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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Protecting our Kaimoana

Protecting our Kaimoana

Agree or Disagree

Read the journal - Protecting our Kaimoana

Complete this agree or disagree activity based on what the author thinks.

Statement	Would the author Agree or Disagree	Evidence	Page number and paragraph
New Zealand's number of undersea creatures is decreasing.	Agree	“I saw that the undersea creatures were steadily disappearing”	Page 1 Paragraph 1
If people keep being greedy, then we could run out of Kaimoana in our oceans.	Agree	But if people are greedy and get enough to reproduce themselves then the fridge will get cleaned.	Page 1 paragraph 2
There are no rules about the size or number you can take when collecting Kaimoana.	Disagree	M.A.F has set rules  about size and number of all the different kinds of kaimoana you can take.	Page 2 Paragraph 1
You need a permit to collect more than what you need for yourself.	Agree	Sometimes people need to get extra kaimoana for a hui anyone can come to me and get a permit for that.	page 2 Paragraph 2 .
M.A.F. cannot search your catch.	Disagree	The warrant I carry from M.A.F gives me power to stop people if I think they are carrying kaimoana and check it.	Page 2 Paragraph 3
You can sell what you catch as long as you don’t charge too much.	Disagree	And there are people who are selling what they catch. That’s illegal unless you have a special licence.	Page 2 Paragraph 4
You are not allowed to catch Paua on Scuba gear.	Agree	Some divers use scuba gear to take paua. Thats strictly illegal,	Page 2 Paragraph 5

Statement	Do you agree or Disagree	Explain why you agree or disagree
There is no need for Fisheries officers, people should be able to get how ever much Kaimona they need.	Disagree	I disagree because If they take as much as they want there might be no more kaimoana left.
No one should be allowed to catch their own Kaimona. People should only be able to get them from the shops.	Disagree	I disagree because you should be allowed to catch your own kaimoana and not always buy it from the shop and whats wrong if you catch your own kaimoana if you follow the rules.