Zentangle

Last term our art focus was Zentangle. Finally in the last 2 weeks we finished them and now they are proudly in display in our classroom. Here is a photo of mine:

Do you like it? I hope you do because I worked  really hard on it and if you can't tell, it is a Elephant.
We had to do our Zentangle as a endangered animal because that was our learning focus of the term.

The Music Book

Recently the senior half of our school have been rehearsing dances of our decade. Each lass has their own decade and a song that was created in the decade. Right now we are 2 weeks away from the show.

The story line of our show is 2 girls going and got a magic book for their friends birthday, when the girls open the book music comes out of the book, a different song every page. In the mean time the birthday girls 2 brothers have been sneaking up on the girls and annoying them. In the end the boys turn and some more music and listen to two songs. Finally the girls look at the last page in the book and the finale dance comes on. In the show there will be 10 dances including the finale.

My class dance is Party Rock Anthem.

Kiwi for Kiwi Morning Tea

Kiwi for Kiwi Morning Tea

Today room 1&2 held a Kiwi for Kiwi morning tea for our fundraiser for the Kiwis. We did this because last term our main focus was endangered animals so we used this as our social action. Yes, this was a competition and if we won room 1&2 would get a visit from the Bug Man.
Anyway back to the morning tea, room 1&2 students got split up into jobs. Some of the jobs were selling food, counting money and setting the tables. Once we were all prepared and hands washed we went and stood behind the tables waiting for costumer's.

The bell rang and students flooded out of their classrooms and lined up the food we so fast my table had to close down because their was barely any food left.

In total we raised $600 dollars!!! I bet the Kiwi for Kiwi conservation will be happy.

Auckland Zoo Trip

Yesterday room 1 and 2 went to Auckland Zoo for a school trip because lately out inquiry has been about Endangered Animals.

The first thing that we did we we got to the zoo was eat our morning tea because we were pretty hungry by then. After all our morning tea was all gobbled up we headed off for an explore around the Zoo. There were so many animals, we saw Red Panda, Otters, Tigers, Lions, Elephants, lots of different Monkeys,  Giraffe, Cheetahs and loads more animals. We lucked in by seeing the Red Panda and the Otter get fed. My favorite out of that was the Cheetah even though he was hiding behind a plant.

After all that wandering around we all got together and had a lunch break.
Once our lunch had filled our belly again and or energy was back all of us split in to 2 and went away with some Zoo Keepers to learn about some animals.
Firstly I went of to learn about the Orangutan and Palm oil. The main thing that I learned in that lesson was that 60% of the worlds palm oil comes from Malaysia and Indonesia.

The Next lesson was with tracking tunnels. The main thing that I learned there was that a porcupine is a pest.

After that we had 10 minutes to go around the Zoo and look at more animals before the bus came. This time we looked at the Crocodile, Tarantula and more Monkeys. My favorite animal that we saw here was the Spider Monkey, we even saw them get fed.

Overall this was a great trip and thank you for our Teachers and the Zoo Keepers for letting this happen.
Cheers:

Inquiry

Lately we have been learning about endangered animals. We had a few tasks to complete and know one has finished.

Task 1:
The First task was to buddy up, we were given a content and we had to find an animal that lives in that content and make a presentation about it. Here is mine:

NZ Native Birds

In the past few weeks in reading we have been learning about Native New Zealand Birds.

Name:	Conservation Status:	About Them:	Photo:
Kiwi	Critically Endangered	Kiwi’s are mostly Nocturnal.
Fantail	Least Concern	Fantails follow you when you walk because your feet move the dirt to reveal insects.
Kea	Threatened	Most Keas live on the South Island of NZ
Albatrosses	Least Concern	The Albatrosses is a large Seabird around the North Pacific
Bitterns	Endangered	Bitterns are part of the heron family.
Black Robin	Endangered	The Black Robin comes from the Chatham Islands which is located of the coast of New Zealand.
Grey Ducks	Least Concern	In the 1960’s they Grey Duck was 95% of the ducks found in New Zealand

New Classroom

Recently we moved into our new classroom.

