Anzac Mascots

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 In Week 8, my class has been learning about Anzac Mascots like animals. We read out an article about the Anzac Mascots and I chose one Animal Mascot from the war. What I learnt was about the animals that were included in the war. Like Donkeys, Horses, dogs etc. The donkey and horse were to carry heavy stuff on their back like buckets of water. Dogs were to find wounded soldiers. I have my information about the Anzac mascots down in the slide and about a dog named Caesar.

 What something that you learnt about Caesar?

Māori Meanings

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This week we have been researching some words in Te Reo Maori. We were told to find out the meaning of the Maori words that are on my biteable! In this video, I tried my best finding out the meaning of the words on a Maori Dictionary because google translate is you know... sometimes a lie. So the words are down below:)
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Maths DLO

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For the past few days my Maths group has been learning how to jump into a tidy number on a number line. We learnt it all in Maths time and for once we actually understood the strategy so we made a DLO how to use it and so we can teach other students how to use them.

I made a slideshow to show some of you how to do it. I have not finished the slideshow...in my Maths time I'll be working on it!

Francis Douglas

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 Wanna learn about Francis Douglas?

    Last week my class read a story about Francis Douglas & Maximilian Kolbe. We all had to choose out of them both. I chose Francis Douglas. We made a DLO about them and told what they are and who they are. This is my work about Francis Douglas

ANZAC writing

W.A.L.T: Use descriptive language.
 
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 In week 5 my class have been looking at descriptive writing, out teacher Ms Wilton read us a book called The ANZAC Violin by: Robyn Belton. This is some facts/stuff about him, more than 20 years after publication of the classic NZ story, the Bantam and the soldier, Jennifer Beck and Robyn Belton have joined forces again to produce another heartwarming story from the first world war.
This book was about the soldier named Alexander Aitken, one day he had to leave his violin and left a note to take care of my violin. He was sent back home because he shot, and another day his violin was sent back to him.

 Our class had to make a paragraph with describing words about the war in Gallipoli.

 As I fainted, the memorable sound of the engines roaring at me. The horrible sound of bones cracking in my old DISGUSTING ear. Gunshots, start haunting me down in the muddy and dusty mountains. The muggy air is sunny and wet, as sweat drops enter down, to my dirty rusty skin. Now you can see all the bloodstains from the cold soldiers who were pushed down the rolly mountains by the hypocrites to get. There’s only one place I could hide during the pathetic war…..

 This is my paragraph. The words I used was dirty skin, fainted, memorable, gunshots, hypocrites, bones cracking, DISGUSTING, we have to have up to 6 sentences or more!

 - Diary entry: Alexander Aitken
 - Attributes chart; See, hear, location, movement & temperature
 - Which part my diary is about : My part of my story is about Alexander Aitken and other soldiers  getting shot in my mind
- What I enjoyed: The book, and the describing words
- What I found hard:  The words were hard to explain with my writing

7/8 Technology

Technology: Friday 14th February 2020

 Today is our first time going to tech on Fridays we go to Hornby high School. This is my second year going to tech, this year we have the year 6s from last year with us, we have year 7 & 8s Last year we went on Mondays afternoon but now it's Friday which is good.

 Before the bell we lined up to go to the bus outside our school, the bus only takes not even 5 mins to Hornby high. We waited for the Hornby teachers to collect us then we have our first period which is 40 mins. In that time we had Mr Heath for science it was exciting for me first we had to go through this sheet for safety things, then Mr Heath electrocute us by this box thing. He winds it and the whole group expect for some people held hands and Tyler & I were holding the medal thing that gave us pins & needles's feeling. It went thought everyone's hand they thought it was scary.

 After science we had Mr Rees for medal, we only had 10 mins until Morning tea, For medal we have to make something a key ring out of something I made a wave shape with my name on it , others made a whale, a shape. We did all the things we were supposed to do. Cute, file, Drill & ingrave. We didn't need to bend ours but bending was an option.  

Tech was really fun at the end. 

I was kinda getting distracted with all the noise but overall i'm proud of my work! :)

 What I enjoyed: I enjoyed when I got electrocuted in science 

What I've found hard: I found the coping saw a bit hard when I was trying to make my design 

What I would do differently: I would make my name or a different shape

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.