Snakes And Ladders

WALT combine prior and new knowledge to come up with new ideas

This week we were reading a story called "The Game" and it was about kids fighting aliens in space for real but they were doing it in an arcade! Our follow up for this week was to make a Snakes and Ladders game about the battle between the kids an the aliens. We also had to make instructions for the game.

This was actually really hard for me because I couldn't come up with anything to do with the rules and I still don't think that it's good but here is my Snakes and Ladders board game!

I'm sorry that it's not really easy to see but the colour improves it!

RULES!!

You will need the following to play this game: 1 dice, 2 jellybeans that will represent the alien and human!

1) When the second person goes if they land on the same square as the other person that means that the other person gets to move up the ladder and the second person needs to go down the snake or if there is no snake stay in the same place and if there is no ladder near then the other person can move 3 squares forward!

2) When someone is close to the end then you need to have a game of paper, scissors, rock and the one that wins, say the person close to the 100, they are the winners but if they don't win they have to move back 10 squares while the other person gets to move up 10 squares and that's the only time they can do paper, scissors, rock!

(I'm sorry if my rules are really confusing because I didn't really know what rules I should put and  I just came up with this while writing it) :)

Come And Join The Summer Learning Journey (Teaser Week)

For our teaser week this week we had to make a poster promoting The Summer Learning Journey and we had to put facts about it as well! 

I decided to make my poster on Canva because it is something that is really easy and fun to use for me and it was fun making this poster as well!

Here it is!

In The Picture: Gus Sinaumea Hunter, Illustrator

WALT combine prior and new knowledge to come up with new ideas

This week my reading group was reading "In The Picture: Gus Sinaumea Hunter, Illustrator"

This book was about his life and how he came to be an illustrator and in the last page he has some tips for drawing, so in our Synthesis work we had to illustrate a picture and use some of his tips!

I illustrated a picture from my Hansel and Gretel story where the Step mom (Delilah) comes and saves the kids from the Witch.

Tips I used: Visualize a picture in your head before you start drawing. Draw what you see, not what you think you see and When adding colour, work your way from the background to the foreground of a picture.

At the beginning I thought we just had to draw a picture so I drew a cupcake but then my teacher told me what it meant and I drew this!

I'm sorry that the picture isn't really clear but this is the best I could make it 

MARKET DAY!

This coming Friday our school will be holding a Market Day which will be starting at 2 pm and ending at 4 pm. Every class will be selling their own things and the profit that we make from it will be going to our end of class prize! 

In class we have been talking about profits and how much we will have to spend on the things that we are going to sell! We have decided that we will be selling Spiders which is a fizzy drink with ice cream on top, waffles, which have 2 different prices because there will be waffles with just sauce and waffles with sauce ice cream and sprinkles! We are also doing Pie face as well and  Briquettes that we have made ourselves. The last thing that we are doing is Wet Sponges, which we are going to be throwing wet sponges at the Kiwi Can Leaders which will be exciting! The last thing that we will be doing is guessing how much lollies there are in the lolly jar.

After we had decided what we were going to make we were put in groups to make posters of the item that we will be selling and in my group we had to make posters on Spiders! Everyone in my group had to make separate posters on this item. If you want to check out the other posters for the different items you can go to our class blog to go on their separate blogs!

On this day as well our class is holding a Mufti Day and you have to bring a gold coin donation as well. The reason we are doing this is to raise money for our Kapa Haka uniforms!

Here's my poster!

See You Soon!

Resolution For Christmas

WALT recall how Mary hear the Word of God and acted on it

This week in RE since it is close to Christmas we had to make a Resolution for Christmas to do and it could just be our own writing about what we wanted to achieve or it could be from a bible verse. I chose to do a Bible verse because I found this one and it seemed like a really good idea as well!

