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Friday 9 December 2016

Wednesday 7 December 2016

Monday 5 December 2016

art sample

                                       this is my art sample.

Thursday 17 November 2016

we have been learning about animal reports


Seahorses
A seahorse is a small sea creature,with loads of body armour covering its entire body. A seahorse is a actinopterygii. Seahorses are very light and hardly have any bones!

There are over 50 species of seahorse. Seahorses prefer to swim in pairs, with their tales linked together. Seahorses have no exoskeleton unlike other fish, seahorses have bony plates that are held together by their skin

Seahorses feed on plankton, small fish and shrimp. A seahorse has no stomach meaning they need to eat constantly.

The reproduction process starts when a male and female seahorse start doing daily dances. Their tales hook together. Soon the female will begin to lay tiny eggs.

Seahorses are mainly found in the shallow of tropical waters. Four species are found in pacific waters.

When you see a seahorse its best to leave it alone. It has tones of duties to do:)

Friday 11 November 2016

Pet Day

Whoa! There are so many animals here! I thought to my self. Straight away I rushed to the classroom and started to write "pet day" on the huge white board. Soon I spotted Mrs Craig coming through the door and she whispered "come over here Luke, I've got a job for you." Quickly I tiptoed over to Mrs Craig, I asked "what job do you have for me?" She told me "get an Ipad and take some photos of the animals that people have bought to school." So I did. I was walking around the school taking all sorts of photos of different animals. While I was taking a photo of a lamb the bell rang. "Ding ding ding! Everybody rushed to the court, to do our assembly. After we finished assembly the whole class ran into the classroom to create a pet day writing. After that the bell rang for the second time the whole school lined up in a gigantic circle for the parade of animals. There were reptiles and mammals. What a great day!

Here is a photo of me with my vaseline saucer I made for Pet Day.

Wednesday 21 September 2016

Friday 2 September 2016

EXPLANATION WRITING

LEARN: We are learning how to write an explanation using the correct structure and language.
S.C:
-I have a title about what I am explaining.
-I have  written a sentence to define what the topic is. (Introduction)
-I have written sentences to explain how or why, using time linking words (Body)
-I have written a final sentence about my explanation (Conclusion)
R.T: Use Capital letters and Full Stops.



  
CREATE -Your Task:  To write an explanation on How to throw a shotput, using your flowchart.
Have you ever wondered on how to throw a shot put?
A shot put is a heavy round ball that you push not throw. It is made out of a rubber material
That was built for you to push.

Firstly you place your ball to your neck. make sure that your not pushing it too hard to your
Neck or you will not do it properly.

Then you make sure that your legs and knees are wide apart from each other.(not to far or else you won’t be able to stand up)

Next you bend your back knee on an angle( Make sure that you're doing the steps properly if you ARE NOT it is best to do  these steps again)

Finally slowly lean back (not to far) Turn your head as well as your body and……..PUSH!

That is how throw a shotput this is a very easy task enjoy:)


this is my honeybee swarming to a new home.

Monday 27 June 2016

Writing Goal

Here is my next writing goal.

Writing Goal
My writing goal is ... to watch out for capital letters ,   
in my writing. 
I am working at Level ... Three (b).
I have been learning...How to do my writing properly.
I enjoyed...Doing writing on the Chromebooks.
The next steps for my learning is... To get to level three p.

Maori Sea animals

We have been learning the Maori names for sea animals.

Partly Cloudy Writing

We have been learning how to use adverbs in our writing. Here is my Partly Cloudy writing.

Partly Cloudy

Slowly the geese skimmed through the breeze towards the old oak houses on the edge of the bright blue shimery sea.
As it delivered the cute white babies with blond curly locks, blue eyes, sweet tickly toes and tiny tickly fingers. They also made other animals like puppies, kittens and other animals too.
Suddenly the birds blazed off through pink fluffy clouds.
‘What's this?’ THE CLOUDS ARE ALIVE!!
They’re the ones making the pets and children! Hold on a minute.
What's that grey, sad, lonely cloud doing below the other cloud?
Suddenly the grey cloud makes a ferocious crocodile!
After he made the crocodile the bird came onto the cloud and claimed crocodile.
He wrapped up the crocodile and took it to it’s beloved family.
Next thing you know the bird came back and the cloud had a ram to be claimed. Bam!
The ram jumped into the bag.    

By Luke

Multiplication and Division

We have been working in small groups for our learning of Multiplication and Division.
We have been learning how to solve word problems using a range of strategies.

Wednesday 15 June 2016

HandWriting

This is my term Two Handwriting sample. My next goal is that I need to watch my spacing between my letters and words
I can type 19 words per minute.

Friday 15 April 2016

Luke's mihi/pepeha


Title: Luke’s
Pepeha
Ko Car tōku waka.


Ko Mount Bledisloe tōku maunga.
Ko Waitangi tōku awa.
Ko Edge tōku iwi.







Ko Edge\bignell tōku hapū.
Ko kerikeri  tōku marae.
No Haruhu ahau.
Ko Paul Natalie tōku māmā/whaea.



Ko Rob Tracy tōku pāpā/matua.
Ko Luke toku ingoa

Thursday 14 April 2016

Autumn-cameo

Showing our Writing Process - Write Draft / Edit and Polish / Publish
Written Language - Cameo
Learning Intention: I am learning how to use appropriate and effective similes in my cameo writing.
Success Criteria:
I am able to find and highlight similes in a cameo and explain why they work.
I am able to write appropriate similes for objects in my cameo.

