Christmas Around The World

This week we are here to celebrate christmas and I am so excited. Today we read all about the christmas traditions from all around the world.

In France they leave their shoes out in front of the fire place so father christmas can put presents inside of them.

In Italy they eat very little on christmas day because this is a special day of prayer. Italians share their christmas gifts on the 6th of january witch I find very fasanating.

Dutch people celabrate St. Nichoals day on the 6th of december.

In Sweden Christmas eve is known as as  Julafton. This is a day to celabrete and make partys.

In Mexiconeach night from the 16th of december till christmas day the re-create the story of joseph and mary arriveing at bethlehem.

The Polish people call christmas eve the festavil of the stars. Often the don't eat until the first star apers in the night sky.

The Christmas Food

Today we are learning about the christmas food that we give to santa. Nomaly we give him food and cookies but in other lands they might get out plum pudding or Ginger bread cookies. It is all diffrent in there on specail ways. like in France they leave out a pudding called yulelog.

New Zealand's Sacred Mountains

Today for reading I am about to read New Zealand's sacred mountains and by the title I have found out some questions that I would like an answer to.

How many sacred mountains are their?

Where are the sacred mountains placed?

What are the names of the mountains?

I found out the sacred mountains are sleeping volcanoes that are waiting to erupt.

I also found out that the mountains were once gods and worries for the land.

The last thing that I have found out was only one volcano that was a woman.

We also read a book called The Battle Of The Mountains. I found out that these books are very similar because they are talking about the same story. The battler of the mountains was between the 6 brothers that had there love on the only woman mountain. They decited to have a battle for her love. she couldent stand it anymore so they split up and went there seprate ways.

The Big Friendly ... Monster

This week we have been learning how to elaborate on a picture. I thought that this was quite challenging because it was just a simple picture that we needed to write a WHOLE ENTIRE STORY with. I loved the challenge because I am a person who likes challenges.

The Big Friendly ... Monster

Trudging through the woods with big feet going BOOM, BOOM, BOOM until he reaches a little cottage. “Hahaha what do we have here” the monster said with a big evil grin on his face.

The monster found a cute, adorable kitten sleeping on a pink pillow with white polka dots. Then he grabbed the tiny marshmallow but the white fur ball went meow. The owner came in and saw the hideous monster and then saw the adorable kitten. He screamed and ran out of the house. Then monster said that he was going to have fun.

He took the kitten to his home and turned on the stove. The kitten nudged the monster and made the horrible beast smile. Right after he found out he pretended to be mean and horrible. He decided to go hunting instead from cooking the kitten. “1 more day. Then I will cook it”. He went hunting and found 2 deers, 3 chickens and 1 bear.

The next day he found himself hugging the kitten and screamed. The small white ball woke up and screamed “ MEEOOOW”. They started to become great friends but they both secretly wanted to be more.

The End

Her is the photo that we got given.

Fireworks Are Amazing

 

This week for maths we did an activity called fireworks. It is all about counting the money for fireworks and adding them up. Sometimes you get a certain amount of money and you have to pay for fireworks that are the exact amount you are given. I thought that this was challenging because we had to add up all of the fireworks and trust me when I say there was a lot. Aside from that I think that this activity was an amazing opportunity to find out what I am good at.

Doubling and Halving

Poem About The New School

I can see the world revolving around the school,
It looks very nice and very cool,
I can smell the great new land from here,
It is like I am already there,
I can hear the people screaming and sing and shouting with glee,

It sounds just like kids playing in the sea,

I can feel the glossy part on the whiteboard table,

I know that it is very stable,

My heart is pounding with the happiness inside,

I love the school as if it were alive.

Today was the 3rd day at our new school and my 2nd because I was away yesterday. We all got to write a poem about the new school. I think that it is amazing but that is just my opinion. I used rymzone to find the rimes. I have put a lot of thought into this poem. I love this school because it looks amazing. Just like I said in the poem. I am proud of my poem.

The Giant Complex Sentences

Today in writing we had to write 3 giant complex sentences about this photo. We got the photo of once upon a picture witch is a website that you go on to find a photo that you want to write about. I had fun doing this. The hardest part of this hole thing was to come up with a complex sentence. The easyest part was to separate the simple parts, verbs and the conjunctions. I had so much fun doing this. I think that when you have time you should try this webstite.