Acrostic Poems

This year we have been learning about different types of writing and how they are used and when to use them as well so today we had the chance to pick one of them to use to write about something. I chose to do Acrostic Poems because they are interesting and also really fun to do as well. My Acrostic Poems are about Summer and Christmas!

I hope you like them!

Swimming playfully in the pool
Unforgettable moments 
Meeting a lot of family 
Money spent on a lot of food 
Eating everything at barbeques 
Relaxing and sleeping 

Christ’s birthday 
Helping cooking for barbeques 
Red and green colours everywhere 
It’s a lot of people’s favourite part of the year 
Sleeping over with family and friends 
Tearing open Christmas presents 
Marvelled by peoples decorations 
Always putting up the Christmas tree Swimming every week

The True Story Of Hansel And Gretel

Last week on Friday the senior school had the opportunity to go to The Royal New Zealand Ballet. We went to go and watch the story of Hansel and Gretel. We were lucky enough to only have to bring $2.00 for the whole thing and we got to watch the second part of the story so when we came there was a lady and she talked about the first half of the story and what had happened before.

The reason why we decided to write our own story is because while we were watching the ballet we noticed that some things in the ballet weren't the same from the actual story so everyone decided to make their own story. 

Something I enjoyed from the ballet was that it was peaceful but also there was some tension as well in some parts. Something I didn't really like were the costumes of the gingerbread men because they looked a lot like clowns and it was actually really scary at the beginning.

Hope you like my twist of the story!

(The “Witches” Point Of View)

 It all started when a little old lady saw these 2 kids trying to EAT her cottage.. (“Mmm. Don’t they just look delicious! Especially that boy!”) “NO. STOP IT.” This lady was a normal woman until one day she made a deal with a demon but it went wrong and now he was living inside of her, trying to take control of her body…. It was okay now because she still was strong enough to overpower him so he wasn’t able to. Yet. He was growing stronger and stronger by the day but wanted to keep it a secret.

She was a little old lady living in the forest in a cozy cottage and it was made of bricks but it seemed that one day as she was coming home from town she had witnessed two little kids (supposedly siblings) trying to eat her cottage. She brought them in and fed them maybe she spoiled them a bit but it looked as if they hadn’t eaten anything in days.

“Are you guys still a bit hungry or do you want to go to bed now?”
“I think I could use some chicken actually, please.” Hansel was always the big eater and never knew when to stop.
“I’m actually full right now Miss! Thank you for the food! I’ll get to bed now!” Gretel was the polite one. She always had manners and was very pleasing.
(“Oooh. CHICKEN. That sounds appetising. How about we change HIM into chicken!”)
(“NO. I already told you that you will never be able to control me EVER. Get that information planted in your head already.”)
(“Oh really. Hehe. I’ve been wanting to do this for a while now! I didn’t think you’ve noticed but, I’ve been building up quite a lot of power everyday till now. I’m finally gonna take over this body!”) (“Wait.. What do yo-”)

*GASP*

*CRACK*

“Ahhhh. Much better. I feel so FREE!”
“Are you okay Miss? I was worried. It looked like you were going to have a heart attack just before.” “Oh. I’m feeling just fine. Heh”
“Woah. Is your throat okay. Your voice sounds raspy. Maybe you need a drink of water.”
“I’M FINE. But you won’t be very soon.”
“What are you sa-”
“I’ve been having a craving for chicken lately but you will have to do” 
“HUUHHH”
“Hush. I’m just going to tie you up!"
“HEY. WHAT DO YOU THINK YOUR DOING TO MY BROTHER”
“Oh. Gretel! You’ve decided to join the party! Be a darl and heat up the stove for me please. We’re going to have a feast.”
“I’m not letting you cook my BROTHER. ARE YOU MAD!!!”
“Just do as I say and you might not end up the same way as your brother will in a few minutes. Now. Hustle.”

