Respect

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 In some days there are ups and downs and that's when people don't show respect. Our Principle, gets frustrated with the things that have been happening in school. So we had a talk and made a deal to show respect to the class and also we want it to be special because of Mrs Lee is leaving this school. In this video I made a video using biteable to talk about respect.

 In St Bernadette's this is one of the greatest things we should be doing in school.Some of you may not know the CERR values but it means Compassion, Excellence, Responsibility and Respect. It's the C.E.R.R value for this term! Not just in school but also, at home and anywhere. Be respectful and always be kind to everyone. I hope this helps you because I want to be in a positive and loving in class next year so I can leave with amazing memories, that we have made, over the year :)

Bear template (copy): Respect on Biteable.

And the winner is...

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WALT: Combine prior and new knowledge to come up with new ideas.

 In class for this term we have been doing reading groups and each group has a passage their reading about, my group is Sophie and we're reading: And the winner is... this story is about Chris: He slammed the door, He cheats in games, He lied about doing the dishes, don't trust Chris to do anything. Dad asked Chris to mow the lawns but he didn't.

For this activity we had to 'Design a new, fun lawn mower that would make kids want to mow the lawns'.

Summer Learning Journey

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 This is a time for you to Come and Join Summer Learning Journey. It's a fun time for you do exiting things in the holidays, it starts on  December the 16th and end on the 24th of January, there are 60 activities altogether,and 2 activities a day! 2 points each post.

 I learnt heaps of things about New Zealand and other countries! So please Come and Join:

  Summer Learning Journey

Market Day Poster!

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For Integrated Learning this week two students from my class has been organising a Mufti Market Day, for that everyone has to bring a gold coin to support the Kapa Haka uniforms and, Year 8 treat that they're having. This Friday my school is having a Mufti Market Day, every class is making something different. My class is doing Pie Face & Pie Face Game, Waffles, Spiders, Briquettes, Wet sponges & Mrs Lee's Lollies. The Market Day is 2-4pm, our class money that we got, goes to our Class treat next Friday! We all had to make our own posters to show what were selling.

My group is Ella, Kylie & Zipporah, we are doing Pie Face & Pie Face Game! We have decided that we can wear the same thing: Tutu, white socks/shoes, Black shirt, sweatshirt so what station we're on. If you want you can come along and buy these wonderful things that we have made!

How to play:

You pick out a name

Ask them a question

If we get it wrong we get pie faced

We ask you a question

You get it wrong you get pie faced too!

If you get any right we give you lollies and if not lollies then a high five or a free hug :)

Rules: 

Don't cheat with the questions or don't cheat on the actual game

Have fun!

Resolution for Christmas!

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 L3: Mary-Maria the first and the most perfect disciple of Christ.

 WALT: Recall how Mary heard the word of God and acted on it.

 For R.E this week we have been looking at Mary and how Jesus became a disciple of God. So the whole class created a google drawing about your resolution for Christmas. I made a google drawing  at got a bible verse from Philippians 1:7-8 and kinda made it my own resolution for Christmas.

 What  is your Resolution for Christmas? Share this with your family as well!

Watch this Space!

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WALT: Combine prior and new knowledge to come up with new ideas.

In class for this term we have been doing reading groups and each group has a passage their reading about, my group is Sophie and we're reading: Watch this Space, is this about an artist called Janet de Wagt. two of the four hundred children who drew the pictures were Paddy and Declan Smith, of port Chalmers School. The harbour is right beside his school.

For this activity we had to 'Design a mural to go on a wall at your school. Use drawing and labels to explain your ideas. Make a flow chart to showing what you would have do to get it done!

Dear Santa

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For writing my class had a choice to write about any type of writing what we have been looking for the past year. Everyone had to make a google doc or do it on paper. There was heaps of categories we could write about. So I decided to write to Santa what I want for Christmas.... this took me a wee bit to make!

Dear Santa,

All I want for Christmas…. is my family to stay as a family and not be separated. We all know that we have our own lives to live but, please we I want anyone to get hurt or suffer because they miss their family! My family is not perfect but we can still fix all of our problems. My family is my life basically, I don’t want my sister to move to Australia, I don’t want anything to tear apart my family.

