Summer Learning Journey Prep

Pet day!

Today at our school is Pet day, where some kids bring in their Pets; like, Sheep, horses, cats, dogs, ect.
We have a timetable for what we're doing today, so the first thing we had to do is make either a Vegetable sculpture or a sand saucer, I buddied up with my friend called Chloe to make this saucer, we used rocks, flowers and of course sand.
Chloe and I liked how this turned out because we also added our own little rocks called stanley and leah.

           here is a closer picture of our work on the left there is stanley and on the right there is leah.

What we have next is I think the hobby horse race and it is a choice to race on a hobby horse.

update:

After break we then read a bit of our class book called 'boy underwater', while having some morning tea. A bit after the teacher finished reading a chapter we got told to head outside for duck herdling, where a dog called De (I think that's how you spell it) hurdled ducks like he would with sheep, it was quite funny watching De hurdle ducks because it's not something you would see on an average day.

After De finished herdling the ducks into a bright orange net, some kids got a bit sensitive because The owner of De picked the ducks up by their necks and people thought it was hurting them, but then we soon found out that the neck is the strongest part of a duck.

we then Huddled into a semi circle on one side of the pit for questions to ask the man controlling De (i'm also not sure what his name is).

we then went over to this little cage where inside was a sheep, it was Ms Adams pet sheep and she brought it in to show us how she sheared a sheep, I've never seen a sheep being sheared before so the was he was holding the sheep sorta freaked me out, but I guess it's normal for a sheep.

while we were getting back in our positions around the pit, Mrs Tebbet was setting up for the hobby horse course, this race was optional, you would find there were homemade ones and store bought ones, I didn't do the race but I watched my friend Chloe do it, the teacher took some pictures of the year 8's (and Nikoli)

after all that we had lunch and the PTA were making free sausage sizzle for the school, during lunch break Mrs Taylor went around Putting Letters and Numbers on our hand saying which group we're in, I was in group 'E1'. After lunch we then Lined up in our groups on the court and headed of with a teacher for our first rotation of activities, there were a whole range of them like, Gumboot throwing, hay bale race, egg and spoon race, ect. My favourite activity would probably have to be either gumboot throwing or the egg and spoon race, after all the activities were completed it was then time for the animals to come, there were cats, dogs, chickens, guinea pigs, and more.

then they did these judging things and I got to help with judging small dogs, with this boy and his girlfriend, I helped out the girl (again I forgot their names) I was writing down what she thought was good about the dog and then I gave it to the owner of the dog.

I personally found Pet day really fun because this was the first one i've ever been too, and I find them really fun and exciting.

Attitude visit

On wednesday someone from Attitude called Tama (Tamati) came to visit Rimu class, and he talked about how our personalities kinda define us, he talked about these 4 animals, an otter, a lion, a golden retriever and, a beaver.
an Otter is like the funny guy in the class, or someone who wants to make EVERYTHING seem fun.
a Golden retriever is someone who is very loyal to their friends, and finds it really hard to say no.
a lion is someone who likes to take charge in things, not in a bad way so people will listen, but they take charge so everyone will want to listen.
and a beaver is someone who just wants everything to be perfect the first time they do it.
but i really enjoyed the laughs that happened.

Hooked on books week

This week is 'Hooked on books week' where everyday we get a new book for the teachers to read to the class, they can be any genre like maybe a funny one, or a pick-a-path.

Day 1:
our first book was liars, where a kid named jarlie created an app called 'the truth app' where it detects when somebody is lying, one day his dad was driving somewhere then all of a sudden got caught in a car "accident" which jarlie thinks it was on purpose because there was and old man with thick dark glasses in a brown Ute ramming into a their car, they had to go to hospital as his dad was in pretty bad state. as soon as they got to the hospital Jarlie's dad got rushed to the hospital, Jarlie had to wait in the waiting room, he went outside for fresh air and saw the brown ute that crashed into them, jarlie was frightened and ran back into the hospital aiming for somebody to call for help, he then got caught up with the old man who was trying to chase him, about there i sorta forgot what else happened all i know is that he was soon taken home with his dad with paparazzi outside his home as his app has gone viral.


day 2:
for day 2 we read 'launch your head off 4 ever' this book had a 9 different stories in one book, we read 3 of them, out first one (which is the only one i'm going to explain) was written by andy griffiths and i'm not sure what it was called but it was about Andy and his friend Danny were being stupid and rolling a pram down a hill road with Andy sitting in the pram, and his friend Danny accidentally let go of the pram and it just went down hill (get it) from there, he got chased by a dog, landed in a pool, got stuck on train tracks and it was just a really funny story, I think we all enjoyed it because I know I did.


