Goodbye 2014!!

Bye everyone the holidays are here and it's nearly time for school to be over we will miss our chromebooks! I hope you have a great christmas and a happy new year.

Diamante Christmas poem

WALT: Write a diamante poem using nouns, adjectives, verbs, synonyms and antonyms

How to make a ladybug

Here is my instructions that show you how to make a ladybug out of a plastic bottle

Sustainability

Today The year 5 and 6 Extension were watching videos about sustainability on The outlook for someday. Sustainability means something that holds up another thing. Here are some hyper links of the videos I watched.

If life was like the web This Video is a good way of showing what life would be like if it was like the web and the problem was that we don't always need to use technology to talk to people and that somethings should stay on the web. The solution is that we have to talk to people face to face.

Being a honey maker This a good video about how we need bees. The problem is that people are killing them even though they help the flowers and give us honey. The solution is not to kill them and show people that they help us.

Beep The Beep is really good to show us what we need to do to help the earth. The problem is that some of us leave the light on or leave the tap running this does not help the earth we are wasting water and power by doing this and we don't recycle there just throw everything in the bin some thing can be recycle. The solution is to recycle and don't leave the light on if you don;t need it and don't leave the water running to help keep this earth healthy. 

Lucy Camp Bentzon Writing Reflection

Last week on Tuesday morning the year 6 kids of Point England School got up early to get to school before 7:00am to go to Kawau island for our camp.  The Camp is called camp Bentzon and we went there from Tuesday to Friday. At school we waited for the bus to come and take us to sandspit then we had to wait for the ferry to come and  take us to the Kawau Island. We were all in eight different groups like Katz A and B, Kawau A and B, Mansion A and B and Bentzon A and B.

As we got  off the ferry  we unloaded it and carried our luggage to our cabins, then we had morning tea and  then we had free time for the rest of the day and at around 6:00 we had dinner and our dinner was chicken drumsticks with potatoes and dessert we had ice cream. After dinner we had more free time and at 10:00pm we finally went to our cabins and went to sleep.

The next day we had breakfast then Bentzon A the group I was in went sailing. At the beach we waited for our instructor to come. Our instructors name was Peter and he showed us how to sail a boat and gave us tips. Some of us were allowed us to be by ourselves but I had a partner and his name is Matiu he held the rope from the sail while I steered the boat we sailed to a red  roofed house. The waves were bumping making our boat go up and down. When we got to the red roofed house we then turned and sailed back to the beach we did the several times then we sailed back to shore and had morning tea before we went to our next activity.

Our last activity was bivouac. Bivouac is when you build something to cover you, and you have to use the things you have and the things around you like sticks. When we did it we went up the hill where we went for our morning run there is a fitness trail and we did it every morning, and in that are there are a lot of wood and sticks and we used those to build shelter and then we had to pour water on it to see if it was water proof and we have to go under our shelter. As I got under my wood shelter and when the water was poured  I hardly got wet!

I had lots of fun at camp my favourite thing was the food and sailing. My experience at Kawau island will stay with me forever I would really recommend this for the year fives because you get to do loads of fun stuff and learn new things. the things I learnt was the wildlife and how to sail a boat and how to use a compass, I will miss Kawau Island.

Lucy's Camp Bentzon from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.
Here's a movie I made about Camp Bentzon

Advice blog Kawau Island

Wildlife on Kawau Island

This blog post is about the wildlife on kawau island because we are going there tomorrow.

Vocabulary Task

RoboCup

WALT: Using clues in text, along with prior knowledge to help understanding of specific vocabulary and comprehension.

We were given the task to make a poster about the RoboCup either using google poster or google presentation.  

Being a Good Friend

WALT: explain to your reader what being a good friend means

Friends… What are friends? Friends are people you can play with, talk with and they can comfort you when your feeling sad. They will be there for you no matter what. if you have a friend that is unkind and greedy to others then thats not a good friend.

Being a good friend means that you are kind to all your friends no matter how different they are. If one of your friends is sad or lonely don't just stand there and look at her(or him) do something! Try to make them feel better or go find a teacher so they can find the person who made them feel sad. Don’t be mean because thats not a good way to be a friend.