 My second wish is, my #1 favourite teacher Mrs Lee, to have a great time at Wigram primary. We will miss her like she will miss us, please Santa I don’t won’t her to leave this school…. she means a lot to me (I mean a lot)! Mrs Lee is the kindest teacher in the world Iv’e ever met, sometimes I might make bad choices but she always show love and compassion to me and others. I will especially miss her when I’m at school. I don’t really understand why she has to leave? We were having such a great time together when she was my teacher at St Bernadette’s. I’m really emotional about it, if you bring it up I’ll probably cry until she gives me a hug! :)

 Please Santa help me, be more loving and more passionate!

 From your,

 Favourite Jorja!

Summer Learning Journey: Activity 2

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Activity 2: When the rubber hits the road!

For SLJ practise we had to interview three friends and ask them what they are proud of? We had to use their first names!

Summer Learning Journey starts on the 16th on December! Be ready! :)

The True Story of Hansel and Gretel

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 Last Friday the Senior part of my school went to the Royal ballet of Hansel and Gretel, some of the schools around Christchurch went as well. Our teacher gave us a choice of writing our True story about Hansel and Gretel.

 We only watched the 2nd act for a hour because we needed to bus back to school. My favourite part about the ballet was when Gretel carried the witch in the oven and killed her! My story about Hansel and Gretel was kinda the exact same to the second half. I haven't read the book or the 1st act.

 Have you read the book of Hansel and Gretel?

Introduction:

 Once a upon a time, Hansel & Gretel's Mum & Dad were lost in the forest. Their Mum and Dad didn’t know what to do if they got lost again, so they put bread around the forest. So when Hansel & Gretel woke up from their nap, they would follow the line that the bread was on. They were so scared that the witch was gonna eat them! Hansel, we need to run…..

Hansel and Gretel:

 “HANSEL, help me, I need to look for our parents now!”
 “Hey they put bread around the forest so they won’t get lost, and we won’t get lost finding them”
“Let’s follow it Gretel, we need to do it now, before the witch comes”
 “Hansel, now”
 “Look the witch it trying to look in between the holes”
“What holes?”
“Down There”
 “And what?”
 “We need to get her home”
 “Okay, let’s do it now!”
“Okay boss”
 “Yes, now we need to get home and eat first before we….:
“Before we what??”
“Ummmm….”
“Okay, here's the plan we are going to get our parents, before the witch eats them”
 “AHHHHH”
 “Hansel look, be careful around the traps that the witch made”
“Okay sis”
 “Wait, what?”
 “What is up with you, Hansel”?
 “Idk, but we're gonna find them, just trust me”
 “Yeah sure”
 “We found them but, that’s not our Mum and Dad in the woods, isn’t it?''
“No”
“AHHHHH, can you believe what just happened”
 “Just leave the witch for now, Okay Gretel”
“Yes, okay” (Sigh)

“Mmmm yes okay, sooner or later we need to come back here, and see if the witch has left Mum and Dad”
" I just need some time to work things out for Mum and Dad, when we make a new family again".

The Next Evening:

 Hansel & Gretel looked for their parents for the whole day but all they seem to find is the witch ‘Sleeping’ on the ground. Hansel & Gretel sneaked around the witch when she was asleep. They found Mum and Dad now, but they need to get the key off the witch to open the cage for Mum and Dad. Gretel got it off her, they need to open it without her hearing .

"Okay, let’s get it over and done with."
 "Yay, we got Mum and Dad out".
"SHHHH, Mum and Dad, SHHHHH".
" Hansel get the trolley and I’ll get Mum and you’ll get Dad"
"Phew, now we can take them home now."

 To Be Continued….

Hansel and Gretel’s Farewell:

 When Hansel got his sister from the oven, he thought she was dead, but only she was ‘Faking’ dead. Hansel quickly rushed back home and got his first aid box. He thought he ould to it all by himslef, but really he needed Gretel. She was ‘Dead’, they were a team together, until they were brought up. Hansel needed her so much, do you know what he did??....


