Ambassador Application

Malo lelei my name is Dekorah and I am ten years old. I am the best person to be an Ambassador for 2016.I am the best person for the job because I have a good confident voice and I know how to do speeches and mihi’s. My favourite subject is literacy and I am respectful,natural and remarkable.I also do as I am told instantly and I listen very carefully to what people say.I am kind and honest.

One thing that I’ve learnt this year is about native animal reports. Its like animals adapting to survive.For example the Kakapo is endangered and its habitat is high up in the mountains in the south island.The Kakapo uses its beak for an extra claw to help it find it’s berries in the trees.For the interesting facts I search up  facts about the kakapo. And then I type it in my own words like the kakapo is nocturnal and makes big bowls in the ground to make its breeding sound called “,Boom”, For my Animal report click here

           What makes me become an ambassador makes me confident in everything I do learn and think it helps me become better for my learning and I would like to be an ambassador to help my learning to become a presenter for our school.



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Statics about favourite fizzy drinks

Walt:

Our maths class have been learning about Statistics. Statistics is when you gather information to find things out. First I had to create a Google form. Then I got my friends to fill it out. Using spreadsheet, I created my graph. 

In my class,eight people liked Fanta . Only two people liked Sprite . Four people liked Coke and Nobody liked Pepsie.

Next time, I would like to find out about 

Exponents Practise Activity T4 Wk7

1. 1/2  of  18 = 9
2. 1/3  of  18 = 6
3. 1/4  of  20 = 5
4. 1/2  of  24 = 12
5. 1/4  of  24 = 6
6. 1/3  of  24 = 8
7. 1/6  of  24 = 4
8. 1/8  of  24 = 3
9. 1/3  of  12 = 4
10. 1/4  of  16 = 4

To figure the problem out I did my times tables using the 2nds 3rds 4ths 6ths and 8ths plus halves.

 

Haiku Poems

Walt: Write a Haiku Poem - What am I?      My Haiku Poem                                                  
This is my Haiku poem and What Iv'e learnt about Haiku poems is that you can wirte anything about it and you can also put in clues about your Poem.

Limerick Poems

Walt: Write a Limerick poem
 There once was a black dog called Mike (8)
 He always loved big family bikes (9)
 But he ran away (5) 
Away to the bay (5) 
And he himself went on a hike (8)

Food Chain

Walt: About a Food Chain diagram.

Exponets Activity Term4 Week6

Walt: use place value to solve division problems

Acrostic Poems

WALT: write a positive descriptive acrostic poem using your name and similes

Diamante Poem

Walt: Write a diamante poem using nouns, verbs, adjectives, synonyms and antonyms.

Antarctic Penguins

WALT: Read and understand facts about Antarctica Penguins Answer the following questions carefully 1. What do penguins have (like seals) that helps them swim in the water well? List 3 things. 1. The penguins have flippers to help them swim well and their flippers are like paddles. 2. They are covered in smooth feathers to swim in water. 3.Their webbed feet have claws as well. 2. There are 17 different species of penguins, list two Emperor penguin and the Adelie penguin. 3. What’s an interesting fact about penguins on page 2 Penguins are birds of the southern oceans. Penguins cannot fly at all. Activity 1: Activity 2:

Survivors tittle card

This term our inquiry is called "Survivors".We are going to be learning about animals,creatures and living things and how they adapt to survive in their environment.

Exponets Follow up 2

Walt: solve multiplication and division problems using more than one strategy

Exponets T4 Wk4 Activity

Walt: Solve division problems using multiplication facts or division in parts strategy

Writing test

This is our writing report test:

The Sick Eating Challenge

P.1: Introduction

Yuck! I thought to myself. In team 4 we were doing an experience and it was called the eating challenge.

