Digital Footprint

this is my third activity for the Summer Learning Journey. We had to get an image of a footprint and we had to write how to be safe on the internet. Hope you enjoy.😁

Ikamatua

In room five we have done our second activity for the Summer Learning Journey. We had to write about our home town and what is special about it. Hope you enjoy.😁

New Zealand Facts

Today in room five we had to post on our blog three fun facts about New Zealand for the first activity of the Summer Learning Journey. We had to choose the three we liked the best out of the twenty facts there were. Here are the three that I chose. Hope you enjoy.😁  

Waiuta SMA!!!!

In room five we have been making dioramas as a backdrop for our Waiuta SMA. It's about who discovered the gold in Waiuta and how they discovered it. Hope you enjoy😁😄.

Waiuta

Last week room five went on camp to a ghost town called Waiuta. This is a slide show that I made during the week. Hope you enjoy the slide show.😁

Plural words

In my spelling group, Sirius, we had to make a DLO about singular and plural words. There are many different rules for plural words. This DLO has some of the many different rules. Hope you enjoy the DLO that I made 😃😆

Top Team

Last week on Friday the whole school (expect for the year sevens and eights) went to Top Team at Runanga School. Everyone had  a lot of fun while they were completing hard challenges. Here are some photos.😁

Number Patterns

In room five my math's group, Aquila, had to make a DLO to show what number patterns are. Here is the math's DLO that Chloe and I made. Hope you enjoy it.😁😆

My Reading Profile

In room five we had to make a reading profile to show our reading goals for this term, a book someone has recommended me, how I went with last terms reading goals and my favorite book or series at the moment. Here is mine. Hope you enjoy.😁

Pet Day

On the 17th October  it was Pet Day. We had to make a slide show to show all our writing for Pet Day. we also put on some pictures of the pet we own and other people's pets. Here is the slide show that I made. Hope you enjoy.

Chairs

Last week with we decorated chairs. We found old chairs in the back of the sports shed and decided to put them to good use by upcycling them. My groups theme was fashion. Here is how we made the chair: first we cut some photos out of magazines, then we got some pva glue and stuck on the photos, and when they dried we covered the chair in modpogde. My group chose fashion because it was the only theme we could agree on. Next time we could try to not fill it up with too many different coloured pictures.

Collage

We have made some eye catching pieces of art. This is the collage Chloe and I made. The collage is based around our topic for this term which is plastic. We had to include the beach, the ocean, some mountains and the sky. We had to draw sea creatures, cut them out, colour them in with pastel and then we glued them on. We finally put little ripped up bits of plastic to resemble the plastic that always ends up on our beaches. It shows that we use too much plastic and we should stop because it harms marine life and creatures that live on the land.

 I think that we could use some different coloured sea animals so they don't blend in as much as they do now. I like the way how the art is really bright so the animals catch everyone's eyes.

plastic bin liners

In room five we have learned about plastic and how it harms land and marine animals. We also learned about how many bin liners we use in our class. We decided that we have to do something about it. So we did some writing about it and sent it to our principal, Mrs Wallace. Hope you enjoy the writing.

                             plastic bin liners

10th September 2018


Dear Mrs Wallace,

We have found out that we use too many plastic bags for bin liners in the school. I’m sure we don’t need as many plastic bags as we use each day in every class. But if you don’t think so, then here are three good reasons why I don’t think we need to use as many plastic bags as we do.

Firstly, we only put dry rubbish in the bins. It's not going to stain the bin because the rubbish is dry. We mostly put paper, dry materials and fabrics in there. It won’t leak if it even has the smallest hole in it because it’s dry, unlike other things like unfinished yogurt and banana peels.

Secondly, do you know how many plastic bags we use in a year? We use two thousand a year, five hundred a term, fifty a week and ten a day. That is a lot of bags to go through. That is also a lot of money to go through. We could use that money to buy school resources like books and other things that the school needs. It’s like flushing money down the toilet.

Finally, not using so many plastic bags would be better for the environment. If a storm came and all the plastic in the landfill blew away then the plastic won’t just cause land pollution, it will also cause pollution in the ocean and will harm marine life. It can also harm birds that are either catching fish or that are flying through the sky and get caught in the plastic.


In conclusion, I think the worst part about using so many plastic bags is wasting the money that the school could use to buy resources for the school classes. I also think the environment pollution is really bad too. If we don’t do something about it, we might make the animals in the sea die.

Yours sincerely,



Rawiri.

On the 4th of September El Gregoe the magician  ventriloquist came to our school to teach us about bullying and what we can do to make people stop it. He said treat people how you want to be treated and to use your WITS. The W in WITS stands for Walk away, the I stands for Ignore, the T stands for Talk (as in talk to someone) and the S stands for Stop. The picture below the writing is a Macaw and the one below that is a Eclectus parrot. There was so many birds there names won't even fit on this page. My favorite bird is the macaw witch has a friend called Ritche the macaw. I also like the part were El Gregoe made Jake levitate and when he had three rags and then squeezed them together then made popcorn appear (popcorn is a bird as well).

