My Mihi

THE ABANDONED COTTAGE

At the moment in class we have been working on descriptive writing. we have been using pictures to give us ideas of what to write about. here is a piece of writing i did.



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THE ABANDONED COTTAGE

On sunday I was playing in the woods when i got lost
i stumbled into an abandoned cottage. i went inside
where i find a book with ripped pages and it smelled
like dust. i open it then all of a sudden spiders crawled out.
 I JUMPED BACK DROPPING THE BOOK ON THE FLOOR!
 The floor broke and fell into a pit along with me….    
My legs were akeng. i must have been 60 meters into
the ground. there was no way back up. then i noticed
an old, rickety door. i opened it. it fell off its hinges CRASH!!!
There was nothing in there except for a coffin. it opened.
i almost fainted!! a dead thing emerged from the coffin! it was
after me! i ran out trying every way possible to climb out……

                                            THE END

What Volume Measures And What Capacity Measures

Fabric Bags And Beeswax Wrap

This term we have been making Fabric Bags And Beeswax Wrap. We made these because we want to help the environment by reducing our waste we can use  Fabric Bags instead of plastic bags and use Beeswax Wrap instead of plastic wrapping paper. I really enjoyed making the beeswax wrap. I thought it was fascinating when I melted the beeswax because it just disappeared.

Reducing Waste

Infographic

Where To Next?  Connected, Level 4

Science/Social Science learning goals

We are learning to understand about the environments around us and the negative of positive
impact our actions can have on these environments.

Success criteria;

• identify some positive actions we can take at school and in our own lives to help our
• environment.

Literacy

Task: Create an infographic showing people how they can reduce their waste
in their lunchbox.   

Our co-constructed success criteria:

-Have a strong title/hook

-Use convincing language and images

-Have simple things people can do

-Use images (free to use)

-Use bullet points/ short sharp information

-Use correct punctuation and spelling.

Keeping Ourselves Safe

At school we have been learning how to keep ourselves safe.  Constable Jos and Terri have been helping us with this learning. Here are some of the things I have learnt. 

Maui And The Sun

Play Summary - Term 3 Weeks 1-2

For the next two weeks you are working in groups to practise and perform a
play. This is using our oral language and reading skills in literacy. Our key
competency focus is participating and contributing.

For writing your task is to summarise the main events in your play in three
paragraphs. You must plan your writing first but it is up to you how you do
your planning.  You must also write a fourth paragraph about your experience
of practising and performing your play.

Yr 6

I am learning to organise my text into paragraphs which begin with a main idea and
contain supporting information/detail.

I am learning to make links across paragraphs.

I am learning to use basic punctuation accurately.

I am learning to use dialogue punctuation accurately.

Yr 7

I am learning to use a range of different planning styles.

I am learning to plan my writing to suit the purpose of my writing.

I am learning to organise my ideas into paragraphs where the ideas are clearly related
and where there are links within and between paragraphs.

I am learning to use basic punctuation accurately in my writing.

I am learning to use complex punctuation to enhance my writing e.g. colons : and
semi-colons ; , and parentheses ().

Success Criteria

I will be successful when I can/have

-summarised the play in three paragraphs

-made links across my paragraphs

-used some basic and complex punctuation correctly (speech marks).

Once you have finished your writing highlight these success criteria green if you have
met them and can show them in your work. Highlight green in your work where you have
met these success criteria.

At the start of this story the sun was moving too fast so
Maui, a powerful demigod, said to his 5 brothers,” I WILL SLOW THE SUN” and his brothers said ,”You cannot tame Tamanuitera. He will kill you.” But then the 5 brothers agreed that they will go with him.

 In the second part of this story they made magical ropes
of flax as strong as 1000 men to capture the sun with.
They started walking off. They only traveled at night so
Tamanuitera would not see them. After days of walking
they finally arrived at were the sun rose. They built a
wall of clay and when the sun rose they threw the ropes
And caught Tamanuitera in his fiery hair. Then Maui jumped up
and hit Tamanuitera with the magic jawbone of his ancestors.
Tamanuitera shouted in pain. Maui said ,”Will you go slower in
the sky if I let you go.” Tamanuitera gave up. He said ,“I will.” Maui said to his brother's ,”let go of the ropes.”

In the end of this story the sun has slowed down.

I think that I worked well in my group. Next time I could
improve on really getting into the character and acting
because this time I got a bit shy. As a team we did not
work well because at the beginning we were arguing but in the
end it worked out really well because we focused and got it
done. When my group did our play it went surprisingly well.
As a group we did well at looking at the audience and not
turning our backs to the audience. We participated and
contributed by working well as a team and working things
out when it was not going so well for the group. I really
enjoyed making the props and I thought it was cool that I
got to be Maui.  

How Our Ideas About Space Has Changed

Mini Pizza

Today me and my class had another year 6 tech challenge. David, Alex and Rhys and I were in a group. We made mini pizzas  and they were so tasty.

Taonga Puoro

Space Timeline Reading Task

Space timeline Reading tasks.

Term 2 Weeks 5-6

Purpose of this reading activity is to: increase our knowledge of space
exploration and understand how our knowledge
and ideas about space have changed over time (science).
We are also learning to read non-fiction texts
and use our writing skills to share our understanding of this topic and
our ideas (literacy). Throughout this task we will need to use the skills of
‘Thinking’ and using ‘Language, Symbols and Text.’

Learning Intentions

I am learning to skim and scan text to identify the main ideas.

I am learning to locate the key sentences and questions in texts.

I am learning to use sub-headings to guide me to the main ideas in text.

I am learning to summarise the main ideas in the texts I read.

(from the Karoro Programme of work for Reading)

Success Criteria

I will be successful when I can show….

