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Invisible Forces Day Two!

New Zealand celebrates Guy Fawkes!

Walht: Read closely to analyse an article and to think critically about the messages within them.

New Zealand celebrates Guy Fawkes Day

Recall:

1. Who is the main person or group of people in this news article?

No One is the main person or the group in the news article

2. What was the key event from the news article?

People celebrating Guy Fawkes in New Zealand

3. Where did this event take place?

New Zealand (Auckland) (Wellington)

4. When did this event take place?

November 6th 2016

Thinking:

1. Find a quote from the main person in this news article.

There were no quotes

2. In your own words describe what happened in this news article.

New Zealand is celebrating Guy Fawkes with thousands of fireworks display.

3. Find out where this event took place and include some information about this place.

Auckland New Zealand, Oceania, Super City, Sky Tower

4. Tell us when this event happened and explain what might happen in the future.

It took place in November 6th 2016, there might be more advanced fireworks in New Zealand.

5. Explain in your own words why this event took place.

It took place to celebrate the bonfire night.

6. Use the Dictionary in the bottom right hand corner to find the meaning of 2 words from the article.

Tighter

[tight] adj. close-fitting, tense, narrow

common

n. open public area in a city or town, park, square (also commons)

adj. shared, belonging to more than one; ordinary; usual, frequent; public; mediocre, of the masses

Choices, Judgement and Life After Death!

Choices, Judgement and Life after death!

The students will -

1. Explain what is meant by judgement.
2. Explain the relationship between the choices people make each day and life after death.
3. Recognise the importance of examining one’s conscience hinengaro to determine the direction of one’s life.

Judgement:

Making decisions or making a conclusion

Words to describe judgement:

                      

                                 

                                            

                                                              

                                                                                                                                                                        

Making Decisions

Making Decisions

Person’s name (from scenario) Emma could choose….

A. List Options:

1. Emma has just made a neat new friend.  They go to town on Friday night and Emma notices that her new friend is shoplifting.  Her friend tells her that everyone does it and she should do it too unless she’s wimp.  

         What would Emma do?

3.  Don’t hang out with the friend ever again

2. Tell her parents about it

C.  Say what would be the consequences of each option for everyone concerned.

1. The friend might go to children’s jail

2. Emma might be mistaken

3. Emma might be grounded

S. Say what values you think lie behind each option and tick those that reflect gospel values -  the values of Jesus.

2.  Truth

3.  Ignorance

Solving problems involving fractions!

Reading to Learn: Satellites

Using close reading to find key information from an article and then summarising it helps me to read across the text and to understand what read. Reading more about the subject helps to find more information and then when comparing and contrasting information knowledge and understanding is extended.

Satellites

Usain Bolt

Olympic News September 15th 2016                                 Usain Bolt                          By Shivay About His Values Usain Bolt is the fastest man in the world! He represents Jamaica in the Olympics, Bolt also broke the 300m sprinting record in the 2012 Olympics! Usain is faster  than a pig, road runner and an elephant. Usain’s speed is 44.7 km/h which means that he is faster than a bus and slightly faster than a dog. Bolt got 3 golds in the Rio Olympics and he never lost a single sprinting match. Usain has won the 2008 Beijing and China’s Olympic Games. Usain became the fastest man in the world in the 2008 Olympic games when he broke the 100m and 200m world records. Usain Bolt became the fastest man in the world when he ran his first 100 km race where he ran 45 km/h and won the race, that is when he became the fastest man in the world. Usain  sportsmanship, show that he is courageous ,confident, determined and supportive. Usain is a very loyal and determined person. His sportsmanship is often shown in the way he interacts and supports others.  One example of this was when he paused to help another athlete - Yohan Blake who fell during a training session.

Pokemon Survey!

WALHT write a survey using google form and use the feedback to create and display that date in a pre graph and analyse the results.

This data shows the count of the best Pokemon, Ditto and Mewtwo are the lowest scores (28.6%) Arceus has the largest amount of scores, that means that Arceus is the best Pokemon.

This data shows the worst Pokemon that you would ever have, 25% of people hates Psyduck, 12.5% of people hates both of the Pokemon, 62.5% of people hates Caterpie which means that the worst Pokemon is Caterpie.

Comparing and contrasting

Walht: compare and contrast information from two articles to identify similarities and differences and then using that information to synthesise the key ideas that link to the values and skills of their sport codes.

Analysing data

WALHT create graphs using a spreadsheet and to analyse data in those displays.

This graph shows the weight and month It shows that on January the weight was 40kg. At the end of the year, Emelie's weight had increased to  49 kg.

