The start of the HOLIDAYS!

So today was the last day of school. I was so sad as I had to watch my friend cry for the last time at school. I am hoping she has a good life at her new school in intermediate. I have just received my Chromebook today and I am so excited to do some holiday blogging. I am also look forward to people all over the world looking at my special holiday blog posts. I am super excited for Christmas and hanging out with my family. I would like to say as part of my last day as a year 6, Thank you to all the teachers who put learning into our life and fun too. Thank you for teaching us and beveling us. I just want you to know that, we did work our hardest and pushed to reach our limits and goal. We hope you have had a blow away year with us!

See you next year!

Goodbye blog viewers.

Camp Concernt (Team Mansion)

This is my team item from camp.


We worked very hard on our camp item. Mansion came up with lots of ideas.  We wanted to add more but by the time we could have it was the last day to figure out what we were doing. I had lots of fun dancing with my friends. Thank you to Miss Tia and Egen for helping us come up with a dance. And also for taking Team MANSION!

Kawau island reflection

Mansion is the BEST! Us year sixes just came back from Camp Bentzon on Kawau island. It was the best
camp I have even gone on.

As we arrive at Camp Bentzon we looked out the water and saw a beautiful blue sea. We went up the front
of the ferry and listened as we waited for the boys to start off their Haka. Peter and Erin were waiting up
the front of the wharf, watching us as we nervously arrived at Camp Bentzon on Kawau  island. We
walked out of the ferry and dropped off our day bags at the front of the camp, we then walked back and
forwards delivering our weekly bags and food off at the front of the deck.

After a long time we then assembled next to the volleyball court where we all placed our day bags. We had
a bit of a talk and in the next minute we were all walking up the dreadful killer hill. I started very strong but all of a
sudden I started to breath quit heavily. We walked halfway round, then sat and ate our morning tea. We
walked some more and found our way on the other side of the hill, I did fall quit a lot but that only happen
while I was walking up the hill.

The next day after we arrived we started our rotations, but started our morning off with a long fitness course
up killer hill. The first activity Mansion B did was kayaking, Erin took that activity. We arrived at the
household of the kayaks and carried them out to the sea in pairs of two. We then made our way throughout
the big blue sea. Even from far away we could see Bentzon A and their sail boats. I did fall out of my boat
but that's only because we were playing a game. I only got to see one stingray, but the others got to see
about 2 or 3.

Our last rotation of the day was sailing. There were 3 people who could go single, Isaiah and Paschal were
the first to stick their hand up but no one else wanted to go, so I slowly put my hand up, all of a sudden
Peter jumped and instantly asked what my name is. I then told him and then became the demonstrator.
Straight after I got sent off my way. Not much wind that day and so I did take a while to move from one
spot to another. I loved sailing, I was the best thing I have ever experienced. There is about one phrase I will
probably always remember which is “Tiller to the sail.”

Thursday was our last day for normal rotations. Our first rotation was the confidence course known as the
concourse. Mr J gave us one task, to make sure all our fear was in our head and to hug your mama. We
climbed up nets and at the top we had to come back to the front. We hugged the pole like we were hugging
our mama. Halfway through it started raining. We were just about to climb through tires. Once it stopped
raining we skipped one course and moved onto the next one. It was lots of fun, but I wish we could have
done more courses.

Last of all we finished the day off with abseiling. We were all confused but we did find out what abseiling is.
We all thought it had something to do with water, but it was really all about climbing a big long wall. I was
terrified. Paschal was busting to go first, but all of a sudden he backed out. I was supposed to go second but
because Paschal backed out I had to go first. I really didn’t want to go but I was already hooked in, so there
was no turning back. I started climbing and all I could hear was my heart pounding and people cheering me
on. As soon as I reached the top I looked down, then looked back up. “I don’t want to go down” I said to
myself, then I realized this was going to be the last time I did abseiling for a while so I made my way down
slowly and terrified. I reached the floor and I was so happy.

We had our camp concert on Thursday. Each day at camp we practiced and practiced until we got our
dances perfect. Team Mansion used 3 songs. Who run the world? (girls!), I want it that way and all over.
We had a pretty good dance, lots of levels because the judges were looking for that. Concert night is also
known as prize giving. During prize giving I got best girl sailor. For our item we came second place. We
were tempting to come first.

