SLG Day 2 Week 2

Mighty Mangroves

My Dad is the toughest person I know. He carry's heavy wood everyday for work. He does amazing things and makes me happy.

SLG Day 2 Week 2

Fabulous Flora

I love weaving we have this day at church where we can make things out of flax. My Mum knows how to make a camel out of flax and I know how to make a Ring, Cross and Bracelet.

The only thing I don't like is soon It drys up.

SLG Day 1 week 2

Something Smells Fishy

Fish Fact #1: The oldest known fish in the world is a 65 year old Australian lungfish.

False

Fish Fact #2: Sharks are the only fish that have eyelids.

True

Fish Fact #3: Starfish are a type of fish.

False

Fish Fact #4: Fish communicate with each other by making low-pitched sounds (moans, hisses, etc)

True

Fish Fact #5: Fish usually swim together in groups called ‘classes.’

False

SLG Day 1 Week 2

The Great Taupo Cycle Challenge

The three people I would take with me are David my cousin because he is energetic and loves sport. The Second person would be Yousef because he is very energetic and he is really good at soccer so I think he has a good chance of winning. Last but not least my younger brother Peter because he loves riding a bike.

SLG Day 5 week 1

Going, going….gone

SLG Day 5 Week 1

Living On The Edge

Dear Mum and Dad

It's been amazing in Tundra. It isn't too cold and I'm getting used to it. I really want to climb one of the mountain but I don't think we have the gear .Iv'e seen and few animals here and there but the cutest was a baby fox. I have also seen a few birds I was lucky enough to see a Snowy owl. It's been great you would love it here.

Your daughter
Sandra

SLG Day 5 Week 1

Blink and You’ll Miss It

I think logging should be allowed but to a limit. If we do it too much there will be big problems. But if we don't do it at all lot's of people won't have any jobs and we will have a lot of homeless people. 

1. If we cut down all the trees animals will need to find new homes.

2.  The bigger problem is if we cut down all the trees and don't replant them we won't have any oxygen.

SLG Day 4 Week 1

Salt and Pepper

I would build my hotel in Egypt where I was born. I would use sand and I would try as much as I can to take all the rubbish from the streets and recycle it. So it would be a hotel made out of sand and other recycled things. But I wouldn't put my hotel anywhere in Egypt I would put it in El Faiyum.

My Hotel is 50 storeys. It also has Solar Panels at the top because the sun is very strong in Egypt.

SLG Day 4 Week 1

Pancakes and Maple Syrup?

My favourite food is crib. I don't know if New Zealanders have heard of it but its very nice.

1 cup of flour 1 and a half cup milk 1 egg 1 pinch of salt

Put all the ingredients together in a bowl and mix them up. Put some mixture in a pan and make it like a pancake. After you flip it on both sides take it out of the pan and put it to the side.

After you have finished all of them take one put it back in the pan take some cheese and put it on one of the sides then it's your choice. You don't have to put any meat on it but if you want to make sure you put cheese again on top.

After you have finished have a big bite and enjoy.

SLG day 4 week 1

More than Meets the Eye

1. When did you start thinking about climbing the Mountains?

2. Did you have any worries about climbing a humongous Mountain?

3. Did you climb with anyone else?

4. Were there any storms? If so how hard were they?

5. Did you think about climbing a mountain again?

SLG Day 3 week 1

WWF : World Wildlife Fund 

1. The name of the animal that the WWF is trying to save is Fresh water seals.

2. The WWF are building snowbanks for the mum water seal to put her pups in. 

3.  When the WWF build the snowbanks for the fresh water seals the mum actually has somewhere to put her baby's and she won't have to put them on open ice.

SLG Day three

The Secretive Skink 

SLG Day 3 week 1

Awesome Animals

My beast is a bunny. Bunny's may seem harmless but this one is not. My bunny can turn invisible when it feels that it is in real danger. It can also dig 10 ft down in 1 second. He protects me and my family. He is also very wise but stays in one age. He chooses an age to help him be able to do everything.

SLG Day 2 week 1

Weird And Wonderful

SLG Day 2 Week 1

Fabulous Ferns

SLG Day 2 Week 1

Giants Among Us

I would love to visit Tane Mahuta. I have always wondered what was the tallest tree in New Zealand. I don't really go out in the forests much but it would be a lot better if I go and explore the wild. I would be calm and relaxed just looking at the tree and hearing the calls of the birds.   

SLG Day 1 week 1

Ice Ice baby

These are some tips to keep you safe.

SLG Day 1 week 1

Activity 2 

North and South


My home town is Christchurch.  I love Christchurch. I love the Bright Blue Beaches it makes me relax.
Christchurch isn't busy yes you see lot's of people but compared to other places it's not busy at all.
Hagley park is a great place too. You go for a walk,run or walk your dog little kids like to go scootering or biking. New Brighton pier is amazing it's like your in the ocean without getting wet.

SLG Week I Day 1

Summer Learning Journey

Activity One

We have to blog about the top 3 fun and cool facts about New Zealand.

1. The Biggest City In New Zealand is Auckland  but the Capital City is Wellington.

I think the Capital should be Auckland. I also wonder why Wellington?