This graph shows shows the rainfall across one week.. It shows that Monday and Wednesday (M and W) were  days where was no ra in  because the line was on 0. Tuesday (T) had the most rain because the line was on 7mm.

The poetry store!

Basic Facts Graph

The data above shows the number of correct sums on the basic facts test achieved by a student. The first week the student got a score of 20. The following week,The score went up by 11. After 7 weeks of basic facts tests, the score increased to reach 100%

Religious Education - Jesus

Spiders, Spiders, they can climb and shoot out webs!

                                       

Spiders:

Spiders are air breathing arthropods, (an arthropod is an invertebrate animal that has an exoskeleton) Spiders have eight legs and they are the largest order of arachnids. Spiders are found worldwide on every continent except for Antarctica.

Spiders do not belong to the insect family, they belong to the arachnids, other members of the arachnids family include scorpions, mite, ticks and Harvestmen. There are around 40,000 different species of spiders around the world. The Black Widow is the most poisonous spider in the world.

Spiders were the first arachnids to be discovered.

Walht: Identify key ideas and use them to write an information report.

Have you ever visited the beautiful, Botanic Gardens?

Botanic Gardens

A week ago, our whole school got an opportunity to go to the Botanic Gardens in Auckland.

We explored the garden referred to as  ‘Edibles’. The garden had lots of healthy fruit and vegetables, there were  also some trees that has fruit and vegetables that we didn’t know about. The edibles are located on the opposite side of the cafe.

Our Botanic garden teacher taught us how to make an organic spray that keeps all the foes away from our plants.   The word foes, in this case, represents insects that eat plants.  The spray we made  is not like the other ones that can be bought from the garden centre that have bad chemicals in them to kill and keep  the bugs away.  These chemical sprays  can also damage other plants and friendly bugs.  The organic spray that we made is a good spray because we can just pick the vegetables and fruits and cook and eat it after washing it of course, but because it is organic, it does not hurt friendly bugs or threaten other plants.

We wandered through a jungle like garden where we saw  Harakeke (a native flax used for weaving items including piu piu and food baskets.)  We learnt about the insects and some of the trees in the jungle.

I highly recommend visiting the Botanic Gardens, it is really beautiful and there are lots of rare plants from around the world and from New Zealand. The gardens cover such a huge area, it was impossible for us to see everything they have there in one visit.  

How to make tea!

I used Scratch to make this

Have you ever been to Waiheke Island

On Monday, the second week of the holidays, it was ANZAC day. ANZAC day is a day to remember the soldiers that were in World War One. We also wear poppies to remember the soldiers. On ANZAC day, we’d planned to go to Waiheke island on a  Fullers ferry. The ferries are, fast and they have  four levels. My sister and I woke up really early because we were very excited to go to explore the beautiful and famous Waiheke Island.

We checked to see if  mum and dad  were awake. I said, “Happy ANZAC day, Mum!”. Later that morning, my dad woke up and we said happy ANZAC day to him as well. We quickly got ready or else we might be late catching the train which takes us to Britomart (the Auckland train station). Close by is where we will get on the ferry to Waiheke.

When we got ready, we waited for our mom and dad to get ready, so we played on our tablet for a little. I found a way to do magic that looks real but it only shows on the tablet. My sister recorded by doing fake magic, I edited the video and it looked like I had made my sister disappear!

Later, my mom and dad said that they were ready.  We went to the car the and drove to the train station .My dad got three tickets for my mum, sister and I. He only got three tickets because he had a AT Hop Card which allowed him to go into the train without tickets and it allowed him to go on anything that supports AT Hop Cards.

While we were on the train, there was a mental women who sat on the opposite side from us. She was so excited ( as if it was the first time she had ever been on a train). She screamed and bounced on her seat, everyone looked at her when she screamed because it was very annoying and disturbing.

At Britomart, the station was so big, it had so much colourful lights on the sides of the wall opposite. It was not my first time at Britomart, but it had been quite a long time since I’d been there. Our tickets were checked,and the security gate opened and let us out of the station.  Outside we saw a sign that said Ferries on it and it was pointing to the left.

We went to the place where the sign was pointing, when we reached the place, there were a lot of boats, ferries and there was a huge cruise ship that had so much people on it like it was a hotel! We saw the ferry that we were going on, it was a white ferry with three colours on the sides, the colours were, blue, red and yellow. It also had the Fullers logo printed on it.

I was so excited about going on to the ferry, even though I had been on it once  before. My first time  was in 2013 when we were in Fiji. My dad bought three tickets again because my dad is going to use his AT Hop Card for the ferry because the ferry supports AT Hop Cards.