Friday was our last day at Camp Bentzon. Friday was known as sports day at camp. We got to swim, play
volleyball, touch and play bush baseball. The first activity we did was swimming. I was hoping to swim last
but we ended up swimming first. We usually could jump of the wharf but because it was the last day we
just jumped off the pontoon. To get to the pontoon we had to swim there. Some people needed life jackets
because it was deep. I didn’t need one because I am a good swimmer. When we did our activities we got to
have another team with us usually playing against them.

The ending game we play was bush baseball. It was called bush baseball because we were playing baseball
in the bushes. We were playing against Bentzon A. Some of the bases were hidden but luckily people had
to stand by them. The score was 21-42 to Bentzon A, I think. We had so much fun even though we did
lose all our games.

My highlight of camp probably had to be every time we were in the water. I love being in water. I wish we
could have swam all day! I loved going swimming, kayaking, sailing, jumping off the pontoon and
jumping off the wharf.

I would like to say a big thank you to all the parent that turned up to camp and help us with our activities.
Thank you to Peter and Erin for doing this camp every year for the year sixes. I would also like to thank
my parents for providing the money for me to come to camp. One more thank you to all the teachers that
made this camp possible.

Overall this camp has been my favorite so far. Lovely place, amazing games, beautiful water and wonderful
weather. I would love to go back to Kawau island anytime soon.

The Haunted Mansion

Walt: Write a story using a story starter.

“I’m hoping to bring my diary along with me, wait what's that noise.” Creeping through the bedroom a big scary “ohh it just you.” “MUM!, EVA GET OUT OF MY ROOM!”. I’m getting ready for camp and Eva just walked in with a white sheet over her head, don’t judge, I don’t really believe in ghost. Do you?

We got off the bus, and got into a long squiggly line, passing our bags and putting them onto the ferry.
We all hopped on the ferry. Looking out the window we see dolphins jumping out of the water and whales
blowing water out of their blow horn! “Turns out, mum let me take my diary” “Ohh I don’t feel to good, i’m
going to go and sit down.” Minutes later we arrive at kawau island. STOP, LOOK AND LISTEN” Mr
Somerville called “everyone needs to help get all the bags out of the fairy and after we will be going up
killer hill” All the kids sighed. Passing the bags along we place them all on the floor and start to find our
way up killer hill. Huffing and puffing we all take our time up the hill. Some kids did trip and fall then they
had to come up killer hill all over again. Finally we finish walking up the dreadful hill and find our way to
our cabins.

“Dear Diary,

We have just dropped off our bag in our cabins. I’m in a room with Pisirian, Marika, Levonah, and Eden. Later tonight  we are all thinking of sneaking into that huge mansion next door, we’ll all probably just have a look around. Let me go check with them. They have all agreed on one thing, we are going to the mansion 9:00pm straight see you then. So it’s currently 7:00pm and we just finished dinner. We are all just about to go and play spotlight, wish me luck. Just finished our game and of course team mansion won. Getting ready for bed now (maybe). We are putting some warm clothes on and we are just about to leave.”

We all crept out of our cabin and almost got caught. On the lookout was Mr Goodwin, although he did l
look like he was asleep. He must be sleep walking. We arrive at the mansion and we tried to open the
door but its locked. We went through the back door. Who was stupid enough to leave the back door
open *flash back* Mrs Parrant used that door last. *back to reality* We went through the back door and
had a walk around, later we found things rattling and moving on the spot. We saw the lights flickering on
and off and later even saw doors opening and shutting. “Leave, you must leave” all of a sudden we got
softly pushed out of the door. We ran away and decided to never go back in there again.

When we got back to school Mr Somerville called the 5 girls who were stupid enough to sneak out and go
into the mansion. He showed us a video tape and it showed us sneaking around the mansion. Later after
the video he said  “We played you.” We were all confused. He yelled at us “WE PLAYED YOU GOOD!
It was all a joke someone found your diary and saw what you wrote in it” We all decided to give a lesson
and showed you what might happen if you can never see what might happen, that doesn't make sense.
You get what I mean. I’ll be calling your parents” Marika replied “So if you do show our parent they will
see that  you threatened their own children!” “ok i’ll keep it a secret “ answered Mr Somerville. All of a
sudden Pisirina jumped and said “Then how can you explain us getting pushed out the door.” “We didn’t
do that” answered Mr Goodwin standing out the door. Levonah replied then who did. “AHHHHH” they all
screamed.

To Be Continued.......

Sponge throw!

Walt: Create a successful recount

Water, what is water? Well, in my perspective water is life, fun, wet, cold and more. But what is water to you when you get to throw it at your teacher!?