Shapes

On the last day of August, 2018 we made a video on shapes and what we know about them and we had to pick a buddy. My buddy for this video was Chloe. Hope you enjoy the video. 

The Plastic Mountain

 In room five we are learning to describe a moment in time. This week we were doing writing about plastic mountain. We were also using our senses including smells, sights, sounds, feelings and sensations. Here is my writing about the plastic mountain. Hope you enjoy it.

                                 The Plastic Mountain

I’m drowning in an ocean of dirty, broken and really sharp edged plastic bottles. My feet and clothes are getting muddy from working every day under a bridge peeling the labels off plastic bottles that people have thrown away. These bottles making an annoying crackling noise.

If I don’t get this work done I might not eat tonight. We're selling all the green bottles to a scrap dealer for only $100 a month, At least it's something to buy food with. I’m determined to get all the plastic bottles sorted by the end of the day.

It’s terrifying to see all this plastic, and more is flooding the space under the bridge each day. The plastic is endless. if we took a day off it would probably be up to my shoulders, and who knows how tall it will be if we took a week off.

The smells of traffic fumes and the sugary smells in the plastic bottles are awful. And I smell them every day of the week. And don’t get me started on the sounds. People are shouting and cars are roaring.

My younger brother is moaning to me “can we go home yet? Can we eat?” 

“No, we can't. We haven’t finished yet” I replied.

Were both hungry, but I don’t want to annoy mum.

“Ssh!” mum yelled at us. “Be quiet.”

The scrap dealer is here now and we can finally go home and eat our diner. We are so hungry that we don’t have time to get changed. Then we got changed after we have finished eating.

By the next day there’s more plastic than ever and that means more and more labels to peel off. I wish we were in a world with no plastic. I know this is how we get food but isn't there any other way? Why do we have to have this job? People should stop making plastic. Why did people start making plastic in the first place. Lets stop making plastic, starting now!

Jenny Sommervell at Awahono School

On Tuesday, 28 of August Jenny Sommervell came to our school. She told us about her books and read to us The Day Dad Blew Up the Cowshed and The Eel Hunt. She also told us that her books are based on true stories from her family and her sister was the illustrator for all her books. My favorite book by her is The Day Dad Blew Up the Cowshed because I think it's quite a personal story. She said writing takes a lot of time and work.

The Plastic Toyshop

In room five we had to describe what we saw in this picture of a toyshop using present tense and our senses including smells, sights, sounds, feelings, and sensations. Here is the writing I've done about the plastic toyshop.
              

                                 The Plastic Toyshop

                                           By Rawiri

I walk into a toy shop that’s stuffed with a variety of plastic toys and items including the chairs and water cooler and I start feeling a little dizzy because of all the bright vivid colours. The toy shop is packed with toys that are bright fluorescent colours that lash out at me and sparkle.

I am  just about to faint as I walk down the aisles full from top to bottom with luminous yellow plastic ducks, guns that are spread all across the wall,  velvety brown giant gorillas and Mario, Spiderman and a Smurf all on brightly coloured motorbikes that are rubber band powered.

The flooded store looks like an ocean of neon plastic toys. It is the largest wholesale market I had ever seen in my entire life. I can't believe my eyes. There is nothing but plastic flooding my eyes.

I can’t concentrate with the sound of the clicking keyboard from the shop owner typing on her computer. There is also the sound of people walking in and out of the shop and someone that I think is the shop owners daughter twirling on the spinning chair.

It makes feel so angry to think what will happen to all this plastic when people buy it and just throw it away without caring. This plastic going into the ocean has to stop. So let's stop now!

Line Symmetry

In room five we have been doing symmetry by folding square pieces of paper in half and cutting out half shapes to make different shapes. The shapes we had to make were four shapes with three sides, four shapes with four sides and four shapes with more than four sides. Lines of symmetry are lines that split something in to even shapes, for example if a square is cut in half and the two halves are even then its symmetry.

My Reading Profile

In room five we had to make a Reading Profile about how I went with our reading goals last term, my reading goals for this term, a book I have enjoyed recently and a book someone has recommended me. Here is my Reading Profile.

The White Tower

In the holidays we had find a sentence that describes the setting .  Here is mine.

fraction art

in room five we have been making fraction art to make sea animals with sixteenths, eighths, quarters, halves and wholes with a blue ocean background. I used all five of the fractions to make these crazy fish. The very large fish is a sun fish and I used three quarters and a half to make it.

Reading Plus progress

in room five we have been doing Reading Plus and in week 8 we had to do a screencastify to show how we are going and what we've done.

Pukapuka

in room five we had to make a side show of Pukapuka. I did my slide show with Chloe and here it is.

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