphin for quite sometime when I went back up I saw that the lifeguards were packing up. ‘Sorry I have to go.’ I said to the dolphin ducked his head down and lifted its tail up and waved it side to side. I chuckled and swam to shore.

It was the next day and I had so much fun with the dolphin that I decided to go back and play. I got my gear on and dove down I saw the dolphin but he had something around his neck. What could be around his neck? What was around his neck? The coral was a shade of grey, it didn’t look at all as colourful as yesterday. The dolphin swam up to me and lifted his tail to point at what was around his neck. It looked like plastic, but it couldn’t be. How did plastic get in the sea? I tried to pull it off but couldn’t. After what seemed like an hour I went up to breath for like the 100th time, the dolphin followed, ‘I’ll be back.’ I said. I had a good idea. I got the scuba diver from yesterday and asked him to help. He swam out with me to the dolphin and we tugged and tugged at the plastic for around half an hour. ‘You stay here I’m going to get some people to help.’ I explained as I swam to shore. I took my flippers off when I got to shore and ran across the beach and asked people to help. I got at least ten people to help we swam to the scuba diver and the dolphin and we all tugged. After another half an hour everyone started to give up, ‘Come guys we can’t just give up this dolphin has been wearing this piece of plastic for more than an hour and could choke and die any moment.’ I shouted.
‘But it’s getting late and we’ve been doing this for a long time and we need to go home to feed our family.’ Someone exclaimed.
‘I know but I bet you ten bucks we can do it this time if we use all our strength.’ I replied.
‘But we’ve used all our strength.’ Another person shouted.
‘Come on just one last try then you can go home.’ I shout. They all agree and we pull as hard as we can like there’s no tomorrow. Then all of a sudden we all fall backwards. I look in my hand, the plastics in it. I hold it up and we all cheer.
‘Good job everyone.’ I shout. The dolphin swims down, then jumps up in the air and does a huge flip into a belly flop splashing all of us. We all laugh. After that day everyone loves the dolphin and the beach is usually crowded with people coming to she the dolphin which is now named Splash.

Bricks Goal

Hey Readers,
I hope you all had a great holiday! For maths this week we are working on our bricks so we can get to a higher level.

The bricks I'm working on at the moment are bricks 18, 21 and 22. Which means I have to work on multiplication up to 10, 100 and 1000, division rules for 3 and 9, and factors to 100 and primes.

I will do my best to work on this and do it each day when I don't have any sport. I will do it for at least half an hour so I can improve my maths skills and get better at maths.

Do you have a goal for this term?
Bye!

Celebration Assembly

Hi everyone, on Thursday the 26th of September it was my birthday and also the Toroa Celebration Assembly, and I got a certificate! We showed off our Inquiry and what we did, the Inquiry theme was Media, I chose print media and I was the editor for the junior section. It was really fun and I'd love to do it again. Here is a PDF of the newspaper we made.

I hope you liked the newspaper! Have you ever made a newspaper? Bye!

How to work out Short Division

Hi Readers, I have 2 examples of how to work out short division with this sum: 126 divided by 3. Can you work it out before you watch my examples? I made an animation and a biteable video. I hope you learn something. 

That was my animation. Now here's a biteable video I made with some funky music. Enjoy!
Here is a link to Biteable. Now you can make your own videos.
Did you learn something?
Bye!

Hunting Debate

Hi readers! In literacy we had to make a debate plan, mine is about hunting and that we shouldn't be hunting. I think it's bad because they've been going extinct thanks to us. Here is a poster I made for it that we had to copy:

Here are the links to pieces of my evidence:

• How Does Hunting Affect the Environment?
• 7 Reasons Why Hunting Is Wrong
• The Main Arguments for Against Hunting

Do you think hunting is bad?

Bye!

Debating - Phones in class

Debating - Phones in class

On Thursday 25th of July in literacy, we did a debate about if we should allow students at school to have phones in class while working or if we should have them at school but in a box hidden in the teacher's office. I was on the team about no phones in class. We won, here is a reflection on what happened.

Reflection on Debate

Both teams did pretty well but overall my team won. But I would have chosen to be on the other team hers why:

1. The teachers can just block the games, texting and social media on their phones

2. If students need to take photos of their work it will be easier than using their device to take the photos

3. Also, you can download all the school sites on your phone

4. Plus it's easier to carry around, you can just carry them around in your pocket

But then I also think that you shouldn't have phones in class here are my reasons why:

1. Phones are just a distraction in class if the teachers don't think about blocking sites like games and social media

2. Students would probably sneakily do things on them that they shouldn't

3. They can disturb other students who are trying to work

That's what I think. Please give me a comment if you think you should have phones in class or not. Thank you for reading.

Wearable Arts - Plastic Art

Hi everyone, last night (Thursday) we had a wearable art fashion show. It was really fun to do. My group was CariDee, Jayde, Tamzin and Me. We made a dress, the base was a trash bag, then on the bodice, we painted it blue then painted a turtle on which was eating plastic. We also had a bit of rope that went around the waist. On the shoulder we made a piece of coral out of newspaper, then we connected bread tags to make a neckless. On the bottom, we had plastic straws (200 of them) then on the back of it we had plastic bags. The model was CariDee, and the speaker was Tamzin, then Jayde and Me were the main designers.
The items we used were:
Bread Tags, Newspaper, A Trash Bag, Plastic Bags, Plastic Cups and Plastic Straws.
Here is a picture of the front of the dress:

Here is a picture of the back of the dress:

See you next term! :)

Angles in my name

Hey readers, in maths we write our names then we had to use our protracters and find angles in our names. Her is a picture of mine:

Vocabulary BITSP

Hello everyone, in literacy we do vocabulary every week. This is a link(Link) to my vocabulary, so you can see what we do. The vocabulary words are from Boy in the Striped Pajamas. I will keep updating the doc.

