end of year reflection

Music/Inquiry ( I play guitar)

I made this song with Lili, MonaJh and Zavier.

defense skills

kidsedchatnz

Question 1:
Which is your favourite of the "20 things that we should say more often." Why?
20 thank you
19 Excuse me
18  Heres a suprise corndog I brought for you cause your my friend
17 I'm sorry
16  I forgive you
15 you can do it
14 I have BBQ sause on my shirt too
13 please
12 every thing is going to be ok
11  you got me a corn dog too. you shouldn't have
10 I don't no
9 your so awesome 
8 hello person that you have never meet before
7 my sports team isn't always the best sports team
6 nothing
5 boooooom
4 I disagree with you but i still like you as a human being. 
3 aaaaaaa
2 life is tough but so are you
1 something nice

Question 2:
Create your own phrase to add to this list. Keep it up. Why do you think we should say this more often? Because it encourages people.

Question 3:
Do you agree with Kid President when he says it's okay to disagree? Yes Why? because someone might tell you to something bad or might have a better idea  

Question 4: 
Robbie Novak, the Kid President has an illness called Osteogenesis imperfecta. He shows great resilience. 

What was has been the toughest thing that has happened to you? I had a chest infection. How did you bounce back? I had a lot of rest.

Question 5.
Do you think the Kid President is awesome? Why? he used lots of expression so he made it fun and funny.

Question 6. 
How many Kid President You Tube clips have you watched? Which one is your favourite and why?
 I have seen 1 and i think the one that i have watched is awesome because he added a bonus feature.

Question 7.
What will you do to make the world more awesome?  Be confident more.

Speech

I remember walking up the path on friday at lunch with my Mum. Seeing all you year sixes playing in the playground when I was only 4 going to jump start in the library. You were only 5. First I was the melting butter in Robin and Sandys class in year 1. I was pretty hard at first but then they softened me up ready to add the rest of the ingrediants so I could be mixed up. They laid the foundation for all my learning......Spelling, Writing, Maths, Reading. We did loads of amazing learning sheets in there. Then into a land of sweetness with Ngaire. This was when I added the sugar and Vanilla Essence. I was a year 2. 1 cup She taught us lots of science like the balloon and vinegar trick! 2 cups fittness. I think we needed all the fitness with three cups of sugar!! At the moment i'm just Butter, Sugar and Vanilla, let’s start mixing......Now we should add an egg! Year 3 I and cracked an egg into Ebonys class. Sport sport......production? New Zealand music & my dance song was Swing by Savage I did the dance with two other girls Bella and Hannah.We were back-up dancers for savage. NZ was our theme. We made trophies for rugby world cup 2011. Our buddy class aws Lou. This year was awesome. In year 4 I sived my way through to Ngaire again and added the flour and baking powder. I had lots of bumps in me but she pushed them all down and made me tougher. I loved reading in that class. Now I am in Nic's class with 17 year sixes. All you year sixes are the sprinkles on top of me. They have helped me along the way, we have had our ups and had our downs. But we are still really good friends.I would like to say goodbye to: Laken, MonaJh, Samantha, Sophie Hali and Erin. Well you guys have been here I have learned that friendship is one of the most importanted things in life. I'm still in the oven but next year I am Hoping to be a big biscuit ready to be challenged and full of ideas. A memory lasts forever never does it die...true friends stay together and never say goodbye...

Caitlin’s speech

I think this is quality because it has questions in it with answer . It also has lots of good language features .

When I'm gone you will just forget me because I won't be here anymore.   RIGHT?  WELL YOU THOUGHT WRONG.

I will leave something that you won't forget.  It is not something that you can touch but a piece of my learning here that I will share with you in the hope that one day you will find this information useful.

I want to share this learning with you because I want you to develop to become the best you can be.

I have three main things to tell you about.

First, class learning is not just for in class time.  A good example is writing.  When we were learning to write character descriptions, I used this skill at home to write stories that have good descriptions of people.  This helps me to understand how much I know about this person and how they operate.  Another example is maths.  With maths I can understand how long 1000km is when my family is driving to the south island at Christmas.  I can calculate my change when I go to the supermarket. And I can double a recipe to make twice as many biscuits if needed.

The second part of my learning that I would like to tell you about is that learning is not just writing and maths.  Learning can also be found in all the opportunities I have had outside the classroom - for example kapahaka, bookapediea, road patrol, jump jam and I have learnt a lot while representing the school in athletics, cross country and triathlon.

