Summer learning journey

 Aloha guys. Today we had to do summer learning journey. I chose an acitivty that we had to choose a picture and color it in. I did watermelons

Do you think i did a good job?

Here is my coloring.

Tabloid sport

 Aloha guys, yesterday we had tabloid sport. Tabloid sport is a whole lot of different activities such as, egg and spoon, skipping with hoops, three legged races, target throw, bean bag 0s and Xs, sack race, nerf throw, running relay, rat race, jumping paper sissors rock, over under, and fill the bucket. There was about 24 teams. Each activity we would vs a team. At the end of each activity we would get a score on our behaviour and how much points we got  from that activity. At the end of the whole tabloid sport we will add up everyones points and see who has the most. My team got first and we will get an iceblock.  Here are some photos

Leavers slide

Aloha guys. This week we have been working on our Leavers speech. A leavers speech is a speech about how your time at Hornby pPrimary has been.

Some things we had to include in our speech was, we had to introduce ourself, thank you to people, most embarrassing moment, friends, favourite meomorie, friends, highlights and a merry xmas. 

When we had finished out speech we had to make a slide with photos of us throughout the time we have been here. We then have to present it on Tuesday. Here is my speech and my photo slide

Joes Garage, Trusted Trecker treat.

 Aloha guys, yesterday all the trusted treckers got the privilege to go to Joe's Garage for breakfast. We travelled by car. We didnt have enough cars to travel in one trip so some people had to stay at school. We used three cars and three people had to stay back and wait for the next trip. I was one the people that stayed back at school.

One of the teachers came back to the school to pick us back up. We arrivived at Joe's Garage and got the choice of a hot chocolate or an orange juice. I chose an orange juice and everyone else chose a hot chocolate. The hot chocolates came then we got the choice of jam on our pancakes or maple syrup. I chose jam and everyone else chose maple syrup. the pancakes were delicious. 

After we all ate the three people that stayed back, stayed back at Joe's Garage until a teacher came back to pick us up. While we were waiting we were just colouring in. We were very lucky to have this little treat for the trusted trekkers. Here are some photos. 

Surfing🌊🌊

Aloha guys. Last week we had EOTC. EOTC is when you get to go on heaps of fun trips. We do EOTC because we don't do camp. My favorite activity was surfing, so I'm going to explain about surfing. We went to Sumner Beach so we could practice our surfing skills. There was this group of people who teach people how to surf. They are named Stoked Surf School. We got into our wet suits and picked a board we wanted. The wet suits were very tight and I just chose a plain blue surf board. 

The instructors first had to teach us how to stand up on a board and how to paddle. When everyone got the hang of standing up on the board we put a leg rope on and then headed out into the water. The water was very warm because of the thick wet suits.

We all started to surf, I caught a couple of waves. When the waves were  gliding over the boards the water got in my eyes and mouth. It tasted to salty and the salt water stung my eyes.The wind was very strong so when we were trying to get the boards out of the water its was so hard to pull it out. 

After surfing we had some fish and chips. Then we got to play on the beach. We were allowed to go into the water but only up to ankles. There were some people that were climbing the rocks and other people playing games with the sport equitment. Here are some photos

Friend poster

 Aloha guys. this term we have been reading this chapter book names, Fish In A Tree. Every week we have to read up to a certain page by the end of the week. This week had had to read up to pg 174. we also have a google drawing with activitys we have to do. One of the activitys are was to make a poster on how to be a good friend. here is my poster.

Athletics

Aloha guys, this week we had athletics. My year group first did high jump, then long distance, long jump, disus, shot put, then `sprints`. My favourite activity is sprints. 

For high jump I came 1st, for long distance idk what place I came, for long jump I came 2nd, discus I came 2nd, then for sprints I came first in the first heat then went into finals and came first for the finals. 

We did all the activities execpt for sprints becaue we were doing it as a whole school so the juniors can also join. whilst we were doing all the other activites  instead of doing sprints we just played games. I am really proud of myself. Here is a photo 

Buddy class

Aloha guys, today we had buddy class. 

