Email

I have been learning to put in detail and punctuation and this blog is about my email to Kayla Imrie .Something that challenged me was starting sentences in different ways  and punctuation. Enjoy my blog post.
                                                                                Dear Kayla Imrie

Please win the canoe race this year at the Olympics. I think your sport is amazing because you work hard and your canoeing is amazing we love you Kayla Imrie.

I chose you because you try your best at your sport.  My friend and I make canoes and race each other and I try my best to win. We made the canoes out of molded plastic or composites such as fiberglass. Sometimes I race my friend in my pool at my house.I try to be exactly like you because I try my best at everything and show Integrity. Every time I play rugby and I have tried my very best every time by listening at instructions and showing determination. It's amazing seeing you with the silver fern to represent New Zealand. What sort of fern do you have on your uniform do you have the big silver fern or the small? Good luck again and just win.

From Emily :-)

Matariki

Totara hub has been learning to celebrate Matariki in many different
way's. Matariki stars are called the seven sisters. Matariki is a thing we celebrate for the Maori new year and to care for everyone.I love Matariki in many ways like love and care is the most thing's I like about Matariki. I made the kites with my group. I used my collaboration muscles to work together to create a beautiful kite. It was really tricky because people were loud and we couldn't really concentrate.
I also did planting that was fun we planted cabbage tree and my partners were Emma F and Lealou we used are collaboration muscle to plant the tree. Some other people did weaving, cooking, painting.

                       We used flax and this plant called toi toi and with the flax we made string and toi toi is the part at the top and the bottom

We did cooking we made fried bred and fish pie that was yum





                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               We did carving and we wrote Tortara hub


 

People made some flowers out of flax 

  

Art

I am proud of my art because I have worked very very hard on the out lines for it and to blend the water colors in and some of the sea is different compered to other parts. With the blending at the bottom it was light and at the top it was dark to show the top and bottom of each hill.  I took lots of green colors and blended them in to make the grass look real and for the sea I blended blue,light blue, white and purple to make the sea.I love my art. I used my noticing musicals the hole time at art to notice were I could make changes to my art.

Writing

I am proud of my writing because I have put in allot of effort. I put in information and detail. I put a list so you know what you need and can make a mould experiment. Something that challenged me was putting the list together and putting the words in the right order. I had to use my perseverance muscles because it was tricky to get all the information in the right order so the person who makes it can follow them.

                         Procedural writing

WALT write instructions for the reader to follow

Success Criteria

Give an explanation about how the instructions will help you (introduction)

Write an equipment or ingredients list

Begin each instruction with a verb (an action word)

Use specific vocabulary

Order instructions so they are easy to follow

Video of how to write simple instructions         

                        Emily and growing mould

Have you ever grown your own revolting fluffy mould? Well if you have not you need to make some now. But you need a towel or a cloth and you should put it around your mouth and nose when you are creating your mould because it could get you sick if you breathe it in.

 Some mould are good like penicillin and blue cheese. Tree mould dose an important job they

help the tree’s stay alive and food mould can make you sick if you breathe it in. Mould is like plants that grow on food. Mould color is brown,black and green some may be different. Blue vein  cheese is like penicillin and could help you stay alive. Making mould is fun but not easy but have fun making your mould.

                                              For testing moisture

Equipment:

• A sharpie
• 3 containers with lids
• 3 pieces of the same food
• 3 Labels
• 1 magnifying glass
• water

1. Put the labels on container (wet, moist, dry)
2. Place one piece of  food in each of the container
3. If you're doing wet you wet it a one piece of food and if you're doing moist you put your hand in the water and put the drips from your fingers. You leave the other one dry.
4. Click the lids tightly shut
5. Keep the containers somewhere safe  
6. Watch them carefully each  day
7. Grab a magnfing glass and look at it
8. Don’t put your mould up to your face

Writing

I am proud of my writing because I have put in allot of effort. I put in information and detail. I put a list so you know what you need and can make a mould experiment. Something that challenged me was putting the list together and putting the words in the right order. I had to use my perseverance muscles because it was tricky to get all the information in the right order so the person who makes it can follow them.

                         Procedural writing

WALT write instructions for the reader to follow

Success Criteria

Give an explanation about how the instructions will help you (introduction)

Write an equipment or ingredients list

Begin each instruction with a verb (an action word)

Use specific vocabulary

Order instructions so they are easy to follow

Video of how to write simple instructions         

                        Emily and growing mould

Have you ever grown your own revolting fluffy mould? Well if you have not you need to make some now. But you need a towel or a cloth and you should put it around your mouth and nose when you are creating your mould because it could get you sick if you breathe it in.

 Some mould are good like penicillin and blue cheese. Tree mould dose an important job they

help the tree’s stay alive and food mould can make you sick if you breathe it in. Mould is like plants that grow on food. Mould color is brown,black and green some may be different. Blue vein  cheese is like penicillin and could help you stay alive. Making mould is fun but not easy but have fun making your mould.

                                              For testing moisture

Equipment:

• A sharpie
• 3 containers with lids
• 3 pieces of the same food
• 3 Labels
• 1 magnifying glass
• water

1. Put the labels on container (wet, moist, dry)
2. Place one piece of  food in each of the container
3. If you're doing wet you wet it a one piece of food and if you're doing moist you put your hand in the water and put the drips from your fingers. You leave the other one dry.
4. Click the lids tightly shut
5. Keep the containers somewhere safe  
6. Watch them carefully each  day
7. Grab a magnfing glass and look at it
8. Don’t put your mould up to your face

I am Poem

          I am proud of my I am poem. I put in lots of information about me and punctuation so the reader can enjoy it. I did my personal best. I really tried putting in the descriptive words so the reader learns about me.   

                                         I am...

Success Criteria

Use a thesaurus to choose the best vocabulary

Choose the best nouns for the poem

Choose the best adjectives to describe some nouns

Leave the reader thinking about your poem by sharing what it inside you

I am an animal loving person  

I wonder if I will have a hotel one day

I hear my brother screaming

I see people working

I want a pet tiger

I am an animal loving person

I pretend I am a puppy playing.

I feel Sam jumping on my head.

I touch everything.

I worry that my brother will fall asleep at dinner.

I cry if I break my arm.

I am an animal loving person.

I understand some things sometimes

I say everything about puppy’s.

I dream of a candy land of puppies and tiger’s.

I try to be  brave like when I did skyswing and it was freaky and I was petrified but I was brave.

I hope that I will have a bird

I am a animal person

Volleyball reflection

Volleyball Reflection

Something that challenge me was volleyball and getting the ball over the net to defend my team and are team's named Parkvale Rockers. We vs Mahora lots it was so fun.

 Mahora was quite hard but a little easy at lest we win sometimes we had to have our hand's in a W to holed the ball and put our hand's together to set the ball and hit it over the net. If they hit it back over the net and the ball touch's the ground they get a point and if we hit it back and it touches the ground we get a point.
I'm proud of hitting the ball the right way and not the opposite way because the first few times I hit it the opposite way.

I'm going to volleyball again because I want to get better.