Simple	Red
Verbs	Orange
Conjunctions	Yellow

It was dark and creepy because it was a silent night. Giants came to eat the humans as if they were brussel sprouts. The children were sing take me to church until these giant vacuums came to swallow them. Everyone starded to get scared as if they we're a little sceard princess hiding to save herself.

The Hunt Is On

Today for reading we are up to the 2 day of our Traviling the world. Today we got told to Chosoe what place gave you the most fun and witch place was the best experince. That was just the first task. The secound task was to list 5 questions that you would ask to Laura Dekker. For the Bonus one we got told to interview on of your friends. I loved this one.

Keep new zealand clean

Today was the last day for the activity for our 7 day reading activitys. I have explaned every thing in the slide and I think that the best activity was the 5th activity.

Kiwi

I have been learning to draw on an app called Designapp.io. I made two kiwi's that are inlove because even kiwi's have a little love in there life. Plus the little kiwi would be lonly all by him self and I thik that it makes it look great. I had to use the shapes and colours to make this amazing, fantastic, spectaular picture. The challenging part of this hole thing was to think what to create. The easy thing about this was to create the girl because I just copyed it and put eyelashes on it. I am proud to call this picture mine.

Native Aotearoa

Today for our reading activitys I had alot of fun and I got to think about alot of different culltchers

 

One Step At A Time ...

Todays activity's were very interesting because some toke some time. I was thinking and thinking about what I was going to create. For the first activity we got told to create a mini story about what is going to happen next. I was thinking very hard for this one. For the next activity we got to serch up one famous New Zealand.

Swimming With Sharks

Today for litracy we only had to do one activity and one bonus because the second  activity wouldn't work. For the first activity we had to write down what the people did to save the beached whales. It was very easy and I thought that it was going to be hard. For the bonus activity we got to answer if we thought that it is crull to fish in Farewell Spit or if it is great to fish in Farewell Spit. The challengeing part for this bonus activity was thinking what to write down to ague whith the people that think it is fine to fish in Farewell Spit.

Dos And Don'ts Of Etiquette

For a few weeks in cybersafety we have been working on the dos and donts of Ettiquette. The classes have been working on Mindmup. Mindmup is a website that you can create tabs of tabs and I think that it is really cool. We got told to make a copy of this. The first part was to fill in the blank boxes. After that it wasthe best part. The because part. For this part we had to write two becauses about why we should / should not do what we wrote in. Icompleted it and I am proud of my work. If you have Time PLEASE can you give me feed back.

Here is a D.L.O to help you understand beatter. by the way I dident make this

Wild Eyes

Todays activatys were really cool. I have the dicription in the slide and I am really proud of my work. It is really cuneke and I just had so much fun doing this. I hope you do this of atlest go into a link and cheak it out. just to let you know the last activaty we got told to create something to make people bleve that the moa is real. I did a drawing of a moa foot print. it has moss all around it to make it look old.

Learning About Auckland

This week for Reading we are doing some tasks for points and the person with the most points wins a prize. Today we were learning about Auckland and we were doing some fun and different tasks. I got to do the bonus task because I finished my 1st and 2nd activity. I think That I am going to win and I lovedit and I enjoyed it so much. I hope that the nest one willl be as fun as this one.

Aphmau Calendar Art

This week we have been working on our calendar art to hang up on our wall. I love doing calendar art because youb can exprese your iner art and exspres who you are inside. Are you sweet,Kind,Angry. Whoever you are you can show cit. I am inlove with this youtuber named jess. She does minecraft roleplaes and here minecaft name is Aphmau. I love her vids so this is for her.

Minecraft Logo Prototype

For the last few week's we have been learing about logo's. We got told to create a logo that discribes us. I love minecraft and the start of my name is E because my name is Emily. I started of with doing a green block ontop of a brown one. Then I got told to put some texture and it turned out realy cool. I was wondering if you can give me some advise. have a look.

My Amazng Fantastic Bread Reacount

For writing we have been doing a bread reacount because we have been learning about healthyr food for inquary and also because, We read a bid, tall book about bread. I had to shrink the size because it woulded all fit in 1 paige. It took a while but finaly I got it. I was so proud of my self because this is the most writing for 1 hole entire year. At the bottem I have placed a video that show's me reading my writing just incase you don't realy want to read it.