This term for buddy class we are building a book character`s house. My buddy was orignally Mila but she wasnt at school today so I was with this girl named Taliah. Last week we chose what character`s house we wanted to do with another pair. I was with Kushla and her buddy. We chose Belles house. We had to write down all the equitment we would need then started building. We had heaps of old fridge boxes and some other little cardboard boxes to use. We have not finished our house yet but hopefuly we wiil be soon. Here are some photos

100 word count

Aloha guys, This week we did a 100 word count for reading. A 100 word count is when you  get a prompt or a photo and you have to write about it by the photo or if it is a prompt you have to add that in your story, and you also have to make your story 100 words exactly. This week we had to add a prompt into out story. Here is my 100 word count and the prompt.

…’ What did I tell you about the lights?’

It was a stormy night, heaps of car crashes and deaths last week. I was driving slowly down my street as I was coming back from the shop. Headlights flash behind me whilst blinding me, they follow me near my house. I rang my friend and said that someone was following me. I tried speeding away.’ What did I tell you about the lights?’ my friend said. “ I forgot?” i mumbled “Omg ur so dumb you stupid rat” my ugly fat friend yelled at me “ugh be quite smelly fat rat”

Cloze

 Aloha guys,   This week we did a cloze. A cloze is when you get a story and some missing words, and on the side will be the words that are missing. You have to try figure out the words that are missing and put them in the right spaces. It was called the force and it was pretty easy. Here is my cloze

Swimming

 Aloha guys. 

The last week we have been going swimming at  Canterbury Swim School. Canterbury Swim School is a swimming place that teaches you how to swim. We first had to have showers before we get into the pool. I think we had to have a shower before we get into the pool just in case we had dirty stuff on us, the shower gets it all off.  We have learnt freestyle, backstroke ,kicking and more. I think I have improved at swimming the last week. Here are some photos

Poems

 Aloha, this week for writing we have been doing poems. The last week we have done two poems and they both had to be about a flower. The two types of poems we have been doing ar called, cinquain poem, and a haiku poem. We first started doing thwe cinquain poem and then did the haiku. When we had finshed our cinquain poems we went on to doing the haiku. If we did a flower in the cinquain we couldn't do the same in the haiku. we had to do two poems each. The flowers I did for the cinquain were, Jasmine flower and a blossom tree. For the haiku I did three poems and the flowers I did for that were, pinelands princess dahlilah, hibiscus and a forget me not flower.  Here are my poems and what a haiku and cinquain is.

          cinquain

         haiku 

Interclass sports

 Aloha guys, the last two weeks we have been doing interclass sports. 

Interclass sports is where your class has games against other classes.  The sports options were Netball, touch,football, hockey (you can choose to join as many as you want to do).   You vs other classses. 

I chose netball and touch. If you make it into the finals and win the finals then you get to vs the teachers. Our class is versing the teachers in touch and football. In netball we came 3rd place and in hockey we also came 3rd. Here are some photos

100 word count

  Aloha people, This week we did a 100 word count for reading. A 100 word count is when you  get a prompt or a photo and you have to write about it by the photo or if it is a prompt you have to add that in your story, and you also have to make your story 100 words exactly. This week we had to wrrite about a picture. Here is my 100 word count and the photo

“Yay”, it's time to go the museum.'' I yelled. I've been waiting for this moment for ages. I was so excited. We arrived and there were so many things. All the pictures were so eye-catching. But there was this one thing I couldn't get my eyes off. It was a ball with heaps of bumps and pattern type things. It looked so cool. I wanted to take it home and show my friends. “Mum come look at this' 'I said. “Wow, that's so cool,” said mum. We asked the receptionist how much it's worth and they said 1000000 million dollars

Cloze

 This week we did a cloze. A cloze is when you get a story and some missing words, and on the side will be the words that are missing. You have to try figure out the words that are missing and put them in the right spaces. It was called stung and it was pretty easy. Here is my cloze

Mountain safety

 Aloha guys, this week for reading we have been learning about mountain safety. for our reading follow up we had to make a poster on how to stay safe in the mountains. I worked with 2 people named by Kushla and James. I really like our poster and hope you do to. Here is our poster. 

Spelling activity.

Aloha guys, this week for our spelling we had a semi hard activity to do. The activity was to, Make a drawing of a prehistoric Caucasian hurling a javelin at a group of nomadic geologists playing a fanfare on their bugles while observing a crevice in a recently landed meteorite

We had to figure out what all of the words meant/ were. We then had the choice to either draw it on paper or to do it on a google drawing. I chose a google drawing beacuse they are much easier to do then drawing it on paper. here is my google drawing.

