End of year reflection

This term  we got up to alot of fun things. We have also been very busy. We started the term with athletics. Then we started readers theatre . In readers theatre we have been doing school journal plays
we have done a few plays so far. My group started with a play called "101 heiffers" I played the director while everyone else played cows.  Another cool thing we have started is concert practice! We are doing a mixture of songs by queen.  

New Maths

For the rest of the term we have changed up our maths rotations.  Now we get to choose what we do everyday. Our options are Maths buddy,Figure it out, and worksheet. Another change is that we no longer get the games box unless we have finished all of our maths.  We are also learning statistics and probility.  Yesterday I did the worksheet and it was about making survey questions for a vet clinic, tv ads and junk mail.  Our maths buddy is about spinners and the most likely times for it to land on a color.    

 

reading

Today, we did Reciprocal Reading. Reciprocal Reading is where a group of people come together to read and analyze a piece of writing in a school journal. We did the poem named “Early” written by Rachel Bush.

Here’s the poem:

“The Darkness wears a quiet sound

of fires died down and people who stir

in sleep. Soon they will slip on

their daily selves, button them up.

A rooster knows the time, says

it out loud when the day is less

than a light line above the hills 

A car hitches its shoulders,

decides to keep going.

It's lights make holes in the night.

One ruru calls

its own name.

It's wings are invisible.

They make no sound.”

This poem is about nighttime, and all of the things that happen in the night. The first paragraph details the day turning to night. The second paragraph details a rooster, telling us about how the rooster clucks when the night comes.

Paragraph three tells us about a car, driving in the night. The car turns on its headlights, illuminating the dark road. The last paragraph talks about an owl hooting, and how the owl is 

Dressing up And Jack O Mandarins.

Yesterday in our halloween morning we had a rotation about dressing up. We learnt that people used to dress up as a diguise so that the evil spirts couldn't recionise them. We had alot of differnt dress up items to chose from. 
Another rotation was Jack O mandarins. We got to decorate a mandarin with a sharpie to make it look like a jack O lantern or a carved pumpkin. .
Also at the end of the day if you were good Mrs Costello put your name into a hat and at the end of the day she had 8 books and if your name got pulled out you won one of the books. I happened to win one of the books.

Halloween Morning

This Morning in T4 we had a halloween themed morning. One of the tasks was a game called The Hollow Woods. We had to in groups match up the cards to make a story. Here is my groups story

Once there was a Gremlin who stumbled upon two large ancient gates. He decided to walk through them up the stone steps to a mysterious stone wall. The Gremlin thought the mirror was a door but it wasn’t, but he saw something, It was a girl who looked dead! He thought she might have been a player to but she failed the path. He decided to start the path. What will happen next?

TO BE CONTINUED...

Should Athletics be Compulsory for all school's?

 School athletics... Should It be compulsory? 

Do you think school athletics should be compulsory? Well i'l tell you why I think it should not be compulsory.

Paragraph 1: Opinions

Not everyone likes sports. Therefore we should not have to do athletics if we do not want to. Also some Primary kids may get tired from doing athletics after a long period of time. 

Paragraph 2: Activities 

Most people  dislike 1 or 2  of the activities. Eg Some people don't like high jump but they are compulsory to do it. Also some people may get teased if they do not do as well as other people.

Paragraph 3: Overall

Some people just overall don't like running, throwing, jumping, So I think they shouldn’t have to do it and they should pick if they can or can’t. 

Conclusion

In conclusion people overall don't enjoy the same things as everyone else. So that's why I think that athletics  should not be compulsory.

A Fair dip

Today in figure it out Charlotte George and I did a task called A fair dip. 

The first question was what do you need to find out first I think that the first thing they should do is find out how much of ingredients that they will need. 

The next question was Will the class make a profit on the current pricing. Our answer was yes because they were only charging 2 dollars per strawberry dipped in chocolate and we think a lot of people would buy them.