(Narrator)

 Gretel was a very smart girl coming from a poor family and she was a very bold and confident person that loved her family and wouldn’t go down without a fight.
“Miss. Can you please teach me how to do this please.”
“Ahh. You’re finally coming to your senses now.”
“Yes. I’ve decided that since you’ve been so kind this is how I repay you.”
(“Just keep smiling Gretel. It’ll all be over soon.”)
“Here let me do it while you go season up your brother”
“Okay”
(“It’s actually working!”)
“Ooh. It’s really hot! He’s going to cook so fa- *PUSH*AHHHHHH”
*SLAM*
*GASP*

“ I can’t believe I did that… I CAN’T BELIEVE I DID THAT!!! It actually worked! My plan actually worked!”
“Let’s go home Hansel”
 “Mmmmm”
“Oh. That’s right. Oops sorry. Nearly forgot”
*SNAP*
“There you go”
“Ahhhh. Thanks Gretel!”
“Shhhhhh. Let’s get going now!”
*BANG*
“WHAT WAS THAT”
“I don’t know…”
*BANG*
“There it is again.”
*BANG*
“WE HAVE TO GET OUT! RUN! GET OUT!”
 *CREEK CREEK*
*GASP*
“NOBODY LEAVES THIS HOUSE UNTIL I GET WHAT I DESERVE! SOME FOOD.”
“KEEP RUNNING HANSEL”
 “AHHH I CAN’T MY STOMACHS SO BIG THAT IT’S HARD FOR ME TO RUN”
*THUD*
“HANSEL!!”
“Heh. Got you no-”
*BOING*
“DON’T EVEN TRY TO TOUCH MY KIDS.”
“Delilah?”
“You don’t have to call me that honey. Just call me mom”
“But I thought you hated us when you married our dad.”
“No silly. I just found it awkward because I’ve never had kids before and it was my first time being a mom. But when you went missing I was so worried and I realized that you guys were a big part of my life so I went looking and found this cottage, and when I heard screaming I came in as quick as possible.”
“Wait is that a pan?!”
“Man you knocked her out with a pan?”
“Yep”
“That’s so cool!”
“Thanks. But let’s get rid of this witch once and for all”
 “Wait. Help. Me. Please…”

The Stag

WALT combine prior and new knowledge to come up with new ideas

This week we were reading a story about a Stag. Our groups task was to make a device that would trap Stags without killing them. 

The last time I made something the writing didn't come out clear so this time I put in text boxes over them so that you could see it more clear.  I hope you like it and that it is much more easier to read!

The Diary

WALT use paragraphs in our writing

This week we had to write a piece of Narrative Writing. We had to have language features, paragraphs, character development and a problem and solution. This piece of writing was free writing and we had to read out our writing and give 2 stars and a wish. 

I have finished my writing and have now updated it!

Here it is!

Lia’s face burned red as she recognized her diary sitting on his desk. How could he…

“What is going on, this cannot be happening” is what Lia squeaked in her mind as she heaved big breaths of air forcing her lungs to breathe. She had just seen her own diary on her crush's desk. That wasn’t good....

As Tom walked into their English class, Lia’s face turned as bright red as a juicy tomato and it seemed to have caught Tom’s attention. As he skipped over to Lia she could feel her heart pumping faster. “Hey Lia! Are you okay?! You look like you’re gonna pass out” said Tom gleefully. This made Lia angry. “You know why I look like this” is what she wanted to yell at him while snatching back what was rightfully hers. Her diary. Which had her confession to liking him there. But she didn’t. She just stared. Not even daring to look him in the eye with the fear of exploding from embarrassment.

“CALM down, and get back to your seats”. Lia was relieved as Tom looked at their teacher and speed walked to his desk. This was the only time she ever liked Mr. Zucchini. He was a wicked teacher after all. “LIA ARE YOU LISTENING?!” screeched a now frustrated teacher. “WHAT, AHHHHH” Lia was so startled by this since she was too concentrated on Tom. 

 THUD.

