At maths time today we used an app called Show Me. My maths buddy Zoe and I worked out what 49x3 was and then we made a video on Show Me.
Here is Zoe and my Show Me video working out two ways to find out what 49x3 is.
I hope you learnt something today in our video!š
Tuesday, August 30, 2016
Thursday, August 25, 2016
Friendship Recipe
This week our class has been making a recipe for baking the perfect friend. My friendship recipe is suitable for boys and girls, so have fun reading!
Here is the finished product of my friendship recipe.
I hope that you liked my recipe!
Here is the finished product of my friendship recipe.
How to bake the perfect friend
Aim
Follow these simple steps to make the perfect friend.
Ingredients
- 1 cup of caring
- ⅓ of a cup of trust
- 3 cups of fun
- 1 soup spoon of joke powder
- 4 or 8 teaspoons of pretty sprinkles (optional)
- 1 cup of arguments
- 1 pint of water
Materials
- 1 soup spoon (the kind chefs use for soup.)
- 2 measuring cups
- 1 teaspoon (optional)
- 1 fridge with shelves
- 1 bowl
- 2 drinking cups
- 1 wooden spoon
- 1 baking tray
- 1 roll of sticky cellotape
Instructions
- Take the joke powder and pour it into a soup spoon until it’s all full.
- Pour the joke powder into a bowl and add 1 pint of water into the bowl as well.
- Stir the joke powder and water with a wooden spoon until light and frothy.
- Next, put the whole cup of caring into the bowl with the joke powder and the water.
- Put the whole cup of arguments into 1 drinking cup.
- Take the other drinking cup and put it on top of the other drinking cup that has the cup of arguments in it.
- Sellotape the 2 drinking cups together.
- Shake the 2 drinking cups for 1 and a ½ minutes.
- Next, take off the sellotape from the drinking cups and if you can see that the arguments are still jumping about, do the same on step seven and this time only shake it for ½ a minute.
- Take off the sellotape on the drinking cups and pour the arguments into the bowl.
- Stir the ingredients in the bowl for 26 seconds.
- Next, pour ⅓ of a cup of trust into the bowl.
- Now put 3 cups of fun into the bowl and stir until frothy.
- Optional: Pour 4-8 teaspoons (depending on how pretty or handsome you want your friend to be) of pretty sprinkles into the bowl and stir until you can see that the mixture is coloured all over.
- Put the mixture onto a baking tray in one big blob and put it in the fridge for 6 hours.
- Then your friend will be ready to play with.
I hope that you liked my recipe!
Thursday, August 18, 2016
Spelling Sentences
Every week our class does spelling sentences for Home Learning. We get our spelling words and then we have to find out what they mean. You can see how I used descriptive and detailed complex sentences.
Here are my sentences and my words with their meanings.
Spelling Words
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Dictionary Definition
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Complex Sentence
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Spelling Word Example:
departed
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Leave, especially in order to start a new journey.
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I departed for America so that I could be reunited with my family
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Spelling Word One:
viciously
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Given or readily disposed to evil.
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I viciously made up a plan to get revenge on myself so that I wouldn’t be able to get in trouble ever again!
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Spelling Word Two:
teetered
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To move unsteadily.
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A gymnast teetered on the beam although she didn’t do anything to make her teeter.
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Spelling Word Three:
frantic
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Desperate or wild with excitement.
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I was frantic to get a gold medal in the olympics although I knew I would never get one.
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Spelling Word Four:
amphibious
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Living or able to live on land and in water.
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At the moment I want to be amphibious because I absolutely love the water and my house is on the land.
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Spelling Word Five:
Sloshing
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To splash or move through water or mud.
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I love sloshing through the mud because sometimes if you slosh hard enough then you will fall over and that’s sloshingly fantastic!
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I hope that you like my spelling sentences!
Thursday, August 11, 2016
Animal Report
For the last few weeks our class has been working on an information report. We were not allowed to do mammals so I did the Barking Owl because I love owls.
Here is my information report on Barking Owls.
A Barking Owl’s Scientific name is Ninox Connivens and lots of people call them the screaming woman bird. Barking Owls are not a threatened species because the number of them are increasing naturally. Did you know that the Barking Owl is a bird of prey and it’s kingdom is Animalia? That means that they can move spontaneously and independently at some point of their lives. They are wildly distributed throughout Australia but absent from central areas. The Barking Owls family is strigidae which means true owl. Its class is aves which means that it is a quite a small bird. Did you know that the Barking Owl is a carnivore so it's class is strigiformes? The subphylum of the Barking Owl is vertebrata and the phylum of a Barking Owl is chordata. The subphylum is an taxonomic category that ranks above class and the phylum is an taxonomic that ranks above class and below kingdom. Barking Owls are nocturnal and diurnal. They are an introduced species.
Did you know that the Barking Owl is an medium sized hawk owl and they have large, yellow eyes? They have very strong talons so that they can grip onto any sort of tree. Their talons and legs sometimes tuck into their body when they are flying fast. If you look at a picture of a Barking Owl you will see straight away that it has a hooked beak. Its hooked beak helps it digest its food properly. The adult Barking Owls have greyish-brown feathers on their back and on their head and wings. They also have little white spots on their wings. The young Barking Owls have a little less greyish brown streaking on the underparts. Did you know that they can grow up to 45 centimetres! Thats the height of a poisonous parasol mushroom, which is really quite small! The interesting thing about them is that they have two sets of eyelids! One set of the eyelids goes up and down and the other set of eyelids goes left to right.
Barking Owls are wildly distributed throughout Australia but they are absent from central areas. They usually like open woodlands because then there is more room to fly around. Barking Owls also like to live on the edges of forests but they often adjacent to farmland. The other place where you might find Barking Owls is the Savannah woodland.
