Figurative Language

Figurative Language

This is our writing lesson slides for this week, so this week we have been learning a lot of Figurative Language. Onomatopoeia, Metaphor, Hyperbole and Alliteration are all part of our learning of Figurative Language. We had to try and put them all into different types of poems, I had fun making Onomatopoeia  and metaphor poems. Hope you ENJOY!

Matariki Day Recap

Matariki Day!!!

Kia Ora blog readers and welcome back to my blog, today I will be recapping to you what we did at our Whole School's Matariki Day Celebration we do every year at Pt England School, first let me tell you what Matariki Day is all about.
Matariki celebrates and signals the beginning of Maori New Year, on that day seven stars appear in the sky, these stars are called the seven sisters.Their real names are called: Tupu-a-nuku, Tupu-a-rangi, Waiti, Waita, Waipunarangi, Ururangi and Matariki. Matariki is a big celebration of people, culture, language, spirituality and history, this celebration brings many family and friends together as one.

At our Matariki celebration at Pt England School we all were splitted into different groups, and they were Cooking, Arts and Craft, Sports and lastly Movie making (Entertainment). We were splitted into these 4 groups not only to have fun but learn the different ways we can express Matariki based on the activities we had. The group I was put into was Arts and Crafts which was actually cool because I like being creative in many ways. My highlight of Matariki was when we were drawing the patterns on our 7 stars and my table of friends I sat with were laughing and giggling when we got marker on our faces and our designs were very funny. My second highlight is learning more stuff about what Matariki is really about, I now have more knowledge of what it is.

In my opinion I think that NZ must celebrate this because if you are new to Matariki, you will learn what it is actually about and the interesting story behind it and this festive celebration will bring everyone together and celebrate Maori New 
Year. Have you celebrated MATARIKI DAY yet?

Language Features: Poetry

Poetry: Introduction to poetry

Malo e lelei and welcome back to my blog. In our writing lesson today we were learning about the introduction to poetry. Poems are a way of describing things that makes the reader feel like they are a part of the story. Things like language features are big in Poetry and there are lots of them such as: 

• Similes- a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind
• Metaphor- a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
• Onomatopoeia- the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named 
• Rhyme-correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry.
• Alliteration- the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

Hope you enjoyed reading my learning about Poems and Language Features.

Relationship Graphs

Relationship Graphs:

WALT: Understand and create relationship graphs.

Today in our maths lesson we were learning about Relationship graphs, we had to answer questions using the graphs shown in the slides. For the last task we had to create a relationship graph on our own and have a classmate create a story about it. Hope you enjoy reading my work.

Awesome things we did in Lockdown- Pie Graph

Awesome things Room 3 did in Lockdown- Pie Graph

Today for our maths lesson, we had to do a Lockdown Diary and one of the pages told us to write down 5 awesome things we did during Lockdown. As a class we each told our things to the class and then  Mrs Tele'a tallied up the results and now we had to convert it to either a Normal Graph or Pie Graph. Here are the Results of what we did during Lockdown, the popular one was of course Spending Time with Family and that should be on everyone's list because spending time with family is the best thing in the world. The second popular thing was Cooking/Baking food, the third most popular thing was Sleeping in, early, late and resting all the time. What was your 5 favourite things you did during Lockdown?  Hope You Enjoy!

Biosphere 2

Inquiry: Biosphere 2

Talofa Lava and Malo e lelei Blog readers, and welcome back to another blog post of the day. Today for our inquiry lesson the topic we are learning about today was Biosphere 2. Biosphere is a biosphere 2 is an American Earth System science research facility located in Oracle, Arizona. It was originally constructed between 1987 and 1991. We had to complete a few slides about Biosphere 2, after that we had to use google drawing to create a poster to show the pros and cons of the Biosphere 2 experiment.

A Game of Cards- New Vocab

A Game of Cards- New Vocab

Mrs Tele'a was reading us a book called 'Pounamu Pounamu' by Witi Ihimaera and one of the chapters were A Game Of Cards. While Mrs Tele'a was reading she was writing new vocab from the book  onto the whiteboard. She was also asking us what they meant it you already knew, after she finished reading the book she told us to make a google drawing of the new vocab we have learnt. The words with the star next to them are the ones I already know, there is also a map of Rongopai Waituhi because that is where the story was placed. Here are the meanings of some new vocab.