All these things have taught me so much about leadership, teamwork and the skills that each person brings to the community.

For example in kapahaka we spent a morning making Māori kites. We learnt how to make the amazing knots that hold the kites together. When you think about it, it is just incredible what some people know and understand about the world.

The third and last part of my learning that I want to talk about is friends and friend ship. You can keep good friends forever if you don't just walk away and leave them behind. Friends can help you with your confidence and your learning and they help you enjoy life even when there is lots of hard work to be done.

So I will give you a moment to think about it. Who has really helped you to develop to become the best you can be.

Friends are also people you can trust. I don't mean that you and your friends go around telling silly secrets but that they are there for you and will help you.

I have been fortunate enough to have made some great friends at Russell Street School. I would like to say a few words about some of them. First I have to mention Grace Minnis. She has been with me since Year 0 and we have supported each other for many years in good and bad times.  I also have a group of friends - including Kate, Vaishnavi, and Brooke - who have been a big part of my enjoyment of learning this year. Then there is wider circle of friends who have helped me in many ways - both big and small - like Annalise, Latoyah and Laken.

If you have friends like these then I can guarantee you will have a great time and be successful.

There you have it. My three keys to learning and developing to become the best you can be. Listen in the class room and use those skills at home, Take all the opportunities you can to broaden your learning and understanding.  Nurture your friendships and treasure your friends.

I am very glad to have told you this and for you to have listened .  I wish you good luck in becoming the best you can be. If your friends aren't being the best, well you can show them how it's done and how much fun you have when you try your hardest at everything.

Thank you

Maori Days Of The Week

Athletics reflection 2013

maths and literacy priorities

Jam YUK!!!

W.A.L.T: Entertain and show not tell

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Reading Follow -up

Peace

Board Report

Maths Time

Show Not Tell

lolly's 

The raper is the shape of a christmas cracker.When open it it is like your going to eat a whole lot of different colors from a rainbow. When you taste then it is like a color boom went off in your mouth.

 you can here people say yummy after they they try them.

Reading Club

maths priorities

goals

Maia And Monajh Work

W.A.L.T infer

maths

reading goals term 4

End of Term Reflection

WALT: evaluate our learning honestly

What is an effective learner? A learner that try's hard in all of there learning.

What were the highlights for this term? Why? I think making our own water color art because we made it in time.

 

What were your greatest challenges this term?  Why? Sports with room 12 because I participated more then last term.

How are you going towards acting with integrity? Why? Good because I always get my work done.

What are your goals in writing? How do you know these are your goals? To use more personification because I don't really use it much.

Where to next? To participate more in class.

 

A Message from Nic

Blurb

Our Art Experiment 

During class We Are Learing To: explain what you have learnt during the science of art inquiry. We did Lots of art and expeimented about it.

One  afternoon Nic told us to get into groups of four and got some chalk, pant, pastil, dye and pencil. We doddled on our pice of papper   untill he told us to stop. Then we write what we, sore, thought and wondered. After that we made a foto babble.

Our class went out and took some photos around the school. Next \we picked a photo and then we had to try and paint the same photo using water colour paint. Then we had to create a smaller version using your own water colour paint that we made. It was much harder to do that because we did not have the right colours and our colour faded. The ingredients were;: corn flour, houny, salt, white vinerga and baking soda and to make the colour food colouring.

Our class learnt about the tree states of mater. We watched Bill Nigh the scince guy. The three states of mater is solid liquid and gas. There was another a ther one witch was plassma we did not learn about that though.

Cool Art

Tennis movie

What was your favourite part about Grasshopper tennis? When we did the boomsled 

What was the hardest part? Monster trucks

Writing

maths

My Book Trailer

Focus - Persuasive writing Purpose (Why are we writing)- to persuade people to read my book. W.A.L.T make a book trailer - Think of a book trailer as something like a movie trailer. It is a short preview designed to get people excited about your book. When designing a book trailer, you should consider the following. Success Criteria: Persuasive phrase - Words Good images from the book Not too long - 1 - 1 1/2 minutes The music fits the mood of the book - Catchy Use the main and most interesting parts Persuasive question? - Will the poison work? Make sure we don't use the imovie ready made trailers We need a plan We need a storyboard

My favourite dessert.

