For the last four weeks of term three we were learning about how we can be champions of peace.

Firstly we learnt about the different symbols of peace. Some of the peace signs are the two fingers in a shape of a v and the dove with the olive branch. For the dove and olive branch it means when the dove flew back to Noah ark with a olive branch.

With these symbols in mind I created a peace artwork. My peace artwork represents peace because the peace symbols with wings flies up and spreads peace to everyone.

We also learnt about some real life champions of peace and wrote a short biography. I wrote about Amy Du Plessis I choose her because she pushes through with her rugby.

We also created a peace prayer book. I have attached my peace prayer book here

 

I enjoyed learning about peace because it helped me understand more about peace and how to show it everyday. I learnt that’s there more to peace than just being nice and I plan to be a champion of peace by spreading peace to others.

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This week for reading we have been doing what it is like to live in east germany and west germany. with that I learnt that they build the wall just for the scparaated  and only people could go though to west germany because that’s where all the jobs and more. then over in east germany there is not much to do. but after lots of years they finally took down the wall and people could see other people. Here my reading create.

Have you ever heard about the word that was build at west and east germany?
 

 

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This week we were doing geometry

we had to make a pattern with 6 shapes and 6 colours we had to make it so it looked like a floor pattern but with lots of colours for the geometry.I used a triangle, oval, trapezoid, block arc, hexagon. The colours that I  used was green, yellow, blue, red pink and purple, what is symmetry? symmetry is when it is the same on both sides. This is what my pattern looks like

Have you ever done geometry in school before?

Kia ora! This week in reading we have been learning about predictions. Predictions in reading have three parts. The first part is looking at the photos and predicting what the story is about, then you read a few line’s and then change your prediction if you want. Last part is to read the story and realise if your predictions were correct or incorrect. For my create I used a template that my teacher created. Here is my create.

 

Have  you ever done reading predictions? if so what story?

Haiku Poems 

Week 1 Part 1

 

This week for our poems we were writing haiku poems 

Haiku poems are when you write one little row of words but you hafe to have 5 syllables 7 syllables and then 5 syllables again for this week I based my poems on animals, movies, sport and holidays it’s a little bit hard to write a haiku poem because some have lots of syllables and some a not alot of syllables. Here are my haiku poems.

 

Animals 

Animals are fun

There also playful and nice 

And there colourful 

 

Movies 

Movies and colourful 

There also bright and very loud 

People eat popcorn 

 

Sport 

Sport is very fun

Sport is enjoyable, yay!

Sport is cool to play

 

Holiday

Holidays are fun

Holidays go very fast

Holidays are cool

 

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Diamante Poems

Week 1 Part 2

 

We also looked at doing diamante poems for this poem I did it on summer for this poem you had to pick a topice name 2 you can do in this time name 3 more things you can do in summer that end with ing and then write the opposite things for the last two rows for the second to last row you write things that happen in that period and for the last line you write what thing was the opposite to your first word. Here is my diamante poem.

 

                                                          Summer

                                      Pool                                   Beach

                        Swimming                Tanning                    Biking

                                 Snow                                        Rain     

                                                          Winter

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Bio Poems 

Week 2 

 

This week we had to write bio poems for a bio poem youhave to have 4 adjectives that best describe them or you then you put 2 things they enjoy, 3 things they love, 2 things they fear 1 thing they wonder, 1 thing they wish, 1 thing they dream, 2 things they feel, 1 thing they plan and add your own question at the end of the poem and boom your poem is done. Here are my bio poems. 

 

Sidney

 

I’m Silly, kind, funny and zesty

I enjoy to do marching and biking 

I love marching, friends and animals

I fear spiders and snakes 

I wonder if i’m still gonna have the same friends when i’m older

I wish to have a house when i’m older 

I dream of being rich

I feel Happy and excited

I plan to buy a house 

My favourite colour yellow  

 

Quinn 

 

Who is funny, silly, energetic and cheerful

Who  enjoys tennis and netball

Who  loves family and herself

Who  fears spiders and bees

Who  wonders how people have different accents

Who  wishs to have the ability to teleport

Who  dreams of being a vet

Who  feels bored of the same daily routine

Who plans to go to paris later in her life

Who favourite colour blue 

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Limerick Poems

Week 3

 

This week we have been learning about limerick poems, limerick poems are when you write one row of words but the catch is that that row of words all need to rhyme and there needs to be 8 syllables in a row so for rows 1 2 and 5 need to have the same amount of syllables and row 3 and 4 need to have 6 syllables in the row. Rows 1 2 and 5 need to rhyme and rows 3 and 4 need to rhyme. Here are my limerick poems.

