My calendar art

WALT present a piece of artwork for our parents to buy.

Success Criteria

• Take our time, show patience (GRIT)
• Plan our piece of artwork
• Take care with the painting and dyeing
• Research for our inspiration
• Explain the steps you took to make your artwork on your blog
• How do you feel about your artwork?  
• What was  a challenge?

My calendar art

Our calendar art we are doing in room 12 is about hand prints and footprints.

This is how you do it:

Think about a thing you want to do.

1. Make sure you practice first
2. Get the things you want to use on it like dye, paint, pencil, paper, coloring pencils and a bucket of a water for washing your feet or hands.
3. Get a piece of paper and draw your background, then dye it.
4. Get the paint you want to use and put it where you want it on your hands or your feet.
5. Let it dry and if you want you can put some features on it.

Here is a photo of mine that I did.

My challenge was to not go over the lines because there was two, it was OK if I got the brown pencil over one but if I got it over the other I would have to restart.

I felt very proud of myself to finish.  My Mum is keeping the diary for herself, she liked it and there is now a calendar at my Dad’s.

This picture is my inspiration.

Animal Band Readers Theater - term 3 week 7

                                     Animal band

WALT perform to an audience. 
Success Criteria: 

•  speak clearly 
•  speak loudly
•  with expression
•  stay in time

On September the 4th 2015, my class and I did our assembly item, it had taken a long time to be good enough to perform to the rest of the school. 
I was a reader with Thomas and Beau, it was hard because I had the second most lines. (The part who had the most lines was the donkeys.) 
When the kids came in the hall for assembly, I felt a bit nerves because it's scary when six - hundred (600) faces are looking at you but after that I was OK.
Now here's a photo of me and one of me with Tom and Beau.

>!Me!<

Teague, <Beau,> Thomas!

Persuasive writing - Term 3 Week 4

WALT persuade other students to agree with our opinion.  This the purpose for my writing.

Success Criteria:

1. I plan for a writing task
2. I write a variety of sentence lengths with different sentence starters
3. Give reasons with detail - use specific words
4. I write most topic and high frequency words correctly.
5. I use capital letters, fullstops, question marks and exclamation marks correctly.
6. Use persuasive language

We should have fewer days at school

I strongly believe that we should have fewer days at school.

In my opinion we should have fewer days at school because it will benefit students, teachers and parents.  Kids want to have more fun, for example kids can learn a new hobby.  Sometimes we can remember more if we have fun while we are learning.

Another point is teachers would value time away from students, so they can think about ideas and topics that they can teach their students. Evidence shows it’s good that teachers learn as well as them teaching.

Finally both adults enjoy spending time with their children, parents could take their children farther away for a long weekend, for example going on a trip like to Auckland and going to the sky tower, Rangitoto and ice skating.

Therefore I think that fewer days of school would benefit students, teachers and parents.

Persuasive Writing - Term 3 Week 2

WALT persuade other students to agree with our opinion.  This the purpose for my writing.

Success Criteria:

1. I plan for a writing task
2. I write a variety of sentence lengths
3. I with different sentence starters
4. Give reasons with detail - use specific words
5. I write most topic and high frequency words correctly.
6. Use persuasive language
7. I use capital letters, fullstops, question marks and exclamation marks correctly.

City life is better than country life

I believe that city life is better than country life.

There are three main reasons to support my argument

First, In the county it is harder to raise a baby than in the city because you have to buy all the baby's things like a cot and a milk bottle and normally country people are poor.

Another reason is in the city the shops are just around the corner but in the country you have to drive all the way to the city to get your food and it uses a lot of petrol so it uses a lot of your money, it’s better off living in the city.

Finally in a bigger school you can have more opportunities to play sport for your school than in smaller schools, they have less opportunities to play sport for your school.

Therefore I strongly believe city life is better than country life.

       

Skimming Reading Strategy Term 3 week 2

                                     Skimming Reading Strategy!

WALT skim an unknown text so that we can QUICKLY get an understanding of it.
These are the things you can do when you're skimming.
Step 1: Look at the cover.
Step 2: Look at the title.
Step 3: Look at the author or if you want look at the illustrator.
Step 4: Look at the blurb.
Step 5: Go to the contents page and find the chapter you're up to.  

Ben 10 - Week 8

Ben 10 is a kid like us but he is a bit different then us because when he was 10 he had to go to a summer camp with his grandpa and his cousin queen.  Ben thought it was going to be the worst summer ever, but one night he came out of the tent that he was sleeping in next to the van.  He saw an asteroid coming down from outer space and Ben followed it and when he saw it, he thought it was a ball, but the ball opened and Ben saw a watch.  The watch jumped on Ben's arm and after that he called it the optometrists, after he got use to it and found out how to work it, he started to save the world.  Here are his aliens that he can turn into from his watch, here they are.

Area - week 6

What is area?
Area is the space around you, underneath you and above you.
It is the total number of square units inside a shape, that is the thing you need to know.
In the real world we need area to build home or measuring how big your rug can be or how big your tiles have to be to fit in the right place.
Did you know that rows go right across and column mean come on down.
Length x width = Area or columns + rows = Area.

My Lolly for the Grubber Shop - Week 5

My lolly that I thought you might like...

This one is my very favourite one called the Zig Zag Zoomer and it looks like a lightning strike with a death skull going round and round the lolly. 
When you touch it, you get a tazer shock and it makes the sound of thunder.

It costs $10 for a little jar or $20 for a big jar.

You need to have a license to eat them though.

When you eat them you zig zag like crazy, you zig zag as fast as lightning.

The Summarizing Strategy - week 4

We are learning how to summarize in room 12.

Mostly you can find key words in books. 

You can't copy someones work or that is called plagiarism.

Key words can help you make sentences.

These are some keywords:
Charlie, pigeon and race

Here is the sentence:
Charlie is a homing pigeon and is going to his first race of the season racing other pigeons.

Kiwis - Week 1

Kiwis are native birds that only live in New Zealand.  

Did you know that kiwis have a really small wing? 

Even though they have wings they can’t fly at all.

They have quite a lot of predators like stoats, possums dogs, cats and more.

A kiwi can live at least between 25 to 50 years old.

My Superhero - The lion from the Wizard of Oz

Hi, I am the lion from the wizard of oz and I am here to tell you about me.  I look deadly, furry and strong.
His characteristics are kind, nice and generous. 
His actions are clean, nice and life saving.

Swimming Reflection

My Swimming Reflection-Teague

I learned how to…be swimming and breathe at the same time.

Something I found challenging was…nothing

At the end of the year I would like to improve on…straight arms and diving/

Mrs Miller, Mr Kenny or Mrs Lowe could help me by…teaching me diving and straight arms.

The best part about swimming was… when we got to use the life jackets.

My New Buddy from Room 6 and 7

We went to our new buddy class room 6 and 7.

My new buddy is called Deakahn and he is 6 years old and Deakahn is super fast for a little kid.

Now this is a photo of my buddy and I.

Black Shadow

My super heroes name is…Black Shadow and he lives in an underground fortress with his young justice team.  the underground fortress is very clean and tidy with heaps of fighting gadgets.

He looks so cool but he is deadly.  He has a Spiderman mask and he is an archer with bulletproof top and pants with a demon tail and a fiery fist.  He has a belt with a flaming sword.

His characteristics are really nice and he’s way cool and has saved his plants.

His actions are very nice and he will risk his life for another person.

Maths Hands

My class has been doing Translation(sliding), Rotation (turning) and Reflection(flipping).