Personification

 Aloha guys, last week for our reading follow up was about personifications. For our must do we had to make a presentation about what personification is. I did my presentation with my friend kushla and we did it on a google slide. here is our slide.

Venn diagram

 Aloha guys, the few past weeks for reading we have been learning about the olympics. We have a must do and a choose. The must do is a task that we HAVE to do, the choose is three task that we can choose to do. For the must do we had to make a venn diargram comapring the differences between the ancient olympics and the modern olympics. Here is my venn diargram

Zones Netball

 Aloha, yesterday we had a Zones tournament for Winter Sport. I went to zones for netball. We had to play 6 games but one of the teams came late so we only played 5.

 We versed Ilam, Burnside x2, Fendlton and Wigram. We won 3 games and lost 2. We lost against Ilam and Fendlton, and won against , Wigram and Burnside twice.

 It was freezing when we arived and left. I played all postions and I was off for only 1 half. My favroute postion to play is C because we can run around almost the whole court.

 We came 3rd overall, and i am very proud of our team. For the rugby they came 1st and went into cetrals, and for football they came last, they tried there best and had fun so thats all that matters. Here are some photos.

Cloze

  This week we did a cloze. A cloze is when you get a story and some missing words, and on the side will be the words that are missing. You have to try figure out the words that are missing and put them in the right spaces. It was called Dangerouse games and it was pretty hard. Here is my cloze

Im a Trusted Treker

Aloha, today at the assembly,   Ms McLachlan announced 7 new trusted trekers, I was one of them. When she called out my name I was so happy but also a little bit nervous.  

The trusted treker get to sit on the chairs in the gym. After assembly was finsihed all the trusted trekers went to  Ms McLachlan to take our photos. We took a photo by ourselves, then a photo with the new trusted trekers and then one with all of the truseted trekers for 2021.  

A trusted treker is about helping others and being respectful. Here are some photos

100 word count

 Aloha people, This week we did a 100 word count for reading. A 100 word count is when you  get a prompt or a photo and you have to write about it by the photo or if it is a prompt you have to add that in your story, and you also have to make your story 100 words exactly. This week we had to add the prompt in. The prompt was " I just had to see what was inside" Here is my 100 word count.

My nana died, my whole family flew down from Aussie. Everyone was crying. My fat fat uncle, my green aunty and my purple elephant started digging the hole where you put the coffin.  “Mhm” John Cena cleared his throat. “ I have an announcement to make, your nana has not died,” John Cena announced, “ OO” everyone gasped. “What's in the coffin then?” I mumbled.  I opened up the coffin, because I just had to see what was inside. I gasped, there was a dead crocodile inside the coffin. Everyone yelled “ WHY YOU DO THAT FOR, WE DIDN'T NEED A SPECIAL CELEBRATION”

The Seven Kites of Matariki (cloze)

 Aloha,  this week we did a cloze. A cloze is when you get a story and some missing words, and on the side will be the words that are missing. You have to try figure out the words that are missing and put them in the right spaces. But this weeks the layout was different. It was called 'The Seven Kites of Matariki' and it was pretty easy. Here is my cloze

Matariki

 Aloha guys, For the rest of the term we are working on Matariki, My reading follow up was based on Matariki. We had to make a presentation about the main ways to celebrate Matariki, and what is Matariki. We first read a little bit about Matariki then we had to make the presentation. Here is mine

Cloze

 This week we did a cloze. A cloze is when you get a story and some missing words, and on the side will be the words that are missing. You have to try figure out the words that are missing and put them in the right spaces. It was called boost and it was pretty easy. Here is my cloze

Tree House

 Aloha guys The last couple of week our class room had been working on describe writing. We had to Inclue all 5 senses, They were see, taste,feel, smell and hear. Our teacher set a photo, and we had to write about the photo. We had to atleast have 3-4 paragharphs. We had to also add some simmlies. Here is the photo we had to write about, and my writing.......

Glistening leaves shine in the distant horizon, as the spider webs shimmer in the gentle breeze. Trees twist around me as I look left and right, Green surrounds  me as I stroll towards my old treehouse.  