 The 3rd question was Suggest A Way the class can change the product. We think they could change the product by selling more than just strawberry's. 

 And the Last question was How many Boxes would they have to sell to make the target. We didn't work this out Because it was too hard for us

Term 3 reflection

This term we have been very busy and we have done a lot of learning. My favourite thing that we did this term was the Enlargement art. This was my favourite because I have never done it before.  I also enjoyed Japanese because I have never learnt Japanese before.  The subject I learnt the most of is maths I also enjoyed maths because we tried a lot of new things

Japan

Today we did our last lesson of Japan. We got to either make a video of us speaking Japanese, Try on a kimono or making Origami. I decided to try Origami for the first time. I tried the heart but I didn't do very well. I tried watching a tutorial on you tube but somehow I still messed up. 

Enlargement

Financial Literacy

Wearable Arts

Maps

Today we have been making our own maps!. We had to include  a perpendicular, Parallel, acute, Obtuse and a lot of different shaped buildings. Our ice cream parlour had to be a triangle our park had to be a octagon our restaurant also had to be a triangle.

Enlargement

Enlargement's

What is a enlargement? An enlargement is  where you have a small picture and you enlarge to make it bigger.  We had to make enlargements of any cartoon character of your choice. I chose Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh.   The first thing you need to do for a enlargement is to find a image of your choice. Then you need to do is find your scale factor. Then you need to start square by square on your image.  I found this very hard because I am not very patient. If I was to do this again I would just try and manage my time better so I could finish my colouring.

Co-Ordinates

Kiribati

This week my reading group has been reading a non fiction book called Global Warming- A New Battle for Kiribati. I learnt what Kiribati is and what Global Warming is and also where the Kiribati people are going. 1: Kiribati is a island that is slowing getting shrunk by Global warming. 2: Global warming. Global warming is where the snow in the North and South pole is melting and is causing the water to rise and islands to shrink. 3: The Kiribati people are going to Fiji when there island gets closer to being an ex island. For my must do I did another persons perspective and I chose the kids on the island's perspective.

Toy Story 4

                                                            Toy story 4

 Have you seen Toy Story 4? Well today I'm going to tell you why I think everyone should go check it out! See what you think.

On the First  Tuesday of the holidays, while our parents were at work, my brother Riley, a family friend and I went to the Regent Theatre to see Toy Story 4. Toy Story 4 came out into theatres on 20th of June 2019. It was completely different to Toy Story 3. It seemed the same at the start but it changed after around 10 minutes and I was surprised. I didn’t think I would like it because I don't really like Toy Story. I would recommend this movie for people over 2 because a 1 year old might not understand it as much as a 2 year old.

The Theatre was very crowded and I think the ticket was worth the 6-7 dollars because it was a good movie. It was also funny and interesting compared to Toy Story 3 & 4. We didn’t get any food because we had just had lunch and we thought we would save our extra money for something afterwards.  

The reason we decided to watch Toy Story 4 was because Riley wanted to see the comparison between all the Toy Story's because when he was younger he would always watch Toy Story movies instead of TV shows.  We were looking after my mum’s friend’s daughter so she came with us. She thought the movie was cool and funny because she has never seen a Toy Story movie before.

I would completely recommend this movie to anyone because I really enjoyed it. If I was to edit this movie I would try and make it longer because it was only 1 hour and 40 minutes long. That is why I think that you should go see Toy Story 4.!

Mean | Mode | Median | Range | Maths DLO

This week we have been focused on Mode, Median, Range and Mean. We learnt what they are and how to do them. Here is my DLO Teaching anyone how to do them

The Big Jump

This week my reading group ( School Journals ) have been reading a book called The Big Jump. This book is about a kid with the nickname of Big Daddy  his real name is  Charlie who is supposed to be the "Toughest kid in school " is too scared of the highest activity at camp. The Flying Fox ride. Then this nice kid called Tim climbs up and goes down with him. I enjoyed this book because it has a funny twist near the end.  For my must do I decided to do the activity where you tell the book by another charters perspective because it seems interesting. I decided to tell it by Big Daddy's perspective.

