Week 1 Day 1 - Smart Footprint

Summer learning Journey 

Week 1 Day 1 Activity 3

Week 1 Day 1 - My Happy Hometown!

Summer Learning Journey Week 1

Day 1 Activity 2

My hometown is Christchurch. Here I love my town as it is. Christchurch is the biggest city in the south island and the 3rd biggest city in New Zealand. Christchurch is the oldest city in New Zealand which means it is pretty old.

Christchurch's Name

Christchurch was named by the Canterbury Association in 1848 and it was officially established on July 31 1856. The official Maori name for Christchurch is Otautahi.

Fun Places

Christchurch has many fun places like indoor places: Canterbury Museum, Air force museum, Caddyshack mini putt,  Bouncy sports: Flip Out, Mega Air, QE II swimming pool, Outside activities: Orana wildlife park, Willow bank Wildlife reserve, Botanic gardens, Bottle lake forest, McLean's Island, and Hagly park.

Historical Sites

Some of the historical sites in Christchurch are: Mona Vale, Ferrymead heritage park,

Riccarton house & Riccarton bush.

In Christchurch there are a lot of fun activities some history behind everything, Christchurch is an amazing place to go and I love it here!
If you ever come to Christchurch or if you already do live in Christchurch I hope you love it too!

Week 1 Day 1 - NZ Fascinating Facts!

Summer Learning Journey Week 1

Day 1 Activity 1

Here are five fascinating facts about New Zealand.

1) New Zealand's Maori name 'Aotearoa' means 'The land of the long white cloud.'

2) The tallest freestanding building in the southern hemisphere is Auckland's sky tower standing at 328 meters high.

3) Once governed as part of the territory of New South Wales New Zealand later a part of Australia.

4) New Zealand's official languages are English and Maori.

5) Represented in the country by a Governor General, Queen Elizabeth II is now officially the queen of New Zealand.

- Amelia's facts

The gumboot throwing world wide competition!

This week we were writing a made up story about a gumboot throwing competition and here is mine:

Hope you enjoy!

The A & P Show!

This is my writing of the A & P Show I hope you like it!

Baby Goats!

This week in writing we had to write an acrostic poem or a story about the A & P Show.

I wrote both and here is my poem. I called it 'Baby Goats'.

Catch of the day!

This week the News Reporters (my reading group) had a book called catch of the day! Here is my work from this week with all the tasks I had to do.

I hope you enjoy!

Giving friendly feedback!

This week and last week my reading group joined the What do you mean reading group. We were reading The Prince and The Albatross Egg. Our task was to write a short summary and then we chose some one to give feedback on. I chose my friend Isla.

This is what I said when I gave feedback:

I really like the way you kept the main parts in you summary.

Isla next time you write a summary try to remember where your a's and an's go.

Isla you have used your correct speech marks in one place but not the other, for a title you wouldn’t use “  “ you would use ‘  ‘ and also remember for a question you need to use a ? at the end.

Remember that the teachers didn’t say out loud that you would never eat a albatross egg.

Please give me feedback on if I kept my comments positive!

Summary on The Prince and The Albatross Egg

This week and last week the News Reporters (my reading group) joined the What do you mean reading group and we were reading the prince and the albatross egg. Our task was to write a short summary about the text so here is mine I hope you enjoy reading it!

This week we are reading The Prince and the Albatross egg.

It is about children from Dunedin and Wellington getting together to learn how to use the TV to contact each other so that they can share their Ideas. Prince Charles came to see them and ask them questions about their topic for their project. He asked a few questions about the royal albatross because that was the kids topic and he wanted to know a little bit more about albatrosses. Then there was a weird question from the prince but he said it only because he didn’t know how protected they are in New Zealand and only one person new the answer but they didn’t say a word.

The prince soon left and waved goodbye then he was gone.

If you could please comment on my work I would love that, and please give me feedback on if I have told what you think are the main points and not to much of things that aren't main points.

Why I would like you to follow me!

Hello everyone,

My name is Amelia. 

I am a student at Wigram Primary School. I love to read lots of books at my house and in my spare time I love writing and painting. I love my blue bike and I always go for bike rides. I also go on my trampoline constantly.

