Biospheres

This is a Biosphere diorama that me and my group made.  It has everything needed:  Water purifiers, a farm, lounge and bedrooms, a school, a kitchen and toilets.  It took a while to make, but it looks decent.

Narrative Plan

This is my narrative plan.  I had to get all of this info through reading the book that we were doing our narrative on (we had to do it on a section of the book), Between 2 Ends.  I thought my Narrative, in the end, was quite good.  The first column explains the setting of the narrative, the second column explains the main character of the actual story (Yeats) and the main character of my narrative (Shahrazad).

Pirate Ship Net Constuction

This is a Pirate ship that me and a small group made. We made it by making 3-D shapes and using glue to stick them together.  I think that it looks really cool.  We used clicko to make the shapes and then we took it apart and copied the net onto paper.  then we cut the nets out, made them into their shape and stuck them together.  It took a while, but it looked cool in the end.

Diary Post T4 W6

We have been doing a lot of interesting things in the last 5 weeks.  Here are some of them.

Last Week (Week 5 of Term 4),  it was our student teacher´s last day.  She was quite sad.  :(

We finished our exciting book that we have been reading as a class - Between Two Ends. It had lots of adventuring in it.  It is a really good book. It is about Someone called Yeats who goes into a book called 1001 Arabian Knights to rescue someone who has got stuck in the story.

We also made pirate ships and treasure chests out of 3-D shapes.  We used paper and glue to make them.  They looked cool.  

We also did swimming last week.  We played netball in the pool!  It was really enjoyable. Our team won.

As you can see, our class has been doing some cool things lately.

Narrative - Between two Ends

This is my narrative.  I had to do it on  a section of a book, Between 2 Ends, from a character´s perspective that wasn't the main character´s perspective.  I enjoyed writing this.  I have called my story Midnight Plan.

Diary Post Term 4 Week 1

Our class has been doing some interesting things in the first week back to school.

 We have been doing something called a ballad, which is sort of like a poem mixed with a story, as it tells a story but it rhymes and there are 4 lines in each stanza, or paragraph.

 The other thing we have been doing is Paper Mache. We are making the solar system out of Paper Mache.

We have also started a new novel in our class, called Between Two Ends.  So far, it is about a boy name Yeats going to Gran's house with his parents and in the part we have just read he found 2 talking pirate bookends.  These bookends also move.

So these are the interesting things that we have done this week.

Ballad - Cricket

This is the ballad that I did.  This ballad is about cricket.  
A ballad is sort of like a poem and a story mixed together, as it tells a story but at the same time, it rhymes and has stanzas (or paragraphs) with 4 lines in them.   It was quite difficult to think of rhyming - that´s why some lines sound a bit weird.  I learnt a lot about ballads.  I enjoyed writing this Ballad as I love cricket - that is why I made the subject is cricket. Hopefully this is joyful to read. Enjoy!

The Perfect Spring Day

This is a piece of writing describing the perfect spring day.  Mine is not very long, but I still like it.  Enjoy!

Show Don´t tell Camp MERC Recount

We are learning to use the show don´t tell way of writing.  Show don´t tell is where you make your audience do some thinking by not saying a feeling but saying something that the feeling causes.
For example: Instead of ¨I´m scared¨ it is ¨My legs where wobbling.¨
I have Highlighted parts where this way of writing has been used.  This way of writing was quite difficult.
We wrote about an activity at camp - I chose Slingshot.
I enjoyed writing this recount.  If I ever do something like this again, I would like to add in more show don´t tell parts - I 
don´t think I did very many.

Camp MERC Certificate

This is my certificate for attending camp.  we stayed at camp for 3 days (2 Nights).  Camp was fun.  The food was delicious.

I enjoyed staying at Camp MERC (Marine Education and Recreation Centre).  The activities were cool.  I would like to go to camp again if I could.

Auckland Painting

This is the Auckland city silhouette painting that I did.  I like it. I hope you like it!

Wrinkle in time - Being different

We have been reading a book called the Wrinkle in time at school and the main character, Meg, is different to everyone else.  This activity shows how I am different to some other people.

Imformation Report

This is a slideshow about marine life issues. We were learning about the issues to marine life.  Our group then showed it to the class for feedback to improve.  So we improved it, and here it is.  We also did this to learn about information reports.

My Haiku

This is the haiku I wrote - it is about water.
This is my first haiku.

Pakuranga Intermediate Trip

Yesterday the year sixes went to visit Pakuranga intermediate. We
went there because we went to see what intermediate would look like.  A lot of other schools were there too.  Our school is called Elm Park school, if you didn't know that.  
When we came, we were greeted in the school hall.

Then we did a french class.  We learnt what some animals were in french.  I remember one - un chat - a cat.  
We did a art class after that. We made these sort of jellyfish things.  Making them included spray paint and a hot glue gun, but the teacher used them, so we couldn't put it on ourselves.  

