Have you tried ever tried measuring items with your maths book?

We are learning to measure lengths in squares.
I know I can do this when I measure 5 items using the squares in my maths book.

Have you ever seen a baby elephant on its own?

WALT understand what I read using De Bono's white thinking hat.
I know this when I use De Bono's white thinking hat to find and write 10 facts in my own words.

Ahh! Where did this T-Rex come from?

We are learning to develop our creative thinking skills through poetry.
I know this when I write a poem about a T-Rex.

Holy Spirit please help me to not to give up

WALT understand the titles of the Holy Spirit.
I know this when I explain how the Holy Spirit is an advocate and the spirit of truth in my own words.

What kind of sandwich do you want?

WALT recognise, understand and use familiar words about preparing food.
I know I can do this when I can say the commands for preparing food in Te Reo.

Did you know that the earth is getting warmer and warmer?

WALT understand climate change by using De Bono's white thinking hat.
I know I can do this when I use De Bono's white thinking hat to find 10 facts about climate change and write it in my own words. 

Do you know a baby that can dance?

On Saturday, my aunty and my cute baby cousin came because
we wanted to play with the baby. First I had to do my dance practise. I had to practise because I was part of a dance       competition.

After that, I went upstairs to play play with my baby cousin. He was very cute because my mum made him dance and it was funny. Then I opened up my Mac osx to play Roblox.

First in Roblox I played a game called Twisted murderer. It is a game where you can be a murderer or a human. I won 5 times I hid in a very dark place.

When I was playing Minecraft, I wanted to build an airport. After the airport I made the war planes game in Minecraft. It was quite hard because I had to get the rocket launcher mod. A mod is a fun tool in Minecraft that provides magical equipment that you can purchase.

When it was 1 o'clock, I decided to read some books because my teacher said to read some books in the weekends. Next, I did my maths in two websites E-ako and Xtra. After a while, my mum called me for dinner so I went down stairs and we had chicken curry with rice. It was so delicious my mouth was filled with joy.

I also played plane wars. This is a game where you have to try and shoot a rocket launcher at a plane. The goal is to crash the plane, I won  that game 5 times.

Before long, I felt tired so I went to bed. I snuggled up like a hermit crab and fell fast asleep.

My weekend was really fun and I hope my baby cousin would be able to come again next weekend so my mum could make him dance again.  

Hmm, what is human activity?

WALT understand climate change by using De Bono's white thinking hat.
I know I can do this when I use De Bono's white thinking hat to find 10 facts about climate change and write it in my own words. 

Camera's rolling!

WALT understand what a contraction is and identify them in the article that I read.
I know I can do this when I write 12 contractions from the article that I have read.

Are we going to New York city to spend Christmas?

WALT develop understanding of what I read.

I know this when I write a summary of the book that I have read in my own words.

Please let us stay in Stonefields!

 On second Sunday of the holidays, I woke up to a very bright sunny morning. It was so warm that our whole motel room was hot as a volcano as if lava was bursting into our room. 

When I went into the shower, the cold water came out really fast and it felt like it was snowing on a really cold day.

When I came out from the shower I was so cold that I didn't want to step outside even though it was warmer. My sister said that I was very funny.

After I had my shower, my family and I went to pray in our house that was burnt, we prayed for our house to be built soon.

After that we went to Barfoot and Thompson to look for a house to stay in until our house is rebuilt. 

Then we selected a few, we headed to the house to check it out. The first house that we viewed was in Mission bay but that house was three storey house and it was too far away from school, so we decided that it wasn't a house.

The next house was in Stonefields - and that house was close my dad's train station and closer to our school. That house was a really good house, so we picked the house in Stonefields.

The manager said that we will hopefully get that house. After that we finally went back to our motel for a rest from the long day.

I really loved the house in Stonefields, I hope we get the house so we can move there soon.

We are learning to use language features correctly in my recount.
I know this when I use appropriate time words throughout my writing.

What kind of art can you make?

I really enjoyed the performance by the professionally trained dancers. They performed awesome floor movements.

I also enjoyed the part when we saw digital art using a mobile phone. The lady that showed us the digital art dialled a number on a phone, after she dialled through, she asked all the students one at a time to blow into the phone. It somehow connected to the screen and the strength of our blew changed affected their face and made their cheeks wiggle. 
I also liked the part when we held I pads closely to bird houses and you can see birds dancing.

The part that I enjoyed from the afternoon performance was that every time that the reader pretended to fart, a lot of smoke came out of the smoke machine and filled the theatre. 

We are learning to write a description.

I know I can do this when I describe what I liked about our day trip to Aotea centre.

  

Did you know that Jesus is the chosen one?

WALT understand the transfiguration.
I know I can do this when I can retell the Transfiguration story in my own words.

How many recounts have you completed in Term 2?

We are learning to use the form of an autobiography.
I know I can do this when I put all my recounts for Term 2 into a flip book using Flipsnack.

If you're in a dance exam, remember to have sharp moves and a good facial expression!

 On Monday my sister and I woke up at eight o'clock because we had to go to our dance exam at nine o'clock at Carter Chan dance performance centre.

We were like dogs running around as we were getting ready. We hopped into our car at eight fifty in the morning and my grandpa had to drive fast because we were getting late for my sister's exam.

It took eleven minutes to reach the dance school. When we got inside my sister practised her tap dance until her exam started. In 20 minutes my sister went to have her exam while I waited for one hour for my dance group to come so we could practise before our dance exam.

Finally, we all went inside studio one in our dance school to have our exam. Our song was ray bans. I made all of my dance moves sharp, and had a good facial expression and especially I had so much fun performing.

Now, it's time to know the results. The judge gave us the results and it said that I passed the test. I felt so proud and happy! I couldn't wait to tell my family when we go home. I was so exited!
My dance was fantastic and I hope next dance exam I could achieve another medal. I am hoping to get a gold medal next time.         
                                          We are learning to use language features correctly in my recount.
I know this when I use appropriate time words throughout my writing.