-I have have scanned text to find key ideas.

-I have summarised the main ideas from the reading.

-I have put my answers in chronological order.

Focus

We are looking at using non-fiction text to increase our knowledge in our science topic;
SPACE. Your aim is to read and understand the timeline reading and use this knowledge
to complete the reading activity below.

First, Read the timeline cards. Click here for the space timeline pdf

Second, We will discuss what you have read. This will be a good time to ask questions
about anything you are unsure of.

Third, do your reading tasks.

Fourth, complete your reading activity. Remember to proofread, check spelling and punctuation.
Then do a self assessment and a peer assessment. Check it with a teacher.

Reading Activity

View and read the space timeline on the classroom walls. Think about
how how our theories/ideas and understandings about the universe and
Earth’s place in it has changed over time.

Answer the following questions.

Your answers need to be full sentences.

After you have answered all the questions please put them in
chronological order (time order, oldest first)

5) What are two things that Galileo discovered? The moons of Jupiter
and the loner crater on venus.  1610

9) Who discovered the first asteroid? The person that found the first
asteroid was Giuseppe Piazzi. 1801

2) What was Sputnik 1? It was a Russian satellite (1957).

3) In what year was NASA founded? And what does NASA mean?
It was founded in (1958) and NASA means (National Aeronautics and
Space Administration)    :)

6) Who was the first woman in space? And where was she from?  
It was Valentina Tereshkova from Russia 1964)

Where did Mariner 4 fly past? Mariner 4 flew past Mars in (1965)

7) In what year did Apollo 11 land on the moon? 1969

10) What country launched Voyager probes 1 and 2 into deep space?
America 1977

8) What happened that led to all space shuttles being grounded for 3 years?
a space shuttle blew up after launch in 1986

11) When was the international space station completed? 1986-  2010

1)How long did it take for the Cassini probe to arrive at Saturn? It took nearl
y seven years (2004).

12) What was interesting about New Horizons information about Pluto?
Pluto is 50 miles bigger than it first was 2015

YOUR OPINION

After reading this information...

1. Who do you think made the biggest contribution to our understanding
2. of space? Why? (summarising key ideas) Galileo galilei because he made
3. the first telescope.

    2) What do you think was the most important machine or invention
in helping us investigate space? Why? (summarising key ideas) the Telescope
because it was the very first thing to look into space. It let  us see things we
could not see before

    3) What would you like to investigate about space? Why? Black holes
I would like to know what happens if you go in one.

Self and Peer Assessment.

Self and Peer Assessment

Success Criteria

I will be successful when I can show….

-I have have scanned text to find key ideas.

-I have summarised the main ideas from the reading.

- I have put my answers in chronological order.

Success criteria 1: I have have scanned text to find key ideas (I have been able to answer the questions).

        

                          Achieved well      Achieved some Achieved little     Not achieved

Me
My partner

Success criteria 2: -I have summarised the main ideas from the reading.

      

                          Achieved well      Achieved some Achieved little     Not achieved

Me
My partner

Success criteria 3: I have put my answers in correct chronological order.

        

                          Achieved well      Achieved some Achieved little     Not achieved

Me
My partner

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Planet Writing

Create and Describe Your Own Planet -

Description writing task

Term 2 Weeks 5-6

Purpose of this piece of writing is to:

Learning Intentions

I am learning to use language features to make
my writing interesting and engaging for the reader.

I am learning to use topic-specific vocabulary.

I am learning to include Te Reo Māori words in my writing.

I will be successful when I can show….

-I have used some language features
to make my writing interesting and
engaging (simile, metaphor, alliteration, onomatopoeia, rhyme)

-I have carefully chosen some topic
specific words to include in my writing.

-I have used some Te Reo Māori

Focus

We are continuing to look at descriptive writing. This week you are writing a
descriptive piece of writing to promote your imaginary planet. You aim is to convince people to move
to you
r planet. You want your writing to allow the reader to be able to imagine what it is like on your planet.

First, we will look at an excerpt
of a video describing the moon from the Avatar movie. Click here to get to video= Pandora.

Second, we will discuss together what
you will need in your work to make it successful and
look at how to plan our work. Then you will plan your work and check with a teacher
before you start writing.

Third, do your piece of writing.

Fourth, complete you piece of writing. Remember
to proof-read (check spelling and punctuation) and edit (does it make sense? do
you need to change any sentences?) yourself and with a buddy and fill in your self and
peer-assessment. Check it with a teacher.

my writing

Mandalore is a planet/whetūao in the outer rim of an
unknown galaxy/ikurangi far far away. Mandalore does
not orbit a planet. It has humongous scorching deserts with
cities as big as the Earth! The deserts are vast plains with
cracks and dust everywhere with nothing in sight except
orange/karaka and yellow/pungapunga dust and sand.
There are scavengers and pirates scavenging remains
of ruined rusty broken starships. The cities have uneven
gravity and are mostly made up of credit factories
(Credit factories are basically money factories) and trading
stands.

Most dangers are scavengers, pirates and death watch.
The death watch are mandalorians that kill anyone.
They don’t have a permanent base because they move
around lots. But once they find a good spot with a mine so
they can mine and make metal so they can make more armor
for new troops. But once all the metal is gone they move to
another spot and the leader of the death watch is pre vizsla
and he has a gun and the darksaber.

The planit is lead by Duchess Satine
Kryze but was overthrown by darth Maul and Savage
Opress and the death watch. but darth maul was the new
leader because he killed Pre Vizsla. But some of the death
watch did not want to be on darth maul’s team so they tried to
kill darth maul but he killed them. I believe that you definitely
do not want to go to mandalore AT ALL!

By Lincoln .R.