This morning it was a bit more fun than usual. We started our morning off with getting ready for an
extreme fun time! Before we started our extreme fun time, Mr Goodwin gave us a little speech.
Part of it went like this, “you (as in all the team 4 classes) are going to be having a great time,
but your teachers not so much. This morning I saw teachers with a bag of spare clothes and a towel so
I had an Idea what we're going to do. We lined up outside, and walked in a squiggly line to the bottom
field and with a loud voice we received our instructions from Mr Somerville and Mr Jacobson.

Mr Somerville and Mr Jacobson had a bright orange vest on, as in they were going to do some road
works. Mr Somerville started us off with a big, good morning team, we all replied with echoing voices all
around the place. In that time our teachers were taking off jumpers, shoes and replacing them with
flippers floaties and goggles. In front of the classes were all together 9 colorful buckets filled up with
water and sponges and in front of the bucket were three chairs. We got into our literacy classes and
made three lines in front of the three buckets. I knew for sure what we were going to be doing, we were
going to chuck the wet sponges at our teachers. No wonder why our teachers were a bit stroppy this
morning.

Time to launch! The first set of people walked up to the buckets grabbed there sponges and released as
Mr Somerville yelled “ready, aim fire!” I was way at the back and so I had to wait a pretty long time for
my turn. There was a lot of noise and some pretty good shots too. About 5 minutes went past and it was
finally my turn. My first trow wasn’t so good as I hit Mr Goodwin on the leg, after my throw I went to
pick up my sponge and as I walked past Mr Goodwin I squeezed the rest of the cold water onto his
head. As flying wet sponges went through the air all three of our teachers were shivering by the first
throw.

Mr Goodwin was soaking by the time his whole class had hit him with the cold wet sponges. Half way
though Mr Somerville had called “whoever can get there teacher the most wet, will get to pour the
remaining cold water onto their teacher”. As soon as I herd Mr Somerville call whoever gets there
teacher the most wet, will get to pour the remaining cold water onto their teacher I started aiming for
Mr Goodwin's face. Poor teachers must have been having a hard time.  I was lucky to not miss
any of my shots, but there were a couple of shots that could have heart Mr Goodwin a lot. Our time
was over and Mr Somerville had chose from our three classes who got to pore the reaming water on
our teachers head, Chance, Pascal and Loseti, Chance poured it straight on top of his head Pascal
miss completely and Loseti poured it all over his head too.

This was such a fun time to have a play along with my friends and teachers. I hope we get to do this
another time, although our teachers would probably say no. Overall I had an amazing time getting my
teacher wet!

Task Description:

In this piece of writing we had to create a recount. This was actually a piece of writing for a test. We waited about a week to post this on our blogs. We didn't want to waste such a good piece of writing and so we decided to post it on our blogs.

Blindfolded

Walt: Use correct sentences to help structure 

When you hear the word blindfolds what do you think of? I think of smashing into things, trust, and also obstacle courses. I didn’t expect to be blindfolded today!

Our morning in class started off with getting ready for a fun yet nerve wracking experience. To get ready Mr Goodwin made us line up outside. We walked to the wet green field and listened to our intrusions. Our instructions were to find a buddy and sit down. Mr Goodwin told us about what we were going to be doing, we were going to be blindfolded and were going to be taken around the playground. When I heard the word blindfolds and playground I think my heart rate went up a lot with excitement. 

My buddy was Eden. Eden and I were politely arguing about who was going to be blindfolded and who was going to lead. Once we finished arguing it ended up to be that I was going to be blindfolded first. I put the black blindfold on and set off to my journey. I felt like I could trust Eden and so I just let her take me anywhere. We went on the monkey bars, climbed up the ladders and just enjoyed our time, “stop and listen” Mr Goodwin called (as some of you know we usually call stop, look and listen) He called stop and listen because some of us couldn’t see.

My time was over and it was my turn to lead. First I took Eden to the flying fox, She swung back and flue across to the other side. She did hit her leg a bit, although I was rapidly calling “put your legs up”. I don’t know if Eden did trust me? Because of that I decided to take her on higher things so I could gain trust. We went up some ladders down a pole and stood in the middle of a high wood platform. Mr Goodwin called “stop and listen” once more and our fun exciting time was over.

I didn’t think we would have had so much fun when doing such a scary thing. I really wish I could have gone on many different things and, also wish we could have done this all day. Overall this experience was so much fun, I hope we could do more things like this more often!