Laughter could be heard. But there was a kind of distinct silence that was very much apparent. A silence that was coming from the spot where Tom was placed… 

 (“Maybe he isn’t going to make fun of me. Maybe…”) 

THE NEXT DAY 

Walking to school with everyone's eyes on you while whispering and giggling to each other is not a very pleasant thing for people. But this is exactly what Lia experienced as she was trying to make her way to school. She knew why people were looking at her. I mean it’s not easy to look away from someone who has a red mark on their face. 

 IN CLASS 

Walking into Geometry class there he was again. “Is there ever going to be a day where he isn’t in MY class?!” This is what Lia said as she tried to find a seat. After 1 minute of scavenging for a seat and failing Lia was stunned as Tom started calling to her! “LIA! OVER HERE! SIT HERE. COME ON. THERE'S NOWHERE ELSE TO SIT. ARE YOU IGNORING ME. IT LOOKS LIKE YOU’RE IGNORING ME.” Lia was happy but embarrassed at the same time. “He doesn’t have to be so loud does he?” Lia whispered underneath her breath while walking towards him. 

Sitting down next to him she spotted it again. Her diary. Sitting right on the edge of his side of the desk. (“What a bold person. I can’t believe he would be that confident to steal someones diary and just put it right where their eyes can see it.”) “Tsk Tsk Tsk” “Is something wrong,” Tom said. “ No, no. Nothing’s wrong” Lia said while glaring at him. He started to feel uncomfortable now and Lia knew it.

While the lesson was going on she would glance at it on accident and everytime that happened she would feel her breath getting shorter and shorter.
“It’s time I take back what’s mine” Lia was ready. 
“Tom?”
“Yes”
“Can I ask you something?” 
“Sure” 
“I HEAR TALKING” Mrs Lippy was not a nice teacher to. It actually seemed none of the teachers were. Sophie was too scared to keep talking to Tom for the fear she might be put in detention but she needed to know if that was hers.
“Where did you get my- I mean that di- I mean that book from?” Sophie was trying to whisper this while trying to keep in the anger that wanted to be let out badly. 
“Oh this one!?”
 “Yeah..” 
“ It’s not actually mine.” 
“So you stole it?!” 
“No silly! It’s my sisters. I took it from her. Well I kinda did steal it but it was for a good cause.” “What was the cause?!” 
“You see she’s been acting weird lately and so I took her diary to see if she has anything in there that would say it.” 
“WAIT so that’s not mi- I mean yours?!” 
“Yeah. Why would I get something that looks so girly.” 
“ I don’t know. Well thanks for telling me!”

Lia was filled with energy after hearing that the diary she thought was hers was not and now she was sitting next to her crush in class. Could this day get any better!

Walking to her next class. She was surprised when she saw that Tom wasn’t in there today. “MOVE IT” said Mateo pushing through.
“Sorry”
Mateo was known to be a rude person at Springsfield High and he didn’t really care about anybody and always picked on anybody who got in his way. He was the defnition of a bully.

Something brushed past her. It felt solid. Lia just remembered. She still didn’t have her diary. She caught a glimpse at what Mateo was holding. It had a denim cover on it and looked like the exact same diary that she had accused Tom of stealing from her but when she saw this one she knew it had to be hers. Only because it had her name on it.

             This belongs to Lia Parker. RETURN IF FOUND 

 “Wait. Tom wasn’t the one who had it, it was MATEO” Lia just realised that she had accidently taken it to school with her and left it on her desk. Then it was gone. On this same day Lia was taking Calculus. Mateo was in Calculus with her. It was all starting to add up…

More Than A Mountaineer

WALT combine prior and new knowledge to come up with new ideas.

This week we were reading about Sir Edmund Hillary! If you don't know who this person is, look on a 5 dollar note. Yes he was the first man to climb Mount Everest and got a lot of fame for doing so. 

