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Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Learning with Libby Bowles



On Monday Te Ngahere had a visit from a woman named Libby Bowles. She talked to us about animals in the ocean such as; leather-back turtles, whale sharks and manta rays. She also talked to us about plastics and the amount she has seen in the ocean. She even talked to us about her travels on her bike and how she made it. I enjoyed learning with Libby Bowles and I hope she comes back to Paihia School some time.

Monday, November 27, 2017

Christmas Comp Art


Last week in Te Ngahere we made some art for the Christmas art competition. In this competition we are in to win a viewing of the NEW Kiwi Christmas movie. In this art we had to show what a Xmas in New Zealand means to us. Our WALT for this is to use  a variety of kiwiana Christmas designs to create a four frame piece of artwork representing what Christmas means to you in NZ. I had a LOT of fun making it and I hope my AMAZING one wins.

Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Creative Writing



A few weeks ago Te Ngahere did a creative piece. Our writing was based on reduce, reuse and recycling. In my writing I used original idea’s, alliteration and onomatopoeia. My WALT was to make my idea’s original and I think that I did make my idea’s original. But next time I need to work on more alliteration and similes because it did not use them

Wednesday, November 8, 2017

Persuasive Peice



In the beginning weeks of term 4 Te Ngahere have been writing persuasive pieces about plastic and the fact about reducing, reusing and recycling. Our WALT for this activity was use the correct structure for a persuasive,  but this is the over all WALT, everybody in Te Ngahere will have their own personal WALT that the want or are trying to learn. My individual goal is to work on making my ideas original. I hope you get persuaded by my writing and I also hope you enjoy

Friday, October 27, 2017

Writing Goals



Te Ngahere we made our new term writing goals. Our WALT was WALT Identify our new learning goals. The reason I chose these goals are so I can become an amazing writer and above the national standard.

Wednesday, October 25, 2017

My Magistic Math Goals

Last week Te Ngahere we made our new maths goals. This term I am working on stage 7. I chose my goals by finding what I needed to work on the most. Our WALT was WALT identify our new learning goals. Here are mine . . .


Thursday, September 28, 2017

William Pike


Last week on Friday all of Te Ngahere were doing activities based on a man called William Pike. We also watched a webinar about him. He told us about climbing Mt. Scott and a lot of other things too. We made a google drawing with our answers to some questions that had been set up for us. Two of the questions were related to a story we read earlier in the year. I enjoyed it and wish to do it again. Here is my drawing.

Tuesday, September 19, 2017

My Reading About the Story: Curse of Being Pharaoh


Earlier in the term, the class did a presentation about a story called Curse of Being Pharaoh we had to answer comprehension question. I really enjoyed making the presentation. The questions for this activity were fun to do while you summarized what you read. I would like to do it again on a different story. Our WALT was WALT answer comprehension questions.

Tuesday, September 12, 2017

My Fabulous Four Shot Video


Link: Four Shot Video


A few weeks ago we started a new project in Te Ngahere. It is called Lights! Camera! Action! I am really enjoying it and making the awesome films. The films had to be made out of a four shot video. My group Molly, Mishaela, Lucy, Astin and I made our one on the senior playground. The shots are called establishing shot, long shot, medium shot and the close up. Our WALT was WALT tell a story with four shots. I hope you like our video you can also see it on YouTube.

Tuesday, August 29, 2017

My Important Informational Rebel Report

For the last five weeks of this term we have been writing informational reports. Our WALT has been WALT write an informational report but since we got to workshops the WALT sometimes changes. The first piece of writing we wrote about a country of our chose and each paragraph was a different topic. My four subtopics were currency, leaders, population and the language. After that we wrote others. I wrote about animals in the second, sports in the third, famous women in the fourth and I am working on famous men now. The country I have chosen is Norway and all of our reports will be about our chosen country

Tuesday, August 22, 2017

My Proper Nouns and Common Nouns Drawing

 
Last week in Te Ngahere we learnt how to use proper nouns and what the difference between common and proper nouns are. Our WALT was WALT know how to use common and proper nouns. The purpose was to use capitals for the correct words because we are writing reports about countries and Te Ngahere are not very good at using proper nouns.

Tuesday, August 8, 2017

My Reading Goals


Last week Te Ngahere made our reading goals for term 3. Our WALT was we are learning to identify our learning goals. To select our new goals we had to come down to the mat as a reading group and say what we did not know how to do our what it was. Then Whaea Chrissy shared the document with us and then we had to ctrl c ctrl v them onto our goals presentation and date them. After they were greened on the hand in sheet we were then allowed to make the google drawing, as you can see.

