SLJ - Day 1,,Activity 1

1. The Maori name of New Zealand is Aotearoa which means the land of the long white cloud.

2. The largest city in New Zealand is Auckland although its capital city is Wellington. 

3. There are no snakes in New Zealand!

My Achievements

Australia

Kupu ahua

Aliyah & Merryn Digestive System

For the past 4 weeks Merryn and I have been working on the digestive system.We drew a body of a person then we painted it with colours that the organ would normally look like.The places where the white pieces of string went to are where that organ is.The hard part about making our model was poking holes in the cardboard and putting the string through and tying them together.I liked painting because it was fun

The best and worst things about winter are......

The best and worst things about winter are…
 

Best Things about : That it snows Worst Things: That It rains a lot Winters great: because we get to do winter sports Winters not so great: because it is so cold What we can do only in winter: play with snow What can’t we do at winter: go to the swimming pool

My new kitten

The most special gift I ever received was my kitten. Because my dad found the kitten when we were coming back from school. We went to the shop to get some food and a bed for the kitten. When we got home my mum came home with a toy for the kitten. The toy was a mouse. The kitten loved the mouse toy. After a little bit we came up with a name for the kitten the name was Rakau.

Robot Rampage

WALT write a creative story using a story starler.

Surprisingly Hemi wakes up to the sound of people screaming and yelling with fear. Hemi looked around to see if his robot was there but it was not there. Hemi leapt out of his chair. Then he quickly ran around the streets to see if his robot was there. He couldn't find the crazy robot on the streets.

 He went around to people's houses and asked if they have seen a flying robot around “it just left” is all they said he started flying to the people’s  houses. Finally the last house came “have you seen this flying robot” they said it’s in the backyard destroying everything out there.

 Hemi went outside to grab it but then the bad robot the robot is as bad as a criminal. The robot grabs a flower pot and tries to chuck it at Hemi he misses him by far. Hemi ran over to the flowerpot and quickly grabbed it before the crazy robot could grab it .

 Hemi quickly chucked the pot at the robot and it blew up making a big mess at the ladies house. Hemi stayed and helped clean up the ladies house. When Hemi got home. Hemis Dad pulled up the drive . He went outside he said ‘WOW” you normally don’t like mowing the lawns. You can’t mow them more often. Hemi said “uhhh’. Hemi got his pocket money that he wanted.

Travel Brochure

Walt design a travel brochure

Creative writing

WALT create a piece of writing which includes 5 words that we have been given. This week the words were pink, huge, bridge, sprinkled and daffodil.
By Aliyah

The long day

Me and my friend Merryn wanted to go to this huge pink lake that got a new bridge. All of the top was sprinkled with daffodil’s. I tried to pick a daffodil up but then I nearly fell into the water “Merryn grab me I said i’m going fall”. She caught me at the last second I was still terrified of how smelly and dirty I would have been if I did fall in there. Anyways I mean there could have been anything in there from a monster in the water to and old mans dirty crusty slipper. 

When we got back to my house I asked my mum if Merryn could have a sleepover she said maybe I will ask  Merryn if she can. Just when Merryn was going to leave my mum went over to her mum and said can Merryn have a sleepover her mum said yes. Merryn went back to her house to get her things for the sleepover . When she got back it was nearly dinner time so my mum said what should we have for dinner. Me and Merryn said McDonald's at the same time. My mum left to go get us McDonald's and then me and Merryn went to go play on the computer. We were playing on the computer. We went to go call my mum and see were she was because we were hungry. She said that she was 15 mins away. When she go home we ate all of our food. Then It was nearly bedtime so we both got in our pajamas to get ready for bed.

 When it was morning time for breakfast we had pancakes it was so yummy. When we were down eating our breakfast. When It got to 2:00 Merryns mum came and picked her up from my house. Just when she was walking out the door to leave she said this has been the best sleepover ever it was so much fun.


When she left I went to go visit my grandma in hospital. She was getting out of hospital. So we want to get her from the hospital because we haven't seen her in 2 months. When we got her we took her back to our house. We played a board game the game was called whats there name. It's a game where you have to guess what person the other person character. When we were down playing the game. We took my grandma home. After we did that. We got home and the time was bedtime so I went to go put on my pajamas. The next day was school. When I got to school Merryn was not there. I waited for her about 10 mins and she was not there so I just went home. The End

My Magical Creature 100 Word Challenge

WALT describe a Magical creature that lives in pink lake or animal .

Once Upon a time there lived a magical unicorn her name was Suger. She was a rainbow unicorn with a white body and she had a blue horn. She was in the magical animal hospital because she got a cut on her leg. That cut could make her lose her special powers forever. One day her best friend had to go in the animal hospital because she got the same cut on her leg. She was in same room with her friend Suger . When they got out of the animal hospital they were living at the pink lake .The End

Californian Native Americans

WALT gather information about the Cahuilla tribe.
I really enjoyed learning about this tribe and something interesting that i learnt was They make houses were the doors are facing the west so they can look at the sun rise.They make the houses out of clay.

Rata and the Waka

We have been doing some critical thinking with the story of Rata and his waka.

100 word challenge

                                  SHOUTED CRIMSON MISTY FRANTICALLY GRAVE

Me and my friend Merryn were on our way to this house that people at school called it haunted. We just thought they were  joking around to make us scared. But we just wanted to see if it was actually haunted when we got there. There was a Misty backyard with a grave that had crimson blood spread on it.  Merryn Shouted HELP just when we looked at the backyard. When we went inside the house I was so scared that we Frantically ran back outside then we ran to go back home as fast as we could.

The End

Art Attack

This term we have been creating pieces of art as our Kaupapa has been our art attack. We have done.

• Pastel and dye
• Self portraits 
• 3D construction

Maui and the giant fish

      we have been using higher order thinking skills to complete our Maori myth and legend slide presentations.

Hatupatu and the Bird Woman

we have been using higher order thinking sills to complete our maori myth and legend slide presntation.

100 Word Challenge Week 7

                     Handle cup 

In a forest far far away live a girl called Aliyah. It was her birthday on Sunday, she wanted a puppy for her birthday. Her Mum and Dad said “you can't get a puppy, what else do you want?” She said “A hideout cup with all my toys and Teddy bears.When you pull the handle the cup will lift up and I can go in it. “ Today’s my birthday I’m going to see if I got the handle cup with all my toys and Teddybears? I went outside and there it was a Handle cup my wish came true.

100 word challenge

  This week we were given a story starter but what if I was in charge?

My focus was on making my story interesting and staying within the 100 word limit.

…but what if I was in charge?…

One morning I was on my way to school and I noticed that nobody was walking to school. I felt like there was something wrong there is usually a lot of people walking to school. I got into school and nobody was there so I walked into the office and nobody was there. I sat in my classroom for a little bit I was getting pretty tired.Then all the teachers and kids started to arrive.If I was in charge of the schools I would make sure that everyone was at school on time even the teachers.To continue

My learning Goals for 2018