Inquiry

“A living thing consumes, grows,breathes, adapt to its environment and perish”

                                                                                                           Room8, 2015.

This is my project that i did.

I did my research on a kiwi and I enjoyed working on it.

 

I worked on my project with my older sister. She helped with the painting and printing 

My writing out.

I got my information from 3 website. 

I would take more pride in my work and do it nice and tidy.

Stick insect writing

WALT: write an information report about stick insects

WILF: 

- a title

- an opening sentence 

- different paragraph 

- factual information 

- specific vocabulary 

Are you wondering what a stick with legs is? Well, a stick with legs is actually called a stick insect.

Stick insects come from hot countries where there are plants and trees. You don't often see them in New Zealand, except in bush areas.

Stick insects can camouflage themselves. They camouflage so they can hide from their predators. Their predators are birds, small reptiles and rodents. 

Stick insects only eat at night. They eat plants and trees that's why they like to live by plants and trees.

Stick insects only have three body parts, called the head, thorax and abdomen. There's 3 types of stick insect bodies. There's one that is smooth, another that is rough, and also one that is prickly.

So just a reminder, if you see a stick moving in the trees it will probably be a stick insect . Don't get confused between a stick and a stick insect.

Reading workshops with Mr Wallace. My notes about a great white shark at waimarama

WALT: take effective notes about some news.

WILF: words that give information 

My own word 

Note taking 

Two men from Hawkes bay 

Caught  a shark

180kg-200kg

3.6 to 4m long

Great white 

Waimarama 

12m from the ground

2-3 years old

Brother went fishing

Shark upside down

Reading term 4 with Mr W.

WALT take notes when listening to a reader 

WILF short sentences 

Keywords 

Information 

* my next step will be to take accurate 

notes when a speaker is talking at 

a normal speed.

Maths

WALT use our maths thinking to solve and create number and picture square 

This is my one that I made so you can play and guess the numbers that go on the side that say 

A B C D E F

Pride

In room 8 we have been focusing on pride this term 

I've been typing up what pride means 

Hopscotch

This is one of the things I do for managing ourself time 

Cross country

Clive kids x-country

It was a sunny but wet day at clive school. Wednesday the 2nd of September 2015. Where the clappers clapped and the loud and cheerful

Supporters were. Lined up were nervous runners. 8 year old runners up to 11 year old runners. The crowd and the supporters were going wild and screamed out

"you can do this"

As runners go past

First up were the 8 year olds fast and pumped to start the race. Running around the field and down muddy creek and around room 5,4 and 3

Doing it 2 times . 9 year olds had to run around the field to the church 2 times and past room 5,4 and 3 also doing it 2 times. 10 and 11 year olds had to run around the field to the church 2 times and past room 5,4 and 3 also doing it 2 times.  

These are the people that came first:

Bayley Max Tama Ava Rico Zoe Bayden and Danielle.

Writing

WALA spring 

This is a daisy I made 

Some country celebrates spring we celebrate spring by doing a blossom parade                       

This is a picture of my butterfly using symmetry 

Persuasive writing

WALT: to express an opinion and use powerful sentence starters to persuade the reader to agree with my opinion

I strongly believe that we should not have free time on iPads unless we are using learning apps. Playing games does not help with learning.

Evidence shows that these apps will increase our learning; Sumdog, Hopscotch, Math Panda, Kiwi Kid News, Storybird and

Fractions. Hopscotch is especially good because it is used for working out percentages and making repeating  patterns.

As we know there are heaps of games that have been released from the App Store and played world wide. For example Crossy Road and Minecraft are two popular games. These are the most distracting games in the world and do not help with our learning. They take over our learning time and our brains. We should not use games at school. We should not get free time on iPads for this reason.

It is obvious that during Managing Ourselves time we use good learning apps to catch up on work we need to do or finish. We use our iPads for working on things like vocabulary, Blogs, Kiwi Kid News and other learning apps. This a good way to use our iPads because we are using learning apps.

In conclusion I think iPads are good because they're good for learning as long as they aren't used for games.

Maths

WALT find the average temperature for the 5 day forecast 

To find the average temperatures for these five days I have to add the allot the temperature together.

The total of all temperature = 65

The next step is to divide the total by the number of days.

I did my working out to see what the average is

five divide by 65 = 13

So the average temperature is 13 

Degrees Celsius 

Pangarau/maths

WALT tell time using ate Reo Maori 

Because it's Maori language week so we disigned a clocks and telling the time in Maori 

The time in Maori is 

Kota pāhi I te tekau Ma Rua karaka

Reading

WALA Moa 

* we researched facts about the Moa.

* I used pic collage to present my facts

* what I found interesting was that Maori people made hooks out of their bones.

Writing

We are doing word of the week.

All we do is get the word of the week

And fined the synonymous and put it in a sentence. Like this

Autumn

WALT: link our ideas together when writing

We wrote about autumn and used our senses to help us add more detail to our writing. 

Here is a link to my autumn writing.

https://voice.adobe.com/a/NzbbM

Value

https://voice.adobe.com/a/AvvYb

Tap on the link to watch my resonibility video 

here is a photo of what you might see

Ukulele

We are doing Ukuele with Brendan 

Science

We have been doing science with mrs olere 

Next step to do the buzzer

Poi

We are doin poi with miss marale 

Equivalent fractions

WATA equivalent fractions  

In room 8 we are doing equivalent fractions.

We have learnt that 1/2 is the same as 2/4.

Writing

We ar learning to write a formal letter.

We wrote to the Hastings district council and we told them our opinion about the chaging speed limit

Form the Hasting to clive

The speed limits was being changed back to 100pk from 80pk. I disagred with the changes

because it was to fast.

Swimming reflection

In swimming I have been part of the seals group.

I have been learning to:

• Dive

• Breaststroke

• Do a 3 length medley (breaststroke, backstroke and freestyle)

I am most proud of:

• And my 3 length medley.

• And my dives

I now need to work on doing:  

• Breaststroke 

Treaty of waitangi research

WALT: summarise our research into our own words and list our source.

Next step: include my sources showing where I got the imfomtion from.

My Mihimihi