Fractions ( Comic )

For today's maths I completed a comic math activity, I wrote a story on fractions as a comic. I's say it's most likely a comic although it is, It was fun and enjoyable describing more about fractions,

Potato Salad

   

For tech class today we made potato salad, It was enjoyable to eat and fun to create. 

Stanley Steamer & Model T - Ford

Today In this reading activity I have found some interesting facts about the Stanley Steamer and The Model T - Ford. I have also found the similarities to both the cars.

What Family means to me

Family Is worth a fortune! Your family will be by your side forever. They’re there through the pain and even through the joy. What ever you go through they are there.

They're here to be relied on. Sometimes siblings can be annoying and not helpful but they are your family (Brothers & Sisters) It gave me time to think carefully about family and what they mean to me.

If I need them they will help me, Family means the world to me. If they weren’t here with me I wouldn’t be who I am today. I thank them with everything I’ve got to please them in a loving way.

That’s what family means to me…

Making Mistakes

Mistakes come and go

But they always tend to flow

Sometimes mistakes can be shown

But most of the time they go

As time passes by
My mistakes come for a visit

I’ve made a lot of mistakes

And for me can never be forgotten

Sometimes it’s worth a sorry

But for me it’s still a worry

Mistakes are what keep me going

And sometimes it’s unknowing

My whole life I thought

Mistakes would turn into jail

When I was thinking it turned me pale

And I always fail  

And my mistakes always lead to a trail

Swearing at my Mum

Wasn't a great idea

I slapped myself painfully

With a tear

It made me cry when I said those painful words

I didn’t mean to say what i said

                                                                                                                                                                                     

Otago rail trail

The Otago rail trail seems like a good place to ride bikes and talk with a group of friends. If i were there i would prefer to ride my bike to experience what it would be like to travel through there. I wouldn't mind riding my bike through the Otago rail trail. It seems like a really unique name and it probably is quite a quiet place. 

 

Famous New Zealander /DLO

This is my facts and digital learning object about a famous New Zealander that is a champion. 

One step at a Time

My group and I were walking into a big huge and large forest. As we were walking into the forest I stopped walking and stared at a beautiful tree it was really long and big. As I was staring at the tree my group had suddenly left to another location. It was frightening and scary because I was by myself. A sudden chill ran down my back and gave me a bad thought about the forest and me being alone. I called them and they never had responded to my calling. 

So I tried finding them with hope. But there was no sound, no chattering no nothing not a single sound from them but my echo. 

As I was walking really slow I heard my group walking and i suddenly found them .  

Native Aotearoa

In this activity I had to list down the best haka to the worst haka.

Here is my list of best to worst.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYmszJ00aMM

2. https://www.Youtube e.com/watch?v=Z60PGuxnHmw

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiKFYTFJ_kw

  

Keeping New Zealand beautiful

To help my neighborhood and my environment i would: 

1. Ask a group of friends to help clean our neighborhood so that our street is clean.
2. Walk along the foot path with a rubbish bag and see if there are any sightings of rubbish and pick it up.
3. Keep clear of anyone dumping rubbish and ask them to pick it up 

These are a few ways i could help keep our neighborhood clean and tidy. 

Wild eyes

For this activity i have chosen the tuatara because i like the skin and the way it moves i also like the natural color of the tuatara. A tuatara is a lizard or a reptile that has soft spikes along it's neck. A lizard is a reptile that was discovered a century ago. A tuatara loves to eat insects but there common food that they eat are eggs, they even eat the left over scraps from a seagulls meal. Tuatara's mainly live in New Zealand in the south. 

 

My winter holiday poem

Today I wrote this poem about our two week holiday.

Holidays

“ Yay “ everyone shouted with joy and happiness. On the last day of school i started thinking and it made me wonder…. Is school actually finished? Wow we are now moving onto term 3 really quick, my response was really surprising to the holidays coming , i didn’t actually want the holidays.   

Two weeks of the holidays are pretty long that’s why i’m not actually surprised and excited about the holidays. You have 16 days off of school and it’s the winter holiday too, there ain’t a lot of activities to do this holiday as well. But there are exciting indoor activities to do also .

I hope all goes well for my winter holidays.

 

Matariki stars

This Month The classroom and I have been learning about Matariki and the constellation of the seven stars, This poem tells you a little bit of Matariki,

Reading Comprehension

1. Matariki is a maori new year
2.  Aquarius
3. Harvesting  
4. Late June and early July
5. If you could clearly see the stars
6. Because over generations and generations people are most likely to change the maori stories over time

1. Pataka kai meaning in english - Storage room
2. Hakari meaning in english - Feast
3. Whenua meaning in english - Land
4. Whanau meaning in english - Family
5. Whakapapa meaning in english - genealogy

Exercise 2

        8. List three ways Maori people celebrated Matariki.

• Harvest
• Family get together
• Light trail

        9.  What stories do you think Maori shared at these times?

• The Maori’s share how they found New Zealand and how they landed in there seven waka, they also share how they followed the nearest star to find their destination.

