Inquiry task

This is my Inquiry task. For this I was talking about Keeping our sea life safe from plastic so I was talking about what happens to the animals when they get hurt by plastic and how we could make that problem better.  I really enjoyed doing this task because I learnt a lot and I also loved doing this task because I did it with my mum. 

Matariki art

Matariki art

This is our matariki art that we have been doing in our class. Some kids in our hub couldn’t do it because they were at maori games. We each had four people in our group. I had Me, Sophia, Liske and Tyla. As you already know matariki has seven stars so Sophia did three, Tyla did two, Liske did one because she did the background and I did the big one because that took a while so I couldn’t do two.

Tokyo's math task week 9

This week for math I did some rounding and compensating on the ipad. We used show me. The reason I am putting this video on my blog is because I am really proud of the effort I put into it.

Whanau art

I am blogging this because I really enjoyed making this art and I also love my family.

This is my Whanau art. We did this task with Mrs Morris. It was really fun because we had to design koru’s of our family. The green one is my Dad, The light blue one is my Mum, The purple one is me, The dark pink one is my sister Maddie and the light pink one is my sister Caroline. So I did my Dad green because I just thought it would be a good colour, I did my Mum light blue because I love it so I thought she would love it too, I did myself purple because I love purple, I did my sister, Maddie, dark pink because she has got a lot of pink stuff in her room. I did my sister Caroline light pink because she suits pink.

Nelson lakes reading task week 7

I am blogging this because I was really proud of the work I put into it. We were learning to talk about how the boys feelings went from 10, 5 and 1. 10 was when they were happy, 5 was when they were in the middle and 1 was when they were sad.

This is my reading task for week 7. It was all about two boys going to school to see a new All Black's player at their school but they got interrupted by Liam's (one of the boys) next door neighbour so they missed their chance of getting their rugby balls signed. But after school they had to help Mrs Wilding but something great happened.... They got to see the new all blacks player called Corban at Mrs Wilding's house because she is a friend of Corbans. We had to rate their feelings. It was out of 10, 5 and 1 it was a little bit hard but it was still a fun task.

My camp letter

This is my post for this week. Its about me saying thank to Fiona for coming on camp.

21 May 2015

Dear Fiona,

I just wanted to say thank you so much for coming to camp. You were a very good helper and you always had a smile on your face. Whenever someone was sad you always offered to help or asked what's wrong and that is why you're such a kind person.

When Lippy had you for Masterchef I thought you were a very good helper. and only when we needed your help. When Lippy didn't have an idea, you had an idea and I thought that was very sweet.

So thank you so much Fiona for all your help. Have a great year.

From Rosemary

Cricket World Cup

Cricket World Cup- Week 5 task

This link will be very helpful to you.

Task 1:

Research and list all of the teams participating in the 2015 Cricket World Cup. Please use a black font.

1. New Zealand 5

Brendon McCullum   

2. Australia 1

Michael Clarke

3.  Sri Lanka 4

Angelo Mathews

4. England 6

Eoin Morgan

5. Bangladesh 9

Mashrafe Mortaza

6. Afghanistan 12

Mohammad Nabi

7. Scotland

Preston Mommsen

8. South Africa 3

Ab De Villiers

9. Pakistan 7

Misbah-Ul-Haq

10. India 2

Ms Dhoni

11. Zimbabwe 10

Elton Chigumbura

12. Ireland 11

William Porterfield

13. West Indies 8

Jason Holder

14. United Arab Emirates

Mohammad Tauqir

Task 2: Find out the current world ranking of each team. Write it next to the country in green.

Task 3: Find out the captain of each team. Write the name of the captain underneath the country using red.

Choose two  out of Task 4, Task 5, Task 6 and Task 7

Task 4

Write a newspaper article about a match you have watched this year. Include the who, what, when, where, why and how of the match. Try to add detail- so the reader finds out everything they would want to know about the game. You can only do this task if you watched an entire game.  You must not copy and paste any information.

This is what a news article should look like.

Task 5

Write a list of NZ’s 2015 World Cup Cricket team players. Choose one player from that list. Find out the following information about him.

1. Brendon McCullum

2. Trent Boult

3. Grant Elliot

4. Tom Latham

5. Martin Guptill

6. Mitchell Mcclenaghan

7. Nathan Mccullum

8. Kyle Mills

9. Adam Milne   

10. Daniel Vettori

11. Kane Williamson

12. Corey Anderson

13. Tim Southee

14. Luke Ronchi

15. Ross Taylor

Name: Brendon McCullum

Date of Birth: September 27, 1981 (age 33)

Place of Birth: Dunedin

Height: 1.71 m

Who else they play for: New Zealand national cricket team (#42), Otago cricket team (#42)

How many international caps they have: 224 test caps 126 ODI

What is their role in the team: Captain

Any big achievements in their cricketing career: Being named captain

Explain why you selected this player: Because I wanted to learn more about the captain of New Zealand  

Task 6

Explain to some how to play cricket. Pretend they have NEVER seen or played cricket.

