On a scorching hot day my class and I went to the GI swimming pools to learn about safety and survival skills. When we had arrived I quickly got change and slowly ran to the showers I would have ran but the floor was too slippery. SHRE SHRE thats the sound the shower made, after I had rense my self clean I went back to the pool I was swimming in and sat down on the cold, wet grey chairs that were there.

Soon later there were three female Instructors came and told us to get inside the pool carefully

Geomertry

This is my map that I've created in my maths class.

Glenn Iness Directions:
Directions to Mcdonalds:
1. Start from The big P which is Pt England Rd and go Right (North West).
2. When you reach Line Rd, there you will find a round about that you go around and turn right again.
3. Keep on going strait until you see Mcdonalds but don't go past the train station

Tamaki College Directions:
1. First you start from Pt England School
2. Then you go (North West) down Pt England Road
3. Keep going then go around the roundabout
4. Go straight down (North West) on Elstree Ave
5. Then you are at Tamaki College

WALT: Add more detail to the Beginning, Middle and end of our Sentences

This Movie has taught me to use more detail to hook my audience in. It has also taught me how to add detail to the Beginning, Middle and end of our sentences.

Learning how to use speech marks Correctly.

Kayaking at Camp !!!

Last week on Wednesday we started the year 5 and 6 camp. There were many of
activities but my favourite was kayaking. It was really fun and everyone in my team enjoyed it, my team was called caretakers and I was one of the leaders.

When it was time for our final activity we had to walk down to the reserve to get ready for kayaking. As soon as we arrived we learnt how to be safe in the kayak, we also learnt how to get in and out of it to. It was funny because Isara and Rocky had to show us how to get in but instead of getting i  n they fell in.

Then Mr Burt told us to get a life jacket on and get into the water with the kayak. It was hard putting on the life jacket but Isara helped me. When I got in I paddle to the left because there were boundaries on the right.

It was awesome everyone enjoyed it, some of us fell out and into the water. We had races and splashed each other we even got to swim after we had finished. When we were racing I won I was racing Henry I enjoy every single bit of it.Then I was time to go back to the Marque to get ready for dinner I was really tired after that.

Hauhake Harakeke Harvesting or Cutting Flax

Year 5/6 Camp

Yesterday was the first day of camp and my team and I went to cook some scrumptious Corn fritters with Miss Tito. It was really fun cooking with her, first she divided us into three groups of four then we started to make the batch. She had prepared everything. 

Soon later we had finish the batch and then we  started cooking. It was really funny cooking because every time you'd flip them you would have to jump back because the oil would burn you. after that we had eaten them and the we started to roast some marshmallows and make smores.     

Stride Jump Investigation

How many stride jumps I can do in 30 seconds?
Person's Name	Estimation of Amount	Actual Test 1	Actual Test 2	Actual Test 3	Average Score	Your Statistical Statement
Collin	28	32	45	59	45	My first estimation was close
Stevenson	27	31	48	51	43	I think I did more stride jumps than I had in mind
Taimana	24	37	45	58	47	All of my Stride Jumps went over 30
Zane	19	33	44	57	45	My goal's went higher every time

Writing about Antarctica

In Antarctica there are a lots of icebergs icy deserts animals and many more interesting things you might want to know about Antarctica. Like it has the largest desert in the world. Also if you were to swim all the way down Antarctic water it would get warmer and warmer. Also There are extremely strong big and small animals that live in Antarctica like penguins seals and orca which are killer whales.all of the penguins have feathers and peaks just like birds but they can't fly. killer whales like to eat almost anything they see but what they really love to eat is squid penguins and dolphins.

All about Antarctica

In Antarctica there are a lots of icebergs icy deserts animals and many more interesting things you might want to know about Antarctica. Like it has the largest desert in the world. Also if you were to swim all the way down Antarctic water it would get warmer and warmer. Also There are extremely strong big and small animals that live in Antarctica like penguins seals and orckas which are killer whales.all of the penguins have feathers and peaks just like birds but they can't fly. killer whales like to eat almost anything they see but what they really love to eat is squid penguins and dolphins.

My Reading Interview

Collin Reading Interview from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.

Question about Farms

• Who is in charge of the sheep in the farm.
• Where can you get animals for the farm
• When did they make the farm.
• What might the animals do on the farm. 
• Why would farmers protect animals.
• How would famers help the environment
• How did they come up with the name farm

Labour Day

Last week the year five and six Exstension group learnt about Labour day and how people got abused at work. Labour day was a day when people only worked for eight hours and a man named Samuel Parnell won the eight hour day in Wellington.