Thursday, August 3, 2017

Wonderfully Weird Writing Goals


Last week Te Ngahere made our term 3 writing goals. Our WALT for this was we are learning to identify our writing goals. We had to go to the writing toolkit and find what rubric we are.  I need to learn rubric 6 for organization and rubric 5 for sentence structure. Then we had to check last terms goals and see what we had not learned. I am getting really good at using my semicolons and metaphors, next term I think I will have accomplished them.

Magic Marvelous Maths Goals


Last week Te Ngahere made our new term three maths goals. Our WALT was to identify what we have achieved in maths and our next learning steps. First of all we had to fill in our IKAN sheets. My sheet was a stage 6. Then we had to choose 3 goals that we said we needed to learn from the Multiplication and Division section on the strategy side. After the teachers checked the slide we had to put them on, we were allowed to make a google drawing to show our goals as you can see.

Friday, July 7, 2017

My Magical Lovely Learning



On Wednesday it was Student Led Conferences. We had to make a google drawing called my learning. On this google drawing it shows our learning. It has links to some of our work this term. My Student Led Conference was at 3:00 pm. My mum came and sat down so I could tell her about my learning this term. In am above in writing, reading and maths in the National standards. I enjoyed the Student Led Conferences much more because all the other times when it was a parent teacher interview my mum never let me come in.

Thursday, July 6, 2017

Matariki Fantastic Whanau Day


Last week on Thursday it was Paihia Schools Matariki celebration day. Some of the kids from school went down to the beach to see the stars and then came to school at 7 am for breakfast. Then when school started Te Ngahere (my class) did our artwork about our family using koru and kowhaiwhai patterns. Later at lunch the whole of Paihia School had a shared lunch on the deck by the Whare. The juniors went first and we were allowed to have 2 things each and then when we were done we  could come back for 2nds. After lunch we played games with  a man called Harko Brown. We played Maui and Matou (left and right) and we threw these poi things to a partner or two. Later on we planted some Ti Kouka (cabbage trees), Reinga Lily’s and lots more. I planted about five trees. This was the best day ever I can’t wait to see what the trees look like in years to come.

Tuesday, July 4, 2017

Matariki at the Treaty Grounds




Last week on Tuesday Paihia School went to the Treaty Grounds to celebrate Matariki (the maori new year). At the Treaty Grounds we were put in groups, I was in group 3 and we planted our plants first. We had to pair up and I was with Tarjon. We planted a Manuka. After we made kites I made mine with Tessa and we had so much fun. After making the kites we had a throwing competition. We did not win but it was still a lot of fun. Later we played a game called Maui and Matou. We had two rounds of it, Astin and Chevy-Lee won. I am glad we do this every year because I it is the best day of school in the whole.😀😃

Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Fidget Spinner Awesome Art


A few weeks ago we had to write a persuasive when we had done we made some art. . . fidget spinner art our WALT was to use space, crayon and dye. First we had to draw lightly with pencil and use up the space on the paper. Then we had to colour it in with crayon and press hard on the paper but leaving some white spaces for the dye. I was fun I want to do some art like that again.

Monday, June 26, 2017

Ice Cream Making



A few weeks ago we made ice cream because Te Ngahere (my class) finished our learning plans in ten minutes. We had to do some reading on how to make ice cream. Our WALT was to answer inference questions. After we had made ice cream we had to make a recount about it and our experience my WALT was we are learning to use metaphors, which I highlighted in my writing. I thought I was fun even though I didn’t like the ice cream the experience was awesome.

Friday, May 19, 2017

Tim Tipenes Terrific Day Visit To Paihia School



Last week on Thursday the 11th an author came to visit his name was Tim Tipene, he believes that there is a warrior inside everyone. I mostly enjoyed him telling us about himself and his life. I have only read his 1 of his 10 books called Taming the Taniwha but I would like to get read more of his stories because the have a lesson behind the and the are well written. I can only name a few like Hinemoa te Toa, Taming the Taniwha, Maui the Sun Catcher and The Wooden Fish. I hope he can come to our schools again.