Then we went back to the hall - were we started.  They had a talk to us about what we could expect.  They also told us about the different courts that they have.  I don't know why they did that, but they did.

Then we went back to school.
Intermediate is definitely different than our school, as they have specialist classes (The ones that we went to) and we have nothing like that at all.  I thought our trip was interesting.

Prediction - own Choice Novel

This is the novel I chose for this activity - Glory in the Cup - a cricket novel.  I play cricket and I have read other books in the series.  That is why I chose this book.

Prediction - A Wrinkle in Time

This is a prediction for a book that we are reading in class called A Wrinkle in Time.  It is a good book.

Speech - The Benefits of Self Driving Cars

This is my speech for 2016 - the Benefits of Self Driving Cars.  I hope you enjoy my speech.

Diary Post T3 W1

We have been doing a lot of things this week.
Here is some of them:


On Wednesday we had our first session of bike skills this term.  We learnt how to check that all of our equipment is put on properly and then we did some riding.  After we were warmed up, we played a game where we could not put our feet on the ground or we were out.  They made it harder by making our riding area smaller and changing the direction everyone was riding in.  And believe me, that got a bit difficult as people kept stopping and putting their feet on the ground because there would be someone in their turning circle.  I did not do very good at this game.

This week we have started a new way of doing our SDL (Self-Directed Learning).  The way we do it now is through Hapara student dashboard.
This new way is really cool because the teacher can make it so that you can only get tasks at certain times, and you have a time limit in which you can complete it in. The teacher can monitor us with her account.
I think the new way is cool.


Yesterday (It is currently Friday) we started our Cross Country training.  At some point this term we will do the real thing and the top 7 boys and girls (They are separate) from each year level go to the Inter-School Cross Country to compete against other schools.  I made it through in Year 4 but not Year 5 because we were in Oamaru.  I thought Inter-School in Year 4 was a bit boring, but oh well.

The first week of this term has been rather busy.  We have been told that this term is going to be very busy, so expect more!

Multiplication Strategies

This is my Multiplication strategies slideshow.  It lists 5 different strategies for multiplication.  I enjoyed making it.

Diary Post T2W8

In the last 2 weeks we have not been very busy, but here is some of the stuff that we have started/done:


At the start of this week we have started reading a book in our class called 
The Green Book.  It is about a group of people fleeing earth, as the earth was perishing.  A group of people went on a 4 year trip on a spaceship to another planet, With very little belongings.  Here are the things they were able to take:
-1 book only
-1 or 2 personal items only   
The ship they were on had many other supplies though, like food and fuel.  They went there in hope of survival and colonisation.


Our class also started our speech planning templates and our speeches this week.  I have finished my template but I have not done my speech, mainly because I can´t think of a topic for it!


Soon, we are going to make a paper maché solar system.  the distances are going to be to scale, just so you know.  we measured the distances with the toilet paper activity.  We measured how many pieces of toilet paper there are between the planets (to scale).  I don´t know when we are going to make it, but I do know that I am making Mercury with my friend Gabriel. 


These last 2 weeks have been quite interesting.  

Advertisement

Last term we (Me and my friend George) made an advertisement about laser strike.  I have uploaded this now because we had problems with it before.  We did this because we were learning about persuasive techniques.  Making an advertisement is a good idea to learn about them.  I enjoyed making this advertisement, but it  was very challenging, as we had many problems with recording and saving the recording and other things.  It was a very long process, but we managed it in the end.  I hope you enjoy! 

Diary Post T2 W7

We have been doing a lot in the past few weeks. Here is some of the learning that we have done:

Last week we had a Matariki assembly and a group of trainee teachers came to the assembly.  The trainee teachers re-modernised the story The Seven Sisters of Matariki through a play.  It was really funny and enjoyable.

Also, A couple of weeks ago we started doing something called SDL, or Self-Directed Learning.  What we do for SDL is the teacher gives us a google presentation with a load of tasks on it and we would do those tasks over the course of the week.  It is a good way of learning skills you wouldn´t normally be taught through lessons on the mat, like typing.


The netball field day was on a while ago, and my friend Gabriel broke his wrist!  I didn´t go so I only knew this 2 days later.


These few weeks have been very eventful exiting for me.

Diary Post T2 W2

At the start of term 2, we have done a lot of things.  These are some of the things we have done.

For our Inquiry launch (last week), we watched the movie Wall-E.  Our focus for inquiry this year is space, and we watched that movie because then we were learning about what would happen if the earth became un-inhabitable, and the Wall-E movie gave us some ideas.

Also, today 1 of our school netball teams had a netball game.  I am not in a netball team, if you were wondering.  Apparently they won 

12-2!

Grid Value Portrait

Last term, we were doing a type of art called a grid value portrait.  A grid value portrait is a picture or photo enlarged using a grid.

Everyone in our class enlarged a picture of themselves.