The amazing fantastic homemade bread

“Hummmmm” Will this work or will this fail? Today in class the year 5 / 6 Learning Community made some delicious homemade bread. There are two reasons why we made the bread. One of them is because we were learning about healthy eating for inquiry. The other reason is because we read a big book about bread. Here is how we made it.

First the teacher’s laid out all of the ingredients and the equipment. While they were laying them out all of us went to go and wash our hands. We washed our hands because we didn't want to spread germs around the class.

Then we needed to combine all of the ingredients into two separate bowls. In one bowl there was flour, salt and sugar. In the other bowl there was yeast and water Mrs Jack mixed it up. It looked like really easy at first but than it looked like it got really hard to mix´s.

After that Mrs Jack kneaded the dough with the heel of her hand and then folded it over. She did it because we need to have a light bread not a lump of dough that has been cooked. She repeated it for quite a long time but when she finished the dough looked like a clump of clay.

Then we put the sticky dough in a clean bowl and it looked like someone had scored a goal in basketball. We put a tea tall on it so no fly’s get on it. We put the bread in a warm place to rise up and make it thicker. We left it there for a round about an hour. We knew that there would be a lot more bread if we did it.

After the time past Mrs Jack kneaded it one last time. She molded it into a random shape and it turned out to be an oval. then we did the final rise until it was going to go in the oven. We put it in room 9 because it is the warmest room in the school. Finally it was ready to go into the oven and we were all excited. It took a hour but it was worth it.

After all or that drama we finally got to try it. Room 7 had to wait because if we gave it too them room 8 and half or room 7 would have to  miss out. Don’t worry because we made 2 loaves of bread. It tasted like homemade scones with the tough outside and the dishes warm soft inside. It was light and fluffy and i loved it.

I think that the bread was great but i felt bad for room 7 because they had to wait for more bread. There wasn't enough for everybody at the start. The End.

Statistics Pie Graph

In maths we have been learing to make diffrent graphs on google sheets on our drive. I chose to do a pie graph becuse it was the easiest to do and I thought that it was the easiest to understand. That is why I chose the pie graph. We had to do the graph about the diffrent coloured iceblocks that we had last week on Thursday. I had a green one and most of our class did aswell. I have made 2 diffrent statements about it. Hope you can learn something from it.

Making Tea For A Teacher

This week we have been talking about Manaakitanga. Some girls in Room 7 have opened up a kindness shop for other's. They would give us an ice block if we made a promise.  I chose a lime green ice block, they were pretty tasty. I promised to make a cup of tea for a teacher. I decided to make a hot drink for Mr Breach. He doesn't drink tea so I made him a cup of coffee.

Commenting 101

We are learning to identfy a quality 

blog comment

These are my top tips for a quality blog comment.

Homemade Healthy Meal

For inquiry we have been learning about healthy eating. I love eating my vegtables and aspeshaly my brussel sprouts. That is why I choose them. I choose the apple because I love apples but I can not eat the skin so I normalypeal my apples. Those are my 2 favrout foods. Here is my meal.

Recount Writing

Last week was the school holiday and I had so much fun. Well, crazy fun. We got told to write about it and so i did. about me having a crazy weekend I still loved it and that is th most inportant thingto me. I realy hope you had a great school holiday. 

This weekend has been the weirdest weekend ever. In the weekend I went to Rose’s house to do some baking but we may of baked a little too much.  

Rose loves to bake and loves having me over. She says it because she feels lonely. She also says that she likes how I come over and stay the night.  For the first night we made golden syrup dumplings. The tasted amazing. On the second night we made chocolate chip cookies. Mmm Mmm! We also made banana cake. And finally for the last night we kind of went a bit to crazy and made about 6 batches of food. They were more banana cake, more chocolate cookies, some belgian biscuits and 3 batches of light fairy cupcakes.

After I went to roses my mum wanted to cut my hair. She cut my hair because I have a sore at the back of my head and I have this special shampoo and cream that I have to put on it. I did think that it was going to be right at my shoulders buuuut she cut it up to my ears. She didn't no that she cut it up to my ears because i was wearing a turtleneck. I cried at first because I didn't think that my friends would like it but I got use to having my hair down and it being easy to brush. Now. I love it.

The next week on friday I went to my nana's and since it was the last week she said the my grandad was going to take me. We we're driving and driving but we ended up in Haswell. After a couple of hours or driving I said that I think that we should just go home.