 Gretel’s Mum was divored to Hansel’s Dad. They were still family, they couldn’t see each-other everyday, like they wanted to! So they decided to move into together as a family, they had to let their Mum and Dad first. They went to their parent’s and talked them out of the conversation. Hansel was scared that his Dad was gonna say no! Gretel asked nicely, to her Mum and said
“Mum, Can Hansel and I move in together, because it’s just too much for us…. living separtly”

Te Wa

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 WALT: Recognise that the ultimate goal in our journey of faith- Te Wa- is to share in the fullness of God's Tapu and to live with God forever

In class we have been looking and the Y6 Church Strand. For this we made to make a google drawing about what happened  in our early life.

I'm a year 7, I go to St Bernadette's School, I'm Catholic, I'm nearly a teenager!

Breakfast in the bus!

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WALT: Combine prior and new knowledge to come up with new ideas.

In class for this term we have been doing reading groups and each group has a passage their reading about, my group is Sophie and we're reading: Breakfast in the bus, is this about: Grandad living in the bus, and having breakfast his with his Granddaughter. Grandad has a hearing aid, he thought he lost it but it slipped out of his hands.

For is activity we had to 'Design the inside of a bus that you would like to live in. Include all the thing you would need.

SLJ practise: Day 1

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 Our class had to find 3 facts about NZ. This is my 'Top fun 3 facts about NZ: New Zealand is the country I was brought up in. What country do you live in?

SLJ practise: Day 1

Why isn't the world covered in poo?

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WALT: Critically analyse texts.

 In reading we have been doing as a class looking 'Why isn't the world covered in poo'. For each task we had to look for the information on the google doc or the videos on the site. For this we have made a slideshow or a google doc. Each day I'm going to keep adding to the slideshow! What do I know:

 - Dung beetles are found anywhere that there is dung. Dung beetle only wake up if they smell dung around them.

 - There are dung beetles all over the world. In Africa there are heaps of different kinds.

 - Dung beetles eat dung. There are dung beetles all over the world. In Africa, there are several different kinds. These busy little insects play a very important part in the way nature works.

 

The Tame Eels of Anatoki

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 WALT: Combine prior and new knowledge to come up with new ideas.

 In class for this term we have been doing reading groups and each group has a passage their reading about , my group is Sophie and we're reading: The Tame Eels of Anatoki. This story is about New Zealand long-finned eels are among the largest of their kind in the world. They can grow as long as 1.75 metres and weigh up to 20 kg. In fact,the eels would hear her footsteps on the rocks and would swim out form the rocks and ledges to meet her. Margaret McCallum went on feeding the Eels for more than fifty years!

 For this activity 'Design a new habitat for these Eels so that the visitors can watch them swimming about and play with them if you want to? For this I always do a google drawing:

Mission: Possible

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In class for RE we have been doing a Mission: God gave Jesus a mission, he gave the disciples and then the disciples gave us a mission!

 We  all follow what Jesus does, he is our role model! For that we created a animation from powtoon, and put all that information in our slides. We had to do this Individually, we weren't paired up. Here is my powtoon that I created! With all our Missions!

Boots: Descriptive Writing

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 In Class for writing we have been looking at Descriptive Writing: (That's our topic for the this term).We got paired up with someone, my buddy is: Fria, after that we had to describe about a Character that's from a cartoon or a show. Our character that we described about is Boots from: Dora the explorer!

This is our writing that we described about:

Boots is a monkey that loves and cares about his family and friends. Boots is very smart as a human, because he can speak Spanish.

Boots can be more cheekier than swiper. When Dora and Boots friends, needs his help he is always there. When Boots was lost or needs a friend Dora is always there, like Boots is.

The trees move around as Boots and Dora saves the day. Boots and Dora explore the wild, and help other animals in the forest when they are stuck or lost, then they get them back home safely. Boots, is an amazing Monkey, when Dora or someone tells him what to do.

Boots can get very clingy when he’s around Dora, he is very climby when he is around trees and, Boots is very adventurous. Boots is a very talkative monkey, but that is a good thing so he can cooperate with Dora when someone is in need of help. Boots is very brave whenever he’s with bad people. BOOM

Overall this is Boots personality and life. Maybe you should watch Dora the Explorer, to learn what Boots does? Boots loves his bananas as a treat, the end!

Printmaking-Flowers

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 WALT explore different printmaking conventions.

