Inquiry-living things

"A living thing has to consume,grow,breathe,adapt to its environment and perish."

                                                 room 8 2015

My project was about Komodo dragons.

I got my information from Google because I couldn't find any books about them.

My nanna helped me by suggesting to glue sticks on the cardboard.

I like reptiles quite a lot, but I wanted to choose something different-something you'd be less likely to know about.

My favourite fact is that when they are hatched they climb trees for safety but can't climb when they get older.

If I wanted to improve next time I probably would have done some of the other monitor lizards it is related to.

How does Russia celebrate Christmas?☃

Religion

The main religion in Russia is named Russian orthodox.

They believe in Jesus and Mary and the religion has been around for more than one-thousand years.

Food

The food they eat usually depends on the wealth of the family.

The Russians main food for Christmas is hot roast pirog, Russian pies(made from meat or cabbage) and pelmeni meat dumplings.

Tradition

A few weeks before Christmas many don't eat meat, eggs or milk and on the day before Christmas they hardly eat anything. They also setup the trees while children are sleeping.

Songs and carols

Children go from door to door singing carols to earn sweets.

Outdoor education 2015

WALT: sail an optimist yacht

First we set up the yacht, and after about 30 minutes we were done.We set them off the trailer and we were off!We weren't a great one with the wind, so we got out the paddles and started picking up speed and it was a race to bouy number 1.After a great chase mine and Max's teamwork payed off with 3rd place!We learnt to capsize and get it back up, and how steering isn't very easy at the start and to make sure your centreboard is in or you lose control!

Maths term 4

WALT use our maths thinking to save and create number and picture squares.

Term 3 values

Here is a movie I made on this terms value.

Fitness and nutrition with Karen 2015

WALT:keeping ourselves fit and healthy

For term 3 year five and sixes had some time in the hall learning to keep fit and healthy.We did different excersises with our teacher Karen and  talked about nutrition and how to be healthy.My favourite excersise was when we had to do a certain thing e.g. Press ups for thirty seconds and have ten seconds rest then a different exercise for thirty seconds, e.g. Star jumps.

Some of the workouts we did with the excersises were star jumps,press ups,crunches(press ups),mountain climbers,squats and quite a lot more.

Pangarau/maths

WALT tell time using te reo Maori language

He aha te taima?/what is the time?

writing WALA spring

We were making poems about spring.my one says;

Super bowl-good for ESPN

Paeroa-taste good with lemon

Rarotonga-surfs up!

In case of a burn wear sunblock-keeps you cool

Never let the weather stop you walking the dog-unless the dog stops you!

Great time to ready for summer-get the pool ready for the sun

We also made some butterflies and then dyed them.here is one of the three I made;

Some country's celebrate Easter in spring where the egg represents new life.

Some people just celebrate Easter for the chocolate eggs!

Cross country 2015

This how I felt about cross country and how I could improve next time.

Walt find the average

This is what I came up with using met services 5 day forecast.

Reading

In room 8 we have been researching the moa.

This is what I came up with on pic collage.

What I found interesting is the height (3.6 meters.)

Discounts 2/7/15

We had to figure out the answers to these equations.

Hopscotch

Hopscotch is an app where you make games by coding and taking inspiration.

WALA Gramma Writing workshops

We ha dot do an acrostic poem in our writing work shops.we had to make our name stand for something to do with our personality.

Values

Please click the link to my mini movie about our Clive school value this term. https://voice.adobe.com/a/kYYlq

WALA Asian food 26/5/15

WALT: The six thinking hats.

These are the six thinking hats by Dr Edward De Bono.

Poetry workshop

WALT: Find the hints of hidden messages written by authors in poems.

Why:Authors don't always tell us.

Eg.  What are  three ways in the poem that the friends who are hiding give a clue to where they are?

Finding a secret closing door 

Wriggling a blanket

Some ones foot outside a corner

Eg. What does it mean when the poet says, "friends sound like feathers"?

They are very quiet.

WALA equivalent fractions

I learnt that 1/2 is the same as 64/128.

My next step is to order fractions.

Swimming reflections

Writing

We are learning to write a formal letter.

We wrote to the Hastings District Council and we told them our opinion about the changing speed limit on the Hastings-Clive road.

The speed limit in my opinion should be at least 90-100 because some people don't like being slowpoke and 90 is more safe.

Treaty of Waitangi research

WALT Summarise our research into our own words and list our sources.

 

Next step:include all of the information from the success criteria.

My Mihimihi

I made this mini movie on Adobe voice