Final recount test Term 4.

Kia Ora,

This is a screenshot of my results in our end of Term 4 recount writing test. My teachers have worked out my average score for writing and I am at 5B. This is well above the National Standard for my year level.I am doing great at structure and vocabulary.

I  need to work harder at my organisation next year.

The Opunake beach.

Hi guys,
Today I went to the beach, Dad and Aunty Willie dived for pauas, all they got was Kinas.(sea urchins.)Here is the beautiful view from up top.All photos taken by me.After we went to wash off in my awa, Waiaua.I used the go pro to record that so I won't upload it on this blog.

Here is the view:

Going to the Urupa.

Hey guys,
Today I went to the Urupa, a Urupa is a cemetery.Me, my father, and Rose went to go see the whanau.

My Great Grandparents

My other great grandfathero

My Great Uncle

My trip to Opunake.

Hi guys,
tonight I did a trip to Opunake, Taranaki.We left at around eight and arrived at 4:05 in the morning.I'm really tired and am now heading off to bed.I will keep you updated on my journey.

PAT Test Results, T4 2017

Hi,

Last week we did a P.A.T reading test, PAT stands for Progressive. Achievement. Test.
I think I did well, I got stanine 6, and the score of 30.Here is a photo of my test:

Hearts and Kidneys.

Kia ora.

This week we had Mrs. B bring in some organs for us to observe.
She brought real animal hearts and kidneys.This relates to our recent visit to Life Ed.It was very interesting and I must say it did smell nice when they were cooking.Here is some writing inspired by yesterdays experience.

Here is a photo of my group.

Here is my writing.

(To view in large size click on it.)

Skittles.

Hi.
Earlier this week we did an experiment.We wanted to make patterns and different colors by pouring water on skittles.We had to use our senses to describe what we saw using adjectives and other writing jems to make our writing better.I wrote a short recount, I used all my senses.
Here's my Recount:

Skittles

Fading colours blend together like a smoothie.Silence struck the room when the skittle bag shook, the shake of the bag sounded like a rattlesnake shaking its tail.An aroma of sour lime and sweet strawberry flew up my nose.I sniffed the air, it made my mouth water.The tempting taste of the skittles were heavenly.The crunch, the flavour and the smooth edges of the skittle rub gently against the side of your mouth.

       

Meeting a Kiwi.

Kia Ora!!

A while ago I met a kiwi,
I met the kiwi at my Mums work.The kiwi was really shy, It snapped it's beak and growled at us.The kiwi is a juvenile male kiwi, it got stuck in a trap called a leg hold.People use them to sometimes catch cats that kill kiwis and they usually use them to kill possums and ferrets.
Here is some of the photos I took of the Kiwi:

Descriptive Writing

Kia Ora.

This week at school we had some scientists observe our class.

They looked at how well we worked on our computers and how our teachers work with us.  We did some descriptive writing using our 5 senses, we chose a picture to write about.  We were expected to write a short story about it using our 5 senses but we had to do at least 3.

Here is my story called the burnt hospital :

Ashes crumble silently from the burnt crust walls of the hospital.

Faint noises of mice echoed through the walls.

You can feel the rusted bars of the old beds.

The walls smell musty and damp.

Hanging torn curtains covered in ashes dance in the wind, making ashes fly like fairies.

The smashed glass windows shattered into tiny bits of glass ready to slice your feet open.

   

Cross Country.

Kia ora,

This week we had Cross Country. I came 16th.
It was really hot.We had lots of schools that came.
 The grass was very slippery.
I had to race the 10 year old girls and I had to do two laps so I ran about 2kms.
I was really nervous but I came in the Top 20!!!!

Here is a photo of the ten year old girls lined up for our race, but in this photo you can't see me:

Tomorrows Science Fair.

Kia ora.

Tomorrow is our science fair, we are getting very busy trying to organize everything for tomorrow.We all chose groups and each person had a job and something to bring, my group is: Deevon, Waiorere, Kyra, Willow, and I.I had to bring thumbtacks.Our experiment is lightning in a glass jar, what we have to do is in our jar we have to place aluminum foil at the bottom of the jar, a dryer sheet on the top underneath the lid, and poke in thumbtacks.After, we closed the jar lid and then rubbed a balloon on our head, then we placed it on the jar.That is supposed to create static electricity, and it should travel from the metal lid, through the thumbtacks, to the aluminium foil.That should send lightning down the jar.

Our science experiments.

Kia ora.

We have been doing science experiments in preparation for the science fair. Here is a photo of one of our experiments.In this photo I have my group with me.In order from left to right, Hollie, Kyra, Daniel, and in the corner of the image me.This experiment was when we were trying to make a tea bag fly,

we had to light it on fire.When other peoples tea bags burnt the ashes flew into the air, that did not happen to our tea bag though.

