Climate change.

 This week for literacy we have been learning about climate change. The first thing we did was read an article about climate change. In the article it had lots of imformation about what climate change is and what it's doing. After we had read the article we had to find some facts or imformation that we had learnt from the article and add it to a doc. After we had done that we had to make a slide explaining what climate change is doing, what we can do to prevent it and our personal opinion on climate change.

Chapter 4, See Ya Simon

 Hello, This term my class is reading a book called See Ya Simon. This book is about a kid in year 10 named Simon who has muscular dystrophy which is a sickness which causes your arms and legs to not work to the point where you die. We are up to chapter 4 and for each chapter we have to answer different questions about what happened in the chapter.  

Chapter Four
What is the name  of the role playing game Simon and his friends were playing?  The lair of the white wolf


What did Nathan say he looked like in photos?
Nathan said that he looked one of the identikit people from the crime watch tv program.

Why did Mrs Shaw think Simon had trouble walking when he was little? Because his mum used to smoke before he was born so she thought that caused him to have trouble walking.


How did Simon feel about his parents looking after him all the time? Simon felt like he was always with them and that was never private.


How would you feel if you were Simon? Why? If i was simon i would be a bit sad because i would know that i am weak and that i'm going to die soon. 



How often do Simon’s parents go out? Simon's parents go out every second Thursday evening.



Summary of Chapter Four:

In chapter 4 Simon was starting to get annoyed about always being at home with people and that he felt like he was always having to be watched and that he wanted his mum and dad to be able to have a life of their own without having to worry about simon, so his mum and dad got a babysitter and  going out every second Thursday evening. Simon and his friends always play this roleplaying game where they pretend to be different characters. Later in the chapter they were explaining how Simon has a shower and that he has to be sitting down and that he lays on the floor to get dressed and undressed. Simon had also said that he hates looking back at the photos from when he was younger and he refuses to look at them because he probably doesn’t want to see how much more frail and weak he has goten.

Grandparents day.

 Hello. Today is grandparents day so for this we had to make a grandparents poem to give to them for grandparents day. For this poem we had to write why we are thankful to have our grandparents and what we want to thank them for. Here is my grandparents day poem.

Venn Diagram

 This week since we have been reading the boy in the striped pajamas we had to make a venn diagram explaining what bruno has, Shmuel has and what they have in common. 

Kate sheppard

This week we have been researching Kate sheppard. For this task we had many questions to answer about her and list some facts that we had learnt.


Kate Sheppard




What are they famous for? What was their greatest achievement?

Kate Sheppard is famous for being recognized as the leader of the fight so women could have the right to vote in new zealand





Were they well known for any other achievements?

She is also on the $10 dollar note






Write a short biography for them: (Full name, date of birth and death, where they were born, family etc)

Cathrene Wilson Malcolm

10 march 1847- july 13 1934

She was born in Liverpool england and died in Christchurch








List 5 facts that you have learnt whilst reading the articles:





She is on the 10 dollar note


She wasn't born in new zealand


Her name isn't actually kate


She replaced queen elizabeth on the 10 dollar note


Her last name is Malcolm not sheppard

John walker

this week in t2 we have been researching John Walker. What we had to do was research him and what he is famous for. We also had to search about when he was younger.

here is some facts about him



Sir John Walker




What are they famous for? What was their greatest achievement?

John walker is famous for being a former middle distance runner from new zealand. He also won 1500m at the 1976 olympics. He was also the first person to run the mile in under 3.50






Were they well known for any other achievements?

He’s well known for being a former middle distance runner.

He was the first to run the mile in under 4 minutes







Write a short biography for them: (Full name, date of birth and death, where they were born, family etc)

Sir John George Walker

Born 12 January 1953 died in 2014

He has no siblings








List 5 facts that you have learnt whilst reading the articles:





His middle name is george


He was 66 when he died


He ran a mile in under 4 minutes


He is new zealand's most known athlete


He is an only child

Bruce Mclaren

This week and last week we have been researching famous people from New Zealand. For this we had to research 7 differnt famous people. For this we had to find out what they are famous for and some other facts about them. This one is Bruce McLaren and he was a race car driver who also designed cars.

Bruce McLaren

Fractions of an amount

This week in maths we have been learning about fractions of an amount. We had to do a workbook about fractions of an amount. I found this task easy to do because my maths group has already done it a few weeks ago. 

Edmund Hillary

 This week we have been researching famous people from New Zealand. After we researched a lot of people we had to make a slide explaining everything about them. I chose Edmund Hillary.

The fires in Wellington

 Today my class was doing a quiz where we got asked questions and we had to answer them. One of the questions were where was the fire in new zealand and when we were marking it was in wellington. After we did the quiz we had to pick one of the questions and write about it. 

Concentration camps

 This term my class has been reading The boy in the striped pajamas. The book is all about world war 2 and the concentration camps. A concentration camp is where they would send everyone and they would have to work until they either die or escape. If they didnt do what they asked they were either bombed or shot. 

Static Electricity Experiment

For the past few weeks we have been doing Interchange classes. We went to 3 different interchange classes and in Miss Powers interchange we were doing science experiments. One of the weeks we did Static Electricity. 

4 truths 1 lie

 Hello today in class we have been doing 4 truths and a lie here is mine 

4 truths 1 lie

- I have been to Australia 

- My birthday is in January

- I have broken 3 bones

- I have 2 cats and a brother

- My favourite colour is white

3D shapes

This week for maths we have been focusing on 3D shapes. We had a maths workbook to complete on 3D shapes. On the workbook we had to find out how many sides, edges and vertices on each shape. First we had a worksheet asking the same questions then we did our workbook. On some of the slides we had to find the nets so you can fold them into the 3D shapes.

Matariki

This week we have been doing a lot of work around Matriki. Matariki is a cluster of 7 stars. The stars are named Matariki Tupu-ā-nuku, Tupu-ā-rangi, Waipunarangi, Waitī and Waitā, and Ururangi. We had 6 different slides full of different Matariki tasks. We got to pick which task from every slide that we had to do. Here are some Matariki facts. 

Perserverance

For the next 2 weeks in whanau time we are looking at the word "Perserverance". First we had to find out what Perserverance means. Perserverance means Learning something new or not giving up. We had to make a poster on Perserverance using Canva.  What's something you have used Perserverance for?

Mars Research

For the last 2 weeks we have been researching planets. The first thing we needed to do is pick a plannet I chose Mars. We had to research the plannet and present it on a slide. I enjoyed doing this because I found out alot of facts that I didn't already know.

Polar bear report

This week we have been doing animal reports. We had to pick an animal that we want to do a report on I chose a polar bear.  We had to find interesting facts for their habitat,diet and your choice. For your choice I decided to do how long they live for.  I enjoyed researching polar bears because I found out alot of things that I didn't already know. 

Something I am proud of.

Something I'm proud of...

The thing that I am proud of is on camp this year in Mistletoe bay I learnt to ride a  paddleboard and a kayak. I am proud of this because I had never done it before and it was fun and easy. I am proud that I did this because I was scared to do it but it was fun. 

Zoo report

Yesterday we had to do some research on Pandas,Lions and Kangaroos for our report writing. We had to find some facts and put them into 5 sentances or more for each paragraph. First we had to reasearch then find an interesting way to put the facts into the sentances.  I enjoyed researching the pandas the most because I found out alot of facts that I didn't already know