My Reflection for term 3

Hi bloggers!

Yay! It's the last day of the term and I have written my extra long reflection, If you read my term 2 reflection you will know that I write a lot.

I will keep rack on my blog over the holidays and I will keep posting.

Well here is my reflection for term 3

Enjoy!

My Reflection for the term.

What have I enjoyed about this term?

This term I have enjoyed working in a collaborative group. It was something different to the

independent work we normally do and we have definitely become better as a whole group together.

I think that I really liked the inquiry that we have been doing this term because it’s like a big topic

for all of us to focus on one topic and to present it, I’m going to work hard in the holidays too, like you said to ask or ring up some people to see what they know, gather the information. I have enjoyed writing adventure narratives because I really like them and I think that I am getting better at the characterization part then I used to, I find adventure writing fun and full of excitement!

What you are proud of?

I am proud of this term on my adventure writing, as I said before I really like adventure writing and

I think that I have gotten better at the characterization. I am also proud of Maths, the way that I

have learnt a quite a bit o variety of graphs this term, for example, stem and leaf graphs, box

and whisker plots, and more. I am very proud of my reading because I have been on track on

my activities and making sure I get enough finished before the end of the term.

How have you shown our HERO qualities? (Give at least 3 examples of this and explain fully)

I have shown H this term for drinking lots of water, keeping hydrated. I know, I wrote about this

last term as well but H is one of those things that there isn’t much to write about. I think that

drinking water does help you, and this I have been keeping my drink bottle next to me an long

writes and other activities. I think that running is important too, so when it’s a good day to go

outside I go out and run! My dad also says that getting vitamin D from the sun is important so I

think that I have gotten outside as much as I can, even in the mornings when I have nothing to do.

I have shown E this term because I have been enthusiastic about the learning that we have

been doing, I was really excited to learn about the greenhouse effect and I have gathered a lot

of information. I am really enthusiastic about the wearable arts we are going to be continuing

next term, I think I might work on it a little bit in the holidays.

I have shown R this term because I have being kind and helpful, I think that I have been helpful

just in general, and I like to help anybody who needs it. I also think that it fits into being kind,

I haven’t been mean to anybody (not that I want to anyway) and if I do by accident I know it’s

always nice to apologize.

I have show O this term for being open minded. I love to be open minded and think outside of

the box. On tuesdays while the year 7 and 8’s went to tech I would be really interested about light and color, I made lots of questions and hypotheses about it.

What hasn’t gone well for me this term? Why?

I think that maybe I wasn’t concentrating so much on work, I’m not quite sure, but I think that

I might’ve gone a little bit off track sometimes. I probably need to concentrate more on what

I’m doing and to keep focus, but I still want to have a little bit of fun.

What have I found challenging? Why?

I have found collaborating with a group challenging because it was really hard to get my group together. I found out that when collaborating in a group, there might be times we're some people go

off track and don’t do anything, so I think that if I am leading and keeping everyone together, I need

to make sure everyone is giving some ideas.

My focus for next term is keep on track and keep focused because I need to get a lot finished in one week.

How do I read Stem and Leaf Graphs?

Hello everybody!

This week in Rimu we have been working on statistics work since we had a Maths test this week.

I was wondering, how do I read Stem and Leaf graphs? After a while I realized Stem and Leaf Graphs aren't that hard to read. Since I have learnt I am going to share it with you!

Here is my Drawing that I made

If that was confusing then I will tell you right here.

On the left were it says Stem you can see the number 2, and on the right side were it says Leaf you can see the number 5.

now 5 is in the ones column, and 2 is in the tens column, so that means it is twenty (from the Stem) five (from the Leaf) and that requires to all the numbers.

The Cave

Hello bloggers!

This week we have been working on narrative writing as you might know since I posted my Ice palace post. This is my published narritive that I turned into a slidshow with pictures.

Enjoy

The Cave

Hello bloggers!

Today we did a long write for 55 minutes, this was my Draft about the Cave.

I think I did really well on my introduction because I added lot's of setting description.

To improve my story I need to add more to the conclusion and Resolution.

I would love to hear from you about what you think I should add to my story on my improvement session.

Enjoy!

Title: The Cave

Lush green forest filled the land, and happy little animals ran around in the grass. Squirrels clambered up the trees and the fruits on the bush's we're ripe red, ready to be picked. The smell of beautiful flowers drifting in the breeze. In the distance you can hear two pairs of shoes slap slap, one running, and one walking. You can also hear the birds chirping in the background tweet tweet.

“Hurry up!” June said as she ran full speed across the pathway, June groaned and started to keep the pace, she tripped and fell face forward onto the floor. “I told you you should be careful” Erika said trying to hold in her giggles. “We should take a break, we’ve been walking for hours” Erika said sitting down. “Um, maybe we shouldn’t” June pointed to a giant black cloud rising in the background. “Fine fine” Erika said hopping to her feet. The dark clouds we're already above them and the trees scowled at them slapping their branches. They found an opening to a cave and sat down dripping with water. “ARHHH!” June shouted as she tried again and again to light a fire “useless!” June said as she threw the stick to the cave floor. Suddenly a grunt rung in the cave, WHAT WAS THAT! Erika said through to Junes mind I don’t know suddenly a black shadow came running full speed out of the cave  and swallowed them whole, swallowing June and Erika's scream.

