Wacky wheels day !

Wow what a wacky Monday we had, Slip n ' slides, pool time, games, wheels that you will not see and more.You might have noticed that we had our wheels day. Everybody came in mufti to have fun on the slip 'n slide  and splash in the pool. You could bring your wheels like Scooters, skateboards, bikes, RC cars and more. The school provided trolley boards to whizz around on. Here are some photos of the day. If they have blogs there links will be at the bottom !

Ha, those photos were funny, do you like wheels? My favourite part of the day was the slip n' slide. We did games on  the field, like capture the flag and giant dominoes. I learnt how to play chess as well. I hope you liked my blog post about my fun on Monday, I will posting more over the summer holidays. I will be participating in the summer learning journey. ( Btw not everybody in the photos will have links )
Hope you liked it, feel free to leave a positive comment, Bye bloggers.
Links to blogs:
Max
Izzy

The whale rescue !

Hey bloggers, I have done some research on whales. This was a old activity on the summer learning journey. This article was about whales washing up on a beach. The beach was called Farewell spit. They called the beach ' A whale graveyard '  Here are some photos of not washed up whales.

Ok I lied I did show a picture of washed up whales. Locals at Farewell Spit are thinking that whales are following others and they all end up washing up on the beach. The locals say that since the 10th of February about 300 whales have washed up on Farewell spit alone. Isn't that crazy imagine if 300 people were lying on your school field, now that would be crazy. More locals say that the whales can't live without us pouring water on them. Boy would they love it when it rains. for more about whales go to this link right here. I will be posting more over the summer so stay tuned, Feel free to leave a positive comment. Bye bloggers.

Marine Metered Square Trip

Hey blog buddies, earlier this year we went on a trip down to our local beach. Waikowhai bay it was called. Maybe that is your local beach to. My Mum came to help us. We put a meter square on the sand and investigated what lived down there. Here are some photos of the day.

It was really fun, my favourite part was investigating what was in our square. However on the way back I wasn't paying a lot of attention to where I was going so I WALKED INTO A TREE, but I got over that. We entered our information into a website called MM2 which meant Marine metered squared. I hoped you liked my blog post about our investigations, Feel free to leave a positive and motivating comment, hold on I am going to be posting over the summer about the summer learning journey. Blog you later.

This the link that will take you to the website

Pepeha time

Hey blog buddies, this week I wrote a pepeha. A pepeha is a way to introduce yourself in Maori. We did a full pepeha saying who you are, where you from, your mountain, your grand parents and so on and so on. My favourite part was doing were I am from. I took a couple photos and made a screencastify hope you like them. 

The hardest part was making the toku toku panel paterns. Drawing them was very hard but they were fun to create. Writing the pepeha was not that hard. 
My favourite part was writing my pepeha because I thought of my family when I was doing it.
Please feel free to leave a positive comment, bye bloggers.

Gala day slideshow !!!!!

Hi bloggers, this past week has been so crazy. Your probably thinking " Why has it been so crazy Abby" and that is because it was our school gala day. The day was great there was games, stalls, slip n' slides and more. This Monday we created a six thinking hat slideshow. I wanted to get you in with all the latest work I have been doing. Here is my slideshow.




I hope you liked my slideshow about the gala day. Now that you have watched my slideshow  did you want to be there? Please leave a positive and motivating comment, Don't worry I will still be posting over the summer. I will be participating in the summer learning journey. So stay tuned. Bye bloggers!!!!

Making Tote Bags!

Hi bloggers, this week was a little different. First we had a school trip down to our local beach to do some research then we had athletics and I came 2nd in high jump. Anyway I am going to be talking about our Gala Day. My class Hauraki  have made tote bags to reduce the use of plastic bags. I am going to be showing you a step by step procedure. But here are some really cool photos, if you are wondering the people in the photos blogs will be at the bottom.

 Kayci  and Caitlin  

 Dora

 The messy class room

   

Time for the procedure :

How to make a Tote bag. 

What you will need:

Fabric 

Sewing machine 

Straping

Procedure :

1. Cut two pieces of your fabric just bigger than you want the bag to be.

2. Sew the two pieces of fabric together with both patterns facing in. Making sure you don't sew all four, just sew three sides.

