End of year exit interview

Today was the last day of primary school for me, and for the past couple of days we got to do movies and Christmas cards. today we got to do an end of year exit interview, about our favorite thing about this year and advice for the kids coming to this class next year, also something we wish we could change about this year. next year i'm off to hornby high with a few of my friends, I hope that everyone has an amazing Christmas holidays, and a fantastic start to next year in 2022.

Narrative

This week for Mrs Jones's writing group we got to make a narratives about a taniwha called awarua, and a albatross called rereroa. first we got to copy a slide then on one of them we got to write a narrative about why the taniwha awarua wanted, to fly just like her friend. but once we got self checked buddy checked and teacher checked we got to, copy and paste our writing then past it onto a google drawing then decorate it. once we did we got to publish it to our blogs then go on story scrambler. then write about that then post it.

Haiku poem

Last week for Mrs Jones writing group we have been doing poems about spring, and some of ours could be chosen the flower festival, but the festival was cancelled because of covid-19 .we got to do a Haiku poem, diamante poem, and a cinquain poem, on each poem we wrote many different things about spring. for each poem about spring, we had to use nouns adjectives and verbs about the things that happen in spring and about it. after we finished we got to decorate our poems with what, our poem is about, and then we got to post them to our blog. but the first one I choose to post is my Haiku poem.

Olympic champion profile (Arthur Lydiard)

 Hey readers! for the past 3 weeks Mrs Jones's reading and writing groups have been learning about the Olympics, Mrs Jones's reading group Tom Fletcher got to read and make a copy of a Olympic champion google drawing profile first we got to read a text about him. I had learned that he ran between 24 - 400 kilometres a week. he was interesting to read about and about his amazing races, and how he trained and inspired new champions.

Te reo classroom objects

 Hey readers! for the past couple of weeks we have been learning about naming classroom objects, in te reo moari and in colour. we got to make a copy of a google drawing and make little arrows,  and point them to classroom objects, and at the end of the arrows we wrote and said whats at the object in moari, before we did it we got a piece of paper glued into our books showing us the name of the object in English and in moari.

Olympic champion profile( Nadia Comaneci)

 Hey readers! for the past 4 weeks Mrs Jones's group in Tom Fletcher we have been working on and learning about the Olympics, my group got to make an Olympic champion profile. we got to choose an Olympic player to do a profile about I chose Nadia Comaneci, I got to write facts and info about her. Nadia Comaneci was a great gymnast, and she was only 14 when she started and scored a perfect 10 in gymnastics.

olympic champion profile( violet warlord)

 Hey readers! today for Mrs Jones's reading group Tom Fletcher we got to do another Olympic champion profile. this one was about Violet Warlord, she was the first female New Zealand player and the youngest female player in the Olympics in the 1920 Olympic games. we also got to read a text about her before we copied the Olympic champion profile and started it then post it onto our blogs.

 

Match the sport to the venue

Hey readers!

this week for Mrs Jones's reading group we have been learning about the Olympics, we have been learning about people in the Olympics, sports, and about how it started in Greece. today for Tom Fletcher we got to copy a google drawing for matching the right sport to the right venue, I was confused on the fencing I wasn't sure which one to do but I guessed that it was a gym sport it wasn't like most things that I have usually gotten to do but it was fun for a change. have you done anything similar to what I did?

Space DLO

Hey readers! for the past 3 weeks for inquiry we have been learning, about space and about its stars and planets, each time we would learn and watch a video about each planet. after we watched the video for each planet we would do a work sheet on paper about the planet, that we just learned about and what we know.

nearing the end of inquiry, we started to make a DLO about the planets. everyone had to make one each for their report. here is mine

Anzac cinquain poem

 For the past 3 weeks Mrs Jones's writing group have been doing poems on war and Anzac's this week we have been doing a cinquain poem we also did a Haiku poem and a diamante poem, we needed to use verbs nouns and adjectives for our poems.

The Bulford kiwi

 Today for Mrs Jones's reading group Tom Fletcher had to make a blog about the Bulford kiwi in England.

the Bulford kiwi is a little known story from the first world war when the new Zealand troops were waiting months in sling camp in southern England waiting for a ship to come and take them back to their home, to keep them busy they carved a kiwi into the hill of the camp to keep them occupied while they, where waiting. for a ship to take them home back from the war.                                                                                   The Bulford kiwi is a large kiwi carved in the, chalk on Beacon hill above the military town of Bulford. part of the Bulford camp was established in June 1916 for the New Zealand expeditionary Force (NZEF).

.The kiwi's body is 1.5 acres (6,100 m2).                                                                                                           .From the kiwi's feet to the top of its beak is 420 feet (130 meters).                                                                   .The beak is 150 feet (46 meters long).                                                                                                              .The letters "N.Z" are 65 feet (20 meters high).

when world war 1 ended with the armistice on November 11, 1918 what happened to the thousands of New Zealand soldiers- around 40,000 stationed in Europe and Britain. who had left their homeland to fight and now where still in Europe.

The invisible man

 Today in Mrs Jones's writing group we had to blog our writing slide we did today, our word of the day was invisible it was something different to do blog our warm up slide. instead of only doing highlight the sentence with the word of the day and share with a buddy we could also blog our story if we wanted, to.

Anzac Haiku poem

 Today for Mrs Jones's writing group we all had to do haiku poems, for 3 weeks we will be doing writing and reading on world war 1 and Anzac day. 