I think that my weekend was the craziest weekend ever, but it was still fun. We'll for me I guess.

Stormy Weather

This tearm we have been learning about Weather. In art we have done a stormy weather painting. It isent really paining but more dyeing. If you want to make this here are the intruction. Step 1 you need to dye your backround. Step 2 you need to make a silowet ( it means shadow ) to put on the bottem. Step 3 you need to do the black cloud but you need to DAB it on. Step 4 you need to do you lightnig with a thin strike. Step 5 put it on your blog. now you are done. this is how mine turned out.

Crashing Through Interland

For Cybersmat we have been playing a great cybersmart game to teach use diffrent things and test ourself to our knowledge to see how much we know about cybersmat. I love This game because I can choose what I want to play and what I would like to learn more about. this it what I chose.

Math Word Problem Solving

In maths we have been leaning to use place value to solve times table word problem. We got told to make a D.L.O of the work sheet that we got on our drives. I wanted to make a screencastify so I could talk and also work at the same time.

Severe Weather imovie

For the last few weeks we have been learning about severe weather. In reading we got told to make a D.L.O about severe weather. I chose to do an iMovie . I knew that I couldent make it all by myself so I asked on of my friends to do it with me. It toke alot of time and efot but we did it just in time.

Penguin Art

WALT: use strokes of the paint brush to look like the feathers.

For art we have been learning about Antactica. The teachers thought that we could learn more about antactica so they disided that we were going to do some art.. there were steps. here they are. Step one. you need to draw your penguin. step two. you need to paint you penguin white, black and orange. Then you are done.

here is how well I have done it.

Tornado Info Report

This week We have been focusing on Tornados. We had to make an info report about them. Here are the things that we did. The first thing we did was resurch facts about them. Next we made a plan about all the facts that we know about them. Then we started our genarle statment. After that we used our plan to do our discription in our info report. Then we did our evaluation.

Here is my final product.

Tornado Madness

“Ahhh a tornado is heading this way , I need to find a hiding spot”. Here is some facts about Tornadoes. They look like a macive fidget spinner when it spins.

Tornadoes look like A massive spinning tube filled or stuff. They also look like a warm and fluffy piece of candyfloss. They have different colours like  Black, White, Grey and blue.  

All tornadoes do is damage your house and destroy your life. Tornados are very strong and very fast. The are really scary to watch because you feel like it go to go to your own house and destroy all of your things.

Tornados have a safe spot. The safe spot is right in the middle of it. There are different types of tornados. There are three types like the fire, water and the normal one.

I think that tornados are really cool but I don’t think that I would ever want to be in one.

Info Report About Weather In Antactica

In literacy I have been learning about Antactica. We got to go on a trip to the antactic senter. That was where I took intrest in the weather. The next week we got to chose what topice we wanted to learn more about. . I chose weather and climate. I learnt alot that day. We did the same topice for around about 3 weeks Then we finished that topice. For now ...

“Birrrr”. Where am I? Antarctica, how did I get here. We'll I bet I can learn a thing or two we'll I am here.

There is little exposed rock and, although millions of years ago there was heavy vegetation, today the only plants that grow are very small mosses and lichens. Antarctica is the highest, driest, windiest and coldest continent in the world

Antarctica is the coldest place on the Earth. It has 24 hours or darkness in winter but, 24 hours of daylight in the summer. The Coldest temp IN THE WORLD, is … -94.7C. This was a couple of years ago.

The temp can go up and up like 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 all the way to 80 butttt, the temp can also go down like -1 -2 -3 -4 -5 -6 -7 -8 -9 -10 -11 and down and down and down to -80.

I think that Antarctica is an amazing place to learn about. Antarctica looked so fluffy but …  looks can deceive you.

Weather Art

WALT: use crayon and dye to show movment and ripples in a weather featrue

For Literacy we have been learning about the weather. The teachers told use that we are going to do some art but ... not any old art weather art. We used white crayons to draw the outline of our drawring. Then we used dack grey, light grey, darck blue and light blue dye to give the pitcher some colour and some angry clouds vand some colour in the water.

Here is my final product.

Growth Mindset VS Fixed Mindset

During Power Time we have been learning about growth mindset and fixed mind set. We watched a video that showed use what they meant. That was the first thing that we did. The second thing that we did was look at a website that showed us the famous people that have a growth mindset. Our task was to make a DLO ( Digitl Learning Object ) to explain how a growth mindset and fixed mindset work. We also made it to explain what they mean.

