Bay Bush Action

On Friday we had some people come over to  our school from Bay Bush Action. Their names are Brad
and Stella, they told us what pest do to our Endemic and Native birds.

I really enjoyed holding stuffed dead  the possum.

Brad and Stella gave the school ten rat traps and Te Ngahere

(the class) got to put them on the OUTSIDE of the school fence, and now Paihia school will be the
first school in New Zealand to be rat free.

Te wiki of te Reo maori

This week was Te wiki o Te Reo Māori. All  of the leaders that got picked were from Te Ngahere. Mrs Pou was counting on us because she was the one who  picked us. The whole school was part of it, We had 10 rotations. We had to do 3 rotations a day for 3 days. I had 6 people  in my group. We all will missed out on one of the rotations. We missed out on Whea Ronnie’s one. I hope we have a Science rotation one week.

Tech

From the start of term 3, Te Ngahere has been learning to make useful things with pallets.  First we had to find out what we wanted to make. Secondly we drew it on a scrap piece of paper, And then Mr Lindsay had a look at our drawing before we measured our plan. Ethan showed Reitu and I how to use a power saw, I didn’t understand how to use the saw, but it was ok because Reitu got it, and I had to stand on the wood so it didn’t move. We enjoyed it, we are making a birdhouse and I hope it works out.

Writing

This week in Te Ngahere we have been doing argument writing. It was our choice of what we wanted to write about. I chose to argue that kids should bring their phones into school. I am learning to write an argument to persuade someone to do something, give me something or allow me to do something.

I have not finished my writing but I will post it sometime soon.

Sugar

On Monday Te Ngahere were learning about sugar and our health with Whaea Gina. Whaea Gina comes once a fortnight and she stays all day to work with every class in our school.

When we were learning about sugar I was the one to put the on Mother drink, I bet that was the one with the most sugar in it. It was fun learning that with Whaea Gina.

Korowai

Last term everyone made a piece of art to show the school. Our class made a Korowai. Our teacher photo copied some paper feathers then our class used a hot or a cold color on it with crayons. With the hot or cold colors we made patterns, then at the back of the feathers we wrote a goal that did not need to be as a school goal but a life goal. Then if you had a cold color crayon you get a hot color dye, dry it, then cut it up. When you have done all of this, then stick it on the cardboard. I just enjoyed making art. My favorite part was  putting the dye on and watching it come off the crayons

Report writing

WALT: locate, evaluate, and integrate information and ideas within and across texts.

Two weeks ago my classroom Te Ngahere was learning about the bush and what endemic, native and introduced trees and birds mean.

Some trees and birds that are in New Zealand can be endemic, native or introduced.

For the whole week we made a presentation of all the information we learnt about the trees or birds that we chose.
We got the information from this DoC.

Mostly everyone's first presentation was boring but then the next ones that we did were much better than the fist and I bet the third one will be great.

I enjoyed learning fun facts that I didn’t know about

Pepeha

For the last 3 weeks we have been learning to write  and say our pepeha confidently. I learnt how to add my family. The purpose of learning our Pepeha is to know the tikanga behind it. I enjoyed writing and learning my pepeha and how to not just introduce myself but my whole family. Here’s a link

Mihi

All week Te Ngahere was making a vishal mihi. Not a lot of people do the mihi in the morning so everyone had to learn it by make a google drawing and put in the images to remind us what is means so that we learn it. I put a bell bird in it because it remind of the first line in the mihi.

Reading

A few weeks back in the Blue reading group, Ocean, Max, Tarquinn, Cilla, Lesane and I were reading about a book called Holding my breath By Melinda Szymanik.

It was about a boy who did not know how to breath properly when he is swimming.

We were learning to answer inference questions and write it on a google doc.

Holding My Breath by Melinda Szymanik

04.3.09

1. Find out the names of two picture books this author has written.

        The two picture book that this author has written are While           

         You are sleeping and Made with love.

2. Why did the main character like to hold his breath?

         The main character like to hold his breath because he can not         seem to get the rhythm right when he did them all at once.

3. What forced the boy to swim out to the raft?

       The boy was forced to go to the raft because Rod had slipped and  he would not get back up.

4. What other choices did he have?

       The other choices he had was to go up and tell the boys to go           get him.

5. What water safety rule did he ignore?

       The water safety to breathe properly when you swim.

6. What happened once the boys arrived?

       The boy started not help Rod and the boy

7. It took the main character a hard lesson to encourage him to learn to swim properly.  Tell us a similar situation you have had.

        I did not have a similar situation

common and proper nouns

Last week Te Ngahere were learning how to write common and proper nouns in our report writing.

We created a google  drawing and put proper nouns and common nouns in it.

This is a common and a proper noun all together.

Math goals

Last week Te Ngahere was given an Ican sheet and Te Ngahere  had to fill it out with what we need to learn and what we know. Then when we were done we had to do a Google Drawing and we had to choose 3 Math Goals that we needed to learn about. The reason we did these Maths Goals is to make our Teacher's  job a heck of alot easier because they use our goals to plan and don’t teach stuff we already know.

Goals

Last week Te Ngahere started doing a google drawing of our writing goals.We needed to get our goals setting sheet so that we can get them to a google drawing.

Writing

For Matariki Te Ngahere did koru and kowhaiwhai.We needed to do it  of our family. In my family I put my Nan, Gran, Mum, Dad, Sister, brother and me. In my painting I did a lot of color.

After I drew my art I was painting it and when it was painted I got a marker and drew around it.

Spinner

A couple of weeks ago Te Ngahere and Te Maunga were doing art.

The goal was to draw a Fidget Spinner with a pencil on a scrap piece of paper. Then when the teacher was ready she would give us  an  A3 piece of paper and we had to draw a Fidget Spinner with pencil  and color it with crayon, then dye it.The WALT was use space, crayon and dye. Here are some pictures.

Making Ice cream.

Last Friday Te Ngahere was  learning how to make vanilla ice cream.

After we made ice cream Te Ngahere needed to write a recount.

I was learning to write One idea at a time and commas

The Tangelo

Te Ngahere was writing about Tangelos. We were doing descriptive writing about Tangelos some of us did not know what a Tangelo was. So we all tried one then we had to write what it smells like, what it sounds like, what it tastes like.

The Tangelo

The Tangelo looks like a bumpy, orange stress ball.

The Tangelo feels like an scrunched up  piece of orange  paper wrapped up in glad wrap very well wrapped .

Smells like a yummy worm smell of summer.

The tangelo sounds  like a crispy, crackly sound.

The tangelo tastes not just like an orange but like a sweet juicy mouth watering tasty lolly.

The skin of the tangelo is a sourer sweet taste

As I bite into it and the juice squirts everywhere.

My Writing Goals

I made a writing goal on a google Drawing. I need writing goals so that I can work on these goal when I am writing my stories


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