Jake Bailey | His cancer

Today we had a special surprise visitor at our school for year 6 and up. His name is Jake Bailey. He basically told us his journey through cancer and a few lessons about his life. He told us that he was just a normal 18 year old just on his last end of year exams for school when he just wasn't feeling well. He still went to school and as soon as he got home he jumped into his bed. He told us that the next day he didn't feel like he couldn't stand up. Then he said he started vomiting blood. That sounded creepy to some people.  He said he that he had many tests such as a MRI can he described that as a donut. Then he talked about the blood tests and some other creepy but cool tests he has had. Then he talked about how a lady  that he had never met before walked in and quietly and calmly said that he was diagnosed with cancer. He said he didn't feel sad or anything like that he felt kind of relived that they found what was wrong with him. Then he taught us a few lessons.  He said that he learnt not to stress small things like failing homework or something. He said for us to not worry if something happens and he said be grateful for everything you get. He ended it with a lot of questions for us to ask him

Maths reflection

Term 2 maths reflection.

5/7/19 

The first thing we did this term in maths was Perimeter. 
We learnt that perimeter was the outside fence of a
shape. Then we learnt that you plus the side numbers
together and KAPOW! you have your answer. Then we
did area. We learnt that area is you times the height
by the width and then you have your answer.  Then we
did angles. We first learnt every type of angle such as
Acute,Obtuse, Straight,Right and Reflex. Then we learnt
the degrees. Like how a straight angle is an angle of 180
degrees. And a right angle is a 90 degree angle.
A reflex is an angle less than 360  degrees but
more than 180 degrees. An obtuse angle is an angle
more than 90 degrees and less than 180. An acute
angle is an angle between 0 and 90 degrees. Then we
moved onto how to use a protractor. After that we
did Statistics we started with bar graphs. We use
bar graphs everyday in T4 because we record our
basic fact results and times with them. Then we
moved onto stem and leaf graphs. I had no idea
what a stem and leaf graph was at first but
everyone seemed to learn quickly. Then we
learnt about how to read a pie graph. We
haven't learnt how to draw one yet but we
watched a Khan Academy video showing us
how. That's as far as we got in maths in term 2.
I can’t want to see what we do next term.

Steam & leaf

This week my class has been focusing on stem & leaf charts/graphs. We watched a khan Academy example video explaining what they are, How to make them and how to read them. We also answered some questions about stem and leaf graphs. I got 2/4 because we had just started learning stem and leaf graphs and I had no idea what they meant. With the ones with 0 in columns means the number beside it. The ones with the 1 in the columns means that it's like “10 11 12 etc” and the 2s are 20 and 3s are 30 and etc. I think this video and charts are very helpful and I enjoyed learning these charts

Poutini

Today t4 has been doing some tasks around Poutini.  She gave us a link to a website with a story about Poutini. We started with the first 2 slides. The first one was some questions about who some people are.  The 2nd slide was about 5 places that Poutini went to. 

MeMe and me

My reading group is currently reading a small story called MeMe and Me. It is about a girl named Nina that has just got her first smart phone! She is so happy because she has just bought it herself from doing jobs for her Gran. She went over almost everyday and vacuumed her floor and cleaned up bird poop. She didn't enjoy cleaning up bird poo or vacuuming but she was proud once she got that phone. Once she got the phone after a few days she  posted her first photo which was a selfie of her showing how she just learnt how to fishtail braid Then she  noticed her eyes changed to a strange electric blue colour. She thought to herself " My eyes are not blue? They are light brown" Then she started getting  strange and creepy texts from her own number. It was so creepy. She soon started texting back. MeMe soon said that she wanted to be friends. Without thinking Nina sent a text saying I want to be friends too. She regretted that. Then they started sending photos and playing spot the difference.  If you want to know more you should read the book.

