Summer learning journey- arriving in New Zealand

Activity 1

It is widely believed that the first people to arrive in New Zealand came from Polynesia. Most historians believe that they landed in New Zealand over 700 years ago. Although they were originally from many different countries, these settlers learned to live together and, eventually, formed their own distinct culture known as ‘Māori.’  Māori have their own language, traditions, and culture.

Follow this link to read a short story about a famous man in Māori mythology – Maui. On your blog, post three facts that you learned about this interesting man. What other stories have you heard about Maui?

Fact 1. His brothers would not let him go fishing.

Fact 2. His brothers were always angry at him.

Fact 3. He court a big fish.

Fact 4. he was the best fisherman ever

Making a reindeer

today we had to make this reindeer and you had to cut up all the pieces and put them together it was so fun we had to take a snapshot to make proof and here is mine.

Christmas around the world

We are learning about Christmas traditions around the world.
today we have been learning about others country's that do Christmas in a different way and what they do at Christmas

In France the kids put there socks in front of the fire place and the next day they put them on they like it and find there shoes filled up with gifts.

and they like it that way because its there country and that's what they do.




can you please give me some feedback that would be amazing thank you.

Don't let the pigeon stay up late

 Walt: we are learning to write an opinion.

 For the last few weeks we have been reading these stories called -

Don't let the pigeon drive the bus.

Don't let the pigeon stay up late.

The pigeon needs a bath.

The pigeon wants a walrus.

We did an opinion plan we had to put detail into the plan

after we just writ the opinion story.

Please give me some feedback that would be great.

Don’t let the pigeon stay up late

I think the pigeon should not stay up late!

I don’t think it’s a good idea because the pigeon might be grumpy and angry because he did not get his 10 hours sleep.

I don’t think the pigeon should stay up late because the pigeon might have a busy day tomorrow like running swimming or a flying race the next day.

I don’t think he should go to bed because if he sleeps he might get a treat tomorrow in the morning and it might be yummy.

 

Alarm call

Hey little kitten. There was once a monster who came into town all he wanted to do was to see a kitten and to pat the kitten. So he went to see a kitten but every house he went into there was no kitten so he kept  on looking in each house but he had no luck so he left for a few days and gone back home. He came back a few days later he kept on looking but it was hopeless the monster gave up so he went home again.

The next time he went he saw a kitten wandering round the streets the kitten was as fluffy as a cloud and as white as snow and of course he followed the kitten. He followed the kitten everywhere the kitten went the monster followed and followed and followed until the kitten got into a house the monster had to find a way into the house the door was small so the monster had to SQUEEZE through the door but the monster had to get out and find another way but there was a way he had to squeeze again then he got in.

He pet the kitten he even slept next to the kitten the kitten woke up and started cuddling the kitten and the kitten was cuddling him until….. The owner came in he tried to hide but the owner kicked him out of the house the next day the owner went shopping and the giant went in and cuddled the kitten again then he went home and he was happy.

The end

hope you can give me some feedback on my work that would be amazing hope you enjoy reading my story

What Does Success Mean To Me

this week did What does success mean to me this was really fun hope you can give me some feedback thanks 

My Te Manu Tukutuku poem

Te Manu Tukutuku Poem

I felt amazing when I walked into the new school.

I heard people chatting to each other and screaming.

I saw kids having fun on the playgrounds and on the basketball court.

I got to touch the soft, bouncy, comfy, warm furniture that was new.

I smelt the nice fresh air in the new school.

Here is my poem. The most challenging thing for me was to figure out what to write for my poem that was really challenging. But I still like writing my poem it was super fun. The most fun thing about it was writing the poem.

Can you please give me some feedback if you could thanks.

