Inquiry

"A living thing consumes,grows,breaths,adapts to its environment and perishes."

                                                                                                         Room8, 2015

It's about worm tea 

I got my information from the Internet 

My mum helped me by giving me an idea of what to do my project about

worm tea helps plants grow

My favourite fact is how plants breath

Next time I will fill up my spaces more

Outdoor education

WALT optimist yacht

On Thursday we went to Pandora pond

We learnt to rig up an optimist yacht

And sail it, it was fun

Me and my friend cap sized the boat it was fun to.

I enjoyed it very much

Report writing

WALT writ a report

A good report may include 

TItle < stand out (big and bright)

Sub headings

Photograph-relevant to article

Introduction-hook

author style

Quotes-interview

report

This is my report that I wrote

Dan carter

Dan carter played his very best at the World Cup final. He drop kicked the ball from the 40 meter line and an outstanding 52 meter conversion. Dan Carter Is the most successful player in the world

what a great way to retire.

My next step is to make my reports longer

Reading workshops with mr Wallace. My notes about a Great white shark at Waimarama

WALT: take effective notes about some news. 

WILF: Words that give information my own words.

My next learning step: write notes faster.

Two hawke's bay people

Cray fishing 

Caught Great white tangled in rope

Have to release it

Protected species

When pulling up crayfish pot 

Boat leaning to side 

Then saw the Great white

Might have been there for while?       

                                             

Reading term 4 with Mr W

WALT take notes when listening to a reader.

WILF short sentences keywords information.

My next step will be to take accurate notes when a speaker is talking at a normal speed

Maths

We used our maths skills to figure out these maths problems and make one

I did these using two diffrent ways

Can you figure out how to do this one ^

                                                           

Values

Our value this term is pride I have been making a video with my friends about pride.

Fitness/nutrition

WALT keeping ourselves fit and healthy

On Wednesdays we have been working with Karen to keep fit and healthy for when we grow up.

Karen makes up some games for us to play like... she pulls a card out of a bag some times she pulls out a card that means we have to do push-ups and other stuff and then other day's we just talk about healthy food and nutrition.

These are some things that I didn't know before and know now

 We have to stretch before and after a work out.

We have to drink at least 8 leitears a day.

We can turn fitness into a game.

Writing

WALA spring

This is my poem about spring

Sunny and light

Pollen falling everywhere 

Random weather all the time

In between summer and winter

Nature grows

Getting more lambs

We are calabreatong spring By making butterfly's using symmetry

Spring is a festive time in Bangladesh. People celebrate this season with newly reaped paddies. Villagers make various types of pitha cakes to entertain guests.

Spring

               Spring

Lots of pollen in the air

Snotty noses everywhere

Daffodils Blossoms

Roses too

                   Bees collect honey with their crew

Maths

To find the average temperature for these five days we have to all of the

temperatures together.

The total of all temperatures =65

The next step is to divide the total by the

Number of days.

The average temperature is 13

Degrees Celsius 

Pangarau/maths

WALT tell the time using Te reo Maori.

We have designed clocks and made Maori times for Te reo Maori.

This time in Maori is Kua wha karaka.

Reading

WALA the Moa 

We researched facts about the Moa. I used pic collage to prosent my facts

What I found interesting was that Moa's could weigh to about 230kg.

Maths

Walt take 10pocent off an item

Te reo

This was when the kapa Haka went and poformed at the hastings intermediate festival 

I was very nervous my favourite poformes were the hastings boys high

Maths

We are making games on hopscotch using our noliege most of these games are already made but it's still fun making them 

Term 2 writing

   WALA  adjectives noun and verbs. For this activity we had to write down as many adjectives, nouns and verbs in one minute.

   We are also describing what some people look like.

Responsibility

Click on the link below to watch my responsibility video

https://voice.adobe.com/a/WB4mP

WALA Asian food

 

East Asia 

China-dumplings,Mapo tofu

Hong Kong-stuffed roasted pig,snake soup

Mongolia-buuz,khorkhog,

Japan-sushi

Korea-Kimchi

Asia-yam nua

India-van,vegetarian,curry

WALA Asian food these are types of the foods in East Asia 

These are the city's that made the food

The six thinking hats

WALA De Bono's six thinking hats the hats represent the meaning 

Like this

Black hat: what are the minuses what might go wrong and what are the weekness?

White hat: what information do we have? What infomation do we need.

Red hat: how do I feel about this right now?

Green hat: what is possible? What ideas do you have?

Blue hat: what do we do next? What have we done so fare? What thinking is needed what is our focus? 

Yellow hat: what are the good things about this? What are the strength and and pluses? How will it help us? Why will it work?

Rotation swimming

In swimming I have been part of the dolphins group.

I have been learning to: breast stroke  and now I'm am much better and faster at it

• Swim one length backstroke and freestyle

• Using regular breathing.

I am most proud of: breaststroke because I'm faster

Than I used to be.

I now need to work on doing: backstroke because I need to be able

to float on my back.

Maths

We are learning about equivalent fraction

I coloured half of a piece of paper and folded it into equal fractions.

I learnt that 1/2 is equivalent to 4/8

and 2/4 is the same as 8/16

My next learning step is ordering fractions

Writing

We are learning to write a formal letter.

We wrote to the hastings district council and we told them our opinion about the changing speed limit

From hastings to clive

I think that you should keep it on 80 that means it will be safer for every one

so I strongly disagree with the change.

Treaty of Waitangi research

 Walt: summarise our research into our own words list our sources.  

Next step is to work on including my sources to show where I got my information from. 

Mihimihi

This is my Mihimihi this is what i have been learning with my teacher