 

Sounds of  old rotting leaves crunch as I walk on the damp brown dirt. Twigs snap as I brush past them and little insects scuttle away. Birds singing sweetly high above me as I glance up toward the sparky, blue sky.  Small, brown branches cracking sounds like a dying elephant,

The fireplace steams up hot air, filling the treehouse like a sauna. Rays of warm sunlight beams through the tiny old windows and onto my silky brown hair. Outside droplets of water trickle down the leafy green undergrowth and onto the forest floor below.

Tiny specks of dry dirt flew up in the gentle breeze and into my mouth, it tasted like moldy bread. Crisp air dried up my mouth, like me eating a family size pack of chips, without drinking any water.

 Gross moss filled my nostrils,  the scent of the colorful flowers wafes through the air, It smells like i was in a fairytale that is filled with flowers.

Student Summit.

 Aloha guys, Today we had student simmit. We had four sessions and 6 options to chose from .  I chose how to upgrade my google slide, book creator, codey rockey and biteable. It started at 9:30 and finished ate 12:30 My favorite activity i did was biteable. 

We learnt how to use biteable, book creator and codey rockey. 5 Schools came to our school for it, We did most of it in thegym. For the activitys we used room 5, our gym, our libary, meeting room and the board room. 

For the google slide one I learnt how to animate text. For the codey rockey i learnt how to use one, for the biteable I learnt how to make one, and for book creator we just played around with it. 

For session 1 & 2 I did how to upgrade my google slide and bookcreator. 

We then had a 20 minute break and went onto session 3 & 4, for session 3 & 4 I did the codey rockey and biteable.I think we had about 20 minutes each rotaion.

Venn Diagram

 For reading we have been learning about families. Things that are different about familes. We had to make Venn Diagram about our siblings. We had to include Diffenrent things about us and the same things about us. I did mine about my friend because my brother is in Aussie and I dont know that much about him. Here is my Venn Diagram.

Desribe it

Aloha guys The last couple of week our class room had been working on describe writing. We had to Inclue all 5 senses, They were see, taste,feel, smell and hear. Our teacher set a photo, and we had to write about the photo. We had to atleast have 3-4 paragharphs. We had to also add some simmlies. Here is the photo we had to write about, and my writing.......

The dazzling hot sun reflects from the crystal clear chilly water. Water splashes down from the bright orange slide. Kids are  leaping up and down, falling off parents backs and splashing around in the cool water. A maze of brightly coloured slides blinds my eyes, it reminds me of a selection of fluorescent highlighters.

Palm trees are scattered around, giving shade from the burning hot sun. The sun is beating down onto my sunburnt cheeks, it feels like vinegar getting into a cut. The steam from the hot pool makes me as red as a tomato.

Laughs echo through the colourful tunnels as people zoom through. People splashing into the water sounds like crashing waves at the beach. Sizzles from the hotdogs cooking makes my ears pop like popcorn.

Sweet slimy maple syrup from my delicious pancakes drips down to my chin and onto my hot feet.The soft pancakes slide down my throat, its tasty like a dream come true. My cold, smooth coconut water fills my stomach up.

A  delicious  aroma of bbq wafts through the thin air. The smell of chlorine tickles my nostrils. Sweet sticky ice cream scents float through the air.

How The Kiwi Lost His Wings

 Aloha guys, Me and my friend made an animation about How The Kiwi Lost His Wings. It was for a follow up task,if you dont know what follow is, it is when your teacher sets you a task that involves what we are reading about. Here is mine and my friends animation.

Life Ed

Aloha guys,  Earlier this term the Life Education Van was at Hornby Primary School for a week.

Every class in the school has had the opportunity to see the LIfe Education presentation.

The theme for our class was, 'The brain and how it works'. We were also looking at Resilience and decision making and reputation.  Each class had a different theme.

During the sessions students played a lot of fun games and there were colored lights in the van. The Teacher there always changed the lights and the colors.  To stop us talking she turned on the green light,

Harold the Giraffe came out and talked to us.  He told us the worst 'Dad joke'.  "Why do Gorilla's have big nostrils?"  Answer - Because they have big fingers!

HOT CHOCOLATE 🥵🍫

 Aloha guys today we had to write Procedure writing on ' How To Make A Hot Chocolate'.  After we were done writing our instructions we had to find a buddy.  When we where done with our insructions we got to make a hot chocolate.Then we had to swap insturtions and follow them when we where making our hot chocolate. Here is photo of me.