This week our Synthesis question was to use modern technology to design a more efficient system for getting building equipment up the Himalayan Mountains. This was actually out of 10, 10 being really difficult, 10 because I really didn't get what the question was asking me to do and I still think I didn't do it right but after asking heaps of people this is what I came up with. I hope you like it.

Introducing Squidward Tentacles!

WALT use graphic organisers to plan our writing.

We have been learning about descriptive writing in our class and a couple weeks ago we had to make  a writing piece with a buddy about a character and it could be any character we wanted! Me and my buddy Talia chose...  Squidward Tentacles!

Here we had to write about his personality and anything we actually wanted to write about him but we had to use descriptive words for it, so we were told to use a thesaurus.

 In another of my blog posts we had to use different writing skills for the prompts so at this time we were also doing that so we had to write two sentences that had two different writing skills.  Those parts are highlighted. 

Here is my writing!

Which part was your favorite!?

Squidward is a very grouchy person, in that case when he talks he always has a little touch of attitude in his voice. Squidward is also a very insulting person to add on to the attitude. He is not the type to care about people's feelings. 

 Squidward is quite a musical person. He loves to play the clarinet even though people seem to hate that instrument. Squidward is also an employee at “Krusty Krabs”. Even though he despises his job he still works there, but that doesn’t stop him from showing how much he really feels about it for example, sleeping on the job. 

 Squidward is a squid as it says in his name. He has a rather large nose, that takes up a lot of his face. Squidward is as grey as a stone. Squidward is bald and his head looks like the moon because it has spots on it. Squidward also had a lot of wrinkles from frowning all the time. Squidward usually only wears a shirt and no pants, so, if you were to see him in public he would look very odd and depressing. Spongebob (which is one of Squidward's co workers) makes him die a little inside every time he sees him. 

 He is not a very approachable person. He is arrogant and won’t really follow through with orders. Squidward is also a very classy guy. He likes to keep his house spotless and is actually a very lonely person. ;( 

 To sum it all up Squidward is not a very liked person in the place where he lives, he is a very lousy person and is an attention seeker.

Lava Proof Safe House!

WALT combine prior and new knowledge to come up with new ideas.

This week we read a book "A Bit Of A Bang" which was about the Big Bang and volcanoes and lava. After we read about it one of the activities that we needed to do was make a volcanic eruption proof shelter for us and our family.

Something I found difficult to do was sow the labels because when I kept taking pictures it was really blurry so I decided to write it with permanent marker instead and it came out a little bit more better.

I hope you like it!

Writing Prompts

This week we had to make a copy of a slide that had a lot of writing prompts on it and we had to write 1 or 2 sentences to go with it. After writing about 3 for 3 of them we were learning about different writing skills, like, Similes or Metaphors and there were eight of them and we had to write on each one 4 sentences that were using 4 of the skills.

I struggled with this for a while and didn't understand it properly. But after a proper explaining I kind of did it more easily. I hope you like it.

Here it is! 

Heilala Flower Prints!

WALT explore different printmaking conventions.

This week our class was participating in a contest that was called the "Festival Of Flowers". We had to make something that had to do with flowers. 

Our class was making prints of the National flower in our Culture!

The first step was to sketch out the flower. Mine was a Heilala flower from Tonga.  After we had finished sketching we had to put it onto a 10 by 10 cm square piece of paper. After doing that we had to then get card and trace over it with the sketch so that it would print onto the card.

When we had done that we had to cut out the pieces and then glue it onto a square cardboard piece the same size as the paper. 

After doing that we had to get ink and a roller and roll the ink onto the prints. We had to work the ink because it was really stick and we had to make sure that it was even before we put it on. We had black and red ink.

After we had to practice first!

Now it was time for the final print...

We had to make six prints on this piece of paper and they had to be different colors every time we did a print.

Somethings that I found hard was when I was printing a lot of the pieces were falling off. But either than that it was really fun making these and I hope that we do it again!

