waiuta Angus and Fred

On the 5th of December 2018 room 5 of Awahono School went to Waiuta camp for 3 days. When we were there we went on a few walks. and we had a camp diary to keep track of what we did for days we were there. When we got back I made a slideshow together with my friend Fred, here it is.

Reading Profile

Every term in class we make a reading profile. We had to include our favourite book, favourite author, last terms reading goals and our Reading Plus goals. Here is my reading profile.

Welcome

Pet Day Presentation

At the start of the term we had pet day. I have done a pet day presentation. I included my writing about my pet, also I put some photos of my pet, I also put photos of other pets as well. 
Here is my presentation.

   

Chair

The other day we were joined with room six with Mrs Ealam, and we had to decorate a plain old chair with a theme. My theme was cars and trucks. I did my chair with Blake, Tane and Fred from room five. We did this because there were old chairs in the PE shed that no one used.

Also we stuck the cars and trucks with pva glue then when it dried we had to put 2-3 layers of Mod Podge glue. I think next time Blake, Tane, Fred and I should not put a label on because it is just random.
Here is my group's chair.            

Spring Holiday Maths Challenge

Spring Holiday Reading

I have been reading a book called (Captain Underpants and the tyrannical retaliation of the turbo toilet 2000) and we had to write a descriptive  sentence of our character and here is mine.

Collage

In  class we have been doing work  on a collage which is based on plastic.  We had to watch a video about plastic and how it is bad  for the environment. We made some sea animals to stick on our collage and we added some  plastic bits and some  pieces to stick on. We found it hard when we had to draw the sea animals.  Next time we could try and find a more easy picture to draw. The animals have good impact because of all of the bright colours and  we could  put a dark colour around the animals to make them stand out.

 

Maths DLO

In class we have been doing maths DLO's and we had to create questions around double number lines  of some things we are learning to do. Jake  Lochie and I did a DLO and we had to read some slides our teacher gave us .  Here is our DLO.

Persuasive Writing

In class we have been learning to do persuasive writing so we had to write a persuasive letter to our principal and it was about the plastic bin liners in the bins in the classrooms. We had to use present tense, we had to have three reasons why and we had to organise your ideas in paragraphs. Here is my letter.

Dear Mrs Wallace,

I’m writing to you about the plastic bin liners in the rubbish bins in the classrooms. I think that we should stop using them. Here are three good reasons why.

Firstly, every year we use 2,000 clear rubbish plastic bin liners. That is lots of money and we could save all of your money if we didn’t use bin liners in the school.

Secondly, after school the bin liners are just put in big black rubbish bags and then thrown away into the rubbish. There is no point  having plastic bin liners because we could just put the rubbish straight in the black bag also they should be banned in the school.

Finally, we only need plastic bin liners for wet things because if we don’t use bin liners for wet things then it will make the bins dirty because the wet things will dry and then the wet things will stick to the bin and then it will ruin the bin. With dry rubbish it won’t ruin the bin because it won’t stick to the bin.         

In conclusion, remember that we don’t need bin liners for the bins in the classrooms because we use 2,000 a year. After school they are just put in big black bags which we don’t need and we only need the bin liners for wet things!       

Yours sincerely,

 Angus

  

The Plastic Mountain

In class we have been learning to describe when we get given a photo to describe and we had to pretend we were one of the people in the picture. We have to use  present tense and extend our sentences with more detail. We used our senses to describe sights, sounds, smells, feelings and sensations. Here is my writing and the picture we were describing.


 The Plastic Mountain
Another day at work sorting out empty plastic bottles and putting them in different  baskets on top of this big mountain. Crunch, crunch, crunch, I keep stepping on bottles  and it hurts because  some bottles don’t have bottle caps on them. I really don’t like to do this but I have to or I won’t get any food, water or money. I do not like this because  it smells gross and I do not want to do this because I have to cut  labels off plastic bottles and  it is very boring. There's so many bottles and I have to  cut  off  all of these labels. This is going to be so boring to do. 
I just wish I could afford to have a have a house but unfortunately I don’t have enough money to buy one. I have to sleep on this big mountain of plastic bottles and it is not soft it is very hard.

El Gregoe

On September 4 2018  a magician and ventriloquist come to our school. His name was El Gregoe. He performed some illusions on us that were very cool. He told us about bullying and he also told us to use your wits which stands for walk away, ignore, talk and stop and walk away. I learned to stop bullying and just get on with it. My favourite part was when El Gregoe made my friend float.

       

Shapes

Me and my buddy Fred did a screencastify for maths. It was about 2d shapes. Here is our  screencastify.   

Author Visit

On Tuesday 28 of August 2018 the author Jenny Sommervell came to our school for a visit. She showed us the books she wrote. She wrote the Eel Hunt, the New Old Truck and the Day Dad Blew Up the Cowshed. her favourite one was the Day Dad Blew up the Cowshed and she also read two books to us, she read The Day Dad Blew up the Cowshed and the Eel Hunt. I learned that to be a writer is a hard process.  

Here are some photos of her when she visited. 

Symmetry

Today in class we have been learning about lines of symmetry. The line of symmetry is  when you fold a piece of paper and there is a line that divides the paper in half. We had to get a piece of paper and fold it in half. Then we had to rule a straight line and make four different shapes with four sides, ones with over four sides and  four ones with three sides. 

Reading Profile

In room 5 we had to make a Reading Profile. We could put it on a google drawing or a slideshow. We had to put information like what our goal is and  what book we are reading.

Fraction Art

 In class we had to do a thing called fraction art. We were learning fractions like wholes, eighths, halves, sixteenths, and quarters. First we had to cut out a whole then we had to fold the whole into a half then we had to fold the half into quarters then we folded the quarters into eighths and then we had to fold the eighths into sixteenths. The fractions I used for my jelly fish was a half and eight sixteenths.      

Holiday reading book

The School had to do a reading challenge for the holidays, here is my book.

Reading Plus Progress

Today me, Tahlia and Rawiri did a screencastify about our Reading Plus Progress and  how we are  going on it. Here is our screencastify.

Sid

We have been learning to describe in our writing. We had to include what Sid looks like and what he does. 

Sid

Sid is a cat that comes to our school, and he gets whiskers biscuits from Mrs Whitmore.  He is called Sid because there is a book called Six Dinner Sid, and in the book Sid has different owners.

Sid is a black and white with swampy green eyes. He has a black smudge on his nose. Sids fur is very fluffy even though its not long. Sid has smooth white whiskers and also smooth sharp claws. 

Sid is very naughty because he jumps on the tables and trolleys.    

Sid is a very good hunter. One play time Sid brought a mouse to Lochie’s feet and it was still alive. Another lunchtime Sid got a bird and took it into the bush. He likes catching things like mice and birds. 

Sid is very naughty but I think he can be good because he gets mice but he's naughty because he gets birds.   

Picasso Portraits

In class we have been painting portraits like Pablo Picasso did. Pablo was famous for his art. We had to do a side view and the other side had to be the profile of the face, but they had to have different looks. We based our portrait on Picasso's cubism period. Here is my portrait.

                                                                                                                         

Drawing Of Me

Reading Profile

My Blog Profile

Here is my first post.