Garlic planting

                    Garlic planting with Mr Meek                                     

Today Mr Meek came in and took out 8 of us and planted garlic with us. First of all he told us how cow poo and pea straw is good for growing garlic. He also told us how you usually plant garlic on the shortest day and you harvest it 6 months later. First he hoed the cow poo, soil and pea straw then we started planting. He told us what way we put it in the soil he said that the roots facing down and we don't want them standing on their head.  Here we are planting garlic in our beautiful garden

Persuasive writing

This week we did some persuasive writing about if we think Greymouth's future is in tourism. We had to do 3 to 5 paragraphs with a introduction and a conclusion.

W.A.L.T  Write a piece of persuasive writing

Is Greymouth’s future in tourism?!

I think Greymouths future is in Greymouth. I wonder what you think?

One thing that brings tourists to Greymouth is the beautiful Transalpine train that brings tourists to Greymouth from Christchurch. You see a lot of tourists walking along the flood wall taking pictures of the beautiful water across the road from the train station.

Greymouth also has Monteiths Brewery which attracts a lot of visitors as it allows tourists on a tour about how certain alcohol is made.

Another thing that attracts tourists is our amazing bush walks! We have a lot of bush walks and they have a lot of native bushes and trees that tourists love to see.

Have you been to Brunner mine? Well if you haven't you definitely should. It includes a lot of history about the explosion including the interesting but sad mass grave down at the Stillwater cemetery. The Brunner mine site is a huge attraction it also includes some old bricks that were also made there

angles DLO

This week we have been doing a lot of work on angles. We have been learning about the different types of angles and the degrees of the angles. We had to make a DLO about what we have learnt.

Camp

Last week my class went on camp to Hanmer Springs. We went for 2 nights and 3 days. The first activity my group did was mountain biking for 2 hours. We biked through the forest and near the end there was this big field of grass and we had a race.
Also on the first night we had a camp quiz my group came 6th.
On the second day my group started with orienteering, my group got 390 points. Later that day my group walked up conical hill and went to the lolly shop. I bought a big gobstopper and a lot of 20 cent lollies.
On day 3  my group went to the sculpture park and the cemetery. At the cemetery we had to find out some questions about the gravestones. Overall camp was really fun.

Area DLO

This week we made some DLOS. We got to pick if we wanted to do it on we chose from Area or Perimeter. I chose area because I done perimeter last term.  Here is my area DLO.

Hanmer Springs

This week we made a Slideshow about Hanmer Springs, We made these because next week on Wednesday our class is going to Hanmer Springs for 3 days!! We had to answer some of the questions that the teacher put on the board. 

tech

book week

This week is book week! Because it is book week that means book character day. We also did a door display basked on some of our favourite Andy Griffiths books.

Easter art

This week Totara 4 we made some self Portraits  and added in some fun Easter details. This task was quite fun because we could experiment with different art tools. When we were done we had to put our name and the date that we finished it on. I'm very proud of how mine turned out.

Made up April fools writing

                     

