Reading

This term for reading we are doing a zoo task. First we choose a task to do, then we choose an animal, next we choose a journal to read from and finally we do the task. I make a bookmark about the Morarch Butterfly. This is what it looks like.

Passport Tasks

This term for inquiry we are learning about the rugby world cup, but this term instead of doing lessons we are getting a passport that holds activities that teach us about the rugby world cup. I have finished the activity of where you list each country involved in the rugby world cup and identify them on a world map. This is what it looks like.

Gratitude Journal

This week we have started to write in a gratitude journal. Each day we write three things we are thankful for. A couple of things I am grateful for are family, friends, fun, food and shelter. I like doin g this activity because it makes me feel better about life. This is my gratitude journal.

Haiku

Today for writing we did haiku's. I did my haiku on spring. This is my haiku.

3D Shapes

Today for maths we made 3D shapes. We first started with a coloured net. A net is flat piece of paper and if you fold it properly it makes a 3-D shape.and then we cut it out and stuck it into the proper shape. I made a cone and a cylinder. 

My Sun Poem

This week during writing our class is focusing on sun poems. A sun poem is a poem that has six verses. It has two lines in each verse. The first line of a verse describes the sun as an object, and the second line uses verbs, adverbs and adjectives to decsribe the object you used to describe the sun. This is my poem.

The sun is a lightbulb.

It brightly lights up the sky.

The sun is a ball of fire.

It radiates the gloomy solar system during the day.

The sun is a scorching oven.

It goes way past 210 degrees Celcius.

The sun is a shiny gold gold coin.

It spins continuosly in the centre of the solar system.

The sun is a lemon.

It is sour and yellow.

It is the powerful leader of the solar system.

The sun guides the other planets around it.

Our Assembly

We had our assembly today. It was about racism. We did a dance on our individuality. This is a picture of our assembly.

Marae Trip

This week on Wednesday, we went to a Marae. We went to the Unitec Marae. When we got there we learnt about the history of that Marae. It is exactly 10 years old! Then we had some morning tea. After a little run around we went back into the Marae to learn a Haka. When it was time to leave the Marae the year five and six boys performed a haka. I think we all enjoyed having the oppourtunity to go to a Marae and learn some Maori traditions.

Procedural Writing

In writing we are learning about procedural writing. In class we all worked on an exact recipe, and then we were told to make our own. I did mine on how to bake eggless cupcakes. This is my recipe.

How To Bake Eggless Muffins/Cupcakes

By:Soeun

Got a big sweet tooth, but are allergic to eggs? Well then try this recipe it is egg free!

Ingredients

Dry Ingredients

Flour-1.5 cups

Sugar-1 cup

Cocoa Powder-0.5 cup

Baking Soda-1 teaspoon

Salt -¼ teaspoon

Wet Ingredients

Milk-1 cup

Oil-½ cup

White Vinegar-1 tablespoon

Cooking Utensils

Measuring Cup

Tablespoons and Teaspoons

Random Spoons

Sifter

Bowl-2

Muffin Liners

Muffin/Cupcake tray

Oven

Oven Mits

Spatula 

Recipe

1. Have everything laid out nicely on a table.

2. Open your bag of flour, then carefully and slowly spoon it out into your measuring cup until you have exactly 1.5 cups. 

3. Sift the flour from the measuring cup. Make sure you have a bowl underneath, to catch the flour.

4. Repeat this for the sugar and cocoa powder. (You will need 1 cup of sugar and 0.5 cup of cocoa powder).

5. For the baking soda, you need to spoon out a teaspoon, making sure you do not do add too much or too less. Pour the teaspoon of baking soda into the bowl with flour, sugar and cocoa powder.

6. Repeat this for the salt.

7. Mix all the dry ingredients together until there are no bits that are too white.

8. Get another bowl for the wet ingredients.

9. Slowly pour 1 cup of milk into the measuring cup. When you have a cup pour the milk into the clean bowl.

10. Repeat this for the oil.(use 0.5 cup of oil).

11. Get your tablespoon and your white vinegar then slowly pour your tablespoon of white vinegar into the bowl that has the milk and oil in it.

12. Then get out your muffin tray, and lay it on your kitchen bench or wherever you are working.

13. Put your cupcake/muffin liners on the places you are supposed to put them.

14. With your wet ingredients bowl and your dry ingredients bowl, pour your wet ingredients bowl into your dry ingredients bowl and mix it all till it is smoth and drizzly.