 In class, we have been doing some printmaking and how this work is that, First we had to sketch the flower we are going to print and we had to make about four sketches and pick one between the four sketches we made. After we receive another piece of paper and a cardboard paper that is shaped like a square with even sides. Next we had to trace the cardboard paper onto the piece of paper to put the flower we chose between the four sketches. Then lastly, draw the flower we choose on the piece of paper that is now shaped as a square. After all the sketching and the shaping, we were given a thick piece of paper and using the paper with our flower on it, we had to trace but not tracing the whole thing, we had to put layers and glue them on the piece of cardboard we had earlier, like this!

In the weekend, our printmaking flowers got sent to Riccarton for the flowers of festival. There was 3 people who got 1st, 2nd and 3rd, 2 people got Highly commended. I was one of them xo!



My draft:

My tile:

My good copy:

Young Penguins!

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 In class for this term we have been doing reading groups and each group has a passage their reading about , my group is Sophie and we're reading: Penguin Hospital.

 For this activity we have to make 'Design a way protecting young penguins from dogs on the beach OR a way protecting young penguins from drifting fishing nets'. For this I made a google drawing!

Getting rid of the mouse

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 In class for this term we have been doing reading groups and each group has a passage their reading about , my group is Sophie and we're reading: The mousetrap.

Iv'e made a google drawing for this poster:'Getting rid of the mouse'! This tells you, make a poster that supposed to get the mouse but not kill it!

My Culture!

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WALT investigate cultures and traditions within the class

 In Room 5 every student had to make a DLO about their culture , like our Food, National flower, History, Family tradition and more :) Those are the things my teacher told me to add in the slideshow.

This term for Interegated Learning, we are looking at Taonga. Taonga is a Māori word, and it's  a treasure or something precious to you that you have kept. Any kind of object or resource that has been kept for long time ago, or passed into generations. Taonga: I think that means what describes about you, or whats your culture!

I haven't finished any of the slides! Please be patient, I will work on these in my own time!

Please comment if I need something to change!

Farmer Chas and his dogs

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 In class for this term we have been doing reading groups and each group has a passage their reading about, my group is Sophie and were reading: Farmer Chas and his dogs.

 Iv'e made a google drawing for this Information web. For the reading activities we have to make an Information web that you have to tell what happened with Chas when he's on his farm and what he does!

My Taonga

WALT define and identify our own 'Taonga'

  This term, we are going to focus about Taonga and what it is to us. For our task, we looked at some pictures that were put up on the screen and thought of reasons why it can be precious/special to us, we had to make a poster about what Taonga is to us. Taonga is a Māori word, and it's  a treasure or something precious to you that you have kept. Any kind of object or resource that has been kept for long time ago, or passed into generations. Taonga: I think that means what describes about you, or whats your culture!

Free-range Hens

Happy Hens: 

 Kia Ora, In class for this term we have been doing reading i'm in Sophie.

 We have been reading about Happy Hens, and what happens to them! For this activity we have to make an Information web that you have to tell what happened in the story!

Do you why they are called free-range hens??

RE Animaker:

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In class for RE we have been doing a Animaker for early Christians they are called:  Lydia, Stephen & Paul! 

 For that we had to describe what they do etc I pefer Powtoon for anything I do!

Here is my Animaker about those 3 people:

SYItC work:

In class, we have been reading a class-novel the title is called: See You In The Cosmos! 

 Each week we have a activity, from what we learnt in the story!

We have started the book since the start of the term and we have 0 chapters left!!

 For this week I have not Started/finished this! Here is my slideshow about SYItC work:

EDIT: The story was kinda boring but, my favourite part: Is when Alex was on the roof and fall on the fence (Ahahah) :(

Wk 10: Infographic

What is a Fire Tornado? 

In class for our reading groups (I'm in Charlie), we have been reading Non-fiction text, that tells you: Diagrams, Pictures, Flow-charts, Graphs We have to describe about the stuff that happens in the story! 

I have made a google drawing for this Infographic!

Do you know what is a Fire Tornado? This what is looks like!

Wk 9 Infographic

What Causes Rain?

 In class for our reading groups we have been doing a Infographic that tells you: Diagrams, Pictures, Flow-charts, Graphs 

 We have to describe about the stuff that happens. I have made a google drawing for this Infographic.

 Each second week we make a Infographic and the next week we make a Story Web!

 Do you love Rain?

