Attitude

WALT: Create a slide show about one of these words: Attitude, perseverance, endurance or another word I can't remember

Living Springs

This is my screencastify of what we did on living springs

Matariki work

WALT: Do a creative way of creating and presenting our work about a constellation of stars called matariki

You can't really read it but this is my work

Children At WW1 Children's book

Children at WW1 (children's book writing)

WALT: Write a children's book about WW1, This is just the writing and not stuff like the pictures and spacing everything out.

Children at WW1

When World War 1 started nearly all the men from New Zealand went off to fight with the British Empire. This left only woman and children in New Zealand to have to do all the work the men would usually do. Boys at the age of 12 would start training to go into the war and the girls would learn how to knit and bake for to send socks and biscuits to the soldiers fighting.

Apart from training the children had to farm all their food because there was a large shortage of food. If you didn’t farm you could only buy so much because there was a list that the government gave you called a ration coupon. These coupons would only let you have so much food before you got a new one, and how much you could get varied on how big your family was.

The life that the children lived wasn’t as easy as it is today either, you couldn’t really do anything in schools without being smacked by a cane, and you didn’t just learn to read, write, etc. You would do a lot of fitness to prepare you for when you went to war and a lot of the children went to war faking their age thinking it would be an amazing adventure going to Gallipoli (and other areas ANZAC soldiers went to) but it wasn’t as great as they thought...

The war was a sad failure for a lot of our soldiers in Gallipoli, they all came up onto the beaches  with their boats and while getting out around 3,000 of the soldiers were shot by Turkish soldiers up a hill, but the surviving soldiers did well helping out the British Empire.The countries fighting with our soldiers were Australians, Indians, British and Canadians, which is all of the British Empire.

The war ended in 1918 when Germany realised they couldn’t win and signed an agreement to have peace and to stop fighting which was prepared by Britain and France. However Germans later fought in 1939-1945. Since then Germany is still a bit of a threat but they haven’t tried to cause any wars lately.

Composite Numbers

WALA: Something we didn't know that was a type of maths question (I knew this, just forgot what it was called when I started)

Solar system mnemonic

WALT: Write mnemonics (which happen to be about the solar system)

(Peter is a person that likes to know about unpleasant car noises)

Safe Cycling

Safe Cycling

WALT: Write using a mix of simple, compound an complex sentences. We need to have correct punctuation and correct spelling.

On the 3rd of April Blaketown school did safe cycling. We learnt how to check our bikes in an ‘M’ formation, how to indicate at corners and to indicate when stopping.

We learnt to look behind your right shoulder when passing parked cars, going through an intersection and stopping. We learnt from two police officers named Constable Terry and Constable Jos as well as two parents helping.

There was a course set up for us to do on our bikes and we had to zig-zag around cones, identify what vehicles are behind us on signs, use indications, go up ramps and do stuff like that.

The course was just out on the court, but after we done that he talked to us for a bit then we biked around the block. We had to use the skills we picked up from the course on our court on the actual road and it was just a lot of fun.

Duffy Show

Duffy Show (Diana Queenin)

WALT: Write using a mix of simple, compound an complex sentences. We need to have correct punctuation and correct spelling.

On the 4th of April Blaketown school (excluding the little class) went to a semi-duffy show thing. For the duffy show a lady called Diana Queenin came and showed us some stuff that she’s collected while travelling around the world.

She showed us the stinger off of a stingray, which is exactly the size of a tyrannosaurus rex tooth and has barbs on it which helps keep its prey on the stinger, although stingrays are harmless to a human unless you annoy it (in the wild). Also only in New Zealand orcas feast on stingray, which is something she taught us.

Another thing she showed us were geodes which are crystal rocks. She showed us a fake amethyst rock, which is quartz dyed purple and she showed us quartz, which can be found in rocks, which is quite interesting.

She showed us fossils found in rocks like trilobite fossils and stuff like that, that lived hundreds of millions of years ago. Other things she showed us was copperite, which is dinosaur poo,  horseshoe crabs shell, which is the closest relative to a trilobite that’s alive, and she taught us how snakes kill you, as well as having a snake skin to show us, so she had quite a pile of weird, interesting stuff.

Top Team

Top Team

WALT: Write using a mix of simple, compound an complex sentences. We need to have correct punctuation and correct spelling.

On the 4th or April Blaketown school (excluding the little class) went to Paroa school to do top team. We had an early lunch at 11:00 something, then went to the school at 12:00. Once we got there we waited a bit sitting on the ground then after a couple minutes we were allowed to walk around while waiting. Some of us decided to play bull rush so we went over to a field and played for a couple minutes until we got called in for the people who held the game to talk about the rules and what to do.

After they talked about all that they gave a sheet to the leaders in teams that the teachers picked. On the sheet it says what activity you go to. There are 14 activities and my team started at activity 3. You get points for how well you do in the activities you do but you still do it for fun unless you’re really competitive about it for some reason.  I didn’t have the best team  and it was kind of difficult doing stuff when you team somehow doesn’t know how to move, but we did alright never the less.

The activities we did were things like trying to jump at the same time in bean bag to go forward or trying to walk at the same time on skis, which were really hard because that actually involved your entire team doing the one thing unlike some activities where it’s just one person at a time trying to throw a gumboot at a target and stuff like that.

At the end of the activities my team scored 209 and the highest scoring team got like 350 or some like that. My team definitely wasn’t the best but we tried, at least most of us did.

Science Roadshow

On the 14th of March our class went to the science roadshow that was held at the highschool and we learnt about sciencey stuff. We learnt about microscopes, infra red scopes, chemical changes and some other stuff. As well as them showing us stuff we were able to go around the place and look at and play with different sciencey things. My favourite thing about the roadshow is this thing where you pull up a big ball in this tube and when  you drop the ball all the air from under the ball goes into another tube where a smaller ball is and pushes the smaller ball up. Something I semi-didn’t like about it was this solar powered miniature car thing that would move if you put it under a light because I got my finger stuck under the light  and it bruised two of my fingers which hurt, but that was only because I was stupid.

How to blow your nose

My Word Cloud

My Day Pie Chart

Why I'm lucky to be a New Zealander

Visual Learning Poster

My Portrait Poem