Labour day was first celebrated in New Zealand 28th of October 1890.

The Last Days Of School...

On the last few days of school we have finished of work, cleaning our classroom and many more. Next year there will be new classes for Room 18 and other classes. Last days have been great all we have been doing was free time learning games and much much more.

On Thursday we get to have a shared lunch with rooms 16, and 17 its going to be really cool the boys get to bring savouries and the girls have to bring sweet thing like cake, lollies, and cupcakes.We get to go to the reserve and play games and have fun I hope we all get to 

The Bird Nest

The Bird Nest Tom woke up and turned on the lamp. He pushed the sheet and Woollen rugs off himself and staggered to the Window, which was partly open. He looked up to see a full moon and there, in the moonlight, sitting on a nest in a massive gum tree, was a mother bird and her noisy baby chicks. The nest, made from twigs, straw, wool and dead grass, was swaying wildly from side to side. As it did so, the mother bird tried to calm her frightened young ones by chirping softly to them.

1. Write the Words which tell us that it was cold. Was swaying Wildly.
2. Write the word which tells us that the birds lived in a large tree. Massive
3. The nest was made from wool, twigs, wood and dead grass True OR False
4. Write the word from the story which tells us the noise that birds make. Chirping
5. Write the word from the story which tells us that Tom was not fully awake when he went to the window. Staggered 6. Why were the baby chicks noisy? Because the wind was blowing there nest side to side and they were frightened 7. Was it Windy outside Tom's house? Yes 8. How do you know? Because it says in the story 9. It was very dark when Tom looked out the window True OR False 10. What were Tom‘s rugs made from? Wool 11. Tom had to get out of bed to turn on his lamp True OR False

Life cycle of the Monarch Butterfly

Gently the butterfly lays its egg on a swan plant. After that it leaves and the egg is hanging underneath the leaf. The butterfly lays it egg under the leaf because there are a lot of dangerous insects and animals that might squash or eat it.

 After a day or two it’s ready to hatch, but when it does it comes out and eats the shell. I wonder what the shell taste like? It looks like it’s really scrumshus to the caterpillar. When it finishes eating the shell it moves on to eat leaves.

 While it eats leaves it sheds many of time and changes colours. As it eats it gets bigger and bigger everyday. When it sheds it looks funny but it’s part of the life cycle, it eats about 15 leaves and then it is ready to find a good branch and dangle from it. 

Then there it hangs but first it has to make something sticky to make it stick. After a while it turns into a chrysalis and stays in there for 2 weeks. Then when it comes out there is a beautiful monarch butterfly.

My Statistical Investigation?

I was Investigating the highest 

and lowest Temperature for February 20th all the way to Feb the 24th . 

I found out that the highest Temperature was 26 and the lowest was 12.



There are three different charts but with all the same drawing the easiest chart to read is the one in the middle.

I conclude that every time it is the 23 it will be sunny. 

  

Use your Wits.

Using your Wits means to always do the right thing. It also means you have to follow 4 steps which are W walk away, I ignore it, T talk about it and S seek help. First we are going to talk about W walk away.

 If people are Bullying you, you should walk away. If you don’t walk away then there are many bad things that can happen to you. Even though they are pushing or teasing you just use your Wits. The next step is to ignore it, if people are making fun of you, walk away and ignore it.

Another example is if people are teasing you, calling you names and other things you just have to ignore it. If you talk about it, it will make you happy and it will also solve many of your problems. There are lots of thing you could talk about, like if you pet died or someone is teasing you just talk about it.

 To Seek help you have to find a teacher or an adult and tell them what's wrong. It also means that the person who was bullying you would learn a lesson. Using your WITS can help you by not being bullied. If you use your WITS you'll be happy and you will be able to enjoy the rest of your day knowing what you can do if that ever happens again.

Ambassador Speech

Today some of my friends and I had to say a speech for special visitors. I wasn't really shy because I had practiced many times and I only made two mistakes. There were only 10 visitors who came, that's why I wasn't shy. The people who said the speech with me were all ambassadors including me. We had a lot of help from two really really special people named Mr and Mrs Burt. Mr Burt is the principal of Pt England school, and Mrs Burt is in charge of the ambassadors. They are both like coaches.


 But someone I noticed sitting there was Phil Giller from Samsung. I spoke to him and he was telling me that he played league for Hibiscus Coast . I replied back “I’m in the Mount Wellington rugby league team and I've beaten Hibiscus coast".

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