15. Put your muffin liners the right way into your muffin tray.

16. Carefully spoon your mixture into the muffin liners and ½ fil them.

17. Put the muffin tray cautiously into your oven.

18. Close your oven door slowly and heat it to 210 degrees celcius for 15 mins.

19. After this is done put on your oven mits and carefully take out your oven tray.

20. Wait for them to cool then enjoy.

Maths Week

This week is Maths Week. During the week we did lots of fun maths games and my favourite was called the maths chaser. The maths chaser is a game where you have to answer questions and get down a ladder before the chaser does. One website we used during the week was mathsweek.co.nz. I really enjoyed maths week this year.

Maori Art

At the end of last term we learned about Peter Gossage. He is a New Zealand artist and author and we used his drawing style to create our own Māori art. We began by sketching our drawings out on A3 paper, then we went over our design in sharpie. To add some colour to our art, we coloured our drawings with pastels. After this we dyed the background any colour we wanted and I chose black. This is my Māori art.

Cook Island Week

This week is Cook Island week. To celebrate our cultural leaders taugh us this song called 'God Loves Me.' We are also learning cook island myths, how to count to ten and some fun facts. This is our Cook Island wall.

Ocean Posters

This term we did a google draw poster on an ocean of our choice. I chose the Atlantic Ocean. We had to find out where it was located, the size, the oceans deepest point and five sea animals located there. This is my google draw poster.

Water Cycle Experiment

On Friday last week we did a water cycle lesson and a water filtering experiment.  In the lesson we learnt about how water gets cleaned and a little bit about the water cycle. Did you know water takes six hours to get completely filtered and clean! After we got into pairs and tried to make the cleanest water. The dirty water had dirt, newspaper, plastic and oil in it and the materials we got to use for a filter were sand, bark, paper towels and cotton balls. We tried all of these out and then used anything out of these to make the best filter. Me and my partner used cotton balls and paper towels. This is how it turned out.

Book Week

This week we had book week. During the week we had author visits from Stu Duval, and James Russel. On Friday we had a book parade the whole school dressed up as their favourite book character. Me and my friend dressed up as Greg and Rowley from the book Diary of a Wimpy Kid. After the book parade we had a literacy treasure hunt. My team didn't place but we still had a great time.

Cross Country

Today we did cross country and I was very excited for my race. In the morning the juniors ran and we cheered for all of them. Then after morning tea, the seinior races started. First the year fours, next the year fives, then finally my race, the year sixes. I did a lap around the school and went down the street. When I ran towards the finnish line I was quite puffed out but proud of myself. I really enjoyed cross country this year!

Rain In A Jar

On Tuesday we did a science experiment on our inquiry topic, water. We poured hot water in a jar and put a plate on top. The jar started to get very foggy. When we put ice cubes in glad wrap and put it on top of the plate. In a moment it started to rain a little from the plate. It evaporated and condensed and when a hot and cold form of matter meet it precipitates. I really loved this experiment and hope we can do more soon.

Samoan Language Week

This week was Samoan Language Week. We read a myth called The Turtle and the Shark. It is about a woman(Fonuea) and her daughter(Salofva) who lived in Samoa. Once there was a famine and their family left them to starve. They jumped of a cliff and Fonuea instantly turned into a turtle and Salofva turned into a shark. They swam a long way to a island(Vaitogi) and the people there cared for them. In return they stayed to entertain Vaitogi's people. We also did a worksheet. In the worksheet there was map skills, how to count to ten and some creative writing prompts. This is a picture of my worksheet.

Growth Mindset

Did you know people who have a growth mindset to their learning have a better chance of succeeding?Growth mindset is about having a positive attitude, especially when things are getting challenging. Our inquiry topic last term was growth mindset. To conclude all our learning we made a big brain altogether. This is what it looks like.

Our Assembly

Last Friday we had our assembly. Our two main events were a play and a dance. We did a play called My Grandad Marches on ANZAC Day. It is about a grandad who marches for people who can't on ANZAC Day. In the play we added the role of a mum which I played and we also did a dance. Our class did a dance to an ANZAC Day song.  I really liked our assembly.

Tetrahedron

In Religeous Education we learned about the gifts the Holy Spirit gives us. To show our learning we made a tectrahedron and explained what each gift means.

ANZAC Day Phamphlet

As well as doing ANZAC day art we also did a phamphlet about an object with a particular soliders story in World War l. My phamphlet is about Thomas Harry Kinder. He was a student at Wanganui Collegiate when World War l broke out. The object is a picture of his class. Two of them did not go to war and the rest of them served. Five were killed, five were injured and three came back without serious injuries. This is my phamphlet.

Anzac Day Art

April 25th was ANZAC Day, so we made this art to show our learning. First we colored in a picture and then we dyed paper for the background. This is my ANZAC art.

