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Friday, February 19, 2021

All about me!

 Hey Bloggers,

Today we got to make a presentation about ourselves explaining what we like to do, hobbies, sports, food, drinks, family, etc

We created these all about me presentations on Canva. Canva is a website where you can create posters, presentations, logos, cards, and many more things.

If you want to watch my all about me presentation click the video below:


Comment if you notice that we have something in common :)


Thursday, February 18, 2021

My Favourite Memory At Camp

Hey bloggers,

2021 has been a great year so far and I'm excited to see what other awesome things will happen this year, one of the parts that were really fun so far this year was camp.

We did 5 activities at camp including, orienting, code breaker, high ropes, coast steering, and kayaking.

After dinner we got to play spotlight. I enjoyed spotlight the most because i got to play it with my friends.


The week after we left camp we had to do an animation about what we enjoyed the most about camp, I enjoyed most of the activities at camp but I choose to do spotlight as one of my most favourite things to do at camp:

If you wanna see my animate about spotlight click the link:

My Favourite Thing To Do At Camp


Friday, October 16, 2020

Happy Holidays

Hi, bloggers, this blog post is about what I did in the holidays

In the holidays I went to Wellington to go visit my Dad. 

In wellington, my sisters and I went to the pools, we went on the trampoline and played with the dog, We went for walks in the Poole Cresent Reserve

The flight there was not the best because there was turbulence. 




Tuesday, September 22, 2020

Maths questions

In Mr. Shaw's math group we have been learning about 24 hour time and how to convert AM/PM.

Today we had to make a math question about 24 hour time and movies. And then once we have made that we had to share it with someone we don't usually go with and see if they can figure the question.

Maths question

Sunday, September 6, 2020

Maths blog post

 Hello bloggers,

This weeks blog post will be about Maths (as you can see by the title) 

In Mr shaw's math group we have been working on the probability of coins, and the patterns we can get out of flipping coins.

For maths, we had to make an animation!

Here's mine:

Click this link to see my maths animation

Thanks for reading my blog post!

See you next time!

Friday, August 28, 2020

Children's book

Hello bloggers

This weeks blog post will be about what I have been doing for literacy, maths, and rocket inquiry

Literacy: 

For a few weeks, Mr. Shaw's literacy group has been working on children's books, I haven't yet finished mine but it's close to being finished.
Here is the plan for my book:

Page 1: 

(narrator speaking:)

“Once upon a time, there were some sheep on a farm that had a VERY big problem, a problem that left one sheep to overfeed and the rest went hungry…”


Page 2: 

“Munch, munch, munch,” said Billy “all of the food for me but no food for you baaaaa”


“But, why won’t you share the food with the rest of us Billy?” asked Harold “sharing is caring” added Cindy


“Because I’m the oldest!” Billy snapped back “I'm older and you’re not so that makes me better than you so, I should get more food!” 


Page 3:

“I trade you a piece of grass stuck in between my mouth for 30 straws of hay”

“I'll trade you gold for 500 straws of hay!”

“NO, those are ALL bad trades!! My trade is even better! I'll trade you a whole lot of water for a whole lot of hay”

“I’ll trade you nothing for all of the hay”


“NO, NO, NO, AND NO, as I said I’M THE OLDEST SO I GET ALL OF THE FOOD!”


Page 4: 

“Hmph, fine we’ll find a different way to get food then!” 


“Good luck, you won’t get very much though”


Page 5: 

For a few days, the nice sheep went hungry, then later that night the nice sheep came up with a fancy plan to steal all of the food from Billy to make billy know how it feels to go hungry.


Page 6: 

The plan is that while Billy is asleep the sheep would sneak past him and eat all of the food and when Billy woke up he would see that the rest of the sheep were well feed all except for billy


Page 7: 

“ZzZzZzZZzZzZzZ, mmmm, wait, where did all my food go?” asked Billy


“We ate it all,” replied Harold


“B-bu-but that's not fair! that's my food!”


“But it wasn't fair when you wouldn’t share the food with the rest of us” Replied Cindy


“Umm, yes it was! I'm the oldest so I get the food, you sheep are the youngest so you just get to eat, dirty grass!” 