I would really like to get some followers on my blog so if you could follow me by email that would be amazing. I have tried very hard to get followers and I hope you can be one of my first few followers. If you don't know how to follow by email you have to click on the button that looks like this

Then you just put your email in and click submit.

Thank you so much!

Reading Fridge - Rex 3000

Private information.

This is my poster of private information. I did it to show people and make them understand what private information was. It helps reminded everyone what private information is.
I hope it helps you!

Making poems

This is my work making poems. This is the finished project but we did have a hole table for planing.

I hope you enjoy!

Now write your poem here

PIE

He is a kind gentle animated cartoon character with a big red smile,

His eyes are black and cold as if all the happiness had gone from the world but he is still a nice little boy,

Pie and more pie is what his breath smells like,

He walks slowly with his body as a giant mixed berry pie with black arms and legs,

He wears a tight blue jeans, a black coat full of pies, and a bright blue tie,

His voice is soft gentle and very very deep.

Creating similes by Amelia and Mitchell H

This was our classes writing task on Fridays for 2 weeks. We are learning the differences between metaphors and similes.

Hauora heart cares.

Last term our class has been making slides about our new heart cares. We have been understanding what the Maori ones mean. One of them was Hauora an I decided to make mine about it so I hope you enjoy!

My maths goal Term 2 week 1

My maths goal is to know my groupings within 1000. I have been practising this for a while now and have finally succeeded. I hope you enjoy!

Sigmond Slitherforth my reading work Term 1 Week 9

Sigmond Slitherforth (A Poem)

Sigmond Slitherforth

1. What might the surname ‘Slitherforth’ mean?

I think that it is his last name for a bit of a joke and slither because snails slither and forth because he has forty brothers and sisters.

2. What is the MAIN thing Sigmond did in each of the six chapters of this poem?

1. He got told of from hi love of speed. 2. He had to be like the others or he would have to leave. 3. He couldn’t take it anymore so he got banished. 4. He met a slug that said he could help. 5. The slug got sigmond to jump in a giant bucket full of oil, that made him really fast. 6. He zoomed past his family and he was a big suckses to make it all the way to space. He left a message to his family

3. New and tricky vocabulary.  On a copy of this table complete the meaning for each of these words. LOOK at the text to help you work it out. Use a dictionary if you need to. Write the meaning in  YOUR OWN WORDS, to show that YOU understand.

Word	Page	Meaning
Distraught:	Pg 7	Frightened, scared, or upset.
Dignity:	Pg 8	Having respect.
Reformed:	Pg 9	Making changes in something.
Antenna:	Pg 9	A small little pointy stick at the end of an insects head.
Debating:	Pg 11	To argue about a subject like at court.
Banished:	Pg 11	To be told to go away from somewhere and never come back, and that it was a legal for them to enter again.
Mottled:	Pg 13	Something marked with colour.
Emerged:	Pg 17	Came.
Admonished:	Pg 19	A sign of not licking what someone has done in a rude and firm way.

My maths goal term 1 week 7

This is my maths goal from term 1 week 7. I have completed my fractions and have moved on to another stage. I am very proud of myself and I hope you enjoy my screencastify of my goal!

Please comment on my this post about if you think I have improved on my fractions or not!

My writing about Scarlett the skater.

My reading work!

This is my reading work from term 1 week 6. I did my blooms tasks and I had to do a video of my group doing some hip hop moves that I might put on my blog later this term.

Reading

Hip hop moves

Analysing b

Comparing the characters.

Evaluation a

Rating the text

I would rate this text a 2, because I didn’t like the fact that it was all about hip hop and that is not my thing. I also didn’t like the first task that we had to do. As well as that I like non fiction books.

Application a

Writing a what am I?

You can hear me,

You an see me,

I am not alive,

I can not move on my own,

I can keep you calm,

But sometimes I can swear.

What am I?

Comprehension c

Writing a summary

In this text Astrid was shy at her dance and she copied Libby at the front leading the dance hip hop group. Astrid soon felt good in her place with the rest of her group. Then she got really confident, and kept going with her dance in front of the class. She got so confident she was ready for her auditions the next day.

Knowledge a

Listing five main things that happened in the text

• Astrid arrived at her dance.
• Astrid tried going at the front of the class.
• She got rid of her fears.
• She got ready and confident for her auditions.