2.  In New Zealand there are no Snakes.

I am happy the there are no snakes in New Zealand because that would be more danger to our native bird the Kiwi.

3. The farmers in New Zealand make 100 kg of butter and 65 kg of cheese every year for every person in New Zealand.

I think that this is something amazing for New Zealand because we are a small country. Even Egyptians know this.   

  

Summer learning Journey Prep Journey

Summer learning Journey 

(prep 1)

United Arab Emirates.
The name of the capital city is Abu Dhabi.

The population of the capital city is 1.206 million.
In January, the weather in the capital city is usually 24 degree celsius.
The capital city is located in the south west.
The languages most commonly spoken in the capital city are Arabic and English.

2 facts 
Abu Dhabi produced 93,075 tons of dates in 2015
The capital gate building leans more than the tower of Pisa

Summer learning journey prize

This summer I want to join the summer learning journey.  It's a fun reading thing that you do over the summer holiday.

Last year I did the summer learning journey but I only got  a certificate. This time I am going to push myself. Every time the subject changes the one that I am going to do is called The World Around Us.  It is about sustainability, land, sea and air. 

 They asked us what we would like but it has to  ben Under $50 . I would love Squishes they are my favourite.   

How To Wash Your Hands

In health we have been learning about keeping yourself clean. This is my second one it is about  washing your hands.  My first one is about how to brush your teeth. We have to make  series I think my next one will be about the flu.



                      

Pyramids Of Giza

For literacy our focus is working on different styles of writing. For our
information report we had a choice between the pyramids of Egypt or
the extreme weather. The most challenging thing for me was finding the facts.
The easiest thing was writing it down .

Pyramids of Giza

Have you wondered how Pyramids were made? So have I. The Pyramids of Giza
were the tallest manmade structure in the world.

The Pyramids of Giza were made by the pharaoh's slaves.
They Used two main stones from beside the river Nile to build the Pyramids.
The river Nile was close because so they can save time from where they are
making the pyramids.

To pull the big stone across the desert they wet the sand in front of
them and then pulled it across the sand . The pharaoh Khufu was the
one who wanted to build the pyramids of giza. He made them because
when he dies they bury him in the center of the Pyramid.     

The Pyramids were covered with limestone and it made it made smooth.
It used shine like a bight star but the that layer has fallen down because of a earthquake.  
The Pyramids are older than 3,800 years. The weight of the the great pyramid 2.5 tons.

The Pyramids of Giza are fascinating things. Do you think we will ever find the
real story behind them? If we did it would move the world with excitement.

How To Brush Your Teeth

For Health we have been learning about keeping yourself clean. The first thing we did was we watched a video about the importance of brushing your teeth. We had to create a slide of how to teach 5 year olds to brush their teeth. We had to have how long you had to brush it for and when to brush your teeth. The hardest thing I found was to make the brush move and make the bubbles. My next step is to make my slideshow easier to understand. One of my question that I have how can I improve my slideshow and how to create more advanced movement? Maybe next time I could get the brush to talk instead of the people.
                                                  

Letter Art

We have had the Lfe Education come and the other class went so we did art. We needed to write the first letter of our name in  fancy big writing.Mrs S helped me draw the letter s for my name and I continued. I first drew in my border and then I started to color in my S. I colored it rainbow and it looks like  the colors are melting into each other then I colored the border in. 

Life Education Boss or Leader

                         
                   
                               Life Education Boss or Leader

In life Education we are learning about relationships and being with other people.  We have done activities in the life education bus. We played sentence ping pong. We also watched what happens if we were all the same and that it is good to be different becauses it won't be boring and we have a our own opinions. We did a personality test and I was a lion the lion is a leader. We learnt the difference between a leader and a boss. We had to match up the sentence of a leader to the opposite of a boss.

Inquiry-Change

For Inquiry we have been learning about change. Our experiment was putting vinegar and baking soda together. It was very cool because when the cork fell it touched the roof and left foam. I knew the cork was going to fly off but I did not think it would touch the roof. 

Your teacher will show you a range of ingredients/  equipment that will be used…

Make a hypothesis (guess) about the following

What do you think will happen? I think that when you put the vinegar and the baking soda together will explode and the cork will fly off because when you mix vinegar and baking soda causes carbon dioxide and that is what makes the cork fly off the bottle.

	What do you think these will be?
Reactants	Baking Soda and Vinegar and a bottle
Product	Foam
Chemical Reaction	The chemical reaction is when it rises and fizzes up.

Was your hypothesis right/ wrong? Why? Yes it was correct because I have done it it before.

Calendar Art

Calendar Art

For Calendar art this week we have learnt how to blend colors with paint. I loved painting but I found it hard to blend the paint together. First I drew the outline of the Sun and the water. The I painted the dark sky and I waited until it dries. Then I painted the rest. This is how it turned out.   

Maori Weather Sentence

For maori we have  been learning about weather in maori. The teachers told us about the sentence and we had to think of english weather words and then use google translate to find out the word in maori.This is my slide so far.