Learning how to read a scientific report.

Kia ora,
We are learning how to read and write scientific reports. We have been doing experiments and writing about them. This is a reading activity we did. We had to be able to match a title for a report with a wondering question.

We are learning how to understand the structure and language of a report about a scientific experiment.

In this exercise you need to match a title with its question. Use the ‘Fill tool’ to colour code the matching ideas.

Notice that none of these questions begin with a ‘Why….’.  This is because the purpose of a scientific experiment report is to share what you thought you knew, what you thought would happen and your observations about what actually did happen. It’s a bit like you are saying:

I’m wondering this…..because I know this…...so therefore if I do this I think this might happen.

So, at the end of a successful scientific report, you may not be able to say why something happened but you will be on the way to finding out why.

Then, when you do find out why, you will have to learn how to write an Explanation. The purpose of  Explanation writing is to answer Why questions. So, do not be surprised if your teachers decide to teach you Explanation writing later on!!!

Freezing Water.	What will happen when you mix vinegar and baking soda?
Floating and Sinking.	What will happen to an ice cube if you take it out of the freezer?
Kitchen Chemistry.	Which materials make the best insulators?
Disappearing Water.	What happens when you put a container of water into a freezer?
Keep Your Cool.	What will happen to a puddle of water on a hot day?
Ice Cube Experiment.	Does Blutack float?

Multiplying by 10, 100, 1000

Hello,

this week at school I've been Multiplying by 10, 100, 1000.
If you have any number that has a zero at the end of it like: 14 times 100. You'd do 14 times 1 and add the two zeros to get your answer.You can do this to any equation but, the bigger number you times the more zeros you will need to add to the end.This strategy is a simple way to times big numbers like this:
                                         (To view these images bigger click on them)

                 The way I solved this:                         
I can easily figure out this equation because, I know that 73 times 1 =73.
                    All you'd be left with is a zero.Add that to the end and that's your answer.

    

Bon Voyage!!

Here is my reading activity I did with Miss Fletcher she is training to be a teacher, we've been doing argument writing so we went to Florida Schools Argument Writing page to learn how to write a speech.Here is my 'Why dogs are the best pets' screenshot.This was the first one I've ever done.

Learning Journey Term 2.

Here is my updated Learning Journey, my description is in the first version of this..

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BFF SELFIES!!!!

These are my main best friends,although some of my other main friends weren't there, (probably because I was too lazy to get up...) my others are Bailey and Kyra and Kirsten.The people in this photo from the left, Mia, Deevon, Me, and Waiorere.

All About Me.

Here is All About Me,
I made this in drive, google drawing.
I like this because it has a colorful background and I like the patterns.
It shows images of Me and other things that involve me.😸

Rose

We are learning how to get better marks in our writing bu using hooks, similes and metaphors.I decided to write about my gorgeous sister, Rose Rangimarie Ratahi.


                                                               Rose. 
“Hi, baby Rose,” I say as my sister and father walked through the doorway.Her smiles are wide oceans.Her chubby cheeks smushed up like a flat ball, her eyes all squinted up.Cuddling her felt like hugging a teddy bear.She started to smell a bit for a moment.She is my cuddly bear, sweet, adorable, and always happy.It seems to be that she is always happy to see me.

 Have you ever heard a noise so loud it makes you shiver? When she cries it sounds like a devil's scream, her tears drown me. She screeches like crazy!!!Although my hearing is good she makes me feel as if I’m deaf.She’s either hungry or just wants something.But she’s always cute to me and I love how she drops her bottom lip and makes cute facials. 

 She cuddles Mum. Drinks her milk. She has no teeth but ate a whole shortbread!! She is a food vacuum cleaner.When she drifts off to sleep she’s just so cute.She could fool anyone with her smiles. 
 By Tylah Ratahi

Similes and Metaphors.

Hi guys,

I've been learning how similes and metaphors work.
I learnt that similes are describing something to something else and metaphors are saying something is something else...
Here's my RECOUNT/ANIMATION simile and metaphor slide.

My Venn Diagram Of Two Animals.

Kia Ora,

Here is my Venn diagram I made to compare two animals,
Koalas and MeerKats.
Out of both animals my favorite would have to be a Koala.
A marsupial is a type of animal that has a pouch.
I've even saw some differences myself comparing the two animals, like how Koalas live alone but MeerKats live in groups.
A Venn Diagram is when you have two circles and make them overlap.
 It may look a bit like mine on page 15,
in the center of the two circles write what they have in common and then the two other circles their differences.

Koala.

I've drawn a koala,
we are comparing animals to one another.
Meerkat; Koala.
Here's the drawing of the Koala,

Anzac Puppy.

Hi,
I've been using Story board that it is when you make a story board,
we've been focusing on war and I did a storyboard based on the Anzac Puppy,
here it is.