P.2: How to play the game

We were really surprised that we were going to do the eating challenge,but if you want to try it then this is how you play it. First we got a partner and one of us has to put our hands behind our back and the other has to feed us and be the other person’s hands. When you’re feeding the person with no hands you have to make sure that they can eat everything up to win the challenge,when you’re the other person with no hands you have to chew and swallow everything up when your partner is feeding you. When you’re finished your turn you swap over for the next person to be the feeder and the other one is the eater.

P.3: When it was my turn

When it came to my turn I had my partner Sheena and she nearly stuffed all the cream and Weetbix in my face eww! But after my turn my buddy Sheena was the one I had to feed when I put the Weetbix up to her face she nearly bit my finger cause she gobbled up the Weetbix snack. After the Weetbix snack she ate she also had to eat her apple with cream still munching up cream.Gross!

P.4: My favourite part

My favourite part of the game is when I got to feed my buddy because it wasn’t really bad at all but when I ate my Weetbix snack my buddy shoved it all at my face and my face I had to wipe it all off. Blah! My favourite part of the game is when I got to feed my buddy because it wasn’t really bad at all but when I ate my Weetbix snack my buddy shoved it all at my face and my face I had to wipe it all off with a tissue. Blah!

P.5: Conclusion

I felt like I was gonna throw up after this. I prefer that we get something else instead of Weetbix and cream with apple all shoved into your mouth. Eww!      

Chair Tiggy Recount

WALT: To practise doing recounts. 

Paragraph 1: Introduction. Paragraph 2:  What to do and how to play the game Paragraph 3: How we played the game. Paragraph 4: My favourite part of the game. Paragraph 5: Conclusion.

  

Aww!  I said to myself.  Our literacy class were playing a game called Chair Tiggy. I was the first one to start running.

In Chair Tiggy there are two teams. One team is for the running team and the other team is the taggers team. If you're a runner your job is to not get caught from the taggers and you can also run in between the chairs of the tagging team. If you’re a tagger your job is to tag the person but you are not allowed to run in between the chairs. the rest of your team are sitting in their chairs and you can tap on the back of their chairs so your team can go and get the runners.

Now our game wasn’t easy because instead of playing in the field we got to play on the gravel and they would hurt if you trip on them. When we were a runner we’d go and not get tagged for about one minute and then we’ll get caught from exhaustion.

Our taggers are mostly fast and after everyone on the runners team has had a turn we swap over to become taggers and we get to do the same thing.

Exponets T4 Followup

WALT:To practice our division.

Meet the Kakapo

WALT: To look about facts about the Kakapo. Activity:1 Kakapo are an endangered species, explain what this means in detail (3 sentences) They are not protected well and they cant fly any more. Why did Perry have to disinfect his clothes and shoes before they went to visit the kakapo in their enclosure? Because his pet birds might have diseases and might spread to the chicks. What sound does a kakapo make? They make a chirping sound when they are little and still make the same noise when adult. Explain what male kakapo do to attract a female in breeding season A strange braying noise and it is called “Boom”

NZ Native Animal Report

WALT: Write a report about New Zealand native animals

 Keas are another native New Zealand Parrot and are the relatives to the bird called Kaka. Here are some facts about the Kea. 

 Habitat: Keas are mostly found in parts of the South island and in the snow mountains. Some kea are found in high forests near the Kaka. In the mountain tops where people like to go skiing the Kea are mostly hanging around there. 

Description: Keas have a very sharp beak and claws.They have eyes and ears on the side of their head and face. They have different colours of green on their tail and their chest is a brown colour. They also have lots of warm feathers. 

 Diet: Keas are vegetarians and enjoy eating grubs and insects. Sometimes the Keas get very hungry and go into peoples rubbish bins searching for food. They can go into people’s bins because they know how to open things. Keas are intelligent birds. A Kea is a Herbivore. 

 Characteristics: The Kea are mostly playful and are joyful. They like to collect things and be mischievous. Some most likely turn carparks into playgrounds. They are very kind and they like to be loving. The kea can grow up to 50 cm long. Keas lay their eggs during the breeding season between January and July.