Karate Girl Story

Hey bloggers, in literacy we have been writing our own narratives. Mine is about a little girl who loves karate, but one day she quits because something happens. 2 years later she goes back and makes some new friends. Here is a link to find out more: Link

Give me feedback on something I could improve on.
Thank you I hope you enjoy :)

Themes of Narratives

Hey readers, for literacy we've been working on themes of narratives. We had an example then we had to do it ourselves, with three different movies/stories: Cinderella, The Three Little Pigs and Robin Hood. After we had done that we had to do it on our novels that we are reading. I'm reading Boy in the Striped Pajamas. Her is the slide we did it all on.

Simile and Metaphor activity - Frozen Adventures

Frozen Adventure

We were on the water for hours and I was starting to get seasick. The boat was rocking back and forth like a rocking chair. Then finally we got there. There was no way onto the ice island. The only way was to climb. It was like I was getting vertigo all over again as the boat rocked.

As we pulled up we saw heaps of polar bears all gathered together. They were giant white fluffy cats roaming around waiting for pray. The polar bears look very elegant as their silky fur glistened in the sunshine.

We looked up at the ice island. There were already ropes out for us to use. I grabbed a rope, tied myself to it and started to climb. My hands were getting saw like I was getting a carpet burn. The air was cold it sent a shiver down my spine. When I got to the top I was exhausted, so I lay there on the cold ice for a bit.

I stood up. I looked around. It was a beautiful view. Coming off the ice was waterfalls, probably over a thousand. The waterfalls were straight hydro slides. We wanted to go down them, but it would be dangerous. I felt the cool breeze on my face. The ice was diamonds glistening in the sun. It was shining so bright that I thought it would make me blind.

It was time to go now. I tied myself onto the rope again and went down. I was tired. So when I got on the boat I had a rest while we went back home.

The End: By Gaia.

Dialouge

Hi readers, This is the dialouge that I have been doing at literacy. We were learning how to do but dialouge into our writing properly. We had to do a story we had to write about. The story is about going on a trip. My trip is going to Fiji. 

Enjoy it!

Part 1

“Hey, Sophie have you got all your gear to go to Fiji?” Piper asked.
“Yes! I have everything!” Sophie replied.
“Are you sure? Last time we went on holiday you forgot your pajamas.” Piper said concerned.
“Ok, I’ll check.” Sophie rummaged around in her bag.
“Oops! I forgot my pajamas!” Piper laughed, “Typical Sophie!” Sophie started to laugh too.

Part 2

“Sophie hurry up!” Piper yelled.
“I’m coming, I’m coming!” Sophie shouted as she ran with her suitcase getting dragged behind her.
“Ouch!” Piper fell over and her things in her suitcase went everywhere.
“Oh no! My suitcase! Sophie quickly help me!” Sophie quickly ran over and helped her pack up her things. After they packed up they quickly ran to the door.
“I wonder what the time is?” Sophie asked.
“Oh yeah! We might be early!” Piper replied. She looked down at her watch and saw that the time was 12:00, and they were meant to go at 1:00. They had plenty of time!
“Sophie you have enough time to see if you have everything!” Piper said. So Sophie looked in her bag and saw that she had forgotten her pants.
“Typical Sophie!”

Goal Ladder Reflection

Hi readers, this is my goal ladder reflection. The green lines mean where I think I’m up to

in writing, reading, maths, learning to learn, and others. We had to reflect back on it for this term. To see where we’re at. This is where I’m at on my goal ladder.

📜Writing Plan📜

Hello readers, this is my writing plan. In writing, we will be planing a narrative to write. So this is my plan. I made it on google drawings. Comment if you like the story I'm going to write or comment about how I could improve it. I hope you like it.

Vocabulary animation [Clambered]

Hey viewers, this is my vocabulary for this week. The book that I am reading is The boy in the striped pajamas.

Clambered

Vocabulary animation [Indicating]

Hello everyone, this is my vocabulary for this week. I've changed books, and I am now reading the boy in the stripped pajamas. It is much easier to read and more interesting. Indicating.

Coca Cola Ad

Hello everyone, at literacy we did a story structure, to get ready for our narrative we're going to write. We made the story structure on a google drawing.

Inquiry Biography

Hello everyone, for inquiry we have done a biography about an influential or powerful person.

Maori drawing

Hello everyone, for maori, we did this cool Maori item. We made it on autodraw<this is a link. If you click on the link then you can draw on it. Enjoy it!

My Mindmup

Hello readers, this is my character mindmup<this is a link. It is a website where you can make cool things. You could even make a family tree. This is it:

Vocabulary word art

Hello readers, these are some vocabulary word arts that I made. I will be adding some on the slide through the year(probably). I hope you enjoy!:)

5R's Camp Reflection DLO

My 5R's Camp Reflection DLO

Hello everyone, this is me 5 R's camp reflection DLO. I have used some pictures from camp and underneath, beside or on top I have writen a 5 R and the meaning. Enjoy!

Goal Ladder 2019

Hello viewers, this is my marvellous goal ladder for this years goals. The words in the ladder are the steps that I will use to develop my goals. Then when I've finished these goals I can move on new goals. Enjoy!

The 5R's

The 5R's

Hey everyone, this is a new amazing 5 R's slide. These 5 R's are ways we should act. These are the 5 R's: Respect, Resilience, Reflectiveness, Reciprocity and Resourcefulness. Enjoy it!