Day 7 New Zealand

Design your own logo

For the last few weeks we have been using some apps and you get to create your own logo out of icons and shapes its so fun here is the link:PRESS ME!!!you have to press launch app so you can create your own logo the challenging bit for me was to figure out how to use it but you can get use to it and you can create what ever you want but it has to be a logo of your own hope you enjoy the app 

can you please give me some feedback

here is my logo that I mane in the app for fun

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Day 5 of Learning Journey

Day 4 Swimming with the Sharks

Today in literacy we did Swimming with Sharks day 4 we only had to do the first Activity and the bonus activity the most challenging bit for me was to find out what to do but I got to it   

Day 2 Of New Zealand Journey

In literacy I have made a slide with all the activity's and they are all completed I had to complete the activity's today and tomorrow we have to complete Day 3 of activity's

3 Facts About New Zealand

Fact 1   

Camping Ground

Us kiwis love to go outside for the reason why many people go to New Zealand. Kiwis developed a passion for outdoors they make most of of the spectacular land they love the water.

Fact 2

bungee jumping

Most people love bungee jumping some people hate bungee jumping some people want to do bungee jumping but they are to scared we don't really know? if you want to find out go do it why not have a go they are not the most famous invention.

Fact 3

early voyagers

over 4 hundred years before christopher and the rest of europe is worried about falling off the edge of the world they have traveled lots of miles though the pacific ocean  

This week I have done some calendar art it was so fun first we had to draw the pattern and we had to colour it in and we had to out line it in vivid and there is my calendar art. 

My logo design

Here is my logo design. The first step to my logo design was I had to draw it in my design book four or five times and the we had to show a teacher and explane what they stand for and after we did that we had to post it on our blog.

How to write a helpful positive thoughtful comment

We are learning to write quality blog comments.

Camp!!!

You would never believe what I did I went to CAMP! here is me I was doing archery it was so fun 

Make Their Day Shop

I Lily and Libby and Lily W made a make their day shop Libby did the rules and I did the sign witch was Make Their Day Shop and Lily W did Ideas for people. It Took us a couple of days with putting the decorations on I had to cut the green paper behind the words so it would fit. Mrs Mcguinniety put the paper with the boxes on so people can sign it so they can get a ice block but you have to make a promise before you get the ice block. You have to make a photo of what you did and you had to post it on your blog so we know that you did it this was so fun the flavors where Raspberry, lime, lemonade the classes room 8, 7, 6 got some Ice blocks they had to write their name.
hope you can give me some feedback on my work.   

Hurricanes

   Severe Weather Hurricane

Plan

• What is a hurricane?
• How do hurricanes form
• What is a storm surge
• 
  

Hurricanes can be all found over the world. Hurricanes are severe weather systems. Severe means really REALLY HORRIBLE!!! Hurricanes are sometimes the most violent storms on earth.

Hurricanes are huge storms. They can get up to 600 miles across the land. They have strong wind spirals and sometimes hurricanes can live over a week. Hurricanes bring lots of clouds, rain and wind. They can make lots of floods. Hurricanes turn clockwise which in north hemisphere and anticlockwise direction in the southern hemisphere. The center of the hurricane that’s the eye. The eye is dead silent you can not hear a thing. In new zealand they call it cyclones. In australia they call them hurricanes. Hurricanes only form by the ocean having really warm salty water. The air cools of the higher you go. The wind must be blowing in the same direction at  the same speed to force air upward to the ocean surface. Winds flow outwards above the storm allowing the air from the bottom to rise.

Hurricanes form between 5 to 15 degrees latitude north and south equator.

Storm surges are frequently the most devastating element of a hurricane.  A hurricane will cause more of a storm surge in areas. The amount of water is dangerous it can flood houses and all kinds of stuff. The water can go into people’s houses you would not want that to happen you would have to clean it all up.

For me I would not like to be in a hurricane but luckily we don’t have them here sometimes we only have little hurricanes known as cyclones. I don’t think anyone would want to be in a hurricane with all the rain and wind and

I hope you would like to read this hope you can give me some feedback

Crashing through Interland

Today we did a fun game called Interland. This is when you have to get letters and make a secret password the game I played on there was called Tower of Treasure. This game is really fun so there is 3 levels in the game then you reach the top and you finish the game. How you move you have to press
 arrows to control the person hope you enjoy and hope you have fun on it.