1. Rapidly- Very Fast
2. Blaring- Very loud, that would make your ears hurt
3. Weep- Not crying loud but cries very quietly
4. Flecked- Small dots or parts

Characters: The Game

Task Description: Today in our reading lesson we had to complete a few slides about the characters we read about in one of the articles or stories.My story was The Game by Cassandra Tses, we had to list the characters in the story and pick 1 character and use google drawing to create an image of it. The next thing was that we had to choose a character who has a lot to say and then write what is the most important things they say. For the last task of the slides with a buddy or friends, we had to record yourself having the same conversation from the story using screencastify. My group that I did the screencastify with was Lani, Zoe and I. Here are their blog so that you can check out their work as well. Lani's Blog  Zoe's Blog

Taha Tinana- Fitness & Hygiene

Taha Tinana- Fitness & Hygiene

Our physical bodies need to stay fit and clean.

Our families and homes are where we learn the basic BUT important steps for this

Here are 5 examples of what happens in my family.

1. My Mum makes sure that my siblings and I sleep early for school the next day so that we have enough sleep and we pay good attention in our school work
2. My family pushes each other to go for walks, runs and exercises at least 2 times each day
3. My Aunties and Uncle goes to the gym mostly at night to stay fit and healthy
4. We have to brush our teeth, brush our hair, dress nicely for school, outings or parties
5. We all have to shower once we come back from school, from exercises, if we feel stinky or gross. (It is no option of missing showering at least a day per week, you should shower each day of the week to stay clean and healthy)

Grateful- Taha Hinengaro

Grateful- Taha Hinengaro!

Having the action to be grateful  to others is  very important in your everyday life. It means showing or feeling an appreciation for something done or recieved. My mum always taught me and my siblings to be grateful when people gave us gifts for birthday parties and christmas presents, because it's always the thought that counts.
'Start each day with a grateful heart'.

Here are 5 things that I am grateful for today.

1. The roof over my head
2. The wonderful and caring family I have and see everyday
3. My Teacher at school because she teaches our class new stuff each day
4. The food provided for me on the kitchen table
5. The amazing best friends I have at school that look out for me everyday when I go to school

Have an attitude of gratitude!

Biomes- Land

Land Biomes

                      A large naturally occuring community

Polar Regions

• Arctic
• Antarctic
• Ice caps
• Animals find food in ocean
• Penguins, albatross, gulls
• Whales, seals
• Polar Bears
• South/North Pole
• Very Cold Here

Tundra

• Cold- 7'c
• 2 seasons
• Long, dark winter
• Short summer
• Close to North Pole
• Soil is frozen all year
• no trees, growing season is too short
• Plant life- grass, shrubs
• Animals: Foxes, snow owls, hares, muskox, caribou

Forest

• Temperature is on average 20-25
  -Soil is nutrient-poor and acidic-Forest grow where it's not too hot not too cold-lots of nutrients and water-Animals: moose, deer, bears, wolves, foxes, rabbits, squirrels as well as plenty birds and reptiles

Savannah and Grasslands

• Grassland and Savanna:*Grassland and Savannah are related and often intermixed biomes typically dominated by grasses
  
  
  
• Savannah is located in ''Africa''! Savannahs of one sort or another cover almost half the surface of Africa.
• True grassland supports few if any woody plants, while Savanna include varying proportions or shrubs and trees

Rotary Club

Thank You so much Rotary Club!

Malo e lelei Blog Readers and welcome back to my blog. I am in a very excited mood today because our class and some other grades in Pt England School have just got some cool magazines to keep for ourselves plus a toy to go with it from the Rotary Club. The Rotary Club was really kind to give us these amazing packs to us, so I would like to give a ginormous THANK YOU to the Rotary Club and to Walter who is the President for Rotary Club of Auckland South. Thank you so much you guys, you are fantastic and amazing people. I can't wait to open it at home and read the cool magazine Keep up the nice and caring work. 

Special Friday's Assembly

Special Friday's Assembly

Yay! Today is Friday, the last day of the week, so what do we do on Friday Mornings?.
What we usually do in the morning are school assemblies where everyone in Pt England School come together in our School Hall and start our assembly. Today's assembly was really special because we had 2 special guests come and join us at assembly today, he is a New Zealand professional boxer of Samoan Heritage and a great guitar player, you've guessed it the one and only Joseph Parker. and his amazing sister Elizabeth Parker.

Once we welcomed Joseph to the stage he gave us some quotes to remember every day in life. The first one was 'Believe in Yourself' and the second one was 'Nothing beats hard work'. This was really inspiring to me and others.

If I had the chance to talk to him I would've asked him 'What made you want to do boxing in the first place?' and 'Who pushed you to become who you are now?'

My thanks go to Mr Burt or whoever made this happen and my next Thanks go to Joseph and Elizabeth Parker for coming. Thank you so much!

Comparing Stories- Stand Up and Black Lives Matter: Lesson about Racism

Today in our Reading Lesson today I had to complete a venn diagram, in that Diagram I had to compare 2 articles I read about. The Articles I read were Black Lives Matter: Lesson about Racism by Bethany Reitsma and the other one was Stand Up by Dylan Owen. The first article is about a teacher in NZ, Auckland who taught little 6 yr olds about Racism, she told them it's not about the outside and what you look like, it's about your heart and mind. The second article is about different protests in NZ and what they were about. In the Middle I had to write what their Similarities were together: Human Rights, It teaches us a lesson/something new and everyone's lives matter.