Collaborative Writing

WALT: Writing as a group

 In class for writing we have been Group writing , Mrs Lee gave us groups and we were given a topic to write about.

We had to write about the Problem and the Solution. We all talked about it before writing about it. This is a picture book, my buddies are Siale & Manuk. Our story was about the Clumsy Space Trooper!

Te Wiki o Te Māori

WALT: investigate different aspects of Te Reo Māori

 This week is Māori language week, in class we have been looking and researching about the Māori history!

After that we had to make a DLO from the scavenger hunt we find what he learnt We had to do 3-4 tasks on a google doc and also we write that down on the slideshow we made!

 I enjoyed learning what happens when we meet them!

 What I found difficult is explaining the Māori history. I could improve on adding more information about the Māori history!

 Here is my DLO about Te Wiki O Te Reo Māori!

 

Story Web:

Rain Stopped Play:


In class for our reading groups we have been doing a story Web that tells you about: Characters, Setting, Problem, Feelings, Action & Outcome

 We have to describe about the stuff that happens. I have made a google drawing for the Story Web.

     Each second week we make a Story Web and the next week we make a infographic!

Group Writing

In class for writing we have been Group writing , Mrs Lee gave us groups and we were given a topic to write about. We had to write about the Problem and the Solution. We all talked about it before writing about it.

My buddies was Manuk and Siale. Our story was about The Amazing Fat Spider Man!

Spring writing

W.A.L.T our class has to write about our favourite season. Mine is spring.

I have not finished this writing

(Intro) Every year there are 4 seasons : Summer, Autumn, Winter and Spring.

 My favourite is Spring. Now you know mine! What’s yours?

 (Flowers) *Spring is beautiful. It is my favourite because it’s a season where trees, blossoms regrow, it’s very attractive . It makes me feel like the earth is special to me! Starting with early snowdrops, beautiful flowers in blossom are popping up everywhere you go.

 (Sports) *Another reason is when it’s spring the weather gets warmer and the season goes into summer sports which is: Softball, Touch, Tennis, Volleyball and Cricket, sports helps you to exercise more (Warmer weather)

 *This means only one thing, no more heavy jackets. A colourful lightweight coat is unwanted in your wardrobe! After the cold and gloomy winter, cozy spring sunshine comes to make your soul smile.

 (Baby animals) *I also love when baby animals grow and grow until their bigger

 (Conclusion)

Eucharist

WALT identify how the celebration of the Eucharist is a sacrifice.

In class we have been learning about Eucharist we looked at verses that were relevant to the symbol we draw. I choose those symbols because the verse goes with that.

Now you know what Eucharist is, maybe you could tell me about what I was teaching you?

I found this difficult because I didn't know what symbol to choose.

The Eucharist is important to me because it reminds me about my first Holy communion

Here is my symbol of Eucharist!

Shared slideshow

In class for reading we have been doing a shared slid show for that we have to make MindMup that tells about the story like the Setting, Characters, Problem, Feelings, Action and the Outcome. This is what mine looks like! 

 We also have been commenting on each others work (Feedback)

Term 3 Week 2: Next week I'm going to work on putting more detail about the Actions and Characters so we know what they did!

      

Term 3 Week 4: Next week I'm going to work on: Nothing :)

Term 3 Week 5: Infographic: Next week I'm going to work is: Nothing :)

Term 3 Week 6: Next week I'm going to work on is: Nothing :)

Teaching others about Fractions:

In Maths, Mrs Lee (Our teacher) told us to make a DLO about what we learnt last week for Maths. So I decided to make a slide show and add an explanation of what I learnt an example that was simpler to what I did last week I really hope this helps. When I first started to do fractions this term I found it really hard to understand fractions but through out this term i'm starting to feel more confident because all the strategy's I've been learning, it has been helping me with my Fractions.

Here is my DLO:

Sacraments of Initiation

W.A.L.T name the three Sacraments of Initiation and their purpose. 

 In class we have been looking at the most three important Sacraments of Initiation and we did a D.L.O  to explain what they are about!

Here is my D.L.O!

