Lotte- Ghost Cities podcast

 

 

Hi  Lotte here. Today in Lockdown I have been researching about Ashgabat a practically abandoned city found in the strange country of Turkmenistan I made a podcast and a podcast script about it. The hardest part of this task was definitely going into Lockdown I had already done some research on it but I had left it at school the day we went into Lockdown but its okay now. I hope you enjoy this post! Kia Kaha stay safe and wash your hands.     

Harrison- The History of Dogs

 

The history of dogs

 Today for at home school one of our can dos were history on dogs above is some research on the history of dogs and some pictures of my unties dogs and our dog Alfie I hope you like it. The easiest part for me was watching the video on the history of dogs because all you had to do is listen. And the most difficult part for me was remembering all the information from the video. By Harrison 

Jackson- Olympics

Olympics research



What was the first Olympic task?

It started with boxing, running, hoplite race, pankration, four-horse

chariot race, pentathlon, wrestling, long-distance running, and

double stade foot race,


How did the Olympics start/when

The Olympic games started in the 3000 every four years 50,000 people

came to participate. The Greeks loved the sport so they made up theidea of the Olympics.


How does sport get into the

Olympics?


The Olympic games have expanded from 241 to more than 10,000

competitors since the original reestablishments in Athens with the 1896

games. Dozens of additions and changes have been made in the

Olympic program since 1896.


What sports are there in the

Olympics?

There are a lot of sports like soccer, rugby, swimming, boxing and

basketball and 36 More!

All sports in Tokyo Olympic sport /




What country has the most medals?




The United States has 79 china in 2nd place with 70 and in third place for

the most medals is ROC




hi this is my Olympic research took me 2 weeks to do hope you enjoy

my favourite fact was when they started i was just amazed

Keil, Jari and Slade- Ghost Cities

 

 

For the last few weeks Jari, Slade, and I had to write about a ghost city and we picked the Chernobyl disaster I hope you enjoy.  

Luke- Bake off

 

Harry- Speech

 

Speech - Why you shouldn't play with lethal weapons

 Have you noticed that knives are quite sharp? It's almost like they're meant to cut things! 

Hello, Ciao, Hola and Guten tag. My name is Harry and I’m going to talk to you about why you shouldn't play with lethal weapons.

Now, I have two stories involving sharp knives. I'm in Hokitika with my friends making a knife at a workshop and I ask the teacher if it's sharp enough-she runs her finger along the blade- It wasn't sharp. I go back to filing the blade and then I eventually stop, and remember how she tested how sharp it was, and let me tell you personally that it was sharp. 

This story is about bagels. Now I like bagels, and when I got home from school one day I made one. I got a knife and cut… I myself on the finger NOT the bagel which was quite unfortunate, Because bagels are really nice. Now I know what you're thinking and no I was not deprived of that delicious seagull, I mean bagel. 

Now kids, just don't play with knives it'll hurt, quite a bit, and I know you think I'm one of those people who are completely crazy for safety, but if I was you wouldn't be listening to this speech since I wouldn't have any stories. I'm almost fine because I have lots of experience and I'm a bit careful. Keep away from knives that are bad for your health which most are. 

Now time for some facts. In the USA 1.56 in 1000 people get injured from knives which doesn't make too much sense to me because some people get half an injury. Put your hands up...if you have injured yourself with a knife? According to my statistics, 1 in 4 people in my class has not had “near-death” experiences, those lucky ones. Now to the next story!

I think we can all agree that flaming arrows are cool, and I really liked them-I decided to make one and it worked, but it was very intense when the flame was 100s of millimeters away from my hand. I am forever traumatized from that very moment. I later found out that a crossbow works better than a bow since arrows are heavier so it's not as powerful which makes the fire still burn when it hits its target, and it makes a cool whoosh when it flies through the air.

This is a bit off-topic so don't be surprised if you are confused. Unless your parents are okay with you nearly killing yourself don't try this at home. Crossbows are very powerful. Mainly I'm saying this to make sure your parents don't sue me when you have spontaneously combusted using a crossbow, make sure your parents don't even think about suing me, I don't have a lawyer but please don't, cause I've heard it's not fun getting sued.

 About 500 people each year are killed from fire but archery is relatively safe with an average of 0.57 injuries per 1000 people. Still, those percentages don't make much sense to me. Now if you somehow haven't got the message, weapons are dangerous. I don't really have anything factual because most people should know that weapons are, Let's put it… bad for your health.

Overall, just don't play with weapons, (which is something I need to learn) but it's something you might too. My friend wanted to make an explosive because that's fun, And he along with his dad got some very explosive stuff and started making small explosives-BANG they blew up the kitchen. Now when I go over to their house and go past the kitchen the wall looks like it's been burnt but they fixed the rest. 

Thank you for listening to my speech      

This is my speech about why you shouldn't play with lethal weapons

Jesse Key Word Hunt

 

Key word hunt

 

So today we have learned about a story of a 9-year-old boy who wanted to ride the whole of NZ and to raise money for St John.  We read the story and thought about the most important parts of the story and then wrote them in this keyword hunt.

Taj- Torty the Tortoise

 

Torty the tortoise

 

Today my class had to do an Anzac activity because it is coming up Anzac Day. I liked doing this because it was fun and we got a chose what we could do and I like making photos and there was an option of doing it so I did it. one bit was hard and that was getting the right background so don't hate it. 