Taha Whanau

Te Whare Tapa Wha: Taha Whanau

Walt: List 3 things I did with my whanau during the weekend!

1. On Saturday Afternoon we celebrated my Nana and my Mum's birthday, we also invited my auntie and my other cousins and we all had a great time eating, watching the rugby game and making fun videos
2. On Sunday morning we had our lotu together as a family
3. My cousins, siblings and Aunty went for a nice walk along the beach and around the block

Spending time with my family is the best and the most important thing to me in the world. Even if it's like cleaning, walking, eating or getting into trouble together we always have a great time together. 

Biomes- Marine

Here is my google drawing of the Marine Biome 

                                  Biomes

Definition: Biomes

A Biome is a community of plants and animals that have common characteristics for the environment they exist in. They can be found over a range of continents. Biomes are distinct 

biological communities that have formed in response to a shared physical climate. (Wikipedia) Biomes are also large groups of similar ecosystems

Marine Biome (largest BIOME)

-  Covers 70% of the world's surface

- Made of Salt Water

- Many sea animals live in the Marine Biome such as:

  Fish, seahorses, octopuses, seals, manatees, whales and more more

- Provides half of the world's oxygen

Coral Reef

- Found in warm sunny water

Fresh Water

- Low level salt

- Fish, frogs, alligators, snakes, beavers

-Ponds, Lakes, Streams, Rivers, Wetlands

Welcome back Blog Readers, Today for our Inquiry this term we have been learning a lot about Our Planet, World, Atmosphere, Biospheres and Earth. To research more into that topic we had to watch a video about Biomes together as a class. In that video it stated facts about different Biomes and what they are all about. As a class we had to make this Blog Post and list the stuff that we had watched in the video onto this. After that we were told to make a Google Drawing Explaining more about what we wrote here. Hope you enjoy reading this.

Narrative Writing- Flying Dragons

Out of this world!

It all started in an ordinary town, filled with ordinary people but in that town there lived a young girl named Jessica Jackson. She was an intelligent girl who had brown hair, she wore a pair of blue glasses and a bright yellow shirt and some plain blue jeans. She went to a strange old school called Stonehedge High, she loved going to school but one thing that would make her not go was her worst  enemy Heather Adams. Heather was the school’s popular  and mean girl, she would always wear her golden yellowish  hair in a high ponytail, trendy outfits with  shoes and peachy lip gloss. Everyday Jessica would always try to avoid Heather but she just can’t, Heather would always find a way to make fun of Jessica’s hair, clothes or even shoes, but today at school it got out of hand.

“Detention”, Heather shouted with a stern look across her face.

“Why me?” Questioned Jessica with a puzzled look on her face.

The principal put both girls in detention so they can try to be friends and stop fighting.

“How hard can this be?” Jessica said this with a big sigh.

For detention they had to clean around the school. They both started in the staffroom, but as they cleaned they never said a thing to each other. A few minutes passed and as they were almost finished Heather found something shiny and glimmering.

“What is that?” Wondered Jessica

“Let’s find out”. Suggested Heather

“It must be a way out of detention”. Said Heather.

So they hopped inside the hole and left their cleaning rags on the floor.

“Aaaaaaaaaaaaa” Screamed Jessica, “Someone help me”

Finally the two girls reached the bottom of the shiny hold but find themselves transported to a whole new world.

“What is this place?” Questioned Jessica

“Does it look like  I know” Replied Heather “Okay this was a bad idea let’s go back now”.

Jessica and Heather needed to find a way back home but they seem to have no idea. Just as a second went past out of nowhere a Fire breathing Dragon came out of nowhere and began chasing the two girls, but luckily they were both fast runners. They ran like their lives depended on it (like it is), they found a tiny cottage so they decided to go inside it and hide. The coast was clear, the dragons were gone, they sat down to catch their breath.

“Wow I never knew you were a fast runner Heather” Said Jessica in astonishment

“I guess you don’t know me that well,” Replied Heather.

A few minutes passed and Heather had something to say to Jessica that made Jessica very, very surprised.

“I’m very sorry Jessica for being so mean to you at school”. Said Heather.

“Me too Heather” Replied Jessica

So now the two enemies become best friends and gave each other a big hug but in that moment a glitter shined around them and a whooshing sound came to their ears. They closed their eyes and they opened it to find themselves back at school.

“We’re BACK” They shouted at the same time and then giggled.

