My numeracy learning.

At the end of this year, my teachers said I was working at Early Stage 7 in numeracy. This is because when I am solving any kind of problem, I use a lot of different strategies plus my basic facts knowledge is very good. Here is a checklist of the numeracy knowledge I have gained during the year.  I still have a few gaps at Stage 6 level and I'm going to work on them over the holidays.

Go to the checklist here:

Christmas Sweden - Christmas New Zealand

Hello fellow bloggers.
Yesterday we read two articles about Christmas in Sweden and Christmas in New Zealand. We had to make a venn diagram to show what is different about Christmas in Sweden and what is different about Christmas in New Zealand. We also had to show what is the same about Christmas in both countries.
Here is Leonor and my venn diagram:

Pet Day

Hi fellow bloggers.
Recently we had Pet Day. We made Vaseline saucers. We had to rub Vaseline onto a plastic plate.  After that, we broke off little petals from flowers and made a pattern.  Our pattern had to be symmetrical. We got judged the next day. Sadly, I didn't get anything.
Here is a pic of me with my saucer:

Geometry

Hello fellow bloggers,
For the last few weeks our focus for maths has been Geometry. We got to choose geometry tasks to complete. I created a google slide with my geometry things on it.

PAT/Star tests T4

Hello fellow bloggers,
Yesterday we did a PAT maths test to see if we have learnt anything from the beginning of the year. In T1 I got 26/35 and in T4 I got 33/35. I am very happy that I have improved. The two questions I got wrong were: interpret a pictograph where each unit stands for 2 horses and Reflect a shape in a horizontal mirror line.
Here is my test:

Star test

Hi blogger's,
Here are the results of my Star Reading test. At the beginning of the year I scored 39/50. This week I scored 46/50. I improved by 7 marks. My score means I did well above average. I improved the most in the cloze test.

Next year I need to work on: Which words mean the same.

Coding/Maze Making

Hi bloggers,
Today we did coding. We made a maze and coded something get from one place to another. We had to make the code for the person to get from one place to the other place.
Here is my work:

Comic book making

Hello fellow bloggers,
Today we created comic strips for reading. We read the book The Legend of Rock, Paper, Scissors. We then made our own comic strips. We had to choose two different things in the classroom to write about or two characters from the book. Here is my Comic strip:

Explanation writing

Hello fellow bloggers, 
Yesterday we wrote end of year explanation writing. We had to write an explanation about an environmental problem. I think I did better this time because I had better spelling and punctuation. Here are my explanations:

Environmental Problems

The environment is our surroundings. These include plants and animals. Problem means an error or
something that went wrong. Today I will be telling about plastic and you can make a big difference in
our environment. Plastic is a material that can be molded into a shape or bag.

Firstly, when we throw away our plastic bags they blow into the sea and kill marine life. What we can do
is actual reuse the plastic by making it into something else. What people do is the get the plastic and they
melt it and make it into something else. Then we would be doing wiser things with our plastic. If we don’t
do this to all our plastic it’s going to end up in the ocean and animals in the water would be dead
everywhere and that’s not good for the planet.

Secondly, we need to cut down on plastic packing. When we go shopping basically everything is put into
plastic containers. Instead of using plastic containers we should use pods. With a pods they still use
plastic but you can reuse them over and over again. If we don’t do this there will be plastic flying
everywhere and that would clutter up our environment.

Finally, use reusable bags. Instead of using plastic bags use reusable bags. If we use reusable bags for
our shopping we wouldn’t have to use plastic bags. Plastic bags can only really be used twice because
they rip so easily. Once they get ripped we throw them away and the plastic gets dumped in the  dump
yard. It will then get blown straight into our rivers killing animals. But if we use reusable bags that wouldn’t
happen because we can use them over and over again.

Plastic can be a bad problem. I hope after reading my explanation you have learnt something that you
can do to help save our amazing environment. Without it the world wouldn’t be completed.

This is my T1 explanation: We had to write about what makes a good friend.

What makes a good friend?

Have you ever wondered what makes a good friend? Good means that you are  well at something.
Friend means that you are a besty with someone.

