Mini Beasts Reading Work

At school we have been learning about minibeasts. Here is some of the reading work I have been doing with Benny. 

To Build A Bot And Emotional Robots - Reading Work

This term we have been learning about 'emotional robots - A.I' and about kids building robots. We did this in our reading work. We read two interesting articles about building robots.

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Transformation DLO

Writting-Abandoned Places

- Abandoned Places - Writing

Our learning goals are to:-write a description, using powerful words and phrases-include some Te Reo Māori-carefully check that our sentences make sense and have correct punctuation and spelling.

Choose one of the above images to prompt a piece of descriptive writing

The Abandoned cottage

One day I was flying my helicopter but then a blast of lightning struck me.
I crash landed. BANG CRASH POP!!! I walked for 2 hours then I saw
something in the distance. I had another look carefully it looked like an
abandoned cottage.

I creeped closer to it and there was squashy moss growing all around the
stone cottage. I curiously opened the rusty door and poked my head inside.
All I smelt was the smell of wet concrete. There was an old fireplace in the
corner of the room that still had a blazing flame in it. I assumed that the cottage
hadn't been abandoned for long. As I walked around the room the floor was
growling at me and I was anxious that it was going to break.

It was still te ua/raining and my stomach was empty. I started walking again
but then I heard something in the bush and it sounded like it was getting
closer and closer. I turned around slowly and anxiously to see what the sound
was. It was a ginormous wolf!!! It’s teeth were sharper than A knife and it was
as white as a cloud. It started chasing me so I ran back into the cottage. The wolf was trying to get in the door and I knew it was going to break. The door was cracking and creaking and no-one knew I was out here….

Making A paper plane

Introduction: Hi, today I researched how to make a paper plane. I have made a presentation of the instructions. When you have had a go, let me know how your plane flew, and maybe send me a photo. Smart Blogging.

My Scratch project - Te Reo Maori.

Task: Create a simple animation using scratch that teaches people some of our phrases of the week - Korero o te Wiki.

WALT:
-Use scratch to code for computational thinking.
-Learn how to create basic code on scratch
-Say basic phrases in Te Reo Maori.

Click here to see our Korero o te Wiki -  Phrases of the week.

See my scratch project below.

My Marae Recount

                                    Marae Recount

Last week on the 1st and 2nd of May Room 7, Room 5, some teachers, and some parents stayed the night at the Arahura Marae. When we were there we lined up at the gate. I was excited to see what the inside of the wharenui looked like. When we got inside the marae I was surprised because it looked so different than I thought it would. There was a man called Jerry who was a local at the marae who told us some of the stories about the carvings. We went to the marae because we were learning about staying at a marae. I was very nervous to say my mihi so I just wanted to get it out of the way. I did it.


Looking For Pounamu

We walked down to the Arahura River to look for pounamu. Jerry came with us because he knows what pounamu looks like. He told us to not look for green but to look for a blue and crusty white colour. We had to have our eyes skinned so we could find the hidden pounamu. I was very amazed at how much people found pounamu and how big some of the pieces were. I didn’t find any pieces of pounamu I just got my shoes covered in sand and my shoes got satched! A lot of people got excited because they thought they found pounamu but when they checked with Jerry he said that it wasn’t pounamu.


Evening Rotations

Later that night we did evening rotations. First, I played inside sports with Phaedra and Adrian. We played a game called rats and rabbits. Some people were rats and some people were rabbits. If they called rats the rats would try and tag the rabbits before the rabbits got to the end. After that I did the technology challenge with Miss Ireland. Breanana, Sapphire and me made Cooper into a taniwha but we lost the competition.


  Walk  to Mahinapua

The next morning we packed up all of our things then went and had breakfast. I had nutri grain and some corn flakes. When we were done having breakfast we left for the walk which was called Lake Mahinapua. We got a sheet that had pictures of plants on it that you had to find. I was in a group with Luken and Kayden. We found all the plants pretty quickly so we didn’t need to look out for the rest of the walk. When we got to the end we had some food and got marshmallows. The walk led to Lake Mahinapua. We went on the walk because at Lake Mahinapua is where there was a battle and there is a carving at the marae the represents that war.




Personal Comment
If I had a chance to go on a marae I definitely would. Thank you to the cooks who prepared all the kai we had at the marae. Thanks to the parents who drove us to the marae and helped supervise us.

By Noah