Wednesday, 5 February 2020

" I Wonder ... ? "

WALT follow the the statistical Inquiry Cycle


Tuesday, 10 December 2019

Summer Learning Journey Teaser Week Task. Day 1.

Today we were doing the Summer Learning Journey teaser week tasks. This was task number one. It is day 2 of the teaser week.



Taku Mokai

In our class we have been learning about how to introduce them in Maori for our upcoming pet day. I chose to write about my cat Shadow. Here is my poster about her.

Wednesday, 4 December 2019

The Dreamgiver



Task: watch the video ‘Dreamgiver.’  You then have to write a short story or piece of descriptive
writing using this video as your inspiration. 


-We are learning to be descriptive writers (paint pictures with words)  so that our readers can
imagine what it is we are writing about and find our writing engaging. 

https://vimeo.com/106989758 - This video link may work better. 
     
The Dream Giver 


On a dark and stormy night something flew past my window. I heard fluttering
wings and saw something glowing but the glow was muffled by my curtains.
My heart skipped a beat and I couldn’t move. My parents told me this place
was paranormal but I never believed them! I forced myself to lie down and I
tried to sleep but then my shutters opened. A very ugly thing flew into my
dormitory window. The reason I slept in a dormitory was because I was in
college. Nobody was awake but they would have fainted if they saw that ugly
thing! He placed his sack onto my bed and then took a glowing orb from the
sack and flew over to Lisa’s computer. He cracked the orb in half and poured
it onto the computer.  A golden figure appeared and I gasped. It was Lisa’s
dream. He did the same to Anna’s necklace and Lily’s photo of her parents.
Then as the clock struck midnight a gust of wind blew through the dormitory
and made one of the glowing orbs fall onto my book. 

I was up to the chapter where the villain became the monarch. Suddenly I
was sucked into a dream that took me to a strange place. I recognised the
illustrations of the villain from my book and gasped. That gremlin fairy or
whatever it was, had put me in my own book! The villain saw me and chased
me onto the edge of a cliff. I realised that I was the person he wanted to kill.
I tried to scream but my vocal cords were frozen. I stepped backwards and
heard stones falling off the edge of the cliff. That stupid gremlin had
condmmed me to death. Suddenly he flew through into the book and trapped
the villain in an iron cage. I closed my eyes and I was back in my own bed.
I sat up and saw the gremlin. He walked over and said in a voice that sounded
like thorns, “ Kid promise not to tell anyone about me or dreams will just be a
silly gremlin flying into your room and cracking eggs. ”  I promised him this
and then...



Friday, 22 November 2019

All My Algebra DLO's

Packing my bags for...

In Room 7 on Fridays we had Mrs Wylde teaching us. She read us the poem " Packing My Bags For Mars" by James Norcliffe. She then made us write our own poem in the style he wrote his except we had to make it about a different place. Here is MY poem.

Success criteria:
WALT Develop our own poem in ( packing my bags for mars By James Norcliffe. WALT use increasingly  descriptive vocabulary to add interest to our writing. WALT have some fun and use creative ideas and our imagination.

Packing my bags for the Underworld

One heavy metallic, 
Shiny metal suitcase 
Full of cotton fibres woven into 
Lightweight flameproof metal
To carry my flameproof clothes

So they don’t melt

One special, homemade
Shiny smooth, heat resistant
Air filtering, respirator for breathing clear cool energy giving air

So I don’t suffocate

One precious,
From the heart, golden
Embroidered with diamonds
Bracelet worn around my wrist

So I don’t forget about home

One hallow infused
Sunray and Moonlight
Made from the finest of the
Heavens core,
 Crystal to  fend off the creatures of the underworld

Keeping me safe

One precious friend

So I am never alone

By Emma. B



Tuesday, 12 November 2019

Collaging Google Drawing

We have been learning how to make a collage on google drawings. We had to use the explore, mask and arrange tools to get our collage to come together. We had to make and NZ bird and put it into it's habitat. It was a lot of fun and I am very pleased with my bird.