Firstly, are you lonely well ask something to be your friend. If you don’t have friends ask something nice
and caring to be you friend. If you are nerves you can go to a caregiver or teacher to help ask the person.
Then ask the person, would you like to be my friend, and if they say yes you have a friend. If you want
you can go around asking other people to be your friend.

(But make sure they are trustworthy.)

Secondly , If you want to be a good friend you need to be caring for one and other. For example if your
best friend is hurt and you are there with them help take care of them. Bring your friend to a caregiver or
teacher. Then hopefully the caregiver or teacher will take them to the medical room.

Finally, If you want to be a good friend you might want to suggest new game to your friend.

If you are tired of playing the same game then suggest a new game. If your friend says no, well you are
just going to go with the same old game.

Being a friend is great fun because you can count on them and you can never be bored. It is great fun to
have more than one friend because if your friend is not at school you will have other friends to play with.

Greats and Grands

Hi Bloggers,
This Friday it is Greats and Grands day at our school.
We had to write a nice piece of writing about our Grandparents to give to them.
Here is my piece of writing about my grandparents

Greats and Grands day Explanation

Hi Bloggers,
This Friday it is Greats and Grands day at our school.
We had to write an explanation about something that grandparents face when they get old.
I chose going blind.  We had to find three suggestions about our topic.
Here is my Piece of writing about becoming blind.

How Grandparents Cope with Blindness.

A grandparent is a mother that has had a baby and their baby has had a baby. When a human gets old their body parts start to get weak and they will not be able to do the things they use to. This is aging and it makes many problems. One of the problems is becoming blind and I will be sharing my ideas of what you could do if you are blind.

Firstly, one of the things you could do is get a guide dog. A guide dog is a dog that helps you navigate around in your house, in the city and on footpaths.

Secondly, another thing you could do is get stronger glasses. Stronger glasses will help you see better. With stronger glasses you will be able to see signs and important things like your grandchild's writing and family things such as cards.

Finally, the last thing you could do is go to a retirement village. There, you will be able to get someone to help you move around in the village. Also when you want to go shopping you will have someone to help you move around in the shops.

Blindness can be a bad problem to grandparents. With my ideas and suggestions I hope you have found some things you could do to help you with blindness.

Ski Trip Factual slide

Hello Fellow Bloggers,

This is Deevon's and my factual slide show about Tongariro National Park in September 2018. It was a blast!

Temperature

Hi fellow bloggers. For the last 4 weeks we have been doing activities on temperature for our ski trip. I have learnt what thermometer measure what. I also learnt what's the difference between Celsius and Fahrenheit. Here is a drawing to with my links to my activities that I have been doing.

Leatherback Turtles Report

Hi fellow bloggers. For the last two weeks we have been doing animal reports. We got to choose our own animal to do our animal report on. I chose leatherback turtles. These animal reports are practises for our trout reports after the ski trip.
I hope you enjoy it:

Leatherback Turtles

Classification

Leatherback turtles are vertebrate animals which means they have a backbone or a spinal
column. They are classed as reptiles and  come from the family Dermochelyidae.  The
Leatherback turtle’s scientific name is Dermochelys coriacea which means : turtle with
leathery skin.

Appearance

Leatherback turtles are the biggest sea turtle in the world. They also are almost the
biggest reptile in the world.  Leatherback turtles can get up to 2 metres in length. They
can weigh up to 1400 pounds. The leatherback turtle gets its name from its thick leathery
skin.  The record weight of a leatherback turtle is 916 kg. Turtles have flippers that help
them swim and help them move onto land when laying eggs. They move their flippers
forward then quickly pull them back pushing water back making them move through
the water smoothly. Their flippers are curved slightly. On the head of a leatherback
turtle it has a beak. Its head has two round eyes on each side. On its shell it has a black
skin.  A leatherback turtle doesn’t have a shell, instead it is skin with bone frame. Little
white spots cover its leathered skin. On the back of its body it has a tail. Its tail is
triangular shaped. The tail is a floppy tail.

Habitat

These turtles  are found throughout the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans.
This turtle species also extends to Alaska and to the tip of New Zealand. Pacific
leatherbacks migrate back from beaches in the Coral triangle to the California coast.  
The biggest populations are found in the Atlantic, Eastern Pacific and Western Pacific
Ocean. Leatherback turtles are found through the open ocean. They are found in deeper
waters at day and shallow waters at night.

