Waitangi day

WALT: use the structure of a recount to write about a holiday highlight.

Yesterday on Waitangi day I had a family game night at my house with my cousins Oalii, Raewen and  Rowana. On our family game night we played Heads up for heads up we had to get into 2 teams. We also played bus stop for bus stop we needed a pen and paper, the last game we tried to play was monopoly but there wasn’t enough time to play monopoly.

The first thing we did was when my cousins got to my house we played on our devices for a little bit. When we had to get off we all didn't want to so we came up with an idea that was great. The idea was that we could play on a device but it would be fun for the whole family so the first game was heads up. The way Heads up works is you pick a category and we picked the animal category then it will come up with random animals name on the screen then someone has to act out the animal on the screen.

Next when we finished that round we picked another category and it kept on going until the last round. My team was the winning team. We won 2 rounds and the other team only won one round. The next game we tried to played was Monopoly but that game took to long so we decided not to play it.The last game we played was bus stop. The first thing we did to play this game was we got a pen and paper, then we wrote on the top: Name, Country, food, animal , color, Movie and song then someone picked a letter then we all had to write a name underneath where we write name on the top. Then we had to write a country underneath where we wrote country on the top, then it kept on going until we finished writing a song. After that we had to tell everyone who was playing what we wrote for a Name starting with A and if someone got the same name as you then you will only get five points but if no one had the same name as you then you will get 10 points and it keeps going until you have said all of what you wrote. If someone finished before everyone else that was playing  they say bus stop then everyone has to stop and put the pen down then they have to say the name and there country then there food and animal then color and then there movie and last of all there song and that's what we did for Waitangi day. Overall I think Waitangi day was great and fun. I really enjoyed it and I love having having my cousins come over to my house.

Punctuation Writing

WALT: use correct punctuation.
Description: Today Mr Goodwin gave us a task. The task was to fix his writing by putting in punctuation. Once we finished it we went on a different page which was the marking page. We checked our writing and I got mine perfect I am proud of myself because I got my punctuation correct.

8-bit art planning

WALT: we are learning to create art using pixels.

Description: This is my plan for my real life 8-bit art drawing. I have chosen to draw a unicorn because I thought it would be easy to transfer onto paper. I also drew this because I thought it would be fun to recreate on paper.

Term 1 Animation

This is my animation for term 1. We had to create an animation about how to show respect and how to help people do the right thing. I had a lot of fun doing this as it represented what more people need to get right in order to keep the resources we need to survive. I did not have much time to record a voice over for this animation but i have still made the effort to put it on my blog.

Summer learning journey 2018/2019

For the past few years, students in Manaiakalani schools have had the chance to take part in the Summer or Winter Learning Journey. Rachel from the University of Auckland and her team create tasks for students to work on during their holidays. During the last school holidays I took part in the Summer Learning Journey and I created lots of posts for my blog. It was a lot of fun and kept me busy. I ended up receiving a certificate in assembly for my efforts. It also helped me to improve my writing skills as I created over 30 posts for my blog just in January alone.

Gardening

WALT: convert units of measurement.

Task Description: Mr Goodwin wanted room 7 to complete this task by learning how much grams make kilogram and how to add it up in a completely different way we have been tough! I found this task quite amusing as it was a bit hard but quite fun to do.

Write like Paul Jennings

WALT: Structure a recount correctly

One day a family got back from holiday and is heading back to there rightful home. In there family is a mum who’s name is Hermione and the dad who’s name is Jake. They have a son James and James little sister Rachel. James has a wife Moriah, Moriah and James have 2 twins and there names are Hanna and Harold.

Ronald, James and Rachel had to go on a different plane because they couldn’t fit on the plane that there family was on.When they got on the plane it took about 3 minutes until they left the ground and about half an hour until they hit the storm. They thought the storm was just a normal storm but the storm actually opened a portal and they flew inside it. When the plane got inside the portal it time traveled the plane and all the people in it to 5 years later but the people in the plane had no idea. When they landed they were all waiting then someone shouted “What’s happening” then the pilot said “ your flight was booked in march 2013” then Rachel shouted “ yes we know but what does that have to do with keeping us here”, And the pilot said “Today is but today is February 2018” Everyone was shocked but it didn’t change anything so they waited, waited, waited and waited.

They waited for 3 hours until there family got to the place where everyone had to wait. James wife Moriah Was bursting into tears when she got there and as she was crying she looked at James and said “you haven’t aged a day” then she looked at Rachel and whispered “ you look exactly the same“ and lastly she looked at Ronald and said “you look so young how is this possible!!”. The next day they were walking past a cage and a voice inside Rachel head told here to set them free she couldn’t resist because the more she waited the louder the voice got so she opened the cage and there were two dos that were trapped there. She was so confused and this went on for day and days. She couldn’t take it anymore so she went home and they studied What had happened it took 3 months but they found out how to travel back in time and fix everything.

When they found out what to do they had to wait for a storm to happen, It took 3 days but it came around and they saw something I’m the distant so they ran there and saw a portal. They jumped in and they were back at the airport. They were so happy to get there life back. Then they were happy and lived normally.

Attribution

Task description: Today we had to make a recount about what we did. Mr Goodwin gave us this task so we could prepare for a writing test next week.