3. Then fold over the top about 2 centimetres down and sew along, then fold down about a half a centimetre and sew making sure you don't sew your bag together.

4. Fold your bag the right way out, then sew your straps on like this.   

5. Iron everything.

6. You are done.

My favourite part of the whole process was sewing because I learnt a new skill. My least favourite part was picking fabric.

More about the use of plastic and why we should stop using it:

1. It is causing harm to sea life.

2. Plastic bags are not biodegradable.

3. Plastic bags are mistaken for food.

Help all wild life by saying no to plastic bags. 

I hope you liked my blog post on The Gala day and how to sew a tote bag.

Feel free to leave a positive and motivating comment bye bloggers.

Blog links 

Kayci

Caitlin

Dora

My reading slideshow

Hi Blog buddies, this week I finished my reading slideshow. You probably saw my last blog post called 
" Totally wacky wild self's ". Have you made a wild self yet ???? I finished the whole  eleven slides. So guess what, I wanted to share mine with you AGAIN. So here it is:




We had to complete each slide and present the slide show in a group of five or six. then we created a tittle page  for our book, if you did not know my book was called crack in the sky by Kyle Mewburn. Here it is:

 I all so had a cringe video of me reading My favourite part. Here it is:

CRINGE ALERT 

In the reading slide show we would have to complete each slide to a high standard.
I hope you liked my slide show, title page and my video.
please feel free to leave a positive and motivating comment, Blog you later.

Totally wacky wild self !

Welcome back bloggers, this week we have been very busy working on reading slideshows. We did it on a novel we had to read. There was eleven different slides with activity's to complete. One of the slides was  to create a minor character and main character. 😃 I really enjoyed making the minor character so I decided to share mine with you.

This link will take you to build your wild self

My book was Crack in the Sky and the book was very interesting, I am not going to tell you anything about it because I don't want to spoil the story. we had to read the novel fully and complete the slide show fully. 

We had to describe there actions, personality and looks. Mum is very lay back and goes with the flow. she likes to help people also. 

I hope you liked my work, feel free to leave a positive and motivating comment. 

Bye bloggers.

Crazy cross country

 Kia ora blog buddies. This Tuesday the whole school did  cross country. While a year  group was running there was 6 activities we did, all the year six's lead the games. When it came up to our year level I got really nervous but I ended up coming fifth. which I thought was pretty good. My fabulous teacher took some photos. Here they are:

  

My favourite part was the run, but if I were to pick one of the bus stop games it would have to be the blindfold game. Have you done cross country? If so what place did you come?
I hope you liked my crazy cross country blog post.
please feel free to leave a positive and motivating comment. Don't forget to answer my questions to.
Blog you later bye. : )

The crazy world of science

Hi blog buddies,
Today I went to The crazy world of science show. They were on tour when they came to our school. The people that were doing the show were Richard and Robyn. In the show we learnt about fire, water, bubbles, balloons and even nappies.  The Man that was doing the show was really cool and I even got to go up the front. This is a video of me at the front holding a leaf blower:

I looked a little bit stupid, but I had loads of fun I got a balloon animal I named Lucy as well

My favourite part was when he was talking about bubbles.
To make a simple bubble mix you need:
Water
Soap
Air

Then you use what ever you can find  to make the bubbles.

 What is H2O ?
H2O is water ( you know what water is so I don't need to tell you)
The H stands for hydrogen  the O stands for oxygen and the 2 means there are two atoms of hydrogen in the water molecule which basically makes water water.  

I wonder 
I wonder what the nappies were made out of. I am going to find out how they are made by looking on google

I didn't want to spoil the show so I will leave it at that, any way hope you like my blog post. Please feel free to leave a motivating  comment, bye bloggers.

Snowboarding Sensation

What's  up blog buddies,

Last week I learnt how to snowboard! 

You probably think that I am not telling the truth but I am.

I stayed in a room with all my best friends. 

Our camp was at Mt Ruapehu ( Mt Ruapehu is in the North island of New Zealand )

We made a slide show of our trip and I wanted to share mine with you!

Here it is:

What was easy?
The work,  I found it easy because the topic we were working on was fun. 

What was hard? 
Learning how to snowboard. When you are on the mountain it is a lot harder than it looks. I thought the hardest part was turning. 

