Ika meets Honu

Today I learnt how to have a basic conversation in Te Reo. This is my DLO to show my learning.

My Mihi

Here is my visual mihi. I have been learning it in our Te Reo interchange class. Hope you like my fabulousness!

The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas

This term we have been reading the novel The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas. I am really enjoying the novel because it is interesting because it is based on true events.
In this chapter we read that Bruno is leaving Out-With and going back to Berlin. He is sad because he is going to miss his friend Shmuel. They have decided that Shmuel will get a spare pair of striped pyjamas and Bruno would put them on and go under the fence to play.
I think that Bruno might die soon.

Boy in striped pyjamas

This week we have been reading a book called The boy in striped pyjamas the book is based in WW2 in Berlin there is a boy called Bruno and he has a father who is high in the military and his mum stays at home with Bruno.

He aha tenei?

My Passion Project

For the past two weeks we have had a chance to work on a passion project. A passion project is when we have to chose a topic that we are really interested in. I chose Melanie Adele Martinez because she is my favourite singer and I love her.

Weekly Reflection T3Wk2

Hi Everyone.
This week has been pretty average. Miss Hines was away on Monday and Tuesday so we had Miss Lagen. For ICT we had to create a slide about ourselves to introduce us to our Tuhi Mai, Tuhi Atu buddies.
Here is mine.

We have been also reading See Ya Simon. We had to complete some comprehension questions around the chapters we have been reading. So far I am really enjoying the book. I like it better than our last class novel which was Kensuke's Kingdom.

This week I have completed all of my 20 quick questions for Maths. The green ones are the ones that I got right, the red ones are ones that I still need to work on. (In other words I failed miserably!)

My Speech

Today I did my speech in front of the class. I would love some feedback.

Kensuke's Kingdom

This week we have started reading Kensuke's Kingdom as a class novel. One of our tasks was to create a new book cover. This is mine.

weekly reflection

Week 4 reflection

This week we are learning to use addition to solve subtraction. We have had your big cross country I didn't go but I hope the people that did go do well. This week we also made a colour poem,cinquain poem,acrostic poem, and a nonsense poem. Here is my nonsense poem. 

What does a didgeridoo?

Unicorns

Live under umbrellas

Foxes

Fiercely flew

Polar Bears

Poo peanuts all day

But what does a didgeridoo?

Tigers

Drink tea with their buddies

Griffins

Do great poo

Bats

Buy bananas on Tuesdays

But what does a didgery,

What does a didgery,

But what does a didgeridoo?

   

Acrostic Poem

WALT: learning to write Acrostic poem

Acrostic Poem

*The first letters of each line are aligned vertically to form a word.

*The word often is the subject of the poem.

Elegantly and efficiently shaped

Good to eat

Great fun to find at Easter

Smooth shelled 

Colour Poems

WALT: learning to write color poems. 

Black is a dark wintery day

Black is cold

Black is scary

Black is thundery clouds

Black is ready to rain

Black is how I feel in a thunder storm.

In this poem, you can see the writer uses black as a colour that reminds them of a storm ready to break. The writer is telling us they are scared in storms and that black to them is a scary colour.

The other poem you can write with colour is a five senses poem. So, pick a colour again and use it at the beginning of each line in your poem but this time, only use it to describe five different things.

In this senses poem, you can tell the writer loves spring and the outdoors. The writer is telling us that green reminds them of things they would do in the outdoors on a warm spring day. Each of the five senses is represented.

White

White is the colour of dandelions blowing in the wind

White feels like fresh cotton against your skin

White tastes like cold vanilla ice cream on a hot day

White sounds like white water running in a river

White smells like fresh vanilla cupcakes straight out of the oven

White looks like a white horse in a stable

Green

Green is the colour of freshly cut grass

Nonsense Poem

WALT:write a nonsense poem

What does a didgeridoo?

Unicorns

Live under umbrellas

Foxes

Fiercely flew

Polar Bears

Poo peanuts all day

But what does a didgeridoo?

Tigers

Drink tea with their buddies

Griffins

Do great poo

Bats

Buy bananas on Tuesdays

But what does a didgery,

What does a didgery,

But what does a didgeridoo?

my holiday recount

In the holidays I went to Hokitika, Ross, Westport, Christchurch and Bula Bula. And in Hoki we went to stumpers and my cousins house we went to the bush and the beach. We went to bula bula and ross together we went elling, hunting for mussels we also went swimming at the pool.

New Zealand troops made their first major effort of the First World War during the Allied invasion of the Gallipoli Peninsula in April 1915. The Allies hoped to seize control of the strategic Dardanelles Strait and open the way for their naval forces to attack Constantinople (Istanbul), the capital of Turkey and the Ottoman Empire.

Allied forces landed on Gallipoli on 25 April. British (and later French) forces made the main landing at Cape Helles on the southern tip of Gallipoli, while the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) landed midway up the peninsula. Sent 2 km north of their intended landing place, they encountered determined Ottoman forces in the rugged country above the beach (soon known as Anzac Cove). Unable to make any significant advance, the Anzacs spent the next few days desperately holding onto their small beachhead

Links

• UN Stop Disasters Game
• Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand
• FEMA - Winter Storms
• National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
• MetService cyclone articles
• How Hurricanes Work

Storm

as it lies in the 'Roaring Forties', where mild-temperature air from the north meets cooler air from the south.

WHAT IS A STORM?

A storm is a disturbance of the atmosphere that can cause strong winds, rain, thunder, lightning, heavy snow and rough seas. A strong wind warning is issued by the MetService when winds of more than 87kph are expected over land.

Hazards from storms include falling trees and poles, torn-off roofs, fast-flowing currents in streams and rivers, flying objects, land slips and flooding. Coastal areas can suffer from storm surges, which are extra-high tides caused by the high winds pushing the sea forward.

My saint patrick's day presentation

                      Giraffes

• The giraffe is the tallest mammal in the world, with even newborn babies being taller than most humans.
• Baby Giraffes can stand within half an hour and after only 10 hours can actually run next to their family.
• Giraffes spend most of their lives standing up; they sometimes sleep and have babies standing up.
• Giraffes only spend 10 minutes and 2 hours asleep per day. They have one of the shortest sleep requirements of any mammal.
• Young giraffes hang out in nursery groups until they are around 5 months old, sleeping eating and playing together while their mothers forage in the distance.
• Giraffes are sociable, peaceful animals which rarely fight. Males do perform a behaviour called ‘necking’ where they will hit necks; however these encounters rarely last more than a couple of minutes and seldom result in injury.
• Just like snowflakes and human fingerprints, no two giraffes have the same spot pattern.
• Even giraffes tongues are big. They are up to 45cm long and have adapted  to allow giraffes to eat tall leaves on trees that other animals would avoid, such as acacias which are very thorny.
• In New Age religion the giraffe is a symbol for intuition and flexibility.

The name Giraffe Camelopardalis means ‘one who walks quickly, a camel marked like a leopard’.