Diet

Leatherback turtles eat jellyfish, tunicate and squirts. They will also eat fish mollusks,
squid and sea urchins. Leatherback sea turtles are omnivores.  An omnivore is an animal
that eats both meat and plants.

Leatherback turtles change their diet when they grow older. Their diet changes to seaweed,
seagrass and algae. Leatherback turtles can eat 800 to 900 pounds of jellyfish a day.

Reproduction

A male leatherback turtle will swim onto the female leatherback turtles back when the
female is swimming horizontally.  A leatherback turtle lays 110 ping pong like eggs.
Leatherback turtles come back to the same place they were born to lay their eggs.  It is
estimated that only 1 - 5 baby turtles will reach adulthood. It takes about 45-55 days
for a baby leatherback turtle to hatch. A leatherback turtle can lay 7 to 11 nests. A
leatherback turtle will make her nest by using her back flippers to dig a hole to lay
her eggs in.

Threats

The threats to this turtle are tiger sharks, fish, seabirds, dogs, ghost crabs and raccoons.
 There is also habitat loss, pollution and climate change. Some threats to leatherback
turtles include  poaching for meat and eggs. Plastic bags are also very bad. A turtle can
easily mistake it as a jellyfish and eat it. When a plastic bag enters a turtle it causes
blockage in the digestive system and causes them to die.

Conclusion

After reading my report on Leatherback sea turtles I hope you learnt something.
Here is a fun fact on Leatherback turtles: A Leatherback sea turtle is thought to live
up to 30 years.

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Pear Deck

On Monday this week we did Pear Deck. Pear Deck is a digital site where the teacher moves from a slide to another slide. When she goes to the next slide,the slide she goes to appears on our screen. On Pear Deck we write what we know about and then we learn more about it. We have been learning about correct sentence structure - looking at simple, complex and compound sentences. The teacher can instantly see our work as it is a shared document.

Silly Sentence

For the past few weeks we have been learning about temperature. We had to make a silly sentence to remember how to spell Thermometer. We made our silly sentence with a buddy. I chose Brooke.

Here is our Silly Sentence:

Creative Writing

Hi fellow bloggers.
For the past few week we have been writing creative stories. We got to choose what we wrote about. I chose to write an adventure story about my chicken, Sunset and Aira. The story is about a two chickens that go on an adventure and defeat obstacles.
I hope you enjoy it:

Aira and Sunset’s Adventure

Loud howling. Dark gloomy night. Strange noises. Two chickens exploring. Sunset and Aira. The moon was full of haunted spirits. Suddenly the two chickens heard a sound. The sound was coming from behind a hedge. The hedge was shaking. They slowly crept over to the hedge.

At first the rustling was soft, then the sound gradually got louder and louder until two furry hands grabbed Sunset’s tail feathers. The hands came from the hedge. Sunset screeched to Aira, “It has got me.”

At first Aira thought she was joking but suddenly out of nowhere a wolf opened his mouth and was about to swallow Sunset’s head. When Aira realised what it was he flew into the air and with his spear he made one massive scar down the wolves face. Injured, the wolf retreated.

Sunset and Aira carried on exploring. They came to a jungle walking cautiously through it. The animal was fierce and hungry. He crept over to the two chickens. It was a tiger. The tiger growled fiercely so the two chickens started running. They  came to a dead end, this was the end... or was it? Sunset and Aira quickly came up with a plan. They jumped onto the tiger’s head and quickly flew up into a tree. The two flew from branch to branch and finally reached the end of jungle. They were safe. A few minutes later they came across a big fluffy something. They had never seen anything like this before. The creature hopped out of its burrow. The creature was a bunny! Sunset and Aira were curious about the bunny because they had never seen a bunny before. The bunny introduced himself.

“Hi fellows my name’s Peter,” yelled the bunny.

“What are your names?” Peter asked.

“Hi my name’s Sunset,” mumbled Sunset.

“And I’m Aira,” Aira said in a suspicious voice.

A few minutes later Sunset asked, “Do you know where we could sleep?”

Peter replied, “Sure you can sleep in my burrow, there is heaps of room.”

