Top 3 Fun Facts about New Zealand - SLJ, W1D1

Activity 1: The Legend of New Zealand

To learn more cool facts about New Zealand, check out the Tourism NZ website. Read the fun facts posted on the website and choose your ‘Top 3.’ On your blog, post your ‘Top 3 Fun Facts’ about NZ in your own words.

Top 3 Fun Facts about New Zealand

1. Did you know that New Zealand and Denmark are the only two countries in the world that have two national anthems?

New Zealand has God Save The Queen and God Defend New Zealand. If you count the Maori version of God Defend New Zealand, E Ihowa, then we have three.

At Pt England School we sing E Ihowa and God Defend New Zealand at every Friday assembly.

2. Wellington is the capital city of New Zealand even though Auckland is the biggest city in the country.

3. In 1893, New Zealand was the first country to let women vote. I think that is pretty cool. Kate Sheppard is the lady who helped this happen. She is on our New Zealand $10 note.



Information:

Tourism NZ Website

Wikipedia

Summer Learning Journey 2018/2019

Hi everyone

Welcome to my blog if it's your first time and welcome back to everyone coming back.

These Christmas holidays I will be doing the Summer Learning Journey 2018/2019.  

At first I really didn't want to do it, but my parents think it will help me with my learning for next year in intermediate.  My sister and I have had a quick look through some of the activities and some of them look like fun.  So it might not be that bad.

Let's start this summer learning journey together

Goodbye Fan's!!!

Hey Fan Jacob here,

My Highlight was going Wellington with my Rippa Rugby team and also this is going to be last ever blog for the year in Rm 7 and i'll see you in the holiday's blogging. 

BYE!!!

Cave Art Animation

Agree or Disagree Task

Walt: Look for Information in the text 

Agree / Disagree
Statement	Agree/ Disagree	Page	Explanation and Evidence
Making a Pendant is a fun thing to do all by yourself while your parents are at work.	Disagree	23	In the book name Make a Pendant it said that do this with an adult to help you. And also because in the method it said that to make the pendant we need to use the stove which is not good. Because we might burn the house and we don’t have it at school.
You can dry dough in the sun.	Agree	23	It says that Objects made from salt dough can be dried in the sun or in the oven either one.
Salt dough can be used to make jewellery.	Agree	22	At the beginning in the book it said use it to make yourself some great jewellery or even a greenstone taonga.
It’s ok for your mixture to have lumpy bits.	Disagree	23	In the method how to make the pendant it said Mix all the ingredients in a large saucepan. Stir the mixture well until there are no lumps.
Clear nail polish is useful when making a pendant.	Disagree	24	It only useful for if they colour the pendant the nail polish helps it to make it last long.
“Kuru” is a traditional Māori design for fish hook.	Disagree	25	At last page it said Kuru is a Straight pendant, sometimes worn in the ear.

Questions	Answer here. Use evidence from the text.
Why do you think the instructions say that you need an adult to help you?	Because it said that they need to use a stove and also a oven to make it and dry it faster.
Why do the pendants get coated in “clear” nail polish instead of “coloured” nail polish?	It is because the book said that the nail polish will make it last long.

Reflect
Is a salt dough pendant as special as a ‘real’ greenstone pendant? Why/ why not. Please explain what you think	I think it’s is Yes and it is because they have created with an adult and made it. So they are proud to create one. It is a taonga.

Task Description:For this task we had to read a book about Pendant,Pendant's are green stone craving as neckless. We also had to do a problem about agreeing to some of the question and disagreeing.When we finish we have to ask our teacher if we can post it and if he says yes then we can.

Tricky Decimal Problems

Walt: Use add/ sub strategies to solve tricky decimal problems.


Task Description: This week for maths we had to place the right number in the right place so that it would make a complete on my decimal problems! I found this task kind of hard.

Decimal Problems

Walt: Use add/ sub strategies to solve tricky decimal problems.







Task Description:

This week for maths we had to place the right number in the right place so that it would make a complete on my decimal problems! I found this task medium.

Decimal Place Value

Walt: use add/ sub strategies to solve tricky decimal problems.

Task Description:

This week for maths we had to place the right number in the right place so that it would make a complete place value table! I found it easy!

Welcome to term 4

Walt: use correct sentences to help structure our writing.

The holiday has ended and a new term is happening and the theme for term four is Te Wā Toi. We are learning about arts. I can’t wait to draw and also paint with my friends.

I am going to had a exciting because the events that are happening are and they are The Manaiakalani Film Festival, Athletics, Year 6 camp, Prizegiving, Testing, but not the reports because my mum might get angry.

My Goals for this term is to get a good report so my mum won’t get angry at me. I also want to be a leader for year 6 camp. I want to try be a presenter for the The Manaiakalani Film Festival. I want to finish my work.

I want to learn about different kinds of art and how they use to draw back in the day. I would like to learn about famous artists and what got them addicted to draw. I want to try draw cartoon and also pacific artifacts and items.