Jackson- Persuasive writing

 Class pet

Dear miss farr

                                                                                                                                                                           I am your student jackson.

I am writing you this because

 I want a class puppy it could be Alex

The first reason! 

Do you know how fun it would be to have a class puppy?

Well, it would be fun because we could teach it tricks and play with it to make it fit. We could go to the beach and run it around the field twice and make everyone love it! 

Second reason!

It would be great to have one if we did any way everyone won't be so bored you could say we can play with the pup if you guys do your work

Third reason!

Everyone would love it they would play with Alex and sit with Alex if he's lonely

If we do everyone would be respectful and help each other to finish so we could play with him

I think we should  it will be fun overall if we do that to make it fit and we fit is well filter than usually if you don't agree its find

by jackson

Harrison- Ware Mascots

 

T-Shaped literacy

 

Today in Whenua we started our ANZAC T-Shaped literacy, above is a picture of my first activity I have done hope you enjoy it. The easiest part for me was picking an activity to do because it was the most interesting one and I like things about animals in the war. The most difficult part for me was getting a lot of information because there wasn't a lot in that book that i was reading. By Harrison 

Emily- Persuasive Writing

 

letter to the PTA

 kia ora PTA, I'm Emily today I'm writing to you because I think paora school should have a rock climbing wall. I think it will be a brilliant idea because it will improve your flexibility and your strength.

Why should we have a rock climbing wall at school??

having a rock climbing wall will bring people being more interested in rock climbing and you can practice your balance it will give heaps more people something fun to do. It's good for your fitness your mind, doing something new can take bad thoughts off your mind.

what uses is it to people?

There could be a person that comes in every day to do rock climbing lessons and having races to the top and back.

what will it help with?

having access to a climbing wall, and using it leads to a marked improvement of physical literacy in terms of balance, agility, and coordination. climbing is a great form of exercise with many health benefits

 In conclusion, I think paroa school should have a rock climbing wall. It will put more smiles on faces l, it will give the students some new to do. It will help everyone build confidence when there climbing. Rock climbing can teach you skills in how to properly rock climb.

kia ora today we had to finish doing our letters about whatever people picked. We had to research about it and put it in our books them write it up on our blogs. I learned to never give up and never stop trying and it work I learned that do rock climbing can clear your mind.

Dean- Tokelau energy

 

how does tokelau get its electricity

 

today we finished our t shaped literacy my favorite part was finishing it because if we didn't finish it we would have to do this at home and my least favorite part was reading the pages to get the information to write down because it took a very long time too read the story.  

Daisy- Pelorus Jack

 

pelorus jack

 

Today we are doing ANZAC reading. I did a drawing about pelorus jack, a dog that sailed the HMS New Zealand. I chose to do this because it sounds awesome that a dog can sail on a ship for that long. what I learnt, and thought was wicked, was that when over 1 thousand people died a little dog survived.

Eden- Torty the Tortoise

 Hello, everyone! How are you? I hope you are having a wonderful day today! So my class Whenua is working on something new for T-Shaped Literacy. Can you guess what it is? We are learning about Anzac and some of the animals that went to war. So we were supposed to choose a story that was on the class blog and read the book. Then we were supposed to pick something off the chart and do that certain activity. There were many activities to do, but you can't do the same activity for the same book. So I chose to read Torty the lucky Tortoise. Torty is a Tortoise that was found by Stewart. Stweart took Torty into his home after she got ran over by a wheel. Then she went through a lot of things, she got stolen, found, in a fire, and through hibernation. This is the first activity that I chose off the chart. The activity I chose was: Are there any animals or natural settings in your book? If yes, draw and describe them. If no could there have been? Draw and Describe them. So I drew Torty and what she looked like, I also described her. I found this easy and hard. I also found this fun. This took me about 15 minutes to make. I also decided to write my text, and the text is down below this caption. I also put a picture of what Torty looks like. Fun Fact: Tortoises are ancient, Tortoises have been around for over 200 million years- longer than lizards, birds, mammals, crocodiles, and snakes. Thanks, bye, Eden.

Torty is a small tortoise. She has two-wheel marks on the top of her shell. When she was found, by her owner, she was around one hundred years old. While currently, she is two hundred years old. She has faded marks on her back. She is grey, black, and a very light orangey yellow. She has two little cute nostrils and a cute innocent face. She has lost some toes on her back toes. Her feet are scaly and rough. Overall she looks adorable. 

Jari- First World War Mascots

 

first WORLD WAR mascots

today we did some ANZAC stuff and one of the activities was to create a book cover for the book that we read and we read a book wot was about first world war mascots and here is ar cover I did it with a buddy and hope you enjoy it.

Renewable energy

 For the past two weeks for literacy we have been looking at renewable energy. After we completed all of our learn tasks we were asked to make a model of our school and research what renewable energy would work for our school. We then had to research how much solar panels would cost and if they would actually work for our school. There has been some incredible learning going on and we would love if you could leave us some comments on our blogs.

Daisy's Energy Word Map

 

word

 

Lotte's Compare and Contract

 

comparing and contrasting energy

 

Today for my learning I am doing T-shaped literacy, we had to, as you can see read supporting texts A and B and buddy up to compare and contrast the texts, I was buddies up with daisy and did text A. The hardest part of this task was trying to identify what was different about the text but in the but as the text went on the easier this got. I hope you enjoy my post.