How did that happen? They both wondered but they kept their little adventure a secret between them. Jessica found  a new side of Heather that is actually friendly. Which made her remember the moral her aunty always told her 

“TO NEVER JUDGE A BOOK BY IT’S COVER”.

The End

ENJOY BEING YOUR AGE!

'Enjoy being your age' this is one of our Team 5 Korero's.
Zdravo! I am 11 years old.
There are many things I enjoy about being this age.

• I am able to play different sports
• I'm with the same students everyday
• I get to know my Teacher's well
• We get to learn about our changing bodies
• We get to be the student leaders of our school
• We get to trial for rep sports team
• We get to dream about what college we'll go to
• I can walk to school everyday
• I enjoy spending time with my parents and family.

Everyday you should be ENJOY BEING YOUR AGE, even when you are hanging out with older siblings or friends. Remember to chuck out that cool blanket and live out the best life and your age.

So now that you have read this make sure to never ruch you life and enjoy being your age!

The Biosphere

WALT: Learn more about the Biosphere, it's 4 different spheres and Biomes. Watch a video related to Biomes and describe it in a few sentences

E hia enei? How many are there?

E hia enei?: How many are there?

Today in this week's Te Reo Maori Lesson, the WALT is: Ask and answer questions about numbers.

For this task we had to answer questions that uses numbers but we also had to answer in Maori. For our creative task we had to use a Maori dictionary and make up our own questions and answer them ourselves in a conversation kinda way. We either had to do it in a poster or comic strip, I chose to do it in a poster. We had to do at least 5 different objects, Here are mine! Enjoy!

Message to (Mr) Russell Burt

Mr Burt's Special Queen's Merit award acknowledgement!!!

Today the 12th of Friday 2020, at our first assembly together after the covid-19, we celebrated and acknowledged our lovely, hardworking and kind principle Mr Burt and of course Mrs Burt as well because she stood next to Mr Burt and helped him all the way.  We celebrated him today at assembly because our amazing principle received a very special award which is the Queens order of merit award. This is a really big thing for Mr Burt, he definitely deserves the acknowledgement of his hard work he does for our teachers, students, parents, whanau and Mrs Burt.

Congratulations Mr and Mrs Burt!!

I would also like to thank you for every thing you have done for Pt England like teaching us the right way of life, being who you are and taking care of students, staff and whanau. You are very helpful in different ways like providing students with what they need, helping your staff if they need a hand and help our whanau take care of us, students. You are a hero, warrior and part of our family, I hope that you and Mrs Burt will stay healthy and safe, keep being who you amazing people are and leading the way of life to every single one. 

Kindly Regards Hannah (Rm 3)

Maths Graph Activity

Which Graph?                                                               Name: Hannah

WALT- Analyse data in graphs to answer questions

Using the graphs above to help you answer these statements below. 

Statement	True or False or Can’t Tell	Clearly shown on Bar Graph, Pie Graph, Both or Neither
40% said their favourite activity is going on holiday with their family.	True	Bar Graph
Going to holiday programmes was a more popular choice than playing with friends.	False	Both
A quarter said their favourite activity is playing with friends.	True	Both
People like to take their friends on family holidays.	True	Both
10% more said their favourite activity is playing with friends than said playing with computers.	True	Bar Graph
Together being on holiday with family and playing with friends makes by more than half the votes.	False	Both
The most popular activity was going on holiday with family.	True	Both
A third said their favourite activity is going to holiday programmes.	False	Bar Graph
Twice as many people picked going on holiday with their family than picked going to holiday programmes.	True	Bar Graph

Taha Wairua

Taha Wairua

Why do  we do this every morning? : Karakia, Mihi, Himene?

Welcome back blog readers, so today for our Te Whare Tapa Wha work, we were looking into Taha Wairua. Mrs Tele'a challenged us by working in groups or pairs and answering this question: Why do  we do Karakia, Mihi, Himene every morning?  As a class with each of our ideas this is what we came up with:

• To connect to Atua, greater power source 
• Connect- Remember our ancestors, Whanau
• Know where we are from
• Build confidence to speak and represent ourselves and whanau
• To get ready for the day and as well as our future
• To grow closer to God and Jesus

Here is a photo of my group Tatia and Trinity so make sure to check out their blogs as well.

Tatia's Blog and Trinity's Blog

Here is my group!! :)

Samoan Independence

Samoan Independence

Welcome back to my Blog, today for writing we had to watch a video about and how samoa gained it's independence and where it all started. We  had to answer some questions that were from the video and learn new things. 

The 5 layers of the Atmosphere

Inquiry: 5 Layers of the Atmosphere

Hello again blog readers, so today for Inquiry Mrs Tele'a did a test for us to challenge our knowledge about the Atmosphere and it's 5 layers. After the test we had to draw a diagram and label the 5 Atmospheres on google drawing. Here is my diagram of the Atmospheres.