If you are new to a school and don’t have any friends try and look for one and make sure there the right friends. Don’t choose mean friends because no one likes mean people, try to look for these things Kindness, Loyalty and generosity. Look really closely to find those three or two things. When you find them introduce yourself to them and start talking to them.

What happens if your friends fight? Try to stop them fighting so you can talk about it and find what the problem is or find a teacher to help stop them and then talk about. But what if there hitting and punching each other? Pull them apart and get them to calm down after that take them to a teacher or the office so they can sort any injuries and then the problem.

Everyone should have a friend no one should be lonely and if you see someone lonely go and play with them. We are all human and special in our on way and I hope this helps you with your friends.

L.A.B Paragraph Doctor

WALT:rework paragraphs to meet effective paragraph criteria

Reading Maps

Here is a Google slide about reading maps. You still would need to know how to read a map in case google maps doesn't work.

Brochure - Te Ana Ngai Tahu Rock Centre

Symbols

This week the Year five and six Extension group have been learning about symbols. Symbol means a sign of something like the symbol of the girls and boys toilets for the girls its a  symbol of a girl an for the boys a symbol of a boy of course.

We all got into groups of two and we had one minute to talk about one thing that is most important  and then we had to draw it as a symbol. I said my family is important and my Church and Jesus, Mrs Telea was my partner and she said that Jesus is important as well and her family and her baby sister who is not well.

Here is the Symbol that Mrs Telea drew for me

Lucy Capitals

WALT: Write an explanation telling people what capital letters are and when you use them in writing.

Do you know what a Capital letter is? A Capital letter is a bigger version of a little letter (AKA lowercase letter). Capitals are not always the same shape as the lowercase letter like the capital letter R it does not look like the lowercase r.

This is one of the times to use a Capital letter. You can use a capital letter for someone’s name for example “My name is Lucy Misilei” There must be a Capital letter at the start of a name and at the start of the last name because it shows respect to the person’s name.

Another time to use Capitals is the start of a title like the title of a movie for instance “ I watched the movie Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on Monday” or you can use it for Brands, Games, Shops, and Books like Harry Potter or Diary of a Wimpy Kid.



You can also use it for geographical places. Geographical places means places like a country, ocean, city and continent. Here are some examples, New Zealand, Pacific Ocean, Auckland 
 and Europe.
This is the marks I give myself for paragraph 4

Everyone knows that you have to put a Capital letter after a full stop but did you know you do that with question marks and exclamation marks too. Question marks and Exclamation marks have dots under them and look like this ?! the dots are like full stops so after a question mark or exclamation mark you put a Capital letter for instance “ I’m so happy! I can’t wait to go to Rainbow’s end”.

I conclude that  you must put Capital letters in your writing! If you don’t your audience will not understand your writing. So remember what I have written and you will be the best writer you can be.

StoryLines Festival

A few weeks ago on thursday the year five and six Extension group went to the Storylines festival where Authors come and present to us. It was held at Auckland Vodafone center.  The authors were Jill MacGergor, Juliette Maclver, Catherine Mayo and Paula Green.

My  favourite  Author was Catherine Mayo. I really enjoyed Catherine Mayo because I like it how she used slides to show us things about Ancient Greece and I also liked the sword that she brought that looked like the sword from her story. She showed us lots of things from Greece. I really enjoyed the Storylines I can not wait for next year.

M&L Poem about Compound

listen to ‘M&L Poem about Compound’ on Audioboo
WALT: use the structure of the newspaper articles to write news reports.

Elections Billboard

 

Today the Extension group were learning about the Elections. We were given the task do draw our own Billboard as if we were in the Elections and make up are own party. We learnt what MMP means, It stands for Mixed Members Proportions which means the amount of votes a party gets is the amount of seats it as in parliament you have two votes the next vote is for someone from your local electorate from parliament who ever gets the most votes will become your MMP. To get a seat a party must have 5% of the votes or win a seat from the electorate.

Breadfruit chips Vocabulary

Breadfruit chips A&L

breadfruit chips A&L from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.
This is a video about how to make Breadfruit chips. The Kea's group have been learning what breadfruit is and how it can help with world wide hunger. This is one of the recipes you can make with breadfruit there are lots you can make with breadfruit. I hope you enjoy the video me and Ariana have made.