Last post for 2019

Dear Blog Readers

This is the last day I will be using my Chrome Book at school.
The reason that is, is because the Christmas holidays are coming up,
and we only have today and a week left of school.

This year was the best year ever,
I will be sharing the three best highlight from this year.

1. My first highlight was going to Year 6 camp on Kawau Island. That is one of my favourite because we got to do so much fun activities. Camp writing

2. My Second best highlight was before we got to do our reading tests. I liked it because we got to have a fun time for us to write about. One of the activities was when we had to get into buddies and make something "nice" for them (WINK WINK).

3. Finally my last highlight of the year was when we first had our book shelf. When we first got it I was really excited to red one of the book and I remember my very first book it was "Mr Stink" By David Walliams. Silent Reading

Summer Learning Journey Activity: Similes of Shelly-Ann Faser-Pryce

Walt: Summer Learning Journey

Task Description: This task is related to the Summer Learning Journey activity in the holidays, what we had to do for this task was we had to compare stuff to Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (Similes).

Summer Learning Activity: BFG description

The BFG is an respectful (kind of owner) of sophie because he protects her soo much. The BFG wears a green soggy jacket all the time along with his red tight jean shorts (I know right weird). Anyways people say the BFG is known as the Big Friendly Giant. The BFG owns a house filled with lots of potions and inventions, for him to go on, like one of his inventions was when you pull a string then his bed comes out of the wall and he could lye down on it.

Summer learning activity: Lorde poster

Walt: Summer Learning Journey (SLF)

Task description: This task is based on the summer learning journey activity, what we did was he had do some research about a beautiful singer named Lorde, these are awesome facts about her.

My Pepeha Summer learning Journey

Walt: My Pepeha

Task description: This term for the Christmas holidays we are doing a Summer Learning Journey activity it is called Teaser week. This is one of the activities we are supposed to do. Stay tuned for more.....

Me in Disguise/Play

Walt:How to get in disguise 

Task Description: Today me and Nina had to buddy up together cause we both finished out task, what we had to do was we had to make a screen castify together and act out our lines we did ourselves make sure to go and check out Nina's blog http://pesninaf.blogspot.com/ and comment on her work. Thank you.

Horror story Kawau island, Camp Bentzon

Horror story Camp Bentzon:

Once upon a time there was an island named Kawau, it was a very spooky, scary, and haunted island that's why no one went there very often. Every Creature that lived there died and people are still trying to figure out why. One stormy afternoon we went to have our Halloween camp there. The Teachers didn't know about it being haunted only the kids did but they couldn’t be bothered telling them. On our concert night we heard scary noises so Mr Jacobson went to check to see what it was, the next moment we saw a hand come out of the bushes and it grabbed Mr Jacobson’s t-shirt and pulled him in the bushes. So Mr Goodwin and Mr Somerville rushed there quickly and they got dragged as well. After that all the teachers ran to where they got dragged except for Miss Timmi because she stayed back to look after us. When they went we had to carry on with the concert, then Miss Timmi called Miss Tuia and she didn’t answer so she called the teachers that were with her and they didn’t answer as well. She went to check and they weren’t there so Miss Timmi told all the campers to run up stairs and stay on one side because there was a boy and girl side, so yeah she told us all to go on the girls side cause it was cleaner and we all went in one room because we couldn’t go in two rooms because they’re was only one teacher. So a while later we fell asleep and Miss Timmi was still awake to watch us. In the morning we woke up and went to brush our teeth, then when we went outside some of the boys went with Miss TImmi to check in the bush where the arm popped out of, when we went to check nothing and no one was there so we searched everywhere for them. When we went up `Killer Hill there was this black shadow shaped as a man looking at us, then we heard some people shouting “help me”

To be continued…... Part 2 coming soon so stay tuned.

Camp Bentzon, Top 5 Tips

Camp Bentzon is a fun camp for lucky year 6’s where you do a lot of fun activities. This camp is pretty much where you face your fears. Camp Bentzon is also found on Kawau Island. On Kawau Island you will see a huge white Mansion. Every year 6 camp there is always groups. The group names are Bentzon, Mansion, Kawau, and Katz. Anyways here are a few tips about camp. 

First Killer Hill, as soon as you get to Kawau island you better be prepared because after you’ve unloaded the ferry you have to get ready to go for a very long hike up Killer Hill, and believe me you will regret it if you don't go prepared. What I mean by prepared is full water bottle, nice light bag with your lunch in it, and lastly ears. When Mr Goodwiwn said that Killer Hill really kills you, I didn’t believe him until we started taking the first 5 steps, turned out he was right it does kill you but it especially kills your legs. So if I were you I would take my advice and listen to my teacher. 

