Albert Jack

This week for inquiry our task was to create a Medal for a Maori Battalion Soldier. This DLO I created shows a Medal for Albert Jack and also a picture of him, This DLO also tells you about Albert Jack. I really enjoyed making this DLO because I got to create the Medal my self using the google draw tools, and I also enjoyed learning about Albert Jack.

Athletics Day

Today the whole school did Athletics. We were split up into four group colors. The colors were green, blue, red and yellow. I was in the red team.There were 9 stations (Activities) that groups were needed to go to. All of us took part in the activities. The 9 stations (Activities) were Frisbee, rob the nests, long jump, shot put, hurdle and sponge run, hula hoop throw, and egg run. Thanks you Tamaki college helped to demonstrate the games and collaborated us.

Hua Rakau Poster

For Maori, today I created a poster that shows a Fruits name in Maori. While doing this activity I learnt some of the fruit names in Maori. Some of them sounds the same in Maori. The task was to just use the Maori name so we can understand by looking at the photos.

Progress in Readtheory

Today for Reading we looked back at our results on read theory. We looked at our past results and compared it to other results month by month. We all created a bar graph to show and tell other people our results and the difference there is from when we started and now. Last year February I started on Grade 2 which was really easy. Now on November 2018 I am on grade 5 which means that I have expanded my knowledge by 3 grades.

Wolves be Emily Gravett

The week for reading week Miss Anderson readied us a book about called Wolves this book was by Emily Gravett. Our task for this book was to create a DLO about Mythes and Facts. This DLO tells you Facts Mythes about Wolves and also Facts. The Mythes is what we think about Wolves, and the Facts is the truth about the Wolves. I really enjoyed creating this DLO because the book was interesting and I got to learn more about Wolves.

Meerkat by Emily Gravett

The week for reading week Miss Anderson readied us a book about Meerkat this book was by Emily Gravett. Our task for this book was to create a DLO telling us about Meerkat. This DLO tells you Facts about Meerkat, Appearance, Diet and the Habitat. I enjoyed making this DLO because the book was interesting and I also wanted to learn more about Meerkats.

Book Week - Why is the Cover Important?

This week is book week. Today we were put into groups and rotated to the different stations. We would answer questions or give our opinion. Once we finished going to all of the stations I chose a question to do a statistical analysis on. The question was: Why is the cover important?. I used a pie graph to show reasons why a cover is important. I also used a bar graph to show how much people in our class voted for how important the cover is. 

WW1 Question?

Today Josh S and I created a DLO showing the Chemicals used in WWI. We have released two chemicals that has been used in WWI, and they are Mustard Gas and Tear Gas. While doing this research San Kyaw and I learnt interesting facts about chemicals used in WWI. We have enjoyed doing this activity.

Armistice Day Commemoration

Today we had our own Armistice Day Commemoration where we came together to remember the soldiers that fought for our country. On the Commemoration they talked about poppies, and also read a poem called Flanders field. They were also people that went up and representing their class room by putting the signed poppy on the wall. We also had a representative from the New Zealand defense force who came and talked about the War. They also put the flag up while they played a song called Reveille.

Armistice Collage

For reading we were learning about the Battle of the Somme that occurred on July 1st 1916. We first read a text explaining what happened during the war and a few facts about it. We read the text and answered the questions. We answered the questions about the war and got to write our own opinion about what we thought about the war. We have learnt that war shrines were like memorials made to remember the fallen soldiers.

What we remembered about WW1

Today for inquiry Miss Anderson talked about WW1 after she finished telling use about WW1, our task was to create a DLO showing what we remembered. On the left side is the facts, and the right side is where we check if the facts are correct. We also add more details about the facts on the check list.