“Thanks,” Sunset replied. So Sunset and Aira slept in the bunny's burrow.  Aira was very worried about Sunset. The reason he was worried was because he didn’t trust Peter.  Aira thought that he was trying to brainwash Sunset so she would fall under his control.

The three closed their eyes and fell to sleep except one!... Aira!

Ski Trip

This Term we are going on the Ski Trip!
We are still fundraising but nearly there.
We are going to Mount Ruapehu. I am so excited for it I could almost explode.
We will be staying there for 5 days, yay!
Mount Ruapehu is next to two other mountains. We will be leaving in only 32 days!!

Matariki

Today it was Matariki! We were put into groups and sent to classrooms to complete activity relating to Matariki. I was put into a group. My group went to room 1. At room 1 our activity was to make a kite. First we had to get branches of bamboo and make a frame of what our kite will look like. Mine was a triangle. After making our frame we tied flax strips or string to connect the branches to each other. Finally we got a piece of paper or flax strips to weave. I chose the paper. After gluing the paper I got more glue and painted two strips of glue down the front of my kite. I then got the glitter and sprinkled it on my kite.
Here is my Kite:

Public V.S Private

Today Mrs Ritchie told us about what we can share and what we can't share online.
After out lesson we had to make a presentation about what we and can't share online.
Here is mine:

Waitangi Experince

Last week we went to Waitangi to learn about the history of the Ohaeawai and the weapons. There was a lot of technology. We were allowed to play on the technology.

We then made a presentation about our experience.  

Here is mine:

Speech

On my birthday the 20th of June is the Rotary Speech competiton. The Speech competiton is when you write a speech and say it to in front of your class then you get voted, then you read it to the school, then you get voted. Then you go to the finals and read it to sooo many people.
Here is my speech:

How cars can harm the world

By Ronan

Did you know cars can pollute the world?

Cars are inventions that have an exhaust that releases harmful gases and fumes into our atmosphere. I believe we should stop unnecessary driving and only drive when we really need to. Do you know why I think this? Well...

Firstly, cars can pollute the environment. 13% of carbon dioxide comes from vehicles. Cars are disgusting, despicable and dirty things. Carbon dioxide and oxygen is what we humans breathe in. There is too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that it is acting like a blanket trapping other heat in and not letting fresh air out. Antarctica is now getting destroyed because of the heat getting trapped in. The heat is like a heat wave that is melting the ice, soon it will be no more than water. The animals living in Antarctica will die and then when you have kids they will not be able to see some of those magnificent creatures. The heat may even travel to the North pole and melt the North pole then, no more Christmas. With all the cars and trucks in the world maybe the whole world will heat up and then humans and animals could die!! So you need to start thinking about the type of car  you drive - is it clean and safe for the world and environment?

Secondly, cars can drip oil. I believe oil is slimy, evil and smelly. The oil could get washed into the environment when it rains. Trees need water right, so the trees might mistakenly suck up the oil thinking it’s water. I would not want to be that tree. The tree may then loose leaves and, and, and, die! Imagine if you were that tree and you drank the oil and you lost your leaves, and you may die. The poor tree did nothing wrong.. it was you!! If we keep dripping oil soon every single tree could die. Then if trees die we won’t have clean oxygen to breathe and then we could even die. Also oil could get into drains. The oil can then flow out into the ocean which can kill the animals and it’s because of you!

Finally, cars make noise pollution. Cars are noisy, right? In the city cars can make loud noises that can hurt animals and humans ears. Some animals may be living in the city. Car horns are nasty, noisy and no good. Those horns seem really bad!! In the city there are traffic jams. Traffic jams make some people frustrated so they beep the horn that puts out a very loud noise. This noise could make an animal suddenly go blagh blagh! Or even worse... din din din. Do you want me to tell you the even worse thing! Ok then the even worse thing is it could die of shock from the loud ear breaking noise. Poor, poor animal. If cars are on ferries with people, the people could get really really impatient so they beep the horn. The horn could scare sea creatures like dolphins into the harbour then, then they will be scared and no longer come into the harbour.

Now after listening to my reasons, do you agree that we should stop driving because cars release fumes, drip oil and make loud noises?  I believe that we should stop driving and only drive when it’s an emergency. So now you must and should start thinking about what your car is doing to our world!