Second Morning Tea Time: every time it’s morning tea time you always have to go through the drive thru. If you are wondering what the drive thru is, at camp we have have a “drive thru” where you go through to get your Lunch and Morning Tea. The drive thru is normal windows but they just call it the drive thru. Here's a trick if you want to get more biscuits, the first time you go through make sure your wearing a hat if you want more go through again but wear a different hat and just keep going through until you get caught.

Now the third tip is about Kayaking: When you go kayaking make sure you are really confident, cause if you're not you will get so nervous and forget the instructions because your just sitting there panicking. This tip is what I always did when people would come next to me even teachers, what I did was everytime someone would come next to me I would always lean forward or back or wherever they are and push them away so they’re not in my way. That last tip for Kayaking is when you kayak to Stingray Bay Splash lots of people and get them really good especially Mr Somerville cause I bet you he will splash you too. 

Now for the last and final tip this tip is about playing spotlight: when Mr Jacobsin tell yous to go and hide make sure you stay close to the deck so you could get there and be the first one. When you go and hide make sure there is no one there with you, if there was than you could get caught easily cause that person might move around alot especially when your hiding in the bushes, also if you wanna hide with your friend that is very talkative, if I were you I wouldn’t hide with that person. 

With these Top 5 tips you will have the best year 6 camp ever, when you go to camp I also wish you good luck because if your afraid of heights “unlucky” anyways hope you enjoyed my writing, and your camp. 

Have fun!!!

Extension Research 2019

Walt: Research about UV light

This term in extension we were learning about UV light with Ray if you would like to know about UV light please feel free to look through this presentation and find out interesting facts about UV light. (you might even know more than me)

UV Sensor Readings Master 2019

This is the Bar Graph to my readings that show on the screen on my UV sensor.

Readings for my UV sensor

These are the readings that I read off on my UV sensor.

5.9, 5.6, 6.3, 4.1, 0.9, 9.7, 6.3, 6.1, 5.2, 6.5, 6.2, 9.7, 0.2, 5.2, 9.5

5 Facts about Weka's

Task description: This is My second task about Kawau Island. What we had to do was find out 5 facts about an animal called a Weka. The reason why Mr. Goodwin chose this animal for us to research about is because when we travel or get to camp a Weka is one of the animals we will see. And also because some of the kid in the past and some of the teachers have very funny story's about the animal Weka.

Write the scene

Task description: For this task we had too we had to make our own description to the picture (except for the first one) we had to write our own lines and act it out when we're finish in front of the class.

Journey to Sandspit

Walt: Learning how to find places on the map



Task description: For this task we had too we had to go in to where we will be travelling when we go on camp, the reason why I did one of my pictures of a tunnel was because we go through the tunnel at Puhoi to get to Sandspit. 

Immersion Assembly Term 4

Task Description: For this task we had to think back to what happend at Immersion assembly and talk about what happend. We watched all of the items/shows/acts and they were very very cool and amazing.

Number patterns

Task Description: For this task we had to get some numbers and mix it all up into patterns if you don't get what i'm saying make sure to look through this presentation.

Term 3 Stop Motion

This term we got given a task to do to add on to our research and this is the task we had to do. We had to create a Stop Motion if you dont know what that means then be sure to watch our video on the next slide.

SAVE THE TURTLES:)

Term 3 Research

Extension Research for this term Something in the water...... Parents and consumers: Me, Eva and Madi

Term 3 Animation

This term we got given a theme (the whole school) and it was Something in the water and our animations have to be based on the theme and so here is my animation it is about a main sea creature which is a mussel and when you see tis make sure you keep an eye on the mussel so you could see whats happening. By the way you could also watch the other sea creatures too.

Our mini trip to the Rocky Shore

Walt: Down by the Rocky Shore

Today we went down to the beach to check out the Rocky shore what we did was we went to see the tides in the Rocky shore. Well we were walking around we found a lot of cool stuff like Kina, pipi, and different type of crabs. After that we went to sit at the bench to do some work about what we just did ( you might be thinking how we did it with our Chromebooks with no WiFi ) well anyways we took this yellow box its like holding a suitcase but inside that box there was WiFi and we got to connect to that WiFi and that is how we did it it was so amazing and fun i hope we get to do it again.

Trip to the museum

Today and Monday we got to go to the Museum when we went inside we met a beautiful lady named Wendy and a guy named Grabreil. What we did was some of us were playing and drawing with the VR and some of us were coding the robots and drawing characters. What I did was I went to code the Robots and what we had to do was we had to make our own race course and try and code the robots to stay on the lines for it to get to the finish line. What we did was we all had to have a job to get it done fast. Oalii was doing the coding, Rae-Jae Austin and i were drawing the animals for us to use in our race course. Jane and Bradley were the ones Measuring and taping the pictures that were drawn by me Rae-Jae and Austin. So when we finished Gabreil recorded the robot doing the race course that we made after that he went and recorded all of the other groups things. It was a really really fun day today and yesterday I hope we did it again sometime.