Here is my example.

Growth Mindset                     Vs              Fixed Mindset

I am not giving up                                    This is too hard

I can do this                                              I can’t do this

I am going to keep trying                         I give up

This is my best work                                This is my worst work

            I am fully committed to my work             I am not fully committed to my work

Plave Value Solve's Addition

WALTS: learning to use plave value to solve addition

Infomation Report About Antactica

This term we have been looking at Antarctica. We got to learn about its size, Diffrent types of animals, thickness of ice, Weather, People that lived on there what they wear. I have most of that in here and I think that I did an amazing job because I dident know anything about Antactica. Here is my work.

Chilly no, Frozen no, Freezing cold. What is Antarctica? Antarctica is one of 7 continents on the Earth. That is an amazing privilege because their is only 7. Antarctica is classed as a desert.

Antarctica is the coldest place on Earth. It has Layers and layers of snow covering the land and it makes a hard and heavy layer. It is cool how Antarctica can hold such an amazing amount of weight. It is 14 million KM in size.

It is amazing how much Antarctica has grown from 60 million years. For the last 15 million years Antarctica was mostly an icy forest. It has been a frozen desert under a thick ice sheet. Antarctic snow is 4,897 meters above sea level. That is pretty deep for everyone because no one is that tall. It looks like a massive,fluffy, Delicious marshmallow. It looks so warm but some looks can deceive you.

I think that Antarctica would be a amazing place to visit. Not to sleep at thow because it would be FREEZING.

My Auidence - part 2

We are learning to create a positive digital footprint.

We often share personal information when we are online. The people we share with could be our friends and family or people we don't know. We need to make smart decisions about what personal information we share online.

What Weve Learnt In Maths

Today we have been learning how to solve multiplication problems useing place value. 

here is a video that shows my learning.

Our Audience

We are learning to create a positive digital footprint.

We often share personal information when we are online. The people we share with could be our friends and family or people we don't know. We need to make smart decisions about what personal information we share online.

Hide n Seek Your Destiny

Hide n Seek Your Destiny

I was terrified, afraid no I was alarmed in fear. I was in the school grounds and not allowed to leave. I found my 2 friends on the ground with Lucy next to them. She said that she had found them and they had to find me. I hid a tree well lucy was calling my name. “ Emmmilyyyy come out come out wherever you are” . I was so so SO scared and about to scream. until …

I found a wall with a purple door on it. As I started to climb up and up it got more clear. I was right in front of it. I started to open it but ... But there was nothing in it. I closed it and reopen it and sore a bunny, no a person threw the door. I looked behind me and sore lucy coming up the tree. I quickly went thru the door and closed it.

I realized their was another world behind the ... Door. The door was gone. I looked everywhere. ggghhh this is so frustrating. Wait OMG I found the door . “sigh” Now all I need to do is run there. Man I love this place. I went to the end I started to go thru the door and saw every one looking for me. I am SO tired. Maybe I Should go and tell them I am ok. Man I am so proud of myself for winning hide and seek tag.

By Emily.R

This is my hide n seek your destiny writing that I love. I am so proud because i have worked hard and my mum and dad love it so much that they printed it.I think that you will like it to.                           

Exploring Blogs

We are learning to create a positive digital footprint.

We often share personal information when we are online. The people we share with could be our friends and family or people we don't know. We need to make smart decisions about what personal information we share online.

Reflection

ANZAC Activities

For the last 2 weeks we have been Learning about ANZAC. I love Anzac day but it is a very very very sad day because it was for the war. We all have done Reading and Writing about it but it was all diffrent. We are finding out who would fisk there live for our freedom to enjoy our lives.

That Was My Magnifacent Summer Poem

This is my writing that I am proud of but it was hard to find out what you could put there. First we all brainstormed altogether. Then we got told to right all the words down. Now I am up tp the stag to put it on my blog and that is what I am doing. Now I am done.

That Was Summer!

I remember smelling the freshly picked flowers from the daffodil field.

I remember tasting the sweet taste of freedom.

I remember seeing the massive waves crashing along the beach with the stones and seaweed.

That was summer

I remember feeling the wind flowing through my hair on my fast motorbike.

I remember hearing the magnificent sound of the birds chirping in the fresh air.

That was summer.