What was fun?
Everything, in our free time we could go sight seeing, snowboarding or skiing or tobogganing. I loved racing my Mum.

My room buddies also have blogs the links will take you to them.

Izzy's blog
Stevie-lee's blog
Sylvia's blog

Hope you liked my work feel free to leave a positive comment, blog you later.

Can I build a playground?

Hey blog buddies, today we made a Tinker-cad playground. The aim was to design a playground that the juniors could play on. We were designing it for the juniors because there play ground was taken out.
Here is a screencastify describing they elements of the playground.

Do you think I should add anything to the playground?
I found this quite challenging because I am not good at designing things.
If you have used Tinker-cad then you might know the struggle.
If you like my work please feel free to leave a positive comment.
Bye bloggers!

Taekwondo time

Hey blog buddies,
On Thursday our class went to Taekwondo.
Our instructor has taught us how to kick, punch and do a lot of exercises.
This week was our kicking competition.
I looked Ridiculous when I was kicking, however my friend Caitlin won the competition.
Before the competition we did relays and my favourite relay was shoulder taping.
Shoulder tapping is when you go down in push up position and you tap your shoulders.
Here are some photos:

The last one was the photo of me jumping!
Do you like Taekwondo ?
My least favourite part is having to take my shoes and socks of in 10 seconds.
Thank you for checking out my blog.
Feel free to leave a positive comment!
Catch you next time blog buddies!

I can build a tent?

This week in  geometry math I a made model of a tent. They had to be 3D and  have different shapes. I used  equilaterals and squares. 

An equilateral is a  half triangle.

I found It very tricky because you would do something and it would collapse. 

I think  it was collapsing because of the amount of clay and not a lot of tooth picks.

To make it we used the moulding clay to stick the toothpicks into and and I used more tooth picks to act as support. 
Here are some photos:

 

To make the model  we had to use:

Plasticine clay

tooth picks 

mine was very stable in the end. And I needed to use lots of toothpicks.

It was all a bit frustrating in the end. I had some clay extra so I made furniture.

I made a chair (that sort of looks like a toilet seat) under the chair I made carpet. and a bed.

If i did it again I would change how much of the clay I used and the design.  

My favourite part was 

Please feel free to leave a positive comment bye bloggers.

A comic?

Hey blogging world a couple of weeks ago Izzy and I made a comic strip. The comic had to be about something to do with cyber smart. Izzy and I did one about E-mails since we send a lot of them.
Bing! There it is, the moral (meaning) is to be kind to others. We tried to make it simple so you guys would get it.  I found it was easy but others didn't. I found it easy because all we were doing was writing down a conversation. If you want to see my partner Izzy's blog it is Here.!
Feel free to leave a positive comment.
Bye bloggers.

Painting the town

Hey blogging world, this week my reading group read painting the town. The book is based in Christchurch and it is about painting and making people happy. It helps people get over the things they lost in the earthquakes. This is one of the paintings from the book.

We did a personal response on the book and I wanted to share mine with you.

If you would like to see it click the link below.
Click here

Every one in the reading group had to plot down 3 points in each block.
In the response we had to include a question what we liked what we did not like, what we would changed and  so on and so fourth. My favourite part was asking the questions.

Have you read the book painting the town?

Feel free to leave a positive comment.
Bye bloggers.

 

Te Waka Ako thinking hats

Hi blog buddies,  I have moved into a new learning environment with the 2 other classes in the senior syndicate. The new learning environment allows us to communicate with the other 2 classes bringing us the yellow area also known as the quiet  area. The green and blue areas also known as the louder area's and last but definitely not least the orange area known as the art area.

This  work was called de Bono Thinking Hats. I had to include information about the class room I had to include good things, negative things, and how I feel. However I found what was creative and what should I do now hard.  The reason it was hard was  because I had only been in the class for 2 days . I thought it was fun and I got to write down what I felt.
This is a link to a website that will tell you what an ILE is and what an ILE can look like. http://architecturenow.co.nz/articles/listen-up/
Our new learning block is an ILE which means innovating learning environment.
Here are some photos of the opening ceremony!

 I hope you like my work please feel free to leave a motivating comment bye bloggers.