Te Wā Toi is going to be an a amazing term. I am going to look forward to the Manaiakalani Film Festival because I am the main actor for our Manaiakalani Film Festival, I’m looking forward to not seeing my report. Overall this term I think is going to be the besties term.

Task Description:  for this task we wrote about the new terms and then new expectoration and what we are about to learn. We also learned how to write a proper conclusion. The peace of this writing was really hard for me because I had lot's of ideas but I only could pick one idea. 

Takeaway Shop Silver

Walt: use subtraction strategies to solve tricky problems.

Task Description: Today in Rm seven we are finishing off our work and I am very happy because this is our new work today and I have finish it. Then after writing our strategies and working it out we post it on our blog with it tasks description.

Chicken Reading Disagree or Agree Task

Walt:understand the text from the perspectives of the

characters

Chicken Lv3.2011

Responding to the text

Use the text to figure out whether the Author would agree or disagree with the statements below.

Check list ✓

Agree/ Disagree

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Questions

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Reflection

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Agree / Disagree
Statement	Agree/ Disagree	Page	Explanation and Evidence
Alison didn’t know the “laughing boys” at the beginning of the story very well.	Agree	38	In the beginning of the story it said that the laughing boys which is her brother Mike and her brother friend Luke was laughing so much then  she called them the laughing boys. And Alison know them well.
Alison went into the tunnels because she wanted to prove she was brave.	Agree	38	In this story it explain that Luke and Mike her brother was teasing her by saying that she is a chicken. Then she wanted to show them and went into the gun tunnel.
Alison thought she could make it back up the stairs because she thought Mike had already done it.	Agree	42	In this story it said Alison climbed the stairs - carefully at first, but then two at time. Her chest heaved. She tried not to notice that her torch was getting weaker. It would hold out. It had to hold out.
The longer she was in the dark the more calm and confident Alison got.	Disagree	42	It said that she was running in fear. Because Alison heard gunfire and so she ran with her might and try to look for the first entrance door she came from.
The thought Alison would wait for them outside the tunnels.	Disagree	38	In the book name chicken Alison wasn’t waiting and so she swallow air in her stomach and bravely went in the tunnel with her torch.
The boys didn’t go into the tunnels very far.	Disagree	42	It said in the last part that Mike and Luke were not in the tunnel at all. Because they were chicken so they told Alison that she is a chicken.

Task Description: Today in Rm seven we are doing our activity about agree or disagree which is about our book name chicken. We have to use our evidence and explain why is agree or disagree and when we finish writing each statement we double check and post it on our blog.

Personal Trainer

Walt: solve problems using Ratios

Task Description:For this task we had figure out the ratio question. Also it was a challenge to our brains.

Food Pyramid

Walt: think from the perspective of characters in the story.

Task Description: we had to write a rap about the healthy pyramid. Our Rap was short and sweet and cool.

Amazing Stickers

Walt: think from the perspective of characters in the story.
Task Description: This week we had to record ourselves reading a school journal. I found it easy.

Healthy week

Walt: look for the hidden meaning in the text.

Task description: In this template I write down what I think is a healthy lifestyle for a kid. Some of this accidentally got cropped out but a kid should be doing an average of 9 hours a week. 

The front row Venn diagram

Walt:look for the hidden meaning in the text.

Whoah that's fast

Walt: Solve problems with multiple elements

Task Description: In this activity I answer questions that are about speed.
 

How fast is that

Walt:Solve problems with multiple

Task Description: In this activity I learn different speeds and I use
multiple sources to answer the questions.

Write the conversation

Walt:think about dialogue between characters

Task Description : For this Task we had to write the Lines of two Characters saying something to each other . Next we had to find a pair to work with and see which one that they want to do.

Exercise-Wise

Walt: find relevant information in the text.

Task Description: How to live a healthy life. Playing a active activity and keeping and stretching alot. Also how to keep flexible 

Family of Facts 7

Walt: solve problems with multiple elements.

Task Description : For this Task we had to do a Family Facts 7 Presentation which means there were 3 numbers given to us to work out which goes with which.

Family of Facts

Walt: solve problems with multiple elements.


Task Description:In this activity I answer questions about family of facts

A Thousand Seconds

Walt: build a stronger knowledge base around time.

Task description: For this task we are trying to answer questions about 
1000 seconds.

What's the time

Walt: build a stronger knowledge base around time

Task Description: Understand the difference between (am) and (pm),Convert written, analogue and digital forms Recognise key times throughout our day Solve basic problem.

Ki-O-Rahi Vocabulary

Walt: Find relevant information in the text.

Task description: For this task we had to get words from the story and describe them with our own words. The whole base of this task was to use better vocabulary. I think it finished good in the end and read more to find out more.

Healthy Lifestyle

Walt: Find relevant information in the text.