       10. Name a celebration that is important to you. When is it celebrated and when       is it?

• One of my celebrations that is important to me is when all of my family have our own functions

       11. Think of one way you could celebrate matariki with your class or family. What would you do.

• For my family we would harvest and get together
• For my class we would do arts and crafts and make kites as a celebration for matariki  

  

        

     

Nobody laughed

Inference: Nobody laughed

Use the parts you already know and put the parts you didn’t know to find out a conclusion.

• I know that Big Barn Is a warehouse where you find what you want in it’s own section.

• I also know that the summer holidays are In December, January and February, and February is where you start school for a new year.

• I know that nobody laughed because they all had their own favourite thing and if they had laughed at anyone's favorite thing than they would laugh back.

Matariki

Matariki Teaching Activities

Measuring time

1. Why do we bother to measure time in days, months and years

    2. Why are there so many ways of measuring time?

  3. What are at least two things that these calendars seem to have in common?

  4. What are at least 2 major differences between the different calendars described

  5. According to the Muslim and the Jewish calendars, what year were you born in?

  

Answers:

  5.Islamic Calendar= Sun 1st May 2005

     Jewish Calendar= Sun 1st May  2005

      NZ  Calendar=Mon 1st May 2005

  

  4.They both have different names for their months

 

  3.That they all measured in days, months and years

  

  2.Because we have different times and days all over the world

 1.because we need to keep track of it all so we remember things? And sometimes people have upcoming schedules and should know just what month, year and days.

 

      

Simile or Metaphor

Simile or Metaphor

Say whatever it is a simile or a metaphor in each of the following sentences.

1. He dropped like a stone when the forward ran into him. Simile
2. “You silly old fox, Terry”  - Metaphor
3. My feet feel like leed. - Simile
4. He laughed like a hyena - Metaphor
5. The tent was a sky of green - metaphor
6. He broke my heart - Metaphor
7. Mum is as soft as butter - Simile
8. This is as old as the hills - Simile
9. John was a lion on the field - Metaphor

Metaphor or not?

Remember, literal language means exactly what it says but a metaphor could not be strictly true. In the following pairs of sentences, one is literal while the other sentence is a metaphor and contains a metaphor. Say which one in each pair is metaphorical.

For example :            

My life is hanging by a thread, Metaphorical.

1. We wrung a confession from the thief _Metaphorical____

                We wrung the dash cloth and hung it up to dry _metaphor_____

       b.     At the Olympics there is a flaming torch _Metaphor_____

                 He was in a flaming temper _Metaphorical _____

       c. The cat crept up on the birds _Metaphor___

               The minutes crept by slowly _Metaphor_____

       d. It rained steedly last night __Metaphor____

        Blows were rained on him by his opponent _Metaphor___

      e. The problem bristles with difficulty _Metaphorical ___

    The bristles on my toothbrush are worn _Metaphorical___

   f. The forward  ploughed through the opposing players _Metaphorical___

        The farmer ploughed the field _Metaphor___

  g. The rest of the class poked fun at her hair _Metahpor___

      I poked the fire to get it going _Metaphorical____

   h. We were wrestling with our homework _Metahpor__

       In the wrestling bout the champion floored his opponent _Metaphor___

   i. The cat dragged the chicken off the bench _Metaphorical___

      It was a drag having to get up in the morning _Metahpor___

  

 

Poem - Matariki stars

Today we were doing a tercet poem about matariki.

Polygons

During our Maths class today I’ve made polygons with the matariki stars. On this spreadsheet I have made 19 polygons , I’ve made 13 triangles , 5 diamonds and one hexagon. I have connected almost all of the matariki stars. This activity was fun and interesting.

Reading Comprehension - Vegans

Memory                Reading Comprehension               16.06.17

In class I was doing a reading comprehension, This reading comprehension was fun because i learnt a bit about vegan and healthy eating.  

Personification poem

                                                             Personification poem

                                                                         Basketball

I am round and shaped like a ball

And I am always used In a hall

I am big but people think i’m small

You bounce me a lot

Sometimes I’m worth a shot

People run around and dribble with me

But when you're sitting far away from me you can’t really see

As I get thrown across the long court

I quickly get catched and thrown like normal

When you see me fly like wind across the court

The crowd goes WILD!

My team travels around the world

And competes other teams around the world

My name and the game are the same name

What am I?

The lonely Tourist

One by one two by two I was stepping closer to my unknown destination . Trying to run away from the eruption around my neighborhood, I packed my bag and left In a sudden matter of time. Unknowing where I’m going to lead to I just had to hurry. I could feel a good spirit coming towards this unknown adventure.

As I left not knowing where everyone else went to i kept carrying on. Leaving myself as the lonely tourist. Exhausted from the long walk I then fell asleep right where I was. When I was sleeping it felt like I was drifting away with the wind which made me wake up. As I kept walking after my nap, I came across an airplane which I never have thought I would of came across. I sprinted to the airplane but I stopped and looked again and one side of It was unfortunately broken.

I stopped and ate some snacks,  And saw a lot of supplies like a health kit , food and clothes.

I wondered who left all the usable stuff.. So I took all the supplies and headed off.

When I left I felt a chill ram down my back, I then stopped and put my jumpers on.