Summary - The Pathway

As part of our reading Mrs Anderson's group were reading about the treating of Waitangi which is a agreement signed by the Maori and British people. I learnt that British people tryed to swap land with the Maori people for things like a tin of nails. Isn't that horrible. It was really sad that the British people weren't respecting the moari law and customs. For reading we read a book called The Pathway which is a book leading to the Treating of Waitangi. After that we made a short summary of the text. First we had to list down all the 20 important words, then the 6 most important words and use the 6 words to sum up a short summary about the text. 

Venn Diagram - Mascots - Soohorang & Bely Mishka

For Inquiry we have been searching about different mascots. For our task we had to make a Venn Digram comparing Soohorang (main mascot) to another mascot. My group (Alex, Lyric, me) decided to choose Bely Mishka. I learnt that Bely Mishka was one of the mascots who attended the 2014 Winter Olympic. I also learnt that both mascot attend one of the Winter Olympic games. This years Winter Olympic is taking part in Pyeongchang, South Korea. 

2014 Auckland Marathon - Term 1 Week 2

As part of our math this week Ms Kirkpatrick gave us a math problem to solve. It was based on the Auckland Marathon for 2014 and 2017. We have been looking at the average times for the full and half for 2014 and 2017. As part of the math problem we also had to search up the winners time for 2017. In this math problem we did a lot of subtracting which was pretty hard. We have created two DLO's for the half and full marathon.

Explanation - Morning Routine

Morning Routine

Key Points

• Say my morning pray for the day
• Go to the shower
• Have breakfast
• Leave to school

Waking up is not easy, because when you wake up you just want to go back to sleep because you're in your warm and cosy bed. For me having a morning routine for the day pushes me to get ready quickly and leave to school early. There a certain things I do before leaving school which I do in a hurry. I will explain to how this is done every morning.

Firstly I wake up at 6:30 and start with my morning prayer. My prayer is one of the essentials  of my day. I sit up with my hand together and close my eyes. I say my Tongan prayer and then say my English prayer. After saying my prayer I go straight to the shower.

Going for a shower relaxes me and refreshes my mind for a new busy day. I turn my water to warm since it is really cold in the morning. I shower for 5 to 10 minutes because I’m always in a hurry. I use this time wisely and make sure I brush my teeth and wash my face. After showering I get changed into my school clothes and put my badges on. After that breakfast is next.

Having breakfast is one of my best things of my routine. For breakfast I usually have Crunchy cereal. It’s really crunchy like eating millions of walnuts. If it’s an Inter School sports day I usually have weet-bix because its healthy and gives me energy for the sports day. After eating breakfast I put my lunch box and computer in my bag. Now it’s time to leave home. I normally leave home at 8:00. For me I’m always concerned about the time. So if it is past 8:00 I sometimes walk.  When I get to school I play basketball since that’s the only enjoyable sport to play when coming to school.

Like I have told you waking up is not easy, but I have to do it. Having an alarm will alert me to wake up and start my morning routine. My morning routine has been around for many of my school years, especially during my senior years. I am always willing to be at school early so I can have a great education.

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For writing we have been pretty busy learning and creating explanations. First before writing anything we went over the structure and the language features of an explanation. I learnt that in an explanation there has to be title (e.g how does a biathlon work?) Introduction, Paragraphs, and the conclusion. I also learnt the language features of an explanation includes similes ( a sentences that has the word like or as) , onomatopoeia (words that include sounds that are alike to the noises the word refers) ,verbs (action word), past tense (walk) etc. For our explanation text we either had to writer about our morning routine or how we walk to school. I decided to write about my morning routine. I have a really simple morning routine.

Winter Olympic Games - 1924 - Modern Times - Venn Diagramm

As part of our Inquiry this term we are learning about the Winter Olympic games. First We watched a video showing some of the games that were played in 1924 in the Winter Olympic games and we searched the games that were played in the Modern time. After watching the video we were splited into groups of 3 and listed all the games played in the 1924 winter Olympic and the games that were played in the Modern times. After that we made a Venn Diagram about the differences between the 1924 winter Olympic and the modern winter Olympic. I learnt that in 1924 they had 16 countries attending and in the Modern times there were 82 to 99 countries attending. I had a lot of fun learning about the differences between the old and new winter Olympics.

Blog Post Analysis - Statistical

As part of our math task we created a bar graph about how many blog post we have posted every year. We called it Blog Post Record. I have worked digitally for 5 years and have posted 674 blog post. In my first years (which was 2014) I post 7 post. The reason why is because it was my first time using Chromebook and It was difficult using and creating DLO's. In 2015 I improved a lot. I posted 66 blog post. I posted this much because I got use to using Chromebooks and I loved creating DLO's. So I had a lot to post on my blog. I think past the previous years I improved a lot. My goal is to post 5-10 post a week and by the end of the year I want have 300 more posts. I think I will achieve this goal if I put a lot of effort into my learning. 

Can You Guess What I Did Over The Summer Holidays?

L.I. - Writing to recount

Writing using language features to engage readers

Complete these sentences about an event over the summer holiday.
Don’t tell us what the event was just give us enough information that we can know for ourselves.

I wondered if the bouncy castle is on today, although I do not want to get caught doing mischievous things on it.

I saw one lifeguards looking at me like a spying camera.

I heard multitudes of splashes around the center.

I heard girls screeching like a bunch of falcons and boys bombing like whales.

I felt the coldness of the water splash to my back.

I felt the water slithering around my body.

I wondered if the girl’s screeching would ever end.

During the holidays I did some pretty fun things. My favorite thing about the summer holidays was going to a camp site. I went to Rotorua and went to a camp site name Tui Ridge. The problem was that there were no internet so we did a lot of walking around the place. As part of our writing task we had to write a recount with seven sentences (for each senses) about one thing we did in the holidays. Can you guess what I did over the summer holiday. The recount describes shows you what I did but I didn't tell. For this task we had to use literacy devices like onomatopoeia, metaphor, similes etc. I have used some literacy devices like compound and complex sentences. I also had to illustrate what I did in the holidays. Above shows you my illustrated drawing. Remember to Guess what I did over the summer holiday. Good Luck.