Day 3:
for day 3 we read 'Goldfish boy' I didn't really know what was going on as I wasn't listening because that day I just had a weird mind blank for what was happening that day, all I remember is that I guess the main character was called matthew and his little brother died and I think he has something to do with his brothers death.

for day 4 we're not sure what we're reading because it's meant to be a surprise for us, and we also have book character day. I can't wait to find out what we're reading.

Recount // Athletics day!

for the past 3 weeks, we have been writing recounts,

these are mainly some of the points we have been focusing on:

• time connectives
• Descriptive Language (similes, metaphors, sets of 3, etc.)
• Advanced Punctuation (semi-colons, colons, brackets, hyphens, etc.) 

I have written about athletics day and what were the events that happened, this is my recount I wrote about athletics and re-wrote it on a site called piktochart:

Geometry and measurement

for maths, we have been learning Geometry and Measurement for the last few weeks, the slide I found the easiest was this one because all you had to do was look at the shape and the numbers inside, then you add up the numbers inside till it becomes a bigger number, then you have to figure out what is the number you have to add it up to in this case our teacher added a video which says what number you have to add it up to. 360. then you either take away the number you have from 360 and then you have your anwser, well that what I did maybe you have a different way of finding out this sum.











Thanks for reading!

Study novel // Enemy at the gate

For reading this term the teacher provided us with this new thing called 'study novel', each reading group has a different book/novel depending on their reading ability, I got given a book called 'enemy at the gate' by Philippa Werry.
Philippa Werry is a New Zealand author and has written around 50 books from the earliest of 1999 and her latest of 2018.

The book I'm reading at the moment (enemy at the gate) was published in 2008, it takes place in December 1936 where a thing called polio cases were suspected. then a Polio epidemic was sweeping the country. the schools, swimming pools, and movie theaters were banned for children, travel was restricted down for children as well. The main characters name is Tom and he LOVES to run just like his idol Jack Lovelock. Tom was also the best runner in school, he has a best friend called Charlie, they live in a little bay called Lyall bay. I haven't read much of the book as I'm only up to chapter 4, so there's not much more I can add.

Plastic in the air.

Lately, for a while now we have been learning about pollution and all the different types that can affect the world and the things living in it, we have our own groups I am in group five and we are focusing on Air pollution.
Firstly what is Air pollution, pollution is now a commonplace term, that our ears are attuned to. We hear about the various forms of pollution and read about it through the mass media. Air pollution is one such form that refers to the contamination of the air, irrespective of indoors or outside. A physical, biological or chemical alteration to the air in the atmosphere can be termed as pollution. It occurs when any harmful gases, dust, smoke enters into the atmosphere and makes it difficult for plants, animals, and humans to survive as the air becomes dirty.

what are the causes:

• the burning of fossil fuels
• agricultural activities 
• exhaust from factories and industrials
• mining operations
• indoor air pollution

and the effects:

• respiratory and heart problems
• global warming 
• acid rain
• effect of wildlife
• eutrophication

So these are all the problems of Air pollution and the effects are really bad towards us, so we need to try and stop air pollution before it becomes worse.

thanks for reading!

Discovering our heritage

For Te Reo, we are learning about our heritage and what to do. The teachers gave me a choice on what I wanted to learn more about the culture, I choose to learn more about the greenstones and the meanings. here is an example of what I have to do. There is an awesome site that gives the prices, how its made and the history of the greenstone. I have a similar one to this one but its made from a whalebone.
here is the site

ECO trip.