 

EVIL Llama

Llama Writing:

What I found hard: To make my Llama and my story

What I enjoyed the most: I enjoyed making the story

What I can work on: I can work on making my Llama look EVIL

In Room 5 we had to write a story. So we did a piece of art and had to write about that. Most of us found it hard, I couldn't be bothered checking all the punctuation and detail! Here is my story:


CHAPTER 1:

 July 1st, 2019.

 A 34 year old teacher, she was GROUCHY and OLD, she met my 12 year old llama called EVIL and she was a STALKER.

 My llama’s father was a ghost, the poor llama had to listen carefully to what her says, and if EVIL didn’t listen to him, his father would yell, “SHUT THE FRONT DOOR” as loud as he could to get her attention.

 One afternoon when I was opening the ROTTEN door the OLD GROUCHY teacher scared me when I was walking past the CREEPY CORRIDOR.

 “AHHH!!” I screamed.

 The OLD GROUCHY teacher laughed “HAHAHA”.

 So It was finally PAYBACK TIME.

 When Evil was going out to grab a snack to eat one morning, and when I grabbed my snack, outside where everyone was there I said,’ “BOO” and then she screamed, ‘AHHH’.

 “HAHAHA I said, that was from before.

I will keep on scaring her until she gives up, she was getting quite sick of the llama scaring the teacher because she’s OLD & GROUCHY.

 She really needs to watch WHO’S behind her back 24/7!

 CHAPTER 2:

 In Term 2 Week 5.

 My llama tried to do something stupid to the OLD GROUCHY.

That teacher that always has to have lollies & chocolate every single day, so one day EVIL tried to hide the OLD GROUCHY teacher’s lollies.

 My llama didn’t know where to hide her stuff so the SNEAKY principle came in when the OLD GROUCHY teacher was nowhere to be.

The principle helped my llama to put the OLD GROUCHY teacher's lollies inside a desk, that no one knew where it was.

 EVIL didn’t know about it until everyone was spreading rumours around.

 The OLD GROUCHY teacher was DISAPPOINTED & DISGUSTED about the SNEAKY Principle.

 The OLD GROUCHY teacher didn’t have a great day after all that!

Matariki

For the last week of Term 2 we have been learning about Matariki. As we learnt about the celebrations that we have in Matariki, we made a DLO showing the facts about Matariki and her 6 daughters. We also read more facts about Matariki and listened to videos. 

After we have finished our DLO, we post to our blogs to show others who are those 7 stars at the sky.

Praying with the Psalms

In class in the morning for Prayers we have been looking at Psalms from the Bible, and choosing what verse stands out for us. I felt really touched for the verses I chosen. This was really Difficult but I still enjoyed it.

Each week we are editing this slideshow!

Word Study

WALT Identify how to use apostrophes correctly. In class we have been learning about Apostrophes and how we should use them. Here's my poster!

DLO Anzac Day!

WALT learn about Anzac Day and why we commemorate. This is why we remember Anzac Day because that day is important to us, people got badly hurt and they didn't survive. Lest We forget!

Their, They're or There?

W.A.L.T Identify and use homonyms correctly - Part 1.   In class we have been Learning about the three different There's. Here is what I've been doing in class! 

After my poster carefully answer my quiz and take your time!

 -Their 
 - They're
 - There

Answer my questions down below!

Quiz:

1. When do you think we will get ______?

2. When do you think _____  _____?

3. Can they at least put away ____ equipment?

Jesus Ministry

In class my buddy and I have been learning about Jesus life on earth and how he Revealed God.

This is what we have been learning about in R.E time!

 

South Africa

In Class I have been Learning about South Africa in Reading time! I have made a poster about South Africa I have put in these things: 

 - The population

- Languages 

 - Sports 

- What They eat! 

- Map 

-  Flag

 Please leave a Comment and see what you have learnt about my poster!

 

Treaty Of Waitangi

W.A.L.T identify the significance and importance of Te Tiriti o Waitangi to Aotearoa New Zealand.

 W.A.L.T create a D.L.O that shows what you have learnt:

 On February 6th we have been learning about the Treaty of Waitangi I created a D.L.O to show why we celebrated Waitangi Day. 

I have not finished this slideshow!

 

ALL ABOUT ME 2019

W.A.L.T use Google Drawings to create drawing about me:

In Class we have been doing Cybersmart

- What your Favouite food is!

- What Country you want to visit!

- And what your Favouite Animal is!