The Big Jump

WALT increase speed when unpacking sentences using ITTM

Here we had to rewrite the ending to the story that we were reading, which was called "The Big Jump".

 Our teacher said that when we do this we could just write it onto the post so that it would be faster. I didn't find anything hard with rewriting it and I actually liked it a lot!

Here it is :)

Climbing up the stairs it felt like going up stairs to my doom! I thought this was going to be exciting but really I nearly peed my pants when I kept climbing higher and higher...

Up there, there was a girl named Sandra, she was the instructor. I hated the idea of going down and everyone seeing that I was scared! She tried to comfort me but it just kept making me think about if something did go wrong, if something did happen to me. She practically just made me more scared to jump off.

Then came Timmy. I embarrassed when I saw him because he would know that I was afraid of heights. I heard them talking but my thoughts were drowning them out. The little voices were saying things, things that didn't really help at all. Things that were to terrifying to even think about. For example DEATH.

Timmy volunteered to go down with me, but I didn't know at the time... I didn't even realize that they were attaching him to me and I finally stopped spacing out when I felt wind on my face and heard someone going "YAAAAYYYY".

I woke up and faced reality. We were going faster than I had ever gone in my life. I felt like I was about to actually pee myself now and I had proven that. By actually doing so...

I got down and didn't realize I had. I blamed it on Timmy for being up there for so long, but everyone saw. Thing is I didn't. Until night time. When Timmy told me himself.

Where Do You Come From?

WALT investigate cultures and traditions within the class.

This week in IL (Integrated Learning) we were looking at cultures and traditions and things like class cultures and what culture and traditions mean to us. After all of this we had to make a slideshow that shared things about our cultures and traditions in our families.

I found this kind of hard at the beginning because I didn't really know what to write but after asking my mum it started to become a lot more easier! I hope you like my slideshow!

Here is my slideshow

Have You Weaved Before?

WALT increase speed when unpacking sentences using ITTM (I think that means)

This week we had another Information Web to do and our story was called "Willow Weavers". This story is about a class that learns the process of weaving with the Willow branches and the things that you have to do to complete this. I tried to use all the feedback that was given to me but the one thing I couldn't do was make a picture because I didn't know if I should but here is my Information Web!

Do You Know What Taonga Means?

WALT define and identify our own 'taonga'.

This term for Integrated Learning we are starting to learn about what 'taonga' means. 'Taonga' means something that you treasure or it's like your prized possession, after we read that we had to create a poster that combined all the things that you treasured and that were your 'taonga'.

In my poster I have a Tongan finger print and a New Zealand finger print because I am from Tonga and I was born in New Zealand . I also put a heart because that symbolizes love. Another thing I put is two friends holding hands because friendship is really important to me.

The next thing I put was a family and my family is a family of 8 and I treasure everyone in my family. I also put a USB and a camera because the USB holds all of the videos and pictures that we would take when we were little on the camera so it would be sad if that was lost or destroyed. I also put a cross because that symbolizes my religion. And the last thing is the earth because that's where we live and it would be sad to watch it get destroyed.

I hope you like my poster! What is your Taonga?

Do You Want To Be A Zookeeper?

This week my reading group was reading "Zookeeper For A Day". After reading this we had to make an Information Web kind of summarizing the story, so we can see how the author of this set it out. 

I found it difficult at the beginning because I was confused but when they teachers explained it with more depth I found it much more easier than before and finished my work quickly. 

Here is my Information Web

Three Significant People In The Early Church

This week we had to choose between 6 people from the early church and we had to write about their role in the church, how did they help the church and why were they significant in the church. We had to read about them and what they were like.

When we had finished reading and picked 3 people that we wanted to do it on we had to make it on Animaker and after we finished we had to Screen Castify it. I chose Stephen, Paul and Peter.

I found it difficult to work on Animaker because it was my first time going on it and I didn't really know how to work things, so some people had to help me but in the end I think I did a good job.

Here is my Animaker!