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.

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.

Immersion assembly

Walt: using exciting language.

Today was the first day back to school. This is going to be the 3rd term of the year, this terms topic is
Move ya’ body! What do you think our topic is about?

Our school theme is about fitness, and keeping active. Fitness means doing exercise, and working out.
Our school theme is also about keeping healthy. Which means making sure we are eating the right foods
and keeping hydrated which mean drinking lots of water.

Teams 4 topic is about making exercise and fitness FUN. Teams 4 movie was a bit silly. Teams 4
teachers talked about creating a game by, using our mind and creativity. Teams 4 teachers made a
game which was called spoon hokey, they put the end of a spoon in their mouth and hit a dodge ball with
the top of the spoon.

I want to learn about how we could make fitness safe for people. Like people who needs medical help,
not just safe but fun too.  I want people to enjoy themselves as they exercise. It might be a little hard to
think about but it is going to be worth it, because it is going to help people's health.

I think this term is going to be very fun, but also very exhausting. We should be doing lots of exercise to
keep us fit. Doing exercise keeps me busy and so I have hardly anything to do.

CLEANING THE WHOLE HOUSE!!

Before we go to our grandmother's house my family are going to be cleaning the whole house. My task is to clean my room and my mum and dad's room.  My brother's task is to clean his room, and the bathroom. My sister's task is to clean her room and my little sister's room. My dad's task is to clean the outside of the house. My mum's task is to clean the sitting room and the dinning room/kitchen. I have just done my whole room and I just decided to blog about what is going to be happening today. Once we get to our grandmother's house we get to relax and do NO CLEANING, but we do have to help look after our little sisters. All of my sister's including me are going to our grandmother's house strait after we clean the house!! SEE YOU SOON!! 

STAY TUNED ON MY BLOG, 

I MAY BE DOING SOME MORE HOLIDAY BLOGGING!

Good bye FANS!

So it's the last day of the term and I just wanted to say that it has been a wonderful second term of 2018! I have had lots of fun with Mr Goodwin, Miss Parent and Miss Szymanik. Stay in touch on my blog because I may be doing some holiday blogging this holiday. I hope you all have enjoyed reading all my blog posts and what I have done this term. My Favorite highlight was probably hanging out with all my friends. We had lots of fun talking, playing around and all other things. Thank you to all the teachers who had to put up with all of the kids and I hope you all have a happy holiday! 

BE SAFE!

Game Spab

Walt: Review A game and write a description.

Spab

The game Spab  is a game on Cool Math Game, to win you would have to think critically about your
strategy. There are letters from you keyboard involved to get up on to high places. Also the arrows from
your keyboard help you to move,  If you fall off the platform you have to restart the level. I liked that I had
to think carefully about each moved I made.

How I could improve on the game Spab is to look at the keys that I am using. Sometimes I fell off the
platform because I was pushing the wrong keys and so I had to restart the level.  

I would definitely recommend this game because it is loads of fun and it helps you to think really hard of
what moves you make. The one thing they should be able to improve on is to make sure each time you
carry on with Spab you carry on with the same level.

Task Description:

In this task we got to play a game that we have never played before. We could only use the games
on Cool math games.com. once we finished playing that game we had to review that game and said,
what you liked about that game, what they could improve on and why/why not you would recommend
that game.

Fun Writing

Walt:Write a fun piece of writing.

There we were getting ready to line up for assembly. Minutes later we walked into the the hall and sat down. Suddenly Mr Burt appeared and talked about the new korero for this week. This week Mr Somerville had the korero ready for the whole school to see. The korero was about Being sensible in the right time. Mr Somerville had an act to show. Seconds later he sat down on the stage stair with a microphone near him. All you could hear while sitting down was silence, until all the students laugh, and laugh, and laugh till they all run out of breath. Mr Somerville shouts at the top of his lungs, “WHO DONE THIS!!!” He says. All the students stop laughing and see that someone has put a whoopee cushion under his seat! They all laugh again and again and again. Nobody knows who put that whoopee cushion on the stage stair, and this case will be forever unsolved. TO BE CONTINUED…….


Task description:

In this task we had to write a fun piece fun writing. Each student from room 7 reading got to complete a form. We had to include our names, a character, a problem and a setting. Once we completed that form Mr Goodwin would get a email and will pick a topic for his students.

