Monday, December 31, 2018

Tourists to NZ

In the (SLJ) week three on Monday. Our first activity was about what Tourists do in New Zealand (NZ).  What time of the year do you think they should come to NZ.
 

Friday, December 21, 2018

At least to Reasons why we think Logging should be allowed in NZ.

for the summer learning journey day five our first activity was about Logging. we had to put At least to Reasons why we think Logging should be allowed in NZ.

Monday, December 17, 2018

Three Fun Facts About NZ

Room 5 was starting to do the Summer Learning Journey. Our first activity was about NZ. So we made a drawing and put three fun facts about NZ.
 

Friday, December 14, 2018

Waiuta Sma Slideshow

In room 5 we were making an animation slide show about Waiuta. First we had to make our diorama so we painted a box and added plasticene and stones. Next we had to draw characters on card, cut them out and then put them in our diorama. Then we moved the characters around the diorama and then put them on a slide show.
 

Tuesday, December 11, 2018

Waiuta

In room five we were making a Waiuta camp slideshow with photos and some writing.

     

Thursday, November 29, 2018

Top Team Photos

In room 5 we were making a slide show with the Top Team photos.

Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Term 4 Reading Profile

 For term 4 we had to make a reading profile. We included reading goals for term 4, title, some pictures on the reading profile and what level we want to be on Lexia. Hope you enjoy my reading profile.


Wednesday, November 14, 2018

Pet Day

In room 5 we were making a slideshow about Pet Day. We created three different types of writing for Pet Day about our pets, how I look after my pet, describing our pet and persuasive writing. Next we put pictures on the slides of Pet Day.  Here is my Pet Day slideshow.




Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Chair Art Work

 We were trying to make the old wooden chairs in the shed become more useful. In room 5 and 6 we went to room 3 then we buddied up in 4s and got a chair, one for every group. Next we thought of what theme to put on our chair, like hunting, flowers or cars, it could be anything that you could find in a magazine. Then we got magazines and three pairs of scissors per group and cut out paper to match the theme. Next we had Modpodge glue that is non toxic which glued the paper behind the chair and at the bottom of the chair. then we went back  and got the modpodge and painted the paper . Next time I think we could get more colourful at the back of the chair.

Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Collage Art

 In class for topic we have been learning about plastic and how it is polluting the world. We have been making a collage to show what we have been learning. We included sky, land, sea and sand on our collages. We had two pieces of paper and stuck them together. Then we drew lines to mark where the land, sea, sky and the sand were. Then we got some magazines and ripped out paper strips of the magazines and stuck them on the background paper to match the environment . We used pva glue and stuck the strips of paper on the collage. Next we put them on the collage for the background. When we were done we drew some sea animals then we cut them out and stuck them on the collage. We found some plastic that we brought from home  and stuck it on the collage.
The bit that I thought was hard is the sand I think that it could be better next time with more yellow paper.

The bad thing about it was keeping up on the coloured paper by ripping it out and sticking it on the collage.

The hard thing was cutting out the fish, turtle,eel and the crab and sticking it on the collage. Next time we should add more animals like birds and we could also make the mountains higher.
By Annabelle, Bella and Hunter

Wednesday, September 19, 2018

persuasive bin liners

In room 5 we had do some persuasive of writing to our principal about not using bin liners at our school. We had to include three good reasons why we think bin liners should be used for better reasons at our school


10th September 2018


Dear Mrs Wallace, 

People think that bin liners are good for a lot of reasons, I disagree. I think at Awahono School we should get rid of some bin liners. There are three good reasons why I think some bin liners should be banned at Awahono School.

Firstly, bin liners are used for paper and plastic, that means they are dry. The only bin liners we need are for the food scraps for the chickens because the chickens need food. We need the bin liners so we  can put all the food scraps in the bin liners because we do not want to get our hands dirty. 

Secondly, did you know that we use 10 bin liners a day, 50 bin liners a week, 500 bin liners a term and 2,000 bin liners over the 4 terms a year? The bin liners use a lot of plastic and a lot of  money, and the more bin liners we use the more money we use.

Finally, bin liners use a ton of plastic bags. Bin liners  can be useful for a lot of things but at Awahono School we need them for the chickens only.

In conclusion, instead of buying so many bin liners, we could use the money on something else more important, like purchasing more chickens or having more sporting gear.

Yours sincerely,


Hunter

Wednesday, September 5, 2018

El Gregoe the magiccian ventrilaquist

On Tuesday morning the whole school went to see El Gregoe in the hall. We  were learning about bullying and how to react around it. We learned  about five ways to make  our school bully- free. I learned to talk to people when they are upset. My favorite act was when the macaw bird came out and then the dinosaur puppet  came out.







Friday, August 31, 2018

Describing Shapes

in room 5 we have been leaning  to describe shapes we. Had to do a screencastify with a younger buddy. we had  say what was the name of the shape, and  if it had straight or curved sides. Also we had to say if the shape had sides that were equal. Last of all we had to say if the shape was a 2 dimensional shape.

HERE IS OUR FUNNY LEARNING SCREENCASTiFY

Thursday, August 30, 2018

The Plastic Bottle Mountain

 We are learning to describe the plastic mountain, it is a little mountain full of plastic bottles.  We had to use  present tense, use my senses to describe smell, sounds and sights and have more detail in our sentences.
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 The Big Plastic Mountain
I feel disgusted when I walk into the plastic mountain having to clean up everyone's mess. Green and white plastic bottles are scattered around me and the amount of plastic bottles makes me want to faint. I smell the plastic bottles rotting away, they have been there for days, weeks or months. Half of the bottles I pick up are sharp and have mud on them so I immediately throw them  in the basket. Some bottles have a little bit of soda in them. The amount of bottles that are here makes me think how many people are dumping their plastic bottles. As I trample the plastic bottles, they make a cracking sound as if I’m  using a hammer and whacking the bottles really hard. 

 
                                                                   


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Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Jenny Sommervell

At Awahono School  room 5 and 6 had an author  come to our school. Her name was Jenny Sommervell. We learned that two of her stories were based on a real thing that happened.  We learned that when you write a story you do not want  people to get up and walk away, you want them to be entertained. The book I like the best is The Eel Hunt.










Thursday, August 9, 2018

The Line of Symmetry

The year fours  have being learning about the line of  symmetry with shapes. We had to fold our paper in half then we drew lines on our paper.  Next we cut out our lines then we had our shapes.  We had to do four,  three-  sided shapes  then we had to  make four-  sided shapes  and more than four sided shaped. The line of symmetry  is the line in the middle of the fold and it has to be equal . It's when the shapes  on  both sides of the line are  equal. 

Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Reading Profile


This is my Reading Profile for term 3. I had to include my term 3 reading goals, the books that people have been recommending to me and the books that I want to start reading.