My artafact

My artifact is a vase but not any vase it's a vase that has a amazing handle design. I made it with my beer hands with clay, and a hole in the middle for a scroll with heaps of information about pole vaulting. I has to find heaps of pages of notes. I Had to use my perseverance muscle to do this peace of art. I have been learning about how to write a report but luckily for me, I had some information that I already written down that I could use, but the tricky part was to make the Introduction and the conclusion from scratch. Here some photos of my artifact.

Wild park area task

Key:

Red means i’m using the number ~

This means it doesn't work -

70 1  70 2  35 3  - 4  - 5  14 6  - 7x10=70 5x14=70 70÷5=14 ⅕  = .20 = 20%	48 1  48 2  28 3  16 4  12 5  - 6  8 8x6=48 48÷8=6 ⅛ = .125 = 12.5
96 1  96 2  48 3  32 4  24 5  - 6  16 7  - 8  12 8x12=92 92÷12=8 1/12 = 083 = 8.3%	84 1  84 2  42 3  28 4  21 5  - 6  14 7  12 8  - 3x28=84 84÷3=28 ⅓ = .333 = 3.33%

I am proud of my self because I used revising muscle to go back and make changes to complete my learning task.  The thing that challenged me was getting the lines to the middle because you had to get it in the right spot or it would look weird.  I had to use my noticing muscle to get the task done because I had to look at were I needed to fix something up.

Matariki

Everyone in Totara Whanau has been learning about matariki. Matariki is the Maori New Year. The main thing about Matariki is that it's the 7 stars. In the Maori culture, activities are one of the main thing they do because there was no TV no computers no Ipod or Ipads there was nothing but their hands and sticks and stones. On matariki me and Totara Whanau did some thing that the Maori people do like make kite's and do cooking to celebrate Maori New year. I did cooking for the whole hub but I had other kids doing it as well and parents to help and the fellow kids. We made fri-bread and fish pie, it was a lot of fun and good experience being a chef.

Bread writing

Procedural writing.

WALT write instructions for the reader to follow

Success Criteria

Give an explanation about how the instructions will help you (introduction)

Write an equipment or ingredients list

Begin each instruction with a verb (an action word)

Use specific vocabulary

Order instructions so they are easy to follow

Video of how to write simple instructions

Introduction:

One day I got very hungry because my fat grandma ate all the bread so I made my own for me.

Did you know that in the old days the people used to use a scythe and a sickle. Also, did you know that bread is very healthy because of all the vitamins and minerals in it. Did you know that there are many different types of bread in different countries?

Ingredients

1 Tbsp white sugar

1 Tsp oil

Half  cup warm not hot water

1 third of cup of flour

1 tsp yeast

Method

Grab a bowl and carefully place the white sugar, yeast and flour and stir until it looks like flour again.

Pour in the oil and warm not hot water and stir.

Knead for approximately 1 and a half minutes.

Shape the dough into what you want.

Leave for 30 minutes to rise under a towel.

Wrap the dough in baking paper and place it in the oven for about 25 to 30 minutes.

I am proud of my self because I got this writing to show the reader how to make bread mostly when I got to the verbs.
The thing that challenged me the most was the verbs because I didn't know what to do for the verbs at the start it made my brain think. I learnt what a verb was.

How to look after a broken collarbone

How to look after a broken collarbone.

Have you ever had a broken collarbone?

A collarbone is also called the clavicle that is the fancy name for it. Did you know that the collarbone is the only bone that is connected to your arm excpect if it’s muscle. Also did you know you can’t have a cast on your broken collarbone because it will hurt your broken collarbone.

Things you need for a broken collarbone

• A sling
• Someone willing to help you for the first couple of days until you get used to it
• A patient patient

1. Go to the doctors to get an x-ray to see what it looks like. If  the x-ray shows it broken this is what you do.
2. Hold your arm very still and a doctor will give you a sling.
3. Take some Pamol to stop it from hurting so bad.
4. Use the arm that you didn’t break.
5. Wait about 3 weeks you can sleep with the sling off and at the 4 week mark you can take the sling off for good.