Matariki Day Recount

Do you know what Matariki is? Well Matariki is a celebration of a Maori new years, Each year people set off firework to celebrate like always. This year Pt England school split up into different groups to celebrate Matariki.

A couple of days before we selected what group we wanted to be in. We had a lot of options, one of the options that I really wanted to be in was movie making. Somehow I didn’t  chose a group. On that Friday we did the normal thing and got sent off to our groups, because I didn’t choose a group I had to see Mr Somerville. I begged him to be in movie making with Mrs Langitupu and I got to be in that group.

Once I arrived at ICT witch was where we did movie making, Mrs Langitupu split all her students into groups for filming. I got split up into a group of 5 and we got to film all around the school and asked people what they did so far. First we went to MKR (My Kia Rules), we asked a bunch of questions to a couple of people. We went to most of the cooking groups first but then we decided to go to one of the sports group. We interviewed Mr Moran and He talked so much so we had to cut some of him out.

After filming we went to go have morning tea and there was a crazy people, after morning tea we went back to our groups. We did the same thing and went around the school, interviewing people. We asked the same simple questions and we got a lot of the same, silly, and crazy answers. The group that I really enjoyed interviewing was one of the arts and craft group. They were painting a background and you could have it any way you would like. Then they cut out some paper stars and decorated it with glitter, drawing and much more.

Overall I had a really fun day. I loved going around the school, interviewing people and filming. The best part was that I got to be in charge of the camera! Have you ever celebrated Matariki like this? If you have please leave a comment down below and share what you did!

Little red riding hood (with a twist)

Little sisters and halloween

Once in a land far far away there lived two girls and a mother. They don’t live to far away from their
granny but it was halloween. Their village was filled with scary decorations. Even though their forest was
filled with beautiful plants and  cute animals you never know what could happen.The 2 girls were sisters.
The first sister loved the color red, her name is Sophia, but the second sister love the color purple and he
name is Isabella. Their mum would call them little red riding hood and little purple riding hood. Each day
they would always wear a cape with there favorite color

One day it was halloween and their mother wanted to send them off with some food to their grandma’s
house. So she called their grandma and it went straight to voicemail. “Oh Well the mother said. I'm going
to have to do a voicemail” “Hi Granny the grand children will be coming over later today.” Little red riding
hood and little purple riding hood got dressed into their halloween costumes and set off to granny's house.
Before they both left their mum handed them a basket full of treats and said “don’t stop walking and never
talk to any strangers.” Little red riding hood and little purple riding hood started traveling to their granny’s
house.

The Mystery

The forest was filled with lovely flowers and even cute animals. Some of grannies best friends are up to
something and no one knew what was happening. Granny’s friend the wood chopper distracted Sophia
and Isabella and said to them both “Look, Look at the lovely flowers why don’t you pick some flowers”
Little red riding hood replied “No sorry we don't have time, My mum said that we can’t talk to any strangers.
We need to get to our granny’s house.” The wood chopper panicked and no one knew why he said “I’m sure
your granny would love to have some beautiful flowers in her house” Sophia and Isabella both wondered
“Hmm Maybe she would” So for a few minutes they went picking for some flowers for their granny. While
picking flowers the wood chopper snuck out and ran off. Once Sophia and Isabella finished picking flowers
they bundled them up and walked once more.Finally Sophia and Isabella arrive at granny’s house. It was all
decorated for halloween. They both knocked on the door and said ”Granny we’ve come to deliver some food
for you”  “come in come in the door is open” Granny said

The arrival

Sophia opened the door and saw granny lying there in her bed. Covering her face with her blanket“Hi
Granny It’s nice to see you” Isabella said. Granny slowly uncovered her face and said ”it’s nice to see you
too” Sophia jumped and said “Granny, what big ears you have” Granny said “the better to hear you” slowly uncovering her face. Sophia said with a soft voice“But granny what big eyes you have” “The Better to see you with” granny said still uncovering her face. Sophia and Isabella frigtenly said” “but granny what big teeth you have” Granny replied “of course the better the eat you with” Sophia and Isabella screamed!! While granny laughed taking off a wolf mask saying “Happy halloween” all her friends jump out saying “happy halloween to Isabella and Sophia. They were both confused and quite frightened. Granny said “Once i got the voicemail from your mother I've been setting up a little halloween gift for you both. Like the wood chopper he distracted you while I was getting ready. My house was already decorated and all I had to do is put my mask on”

As they went on with their party they had a awful lot of fun and the best halloween. They all had something to eat and Sophia's favorite was granny lemon cake. Isabella's favorite was the mini mince and cheese pies. All granny's friends danced along with granny and as they dances  Sophia and Isabella started to walk back home. As they walked back home Sophia and Isabella talked. did you have fun?” Sophia said. Isabella replied “I had heaps of fun and it was probably the best halloween I’ve ever had” and they talked away they made it back home all safe and sound.