Wednesday, May 10, 2017

General Knowledge


I was learning to learn more about the world around us. So on Wednesdays the year 7 and 8’s go to tech, we have this presentation^ to do and we have to chose a country and explain all about it. My buddy's for this project are Missy and Sonny. I think I did really well with all the recording and key info. Next time I would like to chose a more unknown country.

Thursday, April 13, 2017

Awesome Amazing Animation

Narrative Story for Animation




For Writing in the past term we have made a character and the setting for it on a google drawing. Now we have done that we made a narrative of the character and setting put together. My goal for writing the narrative was to use good descriptive language, ellipsis and onomatopoeia.

Friday, April 7, 2017

Terrific Terrifying Triathlon


Last Friday we had a Paihia School Tryathlon we swam down at the beach it was a 100 metre swim. I was a great day. But I think the down side was running back to school in our cold wet togs.  My favorite was the bike ride around the field and on the pump track. At the deck the juniors cheered us on and the prize at the end was a caught being good and a bar. Next year I think we need to have another one.

Super Surf Safety




On Wednesday we went down to the beach and three lifeguards called, Liam, Sam and Tobias taught us how to use a tube to save someone. We had 4 fun activities on how to save life we played a game called beach flags, beach divers and we also played a relay, running in the water high fiving a teacher aide called Bridgette and then running out of the water without falling over it was an awesome day. I hope we do it every year.

Thursday, March 23, 2017

Beach Clean Up



Kia ora, my name is Lily and last week we had beach clean up. The juniors cleaned the closest part of the beach to school and the the year 5 - 8 took the far side of the beach. Freya, Ava, Astin, Tessa and I found 371 cigarette butts and and I found 5 sea weed covered fishing lines. Somebody even found the a rugby ball in the storm water drainage. It was really gross but fun at the very same time. I am glad that Paihia School gets to have a beach clean up day every year.

Friday, March 17, 2017

Fictional Character Cronical


Nisse

A mythical man
His bumpy beard
His old skin
His loving heart
His mystical magic
He lives in a cottage in the lost woods of Norway with wolves bears and foxes,
He is eating porridge as he grows old helping the animals and caring for your homes . . . if you give him porridge with butter, and as Jul (Christmas) comes closer he is make sure he looks after all the animals.

By: Lily

I was learning to write a descriptive piece of writing in a different way.

We wrote about any fictional character that we knew and wanted to. I wrote about the Norwegian Santa Claus. After we wrote the story we got to make the character on a google drawing and this week we are making the setting for our awesome magical characters. I might need to improve on my alliteration and metaphors.

Thursday, March 9, 2017

Taste Tummy Rubbing Tangelos

 23/2/17

                                         Tangel🍊s

“Crack” as I peeled the delicious tangelo revealing the scrumptious segments. The smells reminded me of springs delightful wonders. One whiff of the smell and I was in love with what it's smells may bring to the flavors. Gently I placed it in my mouth and wow I wanted more and more it was amazing. Juicy orange tasting segments as tiny as they were, they were delicious I wish I was eating them forever. One by one I ate the segments and ripping their flesh.“SHHH” as the juice squirted out of the tangelo segment as my teeth squished it. I never thought I that a round orange ball would be that tasty. I love tangelos sooo much, “I glad I have a tangelo tree at home!"
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I was learning to write a descriptive piece of writing.
We wrote about a tangelo we got to smell, taste and feel it. I thought I was a great way to write a story. I worked on the similes and alliteration and onomatopoeia. But I need to work similes because I really don’t really know much about them. Other wise I think I did really well.

Friday, February 17, 2017

I Remember . . .

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Tuesday 7th - 8th February 2017

I Remember . . .


Lying on the warm rocks of Russell
As the ocean breathed in and out tickling my tiny toes.
Listening to my sister laughing as the sea birds pecked away at her lunch.
SQUACK!! The bird whaled as Teah chased them into the cloudy sky
Then comes Amy sprinting across the hot tar road.
Suddenly comes a splash of refreshing sea water as Amy jumps to the ocean.
Looking up to the shimmering sun as it warms me once again,
Thankful that the sun was shining that day.

That was my summer
   
I was learning to notice and use a structure of a piece of writing to write my own descriptive writing.
I had to start with what we were doing,
Something that was happening,
Something we did and why we did it
Then we figured out the rest of the structure of our stories.
I thought I did the beginning well by putting ‘lying on the warm rocks of Russell,’
It is my most descriptive piece of writing so far in all the years I have been at school.