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Blog Friday 23 November This week we have been practising our plays again we are trying to get all of the props and scenes ready we have basicly got everything except for this really high millatary stretcher bed that Mrs Beere said that she would get. Learning comes in different ways not just Reading, Writing and Maths what about softball, in softball we have chosen whos going to be there and whos going to be here except we don't know who's going to be on the bases. This term we have been doing alot of stuff on group work like our pa's andwe have finally finished them but I still dont know when we are going to present them. This blog is different because I wasent just using Reading, Writing and Maths Co-operation in our plays we have been co-operating in partners Rading out the play script. Participation everyone has to participate in softball. Thinking skills to know what your going to do next. self Managing to get on with your work and not get distracted.

Friday 16 Novedmber This week we have been finishing our little Animal Kingdom slideshow we have to do it on a New Zealand Animal but it dosent need to be a native animal but some people did it anyway Like me I did the Takahe And with Mrs Beere we are now practising our play again westill haveall the same characters that we had last time axcept for Rose and Norrisa because mostly everybody wanted Rose to be the Wolf and Norrisa to be the Wolfs Mother. This week we have basicly been doing tests like Maths, Reading,Reading Vocabulary and today we are doing two Spelling tests.

Friday 2 November For reading we are learning about bees (wasps) with Mrs Beere we have drawed a diagram of a bee (wasp) and labeled all all of it's body parts like wings and little hairs on its back and head. For writing we are doing our puppet shows on Moari legends the legend that my group is doing is Maui and the Goddess of Fire axcept we changed it a bit we changed it a bit by changing it to Maui and the god of fire. For maths we are learning how to multiply the number of red dot plants by $3 then add 10 for example 15+2x5=25. Since I have came to this school I have felt smarter already. Next week is athletics day and we have already chosen what we are going to do but first we have to see if we can do them first I am doing the 100 and 400 metre sprints, shotput, discus and high jump.

Friday 26 October This week we have been doing our topic about te animal kingdom we have to find out how they live what they eat and what is their predator. The animal that I want to study is the Golden eagle I like the Golden eagle firstly because it is fearless in other words strong. I am ghoing to find some facts about the Golden eagle on the computer and then look in a book to check if I can trust the website. In writing I have been learning how to make simple sentences into compound sentences using conjunctions like For And Nor But Or Yet So a.k.a. FANBOYS examples complex sentences (Although I was scared, I climbed the mountain) (As I fell, I cried in horror) examples compound sentences (I like sushi and I hate wendys) (I like masala but I love Mc donalds) A compound sentence is a conjunction joining two simple sentences. In reading we are readiong a book called Planet Boring it is about a alein girl and they all have two heads her mum and dad are going on a holiday but she doesn't want to go to earth she wants to go to the thriller concert on planet mag. For maths we are doing number machines example 5- -13 this is not the hardest one. 4- x3 -12 3- - 9

Friday 21 september This week for maths we are turning fractions like 46/100 in to decimals like 0.46 and adding them with other fractions from tens to onehundred and we had to do this sudoku sheet some of us did it in partners like me and Tanirau you get mixed up sometimes when you get to the end. For reading we are reading a book called Planet Boring it is about a alien girl who does not want to go on holiday with his parents instead he wants to go to this party called Brain Thrasher. For writing we are doing a story that has to have similes, metaphors, idioms and personification it can be about anything. For our topic this week we are doing our maori pa's we need to do paper masha around the edge's of the card board our group has allready done our second layer.

Friday 14september For maths we are learning how to add, subtract and simplify mixed fractions out of the maths workbook on page 160-163. I am getting better now with all the help from my teacher and the group. Since I came to this school I have seen a huge improvement in my maths and I never actually thought that I would be in the top maths group and my mum and dad have seen a huge change too. For reading we are reading a book called Planet Boring it's about a alien girl who doesn't want to on holiday to Earth with his parents he want to stay home and go to this concert called Brain-thrasher and show off her new pierced antenna. She is a girl who dosen't like school and injoys playing with her friends at party's. In the next chapter I think that she will actually get a headache and not go to the party. For writing we are doing similes, Metaphors and personification we are learning these things because Similes help us describe something. Metaphors are the things that we use to make a simile. Personifications give things a human quality. eg. Personification: the bridge complained when the truck drove over it. Metaphors: the moon was a shining diamond. Similes: the diamond shone like the moon. Friday 7 August This week we have mostly had Mrs Beere we have had her for Tuesday,Wednesday and Thursday that means we had Mr T for Monday and friday on Tuesday,Wednesday and Thursday we did heaps of plays to see wich one we would like best the best by far was The Army Of DOOOM we have all sorted and changed a couple of things and for our main play Red Hoddie we have now got every one a part finaly. For maths we are doing symetrical shapes in bookwork. For reading we are doing heaps of work sheets. For writing we are doing our band manager news article.

Friday 31 August This week we have been practising our play with Mr T we have almost decided who is going to be Red Hoddie and some people think that Rose should be Mr Wolf so eily could be Red Hoddie. This week we have gone to cross country, in my race we had to run 2k's my sister had to run 1k except she didnt run that far. For maths we are doing book work with Mrs beere we are inlarging things to see how much times they have been inlarged by.For writing we are doing these poems and turning them into similes like Jack and Jill. For reading we are doing the similes with reading and writing.

Friday24 August This week we have been doing our plays with Mrs Beere we are still doing our plays we havent chosen who is going to be little red yet but the rest is all sorted cause there is three people that want to be little redbut one has quit out and now one of them has to be a back up and that is Emily or Rose. For maths we are still doing are book work with the fractions. For writing we are doing our band manager we have to finish our tour schedule some people have finished it. For reading we are doing these story that every one has to do you have to right down the dictionary meaning and a sentence to go with it.

Friday 17 August This week some of us went to the tuakau oreantation day it was real fun andthe best thing I thoughtwas the wood work then we made a puzzle out of the tuakau logo. This week with Mrs Beere we are doing plays and the big kids are doing the little red hoddie and the little kids are doing a play called the lost lamb. For reading we are reading a book called the bullet its about a boy who comes to this new school and meets a realy cool guy and then he trys to be like the cool guy but then they ended up having a fight. For writing we are doing our character descriptions and when we have finished publising themwe give them to someone in our group and they try to draw them. For maths we are doing book work on page 154-156 they are subtraction and addition fractions.