All about kererū

This week in Mrs Jones's reading group Tom Fletcher we have been learning all about kererū first we had to do on Monday was we had to watch the video clip then play the board game, on Wednesday we and to read the text then go on the great kererū count and after we did a quiz, on Thursday we had to do a slide all about kererū and then do origami.

taste buds

 This week in Mrs Jones's reading group tom Fletcher we have been learning about our taste buds and how they work, we watched a video called operation ouch about taste buds we found out the adults have 5,000 taste buds and children have 10,000 that's double of what adults have compared to children. yesterday our group did an experiment and see what our reaction would be, but I wasn't there yesterday to do the experiment. we also had learnt in the text your taste receptor cells work hard, so they are replaced every week or too. as we get older, it takes longer to replace the cells. We have five different main receptors sour sweet umami bitter and salty. 

                                                                                                    

                         
                                               

The creation of the south island

 Last week for Mrs Jones's writing group we had to write about a moari legend on about how the south island came to be, first we had to make a plan for our writing. after we did that we had to start writing a template about the legend using our plans, after we finished the template we had to self check buddy check and teacher check then once we have done so we create our blog post.

                              The creation of the south island

First Rangi (the sky father) had 4 sons Rakiroa Rakirua Rarakiroa and the eldest was Aoraki, he was married to a woman named Pokoharua-te-po but then one day Raki had fallen in love with the earth mother (Papatuanuku) but when pokoharua-te-po had found out she was heartbroken. The brothers got really upset that their father had fallen in love with another women, so the brothers had decided to go down from the havens and see what all the fuss was about and why their father didn’t want their mother anymore.

So then Aoraki and his brothers had set off onto the ocean to go find this woman that their father had fallen in love with and to go check her out and see what was so great about her, but where ever they went the kept  on only seeing more and more ocean and no new land or the papatuanuku (earth mother).

But as they were sailing in their waka a storm had started to form in the sky they thought that it was their father telling them to come back home. So as being the oldest Aorkai the leader started to chant a magic karakia that would lift their waka up off the ocean and safely back up to the hevans to the their father.

So as aoraki was chanting the karakia he had messed something up in the karakia so instead of lifting up off the water the waka tipped onto it’s side so the brothers climbed on top of the waka and huddled together as their hair started to turn white then their skin started to become stone, then they started to form into the southern alps Aoraki being the tallest mountain and his brothers being the nearby alps.

Pouakai the glutton

 Hey readers!

this week in Mrs Jones's writing group we have been writing about a local moari legend about Poakai the glutton, first we had to do a plan in our writing books then after we had to make a template to write about the legend once finished we had to self check buddy check and teacher check once we have done all those we start our blog post for the legend.

                                                     Pouākai the Glutton

Mt torlesse was the largest mountain range but there was a problem one day a giant hast eagle name poakai came to the range and perched himself on top of mt torlesse creating a nest up on the top, he could see far out into the ocean he would catch up the hunters and villagers that would go out hunting for food for the village and he swoop down from his mountain and scoop up the hunters and to devour them at his pleasure.

Every day in the nearby village more and more people would go missing the village were starting to get angry and annoyed that more and more people were getting caught and killed by poākai and taking him up to his nest to never be seen again so one of the most fearless hunters named ruru decided to form a group of 40 hunters and build a trap and kill poākai and bring peace and freedom to the planes one again.

So each night they made a plan to build the trap at night when poākai would be asleep in his nest on the mountain. Each night they would gather around and start building the cage piece by piece, then finally at last it was complete ruru decided he will be the bait being the swiftest and the fastest he will lure poākai to the cage. So ruru got all 40 of the men in the cage then he ran out to the planes teasing poākai getting him to follow ruru back to the cage.

Ruru ran as swift and as fast as he had ever ran before with the giant eagle trailing behind him getting closer and closer finally ruru made it back to the cage running into the door slamming it behind with poākai landing onto the top of the cage. Then pouākai clawed one of his legs into the cage killing some men. Then they started to hack off his leg so poākai put his other leg into the cage killing some more getting his other hacked off. In rage poākai pushed his wings into the cage killing more men. Then hacking his wings off too. Then as the gird was completely helpless.

Ruru ran out of the cage running at poākai clubbing him to death. In succession on killing the pest they decided to climb the mountain in search of any baby's in his nest so they wasted no time and started the climb up the mountain, half way up they start to hear singing it was pouākais babies so they climbed up and finally reached the nest and wasted no time and clubbed them to death. The planes was finally free of pouākai’s wrath and was no longer being held hostage by poākai and could finally hunt again. And they lived happily ever after.

All about eels

Last week we went to lake Ellesmere to learn all about eels and their life cycle a guy called Clem Smith taught us all about eels and what their life cycle is like and all about. eels travel all the way from new Zealand to the hot water by Hawaii where the mummy and daddy eels breed, the males rap their body around the female eels and squeeze them causing the eggs to fall out from the female.

after the eggs are laid the mummy and daddy eel die soon after, once the baby eels (called Larva) hatch they then swim all the way back to new Zealand and then stay in lake Ellesmere for up to 2-50 years until swimming all the way back to the place where their mum and dad laid them.

All About Me

 Today we made our All about Me's in miss mclellends homeroom class we had to make on a google slide and take a picture of our selves and write three paragraphs once we had finished we put it all on the slide we put on our blog post.

How to care for a Guinea pig

 This week for Mrs Jones Reading group tom Fletcher we had to make a drive on how to care for a Guinea pig. we had to read a book first before making the slide on how to care for a Guinea pig.