Activity exponets

WALT: Use our 6's 7's and 8's timetables.

Exponents followup

WALT:To use place value and doubling and halving.

Ugly

WALT: We are reading about Ugly and this is what we learnt. Explain why Chris wanted the kakapo taken down from the competition site. Because Chris thought thinks and knows that the Kakapo is not ugly. Why is a protest a good idea? It’s a good positive way of fighting and is also help support. Activity:1 Activity:2

Holiday Writing

Wow what an amazing show I thought in my head,before assembly we had an awesome show called Cindy in da house on the last day of school. On Monday me and my brother Lynn was signed up in a school holiday programme we went into two different programmes and they were called Allan Brewster and YMCA Lagoon in Panmure. On Mondays and Fridays we would go to Allan Brewster on the rest of the days we would go to the YMCA Lagoon, we liked it there because my granduncle works right next to the YMCA. On Monday we did games day we did sports and teams all day. All week we had to go to the holiday programme and we had very good fun. At the Lagoon we would sometimes go out and go to the park one time we went to the Howick historical village. On Friday it was a good day for me because I got to go on my own my little brother was very sick so i got to go by myself I had a disco party at Allan brewster it was fun there was lolly scrambles and glow sticks everyone got a growling for not listening though. After that i felt really good for going out and meeting new friends. I think next time I should go to YMCA Lagoon in Panmure because it’s more fun than Allan brewster.

Snail Meets Worm

WALT: Use clues in text to help us understand new words Answer the following questions: What is one fact about the Hochstetter land snail that you found interesting? That they have dagger like teeth to cut up their prey. How are these snails different to other snails we find in our gardens? They are big as a person’s fist and are carnivores.

Dragon fruit 2

This is a fact file about Dragon fruit.

Eating worms

Our teacher made us eat worms.

Yesterday our teacher Mrs Garden got us to eat worm.Eating worms! Ewe they sounded disgusting.

First of all we got two bowls. Then we gave a bowl to a person in a circle.Then the person put in the whole block of hard worms in the bowl.We passed the bowl onto another person and they got to pour in the tasty chicken flavour.Then our teacher poured the hot water into the bowls and we stirred the worms until they went all soggy yuck!

Our teacher Mrs Garden fed the worms to us like a bird.  When we were finished everyone was messy with the squirmy worms. They went everywhere.The worms had a tasty chicken flavour and were slopping down on everyone’s faces.It sounded yucky!

I think that tasting worms in real life would be very disgusting. Ewe!

But tasting chicken flavoured noodles is similar but yummy.

Times tables

WALT: We are learning times tables.

Cross country

We have been writing a poem about Cross country.

Word Knowlege

This is word knowledge week 8.

Making butter

WALT: write an introduction that orientates and hooks in the reader. Did you know that butter is easy to make? Well all you need is a bottle of cream and a pinch of salt plus it’s not expensive. Also if you run out of butter you can just make some with cream and salt then all you have to do left is shake the cream and when it’s done you get butter.

In room 8 we made butter while sitting in a circle with our teacher Mrs Garden. First we got a little bottle of cream,jar,plates,bread,and salt. Then we opened the cream and poured it into the jar, we put in a pinch of salt, then our teacher started shaking the jar then passed it on to us for a minute. Yum! We got to taste the creamy butter on two slices of bread and we spread the butter ourselves on a plate. It taste like the butter milk that came out of the butter yum yum. That is the way to make butter.

Fraction Problems

I have been learning about solving fraction number problems and is learning about Two thirds.

Pirate Fractions

I have been using fractions to solve number problems.

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  Hi my name is Dekorah. I'm 9 years old. I'm Tongan, Maori and Italian. I have a little brother who's 5 and his name is Lynn. I use to live in Tauranga and I went to Brookfield Primary School.

My favourite food is sushi. My favourite colour is red and my favourite thing to do at school is writing.

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