Carefully start to play at the 2 week mark but be warned life has its consequences.

I will show you two photos one is me with a sling on and another of an x-ray of a broken collarbone.

I'm proud of my self because I persevered when learning got tough.

The thing that challenged me was to get my verbs in.

My brokencollar bone

On the ester holidays 2016 I broke my collarbone also know as the clavicle. Well i’ll tell you the story. So it was Saturday morning but for some reason we were doing rugby training instead of Friday afternoon, it was going great until it was tackle bull rush. We started to play got through a few times, then I got tackled and then the other people got tackled round one went past fast. The next round started a few kids went by, Noah my friend got tackled and he picked me to run, so I did I almost got there but I was getting held back by Noah and two other kids and then a kid called Cliche tackled me at the wrong time and SNAP!!! And that’s the story of how I broke my collar bone.

Because I have broke my collar bone I now have to adapted to my new way of learning for a few weeks. 

Here is a photo of me in my sling.

Vocabulary

I have been working on vocabulary word because it was one of my leaning tarsk. I know I have to use clues to work out what words mean. The clues are in the text and sometimes in the word. I lernt that it that every fore(four) years the moon goes in front of the sun making it the not be abale(able) to see earth making the earth dark.

This is my vocabulary

 I have been using vocabulary in my writing as well and that's why I'm showing you my writing.

The Great water slide

I was at the biggest baddest water slide ever and it’s name was the slide of Life and Death. In a normal theme park many people have died on the slide but many have survived.  If you survive you can’t tell the tale of what it was like. It was going to be my turn soon, finally it was my turn I felt so scared I would go back down, but the rules where you can’t go back. Finally it was my turn, nervously shoving myself off I started to zoom down the slide with great speed going faster and faster down the slide. I thought I saw the end of the slide but it was a jump I screamed like a little girl. Thinking that I would die my heart was beating as fast as a cheater I lay down on my back trying to go faster, then I leaped off the air like a hawk soaring through the sky with great speed. Still screaming like a little girl I landed with a thump!. All my screams turned into a very loud ouch! My bottom didn't get hurt because it was two inches thick. You might think it’s the end but it’s not, still on the slide it was time for the two meter drop. With a splash in the shape of a bomb. Hitting the water surface I started to go as fast as I could I swam to the side of the two meter deep pool and I shouted out loud “Again”!

Now I want to share with you five vocabulary words in my writing:Zoom,Soaring,Thump,splash and nervously.

Camp Omatua

Camp Omatua and Weka Point was very exciting and also a little bit challenging. It was a little bit different for me because it was my birthday on camp.

It looks like Chris is going fast. 

This is Teague's funny face.

It looks like Ashley has a new back pack.

It looks like Oliver is having fun on the tube

Something that challenged me was fear factor because you had to put something in your mouth with a description trying to trick us for thinking it was something gross like the poo that was aterly (actually)chocolate in a little plastic cup or the time when Mrs Hill said that it was a star fish that ate a lot of sand when it was a fig that's a type of fruit + you were blind folded and it was scary. 


My favorite bit of camp was the chocolate game when we had to roll a 6 on the dice then we would put two bits of clothing and a spider man glove and grab a knife and fork and cut one peace (piece) of chocolate before someone else rolls a 6. I like eating chocolate it's a risen (reason) why I picked the chocolate game.


A highlight from camp was that it was my birthday on camp and I enjoyed every second of it because I got a lot of happy birthdays. and a minute true cake from Mrs Hill one of my teachers even though it was a lollipop with a marshmallow on the bottom of the stick but it was worth it.

My fav book

I am proud of my self because it was challenging but it was worth it and I feel very proud of my self for using feedback from my teacher. Some thing that challenged me was what book I wanted to do because I like a lot of books. Also I found it tricky to share detail about the characters. I really enjoyed doing this book and sharing it to the world. I hope you want to read it. READ IT NOW!

Board Games

I have been learning about board games for the start of my life. I am proud of my self for completing my task because it was changeling. Something that challenged me was writing because I had to do my writing on paper instead of doing it on my laptop.

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.