Home learning writing.

Poem

Maia and Mason Maths

we are learning to work out our six seven and eight times tables from our times five tables

Matter

A Scary Night At Grandmas

Integrity

What is the message of your movie? To help each other out How effective does your movie show your message? Lishay caught me. What did you enjoy? All of the different cammera angles What worked well? Us all agred on what to do. How well did you participate and contribute? Really well What didn't work well? I kept on falling of the chane so we had to recourd that sceine fast. Apart from the topic and the song, what would you change in your movie? Were I fall off because it really hurt my hands. Integrity pass it on

Maia's See, Think, Wonder

Our Rain Harvester

The PRS'S read a book called Water Worries. We sore a paragraph about harvesting rain. We thought it would be a cool idea if we made our own rain harvester.Our first attempted didn't work out. The next try worked out well, until we released that the bucket was way to big to fit between the bamboo sticks!! So someone thought it would be a great idea if we berried it. The boys did all of the digging!! We tied some string to the fence so it wouldn't fall. Once we finished we took a photo of it. It was fun making!

My Dad

Doddle 4 Google. (D.4.G)

Kotahitanga

Production

Maia and Arlo's production smart Goals

Production smart goals

What are goals for our production?  

Arlo: i chose nerves because last  time when I did the Production. 

Maia: My goal is to look at the crowd because in the practices I always look at people.

Why have you made these goals for yourself?

Arlo: I get nerves back-stage and when I went on the stage.

Maia:  So I don't Look like I do not know the dance.

What do you need to get ready to be prepared for the night?  How are you going to get ready?

Arlo: i need to not get nerves back-stage. 

Maia: I need to put my costume in a plastic bag and get my make up ready.

What are you most looking forward to doing? Why?

Arlo: i need to  overcome my challenge.

Maia: I am looking ford to performing in the Kapa Haka and the take it easy song.

Writing

P.E Sample

Journey 2 mysteries island

Journey 2 Mysteries island

BOOM! The Volcano exploded and hit our helicopter.  I had forgoten everything that had happened. The only thing I remember was being in a huge helicoptor with my big brother. My Monkey dragged me onto sure. He had saved my life. I gazed  down at my sore shin and asked my Monkey if he could get me something.

I stood up and looked around. I sore an old rusty windmill.It  I walked closer to it. There was little hole in it. I walked in it but there was only sticks, rocks, leaves and a little black bird. in it.

I walked out of the windmill and ran down a path incase someone comes to find me. I started to get puffed so I walked and waked some more. I was looking at the things beside me to see if there was some water or food or maybe even a little hut that could give me shelter. I was so tired so I stoped and found a little bunch of grass

 I heard something. It was another helicopter I thought it was coming to save me. So I waved my arms every were, but they didn’t notice me at all.I started to get puffed so I walked the rest. I think I hear something I said in joy to my Monkey.It is a helicopter we are saved! The people in the Helicopter looked down at us.They landed safely. They ran to me to make sure I was ok. I got my Monkey and we jumped in the helicopter.I was so happy to be at safe home. With food and water not salty water.

Tearm 2 Show Me

inquiry movie

Writing WALT

taste bud test

Our taste bud test. Do you know the differnt places in your tongue. On Monday We had to eat cheese, a cracker, Lemon juse and houny “eww yuck”. I will tell you the differint places in your tongue. the front of your tongue is sweet, the back of your tongue is bitter the sides are sour and the front sides are salty. Firstly we ate a little cube of cheese. We wriggled the cheese around in our mouth to see what part we could taste it. Mine was bitter at the back of my mouth. I have tasted better cheese before. Next up we had a little yummy Cracker. When i bit into it I did the same thing. to me the cracker was salty and sweet. Thirdly we drunk some lemon juse. we got a few drops in our hand. We drunk it.For me it was sour. Then it was time for the disgusting honey! We all got some honey on our finger. I DID NOT EAT MINE!! By Maia

Maths Time.

I went on study ladder.

Me and Aroha tidy numbers

Is Coke An Every day drink for kids

Term One Value

Term One Key Competencies

writing assesment

Marae stay 2013

My Maths

Maia's Pepeha

This is my Awesome pepeha! A pepeha is a morie introduction.

Tane And The Three Kete.

Te Marae

Noun Guess?

Swimming assessment