Our new classroom

The whole Journey

In the past year the year 4-6 classrooms on our classroom block have had the wall knocked down in the middle and been renovated.

First the wall between room 5&6 was knocked down and they stayed in the behavior room. Next the wall between room 3&4 was knocked down and they stayed in the library. Lastly it was our classroom, we had to wait until room 3&4 had finished and then we moved into the library

The first move

On the last day of term 2 a couple of kids helped move the furniture into the library it was hard and it took around 2 blocks. Over the 2 week holidays our two teachers set up the furniture so when we got back the library was all set up. We stayed there for 6 weeks. It was very cramped.

The second move

On Tuesday an other couple of students stayed and helped move the things from the library to the new, built and freshly painted classroom. We got lots of new furniture such as a white board, cubbies for our bags and pencil cases and tables/chairs.

In our classroom we have some little rooms coming off where we can work quietly.

Thoughts and feelings

I really enjoy working in this big open space and to have nice little quiet areas to work in. I enjoy having 2 teachers because if one is busy i have another one to talk to. I like having 2x more people to work with. I think that the annoying things were that we had to wait a long time and it was loud and very dusty.

Winter sports day, (Netball)

Last Thursday my netball team and I went to the winter sports day at Kristin school. Earlier in the term teams were picked out to go to this event. 

We got there on the bus and my mum came as a parent helper. When we first arrived we split into our teams and went to the netball courts we played a game than had a 20min interval. We played 4 games like this but lost every single one some by a little and some by a lot. This only happened because we played net ball teams ab out 3 grades higher than us.

I had lots of fun and a great day!

Speeches

Over the last week room one and two have been presenting their speeches.Mine was on Native endangered animals:

Here it is:

Our native Nz endangered animals

Have you ever seen a live Moa, the flightless giant bird that once roamed NZ? Of course not, maybe a few at the Auckland museum but they are only stuffed because they have been extinct for more than 600 years. So, what happened to them you must be wondering?

Was it because the europeans and maori were hunting them too much for their BBQs or was it a volcano plunging them to their death forever, that's the big question? What ever

happened to them, they are not here for us to enjoy anymore!

Now, you have probably heard the word endangered a lot already but do you really know what it means?

Endangered means that a certain type of species only have a small population left of their kind. Imagine that since Earth formed 4 billion years ago, 95% of all species are now extinct!That's scary, isn't  it?

The most popular native NZ species on their way to extinction are Maui dolphins, Kakapo and kiwi birds which are my favourite. However lets not forget that there are many more clinging to survival like the short tailed bat, NZ sea lion and the white heron just to mention a few.

There are only 55 Maui's dolphins left in Nz because humans have been overfishing and catching too many of them. There is only 124 Kakapos left because the arrival of pests in the wild is starting to kill them. There is about 24-27,000 Kiwis left because we have been cutting down their homes in the forests. Other threats to our animals are pollution and blocking rivers, hunting and natural disasters like volcanic eruptions and earthquakes.

Now, you probably have been thinking "yes there is a lot of endangered animals but why do we really need to help them?" Well, first of all these animals are our friends, imagine what you would do without your frisky pet puppy or your adorable sleepy cat. It really wouldn't be life! Secondly we wouldn't survive. For example if some special animals like cows or sheep become endangered we wouldn't have things like cheese, cream and butter. We also need their fur and wool for clothes and rugs.

There is lots of ways to help these exquisite creatures from dying out.

1. You could join the WWF at the

auckland zoo and pay a small donation to adopt an animal.

2. Try recycling. You could use your old jam jar and make a pencil holder and lots of arty things like that.

3.Next time you go fishing only catch what you need.

4. Next time you see a piece of rubbish on the ground simply bend down and pick it up.

We need to start to save these animals because if all the kiwis become extinct our namesake will be gone and we will be called something silly like the seagulls or sheep, not kiwis. So are you in? Lets go save the endangered animals.

North America

We have been learning about Endangered animals.

We had to choose a continent then make a power point about it.

My buddy was Julia and we had to work on this project together.

We ahd to write facts and add pictures we had to put on the animals that lived there and we had to choose one and write facts about it.

Click here to see mine:

Writing charachter

We have been learning about writing a paragraph to describe a character

Here is mine:

His smile grew bigger and bigger until it lit up his whole face. He held his lantern up proudly, the light peaked in every nook and cranny. He could hear the faint chatter of the Villagers behind him but he ignored them. ll he could think of was the big carrier ship looming closer and closer to the little Island. The ship turned. A cheer escaped his mouth, he felt like he was a runner who has just crossed the finish line.

Writing setting.

We have been learning about writing about a setting.

Here is mine:

The sun beamed brightly onto Jessica super stunning strawberry ice cream. The waves rolled gently onto the crumbling golden sand making a soft rumbling sound echo round and round and round the smalls beach. When Jess heard the friendly tune of the ice cream van come past her bach by the see she went running quickly to catch up with it.

Maths week

We have been doing math week this week we went onto a site called Math week. We had to buddy up. In pairs we had to complete challenges. Each day there it about 15-20 questions to answer. Each question had an amount of money that you would earn if you get the questions right.
This is the site we got it from:
http://www.mathsweek.org.nz/
Here is our one:

MONDAY 10 AUGUST

Question 1

Question 2

All numbers highlighted in blue

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40
41	42	43	44	45	46	47	48	49	50
51	52	53	54	55	56	57	58	59	60
61	62	63	64	65	66	67	68	69	70
71	72	73	74	75	76	77	78	79	80
81	82	83	84	85	86	87	88	89	90
91	92	93	94	95	96	97	98	99	100

1. 5 dollar question

(a) a square

2. 10 dollar question

(b) a rectangle

3. 15 dollar question

(b) a parallelogram

4. 20 dollar question

(c) a trapezium

5. 25 dollar question

(a) a rhombus

6. 30 dollar question

(b) a kite

7. 35 dollar question

(a) a circle

8. 40 dollar question

(b) an ellipse

9. 45 dollar question

(b) a pentagram

10. 50 dollar question

(a) an octagon

11. 55 dollar question

(b) a pentagon

12. 60 dollar question

(a) an isosceles triangle

Thursday 13 August

13 August

It all went crazy so we had to delete it

Friday 14 August

1. 20 dollar question

There are 30 cannon balls

2. The 40 Dollar Question

There are 14 cannon balls

3. The 60 Dollar Question

There are 55 cannon balls

4. The 80 Dollar Question

There are 156 cannon balls

5. 100 Dollar Question

There are 1240 cannon balls