Learning Journey Term 1.

Hi,

We have started doing our learning journey.
I think I have already improved since last year and it's only term 1.
I am doing really good with my grades.
P.S click for a full screen view.

My Narrative.

We have been learning how to write narratives. Narratives are a style of writing which tell a story usually following this structure: Introduce a time,place and good character/s. Then introduce bad character/s and a problem. Have the good character solve the problem.End up with a solution to the problem which is satisfying for a reader and which might teach a lesson. All the way through the story, use descriptive language to help describe the places and characters well. Because we are also learning about myths and legends, some of us decided to use the myth genre. Myths are imaginary narratives which use a story with a message to try to explain a natural phenomenon such as rain, wind or earthquakes.My story is a narrative but it's also a myth. My story is a myth because it is an imaginative way of trying to explain why we have tides and tar.

Water Dragon

A myth by Tylah Ratahi.

Once upon a time there was a dragon. His home was the mountains and

is bed was a soft mountain side.His weight made the mountain split in half and form a sea where he drank water daily.

He was a tall, hairy dragon with smelly feet who always had a big smile which made wrinkles on his chubby cheeks. His nose was as big as a mountain and he was known as the Water Dragon because could bring the tide in and out. He used to drink the water and spit it back out because it was salty, and that also made waves.

On a sunny Friday, Water Dragon went to go get a drink.He noticed the water tasted different, grossly different. He had swallowed polluted water and he had already taken a humongous gulp.He spat it all out. I can never drink water again he thought. But the people said, “ if there are no more  tides  the fish will die!”

The people scream at Water Dragon,“Drink up, make the tides keep working!”

Just then along came a fire dragon and said, “What’s the problem?”

“ I can't drink the polluted water and make the tides anymore,” said Water Dragon.

“Well, I can take care of that,” said Fire Dragon. He gulped up all the polluted water and then did an enormous poop. He pooped out a humongous pile of sticky black tar and then he spewed back all the water sparkling clean again.

He became the town hero and so did Water Dragon because he could carry on making the tides again. They became a team and were best friends forever.

And that is why seas have tides and why we have tar on Earth.

Triathlon Training.

Kia Ora.
Today it's Friday,
we are doing the school triathlon.
We're swimming biking and running.
I'm only doing biking and running because of my ear.
I'll be keeping you updated on whats happening.

From Tylah. ♥♡♥♡♥

I Wrote Team Moanas Weekly News.

Kia Ora,

I'm am now Team Moanas news writer.

My deadline was Thursday and I made it,

sadly I was away on Thursday to see my work in the school news paper.

I also had help from my best friend,

 Mia.

Here is my writing.

Kia Ora,

This is the first Class News written by our new editorial team of Tylah Ratahi and Mia Williams

This week we have been very busy and also had some bad weather.

Thursday there was heavy rain,which ended up turning into a storm and cancelling hockey and swimming coaching. Kerikeri ended up getting flooded but we stayed inside drawing Thunder Gods while the storm passed.

We had another wet day on Friday,some children were sent to do wet day duties in junior classrooms at lunchtime. We had at least ten people away due to a bug that was going around.

But, on Monday, we were lucky. We got to see Tracy from Swim For Life.She talked to us about five ways to be safe in the water: One: Never swim alone, Two: Safety first, Three: If in doubt stay out, Four: Always tell someone where you are going, and Five: Always check the weather. We also started learning about fractions and that that will be our focus for maths for the next couple of weeks.

On Wednesday we had the Swim for Life program back on with  Beth.

We had to see how many lengths of the pool we could swim without touching the bottom, and how long we could  float on our backs with clothes on. Braeden was brilliant, he floated on his back for over two minutes and swam the most lengths. He did 8.

Well, that’s our Thursday to Wednesday report for Week 7 Term 1 2017. Our deadline was 2pm this afternoon and we made it!!

Chimera Writing.

Kia ora,

Last week I done a piece of artwork,
it was a mythical creature with my face on it.
We had to do a piece of writing to go with your piece of art work and glue it on.
This is my Chimera Writing.


This is my chimera.
A chimera is a mythical creature that is made up of two or more kinds of creature.
My chimera’s name is Pixeme.
Pixeme is a teeny, tiny, humble Pixey.
She has a beautiful yellow dress.
She is as tiny as a piece of dust.
She can camouflage with the honey bees with her yellow dress.
She flutters through the sky with her wings,
she was self taught to fly.
She has an undersized bit of leg jewelery that dangles from her leg.
By Tylah Ratahi

Christmas

This is my writing about my Christmas.

Myths And Legends.

This year we are learning about myths and legends. Our theme is 'Learn from a Myth Become a Legend' We had to explain the difference between a myth and a legend I chose a Myth. It was - What happened to the                                                                            Unicorns.