Task Description: For this Task it's all about what time you need go bed
and do they get enough time to do exercise.

Immersion Assembly Term 3 2018

Walt: Using exciting language.

Term 3 and we had an Immersion Assembly!!  YAY =^..^=

Immersion Assembly is a assembly That consist of 5 movies of plays, The topic was move ya body which was a health and energy based topic.

Does your school do immersion assembly?

Like i said before the topic is move ya body which was a health and energy based topic but I’m sure that there is more to it.
Energetic and active is also a good way to describe our topic as it literally says Move Your Body which is energetic and active.
I think that movement is another key that explains move ya body.
So I think the energetic active and movement are three words that are related to move your body and they all mean moving.

If you didn't know my team is Team Four and our movie was about having fun while also staying active.
One of the activities the teacher's did was playing spoon hockey.
Which was a game where you had to put a spoon in your mouth and play hockey.

What i want for the term is that I would love to learning somewhere around movement
and health projects, health projects can be based around food's, our body, and energy based projects.
Movement projects could be like sports as sports create movement, more movement projects could also be based on energy.

Overall I think this term has a very interesting topic because of what it stands move ya body means heaps of things.
I hope that the future of term 3 will be (AWESOMES!!) =^..^=   

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Task Description:For this Task we had to write a recount about the immersion assembly for term 3.

Geometry - Shapes and Symmetry

Walt: recognise shapes and sides

Task Description: For this task I had to learn to draw the mirror
image of the shape.

Geometry - Shapes

Walt: recognise shapes and sides

Task Description: For this task I had to learn to recognise
common shapes and look for and count the number of sides of
the shapes.

Biggest to Smallest #2

Walt: understand different measurement units

Sentence Practice

Walt: be able to stretch out of sentences

Finishing off the Story

WALT understand simple, compound, and complex sentences.

WALT edit our writing, ensuring we have a range of sentence types.

Sentence Types

WALT understand simple, compound, and complex sentences.

WALT edit our writing, ensuring we have a range of sentence types.

Protecting our Kaimoana

Walt: Locate and share in my own words information from a variety of texts.

Walt: Explain what it means to respect our oceans and everything in them.

Year 5/6 Camp

Walt: use what we already know to make meaning within a story




Task Description: Tell people what Year 5/6 camp is about and some of the things you are looking forward to.

Saving Poormans Stream Postcard Activity

Walt: Understanding and explaining what pollution is.

Walt: Being able to find the main points from a reading and write these in my own words.

Task Description: Write a postcard to a friend, pretending you are a character
in your story.

Saving Poormans Stream

Walt: Understanding and explaining what pollution is.

Walt: Being able to find the main points from a reading and write these in my own words.

Saving Poormans Stream

Questions about the reading:

Question	Answer
What did Mitchell see in the stream?	Mitchell saw lots of rubbish in the stream like 4 broken chairs, chip packets, glass and plastic bottles.
Where is Poormans Stream?	Poormans Stream is behind Stoke, Nelson.
What is a SHMAK?	A SHMAK is a Stream Health Monitoring and Assessment Kit.
What is the care code for Poormans Stream?	The care code for Poormans Stream is don’t litter, don’t walk through the stream unnecessarily and don’t move rock as this may disturb the bugs and they may be swept away.
What did Mitchell organise his school to do? Why do you think this is important?	Mitchell organised his school to clean up the stream on world environment day.  I think this was important because they probably helped to make the mess.
When is world environmental day?	World Environment Day is always held on June 5th.
What is world environmental day?	World Environment Day is a special day to give us a chance to think about how we can help protect the planet.
What did the Nelson Council decide to do to help?	The Nelson Council offered to pick up any large items and get rid of them at the tip.
Why do you think Mitchell wanted to clean up the stream?	I think Mitchell wanted to clean up the stream because he wanted to do his bit to look after the planet.
Do you think what he was doing will help?	Yes I think it will help because now others can help too.
Is there a stream by us that we could clean up?	Yes we have the Omaru Creek near Pt England School.
How do you think we could do something like this with our school?	We could try and do the same thing that Mitchell did with his school, a big clean up.

True or False?

Statement	T/F	Evidence
The stream has no rubbish and is completely clean.	F	Pg 26 - it was full of rubbish.
Most of the rubbish found were plastic bags.	F	Pg 26 - There were 4 broken chairs dumped in the stream. There was other rubbish, too, mostly chip packets and glass and plastic bottles.
World environment day is held every 5th of July.	F	Pg 29 - World Environment Day is held on 5 June every year.
Mitchell organised a group of his classmates to help clean up the stream.	T	Pg 28 - So he decided to organise a group of his classmates to clean up the stream.
The SHMAK is a kit used to collect information about the streams health.	T	Pg 27 - This kit is used to collect information on a stream’s health.
The stream runs past no schools in the area.	F	Pg 26 - When Mitchell Chandler biked past the stream that runs alongside his school.