The Tooth

Hey bloggers I have been working on a slide show! The slide show is about The Tooth by Des Hunt. the story is about a boy and how his mother fell in a river trying to save her son, sadly his mother drowned and the boy survived remembering he saw a tooth of some description. The rest of the family was trying to find the tooth and they ended up finding a whole dinosaur body in bones!

I found it very hard because I know absolutely nothing about dinosaurs. I recommend this book because it is very funny yet full off facts. the book is long. But the perfect type of long for most readers.
Hope you liked the slide show. Please feel free to comment and follow me!

The Anzac dog

Hi bloggers in class we read Caesar the Anzac dog. It was about a dog that went as a riffle brigade mascot to  World War 1.  He went with Tom his owner. His owner Tom was a ambulance driver.  



It took me soooo long to finish, so I really Hope you like it. I have to say it was quite sad, this book
but there is a link to a very cool blog on the slide.  If for some reason it does not work the blog is called Children's War books. It is a site that  has books you can read and a whole section on Caesar the Anzac dog.
please feel free to leave a positive comment! 
Bye bloggers.

Trench diary

Hi blog buddies I did a trench diary of what it might of been like in World War 1. I had to use my five senses to describe what it could have been like.

WALT describe using our senses

	I can see People getting shot. I can see People crying. I can see People limping. I can see people setting of bombs. I can see people slipping.
	I can hear Bombs going off. I can hear Talking . I can hear people being shot. I can hear people crying. I can hear people huffing and puffing.
	I can taste the bitter rain. I can taste the mud getting splashed . I can taste the gross food. I can taste the yuck muddy water. I can taste the bugs that fly in my mouth.
	I can smell the mouldy food. I can smell the gas. I can smell the old feet.. I can smell the mud. I can smell the smoke.
	I can feel the lice crawling all over me. I can feel big rats. I can feel the grip of my gun. I can feel slimy mud . I can feel my tears running down my face.
	I can not wait to go home.
	Will I come out of this okay?

  

Hope you liked my work. I have to say it was quite hard because I was not in World War 1.

Please leave a positive comment! 

Anzac Day

Hey everyone I am back. I am going to show you my writing. We had to write a recount on Anzac Day or what we did on Anzac Day. I hope you like it.

Anzac mean :

Australian New Zealand Army Corps

What did I do on Anzac Day?

“Ohhhhhhh!” I groan as I lift my head off the pillow. It was around 5:50 am but it was just Dad waking me up to go to the Dawn parade.

Just Dad and I were going to the Dawn Parade because Max, Alex and mum did not want to get out of bed.  Brrrm the car starts and within 10 minutes we are at the entrance of the Domain, now for the long walk to the Museum. Ok now we are actually there and we have the Anzac booklet.  Just in time for the service to start.

The air force cadets walk on followed by the army cadets. They stand in corners and some stand with their arms by their sides and looking at the wall of the cenotaph for a sign respect. The man starts to talk about a true story wrote by a soldier. Well that is what i think he said,  but I am not really sure.

About 20 minutes later we sing a song. I didn’t know the words but I tried to learn them as we all sang along. It was almost over and people were laying there poppies in a sign of respect for those who gave there lives for our freedom.

We are back at the car and by this time the sun was out and it was beautiful. As I step out of the car and walk into the house I thank my dad for taking me to the Dawn Parade early in the morning.

About 40 minutes later I make my Mum and Dad some breakfast.  Then I hear “Abby, Abby come outside!”  Of course it was Izzy wanting to play. I rush inside and ask my Mum and Dad if I can go over the road to Izzy’s house. They say fine you can go for an hour.

We played on  her trampoline then we went inside and played with toys. It was time for me to go home so I ran back over the road and Mum was making a hot drink so I offered to make the hot drinks. It now was almost bed time so I headed off to bed.

Today was so much fun.

I hope you guys enjoyed my recount.  I found it a little bit tricky because it was like a week  before we did it but it was a lot of fun.

Please feel free to leave a positive comment on my blog bye.

Who is looking at my blog?

 Hello and welcome to my blog. In my cyber-smart class we did a google drawing to show who I thought looked at my blog!
I thought that it was a little hard but it was fun.  I also think that it is a great thing to look at doing.
I hope you liked my work.  Feel free to leave a positive comment!

Welcome

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