Our Goals

Last week we made writing, reading and maths goals. You have to try to achieve these goals. My maths goal is to identify factors of numbers to 100, my reading goal is to understand the main idea in the text and my writing goal is to use complex sentences. I hope that I can achieve my goals my the end of term 1.

Poetry

This week we have been doing poetry to send over to another classroom in New Zealand and we get poetry from another class which is very cool. We had to do a poem with 18 words in it, plus an anagram and say what your object was. I did a chess piece and a gem. These are my poems.

Tabloid Sports

Last Wednesday we had tabloid sports for Saint Joseph's day. Saint Joseph is the patron saint of our school. He is special to our school because our school is founded by the Sisters of Saint Joseph. So on Tuesday we had a school mass to celebrate Saint Joseph's day and we did tabloid sports on Wednesday. Tabloid sports is where you go in a rotation in your houses and do fun games like four corners, shark attack, obstacle courses and much, much more. Mrs McLeod and the house captains organised this event. It was a great day.

Graphs

A few weeks ago we learned about bar graphs. First our teacher told us what they look like, how you draw them and what information is better to put on a bar graph and what information is better to put on a pie graph. After we had learnt everything we got in groups of three and did a graph. My group did our graph on the class's favourite foods. This is our graph.

Drama

This year our class does drama every Thursday. We are just going to play drama games for the first few weeks but at the end of Term 1 we get to go in groups and make a play to perform. I hope we can continue to do drama for the rest of the year.

Reading Plays

A few weeks ago we started to do plays in our reading groups. My reading group, The Red Pandas did a play a few weeks ago about a car trip where they were ment to go to mini golf but ended up going to a garden centre. I like doing plays and I hope we can contine to do plays till the end of the year.

Lent

Last week was the beginning of Lent.  Every year in Lent I make a lenten promise. This year my lenten promise is to do every chore that I see that needs to be done. We made heart and wrote our lenten promise on them. This is my heart.

Shine Week

This week is Shine Week. Shine supports families that experience domestic violence and help them stay safe. On Friday we all get to wear orange if we give a gold coin donation.

Shrove Tuesday

Yesterday was Shrove Tuesday. At the start of the day we burnt the palms from last year to use on Ash Wednesday which is today.  Ash Wednesday is the start of Lent which marks down to Jesus' death and ressurection.In the afternoon we made pancakes with the year one's. We make pancakes on Shrove Tuesday because in Jesus' time Lent was a time of fasting and their sugar, milk and flour would go off so they made pancakes.

My Mantra

This week in Inquiry we have been working on our mantras. My mantra is... If you find a path with no obstacles it probably does not lead anywhere. I chose this mantra because to me it means if you find everything in life easy you won't get better at anything. So I think this is a good message.

Pepeha

Last week we worked on our pepehas. A pepeha is a form of introduction and heritage. This is my pepeha.

Our Class Websites

This year our teacher introduced three class websites to us. They were called Prodigy, Epic and Freckle. Prodigy is a maths game that you answer questions on then you battle people. Epic is a website that you read books on and Freckle is a place where you read articles and answer questions. My favourite class website is Prodigy.

Sun Safety

Last week we learnt about Sun Safety and what we can to to prevent getting skin cancer. Our message was... Slip on a shirt, Slop on some sunscreen, Slap on a hat, Wrap on some sunglasses and Slide into the shade. In the end we did posters advertising Sun Safety. This is my group's poster.

Year 6 Camp

On Monday 28 January all the Year Six's got up bright and early to go to Year Six camp in Long Bay. As soon as we got there we got into our dorm's and chose bunk buddies. All the girls had one small dorm and all the boys had one big dorm. As soon as we got settled we headed into our activities. Every day we did three activity's. The activities were Giant Ladder, Archery, Kayacking, Stack-em, Abseiling, Rock Climbing , Raft Building, Sailing , Mountain Biking, Paddle Boarding, Dingy Games and Orienteering. My favourite activity was the Giant ladder it is basicly a ladder but it is giant and you help your buddy up. On Friday we were all very sad to leave. Thank you to all the parents and teachers who helped out this camp could not have been successful without you!

My Start Of Year

This week I started my first week of school. My room this year is Room 5 and my teacher is Mrs Drummond. This week we have done lots of activitys to get to know each other like dragon masks for Lunar New Year, all about me and a puzzle piece. This Friday we had a leadership assembly for the leadership roles for the year sixes. My leadership role is Special Character. Special Character help and assists with church and Religious Education activties. This is the Special Character badge.