When we went inside the Fullers ferry, there was a person that checks tickets and AT Hop Cards. We went inside the ferry and we saw lots of stairs that goes to different floors. My dad wanted to go on the top floor, so we went to the top floor. The top floor was cool because it had lots of chairs so we can sit on while we travel and there was no roof, the thing I liked about the ferry was that they sell chocolate and I love chocolate, it was not any kind of chocolate, it was the Whittakers chocolate bar which was the slim version.

My dad said that we can eat the chocolate when we come back to the ferry after Waiheke, I said ok. Later, there was a loud noise that sounds like a ship when it launches. I shivered when the noise suddenly came, but I laughed at the same time. The captain said that the ferry is going to start moving.

The ferry was quite fast, while we were on the ferry, I saw Devonport, it is an island which is a little bit smaller than Waiheke Island. The ferry stopped at Devonport to pickup more passengers. After that the ferry started to move again and my dad went downstairs to get sugarless coffee. Yuck! I hate sugarless coffee, it is really bitter, but my dad loves sugarless coffee.

The ferry ride was for one hour, soon I saw a glimpse of Waiheke Island, the island looks really cool. Later, the boat stopped and it was parked by a wobbly bridge which seemed like it was concrete floating on water. I heard a ringtone which is just like my mum’s phone ringtone, my mom checked her phone and she saw a message that said that her uncle (which is my grandpa) passed away in Fiji.

It also said that we can’t eat meat nor go on trips because that is our tradition when someone pasts away. I was quite sad that my grandpa passed away even though I never saw him or talked to him before, my dad said that we can just go on the bus and have some food.

We were waiting for the bus to come so we can go to a pizzeria to have some cheese pizza and macaroni and cheese. Mmmm, I love macaroni and cheese, it is my favourite. After thirty minutes, we saw the bus, the bus looked kind of like the Fullers ferry.

We were in the bus for fifteen minutes, we went to the end of Waiheke island, at the end of Waiheke island.

Later on, we saw the pizzeria, it was really fancy, it had a bar and it had a really amazing view of the ocean. My dad buyed some two pizzas and one macaroni and cheese. The macaroni and cheese looked so yummy.

After that I ate all the macaroni and cheese and my mum, dad and my sister ate all the pizza. Next we went to the bus stop and we waited, it took thirty minutes for the bus to come. After thirty minutes, the bus came, we were so excited to go back on the ferry. We quickly went on the bus and it took us to the Waiheke bus company, I was confused of why we were at the bus company. The reason why we were at the bus company because the bus driver had swapped with another bus driver, then the bus ride continued.

Fifteen minutes later, the bus arrived at the place where the ferries were. The place was filled with lots of people waiting for the ferry, we saw the ferry coming and I screamed with joy because I was excited to go back home.

We went into the ferry and we sat at the very back, it was fun at Waiheke but we had to go home because my grandpa passed away.

I enjoyed going to Waiheke island, I hope we come back and we can have fun.

These are some examples of open and closed questions and answers

I made this using Scratch

Do you know how to create an electrical circuit to turn a light bulb on?

The goal is to create an electrical circuit to turn a light bulb on

You will need:
Batteries
A battery holder with a red and a black wire (you need two red wires
A switch
A light bulb (it has to be a tiny bulb)

Step 1: Place your batteries into your battery holder

Step 2: Connect the black wire to the bulb

Step 3: Connect the red wire to the switch (you need two red wires) one on one side and one on the other.

Step 4: Tape the wires so it can stay on place

Step 5: Watch your bulb light turn on

Step 6: If your light has a tiny bit of light, it means you need to put a new battery, if it is bright, it means you have good batteries.

Room 8 QUIZ!!

God Strand

Ahh! the mansion is on fire!

As part of our reading programme we use Kiwi Kids news to learn more about what is happening nationally and internationally in the world.

Waiheke mansion up in flames

Recall:

1. Who is the main person or group of people in this news article?

The fire fighters

2. What was the key event from the news article?

A $14.25 mansion in Waiheke island was up in flames.

3. Where did this event take place?

Waiheke Island

4. When did this event take place?

March 13th 2016

Thinking:

1. Find a quote from the main person in this news article.

“We get a structure to practise with and realistic training for our volunteers and the owners get the house burnt to the ground.”

2. In your own words describe what happened in this news article.

A mansion in Waiheke island, got burnt down and 45 firefighters volunteered to go inside the mansion and take out the fire.

3. Find out where this event took place and include some information about this place.

It took place in Waiheke island which is in New Zealand and it is on the North Island.