Give as much information as you can, so that they could read your writing, and then know how to play. You should include the rules, and how the field/pitch should look.

Task 7

Design a new playing uniform for the Black caps to play in. It should include important aspects of our country, and include the sponsor’s logos (you will need to find these out. It should look different to our current uniform.

Please do this task non-digitally.

Task seven

This is my cricket T-Shirt that I made. Right so as you can see there is a fern on my T-Shirt because that represents New Zealand, There is a wicked, bat and ball because that represents cricket of course. ANZ and ford are some of the people that sponsors them.

Rhino report

Intro

A Rhino is a large endangered animal. Here are some interesting and cool facts about Rhino’s.

Appearance

Rhino’s skin is so thick. It is protective from bites, sunlight and wounds. Humans are mammals. There are 5 different species of rhino’s. These are the rhino’s Greater one horned rhino, Black rhino, Sumatran rhino, White rhino and Javan rhino. Rhino’s have big horns on their noses. Rhino’s weigh 1000 kgs and 3500 kgs.

Diet

Rhino’s love to eat trees, leaves and grass and the funny thing is they can only eat plants but if they want to they can eat meat. Rhinos eat up to 190 to 200 different types of plants and bark.  

Natural Habitat

Rhino’s get hunted by few predators. 3 out of 5 Rhino’s are critically endangered and who  is ever doing this should stop because it is really mean for the Rhinos. Rhinos live in Africa and Southern Asia. Rhinos love to stay in grassy plains and rain forests.  

Behaviour

Rhinos love to roll in the mud to keep cool. Rhinos use their horns to dig into ground for roots bulbs. Rhinos eat at night and rest all day. Rhinos have groups and the name of the groups are called a herd or a crash. An Oxpecker is really mean to the rhino because they take ticks off their bodies. Rhinos love to stay 5 km from the water.

Conclusion

This was really really fun to write because it was really interesting learning more about rhinos.

By Rosemary Megan Hughes Jones

Reading task

Down behind our place flows the muddy old river.  I often go there after school and watch the sticks and leaves drift sluggishly past.

        One time I found a plastic drink bottle stranded on the green slime.

        Noticing something different about the bottle, I fished it out.  Cutting the bottle open, I pulled out a piece of paper.  On the paper was written this letter.

        125 Riverside Road

        Wakanui

        New Zealand

        Dear friend,

                    If you find this letter please write to me.  I have brown hair and am 9 years old.    Please write to me, specially if you live in Australia or America.  I don't have many     friends here.

        Love from

        Amy Brown

        "What a laugh," I thought.  Amy Brown lives just up the river from us.  She's in my class, too.  Amy is strange and she really doesn't have many friends.  She's often away from school, and the kids only take notice of her if they want to tease her, or want something from her, like money for ice blocks.

        I put her letter in my pocket to show it around at school.

        But by the end of the week that letter was still in my pocket.  I supposed that really, like Amy, I was a bit lonely, too.  Or perhaps I just didn't have enough courage to be that mean.

        What about her letter?

        On Saturday morning I got another empty drink bottle and poked her letter into it.  I screwed the top tightly on and biked down the road carrying it.

        From the old wharf by the factories, I threw the bottle far out into the tide.  The water there was swift enough to carry it out to sea at least.

        That was last year.

        Amy is still in my class and she still seems lonely.  I haven't heard about the letter.  But then, that sort of mail can take ages to get to Australia or America.

Source:  School Journal, Pt 3, No. 1, 1991. Learning Media. Illustrated by Sarah Mathieson.

 

Personal mail

This task is about making inferences by identifying information in a story.

Read the story "Personal Mail" and follow the instructions below.

Read each sentence below and circle whether it is true or false. On the lines below each sentence, write some words from the story that help show whether the sentence is true or false. The first one has been done for you.

”Down behind our place flows the muddy old river.” a)      The boy in the story lives near a river.                              True   /   False
Its true because the river is behind his house.

b)      The water in the river flows quickly.                                                                       
True   /   False
Its false because the river flows smuggle not quickly.  

  

c)      When the boy first reads the letter he thinks it is a bit of a joke.          

True   /   False

Because he says what a laugh.  

       

d) The reason the boy decides not to show the letter around at school is that he is worried he will get into trouble.

True   /   False

Its false because the boy in the story feels lonely to.                 

       

e)      The boy has lots of friends.                                                                                    

True   /   False

Its false because the boy in the story feels lonely to.

f)   The boy throws the bottle out to sea because he thinks it will have  a better chance of floating to another place than it will in the river.

True   /   False

        
Because of the tide.

g) The boy is the sort of person who notices how other people are feeling.

     True   /   False

Because he knew how Amy Brown was feeling.

h)      The boy never tells Amy about finding her letter.                                      

True   /   False
Because the boy felt lonely to.

i)       The boy wants to believe that the bottle will arrive in Australia or America.

True   /   False

Because it could land anywhere.  

j)   Briefly describe a time when you felt a bit like the boy in this story.

      I felt lonely when my friends did want to play with me.