From the start of the term room 1 & 2 moved into the library because our classroom was getting renovated. From the start of the year room 5 & 6, 3 & 4 all had their classroom renovated and now it was our turn.

The Journey 

It took us into term 3 to until we finally moved out of our classroom and into the library. On the first day of term 3 we were all set up in the library. Our classroom had the wall half knocked down in the two weeks of the holiday.

We spent 5 weeks crammed in the small library space until finally in week 6 we  moved out of the library and into our new classroom, Yay!

Now as it is still week 6 I am really enjoying our new classroom, I have hooked into it like it has been here all the time, but it still feels brand new. 

This classroom allow's us to have more space to work and learn, and we can work more collaboratively.

Layout:

Northcross

Yesterday most of the year six's from Long bay primary, Torbay School and 5 from Dairy Flat went to Northcross intermediate for a visit to which may be their Intermediate. I was one of those year six's and I know that I am going to go to Northcross Intermediate next year. My brother already go there but sadly he is moving on next year.

When we got of the bus we were welcomed by the Kapa Huka, next we got told all about the school by the principle, deputy Principle's.

Soon after that the student leaders showed us around the school, ( we got put into groups with 1 or 2 student leaders ), my group was with the Deputy Head Girl.

After the tour we were sent to the courts to play some sports. I played some netball, warm ups, YAY! Next we went back and had a little snack.

Once every body had finished we went back inside and watched some performances of singing and instruments.

Sadly after that we had to go because the tour had taken up a lot of time.

When I walked in I felt quite nervous but walking out of the school I had gained a lot more confidence well I was there, I am super excited for next year.

Learning Conservations

Recently we did our Learning conversations. This year we quite different to all the others because there was 6 or more people having a conservation at once.

This year my mum came with me and we talked about my learning and what I have been up to. I showed her a video I made of my maths and explained my goals. I showed her our language features and my example.

I found it better that I got to explain to my parents what I have been up to, not the Teacher.

Math Week

This week in math we did a math week challenge week. Every day we got a different challenge to and complete. In pairs we created a document to do our answers on.

This is our working document:

Click Here to see our workings: Workings 

Zentangle

Recently we started doing some Zentangle art. Zentangle art is art that is mostly black and white, Zentangle art is really detailed with loads of patterns.
In our Inquiry we are learning about endangered animals. Our aim is to Create a Zentangle Animal art by the end of the term.

Here are some Zentangle Animal Designs:

Thinking Keys!!

Recently we have been working on some thinking keys.

Thinking keys are loads of fun activities that you do about your Topic.

This term our topic was light and our question was How does light impact on our life?

1. The picture: We get given a picture and we have to make as many pictures as we can out of the starting picture.

2. The Alphabet: We created a alphabet about light.

3. The different use for the sun: Come up with 10 different uses for the sun.

4. The commonality: Write the commonality between sunglasses and a drink bottle.

5. The Bar: Bigger, add or replace Rainbow.

6. The prediction: How will light bulbs be shaped in 100 years.

7. The Variations: How many ways can you use a candle.

8.The Inventions: Design a machine for getting to the toilet in the dark.

That was only some of the keys. I had a lot of fun doing them.

Gymnastics

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Today we started our first Gymnastics lessons.
My first station was with the ladders. In this activity we had to run up and down the lay down ladders in all of different ways.
My second station was with hula hoops. In this activity we needed to see how many parts of our body we could hula hoop with, we also tried to hula hoop with as many hula hoops we could.

Math

WALT: Work out problems by using your known X

This week we were doing Rounding and Compensating and our known Facts. Firstly we did twelve questions on the first day:

On the second day we did another 10 more questions:

May look the same though, but there all different questions.

Maths Games

Fun4TheBrain
There's lots of fun games for your Brain

Matific
You have to have a account to play

IXL
If you want to play for a long time you need to have a account

MathplayGround
Play around with your math

Writing:

Language Features:

First we learnt about

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 we watched a video explaining Alliteration. Eg: Cute Cats Can Crawl, Climb and Clamber over Creepy Cars. Adorable Animals Are Amazing At Alliteration And the Alphabet.