Page 8: 


“Well, we are not giving any food until you say sorry for not sharing AND promise to share the hay with the rest of us.” Replied Harold 


“I'll make you a few offers:

“I’ll trade you a piece of grass stuck in between my mouth for 30 straws of hay

I'll trade you gold for 500 straws of hay!”

“NO!”

“I'll trade you a whole lot of water for a whole lot of hay”

“NO!”

“I’ll trade you nothing for all of the hay”

“NO, NO, NO, AND DEFINITELY NO, as we all said, we are not giving you any food until you promise to share the food with the rest of us and say sorry for not sharing the food with us,” Mellisa said


“Hmph, I’ll find a different way to get food then!”


Page 9:


After awhile Billy's tummy started to rumble, he was getting VERY hungry.

After a few hours, his tummy started to rumble again! So Billy said:

“Since the mean sheep won’t share with me, I’ll go find some other food, it's not that hard!


So off billy went to go find some other food

Page 10:


“This grass looks very green and tasty, I think I can eat this!”


So Billy ate the grass and…


“YUCKY, this grass is too dry!”


So off billy went to find some other food


“This flower looks very colorful and tasty, I think I can eat this!”


So Billy ate the flower and…


“YUCKY, this flower is to bitter”


Im still working on it but it will hopefully be finished soon

Friday, July 3, 2020

Southern lights/the matariki

Hello readers,


Today's blog post will be about the southern lights and the Matariki

In Toroa we have been learning about the southern lights and the Matariki.

Today we all did an art piece that represents the Matariki and the southern lights - before that we all had to work on creating a book, animation, puppet show of facts about the Matariki, and how and where to find them.


I decided to use a book creator to explain the Matariki, my book explains:

  • The story of the Matariki

  • Ways to celebrate the Matariki with your family

  • Matariki star facts

  • A drawing of the Matariki (drawn by me!)

  • And a special surprise at the end...hehe


Below is a link to my book so you can read it for yourself!:

Click here to see my book about the Matariki!


The southern lights/the Aurora


Hello readers - again…

The second part of this blog post is going to be about the southern lights/the Aurora

I have learned/found some interesting facts about the southern lights/the aurora:


  • In the southern hemisphere, the southern lights are also known as aurora australis.

  • Most southern light shows occur during the southern hemisphere fall and winter months, which go from March through to September.

  • The Cree called them the ‘Dance of the Spirits’

  • In Finland, they said the lights were caused by the firefox running so quickly the snow that his tail sent sparks into the sky

  • Ancient Chinese observers believed that the Southern lights/the Aurora were the flames of good and evil dragons battling in the heavens

  • Even today, these mysterious and unpredictable lights are called ‘Arura after the Roman goddess of the dawn.

  • An aurora, also know as a polar light, is a display of lights in the sky in the Arctic and Antarctic regions, in an area known as the auroral zone. An aurora around the north pole is called ‘Aurora Borealis’ or the northern lights

  • The southern lights last anywhere from 10 minutes to all night long, depending on the magnitude of the incoming solar wind.


Today in Toroa we created an art piece of the southern lights/the aurora - Down below is a photo of my creation:


The steps on how to make this are quite easy!

If you want to make your own follow these instructions:


1. Hold your plain A4 paper landscape and rip a mountain-like shape across it. This will be used to mask off the hills - Mask this onto the bottom of your black piece of paper.



2.  Then dip your toothbrush into some of the white acrylic paint, then run your fingers through the bristles of the toothbrush to flick paint over your black piece of paper. This will create the background stars.


3.  While the stars are drying, use your ripped card and color the top ripped edge of it in with your different colored pastels. Make sure you change the color every few centimeters.



4.  When the paint is dry, place the chalked paper onto your black paper. Now run your finger through the chalk upwards towards the stars. This should smudge the colored chalk from the plain paper onto your picture.



5.  Mix a small amount of yellow and white together. Make sure you use more white than yellow, you want it to only have a tint of yellow in it.  Using your toothpick or the end of a paintbrush dot in the Matariki constellation.



6.  Remove the paper from the black paper and walla! 

Your finishing touch should look something like this:


Hope you have a great school holidays bloggers! - what are you doing these holidays??

Bai for now!