Here is an example:
WINTER
Winter blows its cold breath everywhere.
The early morning frost greets you like being welcomed onto the marae.
The wind howls in the freezing air like a stray dog hungry for a bone.
Snowflakes flutter like leaves falling from autumn trees, covering the ground with a white sparkling blanket.
The trees become bare, brown bones standing like statues admiring the view.
Heavy rain falls from the sky like a thousand hooves pounding against the ground.
Chilly bitterness in the air, winter is here.


Here is my draft piece of writing!  
Autumn
Leaves slowly fall onto the soaking wet ground like a butterfly dying in midair.
The trees stand tall and proud like the statue of liberty.
The poor leaves die and start to curl up like a piece of paper rolled around a pole.
Children run and jump into the crunchy leaves like a bird who can’t fly.
Birds shot through the raw stale trees like a plane going through a hole.

Here is my published piece of writing.
Autumn
The morning breeze greets you as you walk out the front door to go to school.
Leaves slowly fall onto the soaking wet ground like a butterfly swooping down to it’s nest.
Leaves  fall off trees as you run down the grey path way. The trees stand tall and proud like  the statue of liberty.The poor leaves die and start to curl up like a red rose from a bush.

Birds  fly in to sit on the old  birch Trees.If you look closely the leaves turn red.Untitled drawing.jpg

Friday 1 April 2016

Going To Matapouri

Going To Matapouri(this is a recount about my Easter holiday)
Vvvrrrrooomm!  My family and I were driving to Matapouri on Friday the 25th. This was the start of our wonderful journey to the batch. Screech! the car stopped in an instant.“Hey! what's the hold up,”complained Cameron. “Sorry,” sighed mum “I have to get wine for aunty Emma.”
Mum jumped out of the car and shot into the shop like a lion catching its prey. Suddenly we were on the road again. It was a long trip to Matapouri. It took over 2 hours to get to Matapouri.
On the way we played a car game. You had to choose a car colour and watch to see
if your coloured car speed past. Cameron won, mum came second and I came last.
Eeeerrrrrr! The car stopped with a holt “were here” Shouted mum. Everyone  hopped out out of
the car like bunny rabbits. “Mum get your phone” yelled Cameron.

Friday 18 March 2016

Ants on the March



We read a story about ants. The tittle was called: Ants on the March. We did research about ants on this follow up:

follow-up: surpise

Surprise

Learning Intentions: We are learning to make inferences and make connections with what we read.

volcano word art


Thursday 17 March 2016

Volcano Explosion

Here is my moment in time writing about our volcano experiment we did in the sandpit.

SSS iii! The steam hurried out of the black rocky volcano.  “She’s gonna blow” bellowed Rocky and Alex. The steam was getting larger and larger. Soon the volcano started to shake. Everyone fled in excitement. “This is going to be a good one,” I thought to myself.
Suddenly the volcano started to do something amazing……… It exploded! The red fiery rock balls few out into the heavens and above. The lava slithered down the sides of the black volcano. Now the steam was really coming out. Everyone shouted, “wow”. I was impressed.  Suddenly bubbly bubbles started coming out the top of the volcano.

Friday 4 March 2016

Te Ahuahu

Here is my recount about walking up TeAhuahu. Our focus was to add powerful verbs and appropriate adjectives.


Screech! the orange and white school bus stopped in an instant. “Holy moly,” Jack whispered slowly. “That's going to be impossible” shouted a random school kid. Everyone gazed their eyes at the amazing Te Ahuahu mountain. We all hoped of the school bus like bunny rabbits hopping to the victory side. “Catch you later,” bellowed the bus driver in a deep voice.
Tap tap! Our feet slowly made their way up the giant mountain.

The bright burning sun was hotter than ever. Finally we reached the grassy wet track. “My legs are so tired,” moaned Jack. Finally we reached the top of the mountain. Everyone was eating their lunch.
Suddenly Mrs Craig shouted, “put your lunch boxes away.”
“Who’s that?” whispered Antonio. I looked down and what I saw was bright black & blue truck.
Errrrkkk! the truck stopped. Out poked a rusty, old boot. Do you know who it was? It was Hone!
Suddenly Matua Hone started pointing at random places. I didn’t know what he was talking
about because he was taIking in maori. A few minutes later he told us about the great history
of the four mountains. After he finished talking we had a little five minute free play.
“Time’s up,” shouted all the teachers. Everyone ran like tigers down to the nearest gate and we had our lunch.


 

Thursday 18 February 2016

Chromebook unboxing day

“Hooray!” I shouted. It was the big day. Chromebooks were going to arrive. I shot
out of bed like a tiger racing to the wild green jungle. I got dressed as fast as I could. Mum shot
of like there was no tomorrow. Err! We arrived at school.
Ring Ring! everyone raced to room one."Hey does everyone have to come?” asked Antonio.later Mrs Whitelaw said a few words after that everyone was dead quiet soon Mrs Craig said let’s do the countdown “10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 Yeah!” everyone shouted as we called out the names like Nero, Honey ,Rocky, Jack, Alex and many, many more. Everyone was smiling. Do you know what was in the box?It was something shiny, something grey…. It was our Chromebooks! Everyone was bursting
to bits, accept the people in the crowd of course. After that everyone in room one had their
Chromebooks. That was probably one of the best days of my life. And I'm sure it was everyone else's too. :)

Wednesday 3 February 2016



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