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!