Times tables

Walt: use our basic facts knowledge to try out new strategies.

Task description: For this task we had to open a doc that we have to answer all the questions too after that we had to take a picture of all the answers to the questions we did and here is my work.

Guide to the Rocky Shore

Task description: For this task there will be creatures on the side and we have to try and put the creatures in there places and this game is like a WHO AM I? type of game.

Figure it out: Hydroslides

Walt: use our basic facts knowledge to try out new strategies. 

Task description: For this task we had to do the same thing as the other one the Clever clues one i just posted we had to do the same thing but with different questions to answer it is a little bit easy and a little bit hard here is my blog post from my task.

Figure it out: Clever clues

Walt: use our basic facts knowledge to try out new strategies.

Task description: For this task we had to open up a new document for us to get the answer to every question.

Synonyms task: The plight of the penguins

Walt: to unpack new and difficult vocabulary.

Task description: This week we have a new task and it also has to be finished by this week this is the synonyms task and what we had to do is we had to get words from our book that are either a noun, adjective, and verb.

Creature research: Mussels

Walt: paraphrase and summarise information

Task description: For this task we had to pick a sea creature or a plant to research about and there are 10 sea creatures you could pick from and you have a choice to do all 10 of the creatures or just do one and i decided to try and do all 10.

Review task: The plight of the penguins

Walt: to unpack new and difficult vocabulary.

Task description: This week we got new tasks to do the first thing we had to was we had to read the book but you can't do the work unless you read the book by the way here is my task.

Creature research: Starfish

Walt: paraphrase and summarise information

Task description: This week we had to finish our work and it all has to be due by Friday, if we finished our work early then we had to do a bonus task and this is the bonus task that we could do to all sea creatures and I piked a starfish.

Creature research: Crab

Walt: paraphrase and summarise information

Task description: This task is the same as the other one but with a different creature we do this so that we could lean more about creatures like crabs and seagulls.

Creature research: Seagull

Walt: paraphrase and summarise information

Task description: at the beginning of the week we made a blog log for us to get our work done, we had to get it done before Friday which is today and those who finished there blog log already has to do a bonus task and this is the bonus task we had to do. 

Figure it out Market to market

Walt:  use our basic facts knowledge to try out new strategies.

Task description: The first thing we did was we went to the mat then Mr Goodwin told us the figure it out task and sent us off to go and do it and here is mine.

Maui synonyms task

Walt: understand figurative and descriptive language as we read.

Task description: The first thing we did was we all met up with the teacher on the mat then he showed us all the tasks we had to do and this was one of them.

Maui review task

Walt: understand figurative and descriptive language as we read.

Task description: The first thing we did was we went and met with the teacher on his desk and then we read the book after that he showed us the task we had to do and this was the task he showed us and that we did.

4 Times Tables

Walt: use our basic facts knowledge to try out new strategies

Task description: The first step we did was we went on a doc on our class site and it says times tables practice and if you go to the next page then you will see my practice that I did on my 4 times table and tomorrow i will be doing my 6 times tables.

Report: The zones in the Rocky Shore

The Rocky Shore is a habitat in the intertidal area along the New Zealand coast. The Rocky Shore has many different zones the splash zone, intertidal zone and subtidal zone. It contains with many different creatures, plants and organisms. 

The Supratidal/Splash zone is right above the high tide mark. It can be wet during storms, rainy days but mostly king tides. Sometimes it can be soft and wet by the splash of the breaking waves coming in. That’s why it’s called the Splash zone or the Supratidal zone.

There are 3 important zones in the Rocky Shore which are named as the High tide zone, Middle tide zone and off course the Low tide zone. The High tide zone is the zone above the intertidal zone so it’s the Highest zone. The Middle tide zone is in between the Low tide zone and the High tide zone. Last but not least the Low tide zone, the Low tide zone is right beneath the Middle tide mark.

The Subtidal zone is below the Intertidal zone right underneath the Low tide mark. The Subtidal zone is absolutely covered with water and also can’t be seen at any time. Every organism cannot dry out or grow because of the amount of water that is covering it. 

The Rocky shore is a habitat in the Intertidal areas along the New Zealand coast. The Rocky shore has many different zones such as the Intertidal zone, subtidal zone and the Supratidal zone. The Rocky shore is a beautiful place to visit, with many different sea creatures and plants.

The Farty Party

Walt: Create your own picture book

Task description: The first thing we did was all three classes had to find a buddy and buddy was Nina then they explained to us on what to do and we did it and here is me and my friend Nina's picture book.

Screencastify Koro's song

This is my screencastify for my other task hope you enjoy it 

Journal word find Koro's song

Walt: understand figurative and descriptive language as we read.

Task description: For this task we had to read the book then we had to find some words and once we find a word we have to write down some clues so that the people that see this finds the word were're talking about.