My Disgusting Dinner

For reading we have been writing poems one of them is My Disgusting dinner. The disgusting dinner poem is a poem that talks about very disgusting dinners and made up ones too. This is my disgusting dinner poem. You may need to zoom in.

My leader Badge

Today was my best day ever because I got my leader badge. The leader badge is the highest badge you can get. At the start of the year I didn't bother but after a wile I did. So I started by filling out the form and the hoped for the best and the next assembly I GOT MY BADGE!!!! I was surprised and very thrilled and there was one other boy who got his badge too. Luckily the meeting was this morning tea and I became secretary for that day because we take turns and we organise things we can do but everything is a secret.     

Elephant Toothpaste

For  science we have been learning about change. We made Elephant tooth paste 2 weeks ago. Today we wrote some instructions of how to make it. It was very easy because I knew everything.

Procedere

Rubber gloves

Hot water

Yeast

Bleach

Dishwashing liquid

Bottle

Instructions

Before you start anything put on gloves

1. Mix the hot water and the yeast together
2. Mix the bleach and the Dishwashing liquid
3. Then put the mixed things together in the bottle
4. Observe any changes that take place.
5. Record what happens

   

My Best Poem

For literacy we have been writing and reading loads of poems. We have made limericks, acrostics, triplets and cinquains.  We decided to choose our best poems to share on our blogs. I chose the one that I most liked because it is my best one because of the rhyming pattern that I have made and the way the story unfolds.      

Elephant Toothpaste

In science we are learning about change. Change happen's when you mix two reactant's together and it makes a chemical reaction then it becomes a product. Today we mix bleach with yeast and it kind of exploded.
    

Phonics

For phonics the off phonics group do word searches. They are different than the real ones you would do for fun. You get given 4 prefixes and you have to find words that start with those prefixes the 4 prefixes were sub, com, pro and en. There are 24 words to find each time. This is not the only thing we do sometimes we need to make something to teach somebody else about prefixes.   

Graph Maths

For maths we have been making graphs. We got put into groups and chose something to work with. We chose the question about favorite colour balloons. The colour that was chosen the most was the black. We worked amazing together. 

                              

Fizz,Pop,Froth

In Science we are learning about Change. Change happens when we mix or combine two different reactions together, when this happens a chemical reaction takes place .      

Tree art

For art we have been colouring  a tree and around the tree we have coloured the color of the season's. We have also etched with a toothpick on the colours to make it look more like the season. 

Science - Change

I am starting to learn about Science and Change. This is what I found out today what new information can someone tell me?

Substance: Is the materials you need to make a product.

Product: Is the thing that you made with the substance.

Reactant/s: Two or more reactants will make a product.

Chemical Reactions: The reaction that the chemicals (substances) makes.

Examples:

-Ice melting into water. If a physical change occurs, The physical properties will change.

- Dry ice mixed with water makes a gas   

-To make oobleck

Mix cornstarch with water.

Sandra's Anthology

For literacy we have been working on poems. So far we have made limericks some of them are really cool. As an extra thing I have made a limerick in Arabic this is what I speak at home. Have you ever made a limerick before?   

Weather

Please comment and share your knowledge about weather so I gain more information for my learning. 

Celebration of learning

Last Friday we had a day called Celebration of learning. The whole school started normally until morning tea. Then the story tellers (Choir) got called to wear their uniform. Not long after that parents started to come in one by one. When all of the parents came and the rest of the school the hall was filled. When I looked for my mum I could not find her but she was there from the start. We performed amazingly! Sure we had some mistakes but we were so marvelous and positive nobody noticed them. 

Prediction

For Reading we have been learning how to predict what is going to happen. Mr Breach gave us a rubric to help us predict what is going to happen in the story. 

The rubric had levels the first one said "One Idea" the second one was "Many Ideas" and "linked ideas" and so on. My group (Boy in the Dress) are working on linked ideas. I loved the rubric because it helped me predict what was going to happen. 

The story that we used was the Water Cycle. My first prediction was that the children were going to get taught how much water they use  by reading the title and looking at the pictures but when I read a little I predicted that someone is going to create a play pump for kids to have fun pumping water. 

Have you done anything on predicting for reading in your learning? Can you tell me any more ideas you might have?  

Measurement

In maths we are learning about measurement. Today we learnt about meter's. First we wrote items in the class room that we thought was a meter. Next we had to measure it with a meter ruler and we had to write the actual measurement. After that we had to work out the difference between the estimation and that the actual measurement.     

Paper Aeroplanes- Measurement

In maths we have been learning about measurement. We have been learning how to estimate and measure. I made a paper plane marked out a runway with measurement tape. First we had to estimate how far my plane will go I estimated 1.5m but it actually went 1.6m it went further than I thought then we were allowed to make another plane for our second throw my second plane was a lot better than my first one I estimated that it would go 2m and it did go 2m I wasn't happy about because when I threw it for a practice it went 4 meters and when I threw it for real it failed.          

Robotic's

For the last 10 weeks we have learning how to program a EV3.
First I learnt to make it go forward and then stop then it go forward again.Then I learnt how to make it go right and left. I found really hard to program because my group kept getting confused.The thing that I loved was when we finally got it to move.