                  April fools
I start off my monday morning getting woke up by a air horn HONK!!. Then i get out of bed and go to the bathroom I go to take a shower and the shower head is facing the door SPLASH! The cold water sprays on me. I go to the kitchen to make myself some breakfast i put some cereal in a bowl with some milk. Next minute it slips out my hand! CRASH my bowl smashes on the ground making a terrible mess that I have to clean up. I decide to not have breakfast and to go get ready for school. I go to pack my bag and my bag has a big rip in the bottom. I go grab a old bag and I pack everything I need for school. I go to  get my shoes on and I see that i've lost my shoes. I look everywhere for my shoes but I seriously can't find them anywhere. I find them outside soaked from the rain. I go to find an old pair of shoes then i realise they don't fit me anymore. I put on my soaking wet shoes and start walking to the bus stop. I car drives past and drives through a puddle that splashes me right in the face. I arrive at the bus stop and get on the bus. The bus takes me to school and at school kids at the front door have 3 big buckets of cold water a tip them on my head! UGH!! Luckily i had a spare uniform in my bag that i can change into. I change into my new clean dry uniform and walk into my first class which is maths. I walk into maths and the teacher says WHERES YOUR HOMEWORK!!. I say i wasn’t here last week and i didnt get the homework miss. She yells and says  I DON'T CARE YOU SHOULD HAVE DONE YOUR HOMEWORK. She says detention after school. I sigh and say “Okay miss “ And sit down and begin the test. I finish the test and hand it in. She says well done but you still have detention after school. I say I know miss and walk out to my next class which is English. I walk in and nothing happens i do my work as usual and then a thought came to my head “ I should prank people and get revenge” I finish my classes and take the bus ride home. I arrive home and start thinking of pranks to do on my family. I realise that we have big buckets outside I grab the buckets and fill them up with ice cold water and put a pack of ice in each. I stand behind the door as my sister walks in. I pour all the ice cold water and ice on her head SPLASH!! She screams and grabs a towel to clean herself up. I start to think of more pranks. I see oreos on the kitchen counter i grab 3 and head to the bathroom and grab some white toothpaste and exchange the cream to toothpaste I put them both on the kitchen counter and wait for my  target. My brother comes and eats an oreo and totally regrets it and goes running for a drink of water. I laugh and walk away to plan my next target. I invite Nova over and plan my next prank. While i wait for her to walk around to my place and I grab 2 sponges and cover them in chocolate icing and put it on the counter with a drink of soy sauce that looks like coke. She comes over and I say Here have some cake, She goes to cut a slice of cake then realises it's a sponge she goes to drink the coke and then spits it straight out. She says Nice one Hannah. She goes home 1 hour later after we hang out. I eat my dinner then go back to my bedroom to plan more pranks. I find glad wrap in the kitchen and think of a magiour prank. I take the glad wrap to the toilet and put some over top. I wait a few minutes and hear a SCREAM coming from the bathroom.I ask her what's wrong and she says Nothing madly and stomps to her room. Taylor comes over the next day as happy as can be but i have some tricks up my sleeve. She knocks on the door and i don't open it i wait for her to knock again i open the door without her seeing me and as she walks in i splash her with milk. She goes home at about 9 at night and that's the end of my crazy april fools day.

Poem

Today we had to make a poem about our trip to the Brunner mine historical site. We had to include language features the Language features I have used are alliteration,  onomatopoeia and personification. We had the choice of doing our poem in a google drawing and recording us reading it or writing our poster out on paper. I chose paper.

Area and Perimeter

This week we had to make a DLO about Area and Perimeter. We had to explain what area and perimeter is and add an example . We had to make it black and white. I did this task interdependently and i think it worked really well.

Hannah's Book Review

This week we had to write a book review on any book of our choice. I chose Hill and Hole By Kyle  Mewburn. We had to include what age recommendation, Characters, Author, Title And the problem.

 

What Am I?

For the last 2 Wednesdays we have been finding a zoomed in object that could be hard to guess, I challenge you to guess what my image is. I have 3 clues to help you guess what my image is.

Roman Numeral DLO

This week in groups of 2 My group was me and Taylor. We had to make another DLO because we finished early We choose to do Roman Numerals. Our W.A.L.T was Learn how to use roman numerals and what they mean. We found this task hard because we didn't know much about roman numerals. We learnt what they mean and how to use them. Next time we think that we should come up with a more complex W.A.L.T. My next goal is to learn more about adding fractions 

Maths DLO

This week  In groups of two I was in a group with Taylor and we got to pick what kind of DLO we wanted to do. We  choose  to make a DLO about Perimeters. We had to make a W.A.L.T  ( We are learning to)  and we had to add an explanation about what a perimeter is. In this task we explained how to work out the perimeter of a shape. Our W.A.L.T was Know what a perimeter is and find the perimeter of a shape.