Task Description:

In this task room 7 had to write a recount. We had to use correct sentence to structure a correct paragraph. We also had to use descriptive language to write a recount. 

Term 4, Te Wa Toi

Walt: Use correct sentences to help structure our writing.

The holidays are over and school has started again. The theme this term is all about art. Our theme this term is called Te Wa Toi. Are you excited to be back at school?

One of my favorite hobbies are art. This term we are learning about art and what types of art we can use. I love to draw, color and paint. This term we also have prize giving, athletics, manaiakalani film festival, reports and year 6 camp.This is my last term of being a year 6 so I will miss my teachers. It’s gonna be a great term.


My first goal that I want to achieve this term, is to become a leader for year 6 camp, Kawau island. My second goal that I would like to achieve this term is to confidently animate a animation this term. I would like to show more detail and a better descriptive voice over.

I want to learn about why artist give their paintings and drawings certain names and why they put it up for so much money! Another thing I would like to learn about is the meaning behind paintings and why artist would give meanings to their paintings. One more thing I want to learnt about is what is origami.

Overall I think Te Wa Toi will be a fun yet busy term. There’s a lot on this term like camp manaiakalani prize giving, and i’m hoping to reach my goals, and learn lots about different types of art. Overall this will be a great last term of being a year 6!

Task Description:

For this task room 7 wrote about this new term, and what our goal and expectations are. Room 7 also took a lesson on how to write a proper conclusion. I really enjoyed learning about how to write a conclusion, and I hope to learn much more about artist, paintings and origami.

Decimal Bronze Problem

Walt: Understand Decimal place value


Task Description:

In this presentation Mr Goodwin has put in number for us to turn it into a decimal numbers. To help us with decimals Mr Goodwin has put in the trendy house. The trendy house has the trendy numbers. In each column there is the tens, ones, decimal point, tenths hundredths and thousandths. 

Goodbye Blog Fans

Hi everyone, 

As you should know it is the end of the term and we are going on to school holidays. My highlight from this term probably had to be (like always) hanging out with my friends. Although I really like what we worked on this year like, coding, group math, poster and more. A big thanks to all the teachers in team 4 for always being at school and for teaching us everyday. Today was very fun as it was loud shirt day. Loud shirt day is when we wear lots of bright colorful colors for people who can't hear properly and each color you wear, it represents something. I had lots of laughs, lots of dad jokes and more!

SEE YOU NEXT TERM

Jahzara

My Secret SHHHHHH!

Walt: write effective paragraphs using juicy and exciting words.

Hi my name is Jahzara, I’ve had some pretty crazy days this week. People have said that I have been acting weird, and now I know the reason why. I have super powers!

I’ve been out almost all day trying to find out my super powers and now I know what they are. Have you watch DC movies or series? Well, I have been watching the flash a lot lately. Now my superpowers are a combine of Flash and Killer frost (I’m not a killer).

In my perspective my powers look pretty much like a blur and white. It looks like a blur because how fast I am (Obviously) and it looks white because when killer frost uses her powers she usually uses snow and ice. I Have been feeling so hypo since I've gotten my new powers. I feel like I can run the whole city. Oh wait I already have.

I really want to put together a team because I personal think my powers can help our city. Our city is not the best, there are a lot of criminals and threats. I would totally use my powers to help this city but because I’ve just gotten them. I need a little more time to practice and think about what my powers are capable of. I’m still thinking of a name but for now just call me iceist.

Well watch out because, you might need help with anything. Find me if you need help, I’ll pretty much be anywhere. See you around.

Task Description:

In this task room seven had to write a story about super powers. We were allowed to use any super powers and as many super powers we wanted. We also got told to write an intro what our powers are/what they look like, what we would use our powers for and a conclusion.

Bronze Medal Maths

                                      Walt: use subtraction strategies to solve tricky problems.

                                             

Task Description:

In this task I had to answer some subtraction question. I was getting timed and also scored on how many question I got right and wrong. I got all of the questions right. They questions were pretty easy although I didn't get told my time.

Room 7 Student Typing Speed Data

Walt: Analyse data and display data using a graph

Task Description:

Today room 7 are working on data. The class did a words per minute test. After the words per minutes test we had a look at how many words we did in a minute. Mr Goodwin put all of our scores in a spreed sheet then put the link onto the class site. We had to make a copy and then put the score in alphabetical order. the we had to figure out how many people got 1-10, 11-20, 21-30 and 31+