Secondly we learned about

 and once again watched a video. After we made our

one Personification. Eg: The cat to screamed to Awaken the kitten.

Finally the next day we did

,

 once again we created our own and watched

a video. My Repetition was : I licked and licked and licked at my tasty berry Ice cream.

Reading, Prior Knowledge

This week in Reading we have been learning about animals

We made a relations ship sheet between words related to animals:

Next we went on the Auckland Zoo Website and found out some info about the Mammals they have.

After that we started reading a book called Zoo's back in Nature, we found out some History of Zoo's.

Kite Making

On Friday room 1&2 set out making kites.

The reson we made these kites were because of Matariki, kites connect the sky and the Earth in the Matariki ways.

Once we had found our groups of 2,3 or 4, maby even just by yourself we made a plan.

There were prizes for the Best Plan, the Most Traditional, Most Unique and there was also a peoples choice award.

Our group made sure that we hade most of the materials we thought we needed ( it didn't have to go to plan ).  

Next we started putting our kite together with the materials we brought from home or some from school.

We had to make our kites in 3 and a half hours ( that was if we needed that much time ). Once our time was over we had to stop what we were doing. We got given a number and that was our name for voting, our number was 5.

  Well we were away we had some people come in to vote.

After it was all of the voting was done we got told the winners.

Most Traditional was not us

Most Unique was not us

Peoples Choice award sadly was not us

Best plan was us, yippy yippy yay!!

Auckland Zoo Mammals

Mammals:

NZ Mammals:

• NZ Fur Seal

• NZ Short tail

Exotic Mammals:

• African crested Porcupine
• African Lion
• Agouti
• Asian Elephant
• Asian small clawed otter
• Bornean Orangutan
• Californian Sea lion
• Capybara
• Cheetah
• Cotton-top tamarin
• Giraffe
• Golden lion tamarin
• Hamadryas Baboon
• Hippopotamus
• Kunekune pig
• Little red flying fox
• Meerkat
• Parma Wallaby
• Pygmy marmoset
• Red Panda
• Red necked wallaby
• Ring-tailed lemur
• Serval
• Siamang Gibbon
• Southern white Rinoursous
• Spider Monkey
• Springbok
• Squirrel monkey
• Subantarctic fur seal
• Smartain Tiger
• Tasmanian Devil
• Zebra

Science

Yesterday we started growing a plant in a shoe box. We made a maze for the plant, in total we had 7 shoe boxes and all of them had different ways of getting the light to the plant like:

• Purple light
• Green light
• Purple and green light
• Natural light
• Artificial light
• Lots of holes
• No light

Ours was lots of holes. We did this because we are learning about light.

Our Objective is how does light impact on plants.

Our Hypothesis is If we put holes in the side of the box the plant will grow curvy.

So far our plant has grown 2 cm since we put it in, now it is 19 cm tall ( how tall was it when we put it in? )

Fact OR Fib?

Today in writing we did fact and Fib about our trip yesterday to Mind Lab.

Try and find out my Fact and Fib.

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We drew colourful pictures and then looked at them in colour blind red and they were quite different. Fact

We created our own robots and played with them. Fib

Cross Country

Today we went to cross country and we did a few races and on my race I come 10th.

When I go back to school I got told that I had to write a remember poem about cross country:

That was Camp

Remember everybody pushing you to the back when the race was about to start,

Remember the sound of everybody’s feet squishing up the mud as they were running,

That was Cross Country

Remember tasting all of the sweat drying up in your throat as you were turning off the beach, half way,

Remember feeling your feet hit the ground as you landed from jumping over the hurdle,

That was cross country

Remember the noise coming from your stomach as all of your stitches were having a party,

Do you remember seeing the crowd shouting at you to run faster, when your legs couldn’t carry you anymore,

That was cross country.