Roughly an hour after they have been taken away June was busy trying to get out. It was dark, and gloomy, and you could smell that this was old and rusted. The cold metal bars pushed June back forcing her to stay put. The sound of scuttling of rats and mice around the corners, and the BANG of someone in the horrifying place. later June realized they weren't were they were before. Where am I!!!! June said to Erika Do remember the old tale? Erika asked to June The one about the forest and then they get taken away or something? June replied Yeah excattly, but don’t you remember that our great grandma and our great aunt are twins? And they we're the ones taken away, maybe that has something to do with us! Erika said excitingly Whatever your idea is I want to get out June replied.

Wait a minute! Erika said we can pick the lock with our pins in our hair! Genius! June said and she pulled her hair pin out I’ll try! It took a couple tries but she was able to open it. “YES!” June shouted throwing her arms in the air. “Shhh not so loud June, they might hear us” Erika said her finger to her lips. They got each other out and tiptoed around the pathways, but whenever they though they came to a entrance it was a dead end. “How are we supposed to get out?” June asked, “ I dunno” Erika shrugged “Ok, I thought you were the genius, looks like your not right now” June said.

They kept walking and walking until they came to a big room. There was an ancient painting and writing on the front. “To escape the tunnel, two must be one, and one must be two” Erika said thinking “well how’s that going to help!” June said. “Well we are twins and maybe we are meant to be one person?” Erika said, “Like, that's going to happen” June siad. “We could try?” Erika said, they thought for a moment then held hands and said “two must be one, two must be one, two must be one!” they both said. Suddenly a glow came from their necklaces and some of the rocks we're glowing. Follow the glow Erika said to June kay June replied.

They followed the glow and magically they we're at the end. The rain had stopped and there was clear pathway back home. “YAY!” June said running around “Don’t fa “Ouch” june said as she stood back up “I told you!” Erika said, and they both laughed, they had made it out smoothly. But all Erika could think about is her book she left at the Cave opening, she knew it was ancient and old. Probably special as well but the main thing was is it gone or is it safe? But Erika just shook her head and kept moving forward.

The Ki-O-Rahi Tournament

The Ki-O-Rahi Tournament

Hello bloggers!

Today I have a post about the Kio-O-Rahi tournament.

Some of us went to the Ki-O-Rahi tournament at Gilberthorpe school a couple days ago.

There were four other schools that had come, there were four fields that we played in.

One round we had to ref a game and we would all spread out among the four feilds with pairs or groups of three with a whistle.

Overall I think that the Ki-O-rahi game was really fun, I think it was a great way to get running around for a change.

I think what challenged me most was trying to run away with the ball. Sometimes I would get the ball but I wouldn't run away fast enough because I would get tagged.

Here are some photos

If shoes could talk they would have Diaries...

Hello Bloggers!

Welcome to my blog, today I am posting a blog about out ten minute writing session!

We had ten minutes to write about if shoes could talk, or at least do things that humans can do.

I think that I have done good on having a sense of humor in my story.

To improve my writing I think that I should put more similes, descriptive phrases, metaphors, and interesting words.

I would love you to give me some feedback one my story to see what kind of similes, or descriptive phrases I could add and keep for another time!

This is my story about If your shoes could talk

Enjoy!

If your shoes could talk

Dear Diary,

It was my nightmare… You’d never guess, it was cross country day, AND they had to

run for like 3 km! Gosh by the end of the first kilometer sweat was pouring down his/her (I don’t know genders! Shoes don’t have them I think) legs, and I was as wet as ever, stinky as ever. It was like elephant dung mixed with old socks from the garbage and oh, much more other disgusting things!

The second kilometer they came to some hay bales and other obstacles. You’ll never guess… my human tripped over a hay bale and me and my partner went tumbling down the gigantic hay HILL! Plus when my human put them on again our backs we're full hay and whenever the humans feet moved inside our backs, the hay would tickle so much! So me and my partner thought up a really clever plan, we started to toss our humans feet about and we made him trip, and we shouted at him and he got such a fright that our human nearly had a heart attack. Oh what FUN!

I would say it was pretty fun for us, although now I’ve got soap in my eyes from washing, and my eyes are all red. But besides that we had a great time fooling around with our human.

My Concept map on Air pollution!

Hello bloggers!

I am back with a new blog post this time it's about what we are doing for our Inquiry learning!

Today we started our Mini Inquiry learning slides for a practice for our actual slides.

Firstly we started to brainstorm about out topic, my topic was Air pollution. We used some different ways to do this brainstorm, some people used Concept maps, and some people did Mind maps. I chose to do a Concept map.

I would love you bloggers to give me some feedback on my Concept map because I need to know what it's like from an audience's perspective. Please tell me if you understand it or not because that way I know how to make a better one when I do my actual one. What do you know about Air pollution? Are you affected by it?

Enjoy!