Our pictures were in black and white, so in our enlargement the light parts were light and the dark parts were dark. In each square there needs to be a pattern.  For a dark square, the pattern needs to be close together to make it look dark.  For a light square, the pattern needs to be far apart.  The squares help position your eyes and other things.  This is why it is called a grid value Portrait.

I thought that one of the trickiest parts was to make the nose and the eyes.  What I like the most about my portrait was the light squares because they were much easier than the dark squares.  The light squares were also much shorter to make.

Making the portraits took a long time but I enjoyed making them.  

Diary Post

Our class has done a lot of things since last time I told you what we have been doing.  I will share with you the best bits.

A while ago, they Year 6 classes did a Easter egg hunt for Easter.  

What you have to do is find the locations of all the clues.  When you find the location of each clue, you get a letter.  After you find all the 18 letters/clues, you must work out the sentence.  My team ran out of time to find all the clues.

we still needed 6 more, so we had found 2 thirds,  which isn't bad.

Other cool thing:

A group called the science van came to our school.  They told us about matter and atoms.  I thought it was quite interesting.  I learnt that the three main states of matter were solid, liquid and gas.  They did experiments including things like dry ice to tell us about what the three states of matter do.

Another cool thing:

We have started to do something called pixel art in our classroom.

It is when you put a load of colours in small squares to make a picture.  Pixel art id quite fun.  When it is finished,  It will look something like this:

We have been doing a load of cool things in the past 2 weeks or so - I have enjoyed it heaps.

Reading Challenge

This is my reading challenge.  This year, our class is doing a challenge where you have to read 20 different types of novels.
Will you try the challenge?

Explanation Writing

We have been learning about explanation writing.  We are currently reading a book called the Whale Rider so we decided to do an explanation about gender roles in Maori culture.  I thought that this was quite interesting.

it was really helpful reading some of the book before so we had an idea of what things to write.  I think my next step is to use bigger and more interesting words.

Identifying Bias

My Reflection: This is a activity about the word bias. What we did was we tried to identify a character called Koro Apirana being bias to another character called Kahu. I chose these parts as examples of bias because it shows Koro Apirana being grumpy with Kahu because of what she was doing - Kahu was only 3 and she just wanted Koro Apirana to show affection.  The chapter was from a book we are reading called the Whale Rider.


I thought that this activity was very tricky, seeing as I do not know too much about the word bias.  It is a small word, but it has lots of meanings.  

Cryptarithms

My Reflection: This is my Cryptarithms overview. It is a form of maths.   Cryptarithms are very tricky because you have to identify the value of all the letters.  Next time I do them,  I will try every single number until it makes sense.

Kennings Poem

This is my Kennings Poem.  A kenning poem is a poem where there are 2 letters per line.  I could not fit 2 per line so the second word is under the first one.  In a Kennings poem,  each line is something describing yourself.

Peer Mediation Video

This is my Peer Mediation Video.  Lately, we have been learning to be a Peer Mediator.  We have done this to test what we have learnt.  I am not going to be a peer mediator this year, but it is still important to practice in case there is not Mediator around. 

Term 1 Week 5

Term 1 Week 5 in Year 6

Our Classroom has been very busy over the last 5 weeks at school.
One of the things we have been doing is called Youthtown.
Youthtown is a group of people who come around to our school and play sports with us.
My favourite game I have learnt so far is Capture the Flag.


Another thing I have enjoyed this term so far is something called Cryptarithms.  Cryptarithms is a maths problem.  What you have to do is you have to work out the value of the letters.  For example:

BB + A = ACC  (99 + 1 = 100)

Cryptarithms are really hard.


Another thing we have started doing this term is enlarging with a grid.  What we had to do is draw a grid on a picture of us.  Then we started drawing patterns on squares on a bigger piece of paper.  At some point we will finish with a drawing looking something like this:

But with Patterns EVERYWHERE.

Another thing I have enjoyed doing is Making my Whale Rider Venn diagram.  What we had to do is compare 2 characters from the story (Koro Apirana and Nanny Flowers) to yourself.  I enjoyed doing it.

I have enjoyed these last few weeks at school more than last year.

Statistical Investigation

This is my Graph that I made using Google spreadsheet.  First what we did was making a Google form (quiz).  I did my quiz about cricket.  Then we sent it to the class.  Then everyone in the class answered the form.  After that the responses were put into a Google spreadsheet, and made a graph out of it.
This information shows that people in our class like batting more than bowling and fielding.  My next question will be:  Why does our class like batting so much?

Whale Rider Triple Bubble Venn Diagram

This is the Triple Bubble Venn Diagram that I made.  It is comparing me with 2 characters from the Whale Rider novel.  I quite enjoyed this activity.  Next time,  I will describe the other characters more.

My Monthly Basic Facts Graph

First Day of School Description

This is my welcome post that I did this year.  But our class's  welcome posts this year are different - they are descriptions of our first day of school.  I think I probably could have done better with describing my feelings. 

Year 6 - 2016

WELCOME TO YEAR 6

ROOM 20 - MRS GRAHAM