4. Tell us when this event happened and explain what might happen in the future.

It happened in March 13th 2016 and I think a new mansion will be built at the same area the burnt mansion was.

5. Explain in your own words why this event took place.

To let everyone know about the mansion.

Have you ever been crabbing before?

I am learning to use the features of a recount and share my experiences.

On Sunday, I woke up on a bright early morning, so as my little sister. We both were thinking that it was just a normal day where we just watch TV and did nothing, but when we went to the kitchen, we saw fishing equipment except for fishing rods.

I quickly had breakfast which was very yummy blueberry pancakes. After that we went to play some games on my PS3 and I still couldn't figure out what we are doing with the fishing equipment.

I played my two favourite games that are Call Of Duty: Black Ops ll and Minecraft. I first played Minecraft with my friend Glen. We were continuing on a huge theme park that we built since January 15th.

I helped Glen finish his huge and long roller coaster that he was building since we started the theme park. We were building for seventeen minutes. After that, I wanted to play a really cool game called Call Of Duty:

Black Ops ll.

Call Of Duty: Black Ops II is a game where there are random players that are in our team and there are other players that are in another team who are our enemies that we have to kill. We can kill people by shooting. The much players you kill, the higher points you get and if you get enough points, you can buy new guns.

After that, my mum said if we were ready, I was confused because I didn’t know why we needed to get ready. My mum said that we are going to a beach which is out of Auckland and it is a two hour drive.

I wore my beach clothes and packed my swimming togs and life jacket. While we were in the car, I saw lots of buildings and lots of houses near the Sky Tower. I fell asleep while we drove across the places that were near Hamilton.

After the long two hour drive, we finally reached the beach. I quickly put on my swimming togs and life jacket, so I can go swimming in the ocean. My dad and my uncle were crabbing for quite a long time and they were lucky because  they got ten crabs every minute.

I was amazed that my dad caught over two hundred crabs in an hour. I was really tired, so was my sister. After a while, we set up our red tent and watched my dad and uncle crab. After that they got two hundred and fifty four crabs! That was a lot of crabs.

My dad and uncle were really tired after the long day at the beach, so they relaxed in the tent while my sister and I play in the sand. We made castles and a hotel for baby crabs. My sister and I saw one really tiny crab that went into the hotel, the crab loved the hotel and stayed in the hotel.

I really enjoyed swimming in the beach and eating the delicious crabs, I hope that we can come back to the beach soon.

Do you want the flag to change?

McCaw backs flag change.

As part of our reading programme we use KiwiKids news to learn more about what is happening nationally and internationally in the world.

1. Find a quote from the main person in this news article

Richie McCaw voiced his support for a new national flag on Social Media;“This is the moment when I decided a new flag would be great for our country. Running out at Twickenham and seeing the two flags looking so similar. The silver fern has always been the special symbol on the All Black jersey that represents who we are as kiwis, so the new flag with a silver fern as a part of it would be a great option I believe.”

2. In your own words describe what happened in this news article.

In the finals of the Rugby World Cup, the two flags i.e. Australia and New Zealand flew side by  side.  Being so similar it was perhaps confusing to the thousands who had gathered for the game.

3. Find out where this event took place and include some information about this place.

The game took place in Twickenham which is a stadium in England that could hold 82,000 people.

Can you add a 3 digit number?

WALHT use place value to add a 3 digit number.

Amit is amazing!

WALHT: In reading this article I have been learning to combine close reading and inference skills to analyse text to learn more about the qualities of heroes.

In this story, there was a bad weather, Amit saw a old lady crossing the road while the cars were going past her and there were a lot of rain and a very strong wind. The old lady had a lack of vision so Amit went to help the old lady cross the road even though there were cars and bad weather. Amit had a lot of water splashing on him because the cars were splashing over the puddles.       

Amit believed that he could save the old lady’s life even when he was in danger too. He was a brave and a courageous child,  who  showed confidence in  helping   the old lady cross the road, without his help she may well have lost her life.

George is our hero dog!

WALHT: In reading this article I have been learning to combine close reading and inference skills to analyse text to learn more about the qualities of heroes.

🐾🐾       

George the Jack Russell Terrier went to the dairy with five children. When they were walking, the smallest child was  attacked by two pit bull terriers.  George kept the dogs away by barking at the them. But then the pit bulls bit George and he was so injured that he needed to be put down by the local vet.  

George believed in helping people.  He was known in the community as a friendly little dog.  The action of trying to keep the Pit Bulls away from the children, shows that George was both confident and courageous.  He saved the little boy from the pit bull terrier.  

George was a hero because of his bravery saved the little boy’s life.