 

 

Who sat in a cat with a mat

He had a flat hat on the cat 

But then the cat was a dog 

With a little squeaking mouse 

But the rat pat the hot cat mad cat

 

There was a pin that feel in a bin

He poked someone in the skin and sinned 

Then the man got in the rubbish bin

Then shot the pot that was hot 

He tired to get the pin off his skin 

 

Jimmy has a friend called timmy 

Who has a small cat called kimmy 

Who finds pins in the bins 

And spins to win a bin 

that has a small dog called shimmy

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List Poems

Week 4

 

This week we have been learning about  list poems for this poem we had to make one aout food and one about animals plus these poems are super easy to do all you need to do it think of a food so lets say pizza then think of 3 describing words for your word and in this poem you do 8 to 10 rows so 8 to 10 food or animals or whatever your doing. Here are my list  poems.

 

Pizza cheesy, hot and creamy 

Donut round, colourful and bright 

Watermelon red, dottie and round 

Chips salty, crunchy and curly 

Chocolate creamy, flully and chocolately

Hotdogs long, hot and red

Burgers seeds, crunchy and juicey

Pies crumbly, glopy and hot 

Salad green crunchy and gross 

Rice plain, soft and creamy 

 

Horse fast, powerful and smooth

Cow loud, patchy and colourful

Bear big, speedy and strong

Rabbit friendly, loveable and fluffy 

Tiger wild, striped and vicious

Goat spiky horns, loud and hairy 

Elephant noncolourful, big ears and loud trunk

Monkey funny, smart and loud

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Have you ever made one of these poems before at school or at work?

This week we were doing science and learning about electricity. We had to make the water make a sound. To make the  make a sound you had to use two nails, salt, water, specimen jars and beakers. When I first tried it out  I used 2 copper nails then I used 2 zinc nails and the last time I tried it I used 1 zinc nail and one copper nail and then it worked and made a noise.

To make the water make the sound you use:

• specimen jars
• salt
• water
• copper nails
• zinc nails
• beakers

My hypothesis: That the salt in the water would make the buzzer buzz.

My conclusion: That the buzzer made a sound at the end when we used two different nails and the salt water.

Something I found challenging was to make the water sing.

If  I were to try this experiment again I would try one of each nail first.

Have you ever done a science experiment before?

Hello and this week I have learnt how to make a graph for our graph we had to put on hotcakes, hot chocolate, porridge and sausage to get all the  info we had to spin a wheel and on the wheel there was all the four options.

Have you ever made a graph before that was about food?

 

Here is my graph.

Hi, This week I did a poster because we are doing a production at our school we made the poster based on the production porridge the main colours were blue and yellow so my whole poster was blue and yellow on the poster we had to have some info that our Teachers told us to put on it. We also had to make a ticket for the production so we know who brought a seat for the production. My ticket was also mainly blue and yellow.

Have you ever done a production at your school before?

Here is my poster

Here is my Ticket

Over the course of term one we have looked at the question: How can we help build a resilient community? We are using something called The Resilience Project to understand simple tricks to make our lives better.

I have learnt that Gratitude means being thankful for what you have. I’m thankful for God, food, water, family, friends and shelter.  Empathy is when you put yourself in someone else’s shoes and feel how they are feeling. It also can be very hard for some people to do.  Mindfulness is connecting with your surroundings. I can meditate in the morning and think about my breathing and hearing.

The whole school had a showcase evening to look at all the students’ creations and learn more about The Resilience Project. We had to make an invitation for the people that were coming to the school to look at everything we made. You got to put whatever you wanted to put on it. It just had to have a few words on it so they know where it is.

For the showcase evening I worked with Quinn. We decided to create loom bands, and some information booklets about GEM. The loom bands were all the three colours that GEM stands for and a booklet that has more info.

 

I now know more about GEM and understand what they all mean. Throughout the creating process I feel like I did really well working together with my group the whole time. I could have been better at making our work standout more for others to see. 

If I was to do this again, next time I would make less things because not that many people came to our stand.

 

Question – Have you ever done PBL at school before?

This week we have been learning about E-sports and why is should be considered a game. We read two books about e-sports the first book was about ten reasons why playing video games is good for you brain here is the link to the book and book two is about are video games good for you here is the link to the book. Me and my friend did Why gaming should be considered a sport it was really fun because we got to help each other do it. For it I did a video on canva. we had to answer this question  why gaming should be considered a sport here is the link to my work.

 

Have you ever read video games books or done a report on it?