The End

My Rocketcopter

Walt: Write a story using descriptive writing.

Task description:

Room 7 had to create a piece of writing and we had to use descriptive words about a invention that you have made up. But it had to be something that flies. After writing our story we had to create a screen castify and we had to explain what our invention was about and how I flies.

Doodle Jump

Walt: write using descriptive writing. 

Task description:

As you all know we have just had 2 weeks of holiday and in this presentation room 7 had to write a holiday narrative. We had to base it on one of our favorite holiday highlight. I have based it on when My grandmother, cousin and I go to Extreme which is a arcade. In this presentation room seven also gave it a little twist. It is also a pick a path story, in the middle of the story there are 2 options and you all get to pick witch one we should have done.

My dream bedroom

Walt: write an interesting piece of descriptive writing.

Task Description:

Room 7 had to complete the presentation above. We had to use a online tool to create our own dream bedroom with whatever you wanted but not something for the sake of it. After you finish creating your dream bedroom take a screenshot of what it looks like. the put that into your presentation and write a interesting piece of writing that explains what is in your dream bedroom.

Reti

Walt:scan text for relevant information.

Task Description:

In this google drawing we had to create a picture and label the objects in it. As you can see in my creation it has a hand held line, (fish) hook, lure and a reti board. A reti is a fishing devise the is used to move against the current, dragging a lure and hook.  A fishing lure is just like fishing bait.

Would You Rather.........

Walt: Make your own decisions and explain why.



Task Description:

Matua Brendon gave us a task and our task was would you rather. He gave us a question and we had the decisions to pick any answer we wanted. There was no right or wrong, but once we did pick our answer we had to explain why we picked that answer. After the first question, he gave us the option to make our own questions and answer them, or keep going on with the question that he gave us.

I've Made A Friend Thats An Egg....

WALT: structure a recount.

Today I made a friend.  Well not a real friend, but an egg friend…..

Have you ever had an egg friend before?

Today I thought we were going to sit in class and do some boring literacy, but we did something fun. This morning Mr Goodwin took some egg cartons out with some vivids, “Today we will be making friends” said Mr Goodwin. Friends? I thought to myself, but how?  I looked over at the eggs and vivids then said to myself we’re not making real friends but we will be making egg friends, I thought that was pretty funny. Mr Goodwin gave us an example of what we will be doing. He took out an egg from the egg carton and drew a face on the egg. Mr Goodwin asked “who has a name for my little friend” Marika yelled out  “Bob” the class was laughing on the floor with joy.

As we went on Mr Goodwin each gave us an egg, then the class drew a face on their egg. After the class drew their face on their egg we lined up safely outside. I made sure I didn’t drop or throw my egg. I was in intimated to throw my egg friend up in the air, but if I did I knew that there would have been a chance of me dropping my egg. Mr Goodwin lead us to the park. Luckily no one dropped their friend.

Once we got to the park Mr Godwin took pictures of us and our friends then gave u a task. “Go from one end of the park from the other” Said Mr Goodwin, “you can not put your friend in your pocket you have to carry it in your hand” we all sighed. 3,2,1 go, We raced fast but careful. I felt super scared because I didn’t trust myself I knew I was going to drop my friend, but I didn’t. I was pleased with myself because I did not crack my egg. Once I finished I lined back up and saw some people disappointed and laughing at themselves because they have cracker their friends.  I even saw one person crying because he dropped his friend. He must have wanted to be eggcellent at this task. Eggcellent, Get it.

Overall I think this was a fun way to start off my day.  It was fun, silly, crazy and funky. I recommend your class do this sometime because it is great fun.





Task Description:

Room 7 had to Create a recount about our egg friends and explain what we did. We had to describe what we were feeling and use our expressions in our recount. We all had to explain why or why not we liked this experience.

Start to 2018

WALT: Make sure that I am being Cyber-smart


Task Description:
For this task we had to make a copy of the presentation above. We filled out each slide and wrote about things that related to us or our families. We had to use different online tools to do so.