Week 1: Day 5: Against The Odds

Activity 1: National Treasure

The first thing that is important to me is Hamish my mum gave him to me when I was just a baby, He was passed from my mum's friend to my mum and now he is mine.

The second thing that is important to me is Shilly she is our cat, She is important because she shows us that you can make it through anything. She shows us this because she was shot in the leg and still dragged herself back through the fence, to the house and in the cat door.
The last thing that is important to me is my family they are important because they give me food, water and a place to live. They also look after me when I am hurt.

Activity 2: Swimming to Safety

Yusra Mardini and her older sister left the Syrian war to find safety inn Eurep  they went from Lebanon to Turkey before departing for Greece in a dinghy. 15 minutes into the journey the boat's engine failed Yusra, her sister and 2 others jumping into the sea and pull the dinghy for 3 and a half hours to stop the dinghy capsizing. A year later she went to the olympics in the first ever refugee team. She has addressed the United Nations General Assembly and met world leaders. She now lives in Berlin, Germany and is focusing on her professional swimming career.

Activity 3: Own Choice

I think Stacy Gregg is a changemaker because she inspired me to do horse riding. Stacy Gregg writes books like the fire stallion, Pony club secrets and Pony club rivels. Stacy Gregg lives in NZ and has her own horse.

Week 1: Day 4: Individual Pursuits

Activity 1: Making a Racket

I learnt from the first video that Serena had a child, That Serena is the top paid female athlete and that Venus is the 5th top paid female athlete.

From the second video I learnt that in 2005  Venus won Wimbledon in what was the longest women’s finale in history, Serena has earned over 80M dollars in her career and Serena won 23 grand slams.

Activity 2: What’s in a Name?

I would change my name from Lucy to Lucia pronounced Luseea because that is my name in Spanish and Spain is my favourite country.

Activity 3: Worth her Weight in Gold

Week 1: Day 3: Team players

Activity 1: Rugby Superstars

If I could be a superhero for a day my powers would be super speed so I can run really fast to help people, Transforming so I can turn into something to save the day and earth so I can make plants grow so I could make a net out of bushes.

Activity 2: Defying the Odds

I would interview Steven Adams the 5 questions I would ask him are:

• When you did start basketball?
• Who inspired you to play basketball?
• What was your favourite basketball team when you were young?
• Why did you start basketball?
• Where did you play your first basketball game?

Activity 3: Achieving our Dreams

My sister (Ruby) has a dream job of making a petting zoo. I could help her by:

• Making a site to make people aware
• Helping look after the animals
• Getting food for the animals
• Donating money for her
• Telling people about it
• Buying some animals for her

Week 1: Day 2: Up in the air

Activity 1: Flying Solo

Activity 2: One Small Step for Man

Neil

Exciting, amazing

Running, jumping, floating

Moon, space, Apollo, Rocket

Moonwalking, Gliding, Hoping

Awesome, Great

Armstrong

Activity 3: Miracle on the Hudson

My Mum was brave because when she was 17 she flew to Argentina and stayed there for a year. She did not know anybody, couldn’t speak Spanish and had never left the country. She had to spend 17 hours on the plane,16 hours on a bus and about 1 and a half hours in a ute. While she was in the ute she saw her first snake and they ran it over.

Week 1: Day 1: Explorers

Activity 1: Setting sail

1. Apples because they are healthy and help clean your teeth
2. Chocolate because it will keep me fueled
3. Bread so i can make sandwiches
4. Lemons to make lemonade
5. Sugar to make lemonade
6. Biscuits because I like them
7. Tomatoes because they are healthy
8. Bottled water because salt water makes you thirsty
9. Orange because it is high in vitamin D?
10. Marshmallows because I deserve a treat sometimes

Activity 2: Discovering Aotearoa

My family speaks English. We have family from England and Scotland on both sides of the family. I think we have more Scotland than England because my last name is Scottish. I know of one Scottish ancestors on my Dads side his name is Robert the Bruce.

Activity 3: Scaling New Heights

The charity that I have chosen is RDA NZ. RDA NZ (Riding for the disabled association New zealand) helps people with disabilities through riding. There are 54 RDAs around NZ. Have a look at this link to find out more. RDA

50 meters

WALT: find out how long it takes to walk, fast walk, jog and run 50 meters
I worked with Georgia we made estimations before timing it. It was challenging to measure 50 meters. I enjoyed getting to go outside. We made a graph to show the times.

Year 6 tech (cars)

WALT to make a car powered by a balloon.
I enjoyed getting to be creative and think outside the box. I found it challenging to get the car to balance and make it move. I got to work with Emma and we made a chariot type car.

Enviro camp

A couple of weeks ago four students from our school went to Arthurs pass for an enviro camp. I was really fun we went on a lot of walks. Have a look at some of the photos. I enjoyed getting to lots of new activities like the canopy walk which is a walk where you hold a mirror up to your nose so you can only see the trees above you.

A waterfall

Sensory trail

Canopy walk

devils punchbowl

Escape room!!

For maths, we did an escape room. You had to solve five clues. It was challenging because some of the clues were hard. I enjoyed it because we got do maths. If you want to do it here is a link to the web site.https://sites.google.com/view/kiwiland-theschoolwitch
We got a certificate when we finished.

Noah Barleywater Runs Away

Title: Noah Barleywater Runs Away

Author: John Boyne

Type of book: Fiction

This is an amazing book. I would recommend it to year 3 up. It is about an eight-year-old boy called Noah Barleywater. Noah runs away and meets an old man and his puppets. This is a truly magical book with moving trees, talking clocks and a wall-mounted timekeeping device. It also includes 14 amazing pictures of things in the book.
The tree was taking up its regular position when a young ruffian appeared out of nowhere and threw himself upon it, stealing three apples and causing one to fall off the branch and become bruised on the ground. Both tree and apples are being rushed to hospital doctors say the next twenty-four hours will be crucial.

Term 3 reflection

WALT: Reflect on our term.
I enjoyed getting to be creative. I found it challenging to think of what things were the most challenging, memorable and so on. To be BTB(Better than before) I could add more explanations.

Year 6 tech(tasty towers with candy)

For our food tech this week we did science with food. Bella and I made a tower out of candy. I enjoyed getting to be creative when making the tower. I found it challenging to keep it balanced. if I was to do it again I would do it with stronger items. Here are some photos from making it.

Kapa haka

This week on Monday it was the Kapa Haka festival. Our school sent about 70 people. It was very exciting because we got to preform in front of so many people. It was challenging to look strait because there where so many bright lights. We had five songs He henore, Toia, E I A IE, Tika tonu and pukanakana. It was so much fun.

Banqer jobs

Our class has been using banqer. It is a bank account for schools your teacher gets to be the bank and can enable many different things like property, vehicles and jobs. I have three jobs Recycling monitor they have to empty the recycling, librarian they have to put away books and issue books, my last job is an enviro warrior they have to attend meetings and teach people about caring for the environment.

Blog posts per year

WALT: create a graph to show how many blog posts I make per year.
I learnt that I make not very many blog posts per month. I will try and post once every day to improve the number of blog posts I make every year.

2019                                      2018                                 2017                                  

Reading Noah barleywater runs away

At reading, we have been reading novels. My group have been reading Noah Barleywater Runs Away. It is a very interesting book. There is a clock called Alexander, A tree talks gets rushed to hospital and moves. There are 26 chapters and handy diagrams of things in the book.