Stormy Night

Weather art

This term we have been learning about weather. In art I created a stormy night picture. First I did the shadow. I got a piece of black paper and I drew with a white crayon. Then I cut it out then I switched sessions and I went to dye my background with blue, black, and gray. Once I did that I dabbed my black paint on the paintbrush then I did the lightning with white paint with a thin paint brush. Then I used PVA glue to stick my shadows on and I'm done.

a little bit more a little bit less

In maths I have been learning multiplication strategies. I have learnt to solve multiplication problems using my five times tables I hope you like it and you learn something and I worked it out also using my 2's and 3's times tables

ANTARCTICA!!!!

      

Description Plan.

• COLDEST place .
• It is Astonishing .
• Antarctica  .
• 
  

Brrrr is anyone cold around here?

Antarctica is the windiest, driest, desert in the whole world but … it’s not an ordinary desert, it is a snow desert. That's just amazing!!

Looks

Antarctica looks like it has snow and ice and really really tall maintains you can see some icebergs that are HUMONGOUS

Feels

Feels SUPER COLD, feels like frost bite it can be super cold over there

Sounds

Sounds SUPER windy and it sounds like someone is whistling

The temperature can go down to -75C. Underneath the snow and ice there is plain old land .There is lots of ice in Antarctica, that whats makes it ICY COLD. Antarctica also had lots of HUGE ICEBERGS. Did you know if you drop an ice cube in water you can see that it floats up on the water and there's still some under the water - that’s the same as an iceberg. All icebergs have a top that is big but the bottom that is under water is HUGE!

Antarctica is the coldest continent. In the winter the temperature is -89.6C that’s only in the winter. In summer the coldest that it drops  to is -15C. The temperature sits below -0C (-32F)most of the time.

Antarctica is really interesting, Amazing, It’s a snowflake wonderland in Antarctica. Antarctica is really fascinating.

I like Antarctica there lot to discover like mystery. You can find out lots of things.

In literacy we have been learning about Antarctica the first thing we did was to go to the Antarctica center to have some fun and learn about Antarctica we went in the snow and ice room my piece of writing has a Introduction, Characteristics and lucky last the Evaluation

I used a hook and adjectives this was a description writing hope you enjoy  .

My Rainy Day Art

 

On Tuesday we did art it was called rainy day art. This is what I did. I really liked doing it. We used wax crayons

We dyed it. You can see the dye in the background. This was really really REALLY fun I hope you like it too.

Our Audience

We are learning to create a positive digital footprint.

We often share personal information when we are online. The people we share with could be our friends and family or people we don't know. We need to make smart decisions about what personal information we share online.

Exploring Blogs

We are learning to create a positive digital footprint.

We often share personal information when we are online. The people we share with could be our friends and family or people we don't know. We need to make smart decisions about what personal information we share online.

snot writing

The gooey stuff sat disgustingly in the cup.

It smelt like glue,shampoo, conditioner and lotion, in the container.

It smelt like gross sunscreen,stuff like green sunscreen in the container.

Its smells like buttery, slimey stuff.  

It felt slimy,buttery stuff going out of the container.

It sounded like popping bubbles,slippy,gooey in the slimey container.

It looked like green gross stuff.

It looked  like dish washing liquid.

It looked like glue, lotion and oil.

It felt like slime dripping down my hands.

It felt like liquid disgusting.

Our mud Writing

The gooey, icky, crunchy, sloppy, sticky stuff was in the container.

It smelt like brand new paper that's just been sent out .

It looked  bubbly, rocky and yucky.

It felt like small rocks, gross icky, slimy stuff.

It  sounded sloppy, and like crackling lips,noisily

Marvellous, murky, messy, mud.