Acrostic Poem

Dreams

Distracting day~dreams every day

Relaxing & anything you want it to Enchanting, hooked such a good story

An irritating way to make me late. 

Memories saved in your mind to dream about. Staying in bed for way too long always will remember my DREAM. 

Getting New Carpets!

This week, close to the end of term we started clearing out our classroom because we are getting new carpets in the holidays.The first thing we did was move out our items then the desks and then the chairs and after that was the toe trays, finally on the last day of school (probably after school) the big furniture was moved out into room 3&4.
Next term we will be excited to have new carpets.  

Grandparents Day

Today was Grandparents Day, grandparents day is when you invite  your grandparents to a mass which they and a fun day were you can spend time with them, show them your class, watch performances and buy food including sausages baked goods, coffee, tea, hot chocolate and much more.My grandma and dad came my grandma enjoyed looking at my work and watching the performances. she took many photos and said she was very proud of me. at the mass i alter served with my friends Emma and Sophie. I love grandparents day wish it could happen more often than once a year.  
      

The Sun

                       The Sun


The sun is a light bulb brightening the dark sky 
it is a flake of golden glitter beaming through the clouds.


The sun is a button rolling above the earth
its a daffodil blooming on a spring afternoon. 

The sun is a scrunched up piece of paper with past memories & ideas 
it's a burning hot chilli acting like fireworks inside my mouth.


The sun is a disco ball when the planets are having a party. 
It is a yellow traffic light telling us to slow down.                                                                                                      

Cook Island Language Week

Last week was cook island language week, we learned about the cook island myths and much more. We did three activity sheets
my favorite was the fact flap. The fact flap was when we had to cut out a rectangle-shaped piece of paper that had questions on it. We then had to write the answers underneath the flap.
 I've learnt lots about the cook islands and I'm very happy we have cook island language week.      

Our School Mare Trip

On Wednesday our whole school went to the Unitech Mare it was my third time going. First, our school were welcomed into the mare by the Kia Karanga (female caller). When we went into the mare one of the teachers introduced himself to us his name was papa ho he was really funny he tought us about the different carvings in the mare. Later on, for morning tea, we had biscuits, scones, milo, apple slices, orange slices and water. I had a great time at the mare  

Pumanawa

This week we started pumanawa, pumanawa is when we get
split up into different classes where different teachers lead a session of whatever the class is, for example, room five is cartooning. I am in room six which is preforming my friends Ella and Sophie are doing it with me. the songs we are learning are a million dreams (from the greatest showman) so far we know a little bit about opera and plays.

Maori Art

This term for Art we decided to use Peter Gossage as an inspiration. Mrs Drummond let us choose what we wanted to draw after we finished doing a draft we sketched it out our good copy then we coloured it with pastels. after that, we dyed it waited for it to dry. When they dried we hung them up on display. here's how

mine looks. 

Egg Sitting

Last week we did egg-sitting it's when you get given an egg and have to give it all the necessities of a human. Each person has to name and make a house for their Egg. I didn't crack mine until the end of the week. Mine was called Violet because I drew Violet coloured hair on her. We did this for Keeping Ourselves Safe, this showed us how hard it is to take care of a baby and how amazing our parents did. I really enjoyed doing this.
      

Water Filter Science Experiment

This week for Science we did a water cleaning experiment. My friend Sophie and I did one in a group. Everyone had options to choose from out of bark, sand, cotton balls, and paper towels each group was given two containers, one with a hole in it and one without a hole. You put the one with the hole on the top and the other one on the bottom. In the top container, we put cotton balls and paper towels after we put them in we poured dirty water in.
the last step was to wait for the water to drain. But in the end, 
the water is still not drinkable. Here is how the water filters turned out.  
 
    

Country Study Posters

For reading and writing, we did country studies. Each of us chose different countries to research. I did the Netherlands and I learned a lot about its traditions and different facts as well. Did you know Vincent van Gough the famous painter was born and raised in the Netherlands? Also, the Russian flag is the same colours as 
The Netherlands flag just mixed up. I chose this country because
I didn't know much about it and thought it would boost my knowledge. I think the Netherlands is really interesting!

 

     














   

Anzac Pamphlets

For ANZAC Day this year we made pamphlets. Me and my friend Ruby did one together. The pamphlets were about an item and it's owner's story. We decided to do a violin string. There were many books made about the owner of it including The ANZAC Violin. I thought the story of the violin was really interesting.

When the pamphlets were done we put them in red pockets. This is how ours turned out. 

Growth Mindset Brain

For inquiry this term our class is learning about Growth Mindset.
 Growth mindset is when you have a positive attitude towards learning. To practice having one you need to accept what you're not good at and set goals to achieve it my class made a growth mindset brain with ways to get a growth mindset on it. Here is how it looks.

