Ballistic Broccoli

 Broccoli

Hi Bloggers, This week in reading we have been learning about poems. For inspiration we watched and read some of Michael Rosens poems that he has written. One of his poems was called Broccoli which was the one that i chose to read. Our goal was: visualise using all of the senses, and talk about how this enriches meaning. The idea of it is to read one of his poems and visualise what you thought it might have looked like. This was my visualisation of what the poem looked like!

Did you Know that's where Broccoli comes from?

Thanks for looking at my picture for the poem: Broccoli!

Rebel Reading

 Hi bloggers,

This week in reading term 3 Week 9 We were learning about Friendships. Our goal for this week is: Make predictions about the text, look for clues to confirm predictions & make connections between other texts and general knowledge to expand meaning and pose questions. At our workshop we read a book about friendship to help us understand it. We had a couple of different things we could do for our create and I chose to do a board game. So here it is!!!

                    

                      

Question time: How do you and your friend get along? Kia Ora!

The Mysterious Umbrella

Hi bloggers, 

This week in writing Term 3 Week 2 we writ a story based on a video called the Umbrella. It Is about a yellow umbrella the got stolen at the end.We had to included a simile  Here is my writing to show you what I mean.

Umbrella

One foggy dawn, while the dew fell upon the leaves, the door to Miss Elm’s Home For Children sprang open with a bang! The girl with the stunning, sunshine yellow umbrella tiptoed reluctantly into the orphanage, quickly finding a safe home for her umbrella. And not wanting to be seen Boris crisply whipped his head round the door frame so he was hidden from view. Standing off to the side the little girl watched the glorious scene as the children searched in the box for her lost treasures. The girl smiled as she watched the young boy race as fast as a shooting star. Her Smile disappeared abruptly as she looked back at the umbrella stand and all she saw were puddles. Her beloved Umbrella had mysteriously disappeared.

Can you spot my simllie?

Thank you for reading my writing hope you like it.

My Trip Recount

On Thursday in week 3 of school tumu hub went on a trip to margaret mahy. We also went to victoria square, rode a waka and saw the Māori mats. We went there to learn about the Māori culture for our PBL. The first thing Rata did was go to Victoria Square with Mrs Brown. She taught us about king captain cook. He was the first one to find New Zealand and the first person to make the New Zealand map. Next we went to Margaret Mahy with Mrs Carney and we learnt about the story along the playground. Then we went to feed the tuna and see the mats.

My favourite part of the trip was feeding the tuna. We fed them big gooey pieces of cat food and they came to the top of the dirty water to eat the food. Tuna is another word for eals and they are very skinny sea animals. 

Something I learnt was how to use a paddle for the waka. The leaders yelled commands for us to do. We had to put our paddle up, down, 45 degrees, angle and start paddling. Francesca was my buddy for the aka because it had to have 2 on one part otherwise the boat balance would be unbalanced. 

The thing I found the most interesting was the story around margaret mahy playground. I think the artists have put a lot of effort into the playground. It has a beautiful song around as well. They imbebed the carvings into the concrete. Another interesting thing was how the eels swim all the way down to tonga  to have there babies.

This trip has helped me with my PBL because now when I have to write about my trip and what i learnt I will now be able to tell them everything about the trip. I has also helped me to work together in a team more.

How was your trip when you went to Margaret Mahy playground?

Matariki

 Hi bloggers,

This week in reading we learnt about Matariki. I made a slide about it that you will see in a tick but first I will tell you what our goal was. It is to Make connections between texts and general knowledge to expand meaning & pose questions.

Here is my slide down below.

I hope you learnt something. 

Here is a Question - do you have any connections with Matariki? 

Bye!

My Magnificent Maths

 Hi,

Welcome back to by blog. This week in maths I did Doubling and halving, Place value multiplication And Place value Division.  

Doubling and halving is a strategy you use to make numbers bigger and smaller to help solve problems with any equation.

Place value multiplication is a strategy you use to help solve multiplication problem and splitting up the numbers into hundreds, tens and ones. 

Have you ever tried these strategys? 

Holy Week

 Hi,

In week 9 we learnt about Holy Week. Holy Week is the week coming up to Easter. We celebrate Jesus's last week before he dies on the cross. The days in Holy Heek is Palm Sunday, Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday. 

Holy week is the end of Lent. Lent has 40 days and we celebrate coming up to Easter when Jesus dies. The colour purple is the colour of Lent it represents the three meanings of purple in Lent. The first one is royalty of Christ, the next one is his passion and death for our sins and the last one is the coming of spring.  

Palm Sunday Starts Holy Week and Easter Sunday finishes Holy Week. 

What other things do you know about Holy Week?

Have a look at my slide show to learn more about Holy Week.  

Did you learn something from my slide? If you did tell me what you learnt in the comments.