In Rimu this week we went to the waste management center to see how it works and what they do. We also learned about the 5 Rs reduce, reuse, recycle, recover And reduce disposal. We also went to the eco store and the eco drop to see what is good for our (pretend) flat we were moving into that could be reused. Then we went to the eco store to by some stuff for our flat, we had a $500 dollar budget. Bree and I were in a pair and our favorite product we found was the marble cups which were very pretty. here is a photo of me and Bree presenting.

william pike challenge

On Wednesday we went to Spencer Park for William pike challenge, we did teamwork activities and survival like activities. We were in groups with another school called rangi ruru Girls school, they were really nice and we had to be in groups with them. we did a lot of fun and weird activities, my favorite one was where we had to go to a certain part of the forest and build a little hut on the side of a tree, the hardest part of that was the team I had didn't listen to each others idea until the teacher decided to come and help. but overall the day trip was really fun apart from the part when we were heading back to school and I felt really sick.

Maths DLO

For maths this week we were learning about operations, which I'm not 100% sure what it is but I think a brief meaning of it is that it is a whole bunch of different math questions and styles popped onto one slide. 

We had to work our way across from yellow to orange and depending on who you are, it may be easy or hard.

newspaper report

These past two weeks we have been writing and learning about newspaper reports and this week we had to make our own newspaper article about any topic we planned on our doc, We had to write 2+ stories, Here is the first page of my newspaper report and it's not quite finished so my task was to ask you for feedback.
do you have any feedback to help make my story better?

Maths

This week in maths we were learning about measurement and we had to learn how to convert measurements or weights. here is and example of one I struggled a bit with, when converting cm to mm you have to times the cm with 10 and then there is your answer, E.G 7 cm to mm would be 70mm because when timeing 7 by 10 is 70 and the answer would be 70mm.

posted

This term we are reading a book called posted and we had had to do a whole bunch of activities that were put onto a slide. here it is.

                                                        hooked on books

this week was hooked on books week where we get a new book everyday of the week and read it for that day and on wednesday we read 'the first hippo on the moon',  we had to draw our own illustration with a partner I had Bree, each pair got there own page/paragraph of the book and we illustrated it ourselves, how we did this is by drawing our illustration on a piece of fabric and then making a flour and water paste, then we scooped the paste into a bag and cut the tip off then we piped the paste onto our drawings , when it dried we painted it and then we had to wait for the paint to dry, when it dried we peeled the dried flour paste off and then we were done here is mine and Bree's.

I really enjoyed when we had to peel off the dried paste because it was very satisfying and what I found challenging was piping the flour paste because it was a bit thin and comes out really fast but if it was a bit thicker it would probably be better.

this week we were learning 'fractions of amount' me and my friend bree worked on this together and we hope it helps you to learn your fractions of amount

writing blog post

for writing we had to write a story about this picture.

The wind rushed through her gorgeous brown hair as she descended through the forest at great speed. For most people this would be an exhilarating, even terrifying experience, but for Lucy it was just an ordinary journey.

Lucy is a girl around the age nine and ten, she has gorgeous brown hair and was kind of short,her and her family lived on the top of mount vaea so she has to zipline down a very long chain with a strap for her to sit in. Lucy usually gets alot of ordeal pressure put on her, like going down to the supermarket with a huge sack on her back and babysitting her younger siblings.


soaring through the air was like a day to day experience for Lucy, it’s quite sensational for a little girl around the age nine to zipline through a forest alone but I guess she really enjoys just gliding along, she doesn’t mind going down the chain to get to school and to the shop but the thing that she really hate is getting back up to her home she has to pull herself up, it's a really long process, she climbs then slides then climbs then slides it's just a really long mission.


Sometimes when she’s alone at the supermarket she feels a bit vulnerable and just wants to cry, people look at her weird, when she's crying on the ground people think she homeless and throw money out to her and little kids will pass her calling her names like dirt rag it was quite preposterous, the thing for that was cause her family wasn’t that rich and couldn’t afford a big house or new clothes.


Her family didn’t have a good life they had quite a miserable life, but she still loves her family and her family loves her.

there's a boy in the girls bathroom

our teachers read us this book called "there's a a boy in the girls bathroom" and now we have to do a bunch of activities about the book and bradley who is the main character and I choose word art for my first activity.