Being In Room 7 For a Day

Yesterday Ruby, Emelia and I went to Room 7 for the day. Ruby and my friends Ella and Sophie were put into Room 8 with someone else. Though we were split up we had a great day. All of us sat together on the spare table while we did work from our schedule.
We took scissors, a pencil, a pencil case, our Chromebook and our mouse. To start off with we did Writing on Noredink before doing Reading on Freckle and Epic. Then we did a Saint Joseph pamphlet. Before we could finish the lunch bell rang. After lunch, I used the afternoon time to do some more mindfulness
colouring. I didn't manage to finish but I got a lot done. Later we continued with our colouring while calming mindful music played.
A few minutes later it was the end of the day. It was one of the busiest days ever!     
      

Reading Posters

this week for reading my teacher let us do study posters. we had to choose an animal to do it on. I chose giant pandas my friends Emma, Ella, Sophie, and Ruby helped with pictures the reason I chose Giant pandas is because they are my favorite animals I learned a lot of new facts about them I even found out about some new jokes wanna hear one why do pandas have fur coats? because they'd look silly in denim jackets here is how the poster looks.

Bar Graph Poster

                                    
For math me {Meredith},Ella and Hannah decided to chose Favourite store's for a bar graph we needed to record twenty peoples opinions. they chose out of these stores Typo, Smiggle , Kmart and Farmers the order of most picked to least picked is 
Kmart, Typo, farmers and Smiggle . Hannah made a scale of our of our graph on her cromebook  later printed it and glued onto the poster when it was finished we decorated it and drew shop logos 
here's how it looks. 

    

Being In Room 5

"my new class for 2019 is room 5 it's been pretty different to room 9 but I enjoy it. During the first and second week of school we did lots of cool art I really enjoyed it to celebrate Waitangi day this art mostly represents the koru which is a Maori plant we used lots of different colours we did this in week one the week before Waitangi day. Our art is now displayed in our class to honour the Maori people from back then when they signed the treaty" . in week two the year sixes came back from camp and joined their classes in room five 
our teacher gave us puzzle pieces to decorate .when we finished 
they were put outside of our class for everybody to see.

Shrove Tuesday

it's Shrove Tuesday! This morning we burnt the palms from Palm Sunday 2018 AKA last year with Father Bernard and two people from our parish.

  After doing that we got back on to doing work in the afternoon and then before going home we joined Room 1 to make pancakes. We had lots of fun teaching the little kids.
While we did our blog they did drawing and writing and some of us read to them . The teachers called people up to get a pancake while the others stayed doing their blogs. While making the pancakes the room smelt delicious. The reason we make pancakes 
is to use up all the flour , milk  and sugar before Ash Wednesday.

growth mindset work

this term my class is doing growth mindset for topic/inquiry we have learnt about the power of the word yet and we've been using can do attitude towards all our work we put title pages in our book and have been working on quotes to put on display .we also put our growth mindset thoughts and our answers in our book . 

A poem about being brave

the thing about being 

brave

is that you have to be afraid of something

to push it away and look fear in the face let it know you're not afraid and start to realise bravery is simply the strength to 

                        push you're fear and worry aside.

and live your life well so make the most of it and be brave.


I wrote this poem because a lot of people go through rough times and I think is very important to be brave.

best friends poem

Belive in each other 
Encourge each other caring
Share and correct thoughts
Tell each other secrets 

Fight for and with you
Rely on each other
Inspire dreams 
Elagance and good looks
Never give up on you 
Do favours for you
Stand with each other forever

sun safety poster

new Zealand and Australia have the highest skin cancer rates in the world to stop people from getting 
 skin burnt, our class made sun safety posters with tips and tricks to be sun smart me {Meredith}😇Ella
😆Ruby and 😊Sophie made one together 
our poster has cringe jokes and tips to keep people safe I hope people and classmates like reading it. here are some facts and phrases about how to keep yourself sun smart

1 slip on a shirt slop on some sun screen slap on a hat wrap on some shades and slide under a tree.

If I Was...

                                               

 If I was a banana I would have three wishes from a genie. My first wish would  be to turn into a human girl my second wish would be to have a little sister and NOT share a room with her. My last wish would be to start school with everyone knowing me I have lots kind friends . Since I have my own room I have lot's of independence.

I grow up in this room and love it lots. Years pass by I'm now a teenager I don't have any independence  I just have a small cramed room soooo babyish. Weeks pass by yay!! I'm moving out I bought my own apartment with money from my job at Kmart. I have sooo much independence two bathrooms two bedrooms one lounge one kitchen and one dining. Years pass by wooohooo I'm getting married 

weeks pass by I'm married . years passed by 72 no grand children 

living on my own when will turn back into a banana.


I wrote this as a piece of funny free writing . To entertain my readers.