Barking Owls feed on a variety of small to medium sized mammals. They eat birds, reptiles, insects, possums and rodents which is just about everything. Their prey is located in the air or on an exposed perch. Did you know that the most hunting is performed in the first few hours of the night and the last hours before dawn?
Barking Owls raise a single brood in a season. When the female incubates the eggs the male supplies the food. The nest site is usually in an open hollow in a tree with the trunk loosely lined with sticks and other wood debris. The young remain on their parents and they will remain in family group until the next breeding season. Did you know that when a female barking owl has an chick she screams a high pitched sound that calls the male barking owl? A breeding season for a barking owl is August to October so the chick stays in the family group for quite a long time. The incubation time is 28 days and the time in the nest for a chick is 48 days.
Barking Owls defend their territory fiercely from other Barking Owls. The young Barking Owls get shooed away from the nest by their parents when the new chick comes and they do this at night so then the young can’t see very well. Did you know that they fly in packs? One of their calls is a loud, wailing cry and the other one is a woof-woof call that sounds like a dog.
Barking Owls have two predators and one of them is humans for destroying their habitat. The other one is loss of habitat which means that they won’t have a nest.
I think that what we can do to help Barking Owls is not to destroy their habitat or they could possibly become extinct. Barking Owls need their space so if you live on or near a farm, try not to shoo them away. The other thing we need to do to increase the number of them is to be aware of lighting fires when you are in the forest or bush.
Bibliography
Here is my information report on Barking Owls.
A Barking Owl’s Scientific name is Ninox Connivens and lots of people call them the screaming woman bird. Barking Owls are not a threatened species because the number of them are increasing naturally. Did you know that the Barking Owl is a bird of prey and it’s kingdom is Animalia? That means that they can move spontaneously and independently at some point of their lives. They are wildly distributed throughout Australia but absent from central areas. The Barking Owls family is strigidae which means true owl. Its class is aves which means that it is a quite a small bird. Did you know that the Barking Owl is a carnivore so it's class is strigiformes? The subphylum of the Barking Owl is vertebrata and the phylum of a Barking Owl is chordata. The subphylum is an taxonomic category that ranks above class and the phylum is an taxonomic that ranks above class and below kingdom. Barking Owls are nocturnal and diurnal. They are an introduced species.
Did you know that the Barking Owl is an medium sized hawk owl and they have large, yellow eyes? They have very strong talons so that they can grip onto any sort of tree. Their talons and legs sometimes tuck into their body when they are flying fast. If you look at a picture of a Barking Owl you will see straight away that it has a hooked beak. Its hooked beak helps it digest its food properly. The adult Barking Owls have greyish-brown feathers on their back and on their head and wings. They also have little white spots on their wings. The young Barking Owls have a little less greyish brown streaking on the underparts. Did you know that they can grow up to 45 centimetres! Thats the height of a poisonous parasol mushroom, which is really quite small! The interesting thing about them is that they have two sets of eyelids! One set of the eyelids goes up and down and the other set of eyelids goes left to right.
Barking Owls are wildly distributed throughout Australia but they are absent from central areas. They usually like open woodlands because then there is more room to fly around. Barking Owls also like to live on the edges of forests but they often adjacent to farmland. The other place where you might find Barking Owls is the Savannah woodland.
Barking Owls feed on a variety of small to medium sized mammals. They eat birds, reptiles, insects, possums and rodents which is just about everything. Their prey is located in the air or on an exposed perch. Did you know that the most hunting is performed in the first few hours of the night and the last hours before dawn?
Barking Owls raise a single brood in a season. When the female incubates the eggs the male supplies the food. The nest site is usually in an open hollow in a tree with the trunk loosely lined with sticks and other wood debris. The young remain on their parents and they will remain in family group until the next breeding season. Did you know that when a female barking owl has an chick she screams a high pitched sound that calls the male barking owl? A breeding season for a barking owl is August to October so the chick stays in the family group for quite a long time. The incubation time is 28 days and the time in the nest for a chick is 48 days.
Barking Owls defend their territory fiercely from other Barking Owls. The young Barking Owls get shooed away from the nest by their parents when the new chick comes and they do this at night so then the young can’t see very well. Did you know that they fly in packs? One of their calls is a loud, wailing cry and the other one is a woof-woof call that sounds like a dog.
Barking Owls have two predators and one of them is humans for destroying their habitat. The other one is loss of habitat which means that they won’t have a nest.
I think that what we can do to help Barking Owls is not to destroy their habitat or they could possibly become extinct. Barking Owls need their space so if you live on or near a farm, try not to shoo them away. The other thing we need to do to increase the number of them is to be aware of lighting fires when you are in the forest or bush.
Bibliography
http://birdlife.org.au/bird-profile/barking-owl
www.australiazoo.com.au
http://australianmuseum.net.au/
I hope that you learnt a thing or two from my report!
www.australiazoo.com.au
http://australianmuseum.net.au/
Thursday, August 4, 2016
MÄori learning
On Monday our class learnt the MÄori colours. Our class has
these magnets that help us remember which colours are which.
these magnets that help us remember which colours are which.
Practice your MÄori colours with this colour song.
We also learnt how to ask someone what colour is this or what colour is that. Here is how you ask and answer questions to do with colours.
He aha te tae o tÄnÄ?
He aha te tae o tÄnÄ?
What colour is that?
He ______ tÄnÄ.
It is ______.
He aha te tae o tÄnei?
What colour is this?
He ______ te tae o tÄna.
It is _______ (That colour is _____).
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