Letter

 Aloha guys this week we had to write a thank you letter to someone we spent a lot of time with in the holidays. I write my letter to my auntie because I spent a lot of time with her. it was really hard to remember all the steps. After we where done we had to write our address on a envelope. Here is my letter

Cross Country.

 Aloha guys, Yesterday we had cross country. We had cross country at kyle park, it was at 10:30. The year 6 boys went first and when they were almost done there first lap the year 6 girls went, (me). The year 4/5/6 had to run 2k's. I came 3rd place, Angel came 2nd place and Emily came 1st place. I am a PALS leader meaning that i had to run with all the other kids after my race. 

After cross country it was shared lunch. We came back to the school and went into class for a little bit. When it was time for shared lunch my aunty and uncle came and bring a subway platter.

Sorry i dont have any photos

Cross Country Set Up

 Aloha guys, For the past week or 2 me and this group of people have been helping our teacher plan the cross country track. 

We first had to go to Kyle Park and figure out the cross country track for the year 1/2 the year 3 and the year 4/5/6. The year 1/2 are running 700m, the year 3 are running 1k and the year 4/5/6 are running 2k. The seniors have to run 2k to make it into zones. 

We then went onto my maps and drew the course on there. Me and my friend then wrote the newsletter for the cross country.

Our cross country is on Thursday the 15th of April.

Wayne Francis Trust

 The Wayne Francis Trust are big supporters of our school.  Next week we have people, from the trust, coming to see the school.  I am lucky enough to have been chosen to present a slide to them.  Here is the slide I am going to share with them.

I am proud that I am one of the few people that were chosen to share with them.

Dog Safety

Aloha guys, today we had dog safety. People from dog safety came to our school told us about dogs. They had a big, black, fluffy Labrador . They were also telling us to pick up the poop when you are walking your dogs. why dogs bark, and a lot more stuff. 6 people who don't have dogs got to go up and touch the dog. Here are some photos.

Decision making

 Aloha guys, This week we had a reading follow up. Reading follow ups is when you read about a certain category and you have to do task about that category. We were reading about 'How to make a decision'. For our must do we had to make a presentation. For my presentation I made a animation. 

Here is my animation 

Buddy Class

Aloha guys,  Today we had buddy class. For this week's activity we played outdoor games. They were called target throw, over and under and three legged races. we had to find our buddy's and sit down on the mat. I found my first buddy then I found my second buddy. One of my buddies puked so I had to take her to the office and Kersten called her mum. I came back and went to my other buddy. 

Then we had to split into three groups with our buddy. Me and my buddy were first at target throw.  There were two hula hoops in line to each other. The hula hoop that was the furtherest was five points and the one that was the closest was 2 points. We then got bean bags and started to throw the bean bags into the hula hoops.

Our second activity was a three legged race. We got the rubber things and put it around our ankles. Only one of our feet was allowed in the rubber thing at a time. I almost fell over. I did not.  Sadly we only had enough time to play two games. It was also mufti day

Here is a photo

Thaumatrope

Aloha guys, we have started doing our reading follow ups. Reading follow ups are when your teacher sets us task at reading time. We get a must do and a can do, Must do's in our class are things that we HAVE to finish by the end of the week. Our must do for my reading group was to make a claymation. For our can do we got a choice of, Make a flip book, Make a Thaumatrope, Make a poster showing the history of animation, Screencastify yourself talking about the history of animation or Research other types of animation and share your information. I chose make a Thaumatrope. 

Here is what a Thaumatrope is. Press the link.

Football

 Aloha guys, today we played football. Some people from the Halswell Football club came to our school and played football with us. The people who came names are Stu and Liam.  

We first got into groups, there were 8 groups. I was in group 1 - team yellow. Then we played turtle tag, Turtle tag is just like tag but when you get tagged you lay on your back and someone has to lightly push you onto your tummy then your back up. Also if you tag someone they don't be a tagger. 

We then started to play football, But we played it a bit different. There were different ranks and if you won a game of football you had to go up a rank, but if you lost